I think we’re pretty much wide awake now – the Obama glow is gone and people realize that we’ve been had:
President Obama hopes to use money still unspent from the $787-billion economic stimulus plan to fight the nation’s 10% unemployment rate, and one of the ideas on the table is to channel money to states to keep them from laying off public employees.
But a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 22% of Americans favor providing federal bailout funds to states with serious financial problems. Fifty-eight percent (58%) oppose giving bailout money to financially troubled states.
On top of that, 56% of Americans oppose the passage of another economic stimulus package this year. While House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other congressional Democrats are hoping to spend more to combat unemployment, just 33% favor another stimulus plan.
As Lincoln said, you can fool some of the people all of the time; all of the people some of the time; but not all of the people, all of the time. The only people still fooled by Obama are his hard core, leftist supporters who simply will not look at the facts and realize their worldview is based upon a series of false assumptions. But outside of those precincts, people fully realize that Obama’s rhetoric of 2008 was just so much BS to get him past election day.
Obama, of course, will try to re-capture the center in 2010 and, especially, 2012 but I don’t think he’ll be able to fool a majority a second time. Only a miraculous turn-around in the economy – made ever more impossible with each new dose of Obama policies – would give him even a shot at suckering a majority in to granting him a second term. But, where does that leave us, today?
We’re stuck with him – and his Congress, at least until January of 2011 (and the way the electoral math goes, we have to presume on, at the very least, a Democrat Senate majority until 2013). Matt pointed this out after Sotomayor was confirmed – this is the wages of being upset with the GOP for not nominating a candidate conservative “enough”. Regardless of what one thinks of McCain, we can rest assured that he wouldn’t be burying us in debt and corruption like Obama is. Next time, hopefully, we’ll have learned our lesson – better even a RINO we can pressure than dimwit liberal we have no control over (this applies only to Presidential contests – in House and Senate contests, especially when a GOPer is in the White House, better a Democrat than a RINO – and if we sift out the RINOs in State and Congressional races, we’ll have that much less chance of a RINO Presidential nominee. Ya dig?). Of course, a true conservative would be better – and that is what we should shoot for.
It is time for us to adhere to core, conservative principles – defense of the family, balanced budgets, low taxes, strong national defense and American exceptionalism. We can do much to derail the worst aspects of Obama’s policies, but we cannot stop them, altogether – especially as Obama has no problem with end-runs around the US Constitution, such as the EPA act on CO2. But we can offer a stark – and hopeful – contrast to the morass of Obama’s liberalism. Provide that clear divide – make ourselves clearly not part of what is going wrong, and we’ll reap the electoral reward. Perhaps enough by 2012 to have the power to really reshape American government.
Blogs For Victory 