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The Biggest Problem for the New President

Posted by GayPatriotWest at 7:28 pm - January 19, 2009.
Filed under: 111th Congress,Liberals

Hugh nails it:

The problem for the new Adminstration trying to position itself in the center and extend to the right is the Democratic Congress and especially its very vocal and very left wing leadership

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  1. President Obama is certainly going to have trouble with his leftwing base (assuming that he wants the country to do well). I’ve long said that the left has created a tiger that will turn on it one day. That day could be sooner rather than later.

    I really don’t think the Founders had it in mind that some moonbat (Pelosi) from the kookiest city in the country should have so much power. What is so special about some part of SF (or Atlanta for that matter) to have s “super representative”?

    It speaks poorly of the Dems in Congress that they elect one of their dumber colleagues to be Speaker. There are certainly people far more qualified on their side of the aisle.

    Comment by SoCalRobert — January 19, 2009 @ 7:43 pm - January 19, 2009

  2. I disagree with Hewitt. It’s to Obama’s advantage to have the leftist agenda promoted from within Congress; this allows him to appear bi-partisan and centrist (making the quite reasonable point that disagreement within his own party is to be expected — even though it will be Congressional leftists satisfying his own campaign rhetoric) while minions to the agenda take the soft knocks from a coddling press and a dispirited Republican Party.

    At any rate, collusion with Congress is Obama’s m.o. Whether this means agreement or a phony denial depends upon public opinion, the stock market, and other pesky variables that get in the way of utopians.

    Comment by Ignatius — January 19, 2009 @ 8:10 pm - January 19, 2009

  3. Both are wrong. Like President Bush, President Obama has to realize that out of his control events could trump everything. Just ask President Bush about 9/11. The problem is that President Obama is, somewhat, making it all up as he goes along. Thus, when Speaker of the House Pelosi says she is open to a witch hunt of the Bush administration and wants to end the Bush tax cuts now it will appear that he is not all that in control. The Dems run everything now. But, when they run congress, they run over their own president. Ask Bill Clinton that one. I think that within six months, the Hopeychangy thing will get really old and the nation will wake up and realize that they were had by the Democrat party.

    Comment by Mark J. Goluskin — January 20, 2009 @ 1:58 am - January 20, 2009

  4. GPW, the biggest problem for the new President is that socialism doesn’t work in reality. That trillion-dollar deficits and more debt are not going to improve things beyond, say, the first year. The biggest problem for the new President and the Democrats is, in other words, themselves.

    Comment by ILoveCapitalism — January 20, 2009 @ 10:21 am - January 20, 2009

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