How fitting that the day after the Gipper’s birthday, I learn (via Byron York) that his ideas still resonate with the American people. This latest Gallup poll confirms what other surveys have been showing since shortly after President Obama and congressional Democrats began pushing their big government initiatives.
Guess Fred Barnes was right about Obama’s “misreading of the 2008 election“:
He and Democratic liberals interpreted it as a mandate for an era of liberal lawmaking and governance in a newly minted center-left America. And they set out to create that era with sweeping initiatives on health care, energy and the environment, and the economy.
Problem is is that these government initiatives don’t find much favor with the American people. While Gallup found that “about a quarter of Americans felt there was too little government regulation of business and industry“, the “majority of Americans believed that there was either too much regulation, or about the right amount.” Indeed, a full 50%, exactly half, thought government should “become less involved in regulating business.”
Even better, they don’t see the error of their ways. November should be fun!
Not at all.
Obama came in with an intention of “transforming” America and he was handed a Congress that gave him carte blanche to ram his agenda through. There was no misreading of anything. That is the same as saying Chavez has misread his election in Venezuela.
What Obama/Rahm Emanuel/Axlerod have failed at is crushing their intra-party opposition. Now they have a growing revolt among the people and the very strong possibility that the Democrat Congress will be neutered if not routed.
It will be interesting to see how The Won addresses the Great Obama Transformation of America after the November elections.
Personally, I do not think Obama is capable of admitting any type of defeat that falls on his shoulders. I think we are probably in for a remaining presidential term of meandering, leaderless blather, world-wide conferencing and appointments of blue ribbon commissions on creating jobs and reversing male pattern balding.