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Will Obama’s Arrogance Lead to Lasting Republican Majorities?

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Democrats spent the better part of George W. Bush’s tenure in the White House waiting for the market meltdown on September 15, 2008.  They — and their allies — in the mainstream media really believed that his policies would destroy the economy, even as it hummed along after a mild recession early in his term.

It took the election of a Democratic Congress to help pave the way for the collapse, but no matter, they believed all along it was going to happen and so when it happened, it just had to be entirely W’s fault because they said it was.

And so it was with Obama’s election.  Democrats kept telling us Republicans won elections not because of the merits of their ideas or the quality of their candidates, but because of their dirty tricks, angry voters, or just plain meanness and/or luck.  Deep down, the people really supported the Democrats’ ideology and wanted bigger government with greater federal intrusion into the private sector.

So, when Obama won, with big Democratic gains in 2008, they finally, after 36 years, had evidence to prove what they believed all along.  And that arrogance, Victor Davis Hanson believes, has led to their current predicament:

Had the Obamites been sober and circumspect after the 2008 election they would have realized that Obama had pulled off what McGovern, Mondale, Dukakis, and Kerry had not, due to a once-in-a-century perfect storm of about six events

[he then lists them]

Instead, Obama — egged on by obsequious advisers, an out-of-touch, hard-left base, and a toady media — decided that he had done what other Northern liberals had not, either because (a) the country was at last ready for European-style socialism, or (b) his singular charisma and talents could convince it that it was even when it was clearly not.

The result was that our Oedipus/Pentheus rushed headlong into socialized medicine, mega-deficits, needlessly polarizing appointments of the Van Jones type, and various federal takeovers, coupled with quite unnecessary editorializing about largely local matters — from the Skip Gates mess to the Arizona immigration law and Ground Zero mosque.

In each case, the supposed uniter deliberately weighed in on these controversies to quite unfairly demonize his opponents — “stupidly” acting police, Arizona xenophobes picking up children on the way to buy ice cream, Islamophobes wanting to deny religious liberty, etc

And now, as a result, voters are deserting him in droves, with the possibility “that his out-of-the-mainstream views and his polarizing style ofgovernance might well destroy Democratic congressional majorities for a decade.”

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Via Instapundit.

Comments

  2. Pretty good, I think a few more caps are needed.

    Now as to the post… I don’t think President Obama’s overreach will lead to lasting Republican Majorities. They’ve given an opening, but lasting majorities will only come from disassembling Leviathan and the American people being willing to accept some serious pain in the short term.

  4. What happens if, after losing the election, Democrats refuse to concede defeat?

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    http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1626
    Project Podesta reached its logical conclusion in Al Gore’s effort to litigate his way into the White House in 2000. During the infamous 36-day, post-election stand-off, Podesta worked behind the scenes with Gore’s legal team even as the Clinton White House publicly declared its neutrality. Podesta bears personal responsibility for forcing the election into the U.S. Supreme Court.

    Most of official Washington assumed that the election crisis would end on November 14, when Gore’s recount deadline expired and Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris would certify the winner. In order to reassure Americans that this would be the case, General Services Administration head David J. Barram held a press conference on November 8, 2000, at which he announced that he was ready to release the $5.8 million in presidential transition funds and to open the transition offices to whichever candidate was certified the winner on November 14. Barram repeated this promise several times via radio and television interviews.

    However, on November 13 — the day before the recount deadline — John Podesta sent a memo to Barram ordering him to keep the transition offices locked and to withhold the presidential transition funds, thus giving Gore extra time to litigate.

    Bush won the Florida recount, as expected. But the transition offices remained locked. Podesta’s unprecedented act stunned official Washington and plunged America into a constitutional crisis.
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  5. What I find most exciting about this election is how big the Conservative/Republican tent is. Brian Sandoval and Susana Martinez are likely to be Hispanic Republican governors. Nikki Haley will join Bobby Jindal as an Indian- American Republican governor. Lt. Col. Allen West, Tim Scott, and Ryan Frazier have solid chances of being black Republican Congressmen. Marco Rubio will likely be a hispanic Republican senator. We have lots of fantastic women candidates running for governorships and Congressional seats in both houses.

    It should finally put an end to old fat liberal white men like Frank Rich calling the GOP the party of old white bigotted southern men.

  7. Wow, can any of you people spell DELUSIONAL?

    While I’m not one of those who believe the economy’s falling off a cliff was all W’s fault, the fact is that it happened while W was president. Remember how McCain suspended his campaign to go back to Washington in a “here I come to save the day” moment? That was because the economy was falling off a cliff. And, by the way, unemployment is always a lagging indicator in recessions.

    So then Obama became president and he quickly realised that being president was NOT fun, so he decided to promote policies to continue the economy’s plunge toward a prolonged deep depression so that he wouldn’t have to endure the agony of a second four-year term. But despite his best efforts, supported by all the Democrats, the economy just keeps muddling along in a mere recession. And now the voters appear poised to punish the Democrats for failed policies. Or something like that.

  8. Yeah, I have to say, whoa, horsey, pull back. The country is about evenly split ideologically, and neither party will ever answer to a majority opinion on every issue. The Republicans will win back government for a while and probably screw up too. The best I hope for is a split government between Dems and Repubs, so they counterbalance each other. I don’t like the Obama Revolution at all, but I also don’t want Concerned Women for America and Focus on the Family having free reign over Washington. You need a little of both. If the Repubs ever get around to ending abortion, wait and see — there will be a tidal wave of liberal activism again. I’d like to see them end it nonetheless, but realistically, GOP principles are going to walk timidly on some levels.

  9. An example of Obama’s arrogance: He is always claiming that he reached out to Republicans during the health care debate, but they had already made up their minds to oppose whatever he did.

    This his patently false. Obama’s “outreach” was nothing more than, “Republicans should vote for my bill.” Nothing Republicans wanted… interstate insurance competition, tax credit, tort reform… was in any Democrat Health Care Regulation bill.

    A much more modest and incremental Health Care Bill that focused just on helping cover pre-existing conditions, making low-cost insurance available to the uninsured, and ending the most egregious practices of insurers like dropping people when they get sick for technicalities… and that included sweeteners like tort reform … would have gotten Republican support; or would have deprived Republicans of very valid reasons (cost and expansion of government bureaucracy) to oppose it.

    If, in addition, Obama had not signed a massive Stimulus bill or blew out the deficit with massive increases in Government spending but instead had focused on deficit reduction and extending the Bush tax cuts, the Democrats probably wouldn’t be staring oblivion in the face.

  10. The war on the welfare state will be a great boost to Democrat caterwauling. They will scream endlessly about starving poor children, freezing old people, blowing craters in safety nets, lining up minorities and refugees to degrade and forcing women to cope with incest rape resulting in babies with every possible disease, disability and brain damage.

    Perhaps we could invite Proud Liberal to tell us what lies ahead in a Republican run world.

  11. While I’m not one of those who believe the economy’s falling off a cliff was all W’s fault, the fact is that it happened while W was president.

    And yet the Obama Party shrieks and screams that nothing that happens during Obama’s administration is ever Obama’s fault.

    Now, if you’d like to state that the Obama Party, and especially Barack Obama, are wrong to do so, then we will care. But until you do, you’re just another Obama shill making excuses for his failure.

    And, by the way, unemployment is always a lagging indicator in recessions.

    So? The Obama Party shrieked and screamed throughout the Bush administration that the unemployment rate proved we were in a recession.

    Now, if you’d like to state that the Obama Party, and especially Barack Obama, were wrong to do so, then we will care. But until you do, you’re just another Obama shill making excuses for his failure.

    Next:

    So then Obama became president and he quickly realised that being president was NOT fun, so he decided to promote policies to continue the economy’s plunge toward a prolonged deep depression so that he wouldn’t have to endure the agony of a second four-year term.

    No; he simply implemented the leftist Obama Party’s belief that an economy was best helped by raising taxes, increasing regulation, government takeover of industry, and demagoguing businesses and profits.

    And now he’s reaping the whirlwind, as are the rest of the Obama Party shills like yourself who perpetuated and spread his lies.

  12. Perhaps we could invite Proud Liberal to tell us what lies ahead in a Republican run world.

    No such luck…he’ll be hiding underneath his momma’s bed, curled up in the fetal position, weeping, and clutching his 8×10 autographed picture of Granny Rictus Botox.

  13. Obama reshapes administration for a fresh strategy – LATimes
    http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-obama-staff-strategy-20101007,0,6919242.story

    White House staff changes are being made with an eye toward achieving goals through executive actions rather than by trying to push plans through the next Congress, which is expected to be even more hostile to the president.

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    Even more hostile to the president??? Huh?

    Harry Reid still hasn’t wiped his chin after their last “meeting”.
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  16. I think this President has put the spotlight on just how un-American Marxism is. Now if we can just shut down the socialist tendencies in the now dependent, entitlement population, we just might get back to what freedom really means.

  18. Perhaps we could invite Proud Liberal to tell us what lies ahead in a Republican run world.

    It will be bleak. If Republicans end the State Department’s mosque building program and end the Stimulus program to teach African men to wash their wee-wees, it will be America’s shame.

  19. Just to illustrate what other horrible things would happen under Republican control, Chris Christie just canceled a $12 Billion tunnel project on the total outrageous and irresponsible grounds that… um… New Jersey doesn’t have $12 Billion to spend just now.

    What hope is there to maintain such vital functions of Government as teaching African men proper wang hygiene if those Republican cavemen won’t even fund a $12 Billion pork project?

  20. One thing that could help Republicans have a lasting majority: if they make enough progress in State houses to control more of the post-census redistricting.

    Not sure if that’s good or bad. ‘Safe’ seats were a factor in getting the GOP fat, dumb and porked-up the last time.

  22. Can the Obama administration not tell the difference between reality and fantasy?

    Have they been hanging around with too many ‘Hollywood liberals’?

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    A ‘Casting Call’ for Obama’s MTV/BET/CMT Town Hall Meeting
    http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/249034/casting-call-obamas-mtvbetcmt-town-hall-meeting

    An actor who reads Campaign Spot passes along this interesting notice in Backstage.com:

    PRESIDENT OBAMA TOWN HALL, MTV

    MTV, BET and CMT are casting the audience for town hall meeting with President Obama. Shooting Oct. 14, 4 p.m. in Washington, D.C.

    Seeking—Audience Members: males & females, 18+.

    To apply, email townhallaudience@mtvnmix.com and put “Town Hall” in the subject line. To ensure that the audience represents diverse interests and political views, include your name, phone number, hometown, school attending, your job and what issues, if any, you are interested in or passionate about. Also, provide a recent photo and short description of your political views. Submission deadline: Oct. 14. No pay.
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  23. The problem with the Obama Town Halls is President Obama is not on the ticket besides his already overexposure. President Obama is miscalculating with the 18-25 crowd as well; they do not vote.

  24. Is this ‘Hope and Change’, or ‘Smoke and Mirrors’? Is everything a visual effect?

    If we have to simulate the truth, is it really the truth?

    Does John Q Public really support the Obama agenda, or is his part just written that way?

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    Link is here:

    http://casting.backstage.com/JobSeekerX/SearchJobs.asp?SearchStartingPoint=MainSearchForm&txtaction=CREATE&ProfileID=&SubmitToSearch=Search&lctr=1&rvsd=-1&o1=2&p1=1&ipp=10&city=&fromsearchpage=True&kwrd=&kwdt=1&lcta=1&st=DC&cn=1&btnSearch=Run+Search+Now

    But i made a screen-cap, just in case:

    http://i53.tinypic.com/10cusqs.jpg
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