We love this post: THE END OF THE BEGINNING
"A funny thing happened to Barack Obama on the way to immortality.
He ran into facts and reality, those two curses of fast-hustling politicians."
From the stimulus to his weak reaction to the killings in Iran, Pres BO is heading toward a miserable presidency.
It won't be fun, specially when the "yes we can" screamers find out that BO can't get "cap and trade" and "health care" through a Senate run by Democrats!
Let me repeat: A Senate with 60 Democrats!
The Dems are scared to death of heading into 2010 with BO's deficits and big government on their shoulders!
After all, the Dems read the same polls that we read!
See this from the AP: Obama losing some support among nervous Dems
This is from The NY Times: Democrats Grow Wary as Health Bill Advances
See this today in The Wash Post: Obama Hits a Speed Trap by Matt Welch & Nick Gillespie
The "dagger in the heart" was the CBO Report: House Democrat Health Bill Adds to Budget Deficit, CBO Says
It's hard to call the CBO a member of the "right wing conspiracy"!
The CBO is a non-partisan group. Their job is to run the numbers!
And the numbers are all RED, such as in unsustainable deficits!
Bottom line: BO's approval is down to 51% in the daily Rasmussen!
Can you think of a first term president at 51% in his first year?
We direct you to a couple of good articles.
TED VAN DYK is a Democrat.
Therefore, his article should be taken very seriously over at The White House: Obama Needs to 'Reset' His Presidency
Mr Van Dyk wants BO to do a lot more governing and a lot less speaking, for example.
He also wants BO to stop blaming Bush!
And he comes down hard on the stimulus:
"You have ceded content of your principal proposals to Democratic congressional leaders who in large part have yielded to special-interest constituencies and excluded Republican leaders from policy formulation.
This certainly was the case with the stimulus plan."
Van Dyk wants Pres BO to shake up his team.
My question is, and continues to be, is Pres BO tough enough to shake up his team?
Has BO ever stood up to anybody?
Can you cite an example from BO's life where he stood up to anybody?
Beyond managerial changes, I think that BO & Dems misunderstood the 2008 election.
In other words, "change" did not mean a massive expansion of government!
It should also be read at The White House:
"A recent Gallup poll found 40 percent of Americans described their political views as conservative, while only 21 percent as liberal. Gallup also found that Americans, by a two-to-one margin, say their political views in recent years have become more conservative rather than more liberal.
And a Pew survey released in May found that since the election, there has been "no consistent movement away from conservatism, nor a shift toward liberalism."
What this means, I think, is that Obama's victory in 2008, while impressive, did not represent an ideological shift."
It's going to be very tough for Pres BO! It's going to be horrible for the "yes we can" screamers who thought that their guy walked on water!
