Art

Been watching a lot of TV talking head blather on this topic, seems to come down to two views:

1) Try a Slick Willy, pull to the Center.

Down side; looses the true believer Liberal base/ Liberal Anti War/Granola eating types.

2) Double down and get in the Republicans face on everything.

Down side; looses those D’s who are worried about keeping their jobs and the moderate wing of the D party aka the DLC types. Especially with an election coming up, I don’t see this death wish by Obama and the Donks happening.

There’s also a third path, heard this today. The Obama as a Populist kabuki show, go after big business, define his own version of Tea Party activism.

Who knows what is going to happen, but at least for Donks, it’s Chinese Curse time, “May you live in interesting times”.

I think Dems will continue to do what they’ve done for the past year – lie whenever they are on camera and go left, left, left…Conservatives are smart enough to know they are liars and we can’t vote them out fast enough. Hopefully independents have figured them out too.

He isn’t going to move to the center. This guy was put into this position to be a puppet on a string for the Soros wing of the party. I’m not sure that any decision he has made originated in his own head. As long as Axelrod is in his ear telling him that the people want him to be more “progressive”, that is the path he will continue down.

He hasn’t accomplished anything during his 1 year in office, except passing a stimulus package that nearly everyone in the country sees as the steaming pile of crap that it is. His failures are too numerous to count. I don’t see him getting any of his legislative priorities passed during this term, and I expect this term to be his last.

You’re right, Art – Slobama and San Fran Nan will very likely ‘double-down’. But they’re both going to lose terribly for it – Nan may very well lose the Speakership *before* Nov. 2010 if this keeps up, and Obama will totally demolish his rep., and end up a figure much more despised than W.

As for your worries about Congressional Republicans – your concerns are vastly overblown: those guys (including even the Maine twins) smell blood right now. They are absolutely *NOT* going to sell out now, not with the Brass Ring of restored power dangling in front of them (that, of course, has its own issues/problems, but we’ll have to cross that bridge when we get to it…).

The one ‘wild card’ here is Brown of MA – I can easily imagine this guy might get seduced and fold (I was getting some of those vibes seeing coverage of him just today). On him, we’ll just have to see where that goes…

But I don’t see anyone on the D side being able to dupe either the public, or the Congressional GOP, before Nov. 2010 rolls around – no one is going to fall for that.

(One other point – no matter what happens, the economy will be as bad, or worse, during the next 6-9 months: there is *NO WAY* for the MSM to spin that to the Dems’ benefit. It’s another factor in why they’re going to go down so hard this year…)

They should have thought about that before they printed them all that money. I’m sure it’s just a dog and pony show anyway. And to blow the repayments on make-work? Kinda reminds one how a vote, often sold for a few pieces of silver, is actually worth one’s life.

See the (very short) clip starting at 1:39

He doesn’t know how to do it

it’s time for the federal government to walk the walk, feel the pain and fulfill its constitutional responsibility to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.

The American people are taxed enough already, and our economic freedom is under constant assault. The depletion of our manufacturing base, suffocating under the undue burden of federal regulation, threatens our economic security and makes us less safe.

There’s no justification for the creation of a bi-partisan commission, whose sole purpose is to provide political cover for President Obama and congressional Democrats.

It’s time to balance the budget and jump-start the economy by returning the unspent stimulus money, cutting taxes across-the-board, reducing federal spending, eliminating burdensome federal regulations and downsizing the federal bureaucracy.

That exact thought crossed my mind on Tuesday. I mentioned to someone that I wished that election had been held in November of this year so the Dems could wake up to the thought of handing their gavels over instead of having the chance to re-tool and re-spin.

The agenda will still be there, but I fear the template will be “OK, we heard you, we’re sorry, please let us stay”, and the natural advantage of incumbency will kick in this November.

Bill Clinton’s primary objective above all others was the preservation of Bill Clinton, and if throwing the Left under the bus was what he had to do to accomplish that then by golly, close the doors and pop that baby into gear.

If President Obama had to move right then “President Obama” would have no reason for being; that’s the way he sees it and the way his controllers see it. The Left has passed their point of no return and the generals are prepared for the bombing run to become a one-way suicide mission.

And no, you’re not paranoid enough. Well, actually, I’m pretty sure you are, and are thinking much the same things I am, but we’re not yet at a point at which it would be prudent to post such things. Getting closer, though.

and not more closer to the right but very far to the left. I don’t think he can help himself and he doesn’t want to be looked at as bad by his peers(fellow commies). I don’t have to watch TV to find it out, it’s becoming very obvious. Those that are naive to think that this is going be a turning point, or going to be completely wrong.

The AIG executives was the first dry-run, and now he’s going against the banks. (Not to mention this is classic leftist distraction when things take an ill turn.)

Next up is demand businesses to hire people and to call them unpatriotic when they don’t because they can’t afford to and start proposing coercive/confiscatory legislation if they don’t behave.

Or if energy prices start to rocket the the oil company will be the convenient target for more demagoguery.

And continued efforts to buy captive constitutencies, like labor.

The question is whether Obama can pull off the Chavez routine, or whether his competency is at the Zelaya level (though I don’t see Congress removing him from office).

Either way, there’s a lot of damage he can do to the structure of governance that could take a generation to repair – if you could actually get persistent behavior from our leadership rather than this careening from election to election.

His plan was to break Conservatives, then accept surrender of Republicans to succor for scraps thrown under the table, all the while re-orienting American Capatalism in his first year. His failure at the first two, and the out of no-where protests of the People has left him shocked and dis-oriented. It wasn’t supposed to go like this. He thought he could just go on the field and run his game-plan.
Obama has blown his good-will, his poll numbers, his element of surprise on the Sleepy American public. His moves are well known now. His next assault is going to be a lot harder because it is not only the opposition who’s watching, it more than half the People. Frankly, i doubt he has a plan B. I’ve heard he is going to try a populist campaign, but that is just not going to be believable. ‘I’m the President of the United States being bullied by the Banks’??? The same guys he can call into his office!
He can go further left, but no body will be following. Your right though, he has no appetite to go right.
It’s been a hell of a first year.

His plans are numbered.

I think finally that Mike Bloomberg is starting to worry a little about just who he helped get elected….PRESIDENT. Obama wasn’t a pal of Bill Ayers for nothing.

Unfortunately Bloomberg lost his moorings before this…on the 2nd Amendment and a lot of other issues and I think he’s waking up a little too late….

Hillary will resign mid summer so as not to be part of the midterm bloodbath. She will have gotten all the resume build available from her stint as Idiot of State.

After, the midterm, Obama will be viewed a total loser and will have worn out his welcome and his usefulness to the Soros commies. They will see that the only way to keep the White House will be to throw the coffee boy under the bus and back Hillary as the next Commie in Charge. It may not work but it will be their only option.

What, you think Hillary and Bill have given up on getting back in the White House? What, you think they don’ t want to even the score with the uppity coffee boy?

But so far, the Dems have been all in on the progressive agenda, even more so than when Clinton was in office. I highly doubt that this is President Obama’s doing; the kid is far too inexperienced to know how to control a caucus as effectively as it has been controlled so far. Moreover, he hasn’t brought anything original or inspired to the table; his agenda is very similar to that of Marxist/socialist groups in the US, circa 1970, and had been echoed by other, more contemporary Dems before the ’08 election. Obama’s just a cog in the machine, a politician; I’m more worried about the people who took a nobody like him and put him in our highest executive office (not to sound too black helicopter-ish or anything).

…not the open hand.

Either that, or Obama IS Chauncey Gardiner.

wanna-be dictator in Honduras, I realized that the lower Obama fell in the polls, the uglier he would become. That is his nature. He will not move to the center. After all, what good is it being king of the world if you don’t use the power?

Obama’s problem is just this: America and a lot of the world are seeing him without their rose-tinted glasses now. Nobody except the drones believes his lies any more.

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and yes we have to remain highly vigilant, but so far I think we have done something exceptional in the last year. We’re likely to make it through this Presidential term without Socialist Health Care, Carbon Taxing, and Card Check amongst the other atrocities that seem given a year ago. The EPA implementation of the Global Warming religion is a problem, but luckily they can’t do much that will take effect anytime real soon. Never relax, but do know where you are in terms of where you are coming from and where you are going to. We’re on a good path.

Listen to the rhetoric of new dem promises of transparency and assume the opposite is occurring. Will Republicans and Independents soften? Predictably yes. We will probably see a repeat of last year. Promises of moderate governance and cooperation to mask stealth radical policies. Right now President Obama, David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel are brainstorming a state of the union speech of ticker tape deception while plotting radical schemes. To quote a satyrical saying about Clinton, “I trust him about as far as I can spit a mouthful of fish hooks.”

Think Obama, his cabinet and czars as the Central Committee and Congress as the Politburo. Think also of “The Five year Plan” and how every two to three years it would fail and a new “Five Year Plan” would emerge to replace it.

Think also of the “Duck and cover” drills in elementary school, the Civil Defense spots on Sunday morning TV and CONELRAD tests on the radio.

Real or imagined, there was a threat from “somewhere over there” that we had better be ready for. That threat has made it’s way to our shores under guise and is no longer imagined, but is real.

We need to hold the fire to the feet of those who are “supposed to represent us” and if they refuse to listen……….. burn em’

My Dad has the same thought as you, that he isnt going to go to the right, because of x and y and all that. Thats crazy. You said it yourself, the guys a cipher, hes a tool. But so was Clinton.

Obama is not going down as a joke in the history books because of his wifes politricks. And he may be ivorytowered but he would have to be a blind fool not to realize what is going on. My brother says he thinks the cats going to go more left, to rally the base. This is also insane. The only way back for him is by embracing the rhetoric of the teaparty, a little, to at least make a show of going to the right.

Barry might not like it or believe it, but watch for him to at least steal the language, like he did in the election with his ‘Im a tax cutter’ garbage.

I think you may be right when you say he was recruited to not be Clinton, but now that he is President he has his own tools for money. It wouldnt shock me at all if the guy surrendered to reality and tried to save his reputation.

My Dad has the same thought as you, that he isnt going to go to the right, because of x and y and all that. Thats crazy. You said it yourself, the guys a cipher, hes a tool. But so was Clinton.

Obama is not going down as a joke in the history books because of his wifes politricks. And he may be ivorytowered but he would have to be a blind fool not to realize what is going on. My brother says he thinks the cats going to go more left, to rally the base. This is also insane. The only way back for him is by embracing the rhetoric of the teaparty, a little, to at least make a show of going to the right.

Barry might not like it or believe it, but watch for him to at least steal the language, like he did in the election with his ‘Im a tax cutter’ garbage.

I think you may be right when you say he was recruited to not be Clinton, but now that he is President he has his own tools for money. It wouldnt shock me at all if the guy surrendered to reality and tried to save his reputation.

I can already smell this.

They will accuse the Republicans of “obstructionism”. They will even throw some Democrats under the Bus, if necessary, and they will attack the News Media when it suits their purpose.

But they will not abandon their leftism. Art is right. I believed that Obama would go centrist and ape Clinton.

I was altogether wrong. Obama is a conviction politician. Unfortunately, he lacks Clinton’s suppleness.

idealogue and waaaay too invested egotistically to concede any of his leftist fantasies…

for the reccos and the stimulating comments!

in this or any other lifetime.

Let me in on these predictions when I can make a little money off of them.

Spot friggin’ on. You know these guys too well.

on a diary that didn’t involve Sarah Palin. The Moderators didn’t close it. It has been in the Recco List for a whole week! Again, thank you all!