If you remember, Rahm Emanuel noted after the 2008 election that the Obama administration should not fail to seize crises as opportunities. The administration did it with the stimulus, they’ve tried with cap and trade, and now they are trying with healthcare.
My friend Greg Mueller suggests the strategy is failing.
Obama’s “opportunity in crisis” agenda initially lost him the Republican vote he won during the election.
Fast-forward a few months and polls now show how independent voters are drifting away from the president.
As the guns of August sound over health care policy, Obama’s government takeover of health care is on the ropes and being met with grassroots intensity not seen since the immigration debate. So how are Obama and his fellow Chicago politicos in the White House confronting the dropping polls and increased angst among the electorate? They’re attacking Americans protesting at town hall meetings, attacking debate, essentially attacking free speech.
Greg rightly notes that now Republicans have an opportunity because of Obama trying to take advantage of crisis.
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Rod_Patrick (Diary) Friday, August 14th at 1:24AM EST (link)Short but fair summary of what’s really going on right now.
Thanks, EE.
A Crisis Exists-Yes.
OccamsRazor (Diary) Friday, August 14th at 2:40AM EST (link)Rules for Radicals essentially dictates WAYS to create a Crisis and to take advantage of it for their own purposes. It isn’t very clear on how to SOLVE them.
It’s time for Conservatives to Have a Plan.
My Suggestion is to....
OccamsRazor (Diary) Friday, August 14th at 2:42AM EST (link)obliterate this adminstration, and give credit to the next (Republican) one next term.
I’ll give suggesstions on how after ’10 and ’12.
or
It occurs to me...
Loren Heal (Diary) Friday, August 14th at 5:29AM EST (link)that aliens could have used their blog technology (which is, I have to say, much more advanced) to distort your message in frightening ways, leading to the apparent mistake we wee before us.
That, or you clicked too quickly.
How to solve this question? How indeed. If only there were some logical principle for solving this type of problem, we could be done with silly conspiracy theories once and for all.
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'I Drank What?'
OccamsRazor (Diary) Friday, August 14th at 5:25PM EST (link)My point is, now that RedState, is becoming an icon….why telegraph our moves in advance.
You’re right however, let’s forge forward. I’ll input as best as possible without being subtle. Deal?!
Ooops. My bad, Occam.
Loren Heal (Diary) Friday, August 14th at 11:32PM EST (link)I assumed you made a typo, and was trying to be funny with your user name: which is more likely, alien tricks or a typo? I didn’t get what you meant, so I apologize.
Woulda been really funny, though.
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Keep it up, Obama
scottbomb (Diary) Friday, August 14th at 8:20AM EST (link)Please, don’t stop slamming the American people, especially seniors. 2010 and 2012 just can’t come quicker.
www.HowObamaGotElected.com
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism’, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” – Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948
"grassroots intensity not seen since the immigration debate"
JoeG Friday, August 14th at 9:32AM EST (link)There is WAY more intensity than there was over the immigration bill.
I’ve never seen as much opposition effort as there is against the health bill.
Maybe because it's not just the health bill.
janis (Diary) Friday, August 14th at 9:49AM EST (link)It’s for all the marbles this time. If we stop cap and trade, the health bill and card check, then we save our country. Finally, even those who didn’t bother to register their voices on immigration are standing up and making themselves heard this time.
They won’t be able to stop us. This would be a perfect time for the Dems to try and institute the Fairness Doctrine, you know. The perfect tone deaf complement to the other stuff they’re trying to force on us!
Better pray for quick collapse
Plumb_Bob (Diary) Friday, August 14th at 10:36AM EST (link)The dollar is set to collapse on world markets due to Obama’s and Congress’ irresponsible spending. We had all better hope that it does so before Republicans win back Congress or the White House, or Republicans will be blamed for it.
About the only alternative is that Republicans win back both the Senate and the House with majorities large enough to override a Presidential veto, then immediately cut back the federal budget to roughly 60% of its current size. (Likelihood = zero.)
Failing that, I can’t see any way to forestall the inevitable, and I would much rather have Democrats in all responsible positions when it occurs, so we can affix the blame where it properly belongs.
(Unrelated to this topic, please visit my political blog, “Plumb Bob Blog: Squaring the Culture,” at http://www.plumbbobblog.com. Thanks.)