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The question now is, what to do?
The answer is broadly simple: The Republicans must remember, as one pundit put it, that this election was not an endorsement of the GOP, but a restraining order on Mr Obama. Their purpose is not to go on with business as usual, but rather to reverse the damage the President and his party have wrought, and to rebuild the economy.
In addition, the new Congress must treat Mr Obama's peace offers as the Saurmanesque rot that they are. Instead, counter-offer him the same post-partisanship that he showed his "enemies"; i.e. surrender or be ignored. If he complains, respond in the same gracious manner as he did by telling him "We won." If he wants to play chicken over budget cuts and defunding Obamacare, let him and tell him that the man who maligned the Republicans as the "Party of No" is treating the American people to President No. From my reading of Mr Obama's character, I know who will blink first.
As to Mr Obama himself, what has he in store? If he were as intelligent as he is reputed to be, which he is not, had the charisma and political savvy of former President William Jefferson Clinton, or the experience of a mediocre Congressman, he would make peace with the Republicans, triangulate like mad, and spend the next two years trying to identify with the American people and making them forget that The One even existed. From what I have seen of Mr Obama over the past three years, I don't think that is possible unless he really is nothing but a puppet of shadowy kingmakers. Barry is so unimaginative, so timid, so rigid, narcissistic, and utterly convinced of his own greatness that to do so would shatter his self image. My suspicion is that he will be so unbending and ungracious that even his own party will turn against him in the interests of survival and the once messiah will be forced to either spend the remainder of his term playing solitaire while dodging congressional subpoenas, or resigning in a fit of pique.
If he doesn't go back to Chicago, then keep him boxed in a corner until 2012. With any luck, he'll face off against the equally inept and now spent Mrs Hillary Clinton in a primary challenge that will make that year a satisfying echo of 1980.
The Free World has just dodged the bullet. Pardon me while I sink a G&T in celebration.
Chin-chin, everyone.
Another take on the status of the Obama agenda.
Update: Barry soothes his troubled brow with a $200 million a day junket to India.
Correction: Price tag debunked.
Update: Condescender-in-Chief. Barack Hussein Obama has no intention of giving an inch. The election was because Barry wasn't going fast enough for the benighted American voters who don't appreciate what he's done for them, compromise means Republicans caving in to him, and Obamacare is sacrosanct.
In brief, Mr Obama's message to the American people and the Republicans: Well, I hope you've learned your lesson and don't make me chastise you again.
4 comments:
I expect The One to "double down", by using his cronies in the Senate (notably the execrable Reid from Nevada) to "flood the zone" with demands for more action on his agenda. Failing that, he will use the (dependably-"progressive") bureaucracy (EPA, DOE, etc.) to enact his agenda by fiat.
If even that doesn't work, he'll "go nuclear", resorting to Executive Orders, Nixon and Carter-style.
What he won't do is change course. Gods do not bend to the will of mortals.
These next two years will be interesting, as per the old Chinese curse.
cheers
eon
It ain't over until it's over. Or in this case, until the killer swamp rabbit sings. But yes, we may have dodged a bullet or two.
Something I noticed in the weeks before the election, the Republicans weren't even in power yet, but already they were getting set to make law out of the most radical bits of their wish list. Maybe this outcome was the best one: Congress in a mighty wrestling match with itself and the President, and maybe we can get some work done. In the case of a national emergency, man-made or otherwise, I think that Husseinovich is the only one who actually believes what he's blathering; Congress might even know enough to defend the country.
Poor Husseinovich is still in shock. Also, very disappointed in the American people (it's a downright mean place!). Give him a couple of days to pick his teeth up off the ground.
On the other hand, this is the man who produced not one but two auto-hagiographies before he was 45. So, yeah.
Sergej,
You hit it exactly. He is incapable of such things. If he were, he'd have had the GOP boxed in the first 2 weeks of his administration. All it would of taken was a little give here and there and they would have fallen over themselves to look cooperative. Instead, he did the one thing that would guarantee a united opposition, the infamous "We Won" approach.
Now he'll spend the next 2 years showing us how superior he is and how the mistake we made yesterday was all our fault. The problem with a delusion like that is that you really need other people to go along to make it work. He has run out of the faithful.
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