Obama may be in the house for now, but if this were to keep up, he and his party won’t remain in the White House, or a House of Congress for too long:
It sounded improbable on the surface that a New York City congressional district where Democrats have a 3-1 registration edge and have held office for nearly a century could even come close to electing a Republican to the U.S. House.But voter frustration over the sour economy and President Barack Obama’s policies made the improbable a reality, as a Republican political novice, Bob Turner, scored an upset victory in a special election Tuesday over David Weprin, a Democratic assemblyman from a prominent local political family. The surprising results in the Brooklyn and Queens-area district portend a perilous national environment for Obama as he prepares to seek re-election next year.
There are few absolutes in politics and it isn’t the end of the Democrat Party; however, along with a failure to get over the top with recall elections in liberal Wisconsin, thanks to their would be messiah, the Democrats now have a serious problem with important elements of their political base. Perhaps deliverance isn’t always everything it’s cracked up to be in political terminology. Obama’s failed policies are now delivering sweet victory to the GOP. They won both special elections last night by relatively substantial margins. (In NV-2, a district which McCain won by less than 1%, the GOP candidates stomped to a 20+ point victory.) To the extent there still are Moderate Democrats within the party, last night’s headlines were not reassuring for them, which is not to say that the GOP can simply rest upon its laurels in this political climate, either.
And the news only gets worse for Obama. The White House went green in a big way for failed solar company Solyndra, leading to another investigation by Republican lawmakers. Someone better tell AttackWatch.com, an Obama campaign site claiming to exist to fight the smears. At this rate, they may end up with quite a web archive before they’re through.
The August 2009 e-mails, released to The Washington Post, show White House officials repeatedly asking OMB reviewers when they would be able to decide on the federal loan and noting a looming press event at which they planned to announce the deal. In response, OMB officials expressed concern that they were being rushed to approve the company’s project without adequate time to assess the risk to taxpayers, according to information provided by Republican congressional investigators.
Another great accomplishment for Obama, he has now grown the nation’s poor to historic proportions. Heckuva job, Barry. Heckuva job.
Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) isn’t certain Obama’s jobs bill can pass. Wait, don’t the Democrats control the Senate? Why, yes they do, as a matter of fact. Clearly Obama now doesn’t, despite the same party affiliation.
Former President Jimmy Carter supports a UN move for Palestinian statehood. The U.S. is said to be scrambling to avoid a vote on it. I suspect they’re doing more than scramble after last night’s disastrous election loss in New York – 09.
Meanwhile, PowerLine exposes a Left Wing political op linking a Lefty blog to the New York Times in an attempted smear of Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA).
The Times piece started with a left-wing web site; indeed, some have accused Lichtblau of plagiarism. This is common: reporters for Democratic newspapers like the Times and the Washington Post constantly troll far-left web sites for story ideas. When they come across a slander they think they can sell, they jump in. That is what happened here.
The Wall Street Journal notes that, hey, taxes are really going to go up a lot in 2013. Think the economy will be humming along well enough to absorb what would be the largest tax hike in our history?
For the White House, the policy calendar is dictated above all by the political necessities of the 2012 election. Mr. Obama will take his chances on 2013 if he can cajole the private economy to create enough new jobs over the next year to win re-election, even if those jobs and growth are temporary. Business owners and workers who would prefer to prosper beyond Election Day aren’t likely to share Mr. Obama’s enthusiasm once they see the great tax cliff approaching. Look out below.
DOOM: Another day older and deeper in debt.
China is going on a European shopping spree; first stop, Italy! Of course, the Communists want the Europeans to enact economic reform in exchange. Insert joke here.
Obama Jobs Plan: Uh oh, Obama’s approval rating plummets to a new low in wake of plan’s release. Americans may not be versed in policy details, but they understand that if STIMULUS I failed, STIMULUS-Lite II is probably doomed as well.
Lefty Consumer Czar Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) announced plans to challenge Sen. Scott Brown next year. We’ve been so well-served these past few years by crusty Ivy League academics, what could go wrong?
The New York Times‘ Nate Silver looks at recent special elections and concludes the GOP’s 2010 wave is still hurtling towards Obama’s shoreline:
If the GOP reforms 7 points higher than the Partisan Voting Index would suggest, a whole lot of Dem Senators are going to be unemployed next year.
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