***UPDATE: Once again the outstanding BH community embarrasses me with their insight. Stewart being bummed with Obama deferring to the legislative process is very revealing, and I missed it completely. Good catch. Please go on about your business of being awesome and note the updated headline.
The Left’s growing disappointment with Obama only has to do with his current approval rating. I can guarantee you that if the President did everything exactly the way he’s doing now but was at 55% approval as opposed to 39% and on his way to easy re-election, Jon Stewart and the rest would be overjoyed with the job Obama’s doing. The Left simply must blame “the job the President is doing” because they can’t face the fact that the policies Obama put into place have failed because those are the policies the Left has believed in for generations. To stare into the abyss and admit their own ideas don’t work is too much to bear. So instead, we get this:
Stewart in Rolling Stone:
“Obama ran on this idea that the system and the methodology are corrupt. It felt like the country was upset enough that he had the momentum needed to re- evaluate how business is done. Instead, when he got elected, he acted as though the system is so entrenched that it has to be managed rather than – I don’t want to say decimated, because I’m not an anarchist or a nihilist. But I’m surprised at how much he deferred to the legislative process. He’s accomplished some things, and I’m sure he’s pleased with what he’s done, but I would have preferred to see something a little bit more transformative. They haven’t made the case that government can be effective, or accountable, or agile.”
And this:
“He feels like the only president who begins every press conference with a heavy sigh. I think he was already kind of over us by the time he got into office. And now he’s like, ‘What the fuck is wrong with these people?'”
Obama’s hovering in the thirties because he’s a failed president with no one to blame but the ideas and policies he and other Leftists like Stewart wanted to see enacted. Never forget that for two years the Left owned Congress, had a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, and passed a wish-list of big government programs that not only haven’t worked but have made things worse.
Obama’s problem isn’t his attitude or presentation. Obama’s problem is that he got everything he and his supporters wanted, which in turn proved beyond any doubt that what they believe in is bad for America, especially the poor.
How people can claim to care about this country and the plight of the poor and not come to terms with the failure of their own ideology is beyond me.
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