Tonight�s State of the Union address is the least important one since Richard Nixon�s in 1974. The State of the Union address was delivered 8 days ago by the voters of Massachusetts. They killed the centerpiece of Barack Obama�s presidency and without his health care plan, he is nothing.
There is nothing President Obama can say or do tonight that could save his presidency. It is over. He is through. It lasted exactly 365 days. The one year president.
The stench of political death exudes from him. Soon, he will be mocked as his irrelevancy becomes more and more apparent by the week, by the day and eventually by the hour.
Already George Soros has walked out on him.
Reuters: �Billionaire financier George Soros said on Wednesday U.S. President Barack Obama�s plan to impose a tax on large banks was premature and his wider proposals to rein in banks� activities may not go far enough.�
George Soros does not give a damn about banks. He would break every one of them if he could. He cares only about George Soros and Barack Obama has served his purpose and so George Soros moves on.
The exodus is on.
What doomed Obamacare is that it is boring and he limited himself to needing 60 out of 60 Democratic senators rather than try to work with Republicans. That was foolhardy.
Obama was too young, too inexperienced and too arrogant to realize what he held on Jan. 20, 2009. He had control of both houses of Congress for his first two years � something no Republican president had since Ike Eisenhower. There would be a defection within the first six months which would return control of the Senate to the Democrats under Bush 43.
In fact, President Reagan never had control of the House and yet he accomplished far more than Obama could imagine because Reagan knew how to negotiate. He relished it. He was a master negotiator. He learned that in Hollywood when he headed the Screen Actors Guild, and later he honed his craft as governor of California.
Experience matters. If you can cut a deal with Jack Warner, Tip O�Neill is a piece of cake.
Obama piddled his power away. All he wound up with after a year of these magnificent majorities in the House and Senate was a $787 billion stimulus and the bailout of GM.
Both are abject failures.
The sneering cynicism of the spendathon � a half trillion spent to pay back political favors � now bites him in the seat. He bet that $787 billion on the economy bouncing back on its own accord.
Instead, he scared the market and now, my friends, 12% unemployment and a second recession loom ahead.
Such profligate spending spooked the market. The protests from the Chicago exchange � Rick Santelli echoed the words of the traders � were dismissed. Tea Party protesters were dismissed. Town hall protesters were dismissed.
Sneer, sneer, sneer. Snark, snark, snark.
Obama�s failure to pass Obamacare this fall (and health insurance is a pretty boring subject; all insurance is) left him with the just the Expensive Stimulus That Stopped The Economy.
On January 19, 2010, those traders, Tea Party types and town hall protesters dismissed him.
Bravado about still passing a health package is just that. Technically, it is doable. But every Democratic senator and congressman who is not snorting Kos knows it is political suicide.
Evan Bayh is not surrendering his Senate seat this year for Obama.
How many more examples do you need?
Congressmen from safe seats have seen their odds downgraded to likely Democrat or even leans Democrat. Obamacare cannot save them now; it can only accelerate their declines in the polls.
So what is he left with? Cutting the deficit by freezing a tiny sliver of the appropriations? Don�t make me laugh.
His pathetically timid attempt to cut the deficit only underscores that he has added $1 trillion a year to the deficit without Obamacare.
2010 is another loser year for him. He will lose the House and perhaps the Senate.
So what does he do next year, with Republicans controlling at least half the Congress, that can save him?
Nothing.
Another 9/11 would only underscore his terrible record on national security.
�The system worked!�
I suppose in 2011 and 2012 he could whine about the Party of No.
But that sounds an awful lot like the last 3 years of Bush bashing. After a while, voters tune it all out.
In fact, they already have. Since his July press conference (he was terrible; you could almost hear the yawns) his Nielsen numbers have faded to ordinary. It is kind of sad when the sitting President of the United States cannot goose the ratings when he appears on a Sunday talk show � as happened in September.
This is a very ordinary man.
And an ordinary man with his thin resume should not be president.
Tonight, there is nothing he can do or say to save his presidency. All the rhetorical flourishes have worn off. Save the economy? Didn�t he do that last year for $787,000,000,000?
No, this is a presidency that needs embalming. Yes, Clinton bounced back after the 1994 election. But that is because Clinton was more experienced even though he was roughly the same age then that Obama is now. Clinton lost his governorship after his first term because he acted like The Won. Clinton laughed it off, learned and returned two years later. Clinton was able to apply that lesson after the 1994 election.
President Obama cannot learn because he already knows everything. Right?
He also burned all his bridges to the Republicans.
Rush Limbaugh wanted Obama to fail.
Limbaugh�s wish has come true.
Others still see hope for President Obama. Andrew Malcolm has �What he will say vs. what he should say.�
Frankly, there is nothing this president can say anymore. He�s through.
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The European press has become much better at reporting on American current events that the MSM ever was... strange how the boot licking MSM are all going broke now...
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." Robert E. Howard
Watched the speech. It was painful, immature, lecturing, inaccurate. Have no use for the pitiful socialist but found myself being embarrased for him. It was a living example of why ignorance, arrogance and stupidity should at the very least be mutually exclusive. For one individual to be loaded down with all three leaves little hope. I for one believe Surber, whoever he is, may be right. The only problem is that Democrats can always come up with a substitute liberal. Just hope they let The One live out his first term.
Colossians 3:17 (New King James Version) "And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him."
Well I hope that isn't just wishful thinking. You do have to wonder where that statement by Obama came from, in regards to being a good one term president.
The MSM has been going down because of their support of Obama and it will only be a matter of time until they realize that he is going to sink them too unless they cut him loose.
It will be fun watching Obama self destruct now that he seems to have self neutered.
