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Exactly what you'd expect from the most hideously bad
Posted on: November 16, 2016 at 07:14:04 CT
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president we'll ever have (now that shltlery is gone).
Obama Is Still Living In His Bubble
Voters just rejected his policies, rejected his Pollyannaish view of the economy and handed his party defeats at every level of government. But as far as President Obama is concerned, everything he's done is magic.
After the shellacking they took in the election last week, Democrats have been counseling each other to get outside their liberal "bubble" so they can reconnect with regular Americans. But not Obama.
At his press conference on Monday, Obama failed to show a scintilla of humility. His economic polices are working, ObamaCare is doing better than expected, all is well. "We should be very proud," he said, that "when we turn over the keys the car is in pretty good shape."
Proud? Is he kidding? Let's review the evidence.
First, Obama has just suffered one of the harshest repudiations on record.
Despite Obama's continued insistence on his own masterful handling of the economy, working class Americans handed the keys to the candidate who pledged to undo just about all of Obama's so-called achievements. Trump vows to repeal ObamaCare, do a 180 degree turn on Obama's tax policy, undo Dodd-Frank, reverse course on his immigration policy, walk away from Obama's global warming agreements and heavy-handed regulations.
There was arguably more consistency between Jimmy Carter's and Ronald Reagan's policies when Reagan took over in 1980 (Carter had already started to deregulate industries and appointed Paul Volcker as Fed Chairman to tackle inflation) than there is between Obama and Trump.
Obama's signature legislative achievement — ObamaCare — has been an unmitigated political and policy disaster. It cost Democrats the House in 2010, the Senate in 2014 and arguably contributed to Hillary Clinton's defeat last week. No matter who won the election, the next president and the next Congress face the unenviable task of fixing the enormous mess that ObamaCare created.
Yet at his press conference, Obama actually said — by way of chastising Republicans for wanting to repeal ObamaCare — that "it's one thing to characterize this thing as not working when it's just an abstraction."
Obama's own party, meanwhile, has suffered catastrophic losses in the past eight years.
When Obama won in 2008, liberals were beside themselves with talk about a permanent Democratic majority, and how the Republican party was on the losing side of large demographic trends.
Emory University political scientist Alan Abramowitz argued that "the Democratic Party enjoys a large advantage over the Republican Party in the size of its electoral base — an advantage that is almost certain to continue growing for the foreseeable future."
Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg was more succinct: "The conservative movement has been crushed."
Eight years later, those statements look positively comical.
As John Podhoretz and Noah Rothman note in Commentary, "between 2009, when Barack Obama took office, and today, as he prepares to retire from it, more than 1,100 Democratic elected officials lost their jobs to Republicans. That number is unprecedented."
In January 2009, Democrats controlled 27 state legislatures and held 28 governorships. Next January, they will control just 13 legislatures, and the number of governors will have dwindled to 17.
In percentage terms, there are 10% fewer Democratic Senators, 19% fewer Representatives, 35% fewer governors and 20% fewer legislatures, and one fewer president.
On pure vote counts, Obama has overseen a shocking drop in Democratic turnout. In 2012, he got about 5 million fewer votes than he did in 2008 — a virtually unprecedented decline for an incumbent president. This year Clinton could end up with fewer voters than Obama's 2012 take, once all the votes are counted. Over those same years, Republicans have made steady gains.
What's surprising about this isn't Obama's unwillingness to confront his multitude of failures. Obama's towering ego has never allowed for any such admissions in the past.
What is truly remarkable is that nobody in his party appears to have any interest in holding Obama accountable for any of it. So long as they refuse to do so, the Democratic Party will continue to suffer at the hands of voters.
Obama Is Still Living In His Bubble
Voters just rejected his policies, rejected his Pollyannaish view of the economy and handed his party defeats at every level of government. But as far as President Obama is concerned, everything he's done is magic.
After the shellacking they took in the election last week, Democrats have been counseling each other to get outside their liberal "bubble" so they can reconnect with regular Americans. But not Obama.
At his press conference on Monday, Obama failed to show a scintilla of humility. His economic polices are working, ObamaCare is doing better than expected, all is well. "We should be very proud," he said, that "when we turn over the keys the car is in pretty good shape."
Proud? Is he kidding? Let's review the evidence.
First, Obama has just suffered one of the harshest repudiations on record.
Despite Obama's continued insistence on his own masterful handling of the economy, working class Americans handed the keys to the candidate who pledged to undo just about all of Obama's so-called achievements. Trump vows to repeal ObamaCare, do a 180 degree turn on Obama's tax policy, undo Dodd-Frank, reverse course on his immigration policy, walk away from Obama's global warming agreements and heavy-handed regulations.
There was arguably more consistency between Jimmy Carter's and Ronald Reagan's policies when Reagan took over in 1980 (Carter had already started to deregulate industries and appointed Paul Volcker as Fed Chairman to tackle inflation) than there is between Obama and Trump.
Obama's signature legislative achievement — ObamaCare — has been an unmitigated political and policy disaster. It cost Democrats the House in 2010, the Senate in 2014 and arguably contributed to Hillary Clinton's defeat last week. No matter who won the election, the next president and the next Congress face the unenviable task of fixing the enormous mess that ObamaCare created.
Yet at his press conference, Obama actually said — by way of chastising Republicans for wanting to repeal ObamaCare — that "it's one thing to characterize this thing as not working when it's just an abstraction."
Obama's own party, meanwhile, has suffered catastrophic losses in the past eight years.
When Obama won in 2008, liberals were beside themselves with talk about a permanent Democratic majority, and how the Republican party was on the losing side of large demographic trends.
Emory University political scientist Alan Abramowitz argued that "the Democratic Party enjoys a large advantage over the Republican Party in the size of its electoral base — an advantage that is almost certain to continue growing for the foreseeable future."
Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg was more succinct: "The conservative movement has been crushed."
Eight years later, those statements look positively comical.
As John Podhoretz and Noah Rothman note in Commentary, "between 2009, when Barack Obama took office, and today, as he prepares to retire from it, more than 1,100 Democratic elected officials lost their jobs to Republicans. That number is unprecedented."
In January 2009, Democrats controlled 27 state legislatures and held 28 governorships. Next January, they will control just 13 legislatures, and the number of governors will have dwindled to 17.
In percentage terms, there are 10% fewer Democratic Senators, 19% fewer Representatives, 35% fewer governors and 20% fewer legislatures, and one fewer president.
On pure vote counts, Obama has overseen a shocking drop in Democratic turnout. In 2012, he got about 5 million fewer votes than he did in 2008 — a virtually unprecedented decline for an incumbent president. This year Clinton could end up with fewer voters than Obama's 2012 take, once all the votes are counted. Over those same years, Republicans have made steady gains.
What's surprising about this isn't Obama's unwillingness to confront his multitude of failures. Obama's towering ego has never allowed for any such admissions in the past.
What is truly remarkable is that nobody in his party appears to have any interest in holding Obama accountable for any of it. So long as they refuse to do so, the Democratic Party will continue to suffer at the hands of voters.
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Exactly what you'd expect from the most hideously bad - GA Tiger MU - 11/16 07:14:04