On day 99 of his presidency I predicted that his nomination of Kathleen Sebelius marked the failure of the Obama cabinet, and hence his first term would be a failure. Now I am in the dubious position of trying not to gloat about being right because to do so merely pokes a finger in the eye of all Americans because it is US not Obama who will pay for this.
Of course to his uber-leftard followers, and his black followers he can do no wrong. Even as they lose their jobs, houses, and are watching food and fuel prices raise along with inflation generated by spending more money that the treasury will take in (unemployed people and bankrupt companies pay no taxes) while those lucky enough to still be working saw salaries freeze/recede in the past six months they still support him.
Obama is also in a sweet position as the media anointed him and cannot turn their backs on him. They went all in and are stuck with him. The rest of the American public however is left to fend for themselves as the media, protected by the Constitution so they can remain independent of government control, has chosen to become the government's public relations arm.
Shortly before congress takes it's summer recess Obama urged action on his Health Care initiative. Similarly he urged the previous congress to vote on TARP, and this congress to vote on The Recovery Act (stimulus) and the record deficit budget WITHOUT reading it because they "didn't have time" and they "had to act now". Unfortunately for him the alternative media, talk radio and the blogosphere, began warning people this was going on, and in similar fashion to the TEA Party movement, backlash to the plan began to reverberate throughout the nation, but particularly towards congress. And the townhall meetings that congresspeople use annually to tell their constituents how great they are and why they deserve to be re-elected became skeet shoots where the normally reserved and sedate audiences began to decimate the congressmen.
Obama reached out to his brownshirts at mybarackobama.com and exhorted them to attend townhall meetings in their area and to commit to attend one of the "thousands" of events schedule to try to sell his Health Insurance plan.
Wait... did I just say Health Insurance? Yes I did.
Using the typical leftard strategy of trying to resurrect a failed propaganda campaign Obama has changed the rhetoric, or as he would say "re-calibrated" the rhetoric. Much as the leftards pushing for Global Warming have changed it to Global Climate Change since their warming models peaked prior to 2000, Obama, when faced with facts changed from Health Care to Health Insurance.
And it is here in his Health Care/Insurance program where Obama's unbridled arrogance will lead to his downfall. While the TEA parties represented a wide range of ages around the country, the majority of the organizers and leaders of the individual groups skewed to the younger end of the demographic, while the townhall meetings are being disrupted by primarily the older end of the spectrum... senior citizens... a demographic normally beholden to the Democrats. As a matter of fact the Democrats consider senior citizens to be "theirs" and have perpetuated an decades long fear mongering attack against conservative politicians by accusing them of wanting to cut social security and medicare benefits.
However, their arrogance in assuming the seniors are behind them has bitten several congressmen and Kathleen Sebelius and Obama in the @ss as the seniors KNOW that the health plan involves cutting medicare spending by $500B while increasing the rolls. Also the seniors are not big fans of the mandatory end of life counseling. It is easy for an arrogant 48 year old to decide that once one reaches 65 seniors must obtain end of life counseling every five years to continue receiving medical benefits. It is easy for an arrogant 48 year old to tell people that once someone reaches a certain age maybe they should be medicated instead of receiving a pace maker.
But if one is 65... or 75... or 85... this is not welcome news. They don't want hospice care, or palliative care to help the die easier... they want medical care that helps them to live better... just like Teddy Kennedy and Robert Byrd get thanks to their (and our) tax dollars.
If Obama's health plan is so great then all branches of the federal government, and all federal employees, should be forced to receive it, after all, if it is good enough for their parents it should be good enough for them. Arrogant hypocrites.
We also see Obama and his administration using the media to perpetrate another common tactic used by the government, although leftards have no monopoly on this one... distracting the public with nonsense stories. After 12 months of ignoring well reasoned arguments and even court cases surrounding the circumstances of Obama's birth the media is giving wall to wall attention to the "Birthers" who refuse to let it die. And more recently they are telling how Clinton "freed" the journalists (without portfolio or permission) who were captured in North Korea. Considering how Clinton was rolled by Kim Jong(mentally)-Il I find it odd he would go back there. But on the other hand the media will spin this enough it may make people forget his entire second term in office was overshadowed by a stain on an intern's dress. Either way it is orchestrated to hide that Obama's numbers are sinking faster than the Titanic and some of the Democrat's most loyal constituents were in the first life boats.
And while I am on it, please don't report me to Obama's NAZI-like "dissident" hotline. I don't need Obama's brownshirts coming to my house to "educate" me about his plans. As a student of history I have seen his plans, 1930's era Germany, five decades of USSR dictatorship, and the on-going communist regime in China. They suppress free speech and set out community based "representatives" to report on those who would speak against the state.
As a matter of fact, he is not only a liar, nor is he a pathological liar... but like Bill Clinton, he chooses to lie when telling the truth is easier and would say more about his character than the litany of lies he is spewing. His default mode is to lie first.
