As many right-leaning commentators have noted, supporters of Barack Obama frequently act like he is the Second Coming of Jesus Christ — so frequently that non-supporters coined the uncomplimentary label “Obamessiah” (among others).
Obama cast a hex on journalists, transforming snarling pit bulls into pocket poodles.
Obama was a smooth operator: he took on the Clintonistas and won. He swatted down McCain/Palin, took history by the scruff of the neck and turned the thermostat up in the White House.
With all this in mind and more, imagine my surprise on reading the opening of an article by Michale Hirsh at Newsweek:
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Barack Obama began making his comeback Wednesday, apparently aware that he has all but lost control of the agenda in Washington at a time when he simply can’t afford to do so. Obama’s biggest problem isn’t Taxgate—which resulted in the Terrible Tuesday departure of his trusted friend, Tom Daschle, and the defanging of his Treasury secretary, Tim Geithner. Nor is the No. 1 problem that the president can’t seem to win a single Republican vote for his stimulus package. That’s a symptom, not a cause. The reason Obama is getting so few votes is that he is no longer setting the terms of the debate over how to save the economy. Instead the Republican Party—the one we thought lost the election—is doing that. And the confusion and delay this is causing could realize Obama’s worst fears, turning “crisis into a catastrophe,” as the president said Wednesday.
(Emphasis added.)
I love, love, love the sentence in bold. The public mandate given the Democrats by last year’s election has been misread by Democratic leadership from top to bottom. The liberal media elite also misread the election.
The result?
Barack Obama has sunk to the new, new low of being the Second Coming of Bubbaloo Bill — and he’s been in office less than three weeks!
Moral of the story: Congressional Republicans and conservatives of all stripes should govern — that is, do the right thing.
(Hat tip: Mike Allen at Politico Playbook.)
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