Desperate Obama Panders to the Far-Left as the Rest of the Country Abandons Him-

History will probably record the Obama Administration of 2009-2013 as one long recession/depression... just as we see the Hoover Administration of 1929-1933

Barack Hussein Obama now finds himself in a situation similar to Clinton's in '94, where he is forced to pander to the Far-Left to maintain his power base on The Hill... as moderates and independents run-away from their BIG mistake screaming.  This leftward-lurch is all about turning-out Democratic voters in midterm elections -especially youth and minorities- as they surely lack the enthusiasm -nay, delirium- of 2008, and now Obama needs for as many of them to show up to vote as possible. Of course the dire situation is one of Chairman Zero's own making, and it's bad: Intrade shows the likelihood of a GOP House majority at 55%... and trending up.

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The president's increasingly odd behavior is now driven by such considerations, i.e. suing Arizona as a bone-toss to the open-borders crowd... when nationwide polling shows Americans favor SB1070 two-to-one.   In a private meeting with WH officials this weekend in Boston, a number of Democratic governors voiced grave political concerns over this racially-charged, divisive stunt... one calling the issue "poison" headed into midterms- political suicide for a party already teetering on the brink.

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And as noted by Dick Morris, moving the radical Obama even farther to the left risks a political-death spiral as he continually alienates moderates and regrettably divides the country further along racial lines.  This will almost certainly end in an even worse defeat than the one suffered by Clinton in '94, as Obama relies on a fringe agenda and severely diminished base.

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Perhaps the governors just aren't down with the Cloward-Piven thing and/or manufactured crises to exploit, as they begged the WH to focus on creating jobs rather than attacking Arizona and other nonsense- with 19 Democratic governorships up for grabs this fall, more sensible minds in the party are now raising stern objections to his misguided agenda.  

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Obama's shuck-and-jive just isn't even working on Dems anymore, and economic 

reality is setting-in with the public: according to Morris, the numbers are starting to hurt the one-trick wonder-pony now that he's finally run out of blame Bush credits.

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With all economic indicators again trending downward (Dow, employment, housing, consumer confidence), it's hard to deflect responsibility for both legs of a double-dip recession and two years of economic stagnation onto your predecessor:

As the debt crisis that started in Greece spreads to Europe and across the ocean, the United States’ high level of deficit spending makes us particularly vulnerable. It was recognition of that weakness that led Europeans to reduce their deficits and cut back their spending, oblivious to Obama’s request that they increase their outlays. But Obama continues his big spending and big borrowing ways in the U.S.

To this we need to add the climate of uncertainty that the president’s changes have engendered. The prospect of big tax hikes ahead in 2011 (beyond just the simple repeal of the upper income Bush tax cuts), the uncertainty in the credit markets due to the passage of the financial regulation bill, and the questions raised by possible cap and trade legislation all militate against new investment or borrowing and are inducing corporations and banks to hoard cash which might, otherwise, have stimulated economic growth.

Politically, Obama was likely to lose Congress even before this disaster hit. Now, Rasmussen has four Democratic Senate seats definitely going Republican (Arkansas, North Dakota, Indiana, and Delaware) with six more rated as tossups (Pennsylvania, Illinois, Colorado, Nevada, Washington State, and Wisconsin). California is also a likely Republican pickup. Rasmussen rates four GOP Senate seats as tossup (Ohio, Missouri, Florida, and New Hampshire), but the Democrats are unlikely to win any of them.

If the GOP picks up the seats it is likely to win, it will control the Senate by 52-48. And, in the House, the likelihood of a Republican victory is even more significant...

Alas, while patriots have great reason for confidence headed into the fall, vigilance is called-for: desperate people do desperate things... especially narcissistic, habitually-dishonest Chicago pols with a warped, bloated ego and a Messiah complex...

Dick Morris   New York Times  Rasmussen Reports

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