« Oops | Main | McCain: Leave the Lying, Incompetent Tax Cheat Alone! »
March 18, 2009
Rove: Obama is Giving the GOP an Opening
President Barack Obama and his West Wing lieutenants are playing on the world's largest stage, yet act as if no one is watching them when they contradict their campaign promises. That behavior is unwittingly giving the Republicans an opening.The attack ads practically write themselves. Or rather, they will if the GOP is on the ball and ready to go on the offensive during the 2010 election season. Obama's sudden lurch to the left, combined with stupid stunts that communicate a lack of seriousness are slowly eroding his political capital. If he's not careful, history could repeat itself.For example, Team Obama thinks the president, having spent a good portion of the campaign decrying the $2.9 trillion in deficits during the Bush years, can now double the national debt held by the public in 10 years. Having condemned earmarks during the campaign, the Obama administration now believes it can wave through 8,500 of them in the omnibus-spending bill, part of the biggest spending increase since World War II.
With the Dow at 7,486 and unemployment at 8.1%, Mr. Obama says the economy is fundamentally sound. Does he suppose the nation won't recall him attacking John McCain last September for saying the same thing -- when the Dow was at 11,000 and unemployment at 6.2%?
Candidate Obama vowed to end "the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics." Yet his administration geared up MoveOn.org to lead a left-wing coalition to pressure Republicans and centrist Democrats, organized a daily conference call to coordinate liberal attack dogs, and strategized with Americans United for Change on ads depicting the GOP as the party of "no."
Posted by slublog at March 18, 2009 11:36 PM
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.slublog.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/4119
Comments
The audacity of this administration! :-)
A friend from Belgium wrote to congratulate me on the wonderful choice of our new president, and hoped that he would do a good job "ruling" our country. I thought of correcting her that we have a president, not a king... but Obama seems to think he IS king and can do whatever he wants! I just watch in stunned amazement and shake my head.
Posted by: Cheryl at March 20, 2009 02:35 PM
On the other hand I just got an email from Senator John Cornyn and the NRSC which takes the same side as Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi, asking me to help him "get that money back". It's all too depressing.
Posted by: OCBill at March 20, 2009 05:10 PM