Victor Davis Hanson maintains that Obama’s problems are not tactical but fundamental in that he is now being revealed for what he always was – a leftist ideologue not interested in bi-partisan progress:
We have elected the most left-wing president in our history, apparently to many an unappreciated fact given the Bush unpopularity, the wars, the so-so McCain candidacy, and the September 2008 meltdown, but one that now, through a variety of minor and major incidents (from the apologies abroad and the cap-and-trade zealotry to the Gates incident to Van Jones), is being revealed to the American people — and they are not comfortable with it.
He then sums up exactly the situation we face – a race between his leftist agenda and America waking up:
So we are in a race — will a majority of the American people wake up from their past anger at Bush and subsequent hypnotism by Obama before he pushes through and institutionalizes an agenda to the left of what we see in Europe?
On Obama’s side are the media and the government bureaucracy. On America’s side, Fox News and the Tea Party.
I’d like to say the good guys will win, but it isn’t that obvious to me. If Republicans hold the line (and put Olympia Snowe on ice somehow), we may stand a chance. If they fold, or are bought off, we are done.
September 9th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
Politics is the art of governing. The monkeys in DC think they’re painting a new
prosperity for the folks. Their master is a real “Tinkerbell.”