The White House is “bracing for the defeat of President Obama’s jobs bill,” the Hill reports. That’s hardly surprising, since Republicans control the House–except that it is the Senate, where Democrats hold a majority, that is expected to vote down the $447 billion Stimulus Jr. plan.
Unnamed White House officials “emphasized their view that it is Republicans who are holding up the . . . plan, and they downplayed Democratic defections,” the report adds. “And officials warned that Republican presidential candidates who follow the lead of Congress . . . will be painted with the same brush as a GOP Congress that voted against the jobs bill at a critical time.”
Run for your lives, Republicans! Obama’s got a brush!
In contrast with the Hill’s anonymous swaggerers, Obama adviser David Plouffe is downcast, ABC News reports: “Plouffe said today on ‘Good Morning America’ that it would be ‘a tragedy’ if the bill fails to pass.” HotAir.com’s Howard Portnoy notes that the tragic view of Obama’s presidency is catching on among liberal commentators:
Why are so many columnists beginning to refer to his presidency using the past tense? It’s worth noting that these references are not by conservative bloggers engaging in wishful thinking. Rather, they are emanating from the liberal commentariat.
Portnoy’s examples include Ezra Klein‘s interminable Stimulus Sr. apologia in the Washington Post, titled “Could This Time Have Been Different?” as well as Drew Westen‘s much-ridiculed New York Times op-ed, “What Happened to Obama?” and a blog post by Mother Jones’s Kevin Drum describing Klein’s piece, which “looks back at the Obama administration’s response to the Great Recession and explains why it wasn’t enough.”
Portnoy observes: “What I believe is happening is that the left is reading the handwriting on the wall and resigning itself to the harsh reality [that] the man they trusted to ‘fundamentally transform America’ is on the verge of being unelected.”
We’d go a step further. Not only does Obama’s re-election look to be in serious jeopardy, but his presidency has been an almost unmitigated disaster for progressive liberalism, nearly every tenet of which has been revealed to be untenable either practically, politically or both.
While Obama’s actions since elected to the Oval Office are now considered an “unmitigated disaster for progressive liberalism”, it is difficult to know where one ‘files’ the kind of absolute stupidity displayed when he planned an apology to Japan for using nukes to end World War II.
James Raider,
hi, this is ridicules of him, but he’s been bowing to all those COUNTRIES, so what more can he do is not surprising.
is it me only that see things escalating in the DEMOCRATS ?
they look all like they are on the run, and don’t know where to hide,
because there is no more place for them to hide