"We are witnessing the unmistakable collapse of an American presidency." I wrote those words in this space almost one year ago, and events continue to prove them true. It seems the president himself now recognizes this reality. Thus his desperate Hail Mary.The second Summer of Recovery failed to materialize, and now the Autumn of Despair is settling in. The president's approval ratings are at record lows. Americans identify themselves as conservative by a 2-1 margin over liberal, and it's widening. The Democrats just lost two House special elections, including one for a "safe" New York seat they've firmly held for 88 years. And this after taking a "shellacking" - the president's own word - in last year's midterm elections. But who should be surprised?
Obamanomics has become its own parody, a disastrous amalgam of wildly increased deficit spending, central planning, bailouts, takeovers, unconstitutional mandates, overregulation, crony favoritism, debased currency and increased taxes. The "smartest guy ever to become president," as pundits used to call him, knows only one solution to every problem: Grow the government. Now his proverbial chickens have come home to roost and the landscape is littered with the results: Unemployment. High gas prices. Deficits. Food stamps. Poverty. Uninsured people. Foreclosures. Bankruptcies. Layoffs. Phony green jobs. Downgraded America. This is Obamanomics.
Obamacare has become emblematic of big government's arrogant incompetence. It's a 2,700-page monstrosity whose rules are still being written more than a year after its passage. Its supporters could not be bothered to read it before forcing it upon us, even as one of their own called it "a Ponzi scheme of the first order, the kind of thing Bernie Madoff would have been proud of." The landscape is littered with Obamacare's broken promises: Keep your doctor. Keep your insurance. Cut the deficit. Reduce premiums. Create 4 million new jobs. All lies. Instead, connected friends got Obamacare waivers while the rest of America has seen an increase in premiums and the roles of the uninsured actually have increased. This is Obamacare.
It's no wonder independents have long since abandoned President Obama, but now his liberal base - what's left of it, anyway - is launching an open rebellion against him.
A very well done fisking of a failed president.