More citizens on the WEB are against the performance of the messiah, Barack Obama, then are for. Image Credit: Edmund Jenks via MSNBC.MSN.com website (2009)
First 50 Days - Report Card On Carter's Second Term
With
five opportunities at getting a grade, and three of those opportunities
being a passing grade, it is amazing how many people do not believe
that President Barack Obama deserves a passing grade for his
performance in his first fifty (50) days.
Tale of the tape:
66% - Grade D, or lower (55% FAIL)
34% - Grade C or higher (24% "A")
The
results of this grade matrix is made even more amazing, in that the
place where people access the chance to assign a grade for Carter's
Second Term surrogate, Barack Obama, is considered by most objective
observers, the most biased and least watched cable news channel (home
to Kieth Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, Chris Matthews, and Chuck Todd),
MSNBC.
It is not known that at this moment, if MSNBC has
broadcast the results of its own web poll. Heck, it may be taken down
before they are even given a chance ... ala: "The Dog Ate My Homework".
This excerpted and edited from Chuck Todd, MSNBC -
Obama's growing pains
Next week can't come soon enough as administration learns early lessons
By Chuck Todd, Chief White House Correspondent and Political Director - NBC News - updated 8:05 a.m. PT, Sat., Feb. 7, 2009
By
this time next week, the White House will have quite an accomplishment
topping their list of early victories — passage of a massive economic
stimulus package in less than a month.
And for the White House, next week can’t come soon enough.
They
know they will figure out a way to pass this package. But more
importantly, passing it will give them a chance at a fresh start. And
it will teach them some important lessons about how to move forward
when they present even tougher asks to Congress and the American people.
A couple of things have struck me while watching this White House attempt to pass this first big bill.
First,
they seemed to stop using the tools that got them to the White House in
the first place. President Obama gave very few direct speeches to the
American people and made few attempts to go local with supporters. It’s
been a top down approach to governing in these first few weeks.
Second,
the Obama White House forgot a few things about what it’s like to have
nothing left to lose – the exact position the Republicans found
themselves in.
It not hard to find something wrong with a bill as large as this stimulus package.
But what should have the Obama administration been prepared for?
Extra Scrutiny
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Obama
never should have allowed his first major piece of legislation to be
written largely by a man elected to Congress when the president was
only 8 years old. I’m referring to House Appropriations Chair David
Obey.
I’ve noted many
times here and in “First Read” the stunning lack of change inside the
leadership of the House Democratic caucus. The roster of current
committee chairs is not exactly a profile of change Obama outlined
during the campaign.
Some
day the public might actually revolt against the undemocratic system of
seniority that allows Congress to keep the old ways of Washington
engrained into the culture of Congress.
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The GOP has nothing left to lose
Obama’s
efforts at bipartisanship are in many ways just what he promised
throughout the campaign. If he weren’t talking bipartisanship now he’d
be facing even more criticism about Republican involvement in this
stimulus.
The cynical
question should be what do the Republicans accomplish politically by
cooperating with Obama? Will the 15 or so Republicans in the House and
perhaps five in the Senate who support Obama on the stimulus get a free
pass from voters? Or will the Democrats get the credit while
collectively the Republicans gain nothing?
If the stimulus does not work, and the Republicans are seen as the party that offered an alternative, they stand to benefit.
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Most
elections are about the worst ideas losing, not the best ideas winning.
Democrats have control of both houses of Congress and the White House
because the country got fed up with the Republican rule, not
necessarily because voters saw more merit in the Democrats.
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They believed their own hype
My
colleague, Andrea Mitchell, refers to this syndrome as an inauguration
sugar high. Perhaps it was burnout. Perhaps they watched a little too
much TV [MSNBC, CNN, and Network Nightly News programs]
and forgot how they got to the White House.
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The
Obama team, starting with the president, certainly seemed a tad
haughty, acting as if their lofty rhetoric was enough to cause Congress
to bow and the stimulus bill to magically pass.
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History
will one day record the administration’s effort to pass the stimulus
package as an amazing feat, especially given the size of the bill. In
our 24/7 news cycle, everything is nit picked, something it seems the
Obama White House forgot.
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Obama
will be best served if he embraces his own campaign rhetoric and
remembers the sophisticated operation he built — the one which got him
elected.
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The smart White Houses put the same efforts into winning an election as they do into passing an agenda.
The Obama folks may be getting that now… now that they are off their inauguration sugar high.
Reference Here>>
Funny
what can happen in only one month since Chuck Todd wrote this post. We
all know that the Stimulus Bill passed with only three Republicans
saddling the American taxpayer with an across the board spending
increase of 70% [
$787 Billion dollars]
in all of the agencies of Government and now the Barack Obama
Administration and the Democrat Party controlled Congress want to pass
a new "Omnibus" spending bill that will increase the spending 8% MORE
until the next budget is due in October (what? 70% increase in spending
not enough?).
After reading this PAP mused by liberal political
policy wonk, Chuck Todd, no wonder Obama and the 34% who gave the
current Administration a passing grade might be surprised ... pure
Democrats (those who voted and are in power) and the media are
believing their own press.
Chuck Todd should change his assessment of what elections are about -
the worst ideas losing, not the best ideas winning - to - the reality that the Democrats worst ideas are winning while the nation (and its
economic and
cultural success) is losing.
Welcome to the first
50 days of a failing grade (66%) Carter's Second Term.
Cheer up, we only have the balance of a four year term to witness the complete economic and social destruction of our country.