So, there are a few things going on that show the Democratic reaction to the Massachusetts Miracle. I think they warrant a review prior to the State of the Union Address tomorrow evening.
My operational model for looking at the Obama administration has been to refer to the Clinton administration. From this, we can note the similarities between the two, and what the Obama team, consisting of several former Clinton staffers, has learned from the Clinton years. So, this is my current thinking.
While the Democrats and the left are trying hard to spin it, they know they are in trouble in November. They can say, “We weren’t being progressive enough.” But everyone can read the plummeting poll numbers of both Obama and the Health Care plan. The wreckage lies in a field of broken promises, back-room bribes, and locked doors. The Democrats have expended all of their political capital in trying to ram this though, and Obama will now try to appear to move to the center.
Clinton did not see that he was going to lose the Congress in 1994. He was surprised. Obama will not make the same mistake, or at least he thinks. Clinton moved to the center after the congressional losses. Obama will try before hand. He will speak some of the Republican’s language; spending cuts, jobs, and the like. This will be a smoke screen. His political philosophy and plans are intact. He’s concerned with survival right now.
So, Obama has proposed a spending freeze. The left is hating it, the right is laughing about it, and the moderates are being well, moderate. Why say it? It gives Obama some cover. It steals some of the Tea Party rhetoric; it tries to cover up the fact that he’s ignored issues important to the people for a full year, and it tried to recapture the massive initiative loss that he suffered when Scott Brown won. He will fail on all marks. He will alienate his own base. After a year of Porkulus, Cap and Trade, and Health Care reform, he’s already alienated the Independents, and some verbal trickery won’t change that. The Republicans and the Tea Party folks already distrust him, and nothing will change that.
To foreword this plan, he has asked the Congress to form a bi-partisan Deficit Reduction Task Force. The Senate, predictably, has declined the offer. So, Obama has his rhetorical change, and since he probably knew that it was going to be shot down, the reality of it will never happen. The Obama team probably sees this as a win, because they can do the talk, without ever having to do the walk. Then, he can say that he tried, but the Senate and the Republicans stopped him. This is a joke. Obama is from the power politics of Chicago. He’s a natural born arm twister and manipulator. He has been giving instructions all year. I doubt that very much has happened without his direction or approval.
So, he stated an idea without any intention of following through on it.
I think an interesting side effect of this might be that Obama is throwing the Congress under the bus. He’s alienating the liberal base with these new ideas. The Congress is already under fire from the hard left for not passing Cap and Trade and ObamaCare. Obama failed at Copenhagen. Card Check never got off the ground. Just imagine yourself as a Democratic Representative or Senator. Everything you tried, other than the Porkulus, has failed, and the base is angry. The Tea Party folks showed up at your town hall meetings. There were stunning losses in New Jersey, Virginia, and Massachusetts. And now, the POTUS is proposing things that you can’t support, or you lose what little support you might have left with the base. They are literally caught in between a rock and a hard place.
And Obama? He’s trying to save his own skin. Screw everyone else.
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I think you’re right, but I still prefer to think that right about now Obama is standing there trembling in a puddle of his own whizz while mumbling incoherently about where it all went wrong.
I have to admit, your way if far more amusing!
There is no doubt that the Massachusetts election has Obama trying to move toward the center. The question is, can he pull it off and I think that you summed up what will happen nicely. People are engaged as they have not been in a long time and I think they will see through this. In the end Obama will not move to the center, I don’t think he has it in him. Plus he has promised so much and has come through on so little that I don’t think anyone believes what he says anymore. When they hear him talk about spending freezes and tax cuts they just laugh at him. He has become a joke.
I have to agree. The move to the middle will be a farce. We might just get to watch this guy self destruct over the next few months.
Excellent analysis Matt. I agree with you that it will be much harder for him to slide to the center, why because he is a radical and talk is cheap. When he was running he spoke the language of a moderate and then when he was elected the radical busted out of him. Fool me once shame on you…fool me twice shame on me.
Thanks for the kind words. I really think that the community organizer within will never left him move anywhere off course.
Great article, Matt. I think you are correct, in that Obama is doing his best to provide himself political cover. He may attempt to move to the middle, but I think his left-leaning, liberal principles will get the best of him.
Thanks LD, I think that whatever he offers will be a re-packaging of his other initiatives with new, populist sounding names. When I first started this blog, and was attempting to be “snarky,” I came up with the CALL IT SOMETHING ELSE Translation Matrix. It was a gimmick based on the fact that Obama and the rest of the left tries the same old crap. They just slap a different name on it.
actually i am not usa citizen but usa influence on my country is very strong. so i was trying to find out whats going on in your country. and i got cultural shok. seriously. i was born in russia and then i moved to israel, i saw lots of election and hard times. but elections and political competition in usa looks to me like backstage of show business competition…i dont feel any real base in the words of obama. *light* *converstation with middle class* and so on and so on… pretty loud words with no meaning…maybe i am wrong-i am not good at politics…
Thanks for the comment. I think you are right. It’s a big production, with lot’s of words, that means little.
Concise, to the point and very accurate piece Matt. I agree, Congress is between Barack and a hard place.
I C what U did thar!
Now, Don. That is about the best play on words I think I have seen in a long time. Did you just make that up off the top of your head?
That’s right the guy who hates America and the people who live in it, His Arrogance, is going to try to be a populist who governs from the center. And monkeys just flew out of my ass.
I don’t think even Pepto Bismol can help with that, Snarky…
Don’t worry. That actually happened a couple of times during the Clinton administration. The monkeys are quite docile, even more than Snarky, in fact.
can u say narcissist!..what a tool Hussein is..and the libs still eat it up!..GAH!!!
Did you watch the pollster with the group on Hannity? The young ones were so naive. I can’t bash them too much. I was like that at one time.
He’ll be in even MORE trouble after the delusional lie fest he foisted on us tonight. It was embarrassing.
He sowed more seeds of his own destruction. He made more promised that he cannot, or will not, deliver upon.