Posted by
Andrews on Thursday, August 20, 2009 4:27:16 PM
Again, I have to crow a bit about predicting the growing Democrat rift long before it came to pass. I know I was not the only one, but I do also recall when I first started talking about it many people to whom I spoke called it "wishful thinking" and predicted Obama being a political steam roller.
But now we see this in
yesterday's Best of the Web:
But wait--don't the Democrats have imposing majorities in both
houses of Congress, including 60 votes in the Senate? Whatever the
merits, that gives them the raw power to pass whatever they please. Of
course, that presupposes they all (or the vast bulk of them) agree. As
the Washington Post reports, they do not:
President Obama's advisers acknowledged Tuesday that they
were unprepared for the intraparty rift that occurred over the fate of
a proposed public health insurance program, a firestorm that has left
the White House searching for a way to reclaim the initiative on the
president's top legislative priority.
We're having a hard time imaging a "rift" that is also a
"firestorm," but apart from that we get the drift. Between the
Republicans and the balking Democrats, an anti-ObamaCare majority is
shaping up. Less than 10 months after his big election victory,
President Obama has managed to do what some thought the Republicans
never could: turn the Democrats into a minority party. Isn't it time he
admitted he overreached?
All of which shows that my posts from August Eleventh's"
ObamaCare on the Ropes?" all the way back to "
Easy to Explain" and "
Is Obama a Figurehead?"in February (or even my predictions in "
The Candidate as Inkblot", long before Obama was nominated) were rather prescient.
POSTSCRIPT
Sorry all I managed to post today was this little bit of gloating, but work has been rather busy for me. I will try to write something a bit more substantive tonight.