Lame Ducks overrated
Image by Getty Images via @daylifeI'm getting whiplash trying to follow the Democrats' talking points. First, it was a disaster when Obama agreed to extend the Bush tax cuts. Obama was a wimp. Then it was a horrid error to allow the omnibus spending bill to die (and with it all that funding for ObamaCare). The White House, liberals complained, also blew it on the DREAM act. And now, presto: Obama has mounted a phenomenal comeback!We won on the things that were most important to us. The START treaty will never be an important accomplishment. It may contain some of Obama's fantasies of doing away with nukes, but they are still fantasies and it is not going to happen. The DADT vote was about trying to shore up a small part of the Democrat base that gives a lot of money to the party. In terms of votes they are not a major player and they are not all Democrats.
Not exactly. The sources of the left's delight -- repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" and ratification of the New START treaty -- are irrelevant to the vast majority of Americans. Voters care, as the Democrats should have but refused to learn during the referendum of 2010 (the midterms results were, one wit cracked, "a restraining order" on liberal statism), about the economy, jobs and the growth of government. These are far and away the most important issues in every credible survey, and will be the focus of the Republicans' 2011 agenda.
And if the highlight of Obama's term, according to outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was the "historic" ObamaCare legislation, then the highlight could soon be extinguished. Obama's central domestic achievement is facing judicial scrutiny, a Republican onslaught to repeal, or at least defund, it, and a public that has never "learned" to love the bill.
Only inside the Beltway could the passage of an arms control treaty and repeal of DADT consume so many for so long and result in such exaggerated punditry. Would Republicans have traded wins on DADT and START for their wins on the DREAM act, the tax deal and the omnibus spending bill? Not in a million years.
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Stopping the omnibus bill was a big ******* deal as Biden might say. It gives Republicans in the House control over a lot of spending items they will seek to cut. Among those if funding for the health care monstrosity.
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