Obama cult of personality

Congress of Children

By Daniel Greenfield
Saturday, July 31, 2010

Obama and the Democrats are still running the country, but they’re swiftly passing the point of no return with the public. They still wield power, but without public support, their power comes without any legitimacy attached. The media has been ignoring that sticking point for a while, but no matter what the Jornolist folks thought, the media doesn’t actually control elections.

The perfect storm of media bias in 2008 helped rig the election, but that only worked when the public was unhappy and didn’t strongly favor either side. Rigging the election now and in 2012 will be a lot harder, no matter how much bias flows through the sewage pipes of the handful of struggling media conglomerates still left standing. And the media knows it too. They know which bandwagons to jump on, and which bandwagons to jump off. And the Obama bandwagon is headed into a deserted station.

The outrage over the 9/11 health care workers bill, http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dc/201 ... ath-o.html in which Dems tried to ram through more hidden measures under the guise of paying for health care for Ground Zero workers, is the latest flashpoint in a conflict over an administration and a congress unwilling to work together with the opposition, and determined to get its way by hook or by crook.

The reports of Obama plotting to bypass congress for a limited amnesty, http://sweetness-light.com/archive/gop- ... nesty-memo are on par with how ObamaCare was shoved under the door. And the public has gotten tired of these games. Scott Brown’s victory was a warning from voters in one of America’s more liberal states, that they were fed up with the one-note power crazed politics of the Democratic party. But the Democrats didn’t listen, which means they’ll be forced to listen; because America is still a democracy. And that means accountability comes sooner or later, when the people get around to voting.

The Obama Administration and congressional Democrats thought that the Obama cult of personality they were building would make them bulletproof. They were deeply wrong. The cult collapsed with a roar of laughter around the time Prince Barry got his Nobel Peace Prize for absolutely nothing. Now it’s just touring the world, and playing golf while everything goes to hell.

The 9/11 Ground Zero bill was an obscenely cynical charade, that removes any right whatsoever for the Democrats to criticize the Patriot Act, rolling in their own legislation, depriving the opposition of any ability to modify the bill, and pushing it out there, assuming that the Republicans wouldn’t have the guts to vote it down, no matter what is actually in the bill. Weiner’s temper tantrum is embarrassing. It gives the Netroots exactly what they want. Angry hysterical Democrats acting like children because they can’t get their way.

Of course Weiner wasn’t screaming at Obama, when Prince Barry’s administration tried to cut off 9/11 funding for New York, because the city’s politicians stood up to him on holding the trials for Al Queda in Lower Manhattan. But this isn’t about 9/11. It’s about politics. Cynical politics by spoiled brats in dark suits.

What began with MoveOn.org, ends with immaturity and juvenile tantrums from overgrown infants who feel they never got their way. Right up to the Infant in Chief himself. And as it began, so it begins to end. Shamefully and pathetically.

The Democrats are raising their spending limits to try and hold on… even as they keep spending the country’s money even faster. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 03662.html

And their ad buy focuses on a 10 point list which warns potential voters that Republican victories would lead to a repeal of ObamaCare, DoddFinance and create tax breaks. The rest of it tries to convince voters that Republics will abolish the EPA, the Department of Education and the 17th amendment. Somehow the DCCC will not be claiming that the Republican party will be bringing back slavery—but only just by a little.

The obvious problem is that the public supports a repeal of ObamaCare and hates Congress. So the Democrats are left with a strategy that warns people that Republicans will destroy all their “good workâ€