Obama may be losing the War on Terror, but his War on the Economy is headed full speed ahead

The Left’s War on the Economy

By Daniel Greenfield
Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Obama may be losing the War on Terror, but his War on the Economy is headed full speed ahead. The joblessness, the unemployment rolls and an economic in which the only people still making money are in the government, in public sector unions or on Wall Street is no accident. It was the intended result all along.

What Obama and the Democrats miscalculated is the mobilization of populist opposition and the speed with which the public turned to the Republicans for solutions, instead of treating Obama as the Great Savior for extending their unemployment benefits.

In little more than a year, Obama’s soothing words lost their magic, his telegenic grin stopped connecting, and his antics ceased to interest anyone, but the political opposition. The public proved to be much less interested in the bread of his social services doles or the circuses of his media presence. Obama and the left threw in their final effort, convincing congressional Democrats to stand at the barricades for ObamaCare. But that didn’t break the flood, it made it worse. Contrary to the liberal worldview, most Americans didn’t want to be on the dole, they wanted a working economy. And the popular wisdom among them today is that Obama is a well-meaning failure. Most Americans will go to the polls and vote based on that popular wisdom. They generally don’t hate Obama, yet they don’t think that he or his party are up to the job either.

But Obama didn’t fail. Obama succeeded. He succeeded at doing exactly what he was supposed to do. Damage the American economy in order to undermine the country’s status as a Great Power and the independence of the average American from his government. The goal of this party and this man was never to oversee an economic recovery. And why would it have been? Obama and his allies on the left believe that a prosperous economy is the root of all evil, and the chief obstacle to the people embracing a government mandate for socialism.

An economic recovery would have made 90 percent of his legislative priorities irrelevant. It would have made it impossible to take over companies in order to “saveâ€