Wishful thinking?
Dick Morris discounts the President’s current popularity. Only time will tell if is right or merely engaging in wishful thinking:
Obama’s specific policies run afoul of the very deeply felt convictions of American voters. For example, the most recent Rasmussen Poll asked voters if they wanted an economic system of complete free enterprise or preferred more government involvement in managing the economy. By 77-19, they voted against a government role, up seven points from last month.
And in the Fox News poll — the very same survey that gave Obama a 62 percent approval rating and reported that 68 percent of voters are “satisfied” with his first hundred days — voters, by 50-38, supported a smaller government that offered fewer services over a larger government that provided more.
By 42-8, the Fox News poll (conducted on April 22-23) found that voters felt Obama had expanded government rather than contracted it (42 percent said it was the same size) and, by 46-30, reported believing that big government was more of a danger to the nation than big business. (By 50-23, they said Obama felt big business was more dangerous.) By 62-20, they said government spending, under Obama, was “out of control.”…
then will come his heavy lifting. He has yet to raise taxes, regiment healthcare or provide amnesty for illegal immigrants. He hasn’t closed down the car companies he now runs and he has not yet forced a 50 percent hike in utility bills with his cap-and-trade legislation. These are all the goodies he has in store for us all.
We know for sure that there will be a day of reckoning. The numbers simply don’t add up for Obama to have a program that does not soak the vast middle class along with the rich. It is what happens between today and that unknown day in the future that is the troubling element.
Will the President be able to create an enduring political majority with a ward-of-the-state mentality, or will events intervene to prevent that, or will some senior Democrats act to prevent the excesses that now seem likely? With the media in his pocket, and a bulletproof majority in Congress, things do not look too promising at present.
April 30th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
At some point it becomes impossible for the media to tell people how great things are when you see manufacturing plants closing, people being laid off, business slow everywhere and no jobs to be found. So far, if you still have your job, and most of us do, there has been little to no impact from what the Obama administration has done.
I put my withholding back to where it was so I don’t have to pay more, plus a penalty, next year. The out-of-control spending has had no effect on me so far. I’m not in the market for a mortgage or a car loan, and my taxes haven’t risen to pay all this back, yet.
I expect things to get very ugly, very quickly once reality hits. The entire nation is in for a shock when we reach our credit limit. With the disappearance of the Social Security surplus, that day is coming, fast. Good luck blaming everything on Bush and Republicans when the Democrats have absolute control of the government. Obama may be a likeable guy, but that won’t save him or his policies when the piper must be paid.