{"id":4396,"date":"2009-03-16T07:13:16","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T12:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4396"},"modified":"2009-03-16T07:13:16","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T12:13:16","slug":"bipartisanship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4396","title":{"rendered":"Bipartisanship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Worries about the Administration’s competence are metastasizing across party lines:<\/a><\/p>\n

The tag of incompetence is powerful precisely because it is a nondenominational rebuke, even when it yields a partisan result. It became the strongest argument against the GOP hammerlock on Washington and, over two elections, gave Democrats their turn at total control.But already feelings of doubt are rising again. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid were never held in high regard, so doubts about their motives and abilities are not surprising.<\/p>\n

What matters more is the growing concern about Obama and his team. The longest campaign in presidential history is being followed by a very short honeymoon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Imagine Hurricane Katrina – only across the entire economy and nation<\/em>!<\/p>\n

Polls show that most people like Obama, but they increasingly don’t like his policies. The vast spending hikes and plans for more are provoking the most concern, with 82% telling a Gallup survey they are worried about the deficit and 69% worried about the rapid growth of government under Obama. Most expect their own taxes will go up as a result, despite the President’s promises to the contrary.<\/p>\n

None other than Warren Buffet, an Obama supporter, has called the administration’s message on the economy “muddled.” Even China says it is worried about its investments in American Treasury bonds. Ouch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Note to Liberals: be less concerned about those who may or may not hope Obama (or his long-term goals, sure) fail.\u00a0 Be more concerned over whether he’s going <\/em>to be an epic failure.<\/p>\n

In the months leading up to inauguration, I said – tongue firmly <\/em>in cheek – that I thought Obama could be the worst president of my adult lifetime on inauguration day<\/em>.\u00a0 While I was joking, this past six weeks can’t make his supporters feel all that confident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Worries about the Administration’s competence are metastasizing across party lines: The tag of incompetence is powerful precisely because it is a nondenominational rebuke, even when it yields a partisan result. It became the strongest argument against the GOP hammerlock on Washington and, over two elections, gave Democrats their turn at total control.But already feelings of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}