Obama in the doldrums



Not yet six months into his second term, Barack Obama’s presidency is in a dead zone.

A combination of familiar Washington intransigence and a more recent run of bad news and political setbacks have left him with less influence over his circumstances — and more buffeted by factors beyond his control — than at any time in his five years in office.

But in a damning appraisal, a wide variety of congressional Democrats and presidential scholars said in interviews that there is another decisive factor behind Obama’s current paralysis: his own failure to use the traditional tools of the presidency to exert his will.

Obama does not instill fear — one of the customary instruments of presidential power. Five years of experience, say lawmakers of both parties, have demonstrated that there is not a huge political or personal cost to be paid for crossing the president.

Obama cannot count on friendship. There are plenty of politicians who would love the political and psychic benefits of favored status from the president. But Obama’s distant style and his insular West Wing operation have left congressional Democrats resigned, many said in interviews, to the reality that they will never be insiders and, therefore, have no special incentives to stay on Obama’s good side.

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Glad he won a second term .......

I am enjoying the decline from the Mount !!

An appropriate caption for this would be "So much remains to destroy, so little time left to destroy it."

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Glad he won a second term .......

I am enjoying the decline from the Mount !!

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Can someone point to where the Regimes agenda or regulations are being stopped? Who gives a rats if he is having PR troubles. He is rolling right along with everything he ever wanted and more. Hell. He is about to have Amnesty handed to him on a silver platter with the GOP's full help.

Zero isn't in the doldrums. He is having the time of his life. Count on it.

Again you spin ced that is what someone said took place on Joy beahar show that was not there and rush just said it was not so

I am talking about the running chris for prez part --pay attention

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That's what Rush just said.

Then, Rush went on to admit he was at a secret meeting in 2011 with Roger Ailes and Chris Christie for the purpose of tallking that well known RINO (Christie) into running against Romney for the 2012 GOP nomination.

Uh oh, looks like Rush is a member of both the eGOP and the GOPe!

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Quote: Cedric wrote in post #7

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That's what Rush just said.

Then, Rush went on to admit he was at a secret meeting in 2011 with Roger Ailes and Chris Christie for the purpose of tallking that well known RINO (Christie) into running against Romney for the 2012 GOP nomination.

Uh oh, looks like Rush is a member of both the eGOP and the GOPe!

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Rush said he had no part in pushing Christie Creme to run. Who gives a shit about what happened at that meeting. It doesn't take away from the fact that all your first class bullshit about the GOP stopping Amnesty isn't happening. It is rolling through the Senate faster than hell and Boner, Ryan and the rest of the GOP hacks in the House look like they are going to go right along with it.

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Quote: Eglman wrote in post #10

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I am talking about the running chris for prez part --pay attention

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Out of necessity, I'll make this simple for ya:

Jonathan Alter claimed that Rush and Ailes tried to talk Christie into running for President in 2012.

Rush did not deny that claim.

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