The wheels are coming off

A combination of issues ranging from foreign policy to domestic political failures have resulted in the wheels beginning to fall off the Obama Administration’s cart. The once-solid monolith of democrat power, including substantial majorities in the House and Senate and a democrat in the White House has been reduced to a fractured political party whose members are scurrying for political cover.

During his campaign for the White House, candidate Obama promised to fundamentally change America. While most Americans thought he meant that he would change whatever it was about the Bush Administration they themselves did not like, Mr Obama set out to cripple what was left of free market capitalism while instituting a broad socialist redistribution of wealth.

The first chinks in Mr Obama’s armor came during last summer’s discontent with the looming Heath Care takeover. But the building rage of the local town meetings and the budding Tea Party movement were dismissed as the irrelevant ravings of angry white voters upset that a black man was occupying the White House. Clearly, anyone opposing the programs of the new president must be motivated by racism.

Then came the smashing republican victories in the Virginia and New Jersey governor’s races, where conservative candidates handily dismissed democrat candidates, including the incumbent governor of New Jersey. Yet, even these victories were dismissed and explained away as simple aberrations by the relentless Obama sycophants in the American media. Only when a little-known state senator from Massachusetts defeated the democrat machine candidate for the seat once held by Ted Kennedy for more than 40 years did it become clear to anyone with a pulse that a political earthquake was beginning to rumble in Washington.

Following the Brown victory in Massachusetts, Senator James Webb (D-VA), who had voted in favor of the senate’s Health Care bill on Christmas Eve, called for a slowdown in the legislative process. Webb said, “I believe it would only be fair and prudent that we suspend further votes on health care legislation until Senator-elect Brown is seated.”

Senator Mary Landreau, (D-LA), who had been criticized for accepting “the Louisiana Purchase,” a $300 million federal payoff to Louisiana for Medicaid funds purportedly offered by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) in exchange for her vote for the senate health care bill passed in December, 2009, said “The loss in Massachusetts should serve as a wake-up call to the wing of the Democratic Party that wants the federal government to overreach and overspend.”

Recently, Senator Ben Nelson, (D-NE), stated that he will join the republican filibuster of President Obama’s nominee for the National Labor Relations Board, Craig Becker. Senator Nelson had come under fire recently for accepting another payoff from Majority Leader Reid in which the state of Nebraska would be totally compensated for Medicaid costs by the federal government in exchange for his vote in favor of the Senate Heath Care Bill. No other state would have received such a benefit, had the bill been successful.

And now Obama stalwart Senator Chuck Shumer, (D-NY), has joined a chorus of others and called for the president to cancel plans for the trial of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed in Federal District Court in New York City. This comes amid news stories indicating that even Shumer’s seat as the senior senator from New York could be in jeopardy in the 2010 elections.

But in a reversal to top all others, the Obama Girl, Amber Lee Ettinger, the 28 year old who portrayed Mr Obama biggest fan in a series of online videos that brought her instant fame during the 2008 election campaign, has lost some of her infatuation with the new president. "I'm not turning my back completely on him," Ettinger told reporters. "People might be saying that, but I gave him B-minus.”

With a rogue regime on the verge of developing nuclear capability in Iran, continuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, new terror camps springing up all over Yemen, and a rapidly failing domestic political agenda, how can the Obama Administration come back from the loss of support from the Obama Girl? The monolith is cracking and beginning to fall apart. Democrat politicians are polishing their resumes and wondering what their next career will be like once the voters go to the polls this November. We are witnessing a political failure so complete that it begins to take the breath away. This president cannot pass a single piece of his legislative agenda, despite overwhelming majorities in both houses of the congress.

With members of his own party defecting from the ideological monolith that once was the Obama-Congressional alliance, can it be very long before the members of the somnolent American Media start falling by the wayside. One by one, they could begin come around to actually doing their jobs once again. Once a few of the stalwarts leave the fold, it could become a landslide of disinterested journalists once again going to work.

Mr Obama is a product of the media. They made him a legitimate candidate for the most powerful elective office in the world, despite a paucity of qualifications that would have instantly disqualified anyone else. If he loses the press, and they actually begin reporting the facts behind the Obama Administration’s programs and intentions, they could break him as easily. So far, however, they continue to carry Mr Obama’s water, while yawning at the impending disaster.