I am a little surprised by all the weeping and gnashing of teeth over the Democrats’ loss of the House on November 2^nd. It’s not like everyone didn’t know it was going to happen. Not only has Obama been an abysmal president, but his administration has lost a substantial portion of his support base – by calling them everything from whiners to “latte-sipping, New York Times-reading, Volvo-driving, no-gun-owning, effete, politically correct, arrogant Chablis-drinking, limousine liberals,” who “seem to value rights and entitlements over duties and responsibilities.” (See http://www.correntewire.com/ive_got_goosebumps_obama_mentioned_me)

I’m sure I wasn’t alone in deciding not to vote for anyone remotely connected to Obama, after he went out of his way to disparage my views on single payer health care. In my experience, it’s unprecedented in election year for a politician to systematically insult the very people who busted their butts to get him elected. About a month ago I began to suspect the Obama administration might being doing this deliberately – that they wanted to hand the Republicans a midterm victory – especially when Vice President Joe Biden and other more experienced cabinet members joined the band wagon.

I found it interesting that this was also the immediate reaction of one BBC commentator, who harkened back to the stalemate that occurred between Clinton and a Republican Congress is 1996 – and the common view that the Republicans handed Clinton his second victory by shutting the government down during a budget dispute.

The reaction on the BBC was that Obama, increasingly worried about Democratic challengers (such as Hillary Clinton) for the 2012 nomination, intends to use the Republican Congress as a foil to distract attention from his own deficiencies – and thus bolster his chances of being the Democratic nominee in the next presidential election.

Interesting that at least one major daily The Seattle Post Intelligencer (now on-line only) has taken a similar view.  See “2010 GOP wins: Foil for Obama’s re-election?” http://www.seattlepi.com/connelly/429224_JOEL29.html

 

 

From our friends at Adbusters http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/89

Kind of says it all, doesn’t it? See my blog about culture jamming at http://stuartbramhall.aegauthorblogs.com/2010/10/10/bankrupt-the-cia-boycott-heroin/

 

 

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