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Voters Poised to Hit Brakes on Obama, Dems


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voters_poised_to_hit_brakes_on_obama_dems_124347.htmlReal Clear Politics:

Midterm elections are the political equivalent of a gas pedal or a brake pedal.

 

This will be a brake-pedal election, centered on competency and trust — from the launch (disastrously) of the healthcare.gov website, to telling Americans (incorrectly) that if they like their health-care policy they can keep it, to not caring for veterans, the growth of ISIS and the handling (or, more appropriately, mishandling) of the Ebola crisis.

 

George W. Bush went to war in 2002; he got a gas pedal, and Republicans gained seats in Congress. In 2006, the war was going badly; Bush got a brake pedal. In 2010, Barack Obama finished ObamaCare and got a brake pedal.

 

This year, President Obama has done nothing to slow the car.

 

Democrats could have held on to their Senate majority this year, but the president never tried to help them. Aside from raising money — swooping in on Air Force One to a glitzy home or hotel, and speaking to an adoring crowd of intellectuals who hang on his every word — he has remained completely indifferent.

 

You can see it in how he has handled immigration (saying he will not act until after the election) or outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder (saying he will not pick a successor until after the election). He is like a flashing red signal, warning that he will do something people won't like, right after they vote.

 

Democrats are in trouble because Obama has done too much that people didn't like — namely, ObamaCare.

 

If he had handled other things better, Republicans still would be campaigning on ObamaCare; in fact, it remains the No. 1 vote-driver, although Republicans haven't mentioned it in TV ads for months.

 

What Democrats needed and what voters, even many full-throated Obama supporters, have craved was a humble moment from the commander in chief.

 

But a chastened Obama has never existed.

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Arrogance goeth before a fall...


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