Obamamandias

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American Thinker:

In ancient times, a leader who failed as greatly as Obama has was simply erased from the history of his people. Craftsmen were engaged by his successors in power to chisel his name off of all the temples, (stone) archives, and monuments. The statues that had been erected at the outset of his reign, which had depicted him as a wonderworking colossus, were toppled, and their facial features mutilated to obliterate him from the record and memory.

Some may say that I am being overly optimistic in saying we have reached that nadir of Obama power already, over a year from the next election, but this week establishes in my mind that my assessment is -- barring some great, unforeseen event or sudden, never before seen, infusion of pragmatism and sense on his part -- solid.

Two major political events marked this week: The incredible victory in Wisconsin of the Republican Party and the Eleventh Circuit decision striking down the individual mandate of ObamaCare as unconstitutional.

On Wisconsin

Wisconsin represents the left's desperate clinging to power and refusal to accept the will of the majority to the contrary. I think as time passes it will stand for the beginning of the end of the grand bargain between Democratic office holders and unions, in which the public treasury was emptied to fill union coffers and those, in turn, were tapped to keep those same office holders in power. That money circle represented the longest running perpetual motion operation I know of, and Governor Scott Walker had to choose between letting his state sink into bankruptcy or fighting for modest changes that were both fair and affordable.

In November, despite a vast union effort and financial contributions, Republican Scott Walker was elected Governor of the state. In April he examined the state finances and initiated sweeping new reforms, most particularly a leaner budget and a new collective bargaining law to rein in union power. Used to getting their way, the unions and their friends on the left engaged in massive protests, 14 state senate Democrats fled the state for three weeks to delay the vote, and when the legislation passed, they tried to overturn the majority will by judicial challenges which failed. They threw massive support as well behind an incompetent candidate for the Wisconsin Supreme Court and lost that plus her ill-considered recount.

Still, they had no intention of gracefully leaving the battlefield on which they had been repeatedly defeated. They instituted recall elections of 6 Republican State Senators. (The Republicans in an effort to protect their majority filed recall elections against 2 Democrat Senators, which for reasons of state law and procedures will not take place until next week.

The recall did not go well for the anti-Walker forces. Hugh Hewitt:

Organized labor and the Democratic Party which serves the union bosses pumped 30 million dollars into highly publicized recall votes against six Republicans in Wisconsin, and lost four of six as well as the effort to take control of the state's senate. It was the third strike. First they lost the state in the red tide of 2010. Then they lost the attempt to oust Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser. And now they loose their big recall showdown. For heaven's sakes, they sent The Ed Show and still couldn't win!

So, at the end of the first week of balloting, the Republicans maintained a one vote majority in the Wisconsin Senate and, energized by that, they may pick up another one or two seats this coming week when the Democratic recall elections are scheduled to take place.

Professor William Jacobson summed it up neatly:

Never in the field of human conflict have so many been so disappointed so frequently in so short a period of time at so high a cost of money with so few lessons learned.