Mr. Fernandez,

The LA Times and NYT say that the President’s most urgent task is to conduct damage control. They recognize that the President, like a pilot who has pushed the envelope to its limits is, despite the exhilaration, at a place where things can stop flying and start falling. Now Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama must perform the tricky maneuver of coaxing the ship back from the edge.

This is probably true. However, considering that the next couple of items on the checklist are immigration and Cap & Trade it does not seem that the Congressional leadership or the President are considering that there may be a tipping point. These two are as or more contentious and divisive, and will become more so the more they are discussed. There will be a backlash, Jimmy Carter bears as much responsibility for the ‘Reagan Democrats’ as RWR does himself. November should be a historic horror show for Democrats, and rushing these other large and transformative legislative packages in before November will only make the Tea Partiers and the disaffected independents, who have already deserted Obama in droves, dig in deeper.

This is not a normal political calculus. I would say that this is precisely the kind of path that you can take if you know there’s a Reichstag fire coming up, but that would be paranoid and I do believe there will be elections in 2010 and 2012 in which the Democrats, for reasons that are unclear to me at this time, believe they will be successful. With ObamaCare and the means by which it has been enacted, it seems to me that they have bombed the bridge between our current point ‘A’ and a future point ‘B’ in which the Democrats have control of Congress. They have lost 4 of 5 major contested interim elections, and every action they have taken has improved the status of the GOP, something the GOP has not been able to do themselves.

I’m just confused as to the endgame. It is as if they do not fear consequences. Either they’re so far out in their own worldview that they don’t see their coming doom, or they don’t believe they will be forced to deal with their consequences. They act as if there will never be a tipping point.

I can’t believe these idiots are in charge of my country.