Is the honeymoon over already? Check out this pair of stories. First up, bad news for President Obama out of Washington:
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) said Tuesday that President Obama’s budget plan doesn’t have enough support from lawmakers right now to win approval.
Conrad said that he has spoken to enough colleagues with reservations about several different provisions in the budget that he thinks Congress won’t pass it, at least in its present form.
AdvertisementConrad urged White House budget director Peter Orszag not to “draw lines in the sand” with lawmakers, most notably on Obama’s plan for a cap-and-trade system to curb carbon emissions.
Then there’s this bit of bad news for President Obama out of Washington:
The battle over the “Employee Free Choice Act” — expected to be introduced Tuesday — is seen as a power struggle among labor unions and businesses, as well as a test of whether moderate Democrats and Republicans will push back on Democratic congressional leaders and the Obama administration.
At least six Senators who have voted to move forward with the so-called card-check proposal, including one Republican, now say they are opposed or not sure — an indication that Senate Democratic leaders are short of the 60 votes they need for approval.
When a Democratic President can’t get Big Labor and Big Spending bills through a Democratic Congress, he might just be in trouble.
I feel bad. I mean, I just saw that his approval rating is down around 56 percent. That’s a pretty significant drop. I mean, I think Jimmy Carter had a higher approval rating than that at this point in his presidency. No wonder the guy is losing sleep!
What’s interesting is that, after 10 days of viciously scapegoating Rush Limbaugh, the liberals discover that their effort to distract the public from Obama’s incompetence has availed them naught.
Count the anti-Rush meme as yet another EPIC FAIL for Team O, demonstrating once again that governance is harder than politics, and there are limits to what public relations can accomplish. The pro-O spinners are like Charles Manson thinking he needs an “image makeover.”
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/10/senate.spending.bill/index.html
Bad news 1, not so much. Haven’t yet figured out which RINOs cut over to pass this latest in a series of turkeys.
I think the less than greatest hits of this admin are still to come …
and no, I don’t feel sorry for anyone who makes a big speech in front of Stonehenge II.
“The Hill reported that the measure passed by voice vote after a 62-35 vote to quash a Republican filibuster.”
What Oboe wants, Oboe gets. Just gotta know who to pay off, and how much.