The Chicago Way
July 23rd, 2009 - 12:47 pm
I hate for this blog to be All Obama All the Time, but I’ve lost my DVD of “The Incredible Shrinking Man,” so this will have to do.
Remember when CBO chief Doug Elmendorf testified last week that ObamaCare would significantly add to the deficit? Well, now he’s getting a taste of the Commander-in-Chief’s wrath.
Let’s hope Elmendorf has a tough hide. Although at this point, getting whipped by this President might inflict all the pain of a wet noodle.
Then again, back in 1994 Bill Clinton was struggling to prove he was still “relevant,” and he made one hell of a comeback in the next year.
Yes, Bill Clinton did make quite a comeback. But he did so by understanding that, if things were going pretty well (no major conflicts, economy humming), the best way to be popular is to ‘do no wrong’. He stuck with city alderman, mini-issues like midnight basketball, made sure that his liberal base knew he was pro-abortion, and other than that just let things happen. Obama (who is like God, I’m told) hasn’t learned that lesson yet. We’ll see.
Clinton could ignore stuff because it was “The End of History”.
The only threat was small scale terrorism, which could be safely ignored because it wasn’t all that serious at the time.
The worst thing that happened in Clinton’s time was probably Pakistan getting nukes, but that didn’t affect us much. If they got in a nukular war with India, well, it would suck for the subcontinent but it wouldn’t have affected Clinton at all, so he could safely ignore it.
Obama is president in interesting times.