Mort Kondracke has a good piece from Roll Call on RCP this morning (Believe It or Not, Rush Limbaugh Was Right on Stimulus). Kondracke is center left, but is the kind of guy who will be honest, not purely partisan like most pundits and commentators. This piece is about how Obama failed miserably on bringing the political country together and changing how Washington works. Here’s the killer graph for President Hopeless in Change. 

But, if Obama truly wanted to establish a post-partisan atmosphere in Washington, he would have not only met and had cocktails with Republicans, but would have given them a real say in drafting the stimulus.

Read the rest and remember this time in 4 years. Obama ran on changing Washington, not crushing his political opposition for his own benefit. Americans are sick and tired of seeing their government devolve into food fights where the politicians only care about the people who vote for them, and more importantly those who donate to their campaigns. 

Obama is quickly proving all of his critics right.

He was inexperienced and has never had to make leadership decisions before. This can easily be seen by his utter desperation to dust off Clintonites and tax cheats for trusted cabinet positions. Obama didn’t bring this new wave of bright minds to Washington. His stable was empty when it came to agents of change. Most Presidents go into office with a confident First 100 Days plan, Obama seems to be praying to make it to that mark before the bloom comes off the rose that was his lofty and inspiring campaign filled with happy thoughts and unattainable promises. 

The change that Americans want is to see the 2 political parties in Washington work together. One of the tragedies of the Bush era was how he got no credit for trying to work with Democrats. Democrats used their loyal media allies to twist Bush into a rabid right wing conservative. On most domestic government issues, nothing could be farther from the truth. Democrats accomplished a heck of a lot under Bush, take that as by working with Bush.

Conservatives lost a lot of ground in the terms of reforming and limiting government under Bush, a victory for Democrats. Now if 9-11 hadn’t have happened, who knows if government would have grown as much under Bush. But it did grow, and Democrats got some of their liberal agenda passed under a Republican. 

On Obama’s road to success lies 2 very VERY big roadblocks.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid are as bitterly partisan as they come. They have spent their entire Washington careers trying to rub out each and every conservative idea from the light of day. They have done everything possible to lie, smear, and destroy anyone who has a different opinion of them. And if that doesn’t work, they try to silence them. 

Had Obama really intended to change the way Washington works, he should have started with getting rid of the failed Congressional leaders who drive wedges between the ideologies, instead of building bridges to span the divide. Political traps, heated rhetoric, and constant DC blame games are the kind of stuff that Americans are sick and tired of. Those are Reid and Pelosi’s favorite tools of political war. 

And that’s the problem. 

I mean just look at the statements from Pelosi on the Obamulus bill. We won, we get our way! That’s hardly meant to unify this country in these dangerous and turbulent economic times. Kondracke is right to point out how Limbaugh’s plan could have been the right thing for Obama to do to really change Washington. Instead Obama left the largest ever spending bill (and most important first step for a President possibly ever) in the hands of Washington’s two biggest partisans. 

It will take a miracle, or full blown media coverups for Obama to be a successful President now. So far he has stumbled at every step. If he is unwilling to get control of his own party’s out of control divisive leaders and be honest with Americans, I don’t see how Americans won’t get buyer’s remorse and take the proper action next election and really change Washington by throwing out the all the people who have a collective experience – longer than the nation’s existence – of trying to have single party rule and expanding the size and scope of government while trying to sweep accountability under the rug of K Street and American’s liberty and freedoms out to sea. 

I know I am a partisan conservative. Yes I have said I do hope Obama fails on passing his ideas. I just didn’t think he would actually try to wiggle out of the promises and intentions he laid out during his campaign so quickly. He could have destroyed the entire concept of the conservative – limited Government movement in this country has he just had the decency be post partisan. He could have really changed things by having an open debate between the 2 sides and using his power to sway things his way, but instead he unleashed the dogs of political war and threw gas on the ring of fire by  engaging in divisive and revisionist economic fear mongering to pass his Obamulus special interest spending bill. 

Americans are quickly realizing that the packaging on the Hope and Change Express with Kungfu grip was simply hiding a steaming pile of more of the same crap that got this country in this current predicament in the first place. Obama is taking Rahm Emmanuel’s advice and isn’t letting this tragedy go to waste. Instead of doing what is right for America, he is using this to destroy his opponents and pass his one sided agenda that will be harmful in the long haul.

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