Belated Liberal Media Obama Remorse

Those of you whom were here during the campaign know what we were up against. There were those, assigned to push back on this site, who claimed any opposition to Barack Obama was not ideological, but hate inspired. Liberals like Maureen Dowd, David Brooks, David Gergen, Andrew Sullivan and Marty Peretz happily hopped onto the Obama bandwagon so they could be a part of the history they were instrumental in creating.

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Team Obama sounds hollow, chanting that “the status quo is not acceptable,” even while conceding that the president is accepting the status quo by signing a budget festooned with pork. But given how angry Americans are, watching their future go up in smoke, the bloated bill counts as this year’s business.

Excuse me, Ms. Dowd, but many of us were pointing out how "hollow" Team Obama sounded, and what were we called by people like you? I explained the eerie similarities of another David Axelrod creation, Chicago's Deval "Together We Can" Patrick, and how an empty slogan gave Massachusetts its first (and probably last) black governor. Once that strategy was perfected on a state level, it went national and look were we are now?

It includes $38.4 million of earmarks sponsored or co-sponsored by President Obama’s labor secretary, Hilda Solis; $109 million Hillary Clinton signed on to; and $31.2 million in earmarks sought by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood with colleagues. (Even Barack Obama was listed as one of the co-sponsors of a $7.7 million pet project for Tribally Controlled Postsecondary Vocational Institutions until he got his name taken off last week.) And then there are the 16 earmarks worth $8.5 million that Emanuel put into the bill when he was a congressman, including money for streets in Chicago suburbs and a Chicago planetarium.

I'll tell you why liberal pundits are beginning to turn on Obama: the economy is starting to hit THEM in their wallets and purses. During the election, they felt insulated from the "ordinary people" but now that they're losing their money, maybe it's time to question the American people's wisdom for electing a young, fairly inexperienced senator who ran on something as vague as "hope" and "change".

We are being presented with what can only be described as a massive increase in government spending and power with the only fiscal balance being wringing much more money from the successful. The president predicted a tight budget and spending control in his non-SOTU, and he appealed to fiscal conservatives by promising a long-term attack on entitlement spending. I see nothing here yet that fulfills that promise.

As I said, they pushed this Obama on all of us. They called anyone not supportive a racist hater. They used the power of the Internet, television, and the classroom to indoctrinate millions of young people, and sicked them on anyone who didn't believe. But now that President Obama is "wringing much more money from the successful", in other words the liberal media (whose host companies are going down the tubes along with their 401ks), they want to be the first to caution a suddenly disillusioned American people. Let's not get all giddy with I-told-you-so's yet. The left is predictable and while some are now questioning the wisdom of their blind support of Obama during the presidential campaign, they'll never admit they were duped. They're just "disappointed"…. Join the club.