More evidence Obama
is in serious trouble with his own party
Thomas Lifson
The old media won't tell
you so, but President Obama is facing a revolt from within his own political
party. It was bound to happen once the dimensions of the ObamaCare disaster
started to become obvious. Yesterday, I pointed
out that Charles Rangel is
an early indicator of the discontent bubbling beneath the surface, and that he
is freer to speak than non-black Democrats. But today we have another leading
indicator. Tony Lee of Breitbart:
A veteran Washington
adviser who has worked for four Presidents on both sides of the political aisle
said that the stunning Government
Accountability Report report that found President Barack Obama has not had a one-on-one
meeting with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius since the
passage of Obamacare over three years ago is an indictment of the entire White
House operation and shows that the Obama administration has bordered on
"malfeasance."
"I have no doubt the White House is right,
that Secretary Sebelius was in several group meetings with the president about
health care," Gergen caveated, "but the whole point is, there was
nobody in charge in the administration."
Rosslyn Smith points out: "If Obama has
lost Gergen, he's lost the entire DC establishment. Gergen is
almost the perfect indicator of the conventional wisdom inside the
beltway." She adds:
The real significance of
Rangel's speaking out about Obama is the respect other Democrats in Congress
have for him. Most of the senior black Congressmen hold committee
leadership posts in legislative backwaters where they seldom get in front of
cameras. That lessens the odds of having them embarrass the party.
Rangel held the most powerful committee chairmanship out there after Rules and
Appropriations. Those aren't affirmative action posts. He may be a
crook but he is also competent.
There is going to be a political price to be
paid for wrecking long-established relationships between responsible Americans
(who already provided health care insurance for their families) and their
doctors, while increasing the prices they pay so as to finance care for the
populace unable or unwilling to provide for its own health care. The fact that
ObamaCare was sold with lies multiplies the political resonance tenfold.
The smarter Democrats
are already distancing themselves, so as to be able to pick up the pieces after
the train wreck hits in 2014 and 2016. If the old media took off their ideological
blinders, they would see this, too. If I were a betting man, I would set up a
pool to predict the date on which NBC News uses the phrase "revolt"
in proximity to the word "Democrat" in discussing Obama's
relationship with his party.
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