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Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Obamacare alone didn’t sink Obama

From Jennifer Rubin at the Washington Post:
The easy explanation for Obama’s fall is the horrendous rollout of Obamacare, the “lie of the year” (also a top Pinocchio of the year) about keeping your insurance and general dislike of the healthcare law beyond the healthcare.gov. But let’s be clear how rotten a year it has been even aside from the Obamacare fiasco. The president managed to get rid of only a sliver of the Bush tax cuts, to the dismay of liberals. He falsely predicted a catastrophe if the sequester occurred. He pleaded ignorance to scandals involving the Internal Revenue Service and spying on reporters. He pleased neither hawks nor civil libertarians in his half-hearted defense of NSA surveillance. His intransigence in the government shutdown hurt him as well (although not nearly as much as it did the Republicans). And his frighteningly erratic behavior on Syria and dangerous appeasement of Iran rattled Congress, our allies and the American people (who now give him negative reviews on foreign policy). Finally, while the economic has ticked up the vast majority of Americans (79 percent in the Post/ABC poll) still think we are in a recession and a plurality (45 percent) trust Congress more than the president to fix it.

In essence, Obamacare broke the back of his already faltering presidency.
Now, imagine if the Drive-By-Media was hostile toward the Dear Leader, like they were to Bush 43.

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