Establishment Republicans Still Don't Get It

Red State and Rush are both talking about this story in which Senate Leaders are telling the big GOP donors that they have no intention of trying to repeal Death Care. According to Rush though, the weak kneed Republican leadership got a bit of a surprise when those same donors told them that they could kiss 2012 and their big donations bye-bye as long as they had that attitude. Erick Erickson at RedState reports.

I have told you this before and I will tell you this again. Unless you elect Pat Toomey, Marco Rubio, Ken Buck, Ron Johnson, Rand Paul, Mike Lee, Sharron Angle, and Joe Miller, we will never see Obamacare repealed.
Senator Judd Gregg is up today saying that repeal is not recommended. 

Sen. Judd Gregg (N.H.), the top Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, said that repealing the new healthcare reform law — or looking to defund it — were not good options. 

“I don’t think starving or repealing is probably the best approach here,” Gregg said on the Fox Business Network. “You basically go in and restructure it.” 

Here’s the thing — Senate leadership staff will say this is just Judd Gregg, who is retiring, and not reflective of the Senate GOP leadership. There is a problem though. 

In the past several weeks, there have been several closed door, off the record meetings of high dollar donors getting briefings from various elected officials, including several Senators. In each case the donors have been “reassured” by the Senators present that they have no intention of repealing Obamacare, just restructuring it.
The Senators seemed to think the high dollar donors were not kooks like those tea party activists and would understand the practical need to just “restructure” instead of “repeal.” Unfortunately, the Senators have badly misread the donors.

Obama's Radical Past

Stanley Kurtz is coming out with a new book that traces the radical past of the Obama-Fuhrer and looks into the many communist and socialist connections that explain much of his political agenda. In this article from The National Review, we get a bit of a preview.

A loose accusation of his being a socialist has trailed Obama for years, but without real evidence that he saw himself as part of this radical tradition. But the evidence exists, if not in plain sight then in the archives — for example, the archived files of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), which include Obama’s name on a conference registration list. That, along with some misleading admissions in the president’s memoir, Dreams from My Father, makes it clear that Obama attended the 1983 and 1984 Socialist Scholars conferences, and quite possibly the 1985 conclave as well. A detailed account of these conferences (along with many other events from Obama’s radical past) and the evidence for Obama’s attendance at them can be found in my new book, Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism.

The 1983 Cooper Union Conference, billed as a tribute to Marx, was precisely when Obama discovered his vocation for community organizing. Obama’s account of his turn to community organizing doesn’t add up. He portrays it as a mere impulse based on little actual knowledge. But that impulse saw Obama through two years of failed job searches. Clearly he had a deeper motivation. The evidence suggests he found it at the Socialist Scholars conferences, where he encountered the entrancing double idea that America could be transformed by a kind of undercover socialism, and that African Americans would be the key figures in advancing community organizing.

Delusion

The New York Times will be releasing an interview this weekend with the Obama-Fuhrer in which you can see for yourself just how delusional and incompetent our boy president is. And the self obsession and navel gazing goes very deep. No wonder that we are where we are. Mike Allen at Politico gives us a preview of the epic failure.

--In the interview, the president predicts he’ll be able to work with Republicans after the election: “It may be that regardless of what happens after this election, they feel more responsible, either because they didn’t do as well as they anticipated, and so the strategy of just saying no to everything and sitting on the sidelines and throwing bombs didn’t work for them, or they did reasonably well, in which case the American people are going to be looking to them to offer serious proposals and work with me in a serious way.”

So let me see if I get this straight. The coming tidal wave in November that will wipe out the Democrats in congress will result in a situation in which Republicans will want to bow down to the lightworker because they will want to abandoned their principles or because the American people will be sending a message that they want the Republicans to compromise with the left? Yeah, right.

This is self delusion on a massive scale. There is something wrong with this guy. Not just that he is a Marxist. Not just that he is a radical leftist agitator with no executive experience. Not just that he is a total screw up. There is something wrong with him.

--He reflects on what he called the “tactical lessons” of his first two years: He let himself look too much like “the same old tax-and-spend Democrat,” realized too late that “there’s no such thing as shovel-ready projects” and perhaps should have “let the Republicans insist on the tax cuts” in the stimulus. He said he and his team took “a perverse pride” in focusing on policy while ignoring the need to sell it to the country and that he realizes now that “you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.”

So all of the claims that the trillions of spending come down to the child in the White House admitting that the money we spent was wasted and that he doesn't know what happened to it. Gee, I feel better about the depression we are having already; don't you?