Obama Flails in Free Fall Trying to Catch a Liana Vine Like a Pirate in the Caribbean

Scott Brown Look-alike Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson unloads on Obama as his numbers head southward past Florida into Caribbean territory.

......a lot of DC-NY pundits ... mistakenly fell for the Emanuel/Axelrod thesis that popular outrage at Wall Street banditry, weariness with Iraq, and the lackluster McCain campaign would translate into populist support for a kinder, gentler socialism.

And now? On every issue — more bailouts, more stimuli, more deficits, higher taxes, statist health care, cap and trade, diplomatic apologetics, the shunning of natural gas, oil, and nuclear in favor of "millions of green jobs" subsidized by billions in federal "stimulus" — the Obama position polls 5-15 points below 50 percent.

After Van Jones, Anita Dunn, the Skip Gates mess, the "tea-bagger" slurs, the attacks on Fox News, the Copenhagen dashes, the bowing, the apologizing, the reordering of creditors, the NEA obsequiousness, the lackluster overseas-contingency-operation front, the deer-in-the-headlights pause on Afghanistan, the pseudo-deadlines on Iran, Guantanamo, and health care, the transparency and bipartisanship fraud, and dozens of other things, Obama simply does not have the popularity to carry unpopular legislation forward. Indeed, he is reaching a point where he may poll more negatively than his agenda does. "Let me be perfectly clear" and "make no mistake about it" are now caricatures.

So where are we at twelve months? Obama showed the country his vision of where he wanted us to go; he had both houses of Congress, a toady media, and enormous personal popularity — and he is getting nowhere. Why? Because most Americans are vehemently opposed to taking their country in the direction that Obama, Pelosi, and Reid would prefer.

Since Obama is both inexperienced and apparently a stubborn ideologue, I think all we will be left with when the novelty wears off is rhetoric and euphemism. Obama will grow the deficit even larger and call it fiscal sobriety; he will push for higher taxes and suggest the entrepreneurial class is the same as the super-rich who "made out like bandits under Bush"; he will declare that his outreach to Chávez, Assad, Putin, and Ahmadinejad has been successful, even as those leaders incrementally and insidiously readjust their respective regional maps; he will borrow far more money than Bush did and copy his homeland-security protocols, while continuing to blame Bush for America's problems — hoping that $2 trillion of annual borrowing, along with a recovering world economy and the resilience of U.S. business, will bring a half-hearted recovery by November 2010.

That's about all you have, when you bet your holdings on European-style socialism and it proved a losing hand.

The US is not yet a dependent society like many in "Old Europe," where living off the dole has become a generational way to roll. Unlike the Eurotard template, the US still has only about a 21% Liberal electorate while a huge slice of voters consider themselves politically and culturally conservative or independent. The US is still the most religious country by percentage if not public practice and its Second Amendment, First Amendment, and Fourteenth Amendment freedoms still prevail in the marketplace of ideas, despite a Stealth Attack on the Constitution by the noise machine on the Libtard Ultra-Left.

Back in the day, I was not only a Democrat, but worked for them in two national and many local campaigns as a National Staffer and local advance man/consultant. But that was before the Ultra-Left JournoListServ and Soros cabals took over the ideological compassion of the seventies/eighties and commandeered the Dems into a EuroMarxist slow-motion creeping socialism, marking old Norman Thomas's---g-dad of current Socialist M'ging Editor of Newsweak Evan--- famous prediction that "One day the USA will wake up as a socialist country without the word itself ever being employed" or words to that effect.

Just like the First Tea Party spurred the founding of a Revolutionary ethos, the second round of Tea Party activists were verbally abused by this feckless POTUS as "teabaggers," a sexual perverse act favored by ultra-lefties and their groupies of all genders and species.

POTUS Obama is about as politically sensitive as ol' George III back when the First Tea Party was followed by the First Boston Massacre.

History doesn't often repeat itself, but in this case it rhymes very closely.