obama_smoking_jointThere is no doubt about it now. With democrats jumping ship, quitting and losing at the ballot box, an incredibly and historically high deficit, crumbling poll numbers and the now real possibility of losing congress to the GOP, we can now say it.

Barack Obama’s presidency is a complete failure. No matter how you slice it, that is a fact. Obama knows it, which is why he’s now saying he doesn’t care if he’s a one term president. That’s a complete reversal of just a year and half ago when he predicted he would last two terms – easily.

I spent the day with a very influential, prominent liberal leader today. We’re friends, golf together, etc, and what he told me should send shock waves throughout the progressive movement.

“He’s buried us”, he said.

Obama’s decision to enact “Spending Freezes” on the upcoming budgets is nothing more than a confirmation that his presidency has bottomed out. It’s a flailing response to loses in Mass, NJ and VA, and looming losses in November. He’s trying to go “middle” now, much like Clinton did but no one is going to buy it. At least Clinton had a centrist record in Arkansas, NO ONE can attribute anything like that to Obama.

Alex Conant smells the fraud.

“This isn’t news. In the budget proposal that President Obama submitted to Congress last year, his budget office already projected actual cuts and freezes in “non-defense” discretionary spending for the next three years. That’s in part because of the huge increase in that area of spending that the President requested (and received) for the current fiscal year. To be specific: FY2009 (President Bush’s last budget) had $589 billion in non-defense discretionary spending. That number jumped to $687 billion in FY2010 (Obama’s first budget), and then drops to $641 billion in FY2011, $622 billion in FY2012 and $625 billion in FY2013. So for the White House to now boast that it will freeze non-defense discretionary spending is hardly news. If anything, it’s backtracking on its earlier plans to actually cut that area of spending.”

It’s even more simpler than that. It’s a white flag in hopes to stem eroding independent support. But again, I believe it’s a little too little too late.

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