Obama the Lame Duck
by Jeff Davis
More and more it’s looking like we may be able to at least turn Obama into a lame duck if not expel him from office after the November elections.
The U. K. Financial Times reports: “Barack Obama’s Democratic party faces a series of dramatic defeats at every level of government in Washington and beyond in the November midterm elections, according to leading analysts and opinion polls. The University of Virginia’s widely monitored Crystal Ball will on Wednesday forecast sweeping setbacks on Capitol Hill and the loss of a clutch of state governorships on November 2. It follows a Gallup poll that showed the Republicans with a 10 percentage point lead over the Democrats – the widest margin in 68 years. Separately, a University of Buffalo paper has predicted a 51-seat gain for Republicans in November.”
Long time liberal extremist Senator Barbara Boxer will likely be defeated by the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, Carly Fiorina according to the latest poll by SurveyUSA. Rand Paul holds a 15 percent lead over the Democrat in his race to be a Senator from Kentucky. And Tea Party candidate Sharon Angle has gone from being an unknown to a tie with Democrat Senate majority (for now) leader Harry Reid.
The Financial Times goes on: “The numbers, which threaten Mr Obama with a ‘wave election’ similar to those of 1994 and 2006, when Democrats wrested back control of the House after 12 years, also extend to key states. According to local polls, Democrats are on course to lose the governorships of traditionally left-leaning states such as Michigan and Pennsylvania and may be vulnerable in Illinois, long a party bastion.”
Illinois of course is about to go completely bankrupt, thanks to Democrat bungling. Ex-governor Blagojevich was convicted of lying to federal investigators, and faces a retrial on corruption charges.
The article notes “Such is the scale of the expected losses that analysts are already focused on how Mr Obama can turn Republican domination to his advantage in his 2012 re-election race. Washington is awash with speculation on whether the Republicans will over-reach as Mr Gingrich did in 1995 when Bill Clinton won a stand-off that had resulted in the shutdown of government.”
Some folks fear that after losing the November election, the Democrats will hold a kamikaze session of Congress to pass an Amnesty Bill for the 30 million illegal aliens living in this country right now and give them the vote by 2012. While the Democrats, who just got voted out of office, would be all for this, the Democrats and Republicans, who still need to rely on White votes to get elected in future elections will probably not want to go along with such a vote. Even John McCain, who recently promised his primary voters that he would be tough on illegals, would not vote for an Amnesty Bill at this time or he would most certainly face a recall.
Another danger will be that Obama might try to rule by Executive Order. The Clintonistas made such a threat back in 1994 which came to nothing.
The Republicans will be powerless to repeal the obscene and deranged Obamacare law while Obama himself continues to squat in the Oval Office, but they could effectively stop-punch it by refusal to fund it, just like both Bush and Obama have refused to fund the border fence that was passed with such hoopla all those years ago. (About 12 miles of fence have actually been built since the project was defunded by Congress.)
On the upside, the Republican majority will have subpoena power and can provide the nation with endless hours of amusement investigating and humiliating the Democrats. Look for Congressman Darrell Issa from California to head up the festivities.
