This isn’t just a symbol of fiscal excess (though it definitely belongs in that category). It’s also a sign of the wuss-ification (not a technical term, but you know what I mean) of American society. Are we really so pathetically fragile that we need professional hand-holders for something like this? It’s not like people who work on Capitol Hill don’t know ahead of time about elections. (From Dan Mitchell @ International Liberty). Congressional Staffers Should Cry on Their Own Dime.

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And it can’t come soon enough!

Sirius Valentine at American Thinker: However, unlike during the first two years of his presidency, Obama no longer has a Congress that will blithely pass his policies. Instead, he has a strongly Republican House elected with the mandate of repealing ObamaCare and placing an immediate stop on the spending that has characterized his administration. And while the Senate did not fall to the GOP, it is evenly enough divided as to make passing any new law a struggle. Furthermore, among many of the Democrats up for election this year, there was a singular movement away from the president, attempting to place distance between themselves and his vastly unpopular policies. It would not come as a surprise to see this movement spread into those up for reelection in 2012. In particular, in the Senate there are ten Democrats up for reelection in 2012 who either come from right-leaning states or saw their states move that way this month. If this trend of conservative popularity continues, it is highly likely that these ten senators may end up voting with the Republicans more often than not, giving the GOP an operational, if not a true, majority. For Obama, There Is No Other Truth.

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At what point will he give up on the notion that he can transform the U.S., nah, the world into a neat little fairy land where candy is free and everyone has the same annual net income (except he and Michelle)?

Alan Caruba @ EmergingCorruption.com says it right up front: “Obama is a president who looks and sounds “normal”, but whose behavior all points to a variety of pathologies, beginning with narcissism and proceeding through an obsessive attachment to a Marxist ideology, the centralizing of all power, that has been tried and has failed everywhere. “ His great regret, he said, was not communicating more effectively with Americans, but this president was on television all the time from “The View” to “The Jon Stewart Show”, or giving endless speeches. Of the many Democrat office holders who were rejected by voters, he called them “terrific public servants” who “showed courage” as they threw away common sense, sound economics, and ignored the wishes of their constituents to support policies they clearly knew were widely and strongly opposed; members of Congress who repeatedly voted for legislation they had not read! How many times were Americans expected to personally show up in Washington, D.C. to protest? What’s Wrong with Obama?.

Amen to that!

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AAA IGNORE THIS AT YOUR OWN PERIL: “About 6 in 10 named the economy as the country’s top problem, with no other issue coming close. Nearly all said the economy is in bad shape and expressed concern about its condition over the next year. Roughly 4 in 10 said their family’s financial condition has worsened under President Barack Obama. About 6 in 10 said that overall, the country is on the wrong track, and about three-quarters of them were backing GOP candidates.” THE ECONOMY OVERSHADOWS EVERYTHING.

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Patrick Fleenor at CS Monitor answers: “The short answer is that his goal has always been to redistribute the economic pie – not necessarily grow it. That’s a shame, because he could have pursued policies that achieve both. Obama and Democrats will probably pay a high price next week for failing to see a pro-growth path to fairness. Will the presence of a Republican-led, pro-growth Congress persuade the president to pursue his goal of greater fairness in a way that helps economic growth? Our mutual prosperity depends on it.” Sucks to be a bonehead.

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