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The way Obama “handled” the Fort Hood tragedy vs the way former President George W Bush did, with his wife, speaks volumes about the difference in character and leadership of these two men. Rather than say it myself, I will let a Hillary Fan blog do it. These Democrats had their eyes opened and they tell it like it is, as they see it.

Or course, Obama showed up for the funerals. There were a lot of cameras there. But Bush didn’t need any stinking press. He was there to console the grieving survivors and their families. Obama just wanted to give another pretty speech, which his usual fanboys are lapping up.

Obama is a talker, not a doer. He’s a great self promoter but what did he accomplish before being elected president besides getting good jobs? He barely showed up for his US Senate job and as state senator he voted present a lot. Say what you want about George W Bush, he did accomplish a lot in his life before and during his presidency. He won a war people said was impossible to win (Iraq), he pulled the economy out of deep recession after the dot com crash and 911. Sure, some people want to blame him for our current economy, but the evidence points elsewhere. Presidents do not control spending and oversight, congress does. Guess which party has been in power the last three years, when things went south? And they’re doing such a great job solving problems now. Just look at all the jobs they created with that stimulus money. Ooo Ahh.

Yeah, I know. Both parties have a hand in the deficit and so on. The truth is neither could have made that big a mess without the other party having a hand in it. But right now we need people have constructive solutions and one thing’s for sure. The prez isn’t one of them.

President Obama has made a lot of broken promises, but even the ones he intended to keep are turning out to be unreachable goals. The big one is his Health Care overhaul, aka Obamacare. It will probably go down in history as one of the biggest mistakes the Democrats ever made.

Senior Congressional Democrats told ABC News today it is highly unlikely that a health care reform bill will be completed this year, just a week after President Barack Obama declared he was “absolutely confident” he’ll be able to sign one by then.

“Getting this done by the by the end of the year is a no-go,” a senior Democratic leadership aide told ABC News. Two other key Congressional Democrats also told ABC News the same thing.

This may come as an unwelcome surprise for the White House, where officials from the president on down have repeatedly said the health care bill would be signed into law by the end of the year.

“I am absolutely confident that we are going to get health care done by the end of this year, and Nancy Pelosi is just as confident,” Obama said Oct. 27 at a fundraiser for the Democratic Congressional Campaign

Hubris, it’ll get you every time.

This comes as good news. And if Corzine loses New Jersey tonight, you can stick a fork in Obamacare. It’s done. The Dems who are wavering will waver no more. They will run for the hills. Barack Obama will effectively become a world record holder for becoming a lame duck president in the shortest amount of time.

Next year is an election year. Everyone will be playing CYA and they will not be willing to sign any bills as controversial as ObamaCare or Cap and Trade, Card Check, etc. That means President Obama won’t get anything he wants. And that means he’s done.

Even if Corzine wins New Jersey, the Dems have got to be worried about the mood out there. They are starting to see the polls and the polls are not happy.

UPDATE: Bye Bye Barry. You are about to become the first president in history to be a lame duck in the first year.

There are certain events that reveal a lot about a person or groups of people. People are defined by how they react to given situations. And the most revealing situations are stressful. If the election tomorrow is any indication, a lot of Democrats are freaking out.

You know when they are desperate when they start calling conservatives crazy. It’s like they’re frightened peasants thinking some magic trinket is going to ward off the boogieman. The boogieman in this case is the will of the people.

Here’s how they’re spinning the NY-23 election tomorrow on Salon.

” Get ready for the Grand Old Tea Party takeover”", their headlines shout “The loony wing of the Republican Party prepares for a big day in Tuesday’s elections “

Got that? Tea partiers are “insane.” And they’re trying to take over the GOP. Frank Rich of the NY Times put it even more bizarrely.

The battle for upstate New York confirms just how swiftly the right has devolved into a wacky, paranoid cult that is as eager to eat its own as it is to destroy Obama. The movement’s undisputed leaders, Palin and Beck, neither of whom has what Palin once called the “actual responsibilities” of public office, would gladly see the Republican Party die on the cross of right-wing ideological purity. Over the short term, at least, their wish could come true.

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The more rightists who win G.O.P. primaries, the greater the Democrats’ prospects next year. But the electoral math is less interesting than the pathology of this movement. Its antecedent can be found in the early 1960s, when radical-right hysteria carried some of the same traits we’re seeing now: seething rage, fear of minorities, maniacal contempt for government, and a Freudian tendency to mimic the excesses of political foes. Writing in 1964 of that era’s equivalent to today’s tea party cells, the historian Richard Hofstadter observed that the John Birch Society’s “ruthless prosecution” of its own ideological war often mimicked the tactics of its Communist enemies.

The same could be said of Beck, Palin and their acolytes. Though they constantly liken the president to various totalitarian dictators, it is they who are re-enacting Stalinism in full purge mode. They drove out Arlen Specter, and now want to “melt Snowe” (as the blog Red State put it). The same Republicans who once deplored Democrats for refusing to let an anti-abortion dissident, Gov. Robert Casey of Pennsylvania, speak at the 1992 Clinton convention now routinely banish any dissenters in their own camp.

Hilarious. The tea party people in NY wanted a real conservative to run, not another RINO. So they supported Hoffman, not Dede Scozzafava who was indistinguishable from a Democrat. She was even endorsed by ACORN. The conservatives did not want another RINO in government at a time when every vote counts in the upcoming Obamacare and Cap and Trade bill fights.

The voters have a right to have a say in who represents them. Dede Scozzafava was put up by a handful of local politicians. NY is the basket case of the US, when it comes to the state legislature. They even make California look sane. The voters have spoken and rejected the bureaucrats’ pick. It’s as simple as that.

There’s nothing “Stalinist” about what happened. And to show they were right to reject Dede, she quit the race and started endorsing the Democrat, Bill Owens. Even doing robocalls for him. How much more proof do you need that Dede was not a real Republican?

The left wing press will try to spin the elections tomorrow. If the Republicans win New Jersey, Virginia and Hoffman wins NY-23, they will see it as a referendum on Obama. But many will call it a right wing resurgence and start the scare tactics, demonizing Republicans who have largely played it low key this year.

A “right wing resurgence” is definitely on the wind. Obama is tanking. His numbers are falling fast. That’s why they are so desperate to get their bills passed this year. Next year may be too late.