It seems to be over

I do not recall ever watching an American president self destruct before now. Oh, I watched George Bush fall from favor as he stuck with his Iraq policies amid a growing war weariness in the country. I saw George H W Bush founder as the economy sank into the doldrums during the second half of his presidency. I saw Bill Clinton struggle to overcome impeachment and the whole Monica thing. What is new this time is that president Obama seems to be doing most of the destruction himself. Just think of this: By far, the most important issue to the American people is the economy. In the ten months since the GOP swept the 2010 election just look at the Obama positions on that topic.

1)First, Obama was in favor of raising taxes on the wealthy.
2)In December of 2010, Obama announced that he was in favor of keeping tax rates stead for everyone for two years since one should not raise taxes in a time of economic difficulties.
3)In January of 2011, Obama proposed spending much more in fiscal 2012 than had been spent in 2011 with the result that there would be an increase in the size of the deficit. His budget had no new jobs programs in it.
4)In March of 2011, after the GOP passed a budget that called for cutting the deficit by 6 trillion dollars over the next ten years, Obama continued to push his budget. The senate voted that budget down by 97 to 0.
5)When it was time to pass a spending bill for the remainder of 2011, Obama opposed the GOP plan for spending cuts. Then he announced he was in favor of them and claimed credit for the final agreement.
6)In April of 2011, Obama sudenly became a deficit hawk. He now came out for cutting the deficit by 4 trillion dollars. He had no plan, however, as to how to accomplish this.
7)After Congress was unable to come up with an agreement as to how to cut the deficit, Obama tried to get involved in July of 2011. His involvement was a total failure. The congressional leaders finally came up with an agreement that Obama accepted. It called for no tax increases but for 1.2 trillion in spending cuts and the creation of a super committee to find further savings.
8)In August, after going through the entire year without any push for job creation, Obama finally announced that jobs were essential for the country. Indeed, the country faced a crisis according to the president. As a result, he announced that sometime after he got back from his lengthy vacation, he would put forward a plan to get people back to work.
9)About a month later, Obama spoke to a joint session of Congress and demanded that it pass his jobs bill. Of course, there was no such jobs bill in existence as of that time. Say after day, Obama screamed pass the bill now even though there was no such bill.
10)Finally, Obama came forward with his jobs bill which was basically a plan to raise taxes on a permanent basis in order to cut taxes temporarily in 2012. There was also a component of sending money to the states to help bail them out and to do infrastructure projects that hopefully would result in additional employment. The cost of the bill was about 450 billion dollars and the tax increases that went along with it were about 480 billion dollars. Obama said nothing to explain why it was now okay to raise taxes in the middle of bad economic times when it was wrong to do that a few months earlier.
11)Almost immediately after releasing his jobs bill, Obama also announced a plan to raise revenue to cut the deficit. Basically, his plan was one to soak the rich. Obama expected his base to support him fully and to force the GOP into blocking tax increases for the wealthy. Instead, Democrat after Democrat has announced opposition to the Obama plan. Today, it was announced that even former president Clinton had come out against the basic premise of the legislation. The Republicans never had the opportunity to block Obama's plan since the Democrats have done that by themselves.
12)With his plan to blame the GOP as obstructionists falling apart, Obama has taken to the road to try to convince America that he truly is trying to create jobs, that all would be well but for Republican obstructionism and that the moon indeed is made of green cheese. Even on this Obama is failing. Today he went to Ohio to discuss bridges that were structurally unsound. He stood in front of a perfectly proper bridge to "highlight" the need for repairs. By failing to check the status of the bridge he used as a prop, Obama had the misfortune of looking like a buffoon who could not even find a bridge to be an example of the need for repairs.

This is just bare bones stuff. If I went into detail, most people would just get angry. The president of the United States presents a profile of a man who is only concerned about his re-election. The good of the country has long since been forgotten. Indeed, the self destruction of Obama is now so apparent to so many people that huge numbers of Democrats are pulling away from Obama so as to not go down with the sinking ship.

It is a most amazing sight to behold.