During the 2008 presidential campaign, our friends on the Left ignored the implications of Obama’s career-long habit of voting present on controversial issues. Now that chicken has come home to roost.
Thus, as the President prepares for tonight’s SOTU, he faces a good deal of resentment from his congressional accomplices because he allowed them to take all the heat on health care reform.
The anger is most palpable in the House, where Pelosi and her allies believe Obama’s reluctance to stake his political capital on health care reform in mid-2009 contributed to the near collapse of negotiations now.
Meanwhile, the House and Senate are none too happy with one another:
Relations between Democrats in the House and Democrats in the Senate are hovering between thinly veiled disdain and outright hostility.
The anger is rounded out by a rift between the “leadership” and the rank-and-file:
In a display of contempt unfathomable in the feel-good days after Obama’s Inauguration, freshman Rep. Dina Titus (D-Nev.) stood up at a meeting with Pelosi last week to declare: “Reid is done; he’s going to lose� in November.
This outburst was brought on by the failure on the part of the Reid, Pelosi and Obama to get the message from Massachusetts:
[Titus] acknowledged that she said Democrats would be “f—-ed� if they failed to heed the lessons of Massachusetts, where Republican Scott Brown won Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat last week.
All of this is symptomatic of a leadership vacuum. The Dems fell for the pretty words, and now they’re angry to discover that talk is cheap. Obama’s habit of playing it safe has placed their jobs in jeopardy.
As we say in the South, I “hate it for them.” Don’t you?
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