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Yes, goads, tiny bits of metal with which to flay the skin.

This, from the NYT's loathsome Frank Rich, telling Obama his 'time' is up November 2...

The Up-or-Down Vote on Obama’s Presidency

At last he mobilized his rhetoric against a villain everyone could hiss — insurance companies. In a brief address, he mentioned these malefactors of great greed 13 times.

There was only one problem. This finest hour arrived hastily and tardily. At 1:45 p.m. Eastern time, who was watching? Of those who did watch or caught up later, how many bought the president’s vow to finish the job “in the next few weeks”? We’ve heard this too many times before. Last May Obama said he would have a bill by late July. In July he said he wanted it “done by the fall.” The White House’s new date for final House action — specified as March 18 by Robert Gibbs, the press secretary — is already in jeopardy.

And failing with a full majority of Democrats on-board to boot. What is the problem? Where did Obama go wrong?

Why, he went wrong when he crossed the line to the far Left, expecting Americans to willingly follow his fife of CHANGE, bringing along a group of warty politicos no one could stand. Van Jones, for instance; no real American wanted a self-confessed communist and America-hater on call in the White House. At least with Obama, that sentiment is nuanced enough to keep tucked away. For now.

More Frank Rich :

“They are waiting for us to act,” Obama said on Wednesday of the American people. “They are waiting for us to lead.” Actually, they have given up waiting. Some 80 percent of the country believes that “nothing can be accomplished” in Washington, according to an Ipsos/McClatchy poll conducted a week ago. The percentage is just as high among Democrats, many of whom admire the president but have a sinking sense of disillusionment about his ability to exercise power.

Not even a hint of a nod to those of us, the 'teabaggers', who have rallied and lit fires under our representatives and forced them to reconsider their positions or, better, to hit the door (so long, Bart Gordon, you asshole!). BHO has lead us, Frank Rich; he's lead us to the point where we are actively opposing his destructive policies of CHANGE. There would be no tea parties without boatloads of bad tea.

Finishing up Insufferable One, Frank Rich...

Now that we have finally arrived at the do-or-die moment for Obama’s signature issue, we face the alarming prospect that his presidency could be toast if he doesn’t make good on a year’s worth of false starts. And it won’t even be the opposition’s fault. If too many Democrats in the House defect, health care will be dead. The G.O.P. would be able to argue this fall, not without reason, that the party holding the White House and both houses of Congress cannot govern.

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This time Obama doesn’t have a year to arrive at his finest hour. Not to put too fine a point on it, but the clock runs out on Nov. 2.

It can't come soon enough.

MORE! From an overseas newspaper (one that's, you know, believable)...

The end of the road for Barack Obama?
Barack Obama seems unable to face up to America's problems, writes Simon Heffer in New York.

It is a universal political truth that administrations do not begin to fragment when things are going well: it only happens when they go badly, and those who think they know better begin to attack those who manifestly do not. The descent of Barack Obama's regime, characterised now by factionalism in the Democratic Party and talk of his being set to emulate Jimmy Carter as a one-term president, has been swift and precipitate. It was just 16 months ago that weeping men and women celebrated his victory over John McCain in the American presidential election. If they weep now, a year and six weeks into his rule, it is for different reasons.

Despite the efforts of some sections of opinion to talk the place up, America is mired in unhappiness, all the worse for the height from which Obamania has fallen. The economy remains troublesome. There is growth – a good last quarter suggested an annual rate of as high as six per cent, but that figure is probably not reliable – and the latest unemployment figures, last Friday, showed a levelling off. Yet 15 million Americans, or 9.7 per cent of the workforce, have no job. Many millions more are reduced to working part-time. Whole areas of the country, notably in the north and on the eastern seaboard, are industrial wastelands. The once mighty motor city of Detroit appears slowly to be being abandoned, becoming a Jurassic Park of the mid-20th century; unemployment among black people in Mr Obama's own city of Chicago is estimated at between 20 and 25 per cent. One senior black politician – a Democrat and a supporter of the President – told me of the wrath in his community that a black president appeared to be unable to solve he economic problem among his own people. Cities in the east such as Newark and Baltimore now have drug-dealing as their principal commercial activity: The Wire is only just fictional.

Whoa! This is some powerful stuff, I'm thinking coming out as a goad to spur Barack and some Democrats to do things even more ill-conceived than they've already done: to lurch left, ignoring the voice of those who oppose that direction, over our loud objections.

How can Obama and his staff, and the democrats in the House and Senate and their staffs, read things like these two articles and not feel pressured? No one likes to fail, especially the vainglorious.

Watch for desperation moves. Who knows? maybe another new conference with fake doctors and their lab coats.

Because, you know Obama can't take this sort of whupping without another (prime time) response.

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