If the Senate’s hyperpartisan Christmas Eve healthcare vote and the Copenhagen climate summit “agreement”\u00a0constitute “victories” for Barack Obama, one would fear to see anything he’d acknowledge a “failure.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
At every opportunity, the White House, liberal pundits and media apologists herald both as victories for a foundering presidency<\/a>.\u00a0 But\u00a0just as\u00a0Obama’s performance has failed to remotely match his lofty campaign rhetoric, neither one comes anywhere close to his professed goals.\u00a0<\/p>\n After all, remember the government-run, single-payer system that Obama said was his goal<\/a> prior to his presidency?\u00a0 No sign of it in the Senate healthcare bill.\u00a0 In fact, the bill doesn’t even contain the “robust public option<\/em>” that Obama sought<\/a> after he realized single-payer was a bridge too far.\u00a0 And remember how he demanded them before the August Congressional recess<\/a>?\u00a0 Some “victory.”\u00a0<\/p>\n And the same goes for the silly Copenhagen climate summit.\u00a0 Obama arrogantly trumpeted a historic\u00a0“agreement,” <\/a>but the only agreement was an agreement-to-agree-to-something-to-be-agreed-upon-at-some-future-climate-summit.\u00a0 There were none of the\u00a0economically-crippling\u00a0carbon limits demanded by environmental extremists, and none of the billions (trillions?) of largess demanded by developing nations.\u00a0<\/p>\n