{"id":4367,"date":"2010-03-23T09:57:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T14:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4367"},"modified":"2010-03-23T10:00:53","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T15:00:53","slug":"obama-becomes-king-pyrrhus-with-obamacare-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4367\/obama-becomes-king-pyrrhus-with-obamacare-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Becomes King Pyrrhus with ObamaCare &#8220;Victory&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a wasted year in office during which he could have concentrated on revitalizing American employment, Barack Obama presides over a smoldering rubble that was once his electoral mandate.<\/p>\n<p>Yet he and his administration <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB20001424052748704841304575138202807054566.html#mod=todays_us_page_one\" target=\"_blank\">label this radioactive ObamaCare ordeal a &#8220;victory?&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Obama began his self-destructive crusade last year possessing the strongest Democrat majorities in decades, but finished it with a string of jarring defeats in Virginia, New Jersey and then Massachusetts.\u00a0 He entered office riding a crest of popularity and goodwill, but then saw his approval drop <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/northamerica\/usa\/barackobama\/6409721\/Barack-Obama-sees-worst-poll-rating-drop-in-50-years.html\" target=\"_blank\">worse than any elected President<\/a> in the history of scientific polling.\u00a0 His wasted year ignited the Tea Party movement, and propelled Republicans to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/mood_of_america\/generic_congressional_ballot\" target=\"_blank\">enormous leads on the generic ballot<\/a> as November elections approach.<\/p>\n<p>For such a supposedly effective leader, he could only manage to win a razor-thin victory despite enormous Democrat Congressional majorities.<\/p>\n<p>And for what?\u00a0 Over 90% of Americans already possessed insurance when Obama went on his hyper-partisan warpath, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebri.org\/pdf\/PR.848_09Sept09.HCS.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">90% of whom were satisfied or very satisfied<\/a> with their care.\u00a0 Even under the rosiest projections, ObamaCare will add only 5% to that number of insured.\u00a0 Meanwhile, another $1 trillion will be piled atop the rotting federal budgetary heap, Americans will literally be compelled by law to purchase insurance that bureaucrats deem appropriate, unemployment festers at a 10% rate fully one year after Obama&#8217;s &#8220;stimulus&#8221; and Democrats may lose one or both houses of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Any more divisive, costly &#8220;victories&#8221; like this, and the term &#8220;Pyrrhic victory&#8221; will soon be renamed &#8220;Obama victory.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a wasted year in office during which he could have concentrated on revitalizing American employment, Barack Obama presides over a smoldering rubble that was once his electoral mandate. Yet he and his administration label this radioactive ObamaCare ordeal a &#8220;victory?&#8221; Obama began his self-destructive crusade last year possessing the strongest Democrat majorities in decades, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,24,35,984,725,28],"class_list":["post-4367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health-care","tag-obama","tag-obamacare","tag-pyrrhic-victory","tag-scott-brown","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4371,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4367\/revisions\/4371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}