Fire Up The Blamethrower

Daily Beast's Mort Zuckerman goes on a rampage against the Worst President Ever In This Or Any Dimension.

He’s misjudged the character of the country in his whole approach. There’s the saying, “It’s the economy, stupid.” He didn’t get it. He was determined somehow or other to adopt a whole new agenda. He didn’t address the main issue.

This health-care plan is going to be a fiscal disaster for the country. Most of the country wanted to deal with costs, not expansion of coverage. This is going to raise costs dramatically.

In the campaign, he said he would change politics as usual. He did change them. It’s now worse than it was. I’ve now seen the kind of buying off of politicians that I’ve never seen before. It’s politically corrupt and it’s starting at the top. It’s revolting.

Five states got deals on health care—one of them was Harry Reid’s. It is disgusting, just disgusting. I’ve never seen anything like it. The unions just got them to drop the tax on Cadillac plans in the health-care bill. It was pure union politics. They just went along with it. It’s a bizarre form of political corruption. It’s bribery. I suppose they could say, that’s the system. He was supposed to change it or try to change it.

Even that is not the worst part. He could have said, “I know. I promised these things, but let me try to do them one at a time.” You want to deal with health care? Fine. Issue No. 1 with health care was the cost. You know I think it was 37 percent or 33 who were worried about coverage. Fine, I wrote an editorial to this effect. Focus on cost-containment first. But he’s trying to boil the ocean, trying to do too much. This is not leadership.

Zuckeman goes on with this tirade at length.  The idea that the problem here was the deficit and always was the deficit however was laughable to the point of being insulting.  Bush added nearly six trillion dollars to our national debt.  Nobody cared.  Obama tries to spend a fraction of that, he's excoriated by idiots like Zuckerman here.  $3 trillion to invade Iraq, no problem.  $1.2 trillion over ten years?  Unconscionable tyranny of the darkest evil.

If Obama decides the country's top priority is to the cut the deficit right now, we're screwed beyond belief.  The Republican gets eight years and a mulligan.  The Democrat gets 365 days and the back of America's hand.

And the real issue is the number of Democrats who will agree with Zuckerman and throw Obama under the bus.