Cheat Seeking Missiles

President Obama was to bring with him post-partisanship, an eagerness - not just a willingness - to cross the aisle, listen to the other guy, and create a new energy in Washington. Of course, anyone who looked at his most-liberal voting record didn’t believe a word of it, but who was looking?

Now, as the American people grow increasingly aware of what a spending boondoggle porkosaurus his so-called stimulus bill is, Obama is dropping post-partisanship and finding his comfort where it’s always been, in most-partisanship. Writing in today’s WaPo, Obama lashed out at anyone who would deign to point out that his porkosaurus is anything but a stimulus:

In recent days, there have been misguided criticisms of this plan that echo the failed theories that helped lead us into this crisis — the notion that tax cuts alone will solve all our problems; that we can meet our enormous tests with half-steps and piecemeal measures; that we can ignore fundamental challenges such as energy independence and the high cost of health care and still expect our economy and our country to thrive.

I reject these theories, and so did the American people when they went to the polls in November and voted resoundingly for change.

Misguided criticisms aren’t listened to. Others’ theories are dismissed as failed - even if they worked for JFK and Reagan and Bush. Anything other than very fatty pork is a half-step, piecemeal. So all these ideas from the other side of the aisle are rejected - with a “losers!” jab at anyone who doesn’t agree with him.

Post-partisanship didn’t last two weeks in the Obama White House, and truth has fallen by the wayside as well, with this passage from Obama’s op/ed:

So we have a choice to make. We can once again let Washington’s bad habits stand in the way of progress. Or we can pull together and say that in America, our destiny isn’t written for us but by us. We can place good ideas ahead of old ideological battles, and a sense of purpose above the same narrow partisanship. We can act boldly to turn crisis into opportunity and, together, write the next great chapter in our history and meet the test of our time.

The bad habits of Washington are not personified in the newly united GOP’s calls for less spending and more stimulus; they’re in the fat-laden, stinking mess of a massive spending bill Pelosi shat on us. This bill is anything but a good idea, and if Dems aren’t receptive to an ideological give-and-take, then the stakes are high enough to deserve an ideological battle. The American people get this, despite Obama’s supposedly soaring and inspiring rhetoric; they’re fleeing in droves from Pelosi/Obama:

It never had a majority of support in the first place, but at least at first, the stimulus bill had a plurality in favor. No longer. Rasmussen’s polling shows that in two weeks, the numbers have flipped from 45-34 in support to 43-37 opposed:

Support for the economic recovery plan working its way through Congress has fallen again this week. For the first time, a plurality of voters nationwide oppose the $800-billion-plus plan.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 37% favor the legislation, 43% are opposed, and 20% are not sure.

Two weeks ago, 45% supported the plan. Last week, 42% supported it.

Opposition has grown from 34% two weeks ago to 39% last week and 43% today.

Barack Obama has lost seventeen points on the gap between support and opposition in just two weeks. He’s lost ten points of support among Democrats, who now back it 64-16. Unaffiliated voters oppose it even more than the general population, 50-27. Only those making under $20,000 a year support the bill at all; all other income demographics have pluralities in opposition. (Hot Air)