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By Floyd and Mary Beth Brown, Expose Obama
Barack Obama was feted by many as a messiah. His supporters compared him to Jesus. He even equated himself to Superman, saying at a dinner that he had been "born on Krypton and sent here- to save the planet Earth.
The remark was presented as a joke, but the effect of Obama's ego is no laughing matter.
Now, just over a year into his term, his legislative agenda lies in ruins.
Despite poll after poll showing that Americans' main priority is jobs, the president has focused on taking over the U.S. healthcare system.
Observing the wreckage, noted political pundit Charlie Cook candidly told Politico,
"I think choosing to take a Captain Ahab-like approach to healthcare -- I'm going to push for this even in the worst downturn since the Great Depression -- is roughly comparable to Bush's decision to go to war [in Iraq], It basically destroyed the first year of a presidency."
What a fall, from "Super Hero" to obsessed Captain Ahab chasing his great white whale.
To save his whale, Obama and his legislative allies Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are resorting to bare knuckled politics. The aptly named "nuclear option," a classic piece of legislative trickery involving the reconciliation fast-track, which he denounced while campaigning, has become his final option.
Rather than a white whale, we should call ObamaCare his white elephant.
Even if it passes, most knowledgeable legal scholars believe it will be ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
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