Byron York - Spill reveals Obama's lack of executive experience
Obama ignored Palin's experience as governor of Alaska, which was considerably bigger than the Obama campaign. But his point was clear: If you're worried about my lack of my executive experience, look at my campaign. Running a first-rate campaign, Obama and his supporters argued, showed that Obama could run the federal government, even at its most testing moments. He could set goals, demand accountability, and, perhaps most importantly, bend the sprawling federal bureaucracy to his will.
Fast forward to 2010. The oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico is gushing out of control. The Obama administration is at first slow to see the seriousness of the accident. Then, as the crisis becomes clear, the federal bureaucracy becomes entangled in itself trying to deal with the problem.
Standard political analysis would suggest that Michigan should have moved even farther toward the Democrats since 2008. In the deep recession Michigan has consistently been the nation’s number one unemployment state. And the federal government under the Obama administration bailed out General Motors and Chrysler, two of Michigan’s largest employers—although one might more accurately say that the Obama administration bailed out the United Auto Workers, Michigan’s largest private sector union.
But Michigan voters have been moving right, not left. A recent poll taken for the Detroit Free Press poll showed that only 43% of Michiganians support the Obama Democrats’ health care bill and 53% are opposed. Most interestingly, 69% of those under 30 are opposed; they apparently have figured out that the bill would force them to pay more to subsidize insurance for their elders.
Smuggling of potential terrorists across the border is evolving into a billion dollar industry for Mexican drug cartels while posing a significant threat to the United States, according to federal law enforcement officials.
Voters in 11 states will head to the polls Tuesday, and many of the contests will gauge the strength of the anti-incumbent, anti-establishment sentiment among voters.
Sens. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., and Bob Bennett, R-Utah, already have been rejected in their re-election bids and Arkansas' Blanche Lincoln could be the third member of the Senate to lose a primary contest this year as she trails in the polls in a primary runoff against Lt. Gov. Bill Halter. Rep. Bob Inglis, R-S.C., could be the third congressman to be ousted, following Reps. Alan Mollohan, D-W.Va., and Parker Griffith, R-Ala., who both lost their primaries. Voters on Tuesday are also poised to reject Republican Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons.
With no letup in tensions surrounding Israel's recent attack on a Gaza-bound ship, the White House is looking for a new direction on easing conflict in the region.
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