From the Boston Globe, January 17, 2009
The bluest of blue states, a state that has given a Kennedy a Senate seat since 1953. That is 58 years of Kennedy. That is 58 years of Democrats holding that Senate seat. And on Tuesday evening, the state will turn over that seat to a Republican. And Obamessiah supporters are claiming it is all Coakley's fault, that Obama has nothing to do with it.
What a difference a year makes:
When Obama was inaugurated a year ago this week, he was hailed by his supporters as a political messiah who would transform American politics, ushering in a new era of hope and goodwill. Never had a new administration been greeted with such rapturous enthusiasm. “Obama’s standing above the country, above the world,’’ Newsweek editor Evan Thomas exulted. “He’s sort of God.’’
What Obama and his party delivered, however, was not uplifting and transparent bipartisanship.
It was trillion-dollar increases in government spending. It was party-line votes on 2,000-page bills. It was “cash-for-cloture’’ backroom deals. It was tone-deaf boasts about millions of jobs “created or saved,’’ even as unemployment soared into double digits and millions of American jobs disappeared.
Above all, it was the attempt to force through a radical health-care overhaul that would drive up the cost of medical insurance, slash Medicare by half a trillion dollars, and subject one-seventh of the US economy to government micromanagement.
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