Flushing Political Capital

From an interesting article by Hugh Hewitt:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and President Obama have accomplished an extraordinary thing. Tomorrow they will enter the history books as the most spectacularly failed partnership in modern American political history.

Never in the last 100 years have two American politicians squandered so much political capital and achieved so complete a rejection as this duo. (I omit intentionally the hapless Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who is very much the Lepidus in this triumvirate.)

We’re supposed to be witnessing tidal turn election results, and the only question seems to remain how large the Republican win will be. I don’t want to dampen any of the fun, but it occurs to me to ask, if Obama and Pelosi and the rest have done as poorly as have, why didn’t anyone see this coming? If they squandered so much political capital, who was gullible enough to give it to them in the first place, and has that same group of fools learned anything?

The only worse government spender than Obama that I can imagine is . . . wait for it . . . Bush. If the new Republicans spend like the old ones, with same inability to count, we are in for more of the same. I’m all for electing people who say they can count, not spending more than we have, paying down our atrocious debt, etc. It’s just hard to believe we’ll see that sort of change. We need a host of people with the fiscal backbone of Chris Christie. I’d love to be surprised.

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