According to the newest Quinnipiac Poll, Americans are opposed to President Obama’s healthcare reform plan, 54 percent to 35 percent.
Raphy Sonenshein, a hard-left political analyst from Cal State Fullerton, is representative of about 80 percent of American Jews. He and they could not find a synagogue with a Junior Ranger detector. But by golly, he and they know how many pimples are on the left ear of President Where Are We.
With such grim-faced Jews as Prof. Sonenshein, Democratic politics always trumps Judaism as the primary commitment in their commonly angry lives.
Like many contemporary political strategists with a huge emotional investment in the bumbling Obama presidency, the confused Prof. Sonenshein considers the concepts of analyst and cheerleader as sleekly interchangeable.
In his badly overwritten cover story, “Rethinking Obama,” in the new print edition of the weekly Jewish Journal, out today (see jewishjournal.com) he has concluded that with the slightest tweaking, his hero can sail his healthcare reform bill through Congress.
The professor may have been the person who first said that if his grandmother had wheels, she would be a bus.
This Is Easy, Guys
Refusing to acknowledge that the President has a single deficiency or is at fault in any meaningful way for the massive failure of his first-year agenda, Prof. Sonenshein says the panacea for the months’ long gridlock is uncomplicated.
He casts the President, the self-identified “leader/mediator,” as a victim. He argues that the President is at a great disadvantage because he has to create peace among three factions — liberal Democrats, moderate Democrats and all Republicans — instead of the conventional two parties.
He said that the President erred when he chose to mediate the differences between moderate Democrats and Republicans, leaving liberal Democrats to their own devices. (It is a phony contention, which is why he brings no supporting claims.) If the President will mediate between the irascible moderate Democrats and liberal Democrats, ignoring the Republicans, he will get a healthcare reform bill, featuring universal coverage, pushed through, with ease, this year, says the professor.
Congress does not have to do a darned thing to the present 2,000-page House version and 1,000-page Senate version. When blended, they will rival Michelangelo, if not Angelina, for pure sex appeal.
Effectively, Prof. Sonenshein says Americans, who furiously oppose the bill in its present form, 54 percent to 35 percent, can go pound sand.
Atta boy, Raphy Boy.
He overlooks the increasingly apparent consideration that his ever-preening hero must be speaking with a forked tongue. Americans don’t like those parts of the teleprompter speeches that they can understand.
President Where Are We, cleverly billed as a terrific communicator, has delivered 29 speeches to the American people on his centerpiece legislation. Across America, there is not one Democrat — layman or politician — among 300 million legals and illegals who can interpret what he said or define the bill.
That, boys, is known in everyday parlance as a brick wall.
If Prof. Sonenshein is like 99 percent of secular Jews I know, he loves Democratic personalities even more than his family. He does not know what time of year the Shavuous holiday falls. Or even what it celebrates. But by golly, he can tell you Sen. Reid’s blood type and the flavor of President Where Are We’s breath.
Such a stance blinds his modest analyzing skills.
Prof. Sonenshein, just like 99 percent of secular Jews I know, hates Republicans, which simplifies his self-ordained task of figuring out why Where has looked like a 13-month dumb cluck when he had historic momentum, most of the American people, the Senate, the House and all but two print and electronic journalists shoving his untrained body up the hill to healthcare reform.
The only piece that the embarrassingly green Where did not bring to the healthcare fight was a revolver — though scores around him routinely pack heat.
Just remember what Prof. Sonenshein said about his grandmother and buses, and then hold your breath until Where gets his way.
