House of Eratosthenes

The logic has very little to do with American politics, and much more to do with fashion. Muttonchop sideburns can come back in style as a “retro,” but retro fashions need a generation of water to roll over the dam before they can rise from the dead. Once something becomes The Hot Thing From Last Year, it isn’t going to become hot again for those three decades. Certainly not within a four year window.

Ladies and gentlemen, our nation’s chief executive is now officially the hot thing from last year. Our nation’s Rubik’s cube. This would mean, in His case, He has just lost the only effective governing tool He ever had.

For the very first time, Barack Obama’s approval rating has gone upside down! According to Rasmussen, Barack Obama’s approval rating is at 49% and his disapproval rating is at 51%.

Guess that’s what happens when you push big, unpopular liberal policy after liberal policy in an effort to take advantage of a crisis, talk about deficit reduction while you spend so much that you risk the country’s future, keep trying to take over an ever larger share of the U.S. economy, lie repeatedly, insult America abroad and cops at home, all while being unbelievably pompous.

PS: As Obama’s numbers continue to drop, expect plenty cries of “racism” to explain why people aren’t supporting him.

Now, is this cause for celebration? Probably not. This presidency is simply a projection onto the national landscape, of what has been happening on a smaller scale in hundreds of our larger cities for decades now: Hardcore left-leaning tax-the-rich guy leveraged into office with superstar status, during a campaign that offers minimal or nonexistent deliberation about the policies he would put into effect, followed by years and years of economic depression as the hated “rich,” taxed up to and beyond the point they can be made to understand how hated they are…leave. Or stop engaging in what has been artificially made into a less and less profitable, and more and more troublesome, way to earn a livelihood.

Those crooked mayors have approval ratings, too. Those approval ratings drop, too. And they keep on doing the things they do, until the promising supermetropolitan mecca becomes a modern million-acre ghost town.

The nation’s fate is still sealed. We’ll still keep moving toward the same oblivion that has swallowed up Chicago, and Washington DC, and Atlanta, and Sacramento, and Los Angeles and San Francisco and…and…and. But from here on, there will be doubt. It won’t be an unstoppable “mandate.”

And Obama has lost his fashion whores. They aren’t with Him anymore; they’re on to the next hot new thing. And they aren’t coming back for a good thirty years. Oh sure many of them will pick Him over a Republican any day. But His election wasn’t won by people preferring democrats over Republicans, it was won because the democrat voters saw a reason to miss stale television sitcom reruns to go out and vote, and Republicans didn’t see any such reason.

That advantage is now history.

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