The audacity of nope

Tim Wilson opinion

By Tim Wilson

Published: 5:26PM Thursday January 21, 2010 Source: ONE News

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The Audacity of Nope: Mr President, are you listening?

What happened in Massachusetts?

How did a two bit ute-driving ex-Cosmo beefcake model give the Massachusetts Attorney General such a thumping?

Are all politics local?

Are you less charming now than you were a year ago?

What happened to your internet-based funding juggernaut?

Are you still a blank page onto which people write their aspirations, or a blank page onto which they write their frustrations?

Do Americans really want near-universal healthcare as much as you think?

Do young voters no longer like you, or have they moved on to someone more dynamic, say, Lady Gaga?

Do you think the fact that Teddy Kennedy's seat went Republican after 47 years as a Democrat stronghold is significant, or a simple reflection of the fact that dizzying poll numbers will eventually obey the laws of gravity?

Is this a Massachusetts miracle& for Republicans, or the sound of something larger?

You've said it's a reflection of the frustration of the past eight years, rather than the past year; but doesn't this omit the cruel fact that during those eight years of Republican 'mismanagement' it was held by a Democrat; after one year of your presidency, the tide of history has been reversed.

Once the voters start to turn, will the lapdog sections of the mainstream media who have acted as your apologist, begin to turn?

Will desperation be the mother of invention, or will you continue to compromise, no matter what the political cost?

Is this when you show us what you're made of?

Did Michelle chew you out?

Are you aware that you've lost the white working class and middle class voters who preferred Hillary, but held their nose and went for you in preference to a ticket sporting a geriatric and a lunatic witch?

What happened to independent voters?

Why did you take the Nobel Prize before doing anything?

Are you, like, the new Conan?

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