The president has been on a Democratic fundraising tour in a last ditch effort to garner support for his health care reform package which is dangling on the precipice of biggest political failure ever. There's been one ominous sign at most of the campaigner-in-chief's stops: a lack of appearances from Democrats up for re-election. The latest example – Missouri:
The Show Me State temporarily became the No-Show State on Wednesday as some prominent Missouri Democrats decided they'd rather be somewhere else when President Obama came to push his massive health care overhaul plan.
Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, the all-but-certain Democratic nominee for the Senate seat being vacated by Republican Sen. Christopher S. "Kit" Bond, was "already locked in" to meetings in Washington, D.C., on Wall Street financial reforms, said her spokesman, Linden Zakula, who downplayed her absence for Mr. Obama's visit to St. Charles, just outside St. Louis.
And by "already locked in" Zakula meant "Obama's a political Chernobyl. Keep him the hell away from us!"
We've already witnessed the destructive powers of Obama – aka the Grim Reaper of political stumping – with his campaign decimation in the VA and NJ gubernatorial races and in the Senate race in MA. Suddenly, after leaving the carcasses of those Democrats littered in his wake, it appears as if vulnerable Democrats have smartened up and discovered, ahem, schedule conflicts in order to be as far away from the Reaper as possible. Man, has this guy fallen from grace or what?
Anyway, just as an FYI to all Democratic incumbents and candidates: if you think this health care reform has been a tough sell to your constituency, just wait until the amnesty-for-all-illegals fight commences. That little puppy – 3 out 4 Americans want a decrease in illegal immigrants – is going to be a real humdinger leading up to the midterms.
