From The “Gee, Ya Think?” Files

The LA Times is worried. Or so one would believe judging by the headline that screams “Obama’s electoral coalition is crumbling.”

Calling the Obama coalition “frayed and frazzled” the LA Times sets forth on a series of what reads as lamentations about all the holes the President seems increasingly incapable of digging himself *out* of amongst his own base. More’s the pity for him, I suppose, but it should come as no great surprise to the folks that authored the piece – James Oliphant and Kathleen Hennessey. Unfortunately, like Obama, this piece misses the very point it ultimately makes:

“What we’re seeing is a general frustration with the inability of the government to fix the problems more quickly,” said Scott Keeter, director of survey research at the Pew Research Center. “This is expressed in anti-incumbent sentiment and negative opinions of the president. This also suggests that improvement in national conditions might be accompanied by an uptick in support for Obama.”

For that reason, approval ratings at this point in a presidency are a poor indicator of a president’s chances at reelection.

Quick to leave open the possibility that Obama’s base will re-ignite when called upon again in 2012, the Times ignores a reality that an increasing number of Americans have come to understand and Obama never will; the Government IS the problem, not the solver of them, and no matter how much is spent or how expansive the deficit becomes or how intrusive the system is in our daily lives, Americans will reject attacks against their freedoms and their liberties at every opportunity. And, they know when they’ve been sold a bill of goods:

“The candidate and his campaign wooed young voters like me with the notion of change and that business as usual would no longer be the status quo,” said Jeremy Wintroub, 32, a television producer from Elkins Grove, Pa.

“We were told the influence of lobbies would be blunted; it has not been. We were told that Obama would find a way to work in a bipartisan fashion. His opposition has been totally unwilling to work with him. We were told he would go line by line through the budget and get rid of wasteful spending; instead he appoints a deficit commission made up of fiscal hawks who tell us the sky is falling.”

Is anyone really surprised that most of the rest of us – especially Obama’s own base – are finally catching on? None of us are any better off now than before his ascendancy, and the mid terms are going to bear that in stunning fashion.

[Note: This article originates at Liberty.Com]