Why If Conservatives Were Nicer People You'd Almost Feel Sorry for Them

     Everyone is now acknowledging the undeniable: Obama is very accomplsihed and consequntial President. There's no way to skirt the issue anymore. 

     http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/06/barrack-obamas-consequential-presidency.html

    A Politico piece now admits it too. 

    "Grace. Amazing grace."

    "This came very close to being the worst week of Barack Obama’s presidency, and, effectively, the last: a possible repudiation from both Congress and the Supreme Court, from his own party, from a country struggling with the same racial tensions he’s approached with a caution that’s often come across more like muted fear."

    "He would have been failed president. He would have been a failed promise."

     "Instead, Obama finished the week in Charleston singing, really singing, and returned to a White House lit up like a rainbow that people who wanted to celebrate just felt drawn to. Hours after the partying stopped, they stayed late into the night, just sitting and staring at the building and thinking about how much had just changed."

     "What Obama first represented as a half-white, half-black man of a new generation, with the middle name Hussein and all the rest, seemed to have actually arrived in America — that guy America voted for in 2008 seemed to suddenly (and to a lot of his supporters, finally) show up. So did the country they voted for."

     "And Obama’s voice broke through in a way that it hasn’t, maybe, since the 2004 keynote address that introduced him to America. A week that started with the media obsessing over one charged word he said ended with the country glued to his whole 25-minute eulogy in South Carolina, reverberating and replaying on the news, on iPhones and on YouTube all through the night and weekend.

Obama often talks about his presidency as just trying to write his paragraph in history."

     "The last week, said Obama’s 2008 campaign manager David Plouffe, is “an exclamation point on already historic and satisfying paragraphs.”

      Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/barack-obama-momentous-week-president-reborn-social-issues-119503.html#ixzz3eMgjHLto

     It goes to show you how small is the difference between success and failure. To be sure, if the ACA had been gutted by the Court no doubt many liberal turncoats at Firedoglake and elsewhwere would be cursing him as if it's his fault that the Court made the wrong decision. 

    Ok. So they made the right decision and it wasn't even close. 6-3. The conservatives who hate him on the other hand are fit to be tied. It must be very frustrating for them:

    "Texas Sen. Ted Cruz on Friday captured the frustration of those who feel the country’s changed too much and too quickly under their feet, calling the Supreme Court rulings “some of the darkest 24 hours in our nation’s history,” in a radio interview with Sean Hannity."

    "Even inside the White House, the rush of change is almost overwhelming."

   “The country is emerging in a way that is interesting and different—and we’re all taking it all in,” said a senior White House aide. “His voice and his role in a lot of these issues were important for him personally, and for his presidency.”

    Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/barack-obama-momentous-week-president-reborn-social-issues-119503.html#ixzz3eMhvuz8Y

     I think this comes from the fact that in the long run-as the economists call it-at least, conservatives are bound to lose. They can and do triumph over the forces of progressivism again and again. But despite all their smugness in victory, the next battle they have to win again-or all their previous wins are washed away by the winds of change. 

     To 'Stand athwart history and yell "Stop'' is not as easy as it seems. 

     http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/06/conservatives-cant-even-win-while-they.html

     As many victories as William F. Buckely saw in his lifetime what would he say if he were alive today?

     Don't get me wrong. It's not as if the war is over. The Democrats absolutely must take the Presidency in 2016-as I and even Sumner-think they will. We need a SJC balanced in a liberal direction for the first time since the early 80s. Even with the joy the Roberts Court gave us this week, they really are a very conservative court that has given us Citizens United as well as struck down the Voting Rights Act-or at least took away its teeth. 

   Then there is all that GOP power in Congress and at the state level. It will likely take 10 to 20 years to finally flush all this out. 

  Still, I think it's more than just overconfidence that makes me feel that the future looks a lot brighter for progressives than conservatives at this juncture in American history. 

   http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/the-grand-old-partys-future-shock-119484.html?ml=tb

   Conservatives at this point are probably asking 'What would Buckley do?'