Obamaflation Arrives!!!

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Obamaflation Arrives
By Jeffrey Lord

President Obama will not be re-elected. Period.

Why?

Obamaflation has arrived, and this is what it looks like.

Milk. A gallon of skim. At the local Giant in Central Pennsylvania:

January 11, 2011: $3.20
February 28, 2011: $3.24
March 6, 2011: $3.34
April 23. 2011: $3.48

That would be a 28 cent rise in a mere 102 days, from January to April of this year. The third year of the Obama misadventure.

Then there's the celery. Same sized bag. Same store.

January 11, 2011: $1.99 a bag.
March 6, 2011: $2.49 a bag.

A rise of 50 cents in 54 days.

And the gas price during the administration filled with those who think "drill baby drill" is so yesterday? As one Internet photo had it, the numbers for regular, premium. and diesel were replaced with "LOL," "OMG," and "WTF!" Thus be it to governments who seem not to understand that energy is what makes the economic engine -- and your car -- hum.

What does this mean? It means Barack Obama is not going to be re-elected president of the United States. Period.

Neither Rush Limbaugh nor our founder, R. Emmett Tyrrell (as far as I know) shop for groceries in our local Giant. (Hopefully he may have created a job where someone else down there at his Southern Command does it for him.) But having been keeping tabs on groceries here for the last four months with an eye to writing this exact column four months later, I find it astounding although not surprising that Rush and Bob Tyrrell seem to be two of the few (Rush noted yesterday that Fox's Brit Hume gets this as well) who understand the President is a political goner. Or, as the delightfully subtle Mr. Tyrrell has put it for months, politically "dead in the water." All understand why.

You can get away with a lot of things as president and blame them on other people. For Obama its George Bush or now the oil companies or also now those evil corporations or… well… yada yada yada. But when average Americans begin to understand that Obamanomics is directly responsible for a 28 cent rise in the price of milk (with over a year and a half to go to the 2012 elections), there is going to be political hell to pay. And the buck, so to speak, stops, as it always does, with the president of the United States.

And voters here in Pennsylvania are making exactly that connection between Obama and the cost of their milk and their gas..

Like clockwork, in perfect synchronization with the rising cost of milk right here in a part of Pennsylvania afloat in dairy cows -- comes this from Public Policy Polling........



WHAT SEEMS TO HAVE LEFT Obama strategists clueless is the fundamental historical fact that inflation comes slowly. Milk today, celery tomorrow, and gas almost every day. Then, too late, there's a collective gasp of recognition by Americans walking around the grocery store that it's no longer just the milk and the celery but the soup, the chicken, the hamburger and perhaps now critically -- the Excedrin. Don't forget the rent, either. The shock of realization dawns that somehow the patient -- America -- is suddenly in dire economic health and the only way out is a brutally painful form of political surgery.

It is such moments that elect a Ronald Reagan in 1980. And more to the point, over time casts an air of economic incompetence over liberalism that takes two or three back-to-back GOP presidential terms to shake. At which point Americans discovering the rise of milk prices remember the old lesson all over again -- or if younger, learn it for the first time.

And whatever else is going on in the Obama White House, you can be sure there is a cluster of increasingly panicked politicians gathering around a president whose record thus far indicates he would rather go down with a ship full of bad economists -- read liberals -- than do anything that violates left-wing economic orthodoxy and his headlong drive to re-create America into some sort of Europeanized welfare state. A place where all Americans are dependent on government in the name of a mythical "fairness" -- and hence the Democrats' political organization -- rather than their own creativity, individual initiative, innovation and, dare we say it, imagination and willingness to risk.

As with Jimmy Carter's bleak ending in a politically suicidal witches brew of inflation, high unemployment and soaring interest rates, defiant righteousness appears to be preferable for Obama and company in facing the spreading economic conflagration already showing up in supermarkets across the country in places like the dairy and fresh vegetables sections of my local Giant.

Which in turn goes straight to the issue of Barack Obama's re-electability.

The hard political reality is that the real election here is who will be the next Republican president of the United States. Because the rest of this election is already over.

Barack Obama has lost his re-election.

With a gallon of milk and a gallon of gas. And a stick of celery on the side.



http://spectator.org/archives/2011/04/26/obamaflation-arrives

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