NYT Stunned That Weinergate Opening Isn’t a Shoo-in for a Democrat in Congress, Stunned That New Yorkers Are Angry at Obama & His Failed Presidency
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on August 22, 2011
Infamous crotch shot of himself that Rep. Anthony Weiner sent out to women - his resignation from Congress had Democrats thinking another Democrat would be a sure thing for the vacated House of Representatives seat in NY-09. Dream on.
The New York Times hasn’t been doing well for years. Readership has slipped year after year.
No wonder. Not only has its new online paywall not panned out quite as expected, but the liberal news source is often out of touch with current realities.
Its most recent headline expresses shock that New Yorkers are angry at Pres. Obama and that the congressional seat vacated by disgraced Democrat pervert Rep. Tony “Check Out My Package, Girls!” Weiner isn’t a shoo-in for another Democrat to take over. This speaks volumes about the major newspaper’s lack of balanced perspective. Or taking a quick glance at any of a number of polls over the past year. Must just be those terrorist tea partiers mouthing off again, so blow it off.
NYT can’t/won’t grasp the growing atmosphere of dissension at the Obama administration from American voters across the nation. The anger, fears, and frustrations aren’t just being expressed by attendees at tea party rallies, not just by conservatives, not just by white Republican voters. The anti-Obama sentiments stretch from coast to coast. Black tea parties and membership are on the rise and more black conservatives are speaking out against Pres. Obama and his spend-spend-spend mentality.
The New York Times is still living in the dreamy-schoolgirl, statist haze of 2008 when little was known about charismatic Barack Obama and has been reporting its bias accordingly. In 2011, plenty is known about the Whiner in Chief’s thin skin, his arrogance, his stubbornness, his overspending, his rising debt, his excessive number of vacations, his power-grabbing, his vilification of American businesses and destruction of jobs, his deafness to the cries of a majority of Americans, his reliable blaming of others for his mounting number of mistakes and failures, his doomed socialist/Marxist economics and their dire consequences for the nation.
Team Obama’s plan of action: full steam ahead, do more of what didn’t work the first time.
The race for Rep. Weiner’s seat has become much tighter than Democrats and the liberal media had presumed — they are SO surprised.
Imagine how heart-attack-inducingly shocked they will all be after the elections in November 2012.
Reported by NY Times, In the Race to Succeed Weiner, a Surprising Anger at Obama:
Of all the places to hear fulminations against President Obama, one of the least expected is the corner of 71st Avenue and Queens Boulevard, in the heart of a Congressional district that propelled Democrats like Geraldine A. Ferraro, Charles E. Schumer and Anthony D. Weiner to Washington.
But it was there that Dale Weiss, a 64-year-old Democrat, approached the Republican running for Congress in a special election and, without provocation, blasted the president for failing to tame runaway federal spending. “We need to cut Medicaid,” she declared, “but he won’t do that.” She shook her head in disgust. “He is a moron.”
After nodding approvingly for a time, the Republican candidate, Bob Turner, signaled for an assistant to cut off Ms. Weiss. Frustration with Mr. Obama is so widespread, he explained later, that he tries to limit such rants to about 30 seconds, or else they will consume most of his day.
“It’s endemic in the district,” Mr. Turner said. “You can’t stop them once they get started.”
The Sept. 13 election was expected to be a sleepy sideshow — a mere formality that would put David I. Weprin, a Democratic state assemblyman and heir to a Queens political dynasty, into a Congressional seat that became vacant this summer when Mr. Weiner quit over an online sex scandal.
Instead, the race has become something far more unsettling to Democrats: a referendum on the president and his party that is highlighting the surprisingly raw emotions of the electorate.
National Democrats, alarmed by a poll that showed the contest far closer than anticipated, are privately fretting that even a close outcome in a working-class swath of Brooklyn and Queens may foreshadow broader troubles for the party in 2012.
Ed Morrissey at Hot Air weighs in, NYT shocked, shocked to find anger at Obama in Weiner’s district:
The race to replace Anthony Weiner in NY-09 has taken a disturbing turn for Democrats. Bob Turner, who lost in 2010 by a wide margin to the disgraced former Congressman, only narrowly trails David Weprin in what had been considered a safe district in the Big Apple. Now the seat that once was held by Democratic luminaries like Chuck Schumer and Geraldine Ferraro has taken a back seat to a referendum on the Obama administration, and the New York Times finds itself surprised that Democrats could lose such a plebescite…
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And despite the clear registration advantage in the district, Turner has caught up to Weprin. A Siena College poll almost two weeks ago showed Weprin only leading by six points, and below the 50% level that would indicate enough strength for a victory. Weprin loses 30% of Democrats in the district and trails among independents 42/46, and is down six points in Brooklyn, which has about 1/3rd of the district’s voters.
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The Times interviewed a number of Democrats who expressed anger at Obama’s performance. One said that Obama was ‘way off base in his spending”; another called Weprin “part of the party regime.” Even one member of the DNC from New York admitted that the election is much less about Turner and Weprin than it is about Barack Obama.
If that’s become a bad thing in New York City and NY-09, just imagine what it will look like in 2012 across the rest of the country.
Despite what Team Obama thinks, tea party protests reach across party lines... these are concerned American voters you're ignoring
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