Obama has given up on congress and hopes to run the government as an imperial president - the first ever. He will have some minor successes, but his time for "fundamental change" has come and gone.

Just before the 2008 elections,  H Obama stood before a crowd of The Uninformed,  and pronounced,  “We are five days away from fundamentally changing the United States of America.” 

I suppose he thought he was going to prance into the White House,  send that Churchill bust back to England,  praise the Palestinians,  insult the Jews, make fun of the teabagger majority,  deliver a speech to the Muslim World in Cairo without a single word of follow-up,  ignore the hapless and powerless GOP for two years,  and think it would be smooth sailing on his way to that fundamental transformation. 

Lucky for America,  he did not know his backside from his front side when it came to politics,  diplomacy,  foreign policy,  and the workings of congress. Most importantly,  he grossly underestimated the power of the ballot box. 

And, as a result, Obama's Progressive Majority was able to pass but two significant pieces of legislation.   They rammed through  the Dodd/Frank Finance bill or “too big to fail” legislation.  The bill was nearly 2,000 pages long,  and was passed into law without anyone reading the bill.  Turns out,  the legislation was a colossal failure.   The largest lending institutions are bigger than ever,  and the heart of the bill (the Volcher Rule) has never been fully written,  three years after the fact. 

The other legacy legislation was ObamaCare,  and most American’s understand just what a loser this has become. 

That was the first 48 months. 

Today,  six months into his second term,  Obama has not scored a single legislative victory and is now trying to figure out how to run the country without congress and against public opinion.  I am please to announce that,  so far,  he really has not been able to figure that out. 

He needed friends and political cashe to get things done, even if a tyrant,   during the first 24 months of his second term.  But he has no friends,  and those within the Democrat Party understand that his political decisions,  in the short term,  will only hurt the effort to hang onto the Senate. 

Politico is reporting Obama’s strategy of circumventing congress.  The liberal publication writes: 

Those clashing visions of the second term — the president’s public optimism, shadowed by his dour, private realism — have made the opening act of Obama II something of a muddle, with critics and allies alike wondering if the president has a coherent strategy for retaining influence during what promises to be 3½ maddening years of divided, even schizophrenic, government.

To make matters worse,  for the Democrats,  is Nate Silver's cautionary prediction that the GOP could very well take back the Senate,  in the coming 2014 midterm elections.  Understand that  after 2013,  the window will have closed on any major legislative victory.  Everything beginning with January,  2014,  will be framed by the pending midterms. 

And after that,  the lame duck season will become official  . . . . . . .  and that will be that for this impostor in our White House. 

Point of post:  Just to document the fact of the utter demise of the Democrat Progressives.  They had their chance, but that opportunity has gone by the boards.  We have withstood the storm of Obama’s immature political dream.  Now,  we all just have to wait until 2016.