Newsweek why obama must go

A much more accurate term would be "Pelosicare," since it was she who really forced the bill through Congress. Pelosicare was not only a political disaster. Polls consistently showed that only a minority of the public liked the ACA, and it was the main reason why Republicans regained control of the House in It was also another fiscal snafu. The president pledged that health-care reform would not add a cent to the deficit.

The president just kept ducking the fiscal issue. As a result there was no "grand bargain" with the House Republicans—which means that, barring some miracle, the country will hit a fiscal cliff on Jan. The CBO estimates the net effect could be a 4 percent reduction in output. The failures of leadership on economic and fiscal policy over the past four years have had geopolitical consequences.

The World Bank expects the U. China will grow four times faster than that; India three times faster. Meanwhile, the fiscal train wreck has already initiated a process of steep cuts in the defense budget, at a time when it is very far from clear that the world has become a safer place—least of all in the Middle East.

For me the president's greatest failure has been not to think through the implications of these challenges to American power. Far from developing a coherent strategy, he believed—perhaps encouraged by the premature award of the Nobel Peace Prize—that all he needed to do was to make touchy-feely speeches around the world explaining to foreigners that he was not George W.

In Tokyo in November , the president gave his boilerplate hug-a-foreigner speech: "In an interconnected world, power does not need to be a zero-sum game, and nations need not fear the success of another The United States does not seek to contain China On the contrary, the rise of a strong, prosperous China can be a source of strength for the community of nations.

From the vantage point of Beijing, neither approach had credibility. His Cairo speech of June 4, , was an especially clumsy bid to ingratiate himself on what proved to be the eve of a regional revolution.

I've come here Believing it was his role to repudiate neoconservatism, Obama completely missed the revolutionary wave of Middle Eastern democracy—precisely the wave the neocons had hoped to trigger with the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. When revolution broke out—first in Iran, then in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Syria—the president faced stark alternatives. He could try to catch the wave by lending his support to the youthful revolutionaries and trying to ride it in a direction advantageous to American interests.

Or he could do nothing and let the forces of reaction prevail. In the case of Iran he did nothing, and the thugs of the Islamic Republic ruthlessly crushed the demonstrations. Ditto Syria. In Libya he was cajoled into intervening. In Egypt he tried to have it both ways, exhorting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to leave, then drawing back and recommending an "orderly transition.

Not only were Egypt's elites appalled by what seemed to them a betrayal, but the victors—the Muslim Brotherhood—had nothing to be grateful for. America's closest Middle Eastern allies—Israel and the Saudis—looked on in amazement. And how many of them factored in the possibility that Egypt moves from stability to turmoil? Remarkably the president polls relatively strongly on national security. Yet the public mistakes his administration's astonishingly uninhibited use of political assassination for a coherent strategy.

According to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in London, the civilian proportion of drone casualties was 16 percent last year. Ask yourself how the liberal media would have behaved if George W. Bush had used drones this way. Yet somehow it is only ever Republican secretaries of state who are accused of committing "war crimes. The real crime is that the assassination program destroys potentially crucial intelligence as well as antagonizing locals every time a drone strikes.

It symbolizes the administration's decision to abandon counterinsurgency in favor of a narrow counterterrorism. What that means in practice is the abandonment not only of Iraq but soon of Afghanistan too. Understandably, the men and women who have served there wonder what exactly their sacrifice was for, if any notion that we are nation building has been quietly dumped. Only when both countries sink back into civil war will we realize the real price of Obama's foreign policy.

America under this president is a superpower in retreat, if not retirement. Small wonder 46 percent of Americans—and 63 percent of Chinese—believe that China already has replaced the U. It is a sign of just how completely Barack Obama has "lost his narrative" since getting elected that the best case he has yet made for reelection is that Mitt Romney should not be president.

In his notorious "you didn't build that" speech, Obama listed what he considers the greatest achievements of big government: the Internet, the GI Bill, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Hoover Dam, the Apollo moon landing, and even bizarrely the creation of the middle class. Sadly, he couldn't mention anything comparable that his administration has achieved.

The move comes mere days after Newsweek's competitor Time Magazine offered a controversial cover of their own, depicting a young mother breast feeding her 3-year-old boy. Newsweek's cover may be designed to elicit the memory of another White House occupant with a not-so-fitting title. Supporters of then-President Bill Clinton dubbed him the "first black president" for his work with the African American community.

All rights reserved. Over 'Stop the Steal' Rally Denial. The Chicago Sky made history on Sunday by bringing home the city's first ever WNBA championship—but the subsequent parade appeared to draw scant crowds. Terry McAuliffe's campaign released the ad three days before former President Barack Obama is expected to campaign alongside the Democrat in Richmond. George W. The former president and other prominent figures paid their respects to the late secretary of state.

Former president George W. Bush said he and former first lady Laura Bush were "deeply saddened" by Powell's death. The Obamas broke ground on the center last week following years of arguments arising from its location. Obama said the center is one way of giving back and said he hoped it would bring an economic boost to the area and inspire a future generation of leaders.