Perhaps it is too early to tell but it appears right now that 2012 will be a rout.  People on the left will try as well as they can to convince the die-hards that NY 9 is not a referendum on Obama but when third generation Democrats are interviewed upon leaving the polls saying that for the first time in their lives they voted Republican, something is in motion.

Let us look at the record.  I heard someone this morning on the radio point out that the budget that Obama inherited in 2009 was Bush's Budget.  True, except for one thing.  Obama immediately added a $787 Billion stimulus package over the objections of Republicans in the Congress.  This made 2009 his budget.

When presenting the 2010 Budget, Obama increased non-entitlement spending in federal agencies by as much as 24%.   

In 2009, Obama introduced the healthcare reform issue.  Here is my remembrance of how this happened:

In 2009, Democrats had complete control of both the Senate and the House.  It was a decided majority in the House and with the suspect election of Al Franken in the Senate, Democrats had 60 seats there to ensure they would have cloture when they wanted it.  

Obama spoke often of the Healthcare Reform Act but he never presented his own version of that legislation.  He left it to Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to define what was in Obamacare.  After all, development of actual legislation in the White House would be work and Obama has demonstrated time after time that work is not in his job description.  Obama told us what was in the legislation before a legislative bill was presented.  Pelosi and Reid would author the actual legislation and as such, Obamacare would be what they wanted it to be.  Despite all the campaign rhetoric of transparency and promises of C-Span televised sessions, the Congress and the President excluded C-Span and the public from deliberations.  Pelosi, Reid, and Obama specifically excluded Republicans.  Our government is supposed to be a representative democracy.  Who represented me in discussions or debate?  Pelosi excluded my Congressman from all sessions involving the drafting of that legislation.  Obama's message was overt, not covert.  Obama would remind Republicans that he won the 2008 election.  Democrats would not permit Republicans to contribute ideas.  Pelosi and Reid ignored ideas like Tort Reform or the elimination of interstate barriers that prevented competition.  The bill had what Democrats wanted.  The only exception to this was Obama could never sell Single Payer.  This was purely because not all Democrats would support extending the "Health Reform Act" to include Single Payer.  The Senate passed a version of this act.  The House passed a version of the act as well but something happened between the passage of these versions and the Reconciliation Process where the Senate and the House would reconcile differences and put the new legislation back before both houses again.  The citizens of Massachusetts elected Republican Scott Brown Senator from Massachusetts.  

Scott Brown was the first Republican elected to the Senate in Massachusetts since Edward Brooke who had left his seat in 1979.  The seat Brown filled was the one held since 1962 by Edward Kennedy.  The significance of this was huge.  Brown had campaigned as a guaranteed vote to stop Obamacare, a program demanded by Democrats since Harry Truman or perhaps before.  Massachusetts was a huge Democrat state with huge Democrat majorities in the state legislature, in the Congress and normally in the executive position.  Massachusetts was the only state carried by George McGovern in 1972.  Yet those in Massachusetts voted for a Republican.  Why was this?  Perhaps it was because they saw what was happening in the Congress as orchestrated by the White House.  

The Obama - Pelosi - Reid coalition modified their approach immediately.  It was more important that they pass healthcare legislation than it was that they get it right.  The House passed the Senate version without debate.  There was an attempt at a single televised discussion about the legislation.  Obama chaired that effort and he dominated the session by campaign rhetoric and demagoguery.  During that session, Obama reminded Senator McCain that Obama had won the election in one of the most arrogant displays of hubris that I ever witnessed from a President of the United States.  Paul Ryan brought a copy of the legislation with him to the meeting, all 2,700 pages.  Obama dismissed this as a prop.  Instead of dealing with the subject of the meeting the American public was subjected to stories similar to that of Representative Louise Slaughter (D-NY) who told us of her constituent who wore her dead sister's false teeth because she couldn't afford her own dental care.  This told us more about Representative Slaughter than it did the legislation they were there to discuss.  I wondered then and I still wonder now why Representative Slaughter did not point her constituent toward an existing program, agency, or charity that might be able to help her?  In the absence of that, why would Representative Slaughter not reach into her own pocket and help the woman?  Why is it that she and those like her are always intent on reaching into your pocket and mine to fund programs that go well beyond teeth and other minor problems and guarantee only a huge tax bill and a further loss of liberty?

Ultimately, Nancy passed the bill through the House as already voted on in the Senate.  The bill contained many inconsistencies between reality and representation.  Pelosi only gave Representatives a few days to read the legislation before the scheduled vote.  She pushed the vote saying that we had to pass it so we could see what was in it.  Is this in the tradition of the Congress?  Was this the act of a deliberative body?  No, the goal of the Speaker and the Senate Majority Leader as well as the goal of the President was to pass Socialized Medicine in this country whether the country wanted it or not.

The Tea Party rallied against this legislation.  Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and fellow Democrats vilified those citizens who had taken the time to join the Tea Party rallies.  Democrats reported rude and uncivil behavior on the part of those in the Tea Party rallies but no one ever came forward with proof despite the hundreds of cameras focused on the rally and Pelosi's arrogant march through the middle of it.  Voter's sentiments ran in opposition to this.  Seventy percent of the country wanted to defeat or amend the bill.  Yet, Pelosi rammed it through and the President signed it into law.

Now it is the subject of court battles.  Among the details of Obamacare is an individual mandate that everyone must purchase health insurance.  The Constitution does not provide the federal government with this authority.  Indeed, I do not believe it provides the federal government to do any portion of Obamacare without regard to the individual mandate.  Twenty-seven states are suing the federal government to have this legislation declared unconstitutional.  Committees will determine whether the 90-year-old male will receive prostate surgery or the 95-year-old woman can receive a hip replacement.  Of course, when Sarah Palin warned of Death Panels the Democrats denied they existed.  The legislation provides a smaller fine than what will be the cost for employers to continue providing health insurance for employees.  This will certainly result in employers dropping the plans that Obama promised we could keep.  Obama has provided an incentive to employers to drop their healthcare insurance and thus push us to a Single Payer system.  A bureaucrat in Washington will decide whether you get the hip replacement or if you are perhaps too old or too Republican to be of any value to the administration.  

By any other name, Obamacare smells like an act of tyranny.  This is not the tradition of America and the people of New York know this just as well as the people of Nevada demonstrated their understanding of this in their special election on September 13.  I congratulate newly elected Representatives Robert Turner (R-NY) and Mark Amodei (R-NV) for their wins yesterday.  Amodei filled a seat in a strong Republican district.  However, this also tells us something.  When Republicans win in traditional Democrat strongholds and Republicans win in traditional Republican strongholds it would suggest that the animosity of the electorate is not against incumbents or those from the same party of the prior occupant of that seat.  No, this movement is against Democrats.  Democrats introduced tyranny into our governing processes.  

Now Obama is back at the trough, wanting to drink again from the treasury at a cost of $447 billion.  Obama has introduced a Jobs Bill as necessary to create jobs.  The purpose of the Jobs Bill is to protect the unions that helped to elect him in 2008 and whose support he will need again in 2012 if he has even a modicum of a chance to win a second term.  This is pouring good money after bad.  The Congress should act now to reduce this President's opportunity to conduct any and every future raid on the treasury.  He has on multiple occasions vacationed with the rich and famous at the expense of the American Taxpayer only to return and tell the Congress that they must act with haste to pass legislation of the utmost importance.  Never mind that the legislation could wait until his return from 18 holes of golf.  Never mind that it could wait until he joined his family at Martha's Vineyard.  Never mind that during a period of recession or depression when Americans can't afford a hotel room for an evening that would enable their kids to take a dip in the pool on a hot day, Obama and his family are being sent around the world on safari or to visit the Riviera all at our expense.  It is not that it just does not look good.  It is that it is shameful. 

Combine this performance with the performance of Obama's Attorney General, Eric Holder who has brought lawsuits against individual states wishing to enforce federal immigration laws.  Holder has retarded the progress of lawsuits against Obamacare thus preventing a more efficient and less expensive presentation to the US Supreme Court.  The evidence is clear that Holder's organization has trafficked in weapons to the drug cartels of Mexico.  Holder dismissed charges against gang bangers accused of intimidating voters at the polls in 2008 and his explanation is that these actions are no different than his people had to endure during Jim Crow.  One must ask, "Is this administration intent on furthering the progress of America or is it more intent on 'getting even' with the disparities we all admit existed in our past?"  As their motivation appears more and more consistent with the latter, one can only expect that a second term of Obama would only work to more deeply divide the races and more deeply divide Americans as a whole.  

This is why with all things considered I firmly believe Obama need not worry about any individual Republican candidate in 2012.  He needs to worry about me.  He needs to worry about you.  He needs to worry that his own performance has had the light of day shone on it and that Americans will vote for anyone of prominence over Barack Obama.  The Obama presidency has been an utter and complete disaster.  Who of sound mind and body would want another four years of his crap?