Is President Obama a lame duck already?
ByRebecca Kaplan CBS News November 29, 2013, 6: 00 AM
Second terms have historically been tough ones for presidents. From Ronald Reagan’s Iran Contra scandal to Bill Clinton’s Lewinsky affair to Hurricane Katrina during George W. Bush’s second term, U.S. leaders have so often found their second four years going off the rails that it’s known colloquially as the “second-term curse.”
President Obama has been no stranger to this trend. Despite winning reelection, he has had to compromise on many of his priorities or have seen them rejected outright by Congress: letting the Bush-era tax cuts expire; gun control measures; investments in the economy, and quite possibly, immigration reform.
While he doesn’t quite qualify as a lame-duck president – a term reserved for the 10-week period after a successor has been elected – Mr. Obama has seen his ability to set and carry out an agenda significantly curtailed just a year into his second term. Political scientists and scholars tend to point to two reasons for this: an obstinate, Republican-controlled House of Representatives, and the botched roll out of the Affordable Care Act, the president’s signature legislative achievement.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/is-president-obama-a-lame-duck-already/
Ha HA.
Lull the Republicans into a sense of securrity.
Yeah pretty much. The torches and pitchforks always come out during the second term, as mentioned in the article.
Hopefully Christie can withstand the mud slinging his own party is going initiate soon. If he’s the last GOP standing on election day, I wouldn’t mind voting Republican for a change.
I’m afraid he might not love Jesus enough to carry the south.
Thanks for your last vote.
Good Job.
Voting for Romney would have been a huge mistake…
Barack is merely harvesting what Bill and Hilary Charlatan tried to enact so many years ago.
Karma is a beach.
Obama is the worst President in modern history.
He never even held a job in the private economy.
Totally under qualified to run a small business never mind leading what was the greatest country in the world.
The damage he has inflicted domestically and internationally will take a decade to repair.
Of course he could not have fundamentally changed this country for the worse without the help of Pelosi, Reid and every other Democrat in the Senate and the House.
Please remember this in 2014 and 2016.