CAN'T SOMEBODY SHUT BARRY UP?:

Democrat anger at Obama overkill: Concern is mounting at the president’s tactics (Tony Allen-Mills , 3/22/09, Sunday Times of London)

“Stop, please stop, Mr O, we can’t take much more,” one angry viewer wrote on an Idol-related website. “Not again!” complained another. “It’s the same speech he’s been giving for the past year.”

There were dark mutterings that by commandeering evening programming only a few days after he appeared on Jay Leno’s popular late-night chat show, Obama was “just like Fidel Castro [of Cuba] and Hugo Chavez [of Venezuela] - always on camera, always giving speeches and lecturing”.

The barbed response to the prospect of yet another mass-media dose of Obama’s economic prescriptions underlined the dangers the president is facing as he struggles to sell his recovery efforts to a country seething with anger and anxiety over the costs, effectiveness and potential abuse of the government’s trillion-dollar bailout programme.

He's blowing through his political capital faster than Congressional Democrats are squandering federal dollars.

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 21, 2009 6:01 PM