Obama’s first 500 days

Over the last several months, President Obama has seen his support wane, even within his own Democratic party. However, as Charles Krauthammer warned on Friday, the Republican Party should not be “dancing on his political grave” just yet.

Considering what the president has accomplished in his first 500 days, Republicans should not underestimate Barack Obama in the lead-up to the November midterm elections, Krauthammer wrote. The president’s health care bill has “begun one of the most massive wealth redistributions in U.S. history. His $1 trillion stimulus is the largest spending bill in history. And the financial reform he pushed through Congress on Thursday gives the government “unprecedented power in the financial marketplace.”

“Obama’s transformational agenda is a play in two acts,” Krathammer wrote. Act 1 is now over—Act 2 (after he’s reelected) would entail “massive regulation of the energy economy, federalizing higher education and ‘comprehensive’ immigration reform.”

Whether Mr. Obama wins another election or not, it is clear his policies have already transformed the nation, setting it on course for a swift decline. No political party can reverse the country’s disastrous course.