OBAMA HAS WORST YEAR IN WASHINGTON

SAITH The Washington Post

++My candidate is Rafael "Ted" Cruz. He shut the government down costing the American taxpayer hundreds of millions to defund Obamacare, and just blew his demand the Senate should condemn President Obama's executive order on immigration. The result was approval of 24 Obama nominees since Harry Reid outmaneuvered him with a parliamentary procedure. Both stunts cost him dearly with the GOP establishment.

++But as Warner Wolf used to say, "Let's go to the videotape" about President Obama's year.

++This is just from my memory.
    --He created the largest national park in the pacific.
    -- He created at least four more in continental America.
    -- The EPA adopted regulations curbing green house emissions from coal-burning power plants. The most far-reaching restrictions under the Clean Air Act.
    --He reached an historic agreement with China over climate change.
    --His administration got a decent, not great agreement in Lima on climate change.
    --Obamacare now has reached 50% of last year's enrollment ,according to Charles Gaba, at this early stage.
   --The year saw the strongest job creation since the 1990s.
   --There was no inflation. 
   --Gas prices fell to levels not seen since the time of the Depression number 2.
   --The Dow flirted with 18,000,about 10,000 more than he first came in office.
   --Afghanistan held an election which led to most of troops leaving and Obama reached a Force Agreement, which will leave troops behind.
   --Obama held the first US-Africa Summit.
   --Obama moved quickly on the Ebola situation and only one American--a doctor in Maryland--died. The other death was a Liberian in Dallas.
   --Obama led the international response to Ebola by sending troops to the region.
   --A pro-Western government came to power in the Ukraine. Yes, Putin got the Crimea but President Obama revitalized NATO and led the sanctions against Russia, which has led to the collapse of Russia's economy.
   --Obama committed regime change in Iraq and encouraged the selection of a moderate Shi'ite Prime Minister.
   --The Iranian nuclear talks continue with the restrictions against further enrichment in place.
   --President Obama made some in-roads to his pivot to Asia, finally completing a long-delayed trip to the region.

++I am sure I have forgotten a lot but I can't say that warrants "the worst" of anything. 

++Besides Cruz, I would nominate the Democratic Party as having the worst year. Steve Israel's depressing campaign for House Democrats ranks as a bummer. The Bannock Project flopped to preserve the Democratic majority in the Senate. The effect of its failure is that 2016 prospects for a return to majority is very dim.

++By and large, President Obama made out OK this year, leaving behind several targets which the GOP majority will shoot at in the next two years.

++In spite of winning the elections, the GOP may be the biggest losers because they ran a stealth campaign hiding what they really think and believe. The exit polls and subsequent polling show the American people actually support the ideas of the democrats. That is going to be tremendous hurdle for the GOP in the 2016 Presidential election.