We want everything to be right immediately, we want jobs, we want social order. We want a Department of Justice that enforces the law equally across the board. We want Health Care for everyone, not just the lucky ones. We want to do away wtih 2nd class citizen status. We want Immigration reform. We want more, much more and we wanted it all yesterday.
Okay, we wanted it back in 2008 when we elected President Obama because we had been sitting on our hands, seething with disgust over the past eight years and we had suffered enough.
Imagine the wave of disappointment that hit the Nation when nothing was “back to normal” within the following few months. Maybe you don’t have to imagine it, maybe you are still suffering from it and who can blame you? – From the fist month that President Obama was in office, the GOP attacks were relentless. They kept pointing out all the things that had not been fixed by the new administration as if they had nothing to do with the why and how things got that way.
We bought into it. There is nothing more pervasive that negative attacks that are relentlessly spouted on our 24/7/365 media. The verbal diarrhea is consistently reinforced by the paid pundits and faces with names that have become so familiar in the network merry-go-round that we don’t question these people’s motives and how much they are getting paid to spout discontent.
Every one of the things listed at the beginning of this article is important and some will argue that they are all equally important and deserve immediate attention. I agree.
What we need to agree is that all parts of a house are important but there is a certain order in which the house needs to be built in order to support all other components. Are we on board with this analysis?
Apparently that is not the case, since in 2008, once again, democrats sat on their hands fuming over how slow the process was to get things back on track and how disappointed they were over President Obama not meeting their imaginary expectations and resolving their desperation. On the other hand, an awful lot of people enjoy misery. They are born complainers and they would complain even if unicorns grace their lawns leaving behind pellets of gold.
Obviously we wanted to help ourselves and our government by teaching the new administration a lesson and giving them something else to help our cause: We piled more on the overfilled plate and gave them the wonderfully cheerful, reasonable and enjoyable Tea Party.
I honestly thought we had seen the light and together we were going to make corrections in our local special elections. Then again, I suffer from the malady of thinking that as long as the glass has water, we are doing okay.
It seems to me that no one has really understood in full the magnitude of the financial mess, wars, and embedded personnel left behind by the previous administration for the new administration to deal with. Let’s be honest, we just don’t care about the particulars, we want to blame the person in charge because we did the hardest job of all: We took 10 minutes out of our busy schedule and voted. Surely, that alone should bring about the unicorns.
My final analysis is that we need to re-elect President Obama and in order to get all those house components in the right location we are going to have to do more than just vote. Gasp! – We actually need to be involved in our local politics and donate time and energy bettering the conditions in our communities. Yes, it is hard work, but a democracy for the people is worth the time and effort. Otherwise, we have a corporate front masquerading as a government in which sour tea and no crumpets will be served.
Edited by Wendy Gittleson
First of all you don’t have your facts straight. Obama had a filibuster proof senate and the house. He got basically whatever he wanted the first two years and if he didn’t get everything it was because of some democrats who were thinking about the next election. Even this new proposal many dems aren’t going to support it. So Obama has no excuses. He could have hiked taxes for individuals, corps, whatever. Obama has been very successful in getting what he wanted. The problem is the more success he has the more failure we have. His policies aren’t right for our nation. So your rant against the gop is baseless.
Obama has been a man without substance. Lots of flair and style but not Leadership material. He would have been better as just a senator or an ambassador. He has never held down a real job and doesn’t understand economics and free markets. Too much hopelessness and not the right kind of change. Ramming that healthcare bill thru when the american people didn’t support it was not a good idea. Sometimes when people are worshipped like Obama has been you think you can do anything. We have a republic not a monarchy and Obama has an attitude of “me the Leader” not “we the people”. He so much wants to be the democrat Reagan that he totally fails. The job is just really too much for him. He sure didn’t have the qualities and qualifications for a president. He has stage craft but little in leadership ability.
Not only do we need to re-elect Obama, we need to vote OUT Republicans and Tea Partiers and vote in a Democratic majority in both the Senate and the House. Without that, re-electing Obama will only give us 4 more years of declining health, wealth and happiness and 4 more years of 24/7 attacks by the GOP. A filibuster-proof majority in both would be ideal, but that may be a wish too far.
Amen! Very well said. It is an exhausting process and I hope we realize after all the filibusters and special interest opposition, that Democracy is a messy process and don’t give up. I only wish people took a page from Wisconsin, Ohio and Michigan and realize that democracy starts at the local level and vigilance is paramount in order to protect everyone’s rights.
Democrats had two years of total control and now they have had one year of the presidency and half the congress and have failed miserably along with their Keynesian economics. Liberal policies don’t produce a thriving economy, only stagnation and apathy. Obama has to go.
You are probably right, is not like there was any type of overused and abused filibuster or obstructionism. Or an unwilling segment of the Congress that would rather see Americans suffer and the country fail just so “Obama could be a one term President”
Democrats just made all that up. It never happened.
What Democrats should have done is give give massive tax cuts to the wealthiest of corporations because they are the job creators and would not take American jobs overseas… oh, wait…
Again, you might be right, we should all pull ourselves by our boot straps and vote GOP and Tea Party across the board, let’s see what they have to offer, Bachmann, Romney, Pawlenty… no, not him… Perry, Paul. Yeah the future looks … Hey! is that a unicorn?
you forget that when Clinton left office he handed to Bush baby a surplus and the republicans went through it in a heart beat. Read your history learn which party produced the most jobs.