Obama's administration is rushing to pass legislation...and he's losing credibility with the people who voted him in. So what happened to the promises Obama made to the American people? I saw some clip of an interview with the President this past weekend and in response to the broken promise allegation he asserted that people who said that weren't listening. Really? "Now is the time to finally provide affordable, accessible health care for every single American - because you shouldn't have to worry about being one illness away from bankruptcy. If you like the health care you have, you'll see lower premiums under my plan. If you don't have health care, you'll be able to get the same kind of coverage that members of Congress give themselves," promised campaigning Obama.
That one's history. In a flurry of ill-thought, ill-planned patchwork, expensive legislation, Obama's providing very little for our billions, trillions in the way of keeping any of his campaign promises. So what's the rush? Why not a little more thought? Why not a little more attention to trimming the current federal budget of useless and ineffective costs before adding on billions in new liabilities, new jobs, and an expansion that has every American terrified as government for government becomes the obvious motto of this administration.
And the Republicans are not without blame. Free market? Why are they taking advantage of the "coverage" to which Obama refers?
Well, perhaps Obama knows that he received many votes because of ABR...Anyone But a Republican and that the anyone but a republican was the change people sought. To these individuals perhaps he feels he owes nothing, the minute there is a reasonable Republican who opts for candor, fiscal responsibility by leadership and suspending Federal costs of give aways to federal employees like their benefits packages, their votes are lost. And the rest of us? Perhaps he knows too that those who voted for him based on promises of reform in the health industry will vote for NO Republican who stuffs the myth of free markets down our throats as we read through the legislation created in response to lobbying by physicians and health insurance companies and that few Republicans address this outright lie they push when they talk "free market."
But will he win over the next Democratic candidate if this is the case? Probably not.
Obama has a moment in time and only part of it is the massive betrayal and illegality that has left this country in shambles as a result of George Bush et al. The rest of it is that he has a Congress in his pocket and the chances that this will remain the case throughout his Presidential term is unlikely.
Consider: In 2010, the US Senate will have elections that will put 36 of the hundred seats in the Senate up for grabs. In 2010 ALL 435 seats in the House of Representatives will be up for grabs.
But Obama needs to address his own credibility and that is suffering with current lies including that the American people misunderstood what he promised. While playing politics has gotten him to where he is and while playing politics is pushing through some of his pet projects, Obama risks becoming a lame duck by next year if he doesn't regain the support of the American people.
Obama is having a relapse into his original campaign speeches when he was battling other Democrats where he was more liberal than the other liberals. He did NOT win on this basis. He may think he did but he did not. He won because of the youth vote that he is now hanging out to dry. He won because people wanted to have the opportunity to choose the same coverage members of Congress have if their own choices were as bad as they are and he has now left all of us hanging out to dry.
