January 2010 has not turned out the way the administration had hoped. It’s nominee for the TSA stepped down under pressure. The Supreme Court overturned much of the McCain-Feingold restrictions. The Democrats lost a seemingly solid-blue Senate seat in Massachusetts in an apparent rejection of the president’s healthcare legislation. The loss of this Senate seat is also a loss of the filibuster-proof 60 seat Democrat majority. Obama’s scheduled state of the union address was delayed in order to allow the healthcare plan to pass first. Beyond merely being delayed, many people, including Democrats, believe the healthcare takeover bill may be dead.
Also, the Massachusetts victory has encouraged the Republicans in their opposition to the Democrat’s agenda. They are expected to more firmly entrench themselves against any and every bill pushed by the Obama administration. Not only are the Republicans more unified, the Democrats are quite the opposite. With a number of Democrats objecting to the administration’s hardball tactics and others breaking ranks with the party, they are not unified in any way. The Democrat Senators and Congressmen who have brokered high-profile asymetrical deals benefitting their own state have faced the ire of the public.
It has become clear to an increasing number of people that this administration makes decisions primarily based on political manuevering and less on economic need. This past week’s announcement of Obama’s intention to severely ratchet up the regulation on the banking industry has not been received as positively as his administration probably intended. It has actually partially resulted in renewed concern over his choice of Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner. Also, many in Congress have noted that Rahm Emmanuel is no longer as highly visible as he once was. Rahm is the pressure that Obama applies to work his will on Congress and he has been conspicuously absent recently. Possibly due to the growing dissatisfaction with this administration’s hardball tactics.
Now Obama will be facing the nation in his state of the union address from a weakened position. Doubts are high about his ability to lead, the economy appears to still be weak, his major reforms are either falling apart or he failed to deliver them. Neither party is happy with his leadership. What does February hold for him, and more importantly for the American people?
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You’re right. Where is Rahm Emmanuel? That sounds like a game show.
What can Obama possibly say during his State of the Union address? Will his teleprompter make him stretch the truth?
This is going to be very interesting, and I get the feeling there are going to be Independent, Democratic, Libertarian, and Repulican viewers that repeatedly express themselve by uncontrollably saying “What! Are you kidding me!”.
This President wasted a gift–a rare opportunity. The World believed him, the media adored him. All he had to do is show up, not mess up things, read the teleprompter, and he would be in the Presidential Hall of Fame.
What a disappointment.
Thank God for the miracle in Massachusetts.
That’s not entirely true, Frio, that all he had to do was coast and not pull a W. Your own people, in fact, started crapping on him from Day One (”Not my president I hope he fails” ring a bell?). Your own propaganda machine disguised as a news network had been crapping on him from Day One, regardless of what he said or did (because GOP politics are as unilateral as their policy). So he not only has the insurmountable task of fixing 8 years of Republican blunders (thanks for that, by the way), but also has the big white Republican propaganda machine working against him… I’m just saying you’re being a little disingenuous when you suggest that everyone was wishing him well and he had a cake-walk in store for him.
What? The disappointment is in the American peoples IQ allowing media and big insurance and pharmaceuticals to lie to trick and hide facts. CNN fact check shows that this bill is in fact good, no great for the country as a whole. But it takes a 180 IQ to see past the smoke and shell game.