I am prepared in advance to be called a troll, quack or whatever else for this diary but this is what I believe in my heart is the truth. President Obama and the Democratic Congress are losing it. Some Progressives, Liberals and Moderate Independents...like myself....are beginning to wonder what is going on. The Glenn Becks, Michelle Malkins and Rush Limpballs, etc...are beginning to smell the seeds of success.
My question is why is this happening? We have the power in the Congress and the office of President. My thoughts, maybe to much power eats away at the core of the circle......
Personally, I think the 2016 failed Olympics campaign overseas for President Obama was a set-up. He went to frankly beg on behalf of Chicago to have the games in 2016. In a earlier diary I wrote, I stated that we, as Americans, have bigger problems than getting the Olympics 7 years from now. In my state of Michigan, we have a 16.5% unemployment rate and the 5th highest foreclosure rate in the nation. I can say that on behalf of Michiganders, the possible 2016 games did nothing to help 2009 problems here.
The games failed attempted, I believe, opened up another avenue (abiet negative) for President Obama. It gave the MSM and others an opportunity to open up on the so-called failures in his 8 month Presidency so far.
I do not really watch SNL, except during the Palin episodes of the last election because Tina Fey did SUCH a good job. One of yesterday's skits by Fred A,. had what I saw is a beginning of President Obama slip-hole into months of MSM and other outlets, news stories about him not getting things done.
We cannot depend on the 60 votes in the Senate and the majority in the house (ok..maybe a Public Option will pass the House but probably not the Senate) to get a real health care bill passed with a public opinion. I understand the "Blue Dogs" are holding this up but who elected these "Blue Dogs"....we did reluctantly.
Now the climate change bill will probably not have a vote, expanding unemployment insurance is being held up in the Senate, the Housing Bill that was a GIFT to the TARPed bailed out banks is flat out FAILING to keep homeowners from renegotiating the toxic ARM'S they are in, local schools are cutting teachers and salaries, which in turn are hurting students, college scholarship programs are being cut or eliminated by the states, the unemployment rate keeps on climbing.....I could go on and on.
This is the Congress and President that WE elected. So far, not good at all. Why is this so? Well, I would suggest if you have not yet, see Michael Moore's-Capitalism-A Love Story movie. This will open your eyes to explain that our officials for the most part are in bed with the Corporations that are killing the American Society as we know it.
In turn, we...liberals, progressives and moderates are beginning to eat our own. Upset and angry about the Change we are not seeing, we turn on ourselves, between people that voted for President Obama and are disappointed and those that voted for President Obama and still want to believe.
Meanwhile, neither one of these groups are doing better really! Has your life gotten better or worse the last eight months? Are you (like my husband and I) are one of the people in a ARM resetting next year, that have paid ON-TIME for years and the mortgage company does not want to talk to you? Are you wondering why we elected these people if they were not going to do nothing about it? Or, do you believe Congress and the President only had 8 months....we should give them more time to fix this mess?
Well, I like many other voters are wondering WHAT DO WE DO NOW!!! We know the GOP do not have our best interest at heart. We wanted to believe that the Democrats did....but we have yet to see if that is true.
Heck, the leading Senator (who suppose to be a Democrat...a.k.a. Blue Dog) on the Finance Committee believes for some reason...with Unemployment Increasing, Wages Decreasing, Taxes Increasing, Mortgage Troubles, Increasing College Tuitions will little help for Middle Class families....that we can actually afford to pay $6,300 dollars a year on a $60,000 salary for health insurance?? The worst part, if we do not buy said insurance, we will be faced with a fine!!! IS THIS THE BEST THE DEMOCRATS CAN DO??
I will not vote for the GOP but the noise on the other side is frankly, scathing. To hear the consistent racism that is allowed without response, from the likes of Beck, Limpballs and Malkins....without a true shut down response (except for Maddow and Obermann) from the other side is scary. Were is the Jesse Jackson's and Al Shapton's on this one? Were are the other Congressional Democratic Leadership? Why is this not labeled as what it is HATE SPEECH and shut down?
I saw, during the campaign, many young African-Americans that will probably on the next round, stay home. Why, you might ask.....because one, they see the crap I described above and wonder why did they waste their time! When a President of their color can be described as a Nazi, Messiah, and the other vile things that have been said on the Right with all the education that he has.....what does that say for them? Add on top of that, no jobs, parents with little income and the possibly of losing their home....and you have a young generation of non-believers.
Do I know what the answer is now....nope. I do know that I am angry and upset that we are eating our own. I know that in a state like mines (Michigan) and it's 17 electoral votes....that if a majority of people stay home in November of 2011, President Obama will have a repeat of the John Engler and James Blanchard governor's race, were the Democratic Governor Blanchard lost the Race to Republican John Engler because the people of S.E. Michigan, stayed home after questioning Blanchard's leadership. They did not vote for Engler, but enough people did, and the result was 8 years of GOP leadership in Lansing, MI.
President Obama and the Democratic leadership need to get their crap together NOW!! Opinions are being set, the mood is turning, the MSM is beginning its' hatchet job and its' beginning to work on 2012 voter like me and many, many others.