Obama has gotten himself in way over his head, and the country is reeling from the effect this has on our economy and future. He and his inner circle have taken extreme chances on their mission to clog the legislative calendar with so much extreme expenditure and complicated bureaucratic clutter that the citizens of this country have had more than enough. The fact that bills are being voted upon without legislators knowing what is contained in the bills they are forced to vote on, insures a terrible fall out for our President.
People know when their government is dealing poorly with their trust, and that is what is now beginning to happen, the President and his operatives are reaching that point where their credibility or lack thereof is becoming a huge problem.
The President has not lived up to his promises because he is driving at warp speed when he should be slowing down and working out compromises and negotiating on what he wants to accomplish. He is now lashing out at individuals in the Republican Party, which makes a President look wounded and weak and most of all unsure of himself or his policy initiatives. He has decided to go it alone without the Republicans and this will immediately put him in the spot light on the issues and if they fail, he fails hard. It will be his policies, un-tested with negotiation or tempered in any way. He alone will rise or fall on the way things work out.
The Administration has irritated many constituencies along the short road traveled, and it is not possible to retrace that road to make things better. It is what it is at this point, so this Administration has made its own bed to lay upon.
Healthcare reform Obama style is now questionable, if not as dead as was Hillary’s reform in 1992. Nothing was learned from the 1992 healthcare reform failure as applied to the current health reform failure. This Administration has scared the heck out of the elderly citizens, and they are sure to walk away from their AARP recommended path, and be most angry if they feel they have lost potential benefits to carry them on trough their golden years with existing benefits. That scare is real must be realized as a growing issue.
So it will be interesting to see where all of this leaves the President and his Administration. The new order of things will be that Barack Obama has to earn his way fully from this point forward, the country has been patient, but that is now over. The election honeymoon is over.
Jim the Conservative
