Backing off from the health care debate and just looking at the mechanisms at play, I can't help but marvel at the utter selfishness of President Obama. His party is cruising for mammoth losses in the next election, but all he's concerned with is his health care ambitions. Real, concrete signs are out there in the form of Scott Brown and others that his policies are going to lead his compatriots to defeat, but he doesn't care. It's all about him.
Can you imagine the conversations going on in the halls of Congress within the ranks of the Democrats right now? Do you think that many of them see him as an ally or a friend? Don't look at this as a political event, but a human and personal one. Your boss is knowingly choosing actions that will most likely cost you your job and he's asking you to support them.
Is it any wonder that some of them are bailing out right now, probably to line up jobs as lobbyists? Congresscritters have families to support, too. Once the election is over and you've gotten crushed, the paychecks will stop and you, the nondescript, pipsqueak congressman from the fifth district in Arkansas will have to find another job.
And every day, the dude at the top shows that he doesn't care about that at all.
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Funny, in previous projects, I thought my sign of success was getting myself out of the project. The project only existed due to internal issues inside the organization I was working with. So if I did my job right, then my job wouldn't be needed any more. :)
Given the campaign and the adulation, you'd have to expect a certain amount of solipsistic behavior.
I bet the Democrats are looking at Hillary in a much better light now.
I'm trying to get a handle on how anyone can rate what the President is doing in a good way.
Wow. Came across this post at random and am taken aback at the narcissistic, high-school view of what's going on. It sounds like you got rejected by the cool kids and decided you didn't want to attend that party anyway, it's for losers, dontcha know, etc.
But seriously, I don't think the President, from either party, is out to be anyone's friend. He has to be the Chief Executive, which requires work. You know. Actually doing something awful, icky, that requires homework, is probably unpopular and is not cool. I'd be upset if he was too buddy-buddy with Congress, for that would really be selfish: personal gain vs. the good of the country. I'm tending to think that his party cohorts may be more upset because he isn't playing with them like they want. It's not selfishness. It's probably pragmatism on Obama's part. Frankly, he's got more to worry about than Congresspeople running for office in the sense that the country is in a fierce hole thanks to the last decade or so. Scott Brown or no, reactionary politics isn't going to get the job done.
But I agree on one thing: The Congress, in both parties, are way too beholden to lobbyists to think straight. It's not Obama overall that scares them; it's the unholy mess left over from the last decade; no, the last 30 years. People are pissed off and rightly so. They would have been as pissed off had McCain got into office. You remember, the guy who "suspended his campaign" to go advise on bailing banks out. I guess it could be worse. Think if, say, Thompson, Romney, Hillary had won.
This has been coming for a long, long time. There's a smart guy in office, whether you like him or not, and no matter what you call him, he won. And you didn't.
Junia,
There isn't a smart guy in office. There's a guy who thinks he's better than everyone else in office.
He's doing it wrong, and his way has no chance of success. It will only make the economy worse, possibly terminal.
Arrogance and the obstinate refusal to listen to other opinions is not the same a tough leadership.
He's dooming the country. He may be dooming his party. With a little luck, the Republicans won't squander the opportunity and do something equally stupid in one of their pet issues.
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