Posted by
Billy on Thursday, January 28, 2010 11:16:47 AM
Caught between disgruntled voters and a president urging them to press ahead on
divisive issues such as health care, Democratic lawmakers must soon decide
whether Barack Obama is leading them toward statesmanlike courage or political
folly.
Obama used his first State of the Union speech Wednesday to try to hit the
reset button on health care and to offer a hodgepodge of tax breaks and other
incentives to create new jobs. He mixed overtures with digs toward Republicans.
But he mainly addressed fellow Democrats, who still can enact his agenda if they
overcome fears fueled by events such as last week's stunning GOP victory in the
Massachusetts Senate race.
That setback may have cost Democrats their filibuster-proof Senate majority,
Obama said, but "we still have the largest majority in decades, and the people
expect us to solve some problems, not run for the hills."
(Obama doesn't still get it. He thinks he needs to keep trying what the people of America including those who live in a State like Mass. which most of the times votes to the left have said no to. Obama needs to change and stop pushing an agenda from the left. He needs to start by stopping his push for forced government health care and stop spending along with cutting taxes. Do I want Obama to fail as President? Yes I do but let me make it clear when I say that I want his policies to fail. If Obama changes his politics I will become his fan. Read more on the above story 'I
don't quit'.)