The polls had been open from 6am and they didn't close until 7:00pm. I arrived at 6:50pm. This means the polls had been open ALL day. My town is not huge but a (very blue) precinct where you would have expected at least 1500-2000 votes. When I submitted my ballot it said I was #206. Why is voter enthusiasm so low? My guess is the inability of the Democrats including the President to get any meaningful legislation done for the people of the United States. Is Congress afraid of the consequences of the Citizen's United Supreme Court decision?? Are they afraid of all of that unabated money going to a challenger or directed at them in some anti-ad? If so, work to change it. If that is not the case....I just don't get it. All I know is the White House won't show the leadership I expect and congress specifically the Senate won't do their job and want to pass the blame for their part in this failure to the President. Blame game, finger pointing, and the inability to hold the caucus together on procedural votes is why nothing is getting done. The average voter is PISSED!!!!
Today I read...Congress Might Drop Ball on HCR Bill and that either way it should be shelved for several weeks. What the hell is that? That really got me all Fired Up and Ready to Go..NOT!!!
"[I]t may be that -- you know, if Congress decides -- if Congress decides we're not going to do it, even after all the facts are laid out, all the options are clear, then the American people can make a judgment as to whether this Congress has done the right thing for them or not," Obama said.
Senator Reid to Obama on Nominees.....link
Reid has a message for the White House: If I can't work with these people, you can get it done, too.
Sen. Sherrod Brown to Obama on Healthcare....link
"The president was weighing in pretty heavily on the discussions between the House and Senate before the Massachusetts special [Senate] election," Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) told Huffington Post. "It's dried up since."
Sens. Franken & Sanders press David Axelrod on President Obama's lack of leadership on healthcare link.
The gist of their concern was that the administration has not shown enough leadership to get legislation passed through Congress in the wake of the party's defeat in the Massachusetts Senate election. Franken insisted that "he really needed to know if the White House was going to lead," according to one Democratic aide.
Axelrod, by several accounts, didn't give a response that Franken found sufficient. And as the two continued to talk, Sanders eventually jumped in.
I really want to know...Can congress address the needs of the American people anymore? Or, have we just become apart of the discrectionary costs of doing business in America? What is it going to take for the President & Congress to listen to the will of the American people? I saw the diary Ed: Joe Liebermann You Are A Coward and I just felt.......ANGRY and powerless.
Now....this is what President Bush said on the day after he was elected link.
"..when you win, there is a feeling that the people have spoken and embraced your point of view.
And that's what I intend to tell the Congress, that I made it clear what I intend to do as the president; "now let's work..." and the people made it clear what they wanted. "Now let's work together."
And it's one of the wonderful... it's one of the... it's like earning capital. You ask, "Do I feel free?" Let me put it to you this way: I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it. It is my style".
Hate him or love him he took the bull by the horns (or his party did) and they got almost everything they wanted.....and for the most part if they are not getting what they want now (and that is arguable) they have held up President Obama's agenda pretty well so far. So, the party of "NO" strategy appears to be working....for the Republicans but definitely not the American people.
What do we do? What are the answers?