Cartoonist Tom Tomorrow asks what if Democrats behaved more like Republicans?
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Some polls show public support for healthcare reform dropping. I can’t help thinking it’s because Democrats — especially in Congress — are already acting too much like Republicans.
In November, voters elected Barack Obama and gave Democrats large majorities in the House and the Senate. Add one party-switcher named Arlen Specter, and Democrats now have 60 seats in the Senate, a so-called filibuster-proof majority. I don’t believe voters were hoping for the timid, corporate-interests-first policies that too many Congressional Democrats seem to be embracing right now.
Does the Democratic leadership think they’ll finally be strong enough to fix the healthcare mess only after the 2010 midterm elections? Do they imagine they’ll be in a stronger position then, if they can’t manage to get anything done now?
Bill Maher said of Obama, “He is Michael Jordan playing on a bad team. There’s nobody to pass the ball to.”
Congressional Democrats, you were elected to do a job. Stop running scared. Do the job. Do it right. Let the voters judge. The surest way to lose in 2010 is to fail to deliver the change voters demanded in 2008.
Jonathan Harley | 20-Aug-09 at 11:53 pm | Permalink
Totally with you. Have you contacted your US Senator? I have.
— Jon
Adam Frix | 01-Sep-09 at 6:36 pm | Permalink
“I don’t believe voters were hoping for the timid, corporate-interests-first policies that too many Congressional Democrats seem to be embracing right now.”
You would be correct in your belief. That’s not what I cast my vote for.
Just the other day we see the headline, “Mattel wins exemption from independent toy safety tests”. Those toy safety tests were put in BECAUSE of Mattel’s behaviors with regard to selling lead-tainted toys from China. Unfortunately, the laws were watered down enough to allow for companies to police themselves under an exemption–and it turns out that Mattel was the FIRST to get such an exemption.
It’s almost as if Mattel wrote the law. Nah, that’d never happen….
I read this and I had to check my watch, then look at a calendar, then call the time and temperature lady. I *thought* it was the summer of 2009, but obviously I was wrong.
On top of that comes word that the Deparment of Homeland Security (oh, George Orwell is turning in his grave, possibly laughing his fool head off) has declared that they unanimously can take your laptop computer from you, and you have nothing to say about it. And here I thought Dick Cheney was no longer anywhere near the seat of power anymore. Again, clearly I was wrong.
These all exmplify why the Dems have had such a problem over the last several years. They are incompetent. Even when the world was handed to them on a plate, they manage to drop the plate and spill the contents.
The electorate wants them to do their jobs, and what the electorate elected them to do. The electorate does NOT want to wipe their noses and tell them to get a jacket, it’s cold outside.