February 17th, 2010 | 
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The Senate and Republicans are to blame!
Buoyed by great expectations when he assumed office, Barack Obama has so far revealed himself to be an unfolding disappointment, and Liberals continue to look for excuses for their failed agenda.
When the answer is staring them in the face!!!
The Senate Is To Blame!
Left-wing members are now up in arms because they say they passed health-care, energy and jobs bills only to see them stall in the Senate which they say no longer works and is "broken".
These same blinded liberals claim that the Senate doesn’t work because it allows Republicans to filibuster their left-wing bills and Iowa Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin has introduced a bill to reduce the vote required to end a filibuster.
The Republicans Are To Blame!
The Republicans, who are ‘The party of "no"’ are to blame!”
The idea that extreme left-wing bills died because of the Republicans is as fallacious as saying that the Senate is broken. Until last month, Democrats had a filibuster-proof 60 votes in the Senate to go with their House super-majority and the bills stalled because moderate Democrats weren’t prepared to sign on to such liberal programs.
Some News For The Liberals
1) The Senate isn’t broken and it is performing exactly the function that the Founders intended, which is to monitor bills passed by the House and to separate the seeds from the chaff.
2) The filibuster is also serving the purpose for which it was designed which it to protect the rights of the minority in Congress.
The bottom line is that the Senate wouldn’t have to block bills and the Republicans wouldn’t have to filibuster bills if the Liberals were open to bipartisanship, but they’re not.
Misreading The Mandate
Many Dems and the liberal ones in particular saw the 2008 election of President Obama as a mandate for trans-formative change which it wasn’t.
It was simply a rejection of Bush and a belief that Obama would somehow bring about the positive and the wonderful changes that both He and over 80% of the media promised.
The predominately left-wing media (over 80% is self-confessedly left of center) loved the idea of an Afro-American president that could articulate his dream, and because he was a Democrat they loved him even more.
What they hid from the public was that Obama was a member of the New Party (communist) just 13 years ago, and that Obama so carefully concealed his past that his beliefs were shrouded in mystery.
The Blindness Is Hard To Believe
Obama has had the biggest fall in public opinion of any president on record and the Dems have suffered a string of more than surprising electoral losses and top Dems continue to announce that they won’t be running for reelection.
But in spite of the banner headlines, the Liberals still can’t read the writing on the wall!
Just last week Veteran Democrats and Republicans in the Senate last week reached a rare bipartisan agreement on a jobs bill, and what happened?
Majority Leader Harry Reid undercut the deal after hearing complaints from liberals!
Is There A Chance Of Bipartisanship?
Next week Obama will be hosting a health-care summit with congressional leaders and GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina sees it as a test of Obama’s commitment to bipartisanship.
"Will it be a lecture to us as Republicans, as to why we should support this big bill with a few changes, or will it be a desire to start over and get our input?".
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