Who's Saying "No-No" Now?

Now we’ll see if bipartisanship is achievable.

Pres. Obama used his radio address to describe the new tax plan as the best opportunity for America. He didn’t like the leniency on the rich, but the Republicans stuck to their premise that it is these individuals that pay the lion’s share of taxes and run the concerns that employ others. There’s an increase in jobless benefits and a trim to Social Security. Sounds like this coalition boiled the bones and got a decent soup stock for next year’s recipes.

BUT… Obama had to appeal to his own party to pass the measure and start 2011 off right. The Democrats have already made it clear they didn’t like the deal, and they won’t pass it. Funny- isn’t that what they constantly accused the Republicans of when they were the minority party? The Republicans were the party of no, right? Everything a Democrat suggested was argued down. The Republicans had little toehold to really stop anything.

We could have had a super-quasi-socialist reorganization of wealth in this country rammed down our throats with the way the numbers were last election cycle o those long two years ago. They didn’t. Why? We acted like free citizens. As wacky as some of the Tea Party rallies were, they showed that he average conservative and the Libertarians (HOORAY!) of the country were out there and not hiding. They rallied PEACEFULLY and demanded a righting of the ship of state more towards the middle. Health care was a serious stain on Obama’s first attempts at a redefined presidency. It is so clear that we Americans don’t want what they offered. So we citizens told Congress that we were watching. They held their moves and perhaps purposefully hoped the tax cuts from the Bush administration would simply expire with excuses and accusations as to why.

We are still watching. If the Democrats want to regain or retain something of what they had, particularly the Oval Office in 2012, they need to listen to the country. The republicans need to as well. Neither party has the answers, but the people do.

Keep the heat on, folks. Whatever your ideology, keep DC honest and listening.

And, DC… do what we tell you. The days of us drinking the Kool-Aid are over. The motivated American voter is back!

Chip Grefski