Michelle’s husband has been in office for over a year, so as far as I’m concerned, he’s fair game. I’m still a little hesitant to take my shots at him because he’s been getting pummeled from every direction for months now, but deservedly so.
This man campaigned brilliantly and eloquently, energizing millions of young people and motivating liberals of every stripe with his message of changing the way Washington works. That message, along with the fact that his nitwit predecessor presided over the destruction of our economy, our international reputation and our constitution, got him elected preznit.
But a year later, he still hasn’t shown up for work. In spite of all the screeching from the right-wing noise machine about socialism and communism and liberalism and Marxism and every other “ism” they can throw at him, he hasn’t really done anything leftist.
He has, in fact, been infinitely and oh so frustratingly patient, deliberate and cautious in the face of this constant barrage of nonsense and lies. His supporters on the left have been lulled to sleep by pragmatism, bipartisanship and compromise and they are not likely to wake up unless the preznit decides to man up.
Health care reform, the one liberal social issue that Michelle’s husband purportedly supported, was handed over to the Democrats in Congress, who jawboned it for most of a year, butchering it along the way, yet were still incapable of passing even the severely weakened legislation. Talk about getting your ass handed to you.
And while it is deplorable that the richest nation on earth does not provide universal health coverage to it’s citizenry, despite spending 3 to 4 times what all the other civilized nations do on health care, what I find truly despicable is that the politicians who stood in the way of this legislation will be able to sell it as a victory for the American people.
When the economy picks up this summer, as it inevitably will given the cyclical nature of our economic system, the right-wing will take credit for it, claiming it to be a result of their defeat of health care reform. And our preznit will let them get away with it.
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