I sat at my desk on this beautiful morning in Miami, working on taxes, yes, on taxes, watching TV and waiting for President Obama to sign the HealthCare Bill into the law of the land. What else could I ask for, on this beautiful day? Therefore, I take a break from taxes to write for my blog.
Good morning, Mr. DeMint. Were you the one who screamed about how important it was for your Republican colleagues to stop President Obama from getting Healthcare relief through Congress? Were you the one who said that defeating President Obama was going to be his Waterloo and the Democratic Party’s defeat in the next elections? Mr. DeMint, have you changed your mind? You still have time.
Because you, Mr. DeMint, do not want to accept or to believe that our President means what he says: Hope and Change. You, and your colleagues, have been unwilling in your unbelief, to accept the reality of a person and a politician very different from what you are accustomed. Maybe, for the first time in your political life, you are seeing a President who has the intelligence, the ability and the will to offer serious Change to America. In addition, he has the American people’s support, which is exactly what you have lost, except for the Tea Partiers.
The Fox News choruses of eccentrics who pretend to define an America, which does not exist, are your most serious supporters. They will not be enough to help you implement your ideas and to continue exercising your inability to govern as a public servant. The people you pretend to serve are those who live enamored of “cowboy movies” and “masters of the universe” novels. People who are constantly afraid of the possibilities, while ignoring the realities of life. People who complain about taxes, government debt, budget deficits, and loss of personal freedom. People who are not willing to pay what it costs to live in a society that is the envy of the entire world.
They, the eccentrics in Fox News and Congress, are not the real Americans who strive unsuccessfully for an opportunity to find work, who see their relatives live in sickness or die without any relief from the institutions that are supposed to help them. Real Americans who retire from work after long careers paying taxes, and saving, not being able to afford the necessities of life. These eccentrics are not the people who first had Hope and believed in Change. The change that you and your followers could not and cannot see is happening now. It is Change we can believe in, and since there was not a Waterloo, why not come up with a different name? Maybe next time you could be successful, assuming you are on the winner’s side.
Have a good day, Mr. DeMint. It is a beautiful day in Miami today!
Now, back to finish my taxes.
Showing posts with label Republican Ideology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Republican Ideology. Show all posts
Friday, March 26, 2010
Saturday, February 27, 2010
My conclusions from the meeting with the President.
If there was any doubt in my mind about the significance of Jim Demint’s (Senator, South Carolina) statement that he wants President Obama to fail, I had more than enough proof yesterday. To my knowledge, no Republican has clearly and publicly rejected that statement. It seems that most, if not all, Republicans agree with him. From watching yesterday’s meeting where the President invited the opposition (better said, the minority) to present their ideas about ways to solve the healthcare crisis, I have come to the following conclusions:
• Republican ideology is making the US Senate an obsolete and counterproductive institution, unnecessary in our democratic system. Senators are looking after their personal interests and the interests of those who financially support them, rather than working for the well-being of the Nation, or even their own constituencies.
• Republicans in the Senate, and in the House, do not want to achieve solutions to the problems our society faces, as long as our elected President is in power, or as long as he supports a proposed change.
• The minority party is using its constitutional right to dissent, to stop government from functioning and from doing its job of debating issues, and coming to conclusions in a timely manner. This abuse causes a failure to enact legislation necessary to solve society’s problems. The majority is allowing them to stop progress.
• The Senate was not designed to be a forum to express ideological differences amongst the members without resolution, nor to paralyze all legislative action, but to enact legislation useful and helpful to promote the economic well being of society. In this respect, those senators are not doing their job and should either resign from their elected positions, or be replaced by the voters.
• What we are seeing today is a minority that has no public mandate, is being obstructive and counterproductive, and is ruling a majority government. The majority party is not doing what it was elected to do. Do we really have a majority in congress?
• The threats, name-calling, abusive treatment, and misrepresentations, of the minority opposition can be allowed in our Democracy, as long as they neither paralyze government nor make institutions ineffective as to their intended purpose. When the latter is the case, it is time to respect the voice of the majority, which is 51%.
• The inability of our elected representatives to read (they could not read a 1200 page healthcare bill in one year), to think, to reason, and to make decisions is endangering our Democracy and destroying our sustainability as a prosperous economic system and a world-respected superpower.
The enemy of our Nation is not only outside the country but also within our own system. Let us try to be smart and get rid of it. There is no better place in the world to live than the United States of America. There is no better economic system invented so far, either. Let us be smart, diligent, willing and recognize that Democrats have the mandate.
Let us count the votes and see who the DINOS (Democrats in Name Only) in the Senate are. For one year, they blamed the lack of progress on a few Blue Dogs. They argued that four or five conservative senators were stalling legislative progress. Let us expose the Blue Dogs as the face of the now extinct Republican Party. Let the true Democrats move ahead with necessary Health Care Reform.
February 26, 2010
• Republican ideology is making the US Senate an obsolete and counterproductive institution, unnecessary in our democratic system. Senators are looking after their personal interests and the interests of those who financially support them, rather than working for the well-being of the Nation, or even their own constituencies.
• Republicans in the Senate, and in the House, do not want to achieve solutions to the problems our society faces, as long as our elected President is in power, or as long as he supports a proposed change.
• The minority party is using its constitutional right to dissent, to stop government from functioning and from doing its job of debating issues, and coming to conclusions in a timely manner. This abuse causes a failure to enact legislation necessary to solve society’s problems. The majority is allowing them to stop progress.
• The Senate was not designed to be a forum to express ideological differences amongst the members without resolution, nor to paralyze all legislative action, but to enact legislation useful and helpful to promote the economic well being of society. In this respect, those senators are not doing their job and should either resign from their elected positions, or be replaced by the voters.
• What we are seeing today is a minority that has no public mandate, is being obstructive and counterproductive, and is ruling a majority government. The majority party is not doing what it was elected to do. Do we really have a majority in congress?
• The threats, name-calling, abusive treatment, and misrepresentations, of the minority opposition can be allowed in our Democracy, as long as they neither paralyze government nor make institutions ineffective as to their intended purpose. When the latter is the case, it is time to respect the voice of the majority, which is 51%.
• The inability of our elected representatives to read (they could not read a 1200 page healthcare bill in one year), to think, to reason, and to make decisions is endangering our Democracy and destroying our sustainability as a prosperous economic system and a world-respected superpower.
The enemy of our Nation is not only outside the country but also within our own system. Let us try to be smart and get rid of it. There is no better place in the world to live than the United States of America. There is no better economic system invented so far, either. Let us be smart, diligent, willing and recognize that Democrats have the mandate.
Let us count the votes and see who the DINOS (Democrats in Name Only) in the Senate are. For one year, they blamed the lack of progress on a few Blue Dogs. They argued that four or five conservative senators were stalling legislative progress. Let us expose the Blue Dogs as the face of the now extinct Republican Party. Let the true Democrats move ahead with necessary Health Care Reform.
February 26, 2010
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