It’s hard to believe that people are still sitting around waiting for President Obama and the Democrats to energize them. The whole notion of the “enthusiasm gap” is ridiculous. Yes, it is hard to stay positive mired in our current economy. For any parent whose child now has health insurance, I am sure they are plenty jazzed. For all those working mother’s who now, by law, have to receive equal pay as their male co-workers, I am sure they are jumping for joy. For anyone who doesn’t want to see the world end in a giant Hollywood style nuclear apocalypse, we are enthused! The problem the Democrats are having is their inability to show the voters all they have accomplished in past two years. Yes we all would have loved to see more, an honestly better, progress. But it has only been less than two years. Just to review:
-economists agree that the actions taken by the administration (including the stimulus) have prevented a depression
-we still have two women on the Supreme Court - and one is a Latina
-then there is healthcare: no we did not get the single payer system most of the country wanted, but we did gain some points with pre-existing conditions being covered and more children actually receiving coverage
-banks are no longer allowed to basically loan shark student loans
-the administration also mostly lived up to the lowering of taxes for the middle class promise
-it also restarted the stem cell research that was stopped by the Bush administration
-we also now have tougher standards for credit card companies that no longer allow them to cheat us at every turn
-there has been major troop removal from Iraq
-and finally we have improved our chances of not bringing the world to an end with a nuclear holocaust because this administration was able to work out a nuclear disarmament treaty with Russia
The Democrats give too much weight to the media and their nonsense polling. For goodness sake - they have a poll of all the polls! Is it just me or have things gotten out of hand? Once the Democrats not only remind the voters of what they have done, but of what the Republicans will not do, they will be sprinting to the polls. One instance - remember the hellacious economy I just mentioned? Thanks to that record amounts of tax paying citizens have been out of work for longer than they expected or care to be. When the time came from Congress to extend the unemployment benefits, the Republicans overwhelmingly voted against it. Yes people - the Republicans think you do not deserve the money you have been paying into the system since your first taxable paycheck. Just to be clear, this is the money you have had removed by the government just in case you loose your job and needed help. So the Republicans are saying it is perfectly fine to give billions (if not trillions) of tax payer dollars to the people who drove the economy into the ground, but you, the tax payer, cannot have the money you have been earning since you entered the work force! If that does not put a bit of energizer bunny in your step, I don’t know what will!