The American people trusted Republicans enough in 2002 to give us back Congress after the Leftists essentially undermined the will of the voters in the 2000 election with their double-dealing and convincing Vermont’s James Jeffords to jump across the aisle giving Democrats a majority in the Senate.
Senate Republicans squandered that second chance by allowing their own political ambitions to get in the way of doing their jobs for the country. Acting like their Democrat predecessors, they feathered their political nests with political goodies for their constituents and wasted their opportunity to make a real mark in the four years they had control of Pennsylvania Avenue.
Hagel, Lott, Frist, Chaffee, Voinivich, Snowe and Collins all let their personalities dominate the Senate rather than their duty. Instead of convincing Americans that we can do the job better than the government in our own lives, they bought our votes and stood against the party and the American people at every chance.
When fighting the war, enforcing our laws and cutting government should have been the focus of the Senate, instead every day became a new battle between the White House the Senate.
The Democrats turned it into a battle for the last two years between Congress and the White House – folks just gave up on it all. Congress did absolutely nothing except pass legislation they knew would fail – and, oh, they passed a minimum wage hike that immediately caused the unemployment rate to rise.
With Obama, people hope they can forget about politics for a while. He’s promised to take over all of the annoying little things they worry about – the war, the economy, the poor, the health insurance, gas prices, their mortgages, the banks – all of the things that crowd their simple little lives with darkness and discomfort.
They made the choice they didn’t have to think about. They only have to look at the visage of Obama and see a reason to vote for him without listening to a word he says. They’re so intellectually shallow that they think their stupid 52 to 48 websites will make us feel better about losing our country’s soul. They think we’re just as shallow as they are.
The argument against Obama was too complex for them to understand, but when couched in terms like “historical”, it was easy to understand. When Obama made it clear that they’re absolved of further responsibility by simply pulling the lever for him, it all seemed so easy to do, too hard to not do.
