Our government is supposed to be by the people, for the people, our leaders are supposed to work for us.
I'm going to copy and paste some parts of this article to illustrate how our leaders don't consider our wants as important. Here is the article:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090901/pl_politico/26642
In regards to the opposition to his healthcare plan, and the growing concern of government take-overs in general that he has presided over, the article says:
"As for health care, his signature issue, Obama faces a difficult struggle to both regain the upper hand from Republicans newly energized by the opposition to his proposals they found over the congressional recess and to convince pundits that he still has the opportunity to get a bill passed."
And:
"Angered by a radio address on health care delivered by Enzi over the weekend, which repeated a number of Republican arguments against the plan, Gibbs said it suggested that Enzi “doesn’t believe there’s a pathway to get bipartisan support, and the president thinks that’s wrong. I think Sen. Enzi’s clearly turned over his cards on bipartisanship and decided that it’s time to walk away from the table.” "
While:
"An Enzi spokesman said the senator remains committed to the bipartisan talks, and a Grassley spokeswoman said the senator was referring in his letter only to the government-run insurance option embraced in the House and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions bills. "
The author of the article sums up:
"Despite his enormous communications skills, personal appeal and mastery of new media, Obama failed to win the messaging wars over the health care debate in August. And that happened even though the White House seemed to make an all-out effort to push the measure with a prime-time news conference and nationwide town halls."
The author passes on this bit of wisdom from unnamed analysts:
"To come back, the analysts say, Obama will have to dominate the opposition in three areas — messaging, media and muscle — in order to change the momentum in Washington. That is, he’ll have to come up with a coherent argument for his health care reform ideas that ties the proposal into his broader agenda. He’ll have to take advantage of the White House’s ability to dominate the media by making news — and putting out story lines that will dominate the front pages.
And he’ll have to use good, old-fashioned political brute force, which the White House so far has seemed reluctant to do in the debate over health care. "
The plan seems to be to pick an enemy to rally against and:
“Obama can regain momentum and the message high ground if he provides an overarching message — a big idea — for his entire presidency,” Lehane said. “All of his initiatives — health care, energy, stimulus bailout — are linked to a bigger idea that explains to middle America about what he is doing to fight for them against a direct threat or challenge that is relevant to them in their daily lives.”
The article goes on and on, explaining possible "strategies" and such.
Here's the crux of the dilemma in the White House, the overarching message, the goal of this administration is the transformation of our democratic capitalist republic into a marxist socialist communist regime. They can't be honest and come out and said it out loud, so that is why they are using all these other tactics.
Americans can smell a rat no matter what it calls itself. This is also why they are not willing to scrap the bill and start over with a truly bipartisan bill that does not include the public option, which is what the American people want. If they don't get their government run public option, they don't get a key part of their plan.
