Obama Fails to Deliver

Obama’s Extreme Left Agenda is Falling Apart

DOUG AUDIRSCH | January 23, 2010

January 2010 has not turned out the way the administration had hoped.  It’s nominee for the TSA stepped down under pressure.  The Supreme Court overturned much of the McCain-Feingold restrictions.  The Democrats lost a seemingly solid-blue Senate seat in Massachusetts in an apparent rejection of the president’s healthcare legislation.  The loss of this Senate seat is also a loss of the filibuster-proof 60 seat Democrat majority.  Obama’s scheduled state of the union address was delayed in order to allow the healthcare plan to pass first.  Beyond merely being delayed, many people, including Democrats, believe the healthcare takeover bill may be dead.

Also, the Massachusetts victory has encouraged the Republicans in their opposition to the Democrat’s agenda.  They are expected to more firmly entrench themselves against any and every bill pushed by the Obama administration.  Not only are the Republicans more unified, the Democrats are quite the opposite.  With a number of Democrats objecting to the administration’s hardball tactics and others breaking ranks with the party, they are not unified in any way.  The Democrat Senators and Congressmen who have brokered high-profile asymetrical deals benefitting their own state have faced the ire of the public.

It has become clear to an increasing number of people that this administration makes decisions primarily based on political manuevering and less on economic need.  This past week’s announcement of Obama’s intention to severely ratchet up the regulation on the banking industry has not been received as positively as his administration probably intended.  It has actually partially resulted in renewed concern over his choice of Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner.  Also, many in Congress have noted that Rahm Emmanuel is no longer as highly visible as he once was.  Rahm is the pressure that Obama applies to work his will on Congress and he has been conspicuously absent recently.  Possibly due to the growing dissatisfaction with this administration’s hardball tactics.

Now Obama will be facing the nation in his state of the union address from a weakened position.  Doubts are high about his ability to lead, the economy appears to still be weak, his major reforms are either falling apart or he failed to deliver them.  What does February hold for him, and for the American people?