Sunday, January 24, 2010
President Obama is learning the hard lesson the limits of his executive authority.
Massachusetts is a rock solid Democrat constituency and a Democrat Senator had occupied this seat for decades. With the Massachusetts seat lost in January, then God only knows how many other marginal constituencies could be lost in the mid-term elections next November. How could there be such a major shift in public sentiment in such a short time? How could euphoria for Obama’s election swing into dissatisfaction in such a short time?
Massachusetts voters must have judged Obama by the fact that his determination to re-engineer the health system to extend coverage to some 40 million who are living without any insurance or state support would have meant a tax increase without any benefits to Massachusetts’ residents who already have the sort of health system that Obama wishes to roll out across the nation.
The voters of Massachusetts had nothing to gain and something to lose from Obama’s success in rolling out such system throughout the nation. It was easy and populist for the Republican candidate to gain support by promising to block the health bill in the senate to defend the narrow interests of his state constituents, even if, in the process, he would be denying the whole country a health system worthy of the most advanced economy in the world.
IMO: Massachusetts is allegedly one of the most vital and intellectual states in the Union. These happenings simply show the problems that the US facade of real democracy is facing. The US system needs a lot of improvement before it can be really termed a democracy. USA is unfortunately becoming closer and closer to being a fascist dictatorship, a likelihood which had been close in the days of Joe McCarthy and is not far away now. As I feared, it really looks as if Obama is turning out to be 'just another Dinkins' (BoingBoing and many others have indicated many further problems) but any imaginable alternative to Obama would have been far far worse.
Massachusetts voters must have judged Obama by the fact that his determination to re-engineer the health system to extend coverage to some 40 million who are living without any insurance or state support would have meant a tax increase without any benefits to Massachusetts’ residents who already have the sort of health system that Obama wishes to roll out across the nation.
The voters of Massachusetts had nothing to gain and something to lose from Obama’s success in rolling out such system throughout the nation. It was easy and populist for the Republican candidate to gain support by promising to block the health bill in the senate to defend the narrow interests of his state constituents, even if, in the process, he would be denying the whole country a health system worthy of the most advanced economy in the world.
IMO: Massachusetts is allegedly one of the most vital and intellectual states in the Union. These happenings simply show the problems that the US facade of real democracy is facing. The US system needs a lot of improvement before it can be really termed a democracy. USA is unfortunately becoming closer and closer to being a fascist dictatorship, a likelihood which had been close in the days of Joe McCarthy and is not far away now. As I feared, it really looks as if Obama is turning out to be 'just another Dinkins' (BoingBoing and many others have indicated many further problems) but any imaginable alternative to Obama would have been far far worse.
# posted by uv : 7:52 AM
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