I'm Back!

To all of my faithful readers, I have let you down. I haven't updated in months and I am not going to apologize because I have been occupied to the point of exhaustion during the past 6 months. I guess I'll start where I left off. It really is amazing how one's opinions can change in such a short amount of time. I still would consider myself a conservative of sorts, but not to the degree that I used to be. Maybe it's what I warned about all along, the liberal higher-education system and the way it slowly morphs one's political leanings, but I truly think it may just be because I am getting older and have become a bit wiser. Do I like Obama? Well, not really. He's biting off way more than he can chew. I think the town-hall meetings over the course of the August recess will give voice to that. Of course there are some crazies who paint the entire opposition in a negative light, yet I think it's important to realize that our congressmen and congresswomen are beholden to us, the people who vote them into power. If they don't want to participate in a town-hall they don't have to. It's a whole other issue if they decide to put on a town-hall meeting and ostracize any opposing opinion, saying that the comments by the people who have come to voice disapproval of Obamacare are completely irrelevant. Obama ran a rather conservative campaign, trying to bring undecided voters over to his "Yes we can!" campaign. All rhetoric, no substance. Well, it looks like his campaign slogan should be revised to "Well maybe we can, if we cut out all bipartisanship and pass bills that half the American people are in support of." We've since learned that Obama is not the conservative democrat he portrayed during the course of the election. As of today, he has decided against a public option for health care, which is a first step to reaching some sort of agreement and is in the spirit of bipartisan relations in congress. I guess we'll see what Obama says when he addresses the congress on September 9. If the democrats don't pass some sort of health reform bill, they can say good bye to any majority in congress come 2010. Their whole future rests on this one issue and I have to say that I believe that it won't pass and that either a bipartisan health reform bill will pass or else they will scrap it. Earlier today, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said that the health care bill will not increase taxes or deficit spending and must be completely paid for before he votes for it. Should we believe Mr. Hoyer? Probably not. He's going to do what's best for his party and will vote for it even if it raises taxes for the middle class and higher socio-economic brackets. Obama's approval ratings are in the tank and if he doesn't spell out to the American people what his plan is for this health bill, he won't be reelected in 2012. He now has an approval rating of 53% according to a CNN/Opinion Research Poll, the lowest of his time in office. I'd say I'm pretty good at predicting political outcomes, just look at my previous post regarding who would win the republican and democratic nomination as well as my prediction that Obama would become our 44th president. Thanks for reading. Comments are always appreciated. In my next post, I will talk about how the talking heads on the right, such as Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, and Glenn Beck, are suffocating the republican party and are painting conservatives in a negative light.