The midterm elections are over. Many pundits, analysts, and talk show hosts have concluded that the Republican wins and Democrat loss means only one thing; did President Obama get it?
The "it" these right or conservative based folks are referring to is the ideal that voters who chose Republicans and Tea Party Republicans over Democrats were sending a message to President Obama that he was "out of touch" with mainstream America. That he should admit his agenda was crap as Tim Pawlenty from Minnesota stated in a Fox interview. That all President Obama's policies were the agenda he'd always planned to inflict on the American people and not the result of the financial mess he inherited in 2008.
This constant memory loss of Republican supporters is how we arrived in our current situation of almost 10% unemployment. These same complainers conveniently forget NAFTA, Enron, subprime mortgages, Iraq, Afghanistan, and a $700 billion dollar bailout approved by Bush before leaving office. When President Obama made the statement Wednesday morning during his White House press conference that the policies of the past two years was an agenda for emergency action and not his planned agenda many right-wingers dismissed his explanation as an insult.
"He must think the American people are stupid," said Hannity on his usual rant of speaking for the so-called great Americans. I don't know if President Obama thinks these fickle voters are stupid but I know many of them appear to be brain dead.
Early Wednesday morning from CNN to Fox the only conversation was the Republican wave and how it sent a message to the president, only.
The Republican gains in the House were somehow a mandate and not a message to both parties about working together; the same party voters tossed out in 2008. Republican analysts all agree apparently that this midterm election is somehow more telling than what voters did 2 years prior. We are now to believe that the frustration of 10% unemployment and health care reform for those who have jobs means Republican and Tea Party candidates are now what the people really want.
These same critics spent the entire day repeating the same refrain, "he just doesn't get it" "he never admitted these losses for Democrats were all his fault" "he never humbled himself" "he won't admit his policies are not what the American people want."
How convenient to forget the millions of Americans who didn't support Republicans or Tea Party Republicans. Now that's what I call that stupid.
