Slip-Sliding Away

There was a great closing line in a recent article by George Will. The quote was, "The window of opportunity could be closing." It was directed at what could be seen as a rushed attempt by President Obama to, again quoting Will, "remake the nation and save the planet." Obviously Mr. Will exercised a little tongue-in-cheek but the message is clear. Obama and his handlers are not so naive that they have missed the continuing shift of public support away from the Obama agenda and the manifestations of that shift by a loss of current, not to mention future, Congressional support for the President.



The most recently published political poll pertaining to the Obama White House has shown that the level of national support attaching to the President is now a bit less than 50%. This same report has not been overlooked by our Representatives in Congress or our US Senators. Each of them, with a few exceptions, wants to maintain his/her seat in Washington and now realizes that open support for the governmental goals of Obama could well lead to an early and undesired retirement from Federal office.

Current emphasis is being placed on the desire of the White House to radically alter the concept of healthcare in this nation. This Obama promoted socialist approach to medicine in America has not met with great enthusiasm from many of our lawmakers. If it does pass, which is not as of today a guarantee, it would likely be missing some of the fundamental elements desired by the left-leaning drafters of the original language. This no-win or at best partial-win would be a direct result of worried law makers hoping to placate the voters of their particular region. What a unique idea! Show support for what your constituents feel and not for the political/economic tenets of Obama.

As our President sees his personally promoted healthcare plan being at worst strongly opposed and at best altered, he has lost focus on other issues that face him. More American servicemen died this weekend in Afghanistan and he can't make up his mind on what to do in that nation. Iraqi terrorists escalated attacks on the political/administrative facilities of the sitting government and our forces continue to be withdrawn. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez heads an attack on the US dollar during a summit in Bolivia resulting in 9 Latin American nations shifting away from the dollar to a new international monetary unit, the "sucre", for transactions among these nations. In response, Obama does nothing. Finally, the American economy shows little in the way of positive change. Over 100 banks have now failed while the unemployment rate continues to grows with Obama thinking about another "stimulus" which only means a still greater deficit that this years $1.4 Trillion.

The above said "window" will close and the sooner the better for America.