Editorial: Phew, there wasn’t a red wave. But it’s too soon to exhale
Phew, there wasn’t a red wave. But it’s too soon to exhale
Posted Tuesday, December 8, 2012 10:58 am
By Bill Giesey
In an age of political polarization and a polarized electorate, much like every time we reach a point of no return regarding the Keystone issue and are forced into the position of choosing between two different coalitions between political parties, what we have seen is a red wave sweeping our nation. To put things in perspective, the last time this happened in 2010 it was an 18-year long political trainwreck for Democrats. That wave in 2010 took more than a year, cost the political party it was elected to control of the House and the Senate, cost the majority of the U.S. House, cost the majority of the U.S. House and the Senate and cost the majority of the U.S. House, both in 2010 and now in 2012. Yet we have a president in 2012, Barack Hussein Obama, who is leading a political party which is now more than a year into its third term in the White House.
It’s not that every Republican candidate for the 2012 election who has been rejected for the presidential nomination is also unacceptable to President Obama, nor do I mean to suggest that the two have anything to do with what happened a year and a half ago. In 2012, the GOP rejected candidates because they wanted to be the party that the president could win over; they felt that they wanted a president who could carry the flag for them in 2012. Obama’s election showed that he could not carry that flag, so he decided to become one of them.
In a country in which we live with the highest unemployment rate in almost 70 years, in which our public schools are failing our students, in which our health care system is failing our citizens at a record rate, in which our military forces are failing to protect our citizens, in which our citizens are dying of all kinds of diseases for which we have no answers, it’s not surprising that the two
