President Obama has a difficult job, he has to convince the elected Republican members of the House and Senate that it is in their best interest to vote 'as the people of the country' voted. The Republicans are scared of losing their party more than they already have and they simply see this as a temporary 'fix' for the Democrats.
The Republicans don't believe in Human Induced Global Warming or Stem Cell Research. They believe that religion should be taught in public classrooms and science eliminated from any cirriculum. They don't believe in a woman's right to use her own mind and morality to decide about an abortion and they don't care that 'teaching abstinence' is a failed and dangerous agenda for the country. They don't see 'helping' the states as a good idea, because they want to stop taxes and they want to eliminate government at all levels.
The Republicans are 'counter-culture' to the decisions the majority made in the election of 2008. They won't vote for any of the measures of the current President. The Republicans are waiting for the entire Obama administration to fall on its face and then reep the rewards in 2010. They are hoping the country does poorly and they are hoping the job losses increase.
The Republicans don't see the strength of this country and the will of the people as the way to economic growth and success. They cater to MULTI-NATIONAL companies and Wall Street as the only venue of saving grace for the USA economy. Yet. Those very people are the ones that caused the mess in the first place. No restraint, no regulation and now the people of the USA are supposed to bail them out and continue to do so.
I don't think so.
The Obama plan will work and it will revitalize our communities. It will put new technologies back in business creating life saving measures through genetic research, new energy measures and a change in personal transportation, either that be auto or mass transit. It will give jobs back to government infrastructure, move along necessary services, put teachers back to work, place importance on medical streamlining and advanced technologies, it will require large public work projects to replace old energy infrastructure and it will upgrade and enlighten the American road and automakers. And that is only a start.
The Republicans that are still in office don't realize how loudly the American people spoke. They aren't willing to 'give up' the idea that they will return to a majority and again attempt to rule the world with oil wars, tax cuts, rocketing deficits and outsourcing to the point where there are dearly no jobs in the USA and the country is left in ruins.
The Republicans know their people are accustomed to economic impoverishment met with religious fervor that justices their ideologies.
I don't expect to see one Republican to ever vote for a measure by President Obama. In order for him to 'reach' a bipartisan effort, he'll have to 'change the Red States' and bring them out of their economic slumps. That is his sincere challenge. Regaining the international ground is nearly the easiest part of his Presidency. Every country in the world wanted the change that President Obama has to offer, even Russia.
...Last November (click here), President Dmitry Medvedev said Moscow would deploy Iskander missile systems in its Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad, sandwiched between NATO members Lithuania and Poland, in response to any deployment by Washington of elements of a missile defense shield in Europe....
Prime Minister Putin is talking about " inter-independence " while sounding like a capitalist.
...Putin also said the financial crisis (click here), which has already brought down energy prices, could lead to a global energy shortage.
The current dramatic decline in oil prices could trigger cuts in investment in the sector and production, and as a result a hike in prices later....
It is these changes that the future electorate of the USA will appreciate and find economic strength and rebuilding as well. President Obama will not fail. He has an entire nation and a global community intently listening to his every word and watching the signing of every bill. He will never fail, but, the Republicans that resist him will.
