As important as the Democratic agenda is, more important is the integrity of our system of representation. When a party that lost an election can prevent the will of the people from taking form, the system itself is in trouble. How much trouble?  How about the failure of the electoral system of government for starters. The underlying fact is this…a losing party refused to allow the winning party to implement the platform the people demanded. It is as if the election hadn’t happened. The Republican party has executed a a ‘putsch’ . Worse they are being rewarded for their efforts.

It is time the President and the Democratic party to a person start thinking of the future of the country they love, and less about their sensibility’s. It is time the winning party’s agenda advanced and the rebellion be quashed in the most ruthless of ways.

Nothing less will save our land.

It didn’t help that his own party was spineless, and possibly leaderless. And now, Obama is on the brink of a presidential failure perhaps unparalleled in modern presidential history. And in his fall will be the  fall of America. The fall will be so great it is hard to imagine another Democratic majority as far as the eye can see.

It is not so much that Obama’s policy failures will devastate the country. Those failures will. More, it is that the methodology used to defeat the agenda of a majority government will become standard practice. And that practice will lead to institutional dysfunction. Out of power parties will use the Republican playbook to in essence undo electoral results. It does no party any good. It ill serves the nation.

Can the situation be saved?  Much depends on being able to play that Chicago style of politics.

The problem with the strategy is one needs a willing partner on the other side of the table who will equally embrace the value. What the president got was ‘team rope a dope’. Frustrating as that can be, more frustrating is the absolute lack of spine on the part of the majority in both houses. With far smaller numbers Republicans would ran their opposition over with out a second thought. Note to self, Republicans do not play nice, and have no intention of doing so.

And now, having slow walked the Democrats to the brink of elections, the end game is here.

Is anything salvageable? The answer depends on how much spine the Democrats can muster, and how quickly.  No plan will succeed without unity. And with out a ruthless single vision of success. Next, Democrats starting with the president and down to the most junior member must have a sense of their own political peril. One might btw, add the peril of the country. Next the entire party needs a whiff of reality. Labels mean nothing at this moment. Calling oneself a Democrat, enjoying the benifits of the majority but voting against the party platform is traitorous.  Pure and simple.

What will happen next is this; the administration will be slow walked to the brink of the next election. Soon Republicans will begin a new line of attack-’to let the people vote’. The argument will proceed along these lines…’we are so close to the election, why not let the people be heard?’. Any votes during that period will be labeled as ‘rushing to deny Americans a vote’.

So, let me be the first to declare Obama’s presidency a failure and predict his a one term presidency. It gives me no comfort to say that. But unless the president and his party get serious about what they are doing, they will loose about 8 seats in the Senate and about 36 in Congress come November.  At that point, Republicans will no longer need the stupidity and timidity of the democrats to assure  failure.

Democrats will cry foul over the dishonesty and ‘dirty tricks’  of their opponents, and rightly so, but in the end,  Obama will be labeled a “Jimmy Carter”.  As someone once said, ‘you can’t score points if you don’t know the game’.

‘Chuck’ never got that memo. He acts, and thinks and gets results as if his party still controlled the agenda. Down home farm boy charm, has charmed the big city rubes right out of power. His job is almost done. Another few months of lies, slow walking legislation, and insulting the intelligence of the nation,  and he will be back in the high life.

What the dem’s wouldn’t do to have their own Chuck?

health Comittee Chariman Baucus

name only and for one purpose only. While enjoying the title his membership in a majority party has given him, Max has been an integral part of the Republican game plan. I’m betting a big Mac that next election if Max runs, he will run as either independent or Republican.

Let’s not blame Max. He got his seat and held it because a timid party allowed it. At any time he could have been gone had anyone in leadership had the spine to take him one. But like the failed courtship of a handful of Republicans, Max was a date that was never going to happen. And now that he has so damaged the Obama agenda, Max will continue to enjoy the benifits of his chairmanship.

Say what you will about the Westminster system, but in that system Max would have been sitting in a dark corner somewhere the first time he tried to thwart the governments agenda. And that is where he should be, outside the party. He was not then, nor will he ever be a Democrat.