Obama/Holden: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
by Holden Watch
Tim Holden and his fellow Democrats read constituent votes very poorly. As a local example, pro-life constituents gave Tim Holden the benefit of the doubt on an earlier vote to fund embryonic stem cell research, and he took advantage of that good will with his two recent votes to fund abortion and abortionists.
The Democrats' electoral successes in 2006 and 2008 were not so much an affirmation of public affection for them as they were disaffection with George W. Bush and congressional Republicans. The Democrats, though, read it as a mandate to pursue the wish list of their liberal base.
Things have changed. Today, the energy of the American electorate is directed against the excesses of Tim Holden and the Democratic majority in both houses of Congress and a painfully inexperienced and unprepared president in the White House. The president and his congressional enablers are afflicted with an annoyingly arrogant smugness that voters have viscerally rejected.
Their smug certainty rankles American voters angry at and fearful of the legislation Democrats have passed and proposed. A huge stimulus, the autoworkers union bailout, cap and trade, a takeover of health care, immense, unfunded deficits as far as the eye can see, Democrats in Congress and the White House are attempting to remake America as we know it in ways we will not recognize. It's too much, too expensive, too fast, and too risky.
Obama and Tim Holden have much in common besides their party membership and shared sense of entitlement. Both have been slopping at the public trough most of their adult lives. Neither has a ghost of a clue about what it takes to run a business, and it shows. Neither has any knowledge of economics, the cause and effects of tax policy, or the impact of irresponsible spending on the value of the dollar or the quality of life for seniors. Tim Holden and the Democrats simply don't comprehend the consequences of their failed policies and repeat them over and over. It's all they know.
They can't grasp or simply ignore the economic and social fallout of redistributive policies like welfare that penalized productive Americans and created a permanent underclass.
We need honest, honorable stewards of America's constitutional heritage in Washington, not the same clique of self-entitled, self-interested, self-serving incumbents, party hacks who put their reelection ahead of America's interests.