Angry Voters Look for Change

obama's administrations look like a debutante. late decisions and inappropriate make the voters to feel too angry. I guess in next election we will get many abstination. I call the obama cicle to call their ass in order to hold their honor any way they will loss utterly their honor.

scott of FL 3:30PM June 23, 2010

Please don't try to make me feel badly for President Obama in this article by suggesting bad luck and hard times have befallen him. Most Presidents face challenges, some really big and some not so big, but most step up and address the challenge head on. Obama seems more intent on chnaging peoples focus away from pressing issues and blaming someone other than himself. Why are we not hearing more about the war on unemployment and getting our economy fixed by getting people back to work. No more welfare - offer jobs, even if it has to be like to Conservation Corps - they can clean under brush to prevent forest fires and certainly could join forces to clean the beaches along the gulf. Come on - the America I grew up in had self-esteem, not self pity.

Tom C of SC 11:39AM June 23, 2010

Democratic strategists label the tea party movement as "right wing" because they want to sway public opinion against what is actually a populist economic and constitutional conservatism that has more in common with libertarianism than the big-spending Republican party of recent years. The same sentiments that galvanized tea partiers led to the election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts... hardly a Republican who has "lurched to the right" in order to be elected. He had broad appeal to members of both parties, especially in opposing Obamacare and big government, otherwise he could not have been elected in one of the bluest of blue states. It's about the money - our money, as taxpayers, and that of the next few generations too - and what it's being used for. The history of the tea party movement is available on Wikipedia, as well as lots of other places besides the latest press release from the DNC.

Amy of NH 10:12PM June 21, 2010

The commentator above, accurately describing the unsustainable, unaffordable, bloat of government, is right on target. This is no longer about Republicans and Democrats, it is about fiscal sanity, and that's what the Tea Party (an informal coalition of concerned citizens) is all about. It's hard to believe that this observer is more on target than the author of this article, but is often the case that the mainstream reporters and writers have become as foggy as those in government.

Worse, even the average person is beginning to see the incompetence of our bloated government. The lack of border security resulting in deaths, gang wars, unchecked cocaine networks in Arizona and elsewhere. The anemic response to the Gulf oil spill by the Administration--the Dutch offered its help three days after the disaster, but it took Obama nine days to realize the magnitude, even partially, of this event. Even now, Obama has refused to rescind the "Jones Act," an old, pro-union Act of Congress that has kept the state-of-the-art Dutch oil-skimming boats, and those of 12 other nations, from helping us. Those big ships cannot come into Gulf waters because they were not built in America nor are they crewed by an American crew. So we have makeshift shrimp boats trying their best, but that is the equivalent of using buckets to get the oil out. Why hasn't Obama rescinded the "Jones Act," and how much has that cost those living on the Gulf? Then Obama imposes a moratorium on deep water drilling--not only was this a mistake, but it was the result of Interior Sec. Ken Salazar's unauthorized, unethical rewriting of a report, after scientists had approved it, to include a recommendation for a moratorium. Those scientists had made no such recommendation. So now, because of the Minerals Management incompetence in supervising the drilling rigs, Ken Salazar's unethical rewrite of a critical report, the failure to suspend the "Jones Act" (that Bush did after Katrina to get added help), and Obama's drilling moratorium, the future of Gulf tourism, the Gulf environment, and the Gulf economy is more bleak than it ever needed to have been.

That's why Tea Party people dislike bloated and inefficient government. From the top down.

Sherlock Holmes of NH 3:20PM June 21, 2010