“To everyone that voted, I want you to know that I heard you. To the two-thirds of voters who chose not to participate in the process yesterday, I hear you, too.”
Showing no humility at his post mid-term election press conference yesterday, President Obama refused to admit that the vote was a repudiation of his agenda. (slate.com)
With his usual lack of any humility, those were the words of President Obama at his post mid-term elections press conference yesterday, as he let the incoming majority Congress know that the only reason they enjoyed such successes at the ballot box was because most of America didn’t vote.
Well, Mr. President, one third of the American people voted for candidates from a party with no other agenda but to end yours. One third of Americans showed up at the polls to tell you they didn’t want any more of your “stuff,” as you call it.
We conservatives were told we couldn’t win without an agenda. Surely, you remember the Wall Street Journal editorial, ‘Republicans for What?,’ with its prediction, “The GOP won’t get the victory it seeks without a positive agenda.”
If you had any humility, you would understand the meaning of that.
I would like to caution my fellow conservatives. We won the Senate and increased our hold on the House without a mandate. This is not like 1994, when Republicans won the majority for the first time in 40 years with a pledge of a bold Contract with America, a ten-point plan.
This year, the Obama administration, with its culture of corruption, signed its own suicide pact of self-destruction, giving the GOP a path to win. If we have any mandate, it’s to stop the lawless Obama transformation of America.
Now it’s our turn to make President Obama the obstructionist. A bill to repeal ObamaCare needs to be sent to his desk even though he will veto it. When he does, it must be followed with changes, like enablers that will allow employers to restore the 40-hour work week. There’s a long list of idle legislation waiting to see sunlight.
Over the next two years, I believe the GOP will restore faith in America’s future and help them formulate a plan designed to take back the White House in 2016.
Don’t believe it when you hear the talking heads say, “Americans are tired of the gridlock. They want Congress to work together and pass legislation.” If that’s what the voters wanted, they would have torpedoed the campaigns of every Republican and given the president both houses.
The president concluded his press conference saying, “I’m really optimistic about America.” I am too. I’m optimistic because voters did what they should have done in 2012. The President’s optimism, however, is most likely tied to his ego, telling him he still has two-thirds of Americans in his pocket.
