Hurricane Obama is just breeze by Robert Montoya 
President as a brand no longer sells. The "yes, we can" quickly became in a "no, we can not"
There is still almost a month to ensure compliance with the second anniversary of the arrival of Barack Obama to power, but the American President and it seems a ghost who wanders the halls of disoriented the White House. Obama Superman's flight was too short, too, or maybe not there any flight. He tried to take off and take off to their country and improve the world but failed. The Obama brand no longer sells. The "yes, we can" quickly became a "no, we can not."
heavy defeat after the election that the Democratic Party suffered in November, losing its majority in the House Representatives and holding it for very scarce margin in the Senate, Obama seems to have ended up throwing in the towel. Ignoring the current left and center of his party, the president has decided to once again, your other cheek to the Republican Party.
One of the latest examples of this approach to dialogue was a few days ago, when Obama bowed to Republican pressure, accepting a vital change in its tax reform, one of his major campaign promises. The president agreed to extend for two years the tax cut to those earning more than $ 250,000 a year, a measure approved by George W. Bush and concluded this year. The reform includes a reduction of 120,000 million dollars in Social Security contributions, which further weaken this institution and in the not too distant can assume its full privatization.
Many Democrats understand that these and many other tax concessions to the rich, involving millions of dollars of increased public debt, millions could be spent on job creation. Obama, who has tried to sell the reforms as a success, showing only positive aspects, which also undoubtedly has had a strong internal opposition within the Democratic Party.
proof is 139 while congressional Democrats voted for reform and 112 against, on the Republican side were 138 who voted in favor and only 36 against.
Another star Obama campaign promises, health reform, continues to lose steam. If you are already on the road to adoption had been so many changes that decaf and made unrecognizable from its original idea, in legal terms is finding more and more obstacles in their path.
A federal judge in Virginia has rescinded a few days ago a key part of health reform, considering it unconstitutional. According to Judge Henry Hudson "the Government can not force citizens to buy insurance under threat of being punished. " As often happens in America, this judge is the owner of a Republican consulting firm, Campaign Solutions, which is a client Sarah Palin, a former presidential candidate and now leader of the Tea Party, the ultra current GOP.
Sarah Palin, as Republicans sectors, among which is Eric Cantor himself, the new leader of the Republican majority in the House of Representatives are pushing the amendment called Revocation, which, if successful in both Chambers, would override any federal law, including healthcare reform, provided that a vote of two thirds of the states of the Union.
Republicans, elated by his recent electoral victory, are willing to step up its offensive in the two-year term remaining for Obama, who has completely lost the initiative.
The blows suffered by Obama to their original ideas of health and fiscal reforms, in addition to the failures in many other quarters. The president has failed so far support for legalizing the eleven million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. to another of his big campaign promises.
11 next January, will mark nine years since the arrival of the first prisoners to Guantanamo and Obama has so far failed in its intention to close the detention illegal. It is an open secret that the government is preparing a law that would allow him to retain without charge indefinitely, with 48 of the 174 prisoners still held there.
The issue of human rights progress has not met since coming to power of Obama. Still the Patriot Act (Patriot Act), which allows the State shares of Big Brother about their citizens, without judicial authorization, while disclosure is a criminal offense by civilian organizations such as Wikileaks of thousands and thousands of documents establishing the continues to commit crimes the U.S. military in Iraq or Afghanistan, or conspiraciciones, blackmail and espionage carried out daily by U.S. embassies worldwide.
These documents show that both the armed forces and intelligence services and U.S. diplomats, continue to operate under the Obama administration as they did with Bush. The government now seeks to judge how the visible head of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, under the Espionage Act of 1917, created by a Democratic president, Woodrow Wilson, to punish any citizen who dared to publicly criticize U.S. entry united in the First World War.
Speaking Christmas Obama might just show two real achievements, thanks to a vote of 12 moderate Republicans the Senate vote in favor of new nuclear disarmament agreement with Russia (Start), and the abolition of a law forbidding the military to recognize his homosexuality.
Obama has been losing ground and everything can be expected that this trend is even more pronounced since January, when the two chambers reflect the new balance of parliamentary forces and the republicans use to boycott any government initiative, with the view entry into the presidential election in November 2012.
Hurricane Obama has lost power and was left in a breeze.
