Votes send message to the Hill: create jobs or lose seat
Harry Alford/NNPA Columnist
Issue date: 1/31/10 Section: Politics
(NNPA) - It is a pretty simple formula.? Yet, many of our federally elected officials don't seem to understand or at least listen to the masses.? The messages in Virginia and New Jersey were certainly clear. Still they prodded on with their largesse and out-of-touch agenda.? Then comes Massachusetts, like the thunder of an electrical storm, or the roar of the mighty ocean.
Still, I wonder if they have figured it out yet.? The people want jobs, jobs, jobs.? Big schemes like health care reform, energy bills, greedy attempts by union lobbyists, etc., will have to wait.? Former President Bill Clinton campaign's slogan still applies:? "It's the economy stupid!"
For the first time in many decades, the very democratic state of Massachusetts voted to kill the humungous health care reform bill and turn the efforts into job creation.? Families are hurting and many are being destroyed.? Hope is fading as we go through the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.? The population demands a full concentration on getting America back on its economic feet.? Those officials who don't concentrate on this task will be heading for unemployment themselves.? This election cycle is going to be very exciting.
The health care reform effort is pretty much dead.?The Republicans, thanks to Massachusetts, now have the filibuster weapon.? The Democrats can get around that if they accept the Senate version of the bill as it stands.? But the House, like much of America, has serious issues with the Senate version and probably could not gather enough votes to pass it.? For instance, the Congressional Black Caucus insists that a public option be available in the legislation.? However, the Senate version has no public option.? Then there was the vote swapping via kickbacks, bribery, and downright financial whoring.? It's now ugly and the people don't want it.? After nine months, this amounts to a monster that no one intended to create.? It is going to die - and still we have no jobs.
Still, I wonder if they have figured it out yet.? The people want jobs, jobs, jobs.? Big schemes like health care reform, energy bills, greedy attempts by union lobbyists, etc., will have to wait.? Former President Bill Clinton campaign's slogan still applies:? "It's the economy stupid!"
For the first time in many decades, the very democratic state of Massachusetts voted to kill the humungous health care reform bill and turn the efforts into job creation.? Families are hurting and many are being destroyed.? Hope is fading as we go through the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.? The population demands a full concentration on getting America back on its economic feet.? Those officials who don't concentrate on this task will be heading for unemployment themselves.? This election cycle is going to be very exciting.
The health care reform effort is pretty much dead.?The Republicans, thanks to Massachusetts, now have the filibuster weapon.? The Democrats can get around that if they accept the Senate version of the bill as it stands.? But the House, like much of America, has serious issues with the Senate version and probably could not gather enough votes to pass it.? For instance, the Congressional Black Caucus insists that a public option be available in the legislation.? However, the Senate version has no public option.? Then there was the vote swapping via kickbacks, bribery, and downright financial whoring.? It's now ugly and the people don't want it.? After nine months, this amounts to a monster that no one intended to create.? It is going to die - and still we have no jobs.
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