http://www.opednews.com/articles/Is-You-Itching-for-Rescue-by-j-dial-110326-655.html After the last election swept victorious Republicans into the House, the newly elected immediately began ... ignoring their campaign promises. By early January of this year Republicans had already discarded their own "Pledge to America" by jettisoning the process that would have ensured open debate, rendered "hypothetical" their pledge to make one-hundred-billion-dollar spending cuts in their first year, and stripped from their initial rule package the GOP promise that would have made committee attendance public and thus accountable. After passing in the Republican-controlled House, the repeal of the much-maligned health-care law stalled in the Senate, a victim not so much of numbers but of being eclipsed in favor of the real enemy, labor. Those teachers, you know, with their tenure and pensions.
Seeing this, people are becoming incensed. "Buyer's remorse is setting in quickly," says Arjun Kaukumar for Daily Kos and OpEd News. The Republican house majority is endangered less than three months into Speaker John Boehner's regime, and the people will have their revenge. Next time, they'll vote the bastards out and reinstall the good guys!
And, after that, what do you think will happen? Haven't you noticed, since the last regime change, a certain lack of shift in policy? That was in 2010, when Obama came to power.
Barack Obama, the "hope-and-change", the "yes-we-can" candidate. Candidate Obama promised us many lubricants to this country's rails, among them to eliminate capital-gains taxes for small businesses, bestow tax credits on businesses that hire new employees, allow citizens to withdraw 401(k) funds and retirement accounts penalty-free, close Guantanamo Bay prison in one year, return from Iraq all combat troops in 16 months, and, don't forget, ban lobbyists from his administration. All these promises and more lie fallow. To name a few: Lobbyists -- that one was broken even as he spoke; according to Chelsea Schilling of WorldNetDaily, his "campaign fund-raising team included 38 members of law firms that were paid $138 million in 2007 to lobby the federal government". Guantanamo -- not only does the place still thrive, but early this month Obama signed an executive order resuming military trials for detainees. Earmarks --the reform that was alluded to from his first presidential debate has eluded them; according to The Washington Times, "Putting aside that the $787 billion stimulus package was one giant earmark, Mr. Obama has signed multiple bills stuffed with earmarks, most recently the defense bill that he signed last month. That single bill alone had 1,720 pet projects totaling $4.2 billion."
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