What does Andy
know? Stalled progress on the health care bill in the Senate could doom
Democrats in 2010 and prove to be President Barack Obama’s “Waterloo”,
Andy Stern, National President of SEIU, the nation’s largest service
union and one of the Obama administration’s key supporters, predicted
on Friday.
Since Stern is one the White House’s most frequent visitors it begs
the question, could Andy be aware of vibes coming from the
administration? There are some serious issues in the Senate that SEIU
types are particularly sensitive to. Issues such as the public option,
which promises to be one of the watershed items that breaks DeMarxist
unanimity. The so-called public option has polarized the Senate. It is
a ‘must have’ for the hard left of the DeMarxists, but stiffly resisted
by the GOP and ‘moderate’ Democrats and strongly opposed by the public
in general.
The $460 billion rip-off of seniors’ Medicare funding is not going
to gain the Democrats any support there either. This could become a
huge issue come election time because the seniors, unlike the Obamabot
youth, do vote and they vote in large numbers. AARP has probably just
resigned itself to a footnote in American seniors history for the
really self-serving sell-out to the administration, for dubiously
positive short-range gains and a friendly ‘ear’ in the Obama White
House.
Democratic Senators Ben Nelson and Bob Casey are among the strong
pro-life members who will not vote for a bill without strong
anti-abortion language in it. Add Senator Lieberman to that column as
well. Passage is by no means a done deal and many Democrats are
beginning to become really nervous given the lack of leadership from
the White House. The painfully inept foreign policy, the flat-lined
economy where it’s called a ‘triumph of job growth’, when there are
only a hundred thousand or so new jobless claims and tens of thousands
who have given up looking for work altogether.
The Patriot grass roots organizing continues and there are some
large meetings scheduled around the nation soon. The Tea Baggers
continue to hold increasing numbers of local meetings around the
country also. Given the steadily declining poll numbers in all
categories the DeMarxists are doing some serious over-the-shoulder
scrutiny.
It won’t be the ravening hordes of the Huns, the Goths or the
Visigoths that they’ll be fearing. It will be the American citizen with
the Constitution in one hand and a ballot in the other.
Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis
© Skip MacLure 2009