In his comments on the eve of the government shutdown, Obama stated that “one faction of one party in one house of Congress in one branch of government doesn’t get to shut down the entire government just to refight the results of an election.” Ironically, the President himself is fighting the results of an election.
Republicans won the House in both 2010 and 2012, largely because of the Tea Party. Many Republicans were sent to Washington to repeal Obamacare. Yet, when those elected officials have the integrity to follow through on their campaign promises, Obama can only resort to childish complaints. Who is refighting the results of an election? Republicans who are doing what they were elected to do? Or a President who derides them for doing what they were elected to do?
Obama had no complaints when his health care plan was ramrodded through Congress before anyone could read it. He had no qualms about bribing Congressmen to support his plan. But, now that the details have become more widely known, and a sizable portion of the American people want Obamacare repealed, he suddenly has a problem with Congress doing its job.
Interestingly, the House of Representatives is the more plebeian of the houses of Congress. Yet, the President who frequently declares his understanding of and sympathy with the “common man” is quick to attack those who were elected by the “common man.”
Obama had no complaints when his health care plan was ramrodded through Congress before anyone could read it. He had no qualms about bribing Congressmen to support his plan. He faced no meaningful opposition when he proposed to seize control of health care. When Americans rose up in protest and changed the balance of power in Congress, Obama refused to acknowledge that fact.
Elections have consequences. To paraphrase one of the President’s own comments, Tea Party Republicans won the House.