Real Hope for this Country

Wishful hoping (my fingers, toes and eyes are crossed): Deathly Midterms.

No Mandate

the Obama came into office believing that he had a mandate to "Change" America. In fact he had no such thing. What he considered a mandate was (while a significant percentage of the voting population at that time) made up of two groups, 1) socialist lefties suffering the side effects of liberal white guilt and for whom money was not an issue (ie rich Hollywood types) and 2) what Andrew Wilkow has dubbed, the "Zero Liability Voter." The first group is a small minority of America and as such their vote could hardly be considered a mandate. The second group really should not even be allowed to vote in the first place. They are the population that either pay no income tax, and the majority get a return (earned income credits) that offset their payroll taxes. So, they are essentially voting more benefits to themselves without the liability of having to pay for those benefits. This is the group of people that the Founding Fathers did not want to vote because they have not stake in the outcome. So, where is the mandate? Take away the welfare class and you are left with a tiny minority of voters for whom a few extra bucks out of their pocket in the form of increased taxes is really not a big deal. They create few jobs (exceptions being the Gates and Buffets) and in fact like the welfare class really have no stake in this country. The rest of us, the ones that are stuck paying for the Obama's largesse have a great deal at stake and as such represent the true mandate.