Liz Peek:

Obviously the two republican wins for Governor in Virginia and New Jersey are significant as we draw closer to the elections in 2010.  I believe it measures accurately the loss of confidence that Americans are feeling with this administration.   Barack Obama campaigned on "transparency, hope and change, and winning the war in Afghanistan."  So far, we have witnessed the transparency being replaced with secrecy, hope and change routed to far left leaning government control projects and a very unpresidential and embarrassing waffling on the war in Afghanistan.   This isn’t about what Obama "inherited" from a previous administration.   This SCREAMS loss of confidence in our president because he hasn’t accomplished what he set out to do.   He has taken on far too many projects in one year and hasn’t done a good job of completing them.   Obama’s strong suit is suppose to be communications and marketing.   We now know that this is no longer true as he seems incapable of communicating and marketing the message on economics.   He failed to communicate the healthcare bill adequately so that Americans could understand it.   Nancy Pelosi, a thorn in his side, will, no doubt, kill this bill on her own due to her arrogance and unwillingness to work with the republicans.   Too many times this administration has gone behind closed doors. 

Just yesterday," Senator Barbara Boxer Breaks Senate Committee Rules…
The liberal California senator passed the dem’s cap-&-tax legislation out of committee without a single GOP member in attendance. This is against the rules and the first time it has ever happened."

Recently, Nancy Pelois breaks her pledge and will not post the bill on line for 72 hours before voting to Nationalize Health Care.

Americans simply aren’t going to put up with this!  

And still, we have a President who, during his campaign raised his voice and stated, "I will win this war in Afghanistan!"   Meanwhile, he ignores General McCrystal’s advice as he positions himself, politically, to do the right thing for himself and not the troops who are at risk daily because they are understaffed.

Now, I can ask you…"Why did Virginia and New Jersey go Republican?"   Could it possibly be because Americans are finally fully awake realizing that this far left leaning administration is a strange group devoid of caring about the unsustainable debt that they brought to the American people in less than one year in office?   Could it be that Americans are realizing that when you elect a man to the highest office in our country he really needs to have experience in something other than a community organizer?   Obama is merely the mouthpiece for this radical group of men and women and I’m not sure if he has had an original idea to offer the American people since the day he took office.

I love it when democrats continue to harp "on the mess GWB left for Obama to clean up."   When I read that, I immediately go back to 1981 when Reagan was elected President….talk about inheriting nasty unfinished business…whew….Jimmy Carter handed him a recession, inflation and 24% mortgage interest rates!!!   He didn’t complain.   He didn’t blame anyone.   He didn’t use President Carter as a reason why everything he was attempting failed.   He simply rolled up his sleeves and cut taxes immediately to our small businesses and offered them low interest loans to improve and grow their businesses.   Hello Obama?  It worked.   You knew it worked for Reagan.   Yet, Obama continues to turn his back on the one thing that would’ve saved the jobs and added more beginning in February 2009.   Recently, he threw the small businesses a "bone."   Low interest rate loans.   Hello Obama?   While you were ignoring them, their production and employees have decreased.   They can’t qualify for that loan.   So, until our largest employer of jobs recovers basically on their own, we are going to see the unemployment rate climb above 10.2%   That’s a given.

Liz, with regard to the Baby Boomers retiring and drawing out the social security that they have been paying in for decades I have to think that many of them will continue working, due to the economy, and will put off drawing their "retirement" checks.    This may ease the situation somewhat but the real trainwreck is the healthcare bill.   Somewhere along the line I wish Barack Obama had taken a course in economics.  For this administration to spend this amount of time trying to bring a government health care plan to ALL Americans rather than address the small percentage of those Americans who actually need it is telling.  All Obama needed to do is pass a law that insurance companies could no longer require evidence of insurability and they could not drop anyone due to any and all illnesses.   Then he needs to sign a Tort Reform bill, immediately clean up the fraud and abuse in Medicare and put those Americans without insurance coverage on that plan until such time that they received medical coverage through their jobs.   I believe that insurance companies would have lowered their rates in a competitive bid to underwrite millions of Americans with preexisting conditions.  It’s all about the math.

Liz, our country, in just one year has turned from being "star struck" with Obama to judging him on the actual issues.   How is it possible that someone who was so likable and so inspiring while running for President could, day by day, be so unlikable and so uninspiring as president?   He talked the talk but he can’t walk the walk.

The polls register the heartbeat of America.

What about the Upstate New York election — the one where conservatives like Sarah Palin put their weight behind a conservative independent candidate, rather than support the Republican canidate because they thought that candidate was too liberal.  

Subsequently the first Democratic mayor since the mid-1800s was elected — what message did that send?