Fear-mongers deliver victory for Republicans
They're partying in the House, but voters will suffer the hangover
November 4, 2010
BY MARY MITCHELL
Chicago Sun-Times Columnist
A day after President Obama got what he called a "shellacking" in the midterm elections, he took full responsibility for the outcome that turned over the House to the Republicans.
Pundits will spend the next few days poring over the numbers. But judging from the questions reporters asked at the news conference, the defeat is being cast as a clear message from voters that Obama is going in the wrong direction.
I suppose that the president should not have revamped the health-care system, propped up the auto and banking industries and reined in Wall Street before coming up with a miracle that would have put the vast majority of those now unemployed back to work.
Apparently, two years ago, many of us were not listening.
During his campaign for the White House, Obama told Americans a cold-hearted truth that went in one ear and out the other:
Many of the jobs that have disappeared are not coming back.
The next time you drive through a tollbooth and get stuck behind someone who doesn't have the proper amount of coinage to put in the machine, ask yourself when human workers are coming back.
(More here.)
November 4, 2010
BY MARY MITCHELL
Chicago Sun-Times Columnist
A day after President Obama got what he called a "shellacking" in the midterm elections, he took full responsibility for the outcome that turned over the House to the Republicans.
Pundits will spend the next few days poring over the numbers. But judging from the questions reporters asked at the news conference, the defeat is being cast as a clear message from voters that Obama is going in the wrong direction.
I suppose that the president should not have revamped the health-care system, propped up the auto and banking industries and reined in Wall Street before coming up with a miracle that would have put the vast majority of those now unemployed back to work.
Apparently, two years ago, many of us were not listening.
During his campaign for the White House, Obama told Americans a cold-hearted truth that went in one ear and out the other:
Many of the jobs that have disappeared are not coming back.
The next time you drive through a tollbooth and get stuck behind someone who doesn't have the proper amount of coinage to put in the machine, ask yourself when human workers are coming back.
(More here.)
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