Republican Congress?

Has anyone else noticed that our "fearless leader", Pres. Obama, seems to be looking forward to working with a hostile Republican Congress?

He couldn't get stuff people WANTED done with a huge majority -- think how much better his excuses will be when he can get NOTHING done === except, perhaps, the total dismantling of any safety net that's left.

He appears more and more to be a creature of Wall Street. A good speaker who is totally disconnected from the real life of main street. It doesn't matter if you're black or white --- he soars above you. Saying nice things -- doing much less.

In al-anon they have a saying: "Don't listen to what the drunk says -- look at what the drunk does". Using that rule -- Obama is a failure on many levels. When it was time for a huge influx of cash, for a real stimulus -- he failed us. When it was time to pass a REAL health care bill -- he failed us (now we see even something as tepid as the current bill lead to calls of "socialism", and armed revolution). DADT is still law. The Employee Free Choice Act never got off the ground, etc., etc., etc.

By the way -- the two wars are still raging. It's as if we are afraid to end them for fear the unemployment rates will skyrocket.

Also, sending volatile youth to fight useless wars seems to mean greater "domestic tranquility". You can't have angry youth asking where their F'ing jobs are, can you? Especially those we have desensitized, those who accept extreme violence -- or its video game version -- the one we've sold for years (anyone else remember that Air Force commercial -- the one that made war look like a huge video game, with no connection to the fact you are KILLING people?).

About 1 in 7 American adults are functionally illiterate. More if you count many immigrants. We no longer seem to WANT to educate our people. What we want to do is FIGHT over how to educate people who do not want to learn, and have parents who don't care.

Our infrastructure is CRUMBLING -- but we do not want to pay for repairs. We have unsafe bridges, failing water systems, an antiquated electric grid --- but no one DARES raise taxes to pay for improvements that pay for themselves in a fairly short time. The productivity of our workers is not rewarded -- and our "leaders" actually IGNORE it ---- opting instead to make stuff ANYWHERE else.

Short term profit rules. "I'll make mine and F YOU".

Maybe Obama has a reason to smoke those cigarettes.