Dear Friends, Yesterday, nearly two months after President Obama ordered Congress to “Pass this bill now!” the President finally got the vote that has demanded time and time again. Unfortunately for Mr. Obama, however, the vote in the Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate did not quite go as planned. Instead, the President and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin failed to rally the necessary support within their own caucus, as two Democratic Senators broke rank and voted against the motion to even bring the legislation to the U.S. Senate Floor for discussion. While this signals a clear dissention within the ranks of a Party so desperately striving for a semblance of solidarity, it also echoes the sentiments of the American people. The days of President Obama and his Democratic super-majority’s blank check legislation are far gone, and the endless White House rhetoric and stale talking points are falling on increasingly deaf ears. |