Funny thing about Massachusetts. It isn't usually in a tsunami zone but there was nothing usual about this temper tantrum from Mother Nature.
TT saw the wave coming and prepared ourselves but clearly - and that would include POTUS et al - a lot of people got caught napping. POTUS' 7 months of sliding poll numbers didn't seem to have much impact on the White House. Growing opposition and plunging support for the Health Care Debacle also seems to have gone unnoticed - or if noticed, dismissed as not meaningful (ah the Arrogance Factor),
Now we have POTUS explaining what happened as 'rage - the same rage that swept me to office', Oh Oh. He doesnt get it. The 70% of independents who abandoned the Democrats for a Cosmo playmate (he is kinda cute in the buff) were in a rage but a rage towards Congress and O. This is 'New Rage'. A year of Health Care shenanigans, sleazy deal making and back room tradeoffs when most Americans were thinking jobs, jobs, jobs. We could go on and on but we won't. O told ABC that because he/his administration had been busy with various crises, they hadn't had time to talk directly to the American people.
Huh? Talk about a bubble. This guy has done nothing BUT talk directly to the American people. He is endlessly giving interviews, making speaches, announcing stuff. His face is everywhere - even Golf Digest with the Tiger.
If O thinks the problem is that he hasnt been talking directly to the American people often enough, we see many more tsunamis. The problem isn't one of talking its one of listening.
TT plans to skip the State of the Union address. We don't really need O to tell us what we already know.
