by Donald Finley

Created on: February 10, 2010

Those afflicted by the politics of outrage is likely the fastest growing demographic in America.  The Tea Party movement, disillusioned voters, the unemployed, the disenfranchised and nearly everyone who follows the activities of the Obama administration are members of this group. 

It’s simple.  The happenings in Washington D.C. are not supposed to touch Americans in their homes on a daily basis.  Americans understand security measures taken at airports to protect us, and military members understand the sacrifices they volunteered to endure when the president makes decisions in a time of war or crisis.  But when our leaders impose policies on the American public that will take money out of our pockets and give it to the government to spend on frivolous, wasteful and unsustainable programs, outrage is the result.  Not since the demonstrations about the Vietnam War over 35 years ago have Americans taken to the streets by the hundreds of thousands in protest against their own government.

Patriotic Americans see nearly daily actions taken by the Obama administration that squander U.S. wealth, prosperity, strength and security.  Most recently, we survived the administration’s attempts to force healthcare reform on Americans in a manner that would have given control of one-sixth of the U.S. economy to the government, a government now made up of the fewest number of officials with private sector experience in over a century.  We witnessed the president who promised a new era of openness in government and health care negotiations broadcast on C-SPAN call his own closed-door negotiations in the White House.  We heard the Democrat controlled Congress itself raise concerns over the presidential appointments of dozens of Czars, bypassing the Senate’s confirmation role and constitutionally designed checks and balances.

The president promised during his campaign he wouldn’t permit lobbyists in his administration, then paradoxically claimed in his first State of the Union Address not to have any in high level positions, yet he has appointed over 40.  He also hypocritically urged bipartisanship with the same Republicans he had excluded and ignored during the healthcare reform push, that is until Scott Brown’s election to the Senate in Massachusetts took away the Democrat’s Senate supermajority.  Then he promised to continue trying to pass healthcare reform, still without tort reform

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