They still don’t get it

That something, of course, is a growing sense that President
Barack Obama and the congressional Democrats just don’t get it, that they are
so fixated on healthcare reform, cap-and-trade legislation and bemoaning the
“mess” they inherited from President George W. Bush that they have
lost touch with where the country is today.

Americans are looking for jobs, hoping to pay the
mortgage/rent and looking to ensure they have enough food to put on the table
in these tough economic times. They are not looking to their elected leadership
in Washington to apologize for America, give constitutional rights to
terrorists seeking to blow up airplanes on Christmas Day or cram through a healthcare
bill that will raise their taxes while reducing their options to receive
affordable coverage.

After one of the most stunning political wakeup calls in
recent American history, President Obama remains the aloof Imperial King rather
than the empathetic and compassionate chief executive he inspired voters to
believe would bring a new order of hope and change to Washington. Rather than
bringing his chief political adviser (David Plouffe) back to the fold, the
president would be better served by bringing in a senior hand to be placed on
the rudder to correct the listless circles in which this White House has been
drifting for the past several months. Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle
(D-S.D.) and veteran White House adviser David Gergen immediately come to mind.

Unless and until the president and his advisers depart from
this misguided populist assault on capitalism in America, they will only
reinforce a message that the American people have already received loud and
clear: They still don’t get it.