Manns Medium

If you have been following any of the news today, regardless of which channel you prefer, you should have no doubt have heard about the proposal House Republicans took to the White House.   While I am ever so weary of these games played by both sides in Washington, only a blind person may not be able to see that the Republican fire spoken so frequently about has gone out and not one ember remain.   Before I tell you how I think it could have been done and all of this unnecessary drama avoided, let me tell you why I think it all went wrong.   The number one reason is this “blind hatred” of Barack Obama.   Republicans allowed themselves to be played like a five dollar fiddle because they were so focused on maintaining an adversarial relationship with this president and his administration.   Proof is all around you if you allow yourself to take a few minutes and look.   Before he was even sworn in, there were forces meeting to insure that anything he...

Before the ink dried on the ballots electing Barack Obama the 44 th President of the United States, the battle was joined.   It was a battle between those who could not imagine an African-American ever being in the White House and those who wanted change.   All along the way, different types of ammunition was used to defeat this person and to opposition demise nothing they tried worked but there was no giving up for these die-hard real Americans who saw this person as nothing like them. Before he met with the Republicans the very first time, they had gotten together and decided to oppose everything he attempted to do.   Many leaders of the party were already touting his failure and publically proclaiming him a “one-termer”.   They were sure that he would fail, especially on one of his signature legislation skirmishes called Healthcare, that one prominent party member called it his “Waterloo”.   The voters must have figured out their strategy because when they ...