@plainoldme,
plainoldme wrote:
i asked not too long ago how is that the Tea Party folks and the more mainstream Repubs hate Obama for "lacking executive experience" yet the Tea Totalitarians want all government officials voted out and replaced with newbies?
Does that make sense?
You have misrepresented their position. The Congress has, over the past three decades gerrymandered itself into a situation in which few Congressional districts ever have seriously contested elections. As a result we have career representatives in the Congress who have become increasingly adept at misusing their powers to secure their positions. In our democracy it is experience in life that counts, not experience in governing - particularly for legislators.
Now that our Congress has given us a "deficit neutral" massive new health care entitlement, that has already shown itself to be far from dfeficit neutral; and enected a financial reform that intrudes in our lives in manifold ways but still entirely exempted Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two institutions at the heart of the crisis that motivated the reform itself -- it is only reasonable for the electorate to want a new legislature.
In the president's case, the issue is that he lacks gravitas, the courage and wisdom to deal with long-term issues and occasionally rise above endless pandering to his political support groups. He's clearly an adept and experienced campaigner, however we need more than that.
