I swear, I was gonna write about Obama's own health care proposal today (and, for the record, now you can call it Obamacare.)
But I stumbled across an e-mail from a still-faithful reader, questioning my criticism of the president, wondering out loud why I was so hard on the guy.
And I guess the easiest answer I can come up with is that I was just a little disappointed.
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Few things sting as much as disappointment. Growing up, hearing that old classic, "I'm so disappointed in you," hurt far more than the silence, the screaming or even that old brown leather belt.
But don't take my word for it. Ask the president, who ran such a flawless campaign, and now suffers an equally historic voter backlash fueled by, yeah, you guessed it, disappointment.
Or how about the Democrats in Congress, who rode Obama's coattails into a supermajority last November? How much groundbreaking legislation did they manage to pass with that? Exactly. None.
The Republicans aren't exempt. The disenfranchised Congressional minority has managed to turn the party of reconstruction into one of obstruction. Even party savior Sen. Scott Brown has fallen out of favor already with support of the latest jobs bill.
And Americans across the board are as disappointed as ever – if that's not terribly understating it. A new survey shows that "67 percent of respondents say the GOP is not doing enough to cooperate with the White House, up 6 points from last April." More than 50 percent add that Obama isn't doing enough, either. While nearly 60 percent say Democrats should be the first to make a move toward reconciliation – or at least cooperation.
Check out the story for yourself here: www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/02/24/partisanship.poll/
Point is, most of us are sick of the constant bickering. I know I am.
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