Why did Obama and the Liberals Lose

Yesterday a stinging rebuke of liberalism was handed to Obama and his party.  Today is a good day.  Why did the liberals lose so badly?  Was it because they presided over the most corrupt congress in recent memory?  Was it because they were completely deaf to those they were sent to represent? 

There isn't one answer.  Both of these were key factors in the historic loss.  But there is one other factor that isn't getting a lot of airplay on the talking head shows. Obama did not do what he convinced people he would.  Look at his promises and you come to only one conclusion.  He is one of the biggest liars ever to hold the office.

"Will eliminate all income taxation of seniors making less than $50,000 per year. This will eliminate taxes for 7 million seniors -- saving them an average of $1,400 a year-- and will also mean that 27 million seniors will not need to file an income tax return at all."


"Allow Americans to buy their medicines from other developed countries if the drugs are safe and prices are lower outside the U.S."


To reduce bills rushed through Congress and to the president before the public has the opportunity to review them, Obama "will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days."


"I'll give an annual 'State of the World' address to the American people in which I lay out our national security policy."


"Barack Obama is committed to returning earmarks to less than $7.8 billion a year, the level they were at before 1994."


"I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."


To achieve health care reform, "I'm going to have all the negotiations around a big table. We'll have doctors and nurses and hospital administrators. Insurance companies, drug companies -- they'll get a seat at the table, they just won't be able to buy every chair. But what we will do is, we'll have the negotiations televised on C-SPAN, so that people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents, and who are making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies. And so, that approach, I think is what is going to allow people to stay involved in this process."


"The exchange will require that all the plans offered are at least as generous as the new public plan and meet the same standards for quality and efficiency."



"I cannot guarantee that it is going to be in the first 100 days. But what I can guarantee is that we will have in the first year an immigration bill that I strongly support and that I'm promoting. And I want to move that forward as quickly as possible."


The list goes on and on.  Were these just the well intended promises of a naive man not yet ready to become president?  Or were they lies told in order to get elected, with full knowledge they would never be enacted?

I tend to believe they were lies told to get elected, but the reason is unimportant.  Thoughtful Americans from both ideologies have now discovered that Obama cannot be trusted.  Our vengeance has been taken out on his party.  We will wait 2 more years before our vengeance is complete.