It is a new day!!

Dear Friends,

Since I cannot make any sense out of the actions of President Obama, all the Democrats that ran from him or the American electorate, I have decided to start with a clean slate for everybody and just discuss their actions as we move forward with the Republicans clearly in charge of the country through their control of most of the states as well as the Congress.  It is now time to see if the Republicans will make their policies clear to the people and if the Democrats will honor their progressive liberal roots.

All the "leaders" are talking about finding common ground, but what they seem to mean is to get their way.  Speaker Boehner says that it will "poison the well" and that President Obama will "burn himself" if he acts on immigration.  Apparently Speaker Boehner forgets that he has refused to bring up for a vote in the House a bipartisan immigration bill passed by the Senate in 2013.  Speaker Boehner could foreclose any action by President Obama if he would just get the House to pass the Senate immigration bill.  He has the votes.  He just refuses to let the House vote.  The rest of Speaker Boehner's agenda is authorizing the Keystone pipeline, addressing the broken tax code and repealing Obamacare.  There is nothing in that agenda that sounds like working together to me.

So the next several posts will be directed to President Obama to outline how he can leave the Presidency with his head held high.  In addition to getting credit for all the good things he has done, he can use the next two years to make those of us that worked so hard to get him elected proud of his overall record.

One last look backward to be fair to President Obama.  Here is a list of some of the many great things that President Obama accomplished that must be remembered when judging his Presidency.

Obamacare, economic stimulus to avoid another recession, Dodd-Frank, ending Iraq war, saving US auto industry, repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell, ending most of Bush's torture policies, removing banks from student loans, increasing auto efficiency standards, Lilly Ledbetter equal pay act, appointing two great Supreme Court justices, encouraging renewable energy, expanding CHIP and killing the F-22.

Thanks for reading and please comment,
The Unabashed Liberal