B.O. is beginning to stink 
By Rob Roper

Barack Obama's poll numbers are slipping. The root cause of this is people are discovering that they disagree overwhelmingly with his policies, particularly in regard to spending and growth of government. Americans don't want massive deficits each year, we don't want to hand our children a $10 trillion debt, we don't want more government bailouts, takeovers or big government intrusions. Increasingly, we don't believe Obama has a plan to deal with these problems. In fact, it looks like he's going to make things worse. (View the latest Rasmussen results here)

Obama ran on "Change we can believe in," but, just five months into his presidency, he's getting harder and harder to believe this man at all. Remember, Obama told us back in January that if we passed the Democrats' trillion dollar "stimulus" bill unemployment wouldn't crack 8%. Well, we did. But, today Obama's spokesman Robert Gibbs tells us to prepare for 10% unemployment - it's coming soon. We were told we needed to give the auto companies billions in taxpayer money to keep them from going bankrupt. Billions of our dollars later... well, for a brief update on the situation check out this link here.

This, of course, begs the question why would anyone want an Obama government takeover of, say, our healthcare system after witnessing just how well the Obama government takeover of Chrysler & GM went? The Congressional Budget Office says that the Democrats' heath care plan will create at least another $1 trillion in deficit spending over the next decade, and will still leave over 36 million Americans uninsured. Why should we believe promises that his health care scheme will "expand coverage, improve quality, lower costs, and honor patient choice" after we've seen the how hollow Obama's promised results on the stimulus and unemployment have worked out?

Even now we see Obama is back-peddling on his promise that Americans would be able to keep their current health care coverage under his plan. The Lewin Group, a nationally prominent econometrics firm, has said that the public plan could result in 119.1 million Americans being transitioned out of private coverage, including employer based coverage, into a public plan. (Click here for the article)

What's happening here is that the President (along with Pelosi, Reid and their Democrat majorities) is asking the American taxpayer to front massive bets on someone about whom the evidence is accumulating can't deliver results and wants to take us in a direction we don't want in the first place. It's not going to fly.

Nationally and here in Vermont we are learning a painful lesson. The far left has complete power over the direction of the government. We are seeing exactly what they want to do, and we are experiencing exactly the consequence of their actions as they effect our lives...  To paraphrase Plato, Democrat throw government at the people in sport, the people suffer in earnest.... At least until November 2010.

Rob Roper is a former Editor of the True North Website.