Americans as Spectators to Drama of Uncertainty
Published: 9 October 2013 By Abiodun Giwa
American Founding Fathers
Americans have become spectators to uncertainty, a sort of drama that Washington DC political game currently constitutes.
Every politician and their supporters seek justification of their position in a government shutdown that is seen as capable of shutting the world economy if it drags into the country's default in payment of its debt.
There is also the sideshow by the liberal and conservative news outlets. Some of us who may have thought that the checks and balances in a democratic system of government is excellent have begun thinking otherwise.
Yet, some people still say it is a case like the current drama of uncertainty that has made the America's democracy peculiar, and the reason it has been confounding to the the world. They say the lawmakers, the executive and the judiciary disagree to agree. No one is certain how the system works, unlike other democracies, where some pundits said American politicians are bankrupt. But for the way America's democracy works, the contest in Washington is not viewed as totally absurd.
There is a photograph showing Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Charles Schumer standing behind a banner that reads, "Affordable Care for Poor Americans," that demonstrates the Democratic Party's position. They are the president's men and the liberal's face antagonizing the Republicans, now called conservative's hardliners, and who seek to push the beginning of Obamacare to another one year.
All of a sudden, both the liberals and the conservatives have turned into hardliners with none ready to shift ground to think about the people, the nation and the world.
President Barack Obama has consistently called on the conservatives to end holding of the country to ransom, and he says that the conservatives have resorted to extortion. But the conservatives led by John Boehner say that they believe they are doing what is right, and that they are on the side of the American people. Many of the conservative members of the Senate and the House are reported to be buoyed by the support they enjoy from their districts. The democrats shot back saying the president won a landslide reelection, the Obamacare approved by the Congress and validated by the Supreme Court.
The fear of losing in the forthcoming elections, which the liberal had thought would force the Republicans to dialogue with the president has evaporated. They Republicans seem determined to achieve their aim at puncturing the Obamacare if it cannot be delayed for another one year. They seem ready for the worse of losing elections by standing by on their demand. And the president has no more election battle ahead of him, this being his second and last term in office.
People are saying that if President Obama has an election to campaign for, the situation would have been different. But now they say he has nothing to lose but his Obamacare, and he is fighting not to lose what represents his signature program.
But people asks that what is wrong for the president to allow the health program to be delayed for one year, since there is no threat to scrap it. But the president says the Republican has to re-open the government they have shut before he will dialogue on any changes to the Obamacare's take off. But curious members of the public people asked ask whether it was the Republicans that shut the government or the disagreement between the Republican Party led House of Representatives and the Democratic Party led Senate? The question brings to the fore the real cause of the impasse that is seeking to throw not just the U.S. economy, but the world economy as a whole into a doldrum.
Was not the Democratic Party in control of the Senate and the House, when the Obamacare passed without a single vote from the Republicans and the subsequent resort to the judiciary? The judiciary undoubted validated what the Democrats had made a law, but amid debates about the perfection or otherwise of the letters of the law, and the Republicans waited on the wing for a moment to pounce on the partisan passing of the Obamacare. The moment came with their repossessing of the House from the Democrats in a subsequent election and limiting the Democrats to control of the Senate, and thus turned into the drama of a divided Congress.
Every politician and their supporters seek justification of their position in a government shutdown that is seen as capable of shutting the world economy if it drags into the country's default in payment of its debt.
There is also the sideshow by the liberal and conservative news outlets. Some of us who may have thought that the checks and balances in a democratic system of government is excellent have begun thinking otherwise.
Yet, some people still say it is a case like the current drama of uncertainty that has made the America's democracy peculiar, and the reason it has been confounding to the the world. They say the lawmakers, the executive and the judiciary disagree to agree. No one is certain how the system works, unlike other democracies, where some pundits said American politicians are bankrupt. But for the way America's democracy works, the contest in Washington is not viewed as totally absurd.
There is a photograph showing Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Charles Schumer standing behind a banner that reads, "Affordable Care for Poor Americans," that demonstrates the Democratic Party's position. They are the president's men and the liberal's face antagonizing the Republicans, now called conservative's hardliners, and who seek to push the beginning of Obamacare to another one year.
All of a sudden, both the liberals and the conservatives have turned into hardliners with none ready to shift ground to think about the people, the nation and the world.
President Barack Obama has consistently called on the conservatives to end holding of the country to ransom, and he says that the conservatives have resorted to extortion. But the conservatives led by John Boehner say that they believe they are doing what is right, and that they are on the side of the American people. Many of the conservative members of the Senate and the House are reported to be buoyed by the support they enjoy from their districts. The democrats shot back saying the president won a landslide reelection, the Obamacare approved by the Congress and validated by the Supreme Court.
The fear of losing in the forthcoming elections, which the liberal had thought would force the Republicans to dialogue with the president has evaporated. They Republicans seem determined to achieve their aim at puncturing the Obamacare if it cannot be delayed for another one year. They seem ready for the worse of losing elections by standing by on their demand. And the president has no more election battle ahead of him, this being his second and last term in office.
People are saying that if President Obama has an election to campaign for, the situation would have been different. But now they say he has nothing to lose but his Obamacare, and he is fighting not to lose what represents his signature program.
But people asks that what is wrong for the president to allow the health program to be delayed for one year, since there is no threat to scrap it. But the president says the Republican has to re-open the government they have shut before he will dialogue on any changes to the Obamacare's take off. But curious members of the public people asked ask whether it was the Republicans that shut the government or the disagreement between the Republican Party led House of Representatives and the Democratic Party led Senate? The question brings to the fore the real cause of the impasse that is seeking to throw not just the U.S. economy, but the world economy as a whole into a doldrum.
Was not the Democratic Party in control of the Senate and the House, when the Obamacare passed without a single vote from the Republicans and the subsequent resort to the judiciary? The judiciary undoubted validated what the Democrats had made a law, but amid debates about the perfection or otherwise of the letters of the law, and the Republicans waited on the wing for a moment to pounce on the partisan passing of the Obamacare. The moment came with their repossessing of the House from the Democrats in a subsequent election and limiting the Democrats to control of the Senate, and thus turned into the drama of a divided Congress.
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