There’s no doubt that the Republican strategy is to make the Democrats and President Obama fail at governing. To date, it’s been a bold and effective strategy supported by special interests. For example, Big Coal loathes any attempts at climate change legislation or any energy policy touting renewable energy as the way forward. Fox News has been an essential ingredient in the aggressive plan to derail the Obama presidency, and Fox News has no problem peddling bad information or even lies. Another key ingredient has been the Tea Party movement. The Tea Party movement has backed the strategy to derail the Obama Administration’s agenda by consistently parroting disinformation (even though certain policies and reforms recommended by the Obama Administration could benefit members of the tea party movement). To date, these stakeholders in a failed Obama presidency have successfully thwarted health care reform and energy legislation. The only way democrats can remedy this aggressive political strategy is to turn out in significant numbers during the 2010 mid-term elections and with the same enthusiasm that got President Obama elected.

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