President Obama, who was probably excited about doing the State of the Union Address right up to the point that Scott Brown won the election in MA.

Even though it would appear the possibility of Healthcare bill passing is small. He still managed to mention Healthcare in one form or another 10 times. He clearly does not understand the message the people sent loud and very clear in the NJ, VA, and MA elections that the majority of the Obama’s plans are not what the people want.

While we all agree the Healthcare system is in need of fixes, we also know it is the best in the world. In addition, most people do not want the Government to be involved in running the Healthcare industry.

Even the Climate bill (Cap and Trade) which brought a laugh from the members of Congress after Obama mentioned the information debunking it. VP Biden who seemed very pleased about the false and manipulated data that Cap and Trade is based on kept a huge smile on his face for a longer than a normal amount of time.

Obama stressed fiscal restraint in the form of a partial freezing on discretional spending, (whatever that means) which is downright hypocritical. Since last week, the Democrats raised the debt ceiling by another $1.9 trillion dollar.

Obama has also spent more money than any other President in the history of the US has in one year.

Obama stressed that the Republicans should work together with the Democrats and that by not getting involved it is not Leadership on the part of the Republicans.

He fails to recognize that the Republicans have been literally locked out of the room on Healthcare negotiations and since the Democrats had a super majority in the Senate, they took advantage it by not involving the Republicans in on the process.

If you would like to see what the Republicans have proposed that the Democrats has been ignored in Congress go to www.solutions.gop.gov.

Regarding the Supreme Court Ruling for businesses donating to Campaigns he made another misdirected statement of the truth saying that foreign money can be donated to US campaigns.

This is not true. Foreign corporations cannot, however, create independent ads to assist a campaign, donate money, give goods or anything else to a candidate’s campaign.

He showed a complete lack of knowledge and disrespected the Supreme Court Justices sitting in the audience.

Apparently, Obama did get a small bit of the message that NJ, VA and MA sent since he did speak of the unemployment issue but there was no real substance to what he said that in the near term future would solve this problem. He wants an employment bill on his desk asap.

It has now become the Crisis de jour. It is hard to get behind these programs without details and committing $1.5 billion dollars to fix the problem. The first Stimulus Bill failed in part because there were no details, checks or oversight in it, and it appears that Obama wants to do it again.

He needed to talk about helping entrepreneurs to create new businesses that will hire employees that will spend money, pay taxes and spur the economy. He also failed to talk about tax breaks to help business stay in business and keep people employed.

There was no mention of a fix to the housing market and the large amounts of people that have lost their homes or are in the process of losing their homes. Jobs, assisting small businesses to stay in business and home retention are the top three issues of the day.

Since Healthcare and Cap and Trade have been the focus of this administration instead of the real world US issues, many people were not satisfied with Obama’s empty promises.

He announces that gays in the Military were OK went over like a ton of brick with the military personnel that were in attendance. They did not clap, showed no emotion, except for a slight show of disgust.

In addition, Obama did not talk about Gitmo, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which are extremely important issues today.

The State of the Union was lacking in facts, substance and failed to address most of the very important issues to the Citizens of the US care about. The Democrat’s are missing the point that the Citizens of the US have stressed repeatedly.

We want less government and lower taxes along with a better education system that will teach our kids, so they can get good jobs and make the US competitive in the world market.

We also want our Country protected from foreign enemies along with funding or the repair or replacement of our deteriorating infrastructure of roads and bridges. In addition, we want the US Constitution and the Rule of law followed.

No more of this make it up as we go along. In addition we do not want the UN anywhere near the US and giving INTERPOL more power than our FBI and CIA is a huge mistake that is yet to be explained.

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While I believe the following is true, my point is, flattery will get you farther with anyone than bile. Feel free to replicate

“Senator Ben Nelson
720 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Via Fax: (202) 228-0012

Dear Senator Nelson:

I believe you to be a man of honor with a good record of fiscal restraint. I cannot imagine the pressure you must be under in the mafia-like atmosphere that Washington has become.

I implore you, one behalf of what is best about the “old” Ben Nelson, to change your position supporting cloture on this health care bill.

The now-infamous “Nebraska shakedown” is very likely to go down in history with the corrupt bargains of 1820, the Hayes-Tilden election of 1876, and Iran-Contra as among the top ten shameful corrupt moments in American history.

Unfortunately Ben Nelson will be the name kids reading history books associate with it, probably unfairly. The “old” Ben Nelson who cut spending as governor of Nebraska and stood firm against his party on issues he believed in will become an ironic footnote. I think that would be a damn shame.

Whatever the merits of extending health insurance to the uninsured and uninsurable, whatever this chimera of a cobbled-together bill is, it is loaded with unforeseen consequences that no one could possibly have thought through in the few days the leadership has been throwing it together.

Middle America has no confidence in what is happening, nor should we. We have no reason to believe that the government can manage or solve the challenges of health care better than the present flawed system.

Everybody has hard moments in life where we are uncertain which way to turn. Sometimes we have to make a split second irrevocable decision and are stuck forever with the consequences.

I think you have the rare opportunity to redeem your reputation and help defeat this monstrous bill.

Editor’s Note: We would like to know what you think. dan@goldcoastchronicle.com