Obama's Christmas Wish

`Season of Progress'

President Barack Obama said the final weeks of Congress proved that Republicans and Democrats can surmount partisan divisions to find consensus on the nation’s most pressing issues.

“If there’s any lesson to draw from these past few weeks, it’s that we’re not doomed to endless gridlock,” Obama said at a year-end press conference at the White House before leaving to spend the holidays in Hawaii with his family.

Instead of political stalemate after last month’s midterm elections, “this has been a season of progress for the American people,” which is what the voters have demanded, he said.

For those following the ongoing drama? What the president is saying? Is that 'now it is time for bipartisan cooperation. Forget the last two years. Just erase that from the memory. Forget about the four years since 06 where Pelosi and Reid and ultimately Obama, basically thumbed their collective noses at their opposition in particular and America in general.

Based on the recent passing of continued tax breaks and extended unemployment, combined with don't ask don't tell and the START treaty? Everything is supposed to be somehow different.

I am always amazed at how easily liberals slip back into their chiffon robes of cooperation, once they don't hold a majority. Everything suddenly changes in their mood and approach. They coo and implore and the only time you see their fangs again, is when they don't get their way.

I still have visions of Bush signing the 'no child left behind and seniors prescription coverage bills.' There was Teddy Kennedy.....standing there applauding at the one moment, then quickly appearing before the cameras afterward to lambaste Bush for under funding the programs and for supposedly taking care of his rich friends in the pharmaceutical industry.

So as I read of the president's newly found hope and desire of bipartisanship in the new year? I can't help but see an image of Obama sitting behind his teleprompter in the Oval office. Methodically reading and re-reading the sentence.. "Now is the time, for all good men to come to the aid of their country."

Use to work for beginning typers. I wonder how it will work for him as his new bipartisan policy statement.