The President Must Earn, Not Just Expect, Respect

No open minded person can believe the myth that Obama honestly wants compromise or bipartisanship. At every turn, the Democrats have excluded Republicans form drafting legislation or have voted down every single amendment to the health care bills in the House. Some 800 amendments have been offered and all rejected. A Republican health care bill HR3400 has been offered as an alternative to HR3200 and Pelosi has buried HR3400 in eight committees; it will never see the light of day in any form.Obama's call for bipartisanship means vote for what I want, you may get some pork as a payoff, but I don't want any help or alternative ideas. It's Obama's way or no way and then he lies about Republicans just being against his proposals but not offering any of their own. No wonder the Republicans held up copies of their proposals in the Joint Session speech and it's amazing that only one Republican (Wilson) lost control of his emotions and rightly tagged Obama as a liar during the Joint Session speech. Every President deserves respect when he first enters office. But to keep respect, he must earn it. Nixon and Carter deserved respect at first, but rightly lost respect due to their performance. Obama has done nothing to earn respect since taking office, from his world apology tour, to numerous failures in influencing foreign governments, to all-time record spending with pork laden bills, to proposing a health care system that is so transparently a plan for a single-payer,government-run system with a huge bureaucracy, more pork projects, health care rationing, increased taxes and even more huge deficit spending.