US Elections 2010..... Why the Democrats Lost?

 The midterm election 2010 turned out to be in favor of the Republicans. The seats won for the senate were: Democrats = 51, Republicans = 46. The house: Democrats = 183, Republicans = 240. The Governors: Democrats = 15, Republicans = 27.  Only 2 years were given to the Democrats to provide America of what they called, Change. Reason for being dumped by the public can be stated out in many. Let’s say that if a politician doesn’t promise a certain thing, he doesn’t have to answer it. The public mostly demand the forgotten or the unfulfilled dreams that he had shown them. 

President Obama was trusted to bring a change in the system that had been brutally failed by the former president, Bush. Many families were concerned about the return of the soldiers that were sent to Afghanistan and Iraq. Obama made them the promise that soon they’ll be brought back home. The timeline given by the government was the end of 2010. No one can claim that the evacuation from both of these countries is an easy task. But the motivation shown by Obama surely made it sound easy. 30,000 more troops were sent by the mid of this year. So it sure did turned out to be a disappointment. Just like the other countries a huge part of the federal budget is given to aid the national security. In time like these, when America is facing once more the plague of unemployment, this was unbearable to both, citizens and critics. People were given a chance to get back on their feet by various seasonal and off seasonal workshops. They were shown alternatives of making easy and good money. But the output was slow like a snail. People continued on the unemployment of the workers and nothing was to be done by the government. 

The British Petroleum fueled the disasters for it. We got a chance to hear some lame and childish comments from the senators, “Let the Nature handle it”. So, the Oil-leak situation stained the reputation of Democrats. Early this year Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona signed a strict bill against illegal immigrants. All the President could do was to make a strong critic against it and that’s it. Most of the American Population is based on the immigrants, including the President’s family. People hoped high for the restrain orders to be given by the President.

The Health Bill was one of the main highlights. The United States of America run on a system that’s called, capitalism. However, unlike its predecessors and neighbor democratic countries, Americans must have a health insurance if they want to have a medical treatment, even to get a stitch in case of emergency. The new Health Bill seemed a ray of light for the lower middle and the lower class. Most of the new generation had concerns about the previous system of insurance and many of them didn’t have in mind to gain one. But the bill made it easy for all of them. What happened was the so called Tea Party’s opposing that the bill will increase the causes of unemployment and their other lame issues that made the bill unpopular. One thing isn’t understandable that why can’t people get free health insurance with the money that they already pay in shape of taxes. 

Mr. Obama said that changes don’t occur overnight. They take sometime. But the public thought it had already given enough time. It seems that Mr. Obama will now have to bully his way through the heads of the republicans, especially if he wants to be reelected. But for the Republicans it’s a second chance to redeem and learn from their past and not to make the same mistakes, that of the Bush Jr.

 by Khalid Saeed Butt for Clique.