Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Good for Obama, Bad for Congressional Democrats

This opinion article was written by Marc A. Thiessen. In this commentary, the intended audiences are both parties; Republicans and Democrats. Thiessen comes off to be a Republican just based on his remarks and words used to describe the actions of the congressional Democrats, and statistics that are favorably negative towards the Democrat's health care bills. Thiessen is simply giving the congressional Democrats a heads up on what could happen to them in the mid-term election in November. He believes that the congressional Democrats are acting upon their health care bill too aggressively, and they could possibly loose their seats because of it. Although Thiessen has only written a few articles from what I have seen on Washington Post which makes him less credible, he does supply several credible and informative statistics in this particular article; he has done his research. Thiessen's arguement is that it may be a good thing that the voters are taking out their anger about health care towards the congressional Democrats, because that can take much of the "attention" off of Obama, which in turn could give him another four years in office. I do not agree or disagree with Thiessen, because honestly I do not really know too much about what is going on, but what I do want (or should I say wish for) is for the Republicans and Democrats to get together and create a health care plan that will benefit the United States!