Torrance, January 15, 2009
We were all indeed thrilled with the election of President Obama and the attendant gains in both the House and Senate. So we all relaxed a bit, I suppose. I (and other concerned TDC board members) noticed a gradual decline in meeting attendance and membership. Even after several pleas for members to renew their memberships and to bring new members into the club, our membership is still not even near the level it has been in previous years.
Now there is serious talk about the probability of losing Ted Kennedy's seat in the Senate to a Repugligan in next Tuesday's election. We will see how it comes out, but it doesn't look good. People, we must remain vigilant! The Repugligans never relax, and they now have relatively unlimited sources of funds (the hundreds of billions in bank bailout money they bilked us out of, for one). If you don't become alarmed and upset you will never do anything. You woke up during the Bush debacle, but now you seem to have gone back to sleep. Reawaken!
My only hope now (and it seems to be fading away too) is that we retain the Massachusetts seat in the Senate and pass the health care bill so the President can get on with the business of governing with his prestige intact. If health care dies as the Repugligans want it to, bad as it is, it will mean a more difficult path for the President to achieve his important work to