It was a patented Obama speech.

The thing I am heard from Democrats last night is that he reached across the aisle. I heard the same words. America desperately needs this bipartisan effort. I want to believe the President.   

The question is not about the words, but the meanings and the possibility that his words will happen.

When one digs into the words, there were great disconnects…he said we need offshore drilling, clean coal and safe nuclear power. He has had a full year to begin to advance these yet has done nothing. In fact, I wonder if he talked to George Miller, D-Ca, and company before adding these things to his speech. I served 6 years on the Resource Committee with Mr. Miller, Mr. Markey, D-MA and Democrats in Congress who worked tirelessly to kill offshore drilling. They abhor clean coal technology. It’s Mr. Obama’s party that has blocked all nuclear power for over 30 years. Now he is saying he is going to get these issues passed if Republicans will just work with him. Disconnect. 

Where was the acknowledgement of his party’s responsibility in blocking these issues?   If you are going to reach across the aisle and ask for my help, I would like first for you to explain that Republicans have been working to pass these issues during the 8 years before Obama came into office and it is your team that obstructed them. It will be Democrats who obstruct their passage under President Obama.  Disconnect.

You can watch a video put together by House Natural Resources Committee, which I used to serve on.  The video directly addresses all the talk on energy delevelopment and lack of progress.

He mentioned a freeze in spending…next yearand then demanded new spending bills to be on his desk this year. Disconnect.

He talked against Washington, but his party is in control of Washington. If you want Washington to be different…make it different, don’t blame it on the minority party. Disconnect. 

He correctly mentioned that his party has the largest majority in decades; then he blamed Republicans for not passing his bills. Disconnect.

It is the Democrat majority that is not passing his bills. They do not need Republican votes. They had a super majority in the Senate for a full year. Republicans could block nothing. Yet he did not get his Healthcare Bill passed.   His job killing Cap and Trade legislation sat in the Senate from early July with the 60 vote majority.  Disconnect.  Democrats in the Senate are listening to the people…they are hearing the voice of the voters saying “DO NOT PASS THOSE PIECES OF LEGISLATION.”   Instead of acknowledging that, he blamed Republicans. 

All of his bipartisan talk is just Washington words because at the end of the speech his overwhelming message to Republicans was you are stopping progress. He has enough votes to pass everything he wants, but he blames Republicans. Disconnect.

He talked against blame, but continued throughout his speech to blame. He blamed President Bush, he blamed the Republicans in Congress. He blamed the Supreme Court. Disconnect.

I want to take his words seriously, but he makes it very difficult to believe him:

There was no reaching across the aisle in the health care debate last year and tonight he reaffirmed, there will be no reaching across the aisle on this issue. He said, "You must pass my bill."

I desperately want to believe that the President desires to have both parties work together for the good of the country, but with so many disconnects, he makes it hard to believe he is sincere.

This President talked about American values tonight but he has many disconnects with implementing that as policy.  He is still trying to force a deeply left ideological agenda. I guess he has not heard the results of the Massachusetts election yet.