American Thinker: The 'Party of No' is the Party of the People

American Thinker: The 'Party of No' is the Party of the People: "This past week, President Barack Obama campaigned and raised money for a number of Democratic candidates across the country. While campaigning, President Obama took the opportunity to lambaste Republicans as obstructionists and went so far as to seemingly insult the GOP as the Party of 'no we can't.'

What President Obama effectively did was label the Republican Party as the party of the people, as saying 'no' to the policies of Obama and the rubber-stamp Democratic leadership, like the GOP has done, reflects the will of the American people.

The major policy victories of President Obama and his Democratic allies have come despite the fact that a majority of Americans were adamantly opposed to them. When Obama championed the need for health care reform such that all Americans would be required to purchase insurance, the American people said 'no.' Americans were also against the multiple corporate bailouts and massive increase in government spending that have characterized this administration and the Democratic leadership.

It is this governing against the will of the people that has caused Obama's approval rating to plunge to 44 percent, according to Gallup, near the low of his presidency, and for the approval rating of the Democrat-led Congress to drop to a mere 19 percent.