T-Minus Two Weeks

It's an interesting time in the Land of the Still Mostly Free.  America's been given a hefty dose of leftism and she's spitting it out like bad seafood.
With the November 2 election looming like a cartoon anvil over the heads of the president and the Democrats, the consensus is the Republican party will retake the House of Representatives with as many as 55 seats.  The Senate may be in play as well, with the GOP at least lopping a limb off the Democrats' majority.  Recent polling shows that 70 percent of the American people support the basic principles and ideas of the tea party movement -- drastic spending cuts, lower taxes and major reduction in the size of government. 
Despite excuses from the president and his party, the problem is not a "communication" problem.  The brick wall of opposition is not because he didn't explain his policies well enough, or because legislation the Democrat-controlled House and Senate (hurriedly and forcefully) passed was too difficult for the American people to understand.  The opposition is in response to un-American policies and legislation that are understood all too well.
The president has taken to using quaint metaphors to convince the electorate to give his party more time to continue their agenda.  You see, the Republicans were driving a car, and they drove it into a ditch.  (Never mind that his party was in the passenger seat and switched a couple miles down the road.  Remember when the Democrats took over Congress in 2007?  Anyway, it's best not to be bothered by pesky details.)  Now that he is in charge of the keys, he's pushing the car out of the ditch.  And he's not going to give the keys back to Republicans.  And he's going to put the gearshift into D for drive.  Get it?  D for Democrats!  You know, everyone was totally right about him.  He is brilliant!  Anyway, while he wants to go forward, Republicans just want to shift to R for reverse, and go backwards, and drive back into the ditch.  And maybe slash the tires while they're at it.  Because Republicans hate everyone and everything.
Call me cynical, but this delightful metaphorical story might work a lot better if the unemployment rate weren't still at 9.6 percent.
Distrust of crushingly massive, centralized government was built into the foundation of America.  The Constitution enumerates limited power for the federal government and checks on that limited power by distribution into three branches of government.  Additionally, the press was at one time considered a fourth branch in its ability to check the power of the federal government and further ensure protection of Americans' individual liberty.  At some point the press abjugated its responsibilities and, especially in the case of the current power structure, became a mouthpiece for leftist causes.  Journalists vote Democrat en masse, to such an extent that the media's leftist bias has become fodder for the president's self-aggrandizing humor.  As a result, a monolithic power bloc has built a monolithic power authority.
So, how big do you want your government to be?  How important do you want your government to be?  How important do you, the individual, want to be?  The visceral recoil to Democrats' policies is a direct response to these elements -- Americans do not like Big Government. 
This is just the beginning.  This election is shaping up to be a very loud and very angry rebuke of an increasingly centralized, intrusive regime.  Voters intend to elect representatives who remember that small government equals big individuals.  Voters intend to elect representatives who will limit the power of an authoritative, centralized government.  Representatives who will stand up for traditional American principles and protect Americans' liberty and freedom.  The freedom to succeed, and the freedom to fail.
Let's hope America is still the Home of the Brave.