On the President and why the People are Angry

Mr. President:

We the people are not angry because of some issue called "jobs". We are angry because we voted for you based on your promises not about the specifics of what you would do but rather HOW you would do them.

You said:

1) there would be no place for lobbyists in your administration. That promise lasted a day or two before you started making exceptions for it, which then numbered in the dozens and dozens.
2) healthcare was too important to pass on a 50+1 basis. It was too important to pass on a straight party-line vote. Yet you then proceeded to do exactly that.
3) healthcare would be: on CPSAN for all to see; not behind closed doors; the special interests would be in the open for all to see, hence the no-closed-door part; written in a bipartisan fashion. You proceeded to do exactly the OPPOSITE of literally of those things. It was not written in public, it was written behind closed doors. It was written exclusively by Nancy Pelosi and her minions in the House, behind closed doors, to the exclusion of anyone other than a select few Democrats.
4) you would govern in a bipartisan fashion. That died stillborn. You made no effort to do so. You immediately, BEFORE ever meeting with Republicans, started calling them names and talking down to them -- all things someone sincerely wanting to achieve bipartisanship would NOT do. You refused to push your own party to include anyone other than Ms. Pelosi and her ilk (of your own party) in the process, as she was shutting out any attempt made by Republicans to submit ideas (over and over and over again).
5) you would rise above the name-calling and not demonize your opponents. That one didn't make it past the moment you said it. Your party has done nothing but demonize its opponents, and you have waded deeply into that disgusting pool yourself even recently (with the "poor me, they treat me like a dog" speech).
Your promises as to HOW you would govern is why you were elected, sir, in an effort to bring the country past the partisan governance of the past. Yet you proceeded (admittedly, to no surprise to those of us who bothered to read about your background before voting) to govern in ways that would only exacerbate and extend that very partisanship. You did nothing whatsoever to bridge divides, other than state "agree with me, or else".

Ultimately, Mr. President, you are being held accountable for how you promised to govern. And in that regard, sir, you have proven that you meant nothing of those promises, since you have broken literally all of them. THAT is why the Tea Parties exist, Mr. President; that is why the Republicans are about to retake the House and probably the Senate, as well as a large majority of the governorships, not to mention statehouses.

Your predecessor actually knew how to try to be bipartisan. He brought Ted Kennedy INTO the process and had him co-write the Education reform efforts in the early Bush years. Co-write -- not "agree with what I want, or else". Your behavior in office, and that of Ms. Pelosi, has only reminded people that George Bush actually tried to be partisan GENIUNELY... and that you, flatly, never bothered, despite promising to do so.

You and your party, Mr. President, are being judged by the American people based on how you promised to govern -- and the fact that you did not govern even remotely according to what you said you would do.

It really is that simple.