When Barack Obama won the American presidency last fall, he promised change. At the time I was utterly convinced that he was the only person who could bring change not only to America, but to the world. More convincing was the electoral Democratic majorities won in both the House and the Senate. In Electoral College terms and popular opinion, Obama and the Democrats were given an overwhelming mandate to govern.

More than a year later, however, little progress has been made on several important promises of “change”, including health care.

An article in last week’s Economist asked the question if the American system is fundamentally flawed or just not being played well enough by the Democrats. The paper sided with the latter opinion and I’m inclined to agree.

Apparently a number of senior Democratic politicians and aides were angered by President Obama’s most recent attempt to appease the Republicans by altering the health care bill yet again to include some of their requests such as tort reform.

I’m assuming they’re wondering what I’m wondering: you were elected to bring change; you have the votes in your party to bring it; so bring it.

That sounded like a challenge, didn’t it? Good, I meant it.

I see no reason why an Executive and Congress that was elected and has the ability to bring change would rather try and make everyone happy by debating it. Well, time is running out because after the Massachusetts Senate loss to Scott Brown and the other losses that will undoubtedly occur in November’s mid-term elections, the chance for real change may be lost for good.