Arianna: The Public Has Lost Faith In Government

Arianna appeared on MSNBC's election-night panel to discuss the GOP's major congressional gains in light of exit poll responses.

"Nine out of ten Americans worried about the economy, 90 percent worried about the future," Arianna told cohost Keith Olbermann. The Obama administration, she said, "completely miscalculated when it put health care ahead of jobs ... and the inevitable happened. The public lost faith in Democrats using government to do good things. And the fact that health care is going to kick in in 2014 for most people wasn't a consolation prize."

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[bridgeman]

11:42 AM on 11/06/2010

i think arianna is 100% correct

[David VeLar]

08:40 PM on 11/03/2010

Obama it's big of you to take responsibility,

But I blame those cowards at the Senate. House progressives had been clamouring to the senate about their slow motion approach...

And for you to get the blame for their failure is a travesty. You did all you can do.

Harry Reid is a wus, 100%. Yea Sharon Angle is much worse, but still, he should not be speaker. he sucks. He's like a paper pusher. He has no passion, no will power. Its like he gets slapped in the mouth and says "Oh im sorry its my fault, lets compromise"

[kmeccat]

05:11 PM on 11/03/2010

I have not only lost faith in the government, I have pretty much lost faith that the corruption can be rooted out.
Money rules, not we the people.
Candidates seem preselected by the billionaires--apparently, in some cases, years in advance.
Political campaigns and voting seem like an expensive, elaborately staged farce.
I'll still vote, but my confidence that it really makes a difference has been shaken...esp since the Citizen's United decision.

[Vinzago]

02:27 PM on 11/03/2010

Americans have always expressed frustration with Congress. Beating up on Congress, not matter which party is in control, is as much an American pasttime as baseball. Every election cycle, the pundits act like it's something new.

I find it interesting that most Americans hate Congress but love their own Congressperson. It's a case where the whole is less than the sum of its parts, but that's democracy. The bigger the group, the less likely it is that decisions will be satisfactory on an individual level. A small group can find things they agree on. A large group can only find things they don't disagree on. Three frinds out to dinner will find a great restaurant. Ten friends will end up at the Olive Garden.

[cgeorge152]

10:56 AM on 11/03/2010

Have we fully ruled out electronic voter tabulation fraud and manipulation yet?

[Dunkleberger Karl]

01:10 PM on 11/03/2010

In Big Mo the rate of voters was less than 5 per hour per machine exsept for Kansas city! Did they ever fix the system?

[hootie1fan]

06:16 AM on 11/03/2010

Losing faith in government and turning over the reigns to the Republicans in hopes that they will make things better is like being third in-line at the emergency room and becoming tired of holding the compress on your cut while waiting to see the doctor. You go out side see a Republican who promises to help. They cut off your leg and give it to some private bio-tech corporation for research which you are paying for but which they own and then John Boehner not only blames you for bleeding to death but sends your family a bill for oozing all over his Bruno Magli's

[hootie1fan]

06:08 AM on 11/03/2010

Any member of the Public who has lost faith in government and thinks the Republicans are going to make it right are delusional

[TylerSutherland]

06:05 AM on 11/03/2010

No, Arianna, the public is just a bunch of complete morons.

[fiddler3]

12:20 PM on 11/06/2010

I love the argument that goes:
I'm right and you're stupid. It is very convincing.

[huffingtonsurferdude]

05:57 AM on 11/03/2010

Just wait now until Boehner and the Republicans loot the public treasury some more! The Bush Cheney years were not the end of Republican thievery-- let the good times roll. Republicans will rob the American public like they always have, completely. Crooks and liars on their way to scoop up the public gravy-- get ready for the GOP muggers!

[hootie1fan]

06:10 AM on 11/03/2010

Somebody has to try and shift spending from programs designed to help people to programs that help "corporations are people too" (Wall Street/MIlitary Industrial Complex/Big Corp and the Republicans are going to do just that.

[Dunkleberger Karl]

01:16 PM on 11/03/2010

If corperation are peaple, then our goverment should be able to Draft their butts and send them to afganastan!

[kevinbr38]

05:36 AM on 11/03/2010

I don't think it's so much that the public has lost faith in government, but rather lost respect for government. How else to explain the choices that voters made. This is not going to be a congress that we will be able to respect. The last congress was dominated by naay-sayers, and now many more of them have been voted in. Check back in two years, the tides will turn again. I believe that people want to hqave faith in, trust in their government.

[Hirnlego]

05:35 AM on 11/03/2010

It should be directed more towards themselves:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIraCchPDhk

Carlin. Doesn't vote.

[luutzu]

05:29 AM on 11/03/2010

I hope I would never come to see giving millions of people healthcare a 'miscalculation'.

[Ascoli]

05:43 AM on 11/03/2010

Only in America is healthcare a........'miscalculation'
Only in America............."best country in the world"

[NYC123]

05:19 AM on 11/03/2010

Of cause the public has lost faith - Obama came into office with a mandate and a majority that the cowardly Dems for self serving interest, of re-elections, poisoned the waters! And instead what the supporters got, not the new direction promised, but rather something that appeared and felt Bush-like! Obama and the Dems had in their arsenal the power and drive to carve that mandate and did not do it! And while the middle class suffered through our great depression, Wall Street was bailed out and, in our faces were handing out billions in bonus! A painful snapshot now burned into the consciousness of the American people!

[lastpost]

05:03 AM on 11/03/2010

“The Public Has Lost Faith In Government”
The public have had their sight restored, and now see who the real un-deselectable government is. That votes for politicians, rather than polices, aren’t worth the ballot paper they are written on.

[tbone99]

05:02 AM on 11/03/2010

Obama may have known something we are unwilling to face - our jobs aren't coming back but there is no end in sight for disease and health problems.

Basically the medical industry and fast food are one of the industries we can count on ... and one feeds the other

[Enroh Mot]

05:10 AM on 11/03/2010

Manufacturing instruments of death and destruction, and sending them overseas, weapons are our biggest export, a mental disease, harmful to many.