America to Obama: Stop now. You lost

“So I wish the president would stop pushing those very same agenda policies like Obamacare, or issuing more executive orders and tacking on more regulations as he is walking out the door,” said Lee, the president of Lee Supply Company in this Mon Valley town.

“These are issues and policies voters clearly wanted nothing to do with,” he said.

Since November, Obama has conducted a flurry of actions and issued executive orders that have not just irked Trump voters, but also many Democrats.

His list of last-minute political maneuvers is impressive. He gave an order to the EPA to proceed with its controversial Stream Protection Rule that even further curtails the coal industry; designated the majority of government-owned Artic lands closed to drilling; commuted the sentences of more prisoners than all of the last six presidents combined; sped up the refugee resettlement process; permitted the United Nations Security Council to pass a resolution declaring all Israeli settlement activity to be illegal; and designated over 1.5 million acres for two new national monuments, Gold Butte in Nevada and Bears Ears in Utah.

“His tin ear has been breathtaking,” said Anthony Ripepi, a 54-year-old chief of surgery at a suburban Pittsburgh hospital.

Ripepi also found Washington Democrats standing behind Obamacare praising the law on Wednesday an amusing stage setting, “considering I have not seen or heard anyone of them running on the merits of that law since it was passed,” he said.

“All they have done is run away from it, and I’ve seen a lot of local Democrats lose their seats because of it, now he uses them to try to resurrect it as he is walking out the door? Like I said, it’s amusing,” he said.

Lee, whose energy company relies on the coal industry as part of its energy portfolio said it is clear no one in Washington yet understands the message voters were sending with these election results.

Both he and Ripepi grew up Democrat voters in blue-collar manufacturing towns, but the party moved away from them beginning with Al Gore in 2000.

Jon Ralston, a Nevada political mainstay and editor of the Nevada Independent, says the bigger story about Obama’s controversial “land grab” in the Silver State is that this move was Obama’s parting gift to outgoing Democratic senate minority leader Harry Reid.

The federal government controls 25 percent of all land in the U.S. More than half of that lies west of the Rockies, and nearly 90 percent of Nevada is federally owned.

“I don’t know if his move is good or bad but what it does do is stir up the conservative base in this state more so than it already is, which is already at a record high. In short, this move makes Republican and independent-leaning conservatives more upset and more engaged than the Democrats are going to be about being happy about the move,” he said.

Kevin Washo, 35, a Pennsylvania Democratic strategist from working-class Scranton, Pa., wonders why the Obama administration did not veto the U.N. Security Council resolution that calls for an end to Israeli settlements, especially given the difficult votes senators were forced to make on the Iran deal.

“This latest U.N. vote leaves many people scratching their heads,” said Washo, who served as the executive director of the host committee for the Democrats’ Philadelphia convention last year.

“Most Americans and elected officials know Israeli security has to be the top priority and should be across the board. Anything to stymy that looks questionable,” explained Washo, who is now a principal with Cozen O’Connor Public Strategies.

Obama made it clear in his interview with his former chief strategist David Axelrod last month he believes he and his policies would have beaten Donald Trump last November. He is reinforcing that belief by continuously issuing executive orders and attempting to salvage his unpopular Obamacare by making a rare visit to Capitol Hill Wednesday.

What he misses, perhaps, is that many of his supporters in key swing counties and states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin voted for Trump last year.

Many of those voters were unhappy with the healthcare law.

Gallup tracking surveys conducted since the law was enacted have consistently shown the president’s signature legislation unpopular. More people have steadily disapproved of the law than supported, from 48 percent disapproval to a high of 56 percent.

The latest Gallop survey conducted after the election showed Americans’ assessments of Obamacare relatively unchanged, with more continuing to disapprove (53 percent) than approve (42 percent) of the law.

The survey also showed the vast majority of Americans want to see the law changed.

“And this is exactly what this administration missed in the election results, voters were rejecting his policies, yet he believes he appropriate response is to dig in on them,” said Ripepi.

Jan. 20th cannot come soon enough he said.