We’ve elected a Poster Boy. President Obama cannot make the switch from candidate to President. He runs around the country giving campaign speeches, scaring the daylights out of people, harking back to President Bush just in case there is a single citizen left who might blame Congress (in particular Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid) for the problems we’re in. His gloom and doom approach puts the public in a depressed panic, and he suggests irreversibility if the country does not follow his lead.
The odd thing about going along with him is that he hasn’t led. The pork filled, non-stimulus, attack on the working middle-class bill wasn’t constructed by him. It is a Pelosi-Reid production loaded with the left-leaning ideology-driven programs they couldn’t pass as individual bills. Admittedly not one member of Congress—in either House—read the stimulus (now renamed Recovery) before they voted. The President, insisting on its immediate signing in order to avoid imminent disaster, headed to Chicago for the weekend without reading it, and in a campaign (oops) stop several days later at an RV factory town, signed it into law. (This self-same president who wants us to be wary of our gasoline usage makes his pitch in an RV factory town? Hmmmm)
During the election, if one didn’t vote for Obama, you were branded a racist. Now, if you don’t blindly follow—and it’s got to be blind since no one who gave us this humongous bill read it—you’re not supportive. If you don’t go along, you’re the enemy. I haven’t heard one ad hominem attack on Obama—a Democratic staple for President Bush—but the Obama groupies continue to attack with name-calling and demonization of people who don’t agree with President Obama’s direction.
What we are still getting from President Obama is a windstorm of hot air. No specifics. No HOWs. In his forthcoming 3.5 Trillion Dollar budget, he announced some cuts in the millions of dollars. That’s supposed to be impressive? But even as I watched him deliver this retooling of the budget part of his speech to Congress, he made sure to call the accounting of the Iraq/Afghanistan wars “dishonest” and continue to slam President Bush several times. OHHHH Obama is grand at this!
Our “recovery” bill is loaded with pork. What part of the pig will show up in the budget? We’ve already seen him break promises about bringing lobbyists into his administration; we’ve already seen a cabinet filled with tax cheats; we’re hearing Obama-speak about nationalizing banks. Today Congress worked on the Fairness Doctrine, though they’re not calling it that. The Omnibus bill adds another 450 billion in handouts. Gotta listen very carefully to this guy because we need to know the meaning of “is.”
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