Subscribe by RSSHealth care passed with no clear public mandate. Financial reform has provided new meaning to unintended consequences; if they really were unintended. Corporate profits and banking resources stay on the sidelines. Employment is horrific, poverty on the rise. The potential for yet more bailouts loom on the horizon. Toady, at about 2PM we will reach $15 Trillion in ‘on the books’ debt with the total debt in excess of $120 Trillion.
Pass this bill! More taxes! No budget passed through the Senate in two years. The debt reduction committee deadlocked, the true realities of our financial condition ignored outside of a few with the courage to point out the deep hole we’re in; much deeper than $15 Trillion. We keep digging, racking up $1.5 Trillion in deficit spending each year.
The Middle East will soon be awash in Islamist, Sharia based governance and the antipathy toward the U.S. will escalate. Syria is raining murderous retribution on its citizens. South America is making their periodic turn to Socialism and protectionism. Turkey is moving away from their tradition of secular democratic institutions and the west. Europe is in crisis, the Euro in major jeopardy. Russia and China are intent on creating an environment of manufactured complications for U.S. foreign policy most especially in regards to Iran and energy. The Monroe Doctrine has been scrapped. Scandals in green energy and the Department of Justice, insider trading exposed in Congress.
A time for Churchillian leadership? A time for our leader to tell us that we will win the battles we face; that we will embark on a new direction, that it will be hard, very hard, sacrifice will be required of all but that our resourcefulness, creativity and moral fortitude will see us through?
Not a chance! The President’s incomprehensible response is to accuse us of laziness as he stands on foreign soil. A President that has proactively promoted the proposition that more and more Americans should be enjoying government largess and that fewer and fewer should be paying for it has accused us of laziness in addition to the prior accusations of lack of imagination and losing our edge.
Of, course we’re losing our edge! We lose our edge when we look outside of ourselves for answers. We lose our edge when we accept the idea that it’s someone else’s job to take care of us. We lose our edge when it is impossible to determine if taking risks will fall victim to unknowns in Washington. We lose our edge when leadership tells us it’s all the fault of someone else: corporations, the rich, the banks, drug companies, health care providers, the list is three years long, pick your favorite. We lose our edge when fringe environmental groups can kill a $7 billion investment that could create 20,000 jobs when jobs are crucial. We lose our edge when OWS gets Presidential attention absent recognition of the violence and criminality. We lose our edge when the Presidential response to our unsolved problems is more of the same solutions that failed to solve them to begin with.
This is not leadership; this is code for the left. This is code that tells the left their fundamental, underlying presumption that America is fundamentally flawed to the point of evil can be ‘corrected’ by reintroducing a laundry list of failed leftist policy. The code is that those policies are near and dear to the President’s heart. The unremitting drive to move America to the left remains; it remains in opposition to facts, history and logic. The President’s code tells the left that they are intimately embraced by our President. Its code that says “I’m doing the best I can with the terrible limitations I face”; the key limitation being, The Constitution and limitations on executive power. The Presidents answer is to erase those limitations with bureaucratic action and executive orders. This attitude finds its roots in the Woodrow Wilson administration and it lives today in the heart of Barack Obama.
A President, proud of America, does not criticize his people on foreign soil; period the end, no extensive analysis required. It’s not the first time, recalling a campaign speech in Berlin and a Cairo address! If ever a President should be proud of America, it’s Barack Obama. America has bestowed upon him a unique place in history. His response, his instinct, his predilection is to stand on Australian soil, accusing the most productive, innovative, generous nation in history of laziness!!!!!
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Landreaux:
President Obama is fond of saying “If only the Congress would cooperate and pass my jobs bill” What he refuses to acknowledge is that the Legislative branch of government is a seperate branch from the Executive branch and the Constitution provides seperation of powers.Something you pointed out President Wilson also thought got in the way of his administration.There is a bit of irony in this because in 2008 Senator Obama campaigned for President largely on the claim his predecessor shredded the Constitution.Something the current administration has become an expert at doing.
And yet the Republicans have not found a candidate who is strong enough to oppose him.Not just oppose him but propose solutions to the problems we face as a nation today. That is lack of leadership that is getting all to familiar election after election on our side of the aisle.That is a code that Conservatives should settle for another empty suit who is next in line or the ever present trojan horse of socialism will befall the country.It seems the Republican party believes the President is so weak all they have to do is nominate a candidate and they will win.”Leading from Behind” seems to be the trend in America today!
Enjoyed another of your strong articles……….Bob
DD,
Opposition is sadly mistaken is they think the President will be a pushover. There is no way he or the significant machine behind him will go quietly into that good night. NO WAY!!!!
I like and support the stress of a Presidential primary. It tends to expose both the good and bad. I remain hopeful that the candidates will evolve and strengthen. We’re not talking Bob Dole or John McCain here.
Fact is we’re a center right nation have been, except for a couple of blips, for a long time. Center-Right does not, unfortunatly, equate to the manner of Conservatism you and I believe in. We can, however, draw them to our way of thinking with logic, fact based criticism of the left and ………….good humor.
Landreaux:
So far I haven’t heard any inspiring remarks from the Republican field which would assure me that they haven’t been placing to much hope on what they read in the polls.They surely haven’t revealed any plans and they constantly underestimate the left when it comes to tactics.
I believed we were a center right nation at one time also.The election of 2008,the tactics used by the Progressives against the Tea Party,O.W.S, along with the corruption in government you listed in a previous article changed all that.You mention polls quite often in your articles so you are aware that 73% of the country feels we are heading in the wrong direction and our best days are behind us.There is a reason we got this way……the attitude toward government has changed entitlements into rights.Politicians as well as the electorate are at the trough.Self interest trumps logic and “good humor” has no place in defeating the socialist agenda of the left.
Perhaps it’s the age difference between us that makes me so pessimistic and I’ll believe again in the “Shining City On the Hill” when LEADERSHIP SHOWS UP ON OUR SIDE OF THE AISLE.Until that time “There is nothing sacred about the Republican party” and I consider myself a Conservative not a Republican.
Bob
“Progress,far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness.When experience is not retained,as among savages,infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”………George Santayana
The above quote has a double meaning in this instance.First you lie to yourself if you believe this isn’t another Dole or McCain we currently have running for the nomination.That is exactly what we have.Today an Iowa poll was released and Newt Gingrich came out ahead with 32% of the vote compared to Mr.Romney who had 19%.Now if you think Mr.Gingrich isn’t going to be the next media pinata just ask Herman Cain what scandels were published after he took the lead.Also ask yourself “Why doesn’t the MSM attack Mr. Romney? Could it be that he is no more than Obama lite on his health care plan and he doesn’t threaten them? In fact he is their preferred opponent?
The second instance the above quote applies is the Republicans aren’t the party in power so the party is being attacked by President Obamas OWS thugs on the belief that it is the party of the wealthy(IE: Wall Street supporters).The Republican candidates need to articulate a view to the nation that they want to create wealth not just for the wealthy but everyone.A vision besides the Progressive version of class envy and “Trickle up Poverty” that is the prevalent ideology of the Progressive left.Much as politicians were attacked at “Town Hall meetings” by SEIU thugs these sponsered miscreants are trying to deflect the arguement away from President Obama’s failures and ineptness.If you don’t think this is true they are forming a “Recreate 68″ committee which is going to cause havoc at the Republican convention next year similiar to the Democratic convention in 1968.Hence history repeating itself.
Bob
I’ve said this on a previous article: My heart wants Newt but my mind says Romney. Whatever your republication choice take this into consideration…If Obama wins four more years he will no longer have to worry about reelection and will push his socialist policies to create a new world order of communism. He will do this by any means neccesary.
Bob,
I want a Reagan, or a Thacher, or a Churchill too. Don’t see one on the board at this point in time. I had to ’settle’ as much as you do, but what I truly fear ’settling’ for is another 4 years of what we have.
Hell, Canada would start looking good to me.
DEL
Hypnotoad:
I won’t go into much detail here because I covered this so many times before people are getting tired of hearing it I imagine.
I see where you are coming from but I have been listening to the same “Trojan horse of emergency” from the Republican party for so long I don’t listen to them anymore. Election after election it is the same “Socialism will take over the country” scare tactics while they nominate empty suit after empty suit.I’m just asking you to vote for your principles not in desperation.
Bob
While the Democrats are taking us straight into the hell and mediocrety of socialism, the old school Republican party leaders are shoving another middle of the road liberal at us, saying, take it or leave it.
Hello? MacFly?? Hello?
I’m afraid the Republican part is just a milder version of the socialist Democrat party, and the majority, conservative America, is left without representation… again… and again… and again…
Socialism has destroyed most of the nations around the world, now they want the United States to follow them.
Get out your guns, Patriots. It is time to stand up once again.