I can’t recall another moment in American history where our nation’s leadership has been so inept and unwilling to deal with reality. Granted President Obama inherited a fiscal crisis, but he has made it infinitely worse by piling on trillions more in spending, including the infamous ObamaCare scam. Unlike the detailed Paul Ryan plan, Obama’s (unwritten) deficit reduction plans have been floating chimeras of fairy dust, wisps of smoke containing no substance.
It’s one thing to focus on a reelection campaign, but it’s a shameful failure of Presidential leadership to allow the country’s credit rating to go down the tubes for short-term political gain. And that’s exactly what has happened. Quotes from Obama and his minions over the past few weeks clearly show that the President’s main concern was cutting a deal to extend the debt ceiling through the 2012 election, not to make serious cuts in our staggering deficit.
After partying much of last week and enjoying a long weekend at Camp David, the President finally decided to reassure the American people that all will be okay. It had the opposite effect. In fact, the speech was so inept that even the liberal press expressed concern about its lack of substance.
This is serious, folks. Action is needed now, not later. Instead, the President and his supporters are doing their usual schtick of blaming others for the Administration’s failures. Their first reaction was to blame Standard and Poor for declaring the credit downgrade. Then, on the Sunday talk shows, Democrat disciples dragged out freshly-printed talking points referring to the “Tea Party downgrade,” a ludicrous charge easily refuted by facts.
Shooting the messengers has become the modus operandi of this Administration, but leadership is about solving problems not blaming others.
Jim Littlejohn
Concerned Coastal Voters
Gualala, CA
