After last week’s talks broke down, US congressional leaders got a scolding from
President Obama Saturday morning and have been working steadily since then. They
hoped to be able to show enough progress by Sunday afternoon EST to avoid
spooking Asian markets, which open Sunday evening EST.
This comment on the wire services deserves comment.
Firstly, I am amazed that an US citizen would say that the President of the USA has the right to scold the elected Representatives of the Congress. What are we? Is Obama the big daddy and we the little wayward children? That is absurd.
Secondly, what makes the writer think that Obama has some kind of edge here. He does not. As I remember the process, it goes like this: The President proposes and the Congress disposes. Obama has turned this upside down. He demands that the House of Representatives produce a budget to which he will agree. That is ass backwards.
Thirdly, the writer does not care to mention that there are no researched, written proposals on the part of the President or of his administration concerning the actual makeup of the budget. All that Obama does is crack the whip, make demands, scold, wag his finger, complain and whine that the other guys are not carrying his load for him.
The President needs to stop being the preacher, the parent, or the teacher. He needs to stop demanding, criticizing, blaming and name calling. He needs to stop whining and get to work proposing actual money figures. He needs to propose legislation in a legislation format. Up til now, he makes a speech about something and then tells the legislators to get to work and turn his speech into actual practical possible legislation. Hey,Mr. President, as you maybe have not noticed, but if you are as brilliant as your media friends say you are, then you should have noticed that your way of thinking and doing is false, phony and completely not doable.
The Republicans have worked very hard for America. The put forward the Plan named “the way forward” AKA also known as the Ryan plan after US house of Representatives member Mr. Paul Ryan. But instead of engaging this viable plan, Democrat Senator Harry Reid called it “Dead on Arrival at the Senate.” That was months ago and if the Democrats did not like it they could have done their jobs by examining it, debating it, amending it and passing their own form of it . This amended form would have gone to a joint committee of both the house and the Senate a compromise reached for the passage of a bill which would have raised the debt ceiling, made appropriate cuts, hemmed in spending and guaranteed the viability of Medicare and Social Security. Instead the Democrat controlled Senate nixed it without debate and refused to compromise.
Then the Republican leaders tried to meet with the Democrats of the Senate but were refused because the price of admission set by Democrat Harry Reid was that the Republicans do it his way or they could forget about even meeting.
Then we get this Gang of Six bi partisan proposal which raises the debt limit for Obama and then merely directs, suggests and proposals possibilities for cutting US Spending. Senator Rand Paul said that the Gang of six proposal was a bunch of crudely formulated suggestions for a way to get things done; a suggestion that others get to work in the coming year and figure this thing out. He said on Sean Hannity that the so-called “Gang of Six” proposal is not in any way formatted as legislation. By the way, this Gang of Six proposal was refused by Obama in December.
Then we have the House of Representative pass the Cap and Balance bill which also raised the debt limit and seriously address the 14 trillion dollar deficit. Again the Senate did not debate the bill, nor seek to amend it and go to compromise committee but Democrat Senator Harry Reid marshalled his Democrat majority in the Senate and defeated it instead of engaging it, modifying it and compromising.
Meanwhile back at the White House we have the President engaging in an illegal war of criminal aggression against the people of Libya. He is also playing B ball and golf and having parties at the WH. And when he constantly since January 2011 reminded of the looming budget crisis he shrugs it off and blames everything on Bush and Boehner.
The President needs to get to work tonight to research, develop and propose a budget for the USA. He does not have one and it will take him months to make one. So the question is, “What Has Obama been doing?” The answer, sadly, is that he has been doing and continues to do nothing.
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