The blaming of O
Obama continues to blame everything on his predecessor, yet according to numerous polls, more Americans now hold him responsible for the bad state of the economy than they do Bush. Disastrous policies aside, is this petulant whiner ever going to man up?
Just last week, Obama attacked the economic policies of his predecessor George W. Bush in Bush's home state of Texas. His latest assault was a lead-in to this week's five-state campaigning/fund-raising/blaming tour. It is merely another example of the Obama regime investing every conceivable problem on anyone else but themselves.
That Obama, the Democrat Congress, and DNC political machine have been engaged in a nineteen-month blame-athon is irrefutable. Americans have heard that whatever ails America is Bush's fault so much that it no longer resonates. But what is starting to resonate is that at some stage along a journey, a point is reached after which accountability for everything falls upon whomever is driving the bus. Our national journey is long past that point. It is past time for Obama to act presidential.
Indeed, at this point in our statist regime-driven journey, it is also time for Obama's congressional enablers to do something they have not done since January of 2007: Tell the truth.
Waning optimism or ...
It is now being bandied about by the intelligentsia that the American people, like the economy, are depressed. Optimism is fading. The country is still coping with the loss of eight million jobs from a December 2007 employment peak. Worse, a recent Conference Board survey averages a full 20 points below the average lows of previous recessions.
In a depressing Wall Street Journal opinion, state-run media mogul Mort Zuckerman sorrowfully summed up America's End of Days:
"Our brief national encounter with optimism is now well and truly over. We have had the greatest fiscal and monetary stimulus in modern times. We have had a whole series of programs to pay people to buy cars, purchase homes, pay off their mortgages, weatherize their homes, and install solar paneling on their roofs. Yet the recovery remains feeble and the aftershocks of the post-bubble credit collapse are ongoing."
Oh, the horror. Zuckerman wasn't finished, adding:
"Tons of money have been shoveled in to rescue reckless banks and fill the huge hole in the economy, but nothing is working the way it normally had in all our previous crises. Rather, we are in what a number of economists are referring to as the 'new normal.' This is a much slower-growing economy that, recent surveys have revealed, is causing many Americans to distance themselves from the long-held assumption that their children will have it better than they."
Oh really? Is this state-run media eulogy true? Perhaps a few of you actually buy it. However, chances are excellent that "The New Normal" is yet another sideshow concocted to provide cover for the failed policies forced upon America by Obama and the Democrat Congress.
Remember, at no time in history has any such massive Keynesian spend and tax scheme ever worked -- not after the Great Depression, and the Marshall Plan is not applicable.
... Calculated ploy?
The New Normal is a ploy designed to save Obama and the Democrat Party from any association with the economic collapse they are managing. If they get this scheme to resonate, they will then claim that the worsening meltdown is not the result of their forced sociofascist implementation of incredibly bad economic policies.
On Monday, Rush Limbaugh defined The New Normal for his listeners thusly:
"The new normal. Let me define it for you further. The new normal is a $7 million yacht with no state taxes for John F. Kerry, the haughty senator who once served in Vietnam. The new normal is a new beachfront mansion and a host of private planes for Algore. The new normal is a super wedding for Chelsea Clinton. The new normal is 30 luxury rooms at a five-star European resort for Moochelle Obama. But the new normal for us is to tighten our belts and to accept excrement sandwiches, some days with mustard and some days not. The new normal is no expectations. The new normal is: 'Get real. Get with it. This is your lot in life.' So when Mort Zuckerman and the rest of these people write about the new normal, these so-called economists that he quotes, ask yourself: Where do we go to get the old normal back?"
Limbaugh answered his own question by stating that "...the first place we go to get the old normal back is the ballot box. That's going to be in November."
It's lacking in him
How many times have you heard Obama stand up for American traditions, values, the military in time of war, spending restraint, the constitutional rule of law? How many times have you heard Obama stand up against vulnerable open borders, illegal aliens, government expropriations, repressive taxation, voodoo science, health care rationing, dishonoring Ground Zero? Don't bother answering -- we all know the answer.
Unlike his predecessor, Obama does not possess the capacity to stand by the incredible harm his statist agenda is causing nor the courage to take the inevitable arrows that follow. Instead he craftily casts blame anywhere and upon anyone but himself -- and the American people have taken note. Each day shows Obama's approval rating plummeting to another record low, yet state-run media continues to prop him up as though he were a Straw Man president.
Unlike his successor, President Bush spent eight years in the crush. He was demonized, harshly criticized, and bloodied throughout -- sometimes rightly so, more often than not politically so. But as things got harder, he got better. When things were hardest, he performed at his best. Having faced near-unimaginable crises of enormous scope, he left a presidential office intact and unsullied. He served his nation well and with honor.
Honor and accountability. You don't have it, do you, Barry?
Hype and Chains for 76 more days.