Does Obama’s latest whinefest about Sequestration sound
familiar? Does it give you déjà vu
even? There is a reason for
that. And Allen Ginzburg summarizes the whining redux so
well, I’ll defer to him:
Does this
sound familiar?
1) There
is an important problem that requires Congress and the President to act.
(entitlement reform, viable budget, sequestration, fiscal cliff, debt limit
hike, etc.)
2) House
Republicans propose and pass a bill with what they consider a good solution to
the problem.
3)
President Obama and Senate Democrats realize it is easier to attack the
Republican plan than propose their own, so they refuse to propose a real bill.
4)
President Obama delivers several campaign-like speeches filled with strawmen
portraying Republicans as unreasonable, uncaring and somehow responsible for a
lack of solution.
5) No
permanent solution is achieved.
It should.
This cycle has been repeated on every major issue that has come up since
Republicans took over the House in 2011.
And the sheer gall of Obama’s act exceeds even Bill Clinton
at the height of his lying.
President
Obama fails to mention several things in these speeches: First, the idea for
the sequester cuts that he claims will be so harmful originated
in his White House. Second, House
Republicans already passed two bills replacing sequester cuts with other
cuts, while Obama has not proposed any specific solution yet. And lastly,
President Obama previously promised
to veto any attempt to get rid of the cuts he now claims will be
devastating.
Funny how the “mainstream” noos media doesn’t mention that
much, either.
Ginzburg has a hopeful conclusion,
however. I wish I could share his hope.
Someone should inform the President that Americans are tired of this game
and the election is over. It is time for him to actually do his job.
Judging from the recent sordid
election, I do not think most Americans are tired of Obama’s act. Not yet anyway. So enjoy Obama’s smearing and
whining. Because he’ll keep doing
it until it backfires.
And maybe he’ll keep doing it even
then. For when it comes to
deficits he’d much rather demagogue than actually do something about them.
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