Obama takes on the GOP while Democrats run towards Bush

I find is amusing, all this political stuff happening across the nation. Nothing soothes the American palate most watching career politicians scurrying throughout their districts in need of support, and being told that it's time to give up the seat.

Millions of Americans, 17M estimated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, are unemployed, and because Congress has yet to energize the economy with a cogent plan that does not stifle economic prosperity, millions of voters are finally having a say in the coming election. They are planning a massive routing of Congress, and for the second time in five years, both Houses stand a chance of switching party control.

Americans are visibly angry and rightly so. We are going on three years with stagnant economic growth, businesses afraid to lend or invest and hire, and an end to the Bush tax cuts at the end of the year.

Meanwhile, President Obama flirted with the idea of a $50B stimulus to help build up infrastructure and green technology. That plan was sunk by Congress days later, because Americans do not want more government spending which will saddle future generations with a higher debt for the failure of today's leaders not being able to control spending and debt.

Today, as he has done in the past, President Obama has taken the GOP to task. It is an effort that is rather too little, too late given the president and his party's ignoring calls from the GOP to early last year to come to the table to craft pertinent legislation.

Fact is, Obama can call out the GOP all he wants, but voters have grown weary of such attacks. It will not work. It is too late for Obama and the congressional Democrats to stem the tide against them.

When Obama decries Bush's tax cuts and refuses to support extending it unless the cuts to the rich are taken out, and then you read about a number of Democrats supporting full extension of Bush's tax cuts, what does both messages say to the American people?

How can a president blame the economic mess on Bush's tax policies, and then you see Democrats running in support of that very same Bush policy?

Look, neither President Obama nor the congressional Democrats know or have a cogent plan to help the economy. The president's economic advisors are not men and women who come from the business sector. They are professors who understand economic theory ensconced in their academic bubble, but know absolutely nothing about actual business practices.

The United States is on the verge of a political revolution like that which hasn't been seen since 2006 and 1994. Americans want real, positive political and economic changes that betters the standard of life for all. Americans are sick and tired of class warfare, high taxation, federal mandates, government spending and meddling, and an end to immigration abuses. Americans want a return to Constitutional government, and if it takes political turmoil at every election, then by far they are going to wreak havoc until the right leaders are elected to implement the necessary changes that's called for.

Passing the buck, Obama-style

So the US economy remains shaky even after the nearly $1T Stimulus Democrat package of 2009. The unemployment rate is at close to 10% or about 18M Americans. The DOW is riding waves surfboard riders wish they could see on either the Atlantic or Pacific. The national debt is at an astronomical $13T and mounting. And, tax increases looms beginning next year when former President Bush's tax cuts expire.

What does President Obama say about all of this data? Pretty much blames it all on congressional inaction.

How many more so-called Jobs and Stimulus bills will it take for the federal government to notice that such actions will not produce one iota of real jobs or stabilize the economy? The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

Unfortunately, Democrats don't pay mind to such reasoning. They control the purse-strings, and the entire government now. Can't blame the GOP for these bad numbers. The Democrats and Obama own these figures.

Obama still does not get it

American politics is an amusing blood sport to watch. Like President Bush before him, Obama is now the one Democrats don't want to be seen with in an election year. Not even a mere photo-op ala Charlie Crist.

It is becoming increasingly clear that Obama does not have the pulse of the nation. He clearly avoids siding with the American people in his belief that he has the greater wisdom. Such is the way of the fools' errand.

President Obama waded into the NYC mosque controversy, and it was not good.

Millions of Americans are upset that a mosque is being built so close to Ground Zero. Mr. President, there is no changing the majority's view of Islam as being diabolically responsible for the attacks on September 11, 2001. No mosque should be built there, period.

Perhaps New York City's labor unions can have a say here, and not work on such a project no matter how much their union members stand to gain.

Here's where NYC's labor can do for America what Obama, Mayor Bloomberg, Governor Patterson, and the state legislature, city council, the community board and the Landmarks Preservation Commission refused to do for all of us Americans. And, that is to take a strong stand against the Islamization of Ground Zero.

Where's the anger over the Haiti aid lateness?

The differences five years and two administrations make in regards to the reaction of the US media, elected officials and political activists over New Orleans and Haiti is undeniable. It speaks volume about the tactics that were played out in late summer 2005 and what we are seeing today.

For all the abuse President George W. Bush took over his handling of the federal response in the wake of Katrina, the untold number of deaths as a result of the flooding, the rumors that it was all a government conspiracy to weed out the black residents from the ninth ward, and FEMA's late response, all contributed to the sagging of Bush's approval numbers.

This, despite the fact that the federal government is not the first responder of sorts in any natural emergency or disaster, but rather it is the responsibility of the local authority and the state government to handle such matters as they see fit.

Regardless, the blood was in the water, and the press force-fed the idea that Bush was not up to the job of protecting Americans after all. Truly horrible. The vendetta was on, again. Bush had to be made an example of GOP incompetence, negligence and uncaring towards the poor minorities of New Orleans.

In the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti, we see similarities with New Orleans. Black residents in desperation. Thousands dead, many injured and dying. Total infrastructural collapse. And, little to no government control.

Granted, Haiti, unlike New Orleans, is an independent nation. However, it's been over a week since the Caribbean plate rumbled, and humanitarian relief along with thousands of US troops have just arrived. The USNS Comfort, a hospital ship, has also docked in the capital, Port-au-Prince. Seven days it took, but they are there now, nonetheless.

Where's the outrage from the US media? Where are Speaker Pelosi and senate majority leader Harry Reid calling for an investigation into the late arrivals? Where is the manifestation of public anger at President Obama for not getting there sooner?

Frankly, I'm waiting to hear Minister Louis Farrakhan come up with a doozy, like say, the Mothership observed a United States Geological Survey vessel in the distance of the Haitian capital unload some super-secret depth charges causing the earth to shake violently so white crackers can re-colonize the black nation in order to transform it into a Club Med paradise for white blue-eyed devils.

But no. That's not going to happen. All's quiet in the American pressrooms. No visibly-shaken shouting Sheps. No dumb Kanye comment. No problems. Things are under control. The Democrats are in charge now.

But a Democrat governor, Kathleen Blanco of Louisiana, was in charge at the time of Katrina, as was a Democrat mayor, Ray Nagin of New Orleans. Right, both so-called leaders availed themselves to the comfort of safety while their own citizens were left to fend for themselves amid the ravaging storm and flood, leaving one leader, a republican, to take the flak for the combined ineptitude of two democrats.