On March 19, 2009, after spending fewer than two full months in the White House, President Obama told Jay Leno that “one of the things” he was “trying to break is a pattern in Washington where everybody is always looking for somebody else to blame.” Well after more than two years as the nation’s chief executive, Barack Obama has showed us that he delights in blaming others for the difficulties his job entails.
Just today at his press conference, he blamed the failure to increase the federal debt limit on Congress. Observing that the one-time self-professed post-partisan politician “set a combative tone that carried through the rest of the hour and seven minute session“, the Washington Examiner’s Conn Carroll concluded that
This was not the press conference of a president looking to provide leadership for a debt limit deal before Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s supposed August 2nd deadline. This was a president laying the groundwork to blame congressional Republicans for any negative fallout after Geithner decides to stop sending Social Security checks to seniors.
Carroll reminds us that the president “began his remarks by listing listed a number of bills that could help lower the nation’s 9.1 percent unemployment rate but were still “pending before Congress right now.” If those bills were so important to creating jobs, why then didn’t the president push them through when his party held comfortable majorities in both houses of Congress?
And why didn’t he take congressional Democrats to task last year for failing to pass them? And since his party still controls one federal legislative chamber, why then hasn’t that body, the Senate, led by example and voted on those bills?
It seems this president has a political strategy, but not a governing one: make the Republicans appear obstructionist so he can win a second term, but to what end? So, he can keep power and keep on demagoguing?
I assert that since the beating he and the Democrat Party took last November, this president has absolutely ZERO interest in initiating any action that could conceivably come back to bite him on the ass and hence, cost him his office after just one term.
Unfortunately for him, that’s more than likely already decided. 🙂
Obama blamed President Bush indirectly & blamed Republicans in general for the rest; his passive nature is to the point of dereliction of duty. I believe his press conference backfire. Even the Washington Post was not kind to Obama.
This isn’t going to help him for 2012. He is the President of the United, but acting as if he’s not President of the United States will not make it so.
I say the only way we are going to get real change is to let the country default. Maybe even bankruptsy. Anything less is just propping up the progessives/socialists and marxists in the democrat party. I’ve been running a business for over thirty years and I’ve never seen the outlook so bleak. I was thinking we are headed for a “lost decade” but now I’m thinking a minimum of two lost decades.