Slow Blogging/Does Obama Understand Mood of Country?

July 27, 2011 by B. Daniel Blatt

As I’ll be spending some time with a good friend and his family this week, I won’t have as much time to blog as I would like. I’ll try to chime in occasionally, and have asked Eric who has joined us recently as a revolving BlogPatriot to fill in as best he can.

Just want to offer one note, a thought that occurred to me today. It seems the president, even though he frequently mouths words about needing to control our spending and live within our means, doesn’t seem to understand that that means reining in federal spending. I mean, just after the 2010 elections, when small-government Republicans, many backed by the Tea Party, were elected to offices across the land, President Obama released a budget with a 1.6 trillion dollar deficit. He didn’t even attempt to rein in federal spending.

Even this week, in his budget speech, he talked about “investments” (which to him means federal expenditures) to create jobs. Does he even understand that the people don’t want new programs if they increase the expenses of our debt-ridden federal government?

Comments

TGC says
July 27, 2011 at 2:55 am - July 27, 2011
within our means, doesn’t seem to understand that that means reining in federal spending. I mean,
We need a GP drinking game. 😉
(couldn’t resist)
B.P.T. says
July 27, 2011 at 7:12 am - July 27, 2011
Interesting observation. What’s deliberate spin and what’s plain ignorance?
V the K says
July 27, 2011 at 8:23 am - July 27, 2011
Jonah Goldberg says:
Imagine you’re in a burning office building. Obama’s plan for getting out alive: “Okay, you guys break up into different groups and come up with a series of proposals about how we get out of the building. I will then negotiate with each of you separately and then together, and then separately. Then I’ll get on Skype and tell the world what I think of your respective plans and criticize you for their lack of seriousness. I will insist that we have balanced approach of applying both water to the fire and opening the windows, which some say will only provide more oxygen for the flames. But my base says window-opening is essential. Oh and I will blame all of the gasoline I threw around on the lower floors of this building on the guy who moved out two years ago. And I will veto any plan that requires we have a new plan should we get stuck on another floor. And, did I mention this mess was created by the former tenant and….ahhh what’s that smell?
Sebastian Shaw says
July 27, 2011 at 9:51 am - July 27, 2011
Obama is too immature & narcissistic to understand anything beyond his mirror.
Ted B. (Charging Rhino) says
July 27, 2011 at 11:53 am - July 27, 2011
We’re doomed…..
Better start pulling the cash out of your bank account and burying it in PVC pipes in your back yard. I expect a “Bank Holiday” by August 15th, followed by asset-account and private pension forced-reallocation a’la Argentina, or Roosevelt’s gold confiscation and overseas dollar devaluation.