Rhetoric Doesn't Control Budget
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Obama’s jobs speech showed a community organizer at work. Typical hardball tactics were on display: Make demands couched in class warfare rhetoric, reject negotiations, and mount public demonstrations if demands are not met.
Obama imposes all these tactics on a struggling economy, increasing the uncertainty that is stifling economic expansion, the real source of jobs.
Seventeen times Obama demanded that Congress pass his jobs bill now. No hearings! No negotiations! No transparency! Just accept the plan as if he had brought it down from the mountain etched in stone. And if Congress doesn’t obey, his campaign will carry the message throughout the country.
It’s the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, not Obama rhetoric, that controls the budget process. Indisputable facts show how Democrats have gamed this budget process, including baseline budgeting, to introduce consistent trillion-dollar deficits since Obama’s inauguration:
Continuing resolutions used in funding government every year Pelosi was speaker (2007-2011) and Obama was president (2009-2011).
Harry Reid’s Senate hasn’t passed a budget since 2009.
Obama crippled the 2012 budget cycle by submitting a budget proposal that was rejected by the Democratic Senate, 97-0, and then only made speeches to sketch his budgetary program.
Of the three main players in the budgetary process (president, House and Senate), only one has faithfully obeyed the law: the GOP-controlled House.
Oddly, it is the House that is in Obama’s re-election cross hairs to be the fall guys for his dysfunctional administration. The real targets should be the president and the Democratic Senate leadership, who utterly failed to meet their mandated responsibilities.
Mr. President, shuck your community organizer garb, accept the responsibilities of your oath of office, and obey the laws that you are supposed to enforce.
Wes May
Pinehurst
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lhines48 1 year, 8 months ago
Wes, because Obama is a Demarcate and you are a Republican there is nothing that he can do or say that you would ever agree with. I myself, on the other hand is an Independent and support candidates’ based on who I think would be the better person for the job. You on the other hand being a Republican sat there during the speech, and noted that he demanded seventeen times, that Congress pass the jobs bill. Wouldn’t your time have been spent better listening to what he was saying to the American people, instead of trying to find fault.
President Obama could have had the plan of the century and you and the rest of the hard nose members of the Republican Party would have found something wrong with it. I keep hearing the Republican Party saying that the Obama administration refuses to negotiate or work with them on any issue, but if your party wanted to work with the administration I am sure that both sides should able to find some common ground. The economic problems that we are currently experiencing here in America, did not come to the White House with Obama, the truth is that it already existed long before he got there. If the nation had have elected a Republican president to office instead of Obama, we would still have the same economic situation that we are currently experiencing now. So this is not an Obama, it a government management problem that has been in existent for the past forty or fifty years. The people who we elect to represent us is so hung up on party control that they have forgotten that they are there to represent us, the people who voted them into office. People like you are the reason that America is in the economic salutation that we are in today. I love being an independent because it allows me look at each candidate with open eyes and select the person that I think will do the best job in serving the America public. Were as you only see a Republican candidate where he is capable of reading or not.
Larry H
BigE 1 year, 8 months ago
Amen, brother!
pacer 1 year, 8 months ago
WOW! A response that isn't hate filled and trying to illicit fear and despair. I love it. Thank you for expressing the truth. I, too, feel as you do. The only focus I see is the one trying to "make sure he only serves one term." This seems more important to some than any problem our country faces. All the attempts to continue to create division among the troops is very sad as well as sickening. "You are either part of the problem or part of the solution!"
fugitiveguy 1 year, 8 months ago
"I myself, on the other hand is an Independent and support candidates’ based on who I think would be the better person for the job."
I am curious as to what it was about Obama which led you to the conclusion that he was a better person for the job.
fugitiveguy 1 year, 8 months ago
"Wouldn’t your time have been spent better listening to what he was saying to the American people, instead of trying to find fault."
Demanding "pass this bill" seventeen times didn't leave time for him to say much else to the American people. I do think he managed to work in a few jabs at corporate jet owners and of course the obligatory "millionaires and billionaires".
fugitiveguy 1 year, 8 months ago
"I love being an independent because it allows me look at each candidate with open eyes and select the person that I think will do the best job in serving the America public."
I'd wager your open eyes have always found the most leftist of the left as the best choice.
lhines48 1 year, 8 months ago
I am aware of Steve Spinner but currently I do not have enough knowledge about him to give you an opinion. I will do some research and maybe voice my opinion about him later. Thank you for the nice comment about my posting.
moonchild7 1 year, 8 months ago
If the Democrats haven't passed a budget since 2009 then we are essentially still under the Budget spell of George W. Bush. Will that NIGHTMARE NEVER go away?
fugitiveguy 1 year, 8 months ago
Typical, Dems fail to do their job. No problem. Blame Bush. At what point do the Dems become responsible for anything?
lhines48 1 year, 8 months ago
You can say the same think about the Republicans, when are the Rep going to stop blaming the current administration for something that was part of the past administration. Obama did not start two wars with no money to pay for them. Like or not all of that was part of the Bush administration.
Courseaire 1 year, 8 months ago
Go George, You Still Da Man!
TOYTIME 1 year, 8 months ago
Alright! That's it! I'll never vote for George Bush again! ... Oh wait...
FightFireWithFire 1 year, 8 months ago
I am sick to death of hearing prior administrations getting blamed for things that are clearly going wrong under the current administration. It's getting overused. Find something else to blame it on. Whatever happened to personal responsibility? Doesn't anyone understand that the administration policies are clearly at fault, not the person themselves?
teufelhunden 1 year, 8 months ago
There's about a handful of people in DC that actually know what they're doing and what should be done. Doing it is a diiferent story what with all of our shady politics on both sides of the aisle. There's so much going on that we don't even know about. Not everything is public knowledge. As long as they can keep us spinning our wheels, divided, then they are allowed to continue to play cowboys and indians. We should unite and demand action---not just more rhetoric and committees.
BigE 1 year, 8 months ago
Can you image if Obama had backed this?!!!!!
"It's a massive health care entitlement with unfunded future costs over $7 trillion. Many conservatives are still upset at the way it was rammed through Congress.
But when the Republican presidential candidates were asked last week asked if they would repeal the Medicare drug benefit, they said no way. After all, Republicans created it.
Republicans want to pull the plug on the health care overhaul they call "Obamacare," but that law is arguably less a deficit driver than the Medicare drug plan they are defending."
http://news.yahoo.com/repeal-unfunded-health-law-no-way-says-gop-122101206.html
TreadLightly 1 year, 8 months ago
TREADLIGHTLY'S FAREWELL!
After a few weeks experience, I can't believe that any normal person would not be going through all these posts to gain information or insight. The Marxists and their useful idiots are beyond education.
I will put my trust in the good patriots of this country to do the right thing in the next few elections. Obama is doing a much better job of showing people the ugly side of socialism than I could possibly hope to do.
May you all live long enough to see your dream (or nightmare) come true.
geoffcutler 1 year, 8 months ago
Whoa! Hang-on there, TL. Where do you think you're going? In today's political environment, replete with poisonous dialog, minds are changed one at a time. Never give up the ship, your voice is needed.
Courseaire 1 year, 8 months ago
Don't go TL, I need you to support my humorous & sarcastic quips. Besides, they provide much entertainment with their outlandish rhetoric.
FightFireWithFire 1 year, 8 months ago
Agreed. I get a real kick out of people touting the same party lines over and over. Some folks here are starting to sound like a broken record.... I like different opinions, but I also like to see opinions based on fact.
honesty2 1 year, 8 months ago
TL, I certainly understand. I'm so tired of the name-calling. Short of pulling out altogether, perhaps you'd like to just not respond to those certain posters. All the best.
TreadLightly 1 year, 8 months ago
I am spread too thin!!! Wife's double knee replacement is taxing us, with several intense weeks left.. Need to write more on the "modern theology" which came out of Marxist 18th century Germany and has infested the seminaries of the non-evangelical denominations. (Matthew did not write the gospel with his name, Luke did not write his gospel, etc ad infinitum.) Still preaching twice each Sunday at age 71. (Not to complain, and hope to do a few more years.) Like to wear my Paul Revere suit and Gadsden flag to Raleigh and D.C., etc.
I plan to send a few more column length articles to the Pilot and some other papers about the use and abuse of the Constitution. Like to get the new engine and radio in my radio control Piper J-3 and finish my Kentuky Rifle muzzleloader. Right now, I need a nap!
If I get a ticket to see Michelle Bachmann, maybe I will get some new inspiration! (She comes out for all the D.C. rallies.) Hang in there and give me a break.
geoffcutler 1 year, 8 months ago
Well, you responded to us, so I'll take that as a good sign. Take care!