Seeing as President Obama cannot govern hes had to go back to campaigning -- an activity with which hes quite comfortable but decreasingly successful as evidenced by his falling poll numbers and his endless repetitive speeches.
I dont just throw out this governance charge lightly. The Los Angeles Times reports that Obama is no longer receiving daily Oval Office economic briefings. More troubling he doesnt even appear to have much of an economic team left to advise him. The economic team lacks a top-caliber economist and is noticeably short on big-name players -- potentially hurting his ability to find solutions and sell them to Wall Street Congress and the American public.
The Times quotes Edward Mills a financial policy analyst with FBR Capital Markets as saying When you ask about the economic team its kind of like What economic team? They are very thin at a very critical time.
Not to worry. At a time when Obama doesnt even have in place a chairman for his Council of Economic Advisers hes talking about creating yet another federal department on Jobs. Thats the ticket; he doesnt have real people in real positions so he just creates new positions. You cant fool all the people all the time but you hope that you can fool just enough of them to ensure re-election.
Then again perhaps we should be counting our blessings because no one Obama would pick despite that persons Ivy League credentials would have the faintest clue how jobs are created or the slightest inclination to let the private sector work its magic.
Obama is obviously in way over his head. Dont get me wrong. He knows what he wants and is definitely in charge of big-picture items. Hes the one driving the national car into a ditch. But he is not a detail guy. He doesnt want to be bothered with how things get done. Just plug the damn hole.
Increasingly people have caught on to the toxic combination of his extreme leftist ideology his fundamental incompetence his defiant refusal to accept accountability and his mean-spirited partisan scapegoating. Gallup shows his approval rating at 39 percent an all-time low.
So whats he supposed to do now? Its not as if he can just make the country vote for him against its will (Department of Justice voting supervision notwithstanding) as he crammed Obamacare down our throats.
But he can go back to the stump -- hoping to rekindle the messiah myth or the hope and change chimera. (SET ITAL) Voila (END ITAL) The Associated Press reports that with his dismal approval polls Obama is planning on hitting the road and launching a political counteroffensive this week.
A counteroffensive? That word is obviously designed to depict a long-suffering bipartisan Obama who has kept his nose to the grindstone on behalf of all Americans only to be subjected to a unilateral Republican assault.
Excuse me? From the beginning Obama has been on the offensive against everyone who dares oppose any part of his poisonous agenda. To suggest hes countering anything does damage to the language.
And what message does Obama have in store for us in his counteroffensive? Well we dont have to guess because he laid it out for us in his weekly radio address Saturday. Ill let you be the judge of whether he has any new ideas to tackle the economy and debt.
He said that putting people back to work has got to be our top priority -- as if he hasnt been saying that for a couple of years. He proposed putting construction workers back to work rebuilding America implying that he can just snap his federal fingers spend borrowed money and inaugurate make-work jobs and things will all be well. He didnt specify how new stimulus schemes would be more successful than his previous $800 billion monstrosity.
He said he wants to cut red tape so entrepreneurs can get their ideas to market more quickly. So now our regent of regulation has become a champion of deregulation? Why not? He is after all a fierce advocate of the free market.
Lest you think Obama is frozen in the same old rhetoric and impervious to new ideas he seasoned his soliloquy with this brand-new assertion: We didnt get into this mess overnight and its going to take time to get out of it.
And he leveled the novel charge that Congress only opposes him because of its partisanship. If it would only follow his example and put country before party and the interests of our children before our own we could solve these problems he inherited.
In closing Obama exhorted Americans to let their congressmen know how they feel. Finally a course of action on which we can agree.
Yes please do pick up your phones send emails tweet text and shout from the rooftops. Good idea Mr. President. Now youre talkin.
David Limbaugh brother of radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh is an expert in law and politics and author of new book Crimes Against Liberty the definitive chronicle of Barack Obamas devastating term in office so far.
Seeing as President Obama cannot govern hes had to go back to campaigning -- an activity with which hes quite comfortable but decreasingly successful as evidenced by his falling poll numbers and his endless repetitive speeches.
I dont just throw out this governance charge lightly. The Los Angeles Times reports that Obama is no longer receiving daily Oval Office economic briefings. More troubling he doesnt even appear to have much of an economic team left to advise him. The economic team lacks a top-caliber economist and is noticeably short on big-name players -- potentially hurting his ability to find solutions and sell them to Wall Street Congress and the American public.
The Times quotes Edward Mills a financial policy analyst with FBR Capital Markets as saying When you ask about the economic team its kind of like What economic team? They are very thin at a very critical time.
Not to worry. At a time when Obama doesnt even have in place a chairman for his Council of Economic Advisers hes talking about creating yet another federal department on Jobs. Thats the ticket; he doesnt have real people in real positions so he just creates new positions. You cant fool all the people all the time but you hope that you can fool just enough of them to ensure re-election.
Then again perhaps we should be counting our blessings because no one Obama would pick despite that persons Ivy League credentials would have the faintest clue how jobs are created or the slightest inclination to let the private sector work its magic.
Obama is obviously in way over his head. Dont get me wrong. He knows what he wants and is definitely in charge of big-picture items. Hes the one driving the national car into a ditch. But he is not a detail guy. He doesnt want to be bothered with how things get done. Just plug the damn hole.
Increasingly people have caught on to the toxic combination of his extreme leftist ideology his fundamental incompetence his defiant refusal to accept accountability and his mean-spirited partisan scapegoating. Gallup shows his approval rating at 39 percent an all-time low.
So whats he supposed to do now? Its not as if he can just make the country vote for him against its will (Department of Justice voting supervision notwithstanding) as he crammed Obamacare down our throats.
But he can go back to the stump -- hoping to rekindle the messiah myth or the hope and change chimera. (SET ITAL) Voila (END ITAL) The Associated Press reports that with his dismal approval polls Obama is planning on hitting the road and launching a political counteroffensive this week.
A counteroffensive? That word is obviously designed to depict a long-suffering bipartisan Obama who has kept his nose to the grindstone on behalf of all Americans only to be subjected to a unilateral Republican assault.
Excuse me? From the beginning Obama has been on the offensive against everyone who dares oppose any part of his poisonous agenda. To suggest hes countering anything does damage to the language.
And what message does Obama have in store for us in his counteroffensive? Well we dont have to guess because he laid it out for us in his weekly radio address Saturday. Ill let you be the judge of whether he has any new ideas to tackle the economy and debt.
He said that putting people back to work has got to be our top priority -- as if he hasnt been saying that for a couple of years. He proposed putting construction workers back to work rebuilding America implying that he can just snap his federal fingers spend borrowed money and inaugurate make-work jobs and things will all be well. He didnt specify how new stimulus schemes would be more successful than his previous $800 billion monstrosity.
He said he wants to cut red tape so entrepreneurs can get their ideas to market more quickly. So now our regent of regulation has become a champion of deregulation? Why not? He is after all a fierce advocate of the free market.
Lest you think Obama is frozen in the same old rhetoric and impervious to new ideas he seasoned his soliloquy with this brand-new assertion: We didnt get into this mess overnight and its going to take time to get out of it.
And he leveled the novel charge that Congress only opposes him because of its partisanship. If it would only follow his example and put country before party and the interests of our children before our own we could solve these problems he inherited.
In closing Obama exhorted Americans to let their congressmen know how they feel. Finally a course of action on which we can agree.
Yes please do pick up your phones send emails tweet text and shout from the rooftops. Good idea Mr. President. Now youre talkin.
David Limbaugh brother of radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh is an expert in law and politics and author of new book Crimes Against Liberty the definitive chronicle of Barack Obamas devastating term in office so far.
