In the coming year, Republicans will not just have their counterparts in Congress with whom to contend but it is hoped that they will keep an ear to the ground for the whisper of a White House power grab via use of executive powers Obama is constantly researching. The key will be to leave only the pardoning of Thanksgiving turkeys to the office.
It was surreal to watch as the Commander-in-Chief stood in the Rose Garden with only Sasha, Malia, two turkeys and a turkey handler at his side and began his turkey pardoning ceremony by referring to the US as “the most powerful nation on earth.” Time for a wince – a big, long-lasting one. In only 2 years in office, he has spent more, traveled more and frittered away more international influence than any of his predecessors. Surely he has seen the light?
As a result of his inability to prioritize and memorize (we have to pay to have a teleprompter sent all over the world with him) 2011 will be a crap shoot. There are brave souls abroad singing the song of a strengthening economy but tell that to the people about to lose their unemployment insurance with no appreciable gain in jobs out there.
Why aren’t the Republicans asking where is the Presidential Commission on Jobs? Or where is the emergency summit on jobs? In any other country, a head-turning international conflict aka war would put it on the back burner but we are in the war business. We have one on-going somewhere at any time of the day or night. No excuse. Just get with it and get creating jobs. The American people are expecting the Republicans to re-prioritize a few things.
Americans are fed up with grand standing. And they will not tolerate a prolonged battle between the Tea Party and the Republican stalwarts. It only wastes time and money. Republicans were not given a mandate for extreme change. They were used as leverage to throw out the Democrats who changed the country behind closed doors to something we no longer recognize. The American people have charged the Republicans with giving them a government that functions at a reasonable cost and size. That would be a big change.
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DarcsFalcon
November 26, 2010
Doesn’t Michelle celebrate Thanksgiving? She doesn’t seem to be part of the family photo-op.
blackwatertown
November 26, 2010
I came over to check out your response to the President’s stitched lip. I await with interest what comes up in your next few posts.
samhenry
November 26, 2010
“A stitch in time saves nine” is the general rule among stitchers down through the ages. I’ll whip a little something up.
samhenry
November 26, 2010
DF – perhaps she was in the lady’s room? I think her mother was there standing off to the side. Good call.
samhenry
November 26, 2010
Hey, DF and Roo – what if Michelle really give Obama the cut that required the stitches LOL?
carldagostino
November 27, 2010
I think he’s very intelligent. I study this stuff daily. I don’t have answers for troubles of our time. I think he’s inherited the worst mess a President has had except for Lincoln and FDR. I agree with your assessment we did not get a mandate but had Republican gains only as anti democrat and their failure. I hear them all say “the American people want, the American people believe, the American people need….” None of them have a clue. Mr. Wilson cannot buy groceries TODAY. His car was repossessed YESTERDAY. He has been immobilized from finding work that does not exist anyway. They say it’s rough when you don’t have a job. They have no idea what that means. It means you don’t have a place for your family to live. “We are working on it” brings no solace to these Americans.
samhenry
November 28, 2010
Spot on comment, Carl.