CURL: The truly dismal state of the union
There is one person — one American among the 300 million of us — who is not to blame for the state of the union. Everyone else, each of you, in some small or large way, bears some share of the blame, but not this guy. Not one little bit.
This guy is Barack Obama. He is not the least bit to blame for the dismal state of the U.S. economy.George W. Bush is, for sure, and that evil Dick Cheney, oh, no doubt. House Speaker John A. Boehner — evil, too — is, of course, to blame. But guess what? So is Senate Majority LeaderHarry Reid, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, and every Democrat in the House and Senate. (Read more....)
It used to be that our danger was the Soviet Union but today Obama is the biggest threat we have to our freedom as we see our rights, and in particular our freedom of conscience, eroded by his policies. That being said, I do remember that the economy “broke” under President George W. Bush. I remember the 800 million bailout was on the Bush Watch (and personally I think it was a good idea). I do remember that it was under the deregulation of the Bush-Clinton-Bush years that Enron and other companies were looted and the Savings and Loan Scandal happened—pulling out the underpinnings of our economy. I do remember that it was Vice-President Cheney and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld that brought us into a war we didn’t need and couldn’t afford in Iraq (a war that Pope Blessed John Paul II condemned and send Cardinal Laghi to ask President Bush not to conduct). I have watched partisan politics—and I blame both parties for this—tie up the House of Representatives and slow down economic recovery. (I am a professional economist who worked in the Reagan administration.) I have seen Republicans and Democrats stall important legislation only for the sake of party advantage and I find Speaker Boehner to have consistently put his political career ahead of economic recovery. Given the triumph of partisan politics over national well-being, I am surprised the economy isn’t in worse shape. I’m not saying that Obama could not have done better but if you want to go after him politically we had better focus on the facts and not on rhetoric. Unbelievably we Republicans are going to have a tough fight for the White House. Obama wants Gingrich, he is too easy a target. Santorum not only won’t get the independents, he won’t get the moderates in the Republican Party. And Romney—well, he’s the best shot but too namby-pamby. So we have to hit Obama hard, but with facts. The guy might be evil but he is no fool. (Satan never is.)
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