No one left to blame for their screw ups.
Witness Barney Frank and Christopher Dodd, two of the primary offenders in this economic mess.
AP - “He’s (Obama) going to have to be more assertive than he’s been,”…
… “At a time of great crisis with mortgage foreclosures and autos, he says we only have one president at a time,” Frank said. “I’m afraid that overstates the number of presidents we have. He’s got to remedy that situation.”
“The Obama team has to step up,” Sen. Christopher Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee and one of the lead negotiators, said Nov. 21 in Hartford, Conn. “In the minds of the people, this is the Obama administration. I don’t think we can wait until January 20.”
First, Obama is right; his job right now is to build his team so he can hit the ground running on day one, which is not until January 20.
Second, Obama is right; he is not the president yet. Whether you like it or not, and frankly I don’t care, nor does the US Constitution, if you don’t like it… George Bush is still president.
If Obama is president in the minds of the people, the people are ignorant, which likely explains why Obama is president elect; and much of the blame goes to the left-wing propaganda machine we nostalgically call “the press”. While trying to support this man they have anointed as the chosen one, they are doing him a terrible disservice: no one can live up to the expectations these people have… but Obama is not blameless, he let this happen and at times encouraged it out of arrogance and ego.
So, Dodd and Frank will gladly make statements about Bush being absent and Obama being the real president, who has not stepped up to the role as he should have, because it helps to deflect attention from their own failings; the attacks are spilling over to the guy on deck who is actually doing a pretty good job of prepping for his new role.
Barney Frank is a mean-spirited, sarcastic far left-wing hate monger who will never see the wisdom of a two party system except as a means of having someone to blame for anything that goes wrong:
“It is a grave mistake to assume that parties are irrelevant to this process,” he said. “My one difference with the president-elect, about whom I am very enthusiastic, is when he talks about being post-partisan.
“Having lived with this very right wing Republican group that runs the House most of the time, the notion of trying to deal with them as if we could be post-partisan gives me post-partisan depression,” Frank said.
Very right wing Republican group that runs the House most of the time?
Click here for a chart of House control from 1965-2005, keeping in mind that 2006 to present Dems controlled the House.
The majority of the years, the Dems held the majority of the seats. When Republicans held the majority, it was typically by slim margins, especially compared with the margins the Dems held; and those majorities were not dominated by the right wing of the Republican Party. So Frank is either mistaken, (unlikely since he knows his stuff when it comes to control of the House), or lying to make sure it appears that Republicans are to blame for the current mess… and to point us to the obvious conclusion that the more Democrats in the House, the better off we will all be. In one respect he is right, there are many, many good Democrats in congress; unfortunately the Democrat leadership is dominated by twits like Frank, Dodd, Pelosi, Rangel, Waxman, and Dingell.
Democrats like Frank, Dodd and Pelosi are masters of spin and utilization of the press to get their message out. You may have noticed that, prior to the election, the “bailout” was going to be a success because of the wonderful leadership of Barack Obama and the Democrats in the House and the Senate; after the election, it’s Bush’s bailout leading us down a path of socialism; it’s Bush running up the deficit; it’s Bush this and Bush that and thank the powers of nature that Obama has come to save us… but why has he abandoned us, where is the mercy of “O”, why does he speak to the unclean and invite them to sit by his side, why dost he not cast them into the pit of fire…
Sorry, got carried away there a bit.
Over the past couple of years, Pelosi and Reid behaved as if they were the co-presidents and George Bush was an unfortunate irritant whose main value was as a scapegoat.
Should be an interesting year coming up. Will ”O” slap them down? Will the Dems be forced to form a circular firing squad with no Republicans to shoot? Will everyone make nice? Or, will they do everything they can to blame the next 100 years on George Bush and run a campaign of change every 2 years even if they manage to grab 100% of the seats.
Any chance we are not stupid enough to fall for it, two years from now, when they try to convince us change equals more Democrats and a super majority in the senate…
Based upon the number of Obama supporters who believe the House and Senate are currently controlled by Republicans… it’s not looking good.
