Thursday, March 14, 2013

BloggeRhythms 3/14/2013

Josh Gerstein and Manu Raju of Politico on-line, “President Barack Obama’s defense to Democratic senators complaining about how little his administration has told Congress about the legal justifications for his drone policy: Dick Cheney was worse.
 
Now, to me, that answer’s completely child-like and far beneath someone holding the office of POTUS. However, it’s certainly consistent with everything else the guy does.
 
But, reading further I found out that “While Obama defended his handling of the issue, he told his former Senate colleagues he understood their concerns about being left out of the loop on such sensitive decisions and noted that he would have “probably objected” over the White House’s handling of this issue if he were still a senator. But his viewpoint changed now that he occupies the Oval Office — not a room in a Senate office building.”
 
I mention this because although its quite rare for me to agree with just about anything the POTUS says, thinks, or does, in this case I believe he’s absolutely correct. He was elected to do a job, take reasonability, and lead the nation which to my way of thinking should provide him some latitude when important matters must be handled expediently and individually.
 
But now, having said that, and accepting his new-found knowledge that sometimes working outside the lines thought proper by his constituents because of his belief that some things need be done differently in the nation’s best interest, why doesn’t he do that in many places where his party’s beliefs are totally wrong?
 
Why does he sit there and watch gas prices rise for no other reason that his party’s inane environmental concerns? Why does he not do a thing to stimulate economic growth but instead let strangling health care legislation and tax increases inhibit business expansion? Why does he let unions put cities like Detroit in financial ruin? Why does he let foreign policy evaporate and leave our allies standing alone? Why doesn’t he let them turn the switch on the Keystone pipeline which by itself would stimulate the economy and create countless jobs?
 
So, I guess today’s conclusion is that the POTUS is actually aware of his responsibilities, though he hides that factor really well. And although not his intention to prove the following point in his answer to inquiring colleagues about his employment of executive powers: He knows full and well how much damage he’s already done to this nation himself. All of which goes to prove then, that’s obviously exactly what he wanted to happen to it all along.
 
That’s it for today folks.
 
Adios

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