(ThyBlackMan.com) Down, down, down, that’s where Obama’s poll numbers are going and his presidency. According to a recent Ipsos survey, nearly 70% of Americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction. Another Zogby poll found 55% of Americans want to elect someone new in 2012. This past week Obama proved he is incapable and unwilling to lead the country out its debt ridden, jobless morass.
Obama dug in his ideological heels and presented a partisan, “combative” budget designed more to grab headlines than to reach compromise with Republicans in lowering the nation’s debt. When POTUS is playing catch up 
to a substantive $6 trillion debt reduction plan offered by Republican House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, because he refused to lead on the topic, Obama’s budget plan and speech should have been more conciliatory.
After inviting House Republicans, Rep. Dave Camp, House Ways & Means Chairman, Rep. Jeb Hensarling, House Republican Conference Chair and Rep. Ryan all of whom play key roles in the budget debate to listen to his Fiscal Policy speech April 13, 2011, Obama then insulted the GOP. He used the word “serious plan” several times, suggesting the Ryan’s plan which passed the House Friday, wasn’t serious, though it offers innovative approaches for fixing Medicare and Medicaid. Obama then said his plan would “lead to a fundamentally different America” implying GOP’s vision was bad.
Obama then took off the gloves, rattled off some of GOP proposed cuts saying “it paints a vision of our future that is deeply pessimistic” despite the fact Ryan’s Path to Prosperity seeks to pull the country off its $14 trillion debt cliff. But the icing on Obama’s tirade against Republicans was when he said he “refuses to renew” the Bush tax cuts after they expire in 2012.
After slaughtering Obama in the 2010 mid-term elections and forcing him to extend the Bush tax cuts last year, GOP leadership including Speaker Boehner and House Majority leader Eric Cantor said any talks of tax increases is a non-starter in the budget debate.
Bottom line, Obama said I “will continue to spend” on entitlements, even though Medicare is broken and Medicaid is bankrupting states, education and healthcare reform among other things and not yield to substantive cuts. He continued his hackneyed refrain about investing/spending our way into a recovery “to create jobs, and helps us win the future,” which hasn’t worked.
What was most laughable about the speech was Obama invoking the likes of Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill, who like Speaker Boehner and Mitch McConnell understand what leadership means. Conversely, our president doesn’t, he roared that “we came together as Democrats and Republicans to meet this challenge before.” No Mr. President you never worked with Republicans on anything since your election and only are forced to acknowledge Republicans now because thank God they control the House.
You can tell a lot about man by his actions. On the heels of his budget speech, Obama jetted off to Chicago April 14th for a night of three 2012 campaign speeches. With everyone boasting the president’s goal is to raise $1billion for his re-election campaign, I guess in his words “over the next three months, six months, nine months, I’m going to be a little preoccupied.” There is something quite distasteful of a president announcing his re-election campaign during the budget battle two weeks ago and aggressively fundraising to raise $1billion when Americans and the country is trying to escape from the worst recession since the Great Depression. It seems Obama is more interested in getting re-elected than governing.
During one of Obama’s triple header speeches Thursday night, he thought his microphone was off but it wasn’t. He ridiculed Rep. Ryan as an accountant and remarked about the budget battle “you think we’re stupid?”
Newsflash Mr. President: Democrats got slaughtered in the 2010 mid-term elections; you and Democrats no longer hold all the power; and the American people have emphatically repudiated your costly, change agenda. The word stupid certainly comes to mind along with stubborn.
Written By Crystal Wright
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