The problem both sides are struggling with is how to approve any plan and still declare a win, regardless of your political affiliation. . Obama needs the credit for something for the press. The republicans need a win too. Meanwhile, American citizens are lost in a forest of rhetoric with neither side providing a path to anything specific about what might be agreed too. To be sure, there are going to be some trees chopped down and each of us hope they do not fall on us. It is a precarious position for an American.
The lack of transparency by both sides is an outrage. If the republicans were smart, they would use a large machete to cut through the rhetoric and announce, by specific budget line item, the specific cuts that Obama is proposing and the tax increases too. They should fight the obscurity of the process with transparency and challenge Obama to do the same. He promised transparency. Give it to him.
As an American, I feel that my elected agents are negotiating my family's future and not telling us what we am getting or giving.
Meanwhile the republican presidential candidates are relatively silent on the debt limit issue. Can not blame them because the media could care less about their views. The media is more interested in gauging each republican candidates success based on the candidates money raising ability. Romney leads the money race and Huntsman brings up the rear. The media unfairly footnotes Huntsman's money raising benchmark by inferring that most of his money raising has come from his own pocket, like he is the only wealthy person in the race. Sure!
In the interim, however, Obama raises millions of dollars for his campaign and uses his bully pulpit to suggest that no one has given him a serious budget plan. Sounds like to me, someone should tell him that he is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts. Where did I hear that before? Oh yes, Obama already used that on someone that disagreed with him. It seems to fit here too.
Obama has no respect for the bully pulpit. It should be partisan neutral.
To reiterate, fault at this point is not relevant. Obama should resign and give someone else an opportunity. Join me in my fire Obama campaign.
Don't forget Bachman wants the ceiling limit raised and blamed on both Obama and the obliging Republicans so she can campaign against both. The only theory I have is that our reps don't appear transparent because they actually don't know. That's the scariest part. What if they really are telling us all the know?
ReplyDelete-Martin G.