Barack's Limp Leadership

It gets curiouser and curiouser, the deafening silence of the mainstream lapdog media concerning the President's nonexistent economic policy.  Even when O-buma had overwhelmingly superior numbers in both houses of Congress, he and his quislings still failed to produce a written plan of economic leadership.  If the White House were to propose spending specific amounts of money on particular programs, projects, and policies, the public could hold them accountable, but fear of accountability gives the O-bumites performance anxiety.

Leadership IS accountability; unfortunately, no one has told the eunuch-in-chief.  This comes from the Weekly Standard.  In response to a question about whether now would be a good time for the president to present his own debt ceiling budget plan, White House spokesman Jay Carney had this to say: "Leadership is not proposing a plan for the sake of having it voted up or down and likely voted down..."

To lead is to guide on a way especially by going in advance.  Boy Barack is no George S. Patton riding in his tank, proudly displaying Old Glory, and advancing into battle in the foremost position.  O-buma is more like David Suchet’s Hercule Poirot; he is too prissy to roll up his sleeves and grapple with the issues that plague this nation.  

The O-buma administration rules via surrogates—they are czars and regulators whom he appointed—they use deception, implication, innuendo, manipulation, and outright treachery to achieve their goals. Regulation is manipulation, and furtive manipulation defines the party of government.  This article describes some of it.

The Federal Register has grown 20 percent in just the last two years, and there are another 4,225 rules already written and winding their way through the system.  And this does not even include what Obamacare and Dodd-Frank are going to do.  Just policing the regulations already in place costs $55.4 billion a year.  But this pales in comparison to the $1.75 trillion hidden tax that regulations place on the economy every year.

Author Jim Lacey wonders whether it is prudent to allow a few bureaucrats in the departments of Interior and State along with the EPA to shut down oil exploration at a time when we feel it necessary to release oil from the country’s strategic reserve.  With Americans desperate for jobs and the nation needing economic expansion like O-buma needs intestinal fortitude, four thugs from the National Labor Relations Board eliminated 1000 jobs and stopped Boeing from opening a $1 billion plant in South Carolina in an attempt to extort the company's resources to pander to overpaid union goons.

If we are to recover economically, we need a government that can refrain from putting successful businesses into its cross-hairs.  Even after federal courts ruled that the Federal Communication Commission lacks the authority to regulate the Internet, that agency is still applying its Net Neutrality regulation doctrine — the term is Orwellian— to the Internet.

Laws passed by Congress should have sunset provisions requiring periodic reauthorization.  Regulatory changes should require Congressional approval; voters can remove legislators from office.  The economic effects of regulations and laws should be part of the legislative responsibility. 

Lawmaking by regulatory bureaucrats must come to an end.  The Constitution gave the power to make laws to Congress.  Congress needs to reclaim that power.  This is unlikely without a veto-proof Senate.  Perhaps in 2012 we can make O-buma a one term president and send him to an orthopedic specialist who can surgically implant a spine into his back.

May your gods be with you.      

Averse to Sunlight

What a difference a month's sabbatical can make; unfortunately, the US political and economic scene--they are increasingly the same item--have changed little.  There is a timeline that deserves discussion; it is O-buma's MUTHA, or Most Transparent Administration in History, now that the prevaricator-in-chief has finally gone belly up on the issue of honesty.

This 2007 article from Reason magazine reveals that then presidential candidate Barack O-bufoona signed The Oath of Presidential Transparency.  In this oath he pledges to conduct the "Most Transparent Administration in history...[signaling] that whether it's earmarks, directives, or ongoing management of taxpayer expenditures, the goal of transparency will be evident through all policy making aspects of" his administration.

In another part of this oath, The Bum agreed to "full and robust implementation of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act," promising to create a "free and fully searchable website that will list every recipient of every federal award."  This was due to be completed by January 1, 2008, but--gosh, what a shock--it has yet to be completed, even though the bill authorizing the FFATA was co-sponsored by O-buma.

The Empty Suit claimed that every "American has the right to know how the government spends their tax dollars" and "ensure that our government is transparent and accountable to the American people."  Odd, is it not, that there has been so little national mainstream media coverage of the O-bomunist being hoist by his own petard?

Now, let's fast forward past O-buma and his lackeys' weaseling WelfareHealthCare past Congress with legislative sleight of hand, stonewalling press coverage of his feckless and tardy response to the Gulf oil disaster, refusal to create a budget for 2011 outlining the Theftocrats' plans for more theft-and-spend attacks on the economy, resolute refusal to enforce immigration laws in order to import millions of welfare recipients, back room dealings with Joe Sestak, the New Black Panther Party, public and private sector unions, clandestine coffee shop meetings with lobbyists, blocking access to White House logs, and devious schemes to nationalize the US economy through bailouts, stimulus programs, and health care.  How very transparent of you Brick-a-Brack O-buma.

This article reveals that the shadow president shuffled his ethics czar Norm Eisen off to the Czech Republic far away from US media access.  He was replaced with one of Chief of Staff Rham Emmanuel's ideological twins, another of the administration's "cutthroat Chicago political fixers," Bob Bauer.  Bauer has been outed by the Sunlight Foundation as someone who shows "disdain for openness and far greater belief in the good intentions of those in power than those trying to check the powerful."

In it, the article chronicles 15 examples starting February, 2009, to May, 2010, of O-buma's lies concerning transparency.  Now, the O-bumunistas have finally, through Bauer, closed the "curtain on transparency." He has shown that he "is openly antagonistic to the notion of disclosure by government and politicians."  Bauer is described as a partisan advocate who defended Rham "Emmanuel's offer of a job to Joe Sestak" to get him to drop out of a Senate race in favor of turncoat and party hack Arlen Specter.

It is revealing that O-buma's point man on transparency and ethics asserts derisively that "disclosure is a mostly unquestioned virtue deserving to be questioned."  The ethics czar questions the ethics of disclosure, presumably in favor of shady back door deals with corrupt lobby group representatives.  Yuck!  Bauer crows that government regulations concerning political contributions and lobbying can be circumvented, that "it will be done in other ways [by those] who are professionally creative, the money will find an outlet."  Yes, it will as long as the fox continues to guard the hen house.

May your gods be with you.

Obfuscate at any Cost

Listen to the sound of spinelessness.  That is the sound of Brick-a-Brack O-buma, the new Neville Chamberlain, and his policy of groveling appeasement.

Speaking of spineless, the Theftocrats in Congress are too pusillanimous to write and pass a federal budget.  House Budget Committee Chairman John Spratt D-SC referred to the tactics of weaseling on the budget as "a lack of courage."  He said this about his own party-of-theft members.  This is how low they have stooped. 

"Never before--since the creation of the Congressional budget process--has the House failed to pass a budget, failed to propose a budget then deemed the non-existent budget as passed as a means to avoid a direct, recorded vote on a budget, but still allow Congress to spend taxpayer money."  The dearth of national media attention is equally despicable.

Even the Corruptocrat controlled US Senate has grown weary and distrustful of the White House's shenanigans.  The Senate is putting together a bipartisan committee to challenge the one that the O-bomunist hand-picked to study the causes of the Gulf oil spill.  The one appointed by O-bufoona is comprised of anti-drilling zealots whom he expected would side with ecofascists.

May your gods be with you.