So it's the Fault of Congress

Word is out that President Obama is going to blame Congress for the current economic problems in his speech next week. He sent an e-mail to supporters telling them that it has been too long since Congress did what it is supposed to do and that this is a major problem. He has also been campaigning heavily for Americans to pressure Congress to pass Obama's programs for job growth. Of course, there are two enormous problems with this line of attack:

First, there is no Obama program for job growth. None, nada, zilch!!! Supposedly, the speech next week will be used to set forth Obama's "plan". My strong suspicion is that the speech instead will be just another campaign speech from Fearless Leader in which he recycles old ideas and small proposals that have failed in the past. It will be replete with big attacks on Congress for inaction, however. This is one of Obama's favoite rhetorical devices. First he creates a straw man, and then he knocks it down while claiming to be the only one doing something responsible. So, in the speech, expect Obama to first criticize Congress for inaction when he has not put forward anything for them to do. Then he will talk about the only reasonable way to proceed as if he has been pushing the ideas for months. In short, it will just be another stylish lie for Fearless Leader.

The second problem that Obama faces is that the current failure of the economy to recover and grow is, in large part, the fault of Obama and the prior Democrat Congress that gave Obama exactly what he requested. Obama asked for the world's largest stimulus program, bigger by multiples than anything ever done before. Congress gave it to him and in the process spent three quarters of a billion dollars on items that any economist would know were unlikely to lead to sustained economic growth. It was a massive failure. Even those supporters of Fearless Leader who claim it was a success have been unable to explain why spending about $300,000 to create or save a job paying $40,000 or $50,000 makes sense. Obama also asked for and got Obamacare. That program scared business so much concerning potential future costs that hiring and job growth has suffered ever since. Obama also asked for a massive increase in government spending. Congress gave him that too. While the spending funneled money to Obamacrat support groups, it did nothing for the economy. It just drove the cost of doing business in the USA higher and hurt growth.

Last November the people resoundingly said to Obama to change course. It is this move against which Obama is now campaigning. It is not Congress that has been failing to do its job. It is Fearless Leader who is a failure. Here we are nearly three years into his presidency and Obama is now coming forward with a jobs program. For at least the last two years, Obama has told us that he has been focused like a laser on jobs. It is a pretty fuzzy laser indeed. Why has it taken all this time to come up with a program? Indeed, will there actually be a program or will it just be another speech?

America deserves better.