Obama's DAD

 

Keith Koffler, editor of the White HouseDossier, has an opinion piece up at Politico. In light of the fact that the burden of U.S. unfunded liabilities now amounts to $1,045,468 per taxpayer, we enjoy the cleverness of the title, though not its many implications:

 

Obama's Deficit Attention Disorder 

... no one knows at what point the markets will give up on the United States and determine that we are about as serious about curbing our spending bender as an alcoholic mixing cocktails at a 12-step meeting.

The White House blames Republican intransigence for the failure to make meaningful cuts to the deficit, charging that House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) walked away from a deal last summer.

But the job of a president is not to harrumph with indignation. It is to solve intractable problems, to knock heads together, to clear a way through the partisan thicket.

This president was sold as someone who could rise above Washington’s partisanship. Instead, he’s supervising it.

.... Even if one believes long-term cuts in entitlements must be paired with short-term stimulus to revive the moribund economy, where is Obama’s proposal to do this? Why isn’t he holding urgent discussions with members of Congress on the $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction that Congress will have to find by the end of the year?

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0412/75719_Page2.html#ixzz1tY2EANmW

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

I know I sound like a broken record, but so be it: Obama isn't making an effort to solve this "intractable" problem because he doesn't want to solve it. He wants to bring down the capitalist system -- and in particular he wants to bring down the nation that above all symbolizes that system. This man has been given something no other socialist or communist or anarchist or nihilist or leftist of any stripe has ever had: the POWER to wreak havoc upon capitalism. And he is using that power. There is nothing in his past -- not one single datum of which we know -- that indicates he has ever had the slightest desire to benefit the system under which he has prospered. He does indeed have a DAD problem: he is a man who believes he has been put upon this earth to finish the anti-colonialist, anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist work that his dad began in Africa. Those who expect Obama to "do something" about the economy are going to have a long and frustrating wait. They'd have better luck waiting for the first spaceship to Mars.