Posted by
CCR on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 11:51:56 PM
So far, President Obama gets 3 gold stars for talking a lot but saying virtually nothing. Last night's speech to Congress was no exception. I would like to talk to someone who learned something new after listening to him last night. While those are the types of speeches that got him elected, it is as if he is in a permanent campaign mode. He says what he thinks Americans want to hear, but then goes ahead and does whatever he wants behind the closed doors of the Oval Office. He didn't even reach the goal of uplifting consumer confidence in the market, as evidenced by the stock market taking yet another plunge today after yesterday's brief uplift. He tooted his own horn about a stimulus package that more than half of the American people oppose, including every Republican in the House and all but 3 moderates in the Senate. Rush Limbaugh terms these people RINOS (Republicans In Name Only). What happened to Bi-Partisanship?
Last night he mentioned that VP Joe Biden will be the one who oversees the the carrying out of the "stimulus" package. "And nobody messes with Joe," he remarked as he looked back at him. For one, that job is too much of a burden for essentially one person, and secondly, do we really trust Mr. Second-in-Command to monitor the fund's use "wisely." During his campaign, Obama preached bring more Bi-Partisanship to Washington, so why not form a team of people to oversee the package, including both Democrats AND Republicans (and I'm not talking about RINOS)?