Whiner In Chief: It's Unbecoming The Office

The latest from our Whiner In Chief:
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/43391677/ns/today-today_news/

I've NEVER heard a president whine so much about things. The incessant whining about what he inherited from Bush is tiresome. Worse, much of it isn't even true! Now he's finding it difficult to force a progressive agenda down the throats of Americans who, instead, want our economy fixed like he promised during his campaign and during his first months in office. At some point a man has to MAN-UP and just take care of business. Life hands you circumstances you don't like and that you didn't want or cause but, when it's up to you to deal with it, you suck it up and deal with it. A real man does.

I remind you sir that Bush inherited his recession from his predecessor and you'd be hard-pressed to find comments from him complaining about what Clinton handed him. (In case you don't remember, the so-called Bush Recession actually began in March 2000, when the NASDAQ began it's unprecedented 77% loss ... a full year before any of Bush's policies took effect.) By comparison, hardly a day goes by, certainly not more than a week, that Obama doesn't in some way complain about the recession he was handed. It's unbecoming the holder of his office to keep complaining about his predecessor and his own circumstances. It's un-manly as well.

One of the things apparently lost on Obama is that congress is responsible for the debt, spending and mortgage mess. Democrats were in charge of congress for two years before Obama took office. In fact, Obama was a member of the Senate the two years before he became president. So, not only did he inherit this mess significantly from a Democratic congress but from also himself as a member of that body that made this mess worse, not better. Congressional Democrats created twice as much budget deficit each year as Republicans did when they were in charge the previous 6 years. Just as there is no doubt Republicans started us down this spending/debt path, there is absolutely no doubt that Congressional Democrats made it much worse with Obama participating in it.

So, pardon me if I don't buy his whining. He and his Democratic colleagues in the Senate contributed to making it as bad as it was when he became president.

Now he's even whining about how difficult his job is. Sir, that's what happens when you run your office in a way that completely shuts the opposition out of participation. YOU set up a confrontational and combative environment. Remember, your administration told all of us "we won so we get to do it our way". And you famously told us on 'the right' to "sit down and be quiet" so you could move your progressive agenda forward without having to defend it. Sorry sir but that is NOT how a republic works! It is NOT how ours was set up to work! You have no one to blame but yourself for the difficulty your attitude created for you.

This, of course, is what progressives do. They blame all the bad stuff on other people. You will rarely IF EVER hear them take responsibility for mistakes and misjudgements. (They're never wrong by definition you know.) You will rarely IF EVER hear them take responsibility for promising one thing and doing something entirely different. Promise you will reduce the debt but then don't. Promise you will keep unemployment low but don't do it. Promise you will get us out of Iraq 6 months earlier than Bush but end up using the same withdrawal time table. Promise you'll reduce the citizens' health care costs but, instead, increase it. Promise you'll fix our southern border security problem, then when it becomes clear it's not getting fixed brag about increases in border patrol when it was Bush who ordered those increases, not you (which made Bush policies there also responsible for increased arrests and increased drug capturing that Bush made it possible for you to claim). As Senator, you castigated your predecessor as being an irresponsible/incompetent president for raising the debt ceiling and then had no problem doing it multiple times yourself. You criticized Republicans for blowing budgets (even though it was Congressional Democrats who did that during Bush's last two years in office) then had no problem not even making budgets even though it's REQUIRED by the Constitution. (Isn't that a violation of your oath to uphold and enforce the constitution? Hmmmm.)

Now President Obama says he's tired of the battles he faces in office and isn't sure he wants to run for a second term. For the first time in his life he's in a job that REQUIRES he work WITH those who disagree with his policies. Now he has to find ways of reaching compromise in order to move the country forward. But he'd rather refuse to work with them and ram his progressive agenda down our throat and he's tired of the opposition that CHOICE results in? Stop whining sir. YOU created this contentious and polarized atmosphere. It's a problem of YOUR OWN creation. If you had tried to work with the opposing party it would have been a much less contentious and difficult time for you. Mr. President, YOU created much of the problem you're complaining about (contentiousness and divisiveness) so you have no right to whine about it. Besides, it's unbecoming a president of the USA.

What does he say about what might motivate him to go for a second term? This weekend he said "the work that we started in 2009 is not yet complete". Huh? My first thought is, what exactly has he actually gotten started (other than health care cost increases that nobody wanted)? AGAIN it's all about him and his agenda!!! Is his first thought about the suffering of others in this economy? Nope! Note the use of the pronoun "we" ... the collective version of "I", his favorite word to utter. Is it about you the people? NOPE! It's about what "we" (he and his progressive administration) want to do. He's concerned about his progressive agenda. You don't need to hear it expressed that way to know what his focus really is. You can tell that by the lack of results.

We have serious, serious economic problems developing as a result of the unsustainability of social security, medicare, medicaid, and sub-prime loans. These are ALL programs created by Democrats and then were mismanaged into insolvency by them. How one can keep blaming all these problems on Bush and Republicans is unfathomable to me. How so many Americans actually believe that nonsense is mind-boggling and saddening.