Trying to prove to us all that he somehow now “feels our pain,” Barry has been very busy, of late, attempting to align himself with a public that has become very fed up with economic uncertainty and Washington gridlock. Barry “Almighty” declared on Thursday: "There is nothing wrong with our country. There is something wrong with our politics." He very enthusiastically pointed blame at everyone but who he should have. While I would tend to agree with Barry’s overall assessment here, the biggest problem here has as its source Barry himself, and his very leftist political agenda. In a speech that came while taking part in what was very obviously nothing more than a staged photo op, our stellar president said, in what has been described as a “toughly worded message,” that people are disgusted with political dysfunction. During the speech he made sure to mention the frustration in his voice, just in case anyone present happened to miss the point. It was a speech that comes amid a series of polls that are dispensing blame all around, including on “Our Dear Leader,” Barry “Almighty.” So as usual, and as is the normal modus operandi of our “Fearless Leader,” it’s everyone else who is to blamed for this, because he, Barry “Almighty” is so far above all of that silliness.
Barry took the opportunity to air his supposed frustration with the ways of Washington at a stage campaign event in Michigan before pivoting to his re-election campaign and a pair of “big-money” fundraisers in New York City. He delivered a condensed version of that message at a fundraiser at the lower Manhattan home of movie producer Harvey Weinstein, where such idiotic celebrities as Gwyneth “I’m a Bimbo” Paltrow and Jimmy “Not really very funny” Fallon, were among the approximately 50 guests who shelled out $35,800 each to attend. Barry said he told his Michigan audience that it deserves better than what it's been getting from Washington. "They look at what's happening in Washington and they think these folks are really from outer space because they don't seem to understand how critical it is for us all to work together, Republicans, Democrats, independents, in order to move this country forward," Barry said. He added that the country is realizing the need to get involved. "We're going to have to get engaged and we're going to have to speak out," Barry said. "We're going to have to register the fact that we expect more and we expect better." Wasn’t all of this partisanship supposed to change when we elected the “enlightened” Barry “Almighty” president? Wasn’t his mere presence supposed to unite us all?
Barry's visit Thursday to Holland, Mich., and New York, was his first official trip outside Washington after spending more than a month in the nation's capital dealing with the debt debate. Although to say that he was actually “dealing” with anything might be more than a bit of a stretch. Barry said Americans were right to be worried about the country's 9.1 percent unemployment rate and fluctuations in the stock market, both events that are a direct result of his policies. The contentious and partisan debt debate in Washington, he went on to say, has done little to help. "Unfortunately what we've seen in Washington in the last few months has been the worst kind of partisanship, the worst kind of gridlock, and that gridlock has undermined public confidence and impeded our efforts to take the steps we need for our economy," Barry said after touring a Michigan factory that makes advanced batteries for alternative-fuel vehicles. What Barry neglected to mention, and no doubt on purpose, is the fact that the major contributor to what he defined as gridlock, are the Democrats in Congress, who were apparently totally incapable, or unwilling, of coming up with any plan of their own. Instead they did nothing more than to take pot shots at plans proposed by Republican, 3 plans to be exact.
A Washington Post, never a very reliable source of polling data to say the least, poll released this week really showed nothing more than that Americans may want to have their cake and eat it too. There is widespread and deep discontent with Washington with nearly 80 percent saying that they were dissatisfied with the way the country's political system works, compared with 60 percent in November 2009. Seventy-one percent said the federal government is mostly focused on the wrong things, up from 55 percent in October 2010. Both Barry and congressional Republicans were targets of unhappiness, with only 19 percent of people polled saying that Barry had made progress in solving the country's major problems, and just 10 percent saying that about Republicans. At the same time, 28 percent said Barry had made things worse, while 35 percent said congressional Republicans had done that. I suppose what kinda confuses me about this data is the sentiment that suggests that the Republicans have made things worse. It should be pretty clear than some very tough choices lay ahead for this country if we are to survive. If politicians do not feel that they have the people behind them, guess what, those choices will never elevate to the level where they can even be made. Because of where Barry and the Democrats have brought us, things are most likely going to get much worse before they ever get any better. Those who are expecting things to improve overnight are worse than naïve, they’re simply being foolish.
Barry has become nothing short of desperate in his efforts to channel the public's anger away from him and toward the opposition to avoid, in the end, being sunk by it himself. He urged the public to tell Washington lawmakers they'd had enough with the bickering and stalemates. "You've got to tell them you've had enough of the theatrics, you've had enough of the politics, stop sending out press releases. Start passing some bills that we all know will help the economy right now," he said. "That's what they need to do. They've got to hear from you." Theatrics? Who is it exactly that is the lead actor in all of this bizarre political theater? Ehy of course, it’s none other than Barack Hussein Obama himself! House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, promptly responded with a news release, calling the president's remarks "political grandstanding" and urging him to deliver on promises to outline recommendations to rein in the nation's deficits. Barry has said that he intends to send those recommendations in the coming weeks to this joke of a congressional super-committee now tasked with finding $1.5 trillion in savings. He also said on Thursday that he'd be offering new proposals "week by week" to create jobs, though he provided no details. Which is essentially par for the course. However, despite Barry's calls for urgent action on the economy, Congress has left Washington for its August recess and Barry is headed of on his annual summer vacation in ritzy Martha's Vineyard.
But Barry did urge that lawmakers to get to work in September and pass a series of initiatives the White House says will spur job growth, including an extension of the payroll tax cut, three free-trade agreements and funding for road and bridge construction. More of those “shovel ready” projects that aren’t quite shovel ready? I wonder. Barry has touted spending on clean-energy technologies as a job creator, and on advanced batteries such as those made at the Johnson Controls plant in Holland, Mich., as a way to boost U.S. auto companies. Barry won Michigan in the 2008 presidential election and the economically battered state is crucial to his re-election hopes in 2012. After the Michigan stop, Obama attended a pair of fundraisers in lower Manhattan that raised more than $2 million. He attended a reception with about 15 people at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Battery Park that was thrown by Gary Hirshberg, chief executive of organic yogurt maker Stonyfield Farm, before heading to dinner at Weinstein's brick row house. Weinstein and Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour were hosts. Other notable leftwing loons seated at the round dinner tables were New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, singers Alicia Keys and Chris Martin, who is Paltrow's husband, Gayle King and designer Vera Wang. Barry's motorcade passed by ground zero on the way to the dinner. The $35,800 admission price is the legal maximum donation per person. Barry's campaign keeps $5,000 and the Democratic National Committee pockets the remaining $30,800. That’s the real priority here, it’s not unemployment or the economy.
In wrapping things up here it should be painfully obvious that the cause of our government’s current bout of dysfunctional behavior can be traced back directly to the doorstep of the White House and of the offices of “Dingy” Harry Reid, and Nancy “Too much Botox” Pelosi. They are the key members in what can accurately be defined as being the true party of “No.” And yet they continue to identify themselves as being the defenders of the little guy and the protectors of the weak. But nothing could be further from the truth. These are the major players regarding the amount of insane spending that has taken place in just a little over two years. They seek to destroy this country for the own perverted reasons. And though they may try very hard to portray the opposition as being the source of the problem here, it is they who are, instead, the main reason we find ourselves in our present predicament. As I have said on any number of other occasions, like it or not, the American people are going to have to make some very difficult decisions. Either that or they can continue to buy into the simplistic and idiotic rhetoric coming from the likes of Barry, “Dingy” and Ms. Pelosi regarding who it is that is to blame. So the choice is essentially ours, but how can we justify to our children that we chose to believe lying Democrats whose only desire is to control the futures of those children.
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