Posted on 01/25/2010 6:37:44 PM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner
We’ve now seen three landslide Republican victories in three states that President Obama carried in 2008. From the tea parties to the town halls to the Massachusetts Miracle, Americans have tried to make their opposition to Washington’s big government agenda loud and clear. But the President has decided that this current discontent isn’t his fault, it’s ours. He seems to think we just don’t understand what’s going on because he hasn’t had the chance – in his 411 speeches and 158 interviews last year – to adequately explain his policies to us.
Instead of sensibly telling the American people, “I’m listening,” the president is saying, “Listen up, people!” This approach is precisely the reason people are upset with Washington. Americans understand the president’s policies. We just don’t agree with them. But the president has refused to shift focus and come around to the center from the far left. Instead he and his old campaign advisers are regrouping to put a new spin on the same old agenda for 2010.
Americans aren’t looking for more political strategists. We’re looking for real leadership that listens and delivers results. The president’s former campaign adviser is now calling on supporters to “get on the same page,” but what’s on that page? He claims that the president is “resolved” to “keep fighting for” his agenda, but we’ve already seen what that government-growth agenda involves, and frankly the hype doesn’t give us much hope. Real health care reform requires a free market approach; real job creation involves incentivizing, not punishing, the job-creators; reining in the “big banks” means ending bailouts; and stopping “the undue influence of lobbyists” means not cutting deals with them behind closed doors.
Instead of real leadership, though, we’ve had broken promises and backroom deals. One of the worst: candidate Obama promised to go through the federal budget “with a scalpel,” but President Obama spent four times more than his predecessor. Want more? Candidate Obama promised that lobbyists “won’t find a job in my White House,” but President Obama gave at least a dozen former lobbyists top administration jobs. Candidate Obama promised us that we could view his health care deliberations openly and honestly on C-SPAN, but President Obama cut deals behind closed doors with industry lobbyists. Candidate Obama promised us that we would have at least five days to read all major legislation, but President Obama rushed through bills before members of Congress could even read them.
Candidate Obama promised us that his economic stimulus package would be targeted and pork-free, but President Obama signed a stimulus bill loaded with pork and goodies for corporate cronies. Candidate Obama railed against Wall Street greed, but President Obama cozied up to bankers as he extended and expanded their bailouts. Candidate Obama promised us that for “Every dollar that I’ve proposed [in spending], I’ve proposed an additional cut so that it matches.” We’re still waiting to see how President Obama will cut spending to match the trillion he’s spent.
More than anything, Americans were promised jobs, but the president’s stimulus package has failed to stem our rising unemployment rate. Maybe it was unfair to expect that an administration with so little private sector experience would understand something about job creation. How many Obama Administration officials have ever had to make a payroll or craft a business plan in the private sector? How many have had to worry about not having the resources to invest and expand? The president’s big government policies have made hiring a new employee a difficult commitment for employers to make. Ask yourself if the Obama Administration has done anything to make it easier for employers to hire. Have they given us any reassurance that the president will keep taxes low and not impose expensive new regulations?
Candidate Obama over-promised; President Obama has under-delivered. We understand you, Mr. President. We’ve listened to you again and again. We ask that you now listen to the American people.
- Sarah Palin
Beautifully said. The only jobs he’s created are in the WH.
Pray for America and Gov Palin
She is an extremely talented writer, must be the glasses.
Pray for America and Lady Palin
“But I’ve got news for you, if you agree with another person 100% of the time, it’s because you’re looking in the mirror when you’re talking.”
I don’t know. I think that would bring me up to about 80.
Obama doesn’t care what anyone else wants, if he seems to listen it will just be more BS!
~ROFLOL~ no one can bitch slap Obama better than our Sarah!
Well I don’t see Romney, Pawlenty, Huckabee or any of the other White House wanna-be’s taking O to the woodshed... so go whine somewhere else....
Yea I picked that up too..”Candidate Obama” over and over..(chuckle)...
.so she’s getting her nicks in just before his speech.Ha!.. well..he did say he would take his lumps..how about series of drum beats on his head as Sarah did here! Ba-boom! Ba-boom! Ba- boom!
Nobody likes it Jo..it’s just politics..I’m not even 100% in Palins corner yet, because I’m not convinced she’ll run...but I will overlook those things that are just how politics work..McCain is one of them.
She’ll be making other decisions along the way I won’t agree with too..so did Dubya and Regan...and though I might feel the impact, and I did, I’ll fight with them for what is important to me that they do represent.
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Yes! Well, caww, GMTA
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Oh, that’s gonna leave a mark. Atta girl, Sarah. Mess with him before the big speech.
Now, we wait for the reaction.
Bet there are some wide awake angry people in DC. :-)
No, but I’d love to see some of the others do better than this attack on Zero. One little woman from Wasilla is left alone to do all the hard work.....and she does it all with one hand while fixing the dinner for her family with the other.
That’s multi-tasking for you. ;)
I’m betting that Palin also cuts lose with a new post after the SOTU speech. She’ll watch it, take notes, than she’ll gut him.
Yeah, they pretty much are. Sorry to bust your bubble!
LLS
Yeah... they pretty much are and only one has a chance... and only one of those two would ever get my vote.
LLS
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