So Barack Obama inherited a bad economy from Bush and the Pelosi Congress. It's not something that Obama only realized when he walked into the Oval Office for the first time as President. If you'll recall he said he had a plan and he was going to hit the ground running to fix the economy. So what did he do with his majorities in the House and Senate? He put the economy on the back burner and spent a year and a half on trying to pass his signature health care plan.
My question to you is a simple one...
Why would anyone reelect this man when our economy continues to flounder and he's shown zero aptitude for fixing it? Obama ran out of ideas when his little Keynesian stimulus plan never got off the launching pad. Summers and Romer both fled Washington for safe haven at Harvard and Berkeley. Geithner continues to be just as clueless at running the Treasury as he was at figuring out Turbo Tax. You can't seriously want to give these people another four years.
The "academics and community organizers" had their shot. They've failed miserably. Let's get some folks in there that actually understand economics and businesses.
The initial and major flaw in your analysis and assertions is that you forget the FACT that Pelosi and the Dem party DID NOT have the majority vote in the Senate, where the GOP blocked progress considerably. Also, you forget the FACT that the Party of NO (aka the Republicans) went filibuster crazy and voted lock step AGAINST ANY proposal from the administration. So what finally did get done was not without GOP approval.
The GOP made the healthcare bill it's beachhead, as GOP leadership stated that it was their primary mission to make Obama a one term president at any cost. Hell, Boehner stated that if defeating Obama meant trashing thousands of new gov't jobs for people, then so be it!
You also forget the FACT that the Geithner was the Shrub's boy.....good riddence to him.
Essentially, you're just regurgitating the myopic mantras of the GOP punditry anti-Obama crowd....which seems a little stupid when you read the following:
Obama Administrations Achievements (Thus Far)
Obama Administrations Achievements (Thus Far) » Obama's Achievements Center
And furthermore, since Obama INHERITED this shitpile of an economy along with an obsitinate GOP out to get him, what makes YOU think that the American people are that fucking dumb to elect a repeat of the mindset that got us here in the first place?
First of all...Nancy Pelosi was Speaker of the House. She didn't run the Senate.
No shit sherlock! That doesn't change the FACT that the GOP held sway in the Senate, where all bills eventually were stopped. That would be Harry Reid. Since both of the independents, Bernie Sanders and Joe Lieberman, caucused with the Democrats then Harry Reid did in fact have 60 Senators to work with. ...That my friend is a super majority in both the House and the Senate.
Wrong again, genius. Lieberman had LONG established that he was NOT siding with Dems since 2004...long before his re-election where he switched in 2008 the Dems did not have 60 seats, and then Kennedy died What jobs program of Barack Obama is it that you think the Republican minority blocked? I'd be most interested in hearing what he wanted that he didn't get because of Republican obstruction.
An example: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/15/AR2011021506858.htmlI think that if you look at what was happening back then you'll see that it wasn't Republican's who held up Obama's most liberal ideas...it was the Blue Dog Democrats.
Do some research to see the number of the "bluedogs" compared to the lock step vote of the filibuster happy GOP
You should thank your lucky stars that they did, by the way or we would now be reeling from the effects of the Cap & Trade legislation that Barack, Nancy and Harry wanted so badly. If not for the Blue Dogs our economy would be in even worse shape than it is now.
Pure supposition and conjecture on your part based on incorrect analogy of the real make up of the House and Senate and what has transpired.
As for your charge that Geithner is Bush's boy? How do you figure? He was brought in to work under Larry Summers in the Clinton Administration...then was brought back to be the Treasury Secretary under Obama. How is Timothy Geithner "Shrub's boy"?
True enough...but given his positions during the Shrub's reign, he was one of the key people during the financial boondoggles regarding Wall St. and the banking/housing market shennanigans that could have put out road blocks, or at least blown the whistle big time. Instead, he was a facilitator of the Shrub's deregulation and "reaganomics" on steroids. So I AM INCORRECT TO SAY HE WAS SOLELY THE "SHRUB'S BOY".
I don't think the American people ARE that dumb actually. I think they gave Obama a shot despite his total lack of executive and legislative experience, based on his supposed "intellect" and some vague vision of Hope and Change.
AND THE FACT THAT THEY REALIZED WHAT A TOTAL FUCK UP THE SHRUB AND HIS ADMINISTRATION WAS....GIVEN IRAQ AND THE WALL ST./BANKER DEBACLE. It's been quite apparent that he's in way over his head on most things but glaringly so when it comes to the economy.
SAYS THE NEOCON/TEABAGGER pundits and parrots.....the rest of America is pissed that he's bending over backward to appease the Party of No, and being more center to the right than he lead on in his campaign. He took some really bad advice from Larry Summers and Christina Romer and now he's stuck with the results while those two fled back to academia.
Not quite the way you portray it.....YOU may not like Summers and Romer advice, but their changing jobs to the private sector (cha-ching$$) is not abandoning ship as you would like to have it. I think the American people realize only too well that they made a mistake in '08. They made that abundantly clear during the mid-term elections.
