Accountability and Responsibility-An Obama Change You Cannot Believe

Accountability and Responsibility-An Obama Change You Cannot Believe

On the corner of Harry Truman’s desk was a visible sign, simple and too the point, as plain spoken as the owner, conveying what every manager from shop foreman to CEO knows. It is Business 101. The sign read, “THE BUCK STOPS HERE”. After nearly one and a half years in office, Obama has yet to learn the lessons of Harry Truman or to display even a modicum of understanding about leadership, accountability, and responsibility.

But, we can excuse this incompressible lack of understanding on the part of Obama, as the mainstream media seems to be doing, owing to his only work-related experience prior to the ascendancy to the leader of the United States, commanding the largest workforce in the United States, a job requiring abilities to bring all people together for a common purpose, to provide leadership during times of peaces and during times of crises, a realization that he is the Commander in Chief of every department of the US government. You see, folks, Obama came to the office with NO managerial experience.

Obama was a community organizer, not accountable for anything but putting together groups of community activists to petition local, state, and national leaders. This did not train him to be a consensus-builder; it trained him to be an arrogant and divisive factor in the political world of Chicago. His other experiences included a stint as a part-time lecturer at a law school in Chicago teaching constitutional law, not the greatest credential when it comes to managing complex organizations; a state senator in Illinois with a voting record distinguished by the most votes cast s “Present” (seems he wanted to avoid responsibility); and, an incomplete term as a US Senator for Illinois, interrupted by a two year campaign leading to his election as President.

This should not be a surprise to anyone save those unfortunate souls who cannot read nor hear. More people voted for an unknown, untested person than voted against him. We are reminded daily of his lack of accountability and responsibility through his continuous streaming speeches, photo ops, and press conferences. Early on, Obama deflected any criticism by evoking the name George Bush. When that became a broken record and was worsening the confidence gap in Obama, he deftly shifted blame to anyone in his way, other than himself. It was the CEO’s lust for greed. It was corporate greed that was keeping the American public from having Health Insurance, It was the Republican party that was refusing to cooperate in passing the Obama agenda. It was everyone who was responsible for the oil leak (this time he threw many of his bureaucrats and cabinet-level peons under the bus, deflecting, in a peculiar way that is Obama, in a third person voice, what must be done to fix the oil spill and prevent reoccurrences.

Yes, in third person, shedding the waterfall of criticism of his handling the oil-spill crisis like water off a duck’s back. In rides Obama to the rescue, al be it weeks late. Where was the rage seen after the Katrina hurricane, an act of god, not a manmade disaster like the oil spill? Where was the media in demanding faster action and holding Obama accountable? Where is the outrage of the American public? Yes, the Washington blame game has begun with the leading culprits the same, big business, greedy CEO’s incentivized to cut corners, the Republican party, bureaucrats at the regulatory agencies, ad nauseum. Seems the list includes everyone but Obama. Taking a cue from Mad Magazine’s Alfred E Neuman, “What? Me worry” just will not do, Mr. President.

When anything goes wrong, it is your responsibility. You, and you alone, are to be held accountability for the success and the failures of your government. Only during a crisis does the American public get a chance to see how well Obama comprehends the notion that it is his responsibility, he is accountable to the American people when his government does not work.

Sadly, as every day in office goes by, the American public is gaining a greater appreciation of just how little he comprehends the responsibility he has for the successes and the failures

Populism and Politics got you in office, but the American public is best served by a President of the people, by the people, and for the people. People want to see leadership, not grandstanding and posturing. Like the illustration, the American people do not expect some type of comic book hero to appear on sight and plug the hole at the bottom of the ocean. It expects the President to muster the greatest minds and solve the problem in the shortest period of time. We may never rid Washington of the disease of scapegoating, but we can sure demand that our leader be our leader and not some grandstanding Scapegoater-in-Chief leading the charge of the scapgoters.

Joe Biden F bomb

Res ipsa loquitur.

LIAR-LIAR-PANTS-ON-FIRE!

Healthcare reform, you say! The only reform in ObamaCare is the reform school. That’s where Obama, his assistants, and the Merry Band of thieves in Congress belong, along side all the other liberal con-artists, swindlers, and liars.

One of the greatest swindles in American history is about to take place on Sunday when Congress opens up our mouths and shoves a bad bill to reform health care down our throats using bribery, intimidation, trickery, and maneuvers that surely would not be upheld as constitutional.The outcome confiscates our money, deprives us of our freedoms, but saddles the taxpayers of America, today and forever, with yet another entitlement that will balloon with time just as every Washington pushed entitlement has done since the New Deal. More importantly, it is being shoved down our throats by the representatives we sent to Washington to represent our views.

Our very American way of life, gone in a blur of trick maneuvers to avoid a vote on a bill that no one but the Congressmen and the White House know its content and bought by the Democratic leadership and Obama with bribes and goodies (and a good amount of extortion and intimidation) to the Congressmen who have been wavering.

Who are these weasels? The Hall of Shame includes:

Ben Nelson-Nebraska Senator (D)-a place of honor in the rostrum for his assistance in passing the Senate version exempting, at a great cost to taxpayers, Nebraska from the Medicaid cost increases al other states will experience by extending Medicaid to uninsured residents at the higher income threshold in the ObamaCare plan.



Mary Landrieu-Louisiana Senator (D)-another bribe reciepent for voting with Obamaafter securing a modest multi-billion funding for Louisiana for her constituents. Et tu Mississippi.




Dennis Kucinich-House member-Ohio(D)-not to miss the party, Dennis voted no before agreeing to vote yes. Remember John Kerry? Originally opposed to the bil because it did not contain a "public option", he found his way with some help by his tutor, Obama, on a ride on the White House private jet (Air Force One). Like the corporate bankers scorned for the use of corporate jets, Dennis must have felt at the top of the world until landing time and he had to make a decision. Do you suppose they opened the emergency door prior to landing to coax Dennis towards the right decision. Dennis, though, is an expert at screwing up health issues in Cleveland, must feel he has a grasp of the issues and before jumping agreed that a public option is on the horizon.



Nancy Pelosi-Speaker of the House-California (D)-In spite of public opinion against the health reform plan of Obama and the democratic congress, Nancy daily reminds us-Nancy Knows Best. She has pushed the bill forward against the will of the country, asserting that we must pass the bill so the American public can find out what is in the bill. She has commanded that we will like it once we see it and experience it. Go Bless Nancy! It is good to have a mother so out of touch with her children. Perhaps she whispered in Dennis's ear, next watch me cram single payer down everyones throat. Well, tell Nancy where she can shove it!

Harry Reid-Senate Majority Leader-Nevada(D)- Harry must have heard
the pleas of Dennis during the arm twisting on Air Force One. No
than directly after Dennis's announcement that, in spite of no "public option"
he confessed that he undertood that this was only the first step. Harry
announced that there will be a vote on the public option in the near future.
the pleas of Dennis during the arm twisting on Air Force One. No
than directly after Dennis's announcement that, in spite of no "public option"
he confessed that he undertood that this was only the first step. Harry
announced that there will be a vote on the public option in the near future.

John Boccieri-House member-Ohio (D)- he voted gainst the bill before he voted for it. His excuse-he is now happy that the deficit will be reduced and that the bill will cover an extensive number of his constituents. John, the new bill mirrors most of the coverage and deficit issues about the same. So what changed? Did you get some pork for your district. If not-loser!

Betsy Markey-House member Colorado (D)-Wee! This is fun. One day I can vote for and the next day vote against. Nobody will know what my vote is now that the bill will be deemed. Yes, Betsy, politics is fun. You never have to tell the truth and nothing bad happens to you. You voted against and then, with a little pressure, you buckle and go for a yes vote. Does it mind that your constituents and the American public does not care for the bill you like/dislike/like/dislike.....Well, hopefully you got something good from the pork barrel.

Bart Gordon-House member-Tennessee (D)-Sad Bart! He only got $100 million for his state of Tennessee. His vote must not have been valued very high. Imagine, though, he wanted some money for the state to help pay rural hospitals and health providers to care for the poor people. Hey, Bart, didn't the health reform promise to cover the poor and uninsured at taxpayers expense with subsidized premiums or even free coverage with the increase in income levels to be eligible for Medicaid ? Aren't these hospitals and providers going to get paid since these people will now be covered by health insurance? Congratulations American taxpayers, we get to pay twice so that Obama could secure Barts vote. Our hats are of to you Bart!


People of America, wake up to what is going on with this reform carnival. Remember the financial crisis.Bankers, investors, fund managers all accused of grave financial misdeeds. Transactions were obscured, the biggest crime often boiled own to a crime of not providing accurate information to their investors. Why should our politicians be held to a lower standard than we hold our business community and financial community to.

What is the difference between Obama and Madoff? Not much! The both swindle Americans out of their nest egg, only Obama defers the pain to some generations years away-our children and grand children. Why? Obama wants a down payment on a future single payor system run by the same people who run our postal service, Medicare, and Social Security so well!

They both commit serious fraud with deceptive practices. Only Madoff did it for profit, Obama does it to save his ego and his presidency. It is his way or no way-pure ideology.

Can you imagine a president of the USA violating the constitution, bribing congressmen for votes (pay to play), using accounting that, if the US were a publically-traded company, rather than a government of the peopl, the accounting would be deemed a misstatement of accounts and a material misrepresentation, subject to sanctions by the SEC and oversight by the DOJ. Simply bribery rising to RICO charges would follow and the President would join Madoff and Jeffery Skillman in jail. But, this is the US and our politicians are immune from such charges in the conduct of their work. But, you get the point.

In a future publication on this blog we will attempt to outline the misrepresentations our president has made from the campaign trail to today with respect to health care reform. You will have heard most of them. What is important is to realize that our Con Man in Chief has kept us in the dark, manipulated the information, misrepresented his position and the bills before Congress and has ignored the will of the majority to start over. He is not listening to America, he must be listening to someone else. Whoever it is, does not represent me and the majority of Americans who say that we are not on the right track and that the health reform is not well thought out, too expensive, and fails to address the rising costs of health services.

Flood the White House with your calls in opposition. Blast e-mail every proponent in Congress with your views. Let them know you will get you revenge in November. Work to elect people who will repeal this bad bill. If you value your freedom and want a better future for America with lower deficits and reduced debt, let them know you intend to elect people who will not pass bills that do not withstand the scrutiny of the public and that do not reduce deficits and reduce the debt without resorting to the Congressional Budget gimmickry. Take back America, Now!

Promises, Promises-Obama makes um, Obama breaks um!

And it came to past, so said Obama, the campaigner! Or did it?

Obama proves it again, he is a great campaigner, but a lousy governor. Why would Obama, the campaigner, make such hollow promises. Not a single promise has been met! Does he believe in what he says? Does he have that much contempt for the average American that he thinks he could get away with it? Did he know that such talk would hit a Populist note and activate the electorate?

Maybe it is a bit of all these reasons. The promises reflect ideas that were popular with average Americans. He let Pandora out of the box. The ideas were so popular that average Americans are pursuing these ideas of a kind of good government they want. Obama promised, but did not deliver. Americans are now looking for people who they can elect to office who will deliver.

That is the essence of the Tea Party Conventions so derided by the liberals, including Obama. The Tea Bagging liberals want you to believe that the Tea Party movement is a fringe, radical element of the right. But the Tea Party movement has activated the populist notion of good government against a string of Obama broken promises. It has brought millions of Americans onto the street. Liberal media pundits claim these are angry people hectoring an Administration who put people first.

Nobody is buying their arguments. Judging by the elections results in Massachusetts, Virgina, and New Jersey, and the latest poll numbers for Barbara Boxer in California, the voters are not buying the swaggering Obama and his band of faeries. The wind of the voters have stirred the Furies.

We will see, soon, who is right. The ones who promise, or the ones who deliver. I'll but on the ones who deliver.

Welcome to the Nanny State-Ms Obama Takes on Childhood Obesity

First, we have Bloomberg worrying about the rising crisis of Fat intake amongst the New York City residents. The solution: Mikey pushes a rule banning trans fats in New York restaurants on behalf of his loyal subjects. Hail to the Chief!

Then, Mikey takes on Salt. Concerned with the steady increase in salt consumption of his loyal subjects, he confers with his courtly advisers and is presented a solution of great magnanimity provided by his favorite court jesture, ban salt in restaurants. Hail to the Chief.

President Obama and his merry band conjures up rule, laws, and legislation spiriting away personal choice and freedoms, things we Americans take for granted until it is removed. Time after time, Obama takes to the teleprompter to lecture us on what we need and what only the government can provide to us. Phrased in the familiar, it is in the best interest of the country that you accept these restrictions regulating our choices, for only we, in the government, know what is best for you. Look at his latest budget. Listen to his State of the Union address. Reach your own conclusion. Think for yourself, don't just take my word. But, folks, welcome to the Nanny State of Obama, the former United States of America. Hail to the Chief!

But wait, it does not stop with President Obama, the elected officials in Congress, the appointed administration. We now have the Nanny in Chief coming forward with her agenda. Yes Folks, meet Michelle Obama, the nations unofficial Nanny in Chief. Today, we learned that the top priority on Michelle Obama's agenda is Childhood Obesity. Many of you may be more startled to learn that First Ladies have their own agendas, let alone a Top Priority. Well, if there is one thing for sure, it will not surprise you to learn that she has picked another item from the lush garden of the Nanny State as her number one priority.

I am not saying that America does not have a weight problem amongst its younger loyal subjects. American children have added a great deal of heft over the last forty years and thankfully the trend of growing waistlines has peaked. We have increased the availability of non-nutritious snacks at schools, at the restaurants we visit, and in the choices we make in food selection. No thanks to the Federal Government and the FDA food charts, we make poor choices in selecting the foods we feed our babies. Fast food, processed food, buns and donuts, snacks upon snacks consumed without adequate physical exercise. No worry, if we get some extra weight around the belt, we can just make an appointment with the nearest plastic surgeon and pay to have the fat removed. Or we can just live with it, and make our family doctor happy.

The important think, though, is that it is a choice for families to eat poorly, exercise little, and gain weight. I am certainly not advocating for weight gain, but the buck stops with the preparer and the eater. It is a choice that can not and should not be dictated by an over-reaching Nanny State or Nanny in Chief. It can not be legislated, regulated, or dictated. It must be embraced through education, encouragement, and inspiration.

Let's hope that the agenda does not end in removing more choice. We should all encourage better nutritional habits and more exercise. But the Nanny in Chief should not use this as a platform to substitute the Government for proper parental supervision and for personal accountability. We should also remove the apologists special favors for behavior promoting obesity. Obesity has long been linked to higher disease frequencies and long term medical care treatment. It costs more money. That cost should be passed on to the families who make poor choices in the face of education, knowledge, and scientific research. Remove the close-up parking spots reserved for "large" people. Hold people accountable for the choices they make and stop babying them.

We all must live with the consequences of choice if we want to preserve choice. Obesity should be no different.

The Fix is in-Obama blames Bush in rallying support for Dem Candidate in Massachusetts!

Obama is at it again! Facing falling levels of support on his agenda, unable to point to one single accomplishment other than creating one of the largest deficits in recent history, increasing the debt levels to unsustainable levels, suppressing the value of the dollar, reversing the trend in an improving balance of trade, and losing the momentum in the economic recovery, all in matter of one yea. How does he respond? The same way he did during his two year campaign for the presidency, BLAME ON GEORGE BUSH!

When Americans voted Obama in, they were expecting change. Most of us were hoping for change in the better, not in the worse. We all had such grand "HOPE" and "BELIEF" in his Siren call for Change. No more business as usual. No more lobbyitis. No more dependence on partisan politics. Indeed, he called for the end of partisanism and encouraged the rise of bipartisanism in solving many of the problems left by the disastrous economic slump.

Not long into his presidency we witnessed a transforming event. Within weeks, bipartisan hopes were out the window. A $750 plus billion "bailout" in the guise of a "stimulus" program coined "TARP" provided the monetary muscle to nationalize a major portion of the Auto industry, effectively nationalize the banking system, take over the largest Insurance company in America. and send money to their favorite liberal causes.

Curiously, the overwhelming majority of the stimulus program would not be distributed for effect on the economy for over two years. What was doled out was the same ill-conceived stimulus program proved time and again to be ineffective as a stimulus, a rebate to American workers, a stimulus that again proved to be useless in moving the needle of the economic recession. Blame it on Bush.

Favors for the Unions were pushed by his eunuchs in the Congressional leadership. In the first 100 days in office, all that happened was a economic hangover. All the talk about change you can believe in was nothing more than "believe in my agenda, or else".

Without skipping a beat, Obama sold shares to public interest groups in order to move on his health reform package, but he let his eunuchs in the Congressional Leadership write the initial framework for the health reform bills. It was like letting the fox out to guard the chicken coop. The liberals had a hay-day pushing everything that more sensible Congresses had thrown out, in spite of majorities in Congress. It was there best chance to get government control of health care and hand it to the union bosses. No Republican input! Blame it on Bush.

The climate package past by the House over the objection of the Republicans ran into a Senate that begin to recognize that with health and Climate change on the agenda and a restive public, Democrat and Republican alike concerned with the growing debt and deficits and the awareness that our political class was out of step with Mainstreet, passage of these favored bills would be at the peril of member of Congress. Mainstreet, by a wide margin, views the two top priorities for the political class as JOBS and DEFICIT REDUCTION, not HEALTH REFORM and CLIMATE CHANGE/CAP AND TRADE. Blame it on Bush!

Undeterred, Obama continues to push Health Reform, selling reform to the highest bidding lobbyist or special interest in return for support. He has taken Medicare reform off the table and sold it to the American Medical Association, the American Hospital Association, the the Medical Insurance lobbyists. He took cost control off the table by cutting deals with those same organiztions and doling out goodies to the States, exempting the costs of the growth of Medicaid to a few select and crucial voters. No cut meant higher costs. Instead of reducing or making premiums affordable, he raised the costs to the many for the benefit of the few uninsured and charged the taxpayers. He bought the Union for a five year exemption in paying the excise tax on their highly lucrative health insurance plans, leaving the tab to all other insured , including businesses and their emplyees. 12 million people exempted from paying $60 million due to plans that would be considered high value. The 12 million includes none other than employees of local, state and federal government. The same group that, while the vast majority of middle class employees have seen little to no increase in their pay, if not actually lost ground, received above inflation-rate pay increases pushing their average pay to in excess of $70,000 per annum, well above the average pay of the middle class. Blame it on Bush

Compounding the pay rate for governmental employees is the unsustainable rise in the number of government employees. Big government has arrived with a vengeance like a good case of "Montezuma's Revenge" for the indiscriminate traveler, sampling anything they like regardless of hazard. Blame it on Bush!

So now, the public has been sending to the political class a clear message. Virginia did. Dodd retired becuse he could not win his seat again after decades in the Senate. Grogan woke up and found he was trailing in the polls, his solution, as with most cowards, quit. Men of principles, quitting when it got tough. There ego could not suffer the humiliation of a defeat. Blame it on Bush.

Which brings us up to today, in Massachusetts. A Republican is challenging, and has the lead, for His Highnesses Sacred Liberal Senate Seat, most recently held by the late Teddy Kennedy. We should take note, this is a referrendum on the Obama Agenda. The White House, and Obama, must agree with this assessment. The political bosses of Obama have dispatched him to "Speechify" and lull the voters of Massachusetts to the Siren call again, rallying the troops as he did during his two year march to the White House. Using the similar call to action, he pleads for support for his agenda by claiming that this vote will be the difference in achieving the long-sought after health reform, climate change, and, oh by the way, the long sought right of union organizing without the required democratic process we all enjoy, freedom of a vote yeah or nay. And to whom did he attribute all the problems of the country, the world, and his falling polls? You got it, BUSH! He is having to fix all the things that did not get done during the last 8 years in one year.

Now that is leadership we can believe in. That is the kind of leadership that children in the playground can be overhead saying trying to duck blame.

Listen up America, take back the country. Throw the bums out now. What we need is real reform, real change, real leadership. When you vote, Massachusetts, forget about Democrat vs Republican, vote for the person who represents real change that will give you jobs, reduce debt, and move away from ideology and demagoguery and elect someone who will not increase the deficit, but reduce it; who will not choke economic recovery with growth in government and punitive regulation, someone who will not spend us into bankruptcy "stimulating" the economy.
And, once he is elected, hold his feet to the fire. If he does not perform, throw him out. It is up to the voters to hold the politcal class accountble, letting them know that they have job security only if the listen to the voters. They are not free agents in Washington, they work for you and the district, state, and country you live in. They work for you. Fire them when they do not perform, do not just accept the crumbs off the table, take the table way.

Massachusetts, you have that chance tomorrow. We will all have that chance in November, and again in 2012. Do It NOW and FOREVER.