President Obama said he was on a White House trip, so it'll be paid for by taxpayers, but his shiny new million dollar black bus trip through the Middle West sure seemed to me like a campaign whistle stopper.
His remarks were the same old stuff - raise taxes on the rich, cut loophole for oil and gas companies, save the American family, and toss out a Congress that disagrees with me. And, in case you voters have forgotten, I inherited all this mess and I'm just watching while Washington dysfunctions, the same as you are.
We've heard it all before. The latest twist is that Obama is promising a "plan" to deal with jobs in September. It seems to me that if he actually has a plan, which I seriously doubt, he ought to put it on the table right now. Americans have suffered through two years of extremely high unemployment. Why wait for September to try to solve the problem??
And, as we all remember, the President has not just been watching in Washington. He managed to pass an 800 billion dollar bailout program with his Democratic-controlled Congress in 2009. He managed to get his Obamacare bill passed, again with a Democratic-controlled Congress. So, he can't say he's just a bystander. And he certainly can't say he has nothing to do with the mess America is in because he helped create it with spending that's so far out of line with US historical spending levels that it takes one's breath away.
Meanwhile, his Obamacare is being nibbled at by federal appellate courts because it contains unconstitutional penalty provisions papered over as taxes that overreach the Commerce Clause's scope. The Supreme Court will almost surely finish the job.
So, what is the record he's running on? A large deficit and a year wasted on a health care law nobody wants, except him.
Maybe he's masquerading as one of the Men in Black - on a black bus going nowhere.
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