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Nice job you've done with the country, Mr. President. Go run around and make speeches blaming the other party for your failures

Obama’s economic speech full of nothing in 3 minutes



The economy is bad and getting worse, and even he seems to know he can't keep blaming Bush, so Obama is resorting again to his favorite act. He goes on the road and gives speeches attacking Republicans (but different ones now) for the failures of his own policies. The whole thing is too much to subject you to, so here's the three-minute lowlight special:
So let me see if I have this straight. It's Republicans' fault the economy is terrible because they won't spend even more on job training, foreclosure relief, shovel-ready make-work infrastructure projects and whatever else, because darn it, if only Obama could get his agenda passed, this thing would really turn around. Let's review:
  • ObamaCare, with all its accompanying tax increases - passed.
  • $862 billion stimulus - not only passed in 2009, but quietly added to the budget baseline for the continuing resolutions that have been funding the government ever since.
  • Expiration of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy - passed.
  • Keystone XL pipeline - still stalled, by Obama.
  • Federal spending up to 25 percent of GDP - authorized by Congress every year of Obama's presidency.

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We're spending $3.7 trillion a year. According to Obama and his Keynesian economic advisors, this is exactly the sort of thing that's supposed to spur economic growth. The results? You know it. Annualized growth of just 2 percent throughout the entire "recovery," and this is the Republicans' fault because they won't approve even more fruitless stimulus spending, even more wealth redistribution, even more green energy boondoggles? Maybe Obama doesn't know this, but when Republicans campaigned for Congress in 2010 and again in 2012, they did so promising to stop this sort of reckless nonsense, so they're doing what the voters sent them there to do. Then why did the same voters re-elect Obama? Got me, but if they'd wanted a Congress that would rubber-stamp more of what he did in his first term, then they would have elected that kind of Congress. It scarcely matters, though. Obama ran wild putting liberal policies in place in 2009 and 2010, and the GOP has not succeeded at repealing them. We've got the policies left-wingers wanted, and they're not working, so they try to blame Republicans for not doubling down on them. And let's not forget the bigger picture. Obama is the president and as such the leader. If the political system in Washington is not producing results, how is that not a reflection on his leadership above all else? He campaigned on the notion that he could be the sort of transformational leader who could shift the Washington paradigm and get people to work together for the benefit of everyone. What we've gotten instead is two years of liberal policies being shoved down our throats, followed by three years of those same liberals complaining that - in spite of the fact their policies haven't worked at all - they should be allowed to impose even more of the same on us. Nice job you've done with the country, Mr. President. Go run around and make speeches blaming the other party for your failures, and keep insisting you have no obligation to come up with anything different than the blather you've been spewing for five years. Obama's one saving grace is that he's so ineffective, there's no chance Congress will give him any more of what he wants. Of course, he's been known not to let that stop him.


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