Democrats

Worse than any Soap Opera

by Cheryl on September 1, 2011

President Barack Obama asked House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to call a joint session of Congress on September 7, and the Speaker of the House in effect rejected the request. The Speaker gave some non major reasons as to why the speech would be a little more than inconvenient on that date and asked that the President give his speech the next day, September 8. The president cannot just show up and address both houses of Congress – he literally has to be invited. This is the president’s letter sent to both leaders:

“Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Mr. Leader:),

Our Nation faces unprecedented economic challenges, and millions of hardworking Americans continue to look for jobs. As I have traveled across our country this summer and spoken with our fellow Americans, I have heard a consistent message: Washington needs to put aside politics and start making decisions based on what is best for our country and not what is best for each of our parties in order to grow the economy and create jobs. We must answer this call.

Therefore, I respectfully request the opportunity to address a Joint Session of Congress on September 7, 2011, at 8:00 p.m. It is my intention to lay out a series of bipartisan proposals that the Congress can take immediately to continue to rebuild the American economy by strengthening small businesses, helping Americans get back to work, and putting more money in the paychecks of the Middle Class and working Americans, while still reducing our deficit and getting our fiscal house in order. It is our responsibility to find bipartisan solutions to help grow our economy, and if we are willing to put country before party, I am confident we can do just that.

Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,

BARACK OBAMA“

It has been noted that this is the first time in history this has publicly happened. But did you know that the back and forth about scheduling is not uncommon? Usually this kind of thing happens behind the scenes and we never hear about it. The president makes a request and the Speaker will determine if that date will work and if not he suggests a different date and the White House will look at their schedule and see if that date is good for them. I’m not an expert, but like I said, it is not uncommon. You can have a debate about judgment on the White House’s part when choosing the date. That’s fair. But this is supposed to be about something far more important.

Some Democrats have freaked out over this saying the President has caved again, he won’t stand up to the Republicans, yada yada yada. Get a grip. This is not an issue that anyone needs to focus on. We live in a time where cable news prefers to fill the airwaves with nonsense and insignificant drivel all day. It’s as if teenagers are in charge of producing the news. If the White House had not accepted the suggested date offered by the Speaker, the only thing we would be hearing for the next week would be about the process and not what really matters, the content of the speech. Remember that the press analyzes everything from their perspective. And that perspective usually coincides with others in the press.

The republicans think they won something and they did. They continue to hold the record for the worst people in America. I just hope enough people see this divide and conquer strategy for what it is. The White House did what they needed to do as far as I’m concerned, if for no other reason than they didn’t get down in the dirt with the republicans.

The President has enough misguided critics and enemies. Sure I’m mad, but I’m going to sit this one out.

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Eyes Not On The Prize

by Cheryl on June 16, 2011

in Politics

Now that Anthony Weiner has resigned, the Democrats will be passing all the legislation that was being held up and moving forward with their entire agenda full force, right? I wouldn’t bet my life on it. The Democrats display no backbone. Over and over the Republicans go to the media with trivial stories that have no effect on the everyday lives of people and use it as a distraction. And the American people fall under the stupid spell and become consumed in the “crazy”.

What Anthony Weiner did was irresponsible and dumb. So far it doesn’t appear that he has broken any laws. The ethics investigation should reveal those facts. For now we wait. Over the past few weeks the news outlets were an embarrassment. They were like children waiting for the doors to open to go on a free shopping spree in a toy store. It was pathetic. I listened to the press talk about Rep. Weiner needing to resign because the reporters and cameras were going to continue to follow him around. Excuse me, but aren’t they exactly the people keeping the commotion alive?

Where is the outrage over Republicans standing in the way of the jobs bill? Where is the outrage over Republicans attacking Planned Parenthood/women’s health? Where is the outrage over the budget cuts in education across the country? Where is the outrage over David Vitter breaking the law by hiring hookers? Americans seem to have their priorities mixed-up. There is seriously something wrong when a sex scandal involves no sex, no crimes, and no formal complaints and the media loses all rationale.

The talking heads are still referring to the scandal as creepy and strange, I guess because it wasn’t salacious enough for their liking. Who knows? This is not about support for Anthony Weiner. My gripe is that we have serious problems in this country and Democrats really need to focus because using the straw man argument to pretend it’s the reason they can’t get anything done is disingenuous.

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