Obama and Buyers' Remorse

 

It’s been one year since our presidential election. And overall things are going downhill faster than President Obama can promise his core constituencies another handout, bailout or exemption. And with the benefit of hindsight we can now see how duplicitous the Democrats were in making promises they had no business keeping. Who doesn’t have “buyers’ remorse?”

Who now wouldn’t have preferred Gov. Romney? Whether you admit it or not he would have been running the country with  class and efficiency. Instead of the  ineptitude  that seems the hallmark of President Obama’s team e.g.: Fast and Furious, Benghazi, the  IRS scandal, surveillance on friend and foe.  As each day goes by we have another reason to be disappointed. So do our allies.  At this point it’s getting embarrassing. Don’t get me wrong I don’t plan on relocating to Estonia anytime soon. But I would like to see something other than Jay Carney, the president’s press secretary, parse, obfuscate, and even at times, evade answering direct questions. And when he does answer a question it’s usually to tell us how well the economy is improving. Or why something is the fault of the Tea Party.

We should cut Mr. Carney some slack, I mean the man has as tough a job as  Baghdad Bob had  toting the party line for Saddam Hussein. There never seems to be a problem in the Obama White House. It’s sort of like Candy Land. But if someone in the press corps.  should have the gall to ask about the myriad of mishaps they are always assured that the latest miscue is being remedied at that very moment and that the president knew nothing about it. But, now having learned about it, he is in command and taking charge.  The president seems to learn a lot about what’s going on in his administration from TV. Maybe he should pare down his staff and subscribe to CNN. The Republicans would be happy for the spending cut.

Yes, he likes taking charge. Like when he took control of the Syrian chemical attack accusations made by Syrian rebels. Textbook leadership. Delegate it to someone else. In this case, President Putin.

Now his legacy piece of legislation, the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare is proving problematic. The rollout was a fiasco. Even Obama zealots would agree. Now they’re going to fix it. It appears there’s nothing they can’t fix. Unfortunately they have many opportunities to use their restorative powers.