"Obama Hands Republicans an Opportunity -- And They're Already Blowing It
It's quite a feat to be staler than the president, but it seems the GOP is up for the challenge.
David Harsanyi | July 26, 2013
What does a president in a perpetual campaign do when national disapproval rates start rising higher than 50 percent? He returns to Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., the site of a Lincoln-Douglas debate and, even more impressively -- as a nearly breathless White House informed us -- the place he delivered his first major economic address as a U.S. senator.
Despite media reports, however, Obama didn't unveil any new plan to "move America forward," and he certainly didn't say anything historic. All he did was flee to safer political ground, hitting themes we've heard for five years running. And why not? "...
No solution will be forthcoming until the problem, the real problem, is identified. I think that the problem is with a government that spends much more than it brings in. This is because of all of the favors that are owed by members of Congress by the time they can afford to run a campaign. Government of and by the highest bidder.
towermonkey wrote: No solution will be forthcoming until the problem, the real problem, is identified. I think that the problem is with a government that spends much more than it brings in. This is because of all of the favors that are owed by members of Congress by the time they can afford to run a campaign. Government of and by the highest bidder.
You are half right. Why do people, your words, lend favors to congress? Simple, they have the power to legislate economic success.
Reduce their power and they are not worth bribing. Reduce the power and they cannot keep legislating trillions of unfunded debt.
