After listening to the President’s press conference today, let’s keep in mind the following:
This
is the same president who proposed an absurdly irresponsible budget
that would increase our debt by trillions of dollars, and whose party
failed to even put forward a budget in over 800 days!
This is the same president who is pushing our country to the brink
because of his reckless spending on things like the nearly trillion
dollar “stimulus” boondoggle. This is the same president who ignored his
own debt commission’s recommendations and demonized the voices of
fiscal sanity who proposed responsible plans to reform our entitlement
programs and rein in our dangerous debt trajectory. This is the same
president who wanted to push through an increase in the debt ceiling
that didn’t include any cuts in government spending! This is the same
president who wants to slam Americans with tax hikes to cover his
reckless spending, but has threatened to veto a bill proposing a
balanced budget amendment. This is the same president who hasn’t put
forward a responsible plan himself, but has rejected reasonable
proposals that would tackle our debt. This is the same president who
still refuses to understand that the American electorate rejected his
big government agenda last November. As I said in Madison, Wisconsin, at the Tax Day Tea Party rally, “We don’t want it. We can’t afford it. And we are unwilling to pay for it.”
Now
the President is outraged because the GOP House leadership called his
bluff and ended discussions with him because they deemed him an
obstruction to any real solution to the debt crisis.
He has been deemed a lame duck president. And he is angry now because he is being treated as such.
His foreign policy strategy has been described as “leading from behind.”
Well, that’s his domestic policy strategy as well. Why should he be
surprised that he’s been left behind in the negotiations when he’s been
leading from behind on this debt crisis?
Thank you, GOP House leaders. Please don’t get wobbly on us now.
2012 can’t come soon enough.
- Sarah Palin