During Obama's first two years, things did happen. Not everyone agreed with what happened. But things did happen. That's when we got the
managed bankruptcy of the domestic automobile industry, which saved hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of jobs across all segments of automotive
and related industries. That's when we got the Car Allowance Rebate System, which sparked a pick up in automotive sales, which is still taking place (that is what stimulus is supposed to do). That's when domestic industries received necessary and helpful tax credits to invest in plant & equipment. And I saw with my own two eyes how much this helped. That's when we got a host of fiscal spending projects - not all of which were truly "shovel ready" or successful. And yes, I believe that they
threw noodles at the wall to see what would stick. But in a time of severe crisis, it is difficult to pick & choose, or "design by committee". Things most certainly did happen in those first two years. Some good. Some not so good. And some bad. But things did happen! That's when we got the ball rolling again and it's been rolling ever since. Not as fast as most of us would like, but it has damn sure been rolling! I'll criticize Obama for many other things - but not for the
overall job that he's done on the economy starting back in early 2009!
But as we were moving along... then... then...
then, in 2010-11 the Taliban Teabaggers came to town and staged a Congressional sit-in. Virtually nothing has happened since then. While Rome burned, they sat on their hands, with their thumbs up their asses, smelling their fingers and smiling, while giving goofy, nonsensical speeches that were so far removed from reality that it wasn't funny.
On their watch and because of them, the nation's credit rating was lowered.
On their watch and because of them, the nation quite nearly defaulted on its debt. Not since the days of J.P. Morgan having to step in and save the nation's financial system in 1907 has such a thing happened.
On their watch and because of them, we are now facing this fiscal cliff. The Evangelicals and Teabaggers (many of whom hadn't paid their own bills or debts) saw no problem with sinking this great republic with their craziness and irrational thinking. Obama could and should have worked harder and done more to expose these traitors to the republic for what they were. My criticism of Obama is that he sat back and didn't wage war on these low-life, traitorous bastards, encouraging "the people" to get behind an effort to either
make them do their jobs or recall each and every one of them. And that's what I don't like about Obama. IMO, he is way too passive. We saw it in that first debate. You have to kick him in the nuts or cheap shot him with a sucker punch to get him going. That's a character trait that I do not like. It's very difficult for me to relate to men who are like that.
But anyway, as much as some delusional wingnuts want to claim that Obama is to blame for
all that ails us, the American people are actually saying otherwise. This Congressional session, one largely led by Teabaggers, Evangelicals and neocons, either with their majority in the House or their filibusters in the Senate, has received the lowest public rating on record:
Congress Approval Ties All-Time Low at 10%
So IMO, if the American people would support
anyone being impeached, it would be the members of Congress.
And although "the people" give the GOP lower marks than the Democrats, I don't feel that anyone would cry in their soup if they were
all sent packing - to be replaced by a new group of idiots and crooks, of course.
