POWIP Piece of Work In Progress – Former Abode of Dan Collins

Obama likely to focus on deficit in the next two years

Sure.  With a laser like focus I'm sure.  And the check's in the mail.  And he won't, well, you know ...

Preparing for political life after a bruising election, President Barack Obama will put greater emphasis on fiscal discipline, a nod to a nation sick of spending and to a Congress poised to become more Republican, conservative and determined to stop him.

He is already giving clues about how he will govern in the last two years of his term.

Obama will try to make gains on deficit reduction, education and energy. He will enforce his health care and financial overhauls and try to protect them from repeal should Republicans win control of Capitol Hill. He will use executive authority when blocked by Congress, and steel for scrutiny and investigations if the GOP is in charge.

I don't think I need to remind POWIP readers that this is the same hooey, the same snake oil, that Obama was peddling during the 2008 campaign, and as recently as last year; just before he developed amnesia on his promises of fiscal responsibility and instead focused on ramming through Obamacare and financial non-reform in defiance of the wishes of an overwhelming majority of the American people.

This arrogation of power gave rise to the Tea-Partiers, a group he evidently now believes he can pander to like all of his other special interest blocs by a mellifluous paean to his overarching sense of  fiscal responsibility.  This coming from the leader of the party that's sense of fiscal responsibility has resulted in nearly tripling of the spending excesses of the Bush-era Republicans:

• Republicans in control for 12 years: Added $4.034 trillion (avg $336.17 billion per year)
• Republicans in control during Bush era: Added $3.201 trillion (avg $533.5 billion per year)
• Democrats in control of Congress during Bush/Obama era:  Added $4.603 trillion (avg 1.48 trillion per year)

JUST WORDS!  And, so much for the supposed equivalent irresponsibility of both parties...

This is a national problem, and a stark justification for supporting Republican candidates based on a national need to stop, and indeed repudiate, Obama's agenda.  It will be difficult, to be sure, especially considering that the President will most certainly use executive orders to shape policy by fiat once he no longer has a lock on Congress; as he has already demostrated his willingness to do via decrees by the Department of Energy, FCC, EPA, and HHS.

It underscores the urgent exhortations by bloggers like Dan and Ace to engage in get out the vote (GOTV) activities, whether formally through the campaigns or informally; in family discussions, on the job, or even your own individual coffee-klatsch.

We all need to do what we can to encourage voters to turn out, and turn back the socialist communist Obamites; because no less than our country's, our own, and our children's future is what is at stake.

Be the wave.

Rocketman