No Solutions, Just Blame

"Obama is under pressure from Democrats to focus on the economy."

Everything is the Republican’s fault.

President Barack Obama used his 10 day Martha’s Vineyard vacation wisely, relaxing, saving his energy so that he could come back to Washington DC tanned, rested and ready to do what he does best;  blame Republicans.

Everything would be better if the Republicans would just get out of his way.

President Obama returned from vacation on Monday to blast Senate Republicans for blocking small-business legislation.

Obama and Democrats have been pushing the measure for months, but the president suggested a new urgency in his televised comments from the Rose Garden, which followed a meeting with his economic team.

The economic recovery is sputtering, and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke last week pledged the central bank would do all that it could to prevent the economy from sliding back into recession.

Growth in the second quarter was downgraded to an anemic 1.6 percent last week, and a new jobs report on Friday is expected to show little job growth.

Obama is under intense pressure from his own party to focus on the economy and jobs, even during a week that is sure to be dominated by foreign policy. Obama is scheduled to address the country from the Oval Office Tuesday evening about the end of combat operations in Iraq, and the administration is hosting Middle East peace talks that begin later this week.

After promising to focus on the economy like a laser beam last January, the president has done everything but that; choosing this week to focus on Katrina, Iraq and the Middle East instead of American jobs and economic prosperity.  Although he has been thoroughly criticized from the left and the right of late, Obama only seems to turn his attention to the economy when there is a string of bad news worries the press and forces them to ask the tough questions that the White House does not really want to hear.

And America has suffered because of it.

But in typical Alinsky fashion, the President blames the evil Republican resistance for the country’s dismal economic performance.

Obama said the GOP opposition is “directly detrimental to our economic growth.”

Because spending away our children’s and grandchildren’s future, is that really good for the economy? For Jobs?  For our future?

Give me a break.

November is going to be an unwelcome wake-up call for Barack Obama and next January’s economic recovery will shock the heck out of this community organizer who is in way over his head.

Video – Obama’s speech in the Rose Garden where he blames the GOP for everything and even the mic gets sick and tired of hearing it.