Why’s This “Absolutely Necessary”?
Saturday, President Obama used his weekly radio address to pitch his stimulus plan by mischaracterizing it. Here’s what he said:
“We can’t afford to make perfect the enemy of the absolutely necessary,” Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address, sounding a note of pragmatism that liberal followers rarely heard on the campaign trail.
It’s galing that President Obama would characterize a pork-laden spending bill as “absolutely necessary.” I have several questions that I’d like President Obama to answer.
- Why is a bill that doesn’t create jobs “absolutely necessary”?
- Why is a bill that’s filled with pork and political payoffs to the Democrats’ allies “absolutely necessary”?
- Why is a bill that the CBO says does more harm than good “absolutely necessary”?
- Why is a bill that doesn’t set America’s economy on a sustainable growth footing “absolutely necessary”?
When President Obama can answer those questions, then I’ll listen. Until then, I’ll chalk this flawed compromise up to political convenience and President Obama’s fearmongering and mischaracterizations.
Still, the popular president, six in 10 voters approve of his performance so far, scolded Republicans with a pointed reminder that Democrats, not Republicans, were victorious in November.
Meaning Republicans should role over when harmful legislation is proposed? There’s this thing about checks and balances. The winners don’t get to do whatever they want just because they won. If legislation doesn’t put the people’s needs first, it should be opposed. PERIOD. Preventing what’s irresponsible trumps blindly following the majority every time.
Before wrapping this up, I should ask President Obama another question, especially since it’s been bothering me this week:
Why should I think that this is a crisis, especially considering the fact that the situation we’re in isn’t as bad as 1980?
Does President Obama think I should trust him just because he says so? I think not. I don’t trust people if they’ve tried scare tactics to get their way. That’s what President Obama did. That’s reason enough for me not to trust.
Had he tried making the case for this expansion of government, I would’ve disagreed with him but I wouldn’t have stopped trusting him. Now I’m left with only one intellectually honest position. It’s a sad thing to know that the president of the United States isn’t intellectually honest.
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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog