Federal Government Folly

Okay, just what was President Obama trying to do this week?

First, last month, he tells us he has this super-top-secret jobs plan that he will only reveal after Labor Day.  Why?  Why wait? Why not reveal it before he went off to Maaaatha's Vineyaaaad for his $50,000 a week rental vacation home?  Why not give everyone time to review and digest it?  Was it because the super top-secret plan didn't exist yet?

Now we get to this week.  Congress is on vacation, and I would assume Speaker Boehner was as well.  The White House sends the Speaker's office a letter proposing a speech before a joint session of Congress on September 7, the same date and time a Republican Presidential debate had been previously scheduled, and within less than an hour or two of when Congress was supposed to be back in town (apparently, they are all supposed to back in DC by 6 pm on September 7 in order to begin work on September 8).  To top it off, when Speaker Boehner did not respond to the White House within under two hours, the White House ASSumed he consented and publicized the speech.  Who in their right mind does that, especially when it broke with long-established protocol?

Now what is the White House attempting to do?  Is it attempting to make the Republicans look like the party of no, as the Democratic mantra goes?  If so, they failed in my book.  To make the excuse that they  didn't want to conflict with the NFL opening game as justification for conflicting with a previously scheduled Republican debate just proves this administration either 1) has no clue what it is doing; 2) fails to prioritize correctly - I don't care how many men may disagree with me, but no, football does not take precedence over listening to the present POTUS speak or a debate of potential future POTUSes (sp?); or 3) it was playing politics, trying to spoil the debate or put the Republican candidates on the defensive, making them respond immediately to his super top-secret jobs plan.

In any case, the White House came out with egg on its face and looking utterly incompetent to me.  Chicago politics don't work in the rest of the country, Mr. President.  Haven't you learned that by now?

My greatest wish is for Hillary Clinton to primary President Obama.  that way, if the Republicans nominate someone for whom I could not vote, I'd pick Hillary in a heartbeat over the Neville Chamberlain reincarnation currently holding the office.  

In the meantime, Mr. President, how about sending FEMA around with refrigerated trucks to deliver ice and food instead of setting up a single location in Connecticut for towns and cities to have to come to pick up?  After all, most towns and cities do not have refrigerated trucks on their property list - you want those bags of ice to be bags of water by the time it gets to the people?  Ridiculous!