Feel Bad for President Obama?

To The Editor:
Feel bad for President Obama? After all he was hit right out of the starting gate with Bush’s awful economic legacy. Or so we are told far worse than the president’s brain trusts could imagine. But if it was a burdensome mess, wasn’t that what we hired Obama to clean up? In business, new management is often brought in to “clean up” and whiny excuses about how bad things may be are not tolerated. As if the Bush legacy wasn’t enough, 2010 dumped that horrid GOP-controlled House on the president. It would forever and a day become one of president’s favorite excuses for not getting his “vision” for America up and running. But wait, could the president be a victim of the Rodney Dangerfield syndrome?
His own Democratically-controlled Senate rejected his budget offering…no respect! But all was not lost. Before the 2010 election, Obama did get his “Affordable Care Act” (Obamacare) jammed through Congress and down our throats although his ef-forts to control electricity generation via Cap and Trade failed. As did several bad investments in green energy initiatives. But not to worry, after the 2012 election (as Obama hinted to Russia’s President Medvedev) he’ll have more flexibility. He’ll likely use EPA regulatory mandates to achieve what he could not through the constitutional path of legislation.
The future of coal-fired plants looks dim. But since almost 50 percent of our 24/7/365 electric-ity is so generated, what is the president going to replace it with? He’s not “new-energy” ready. Where are the energy-understudy plants waiting to jump in? Poor Mr. President, even Obamacare is under a dark cloud as that pesky Supreme Court ponders the constitutionality of its keystone element: The mandatory insurance purchase issue, how dare they? As Obama implied in a recent speech?
The very idea, negating a piece of legislation passed by democratically-elected congressional types by nine unelected people on the high court. It’s only been done at least 160 times in our history. For crying out loud, with all the other absurd bar-riers to his vision of America, the president has to put up with the Supreme Court and the Constitution! The latter he recently indicated, can tend to slow things down. Gosh, why do things have to abide by that old document?
Obama has a progressive’s vision for America with growing dependency on government through entitlements, redistribution of income and a dangerous, economically-crippling deficit and debt scenario, partly “fueled” by a disastrous energy policy with its inflationary potential. Surely one could feel bad for President Obama with all the frustrating impediments to his vision. The relief Obama seems to want is that all these irritating roadblocks (the GOP House, Congress in general, the Supreme Court and the Constitution) get out of his way so he can realize his grand vision with hopefully the votes of a grateful nation. Lacking a solid record of actual achievement, his campaign launched some time ago and it is full of wall-to-wall, blame-placing, demagoguery, Mediscare and other scare rhetoric as his minions spin and spin reality while demonizing their “heartless, uncaring” GOP opponents not to mention “big oil” and Wall Street.
It’s understandable the president is frustrated and a bit anxious. But may I propose another relief scenario? How about turning him and his progressive, we-know-what’s-best-for-America cadre out of office this November. In so doing we may save our liberty and freedom of choice before Obama gains his new post re-election flexibility. As an independent voter, I like to boot those in power out when they display arrogance and get too big for their britches, giving the opposition a try until they get that way. It’s one way we can control gov-ernment instead of it controlling us on a path to tyranny.
BOB LOVELL
Court House