Was this title for a kinda rhyme or a reason? Anyway, here is some flesh to the headline.
President Obama has been "AWOL" in negotiations over the economic stimulus package, Sen. Lindsey Graham said Thursday in a scathing rebuke of the new president.
The South Carolina Republican told FOX News that Obama has not been providing leadership, and he criticized the president for giving TV interviews and writing an editorial touting the package, rather than addressing the complaints of lawmakers.
"This process stinks," Graham told FOX News, before repeating a lot of his criticisms on the Senate floor. "We're making this up as we go and it is a waste of money. It is a broken process, and the president, as far as I'm concerned, has been AWOL on providing leadership on something as important as this."
Apparently senator Graham of SC is upset because he doesn’t like the stimulus bill as fashioned the way the president fashioned it. Not just this senator, but apparently all the rest of them. I think the problem with the senate is that they don’t want to work. They just want to bark out orders and denials. Do they not hear the message? Are they not reading their statistics? Headlines screaming: Unemployment worse in 26 years, 500,000 jobs lost on a monthly average. Do they not understand what their job is? Do they not understand as our president says, ‘The situation is dire and continues to deteriorate. We must act now.’ Don’t they see the flexibility in this stimulus?
Don’t they see that they are impeding a progression from the stagnation our country finds itself in? I mean honestly what are they trying to do, these senators? Does anyone know if they are even all in agreement that our country needs a stimulus?
I write in question form today, because all I have are questions? The president put forth an answer, at least a starting point, because he recognized the dire and deteriorating condition of our country. Not just its financial system, but its infrastructure. I was pleased he thought about the physical country of America and the actual physical human beings that make it up. The president want s to lead us to a better place. Yet he is being pummeled by headlines and jackasses because they’re all upset about something in their world on high that’s not quite clear to us down below. They’re up there fighting.
I write in question form because our president put forth the beginnings of an antidote to 8 hard years of Bush. He wanted partisanship to take a backseat so that the nation’s politicians could get down to the business of rebuilding. He tries. But you can’t always get what you want.
I write in question format because for the life of me I can’t see anything wrong with his ideas. Our politicians knew these ideas for over two years. They knew how this leader wanted to lead, yet their main goal is to show that they don’t play follow the leader. They don’t care what time it is. They don’t want to give peace a chance.
Well to end this, I say senator Graham, the president put forth the start of an answer to the nation’s ills, all he asked is that you would follow his lead and approve. You said no.
So stop bitchin’ and get to work. He’s open to your ideas.