Congressional leaders today signaled that they were ready to move forward with the impeachment of President-elect Barack Obama for non-commission of his duties during the transition.
“I think it’s clear that this country desperately needed a President-elect who could pull us out of the hole we’re in,” said Senate Majority Harry Reid, D-Spineless. “President-elect Obama has clearly failed in that duty.”
“The Dow stabilized during the transition, but it did not go up,” added Minority leader Mitch McConnell, R-Mordor. “Obama’s proposals clearly did not contain enough tax cuts for corporations and the wealthiest Americans. How did he expect to do anything if he did not stand ready to empty the poor’s pockets from Day 1 of the transition?”
Economists, pundits and leaders of both houses of Congress decried Obama’s failed bailout proposal, which clearly did not do enough to stimulate the economy.
“This proposed package of tax cuts and stimulus has had no effect whatsoever,” said Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman. “In a global, networked economy, a panda’s sneeze is heard ‘round the world. We need a leader who can turn the economy around before he is elected, heck, even before anyone knows the economy is in trouble. Except me. I called it. I always call it.”
The news media has been quick to denounce Obama’s failure. A New York Times editorial last week argued that a successful president-elect would have managed to balance the budget, end the economic crisis, and bring peace to the Middle East by the third week of the transition at the latest.
“What we see in the Obama transition is a clear failure to lead this country and the free world out of the troubles it’s in,” the Times wrote. “We needed a president-elect who could boost Wall Street’s confidence from the first hundred hours of the transition. Obama has failed.”
The Obama transition team admitted that it has been slow to bring about the reforms the nation is seeking, but pleaded for time.
“We are committed to turning this economy around by day minus three of my presidency,” President-elect Obama said.
Foreign leaders decried Obama’s inaction as president-elect as yet another sign of America’s lack of leadership in the world.
“He keeps saying the United States can only have one president at a time,” said French President Nicolas Sarkozy. “This is an excuse. The world is in crisis. He must do something.”