Vic Walker, Wichita Falls
Excuse me, Mr. President, but PLEASE stop the fear and blame speeches regarding sequestration. Frankly, it’s getting older than I am. I may be in my senior years and occasionally have a “senior moment,” but I do remember hearing you say back in 2011 that you would veto any legislation that sought to change sequestration. The proposal for that brilliant idea came from you and your staff to force the “super committee” to solve the debt ceiling, the deficit talks and who knows what else at the time thanks to the failure of the Senate to consider, much less pass, a budget as the Constitution requires.
Well, they didn’t and we are stuck with your brilliant idea and so are you it appears. For more than a year neither you nor the Senate attempted to address this issue even though various bills were sent over to the Senate — you just chose to “kick it down the road” until after the holidays, which the Senate gladly passed and you signed into law.
As the chief executive of our government you are required by law to see that such laws (once signed by you) are to be enacted upon and enforced.
It is now February and for President’s Day (another holiday) you go golfing and speech making and Congress goes home stumping for votes. Next week they return, tarnished and beaten up by your speeches and you expect them to save you from your own making and the horrible things you proclaimed will happen if they don’t fix it.
To be honest — the blame is on the majority of voters in this country because they chose to re-elect you and many in the Congress — senators and representatives who have no backbone in dealing with our deficit/debt problem. You tell voters to beware of rich-people-loving Republicans to instill fear of what might happen when the sequestration takes place. Start doing the things about this problem, Mr. President, that you promised again and again in 2008 and 2009 — such as cutting our deficit and debt. Stop blaming — start leading and you will likely find compromise with the House.
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Comments » 36
carp writes:
Vic, have you not figured out by now that its Husseins goal in life to destroy this country?
Citizen1 writes:
Dear readers: this letter is from the same guy who compares a Carnival Cruie ship to a US Navy Submarine. My advice is Vic is to take a walk in the park and avoid the squirrels and leave rational thinking to people who are better equipped.
carp writes:
Yeah Vic, avoid them liberal squirrels.
Trapper writes:
Vic, the name of the game, is BLAME. Blame the rich because you are too lazy to work and don't have what they have, blame Bush because he all by himself started two wars, blame the whites because they just want to keep blacks "down", blame Americans for not excepting "undocumented" aliens as citizens, blame the Republicans for something, Sequestration, that was your idea in the first place, BLAME BLAME BLAME.
"The problem is, I am the President of the United States, I am not the Emperor of the United States.".
The PROBLEM is that so far you have refused to act like a president and instead have acted as if you are the EMPEROR.
Abram writes:
I think it is all a carefully calculated plan to get the Repulicans fighting among themselves and screw up in this next midterm election.
If they lose control of the House, then the President will be home free. He will be able to push nearly anything he wants through Congress.
We could be looking like Detroit before long.
xokie writes:
You seem to be playing the BLAME game yourself Trapper.
Trapper writes:
Seems to me he is doing a pretty good job at just that.
Doc42 writes:
I don't know what planet this person is from, it sure is not from here. The president has a 77% approval rating on handling the sequestration. As far as leading you have to have followers. Oh I forgot this president is black. Remember GREED and HATE is destroying us.
bobert writes:
Please call in the person that designed your PROFESSIONAL website and have him explain the method you can use to not have a misspelled word in nearly everyone of your posts.
In your constant habit of making outlandish claims and refusal to ever respond to a challenge, other than with another outlandish claim or outright lie, you make Slick Willie appear to have had skin constructed from sand paper.
Citizen1 writes:
My spelling is fine-it is my proofreading (and eyesight) that suffers. Anyway, Bobert, you would not enable your private message feature. You would have had access to more proof than you wanted. I think you need to re-think who did not "rise to the challenge"-all you had to do was enable your message feature. Your fascination with me is creepy, what drives you?
bobert writes:
More Slick Willie baloney.
Moliere writes:
Is Father Vic the only one who writes to TRN these days? Here we have the consummate incarnation of the Old White Guy rhetoric that America has grown tired of and will no longer vote for. Does Vic even understand that TRN only publishes his letters to expose his ignorance? Pander, I think, would be the appropriate word. Kinda like Levy, so out of touch. Anyone wanna speculate on the age demographic of this post? Wanna bet it is the mirror image of the 22 republican senators who have no problem with violence toward women?
But do keep up with the good work. Do not budge on your "beliefs". By all means do continue with the obstructionist,"If I can't get what I want, ain't nobody gonna get nuthin'" policy that you have mastered.Hold your ground on immigration, abortion, gun control,religion, and that most sacred of all OWG republican institutions, WAR. After all, aren't these the issues that got you where you are today?
imahic writes:
I agree. This president has made it to the top job by being the most divisive president I've seen in my lifetime of 60+ years. As his o'liness himself said, "The buck stops here." Question is, when is he going to start taking that to heart?
sunny writes:
"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies.
Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."
~ Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006
I have posted this before and surprise of all surprises, not one....NOT ONE Obama supporter has ever commented on this. Any takers this time?
Moliere writes:
Do stay with your perspective. You have my full support.We MUST put a stop to this will of the people thingy. America is too great a country to allow the people to have a say in it.
tdgriffin writes:
The will of the Obamedia, the ignorance of the people is still evident.
What level of indebtedness and unemployment would be unacceptable to you? (not to mention gas prices, taxes, Benghazi, 2nd amendment, etc.)
Moliere writes:
Again, td, you are absolutely right. Glad I got to live long enough to witness perfection.
strlcuckoo22 writes:
Did you forget he had a mother, he is not "black".
strlcuckoo22 writes:
Handling what??? How did he handle this fiasco?
strlcuckoo22 writes:
I have done the same thing on other sites and they seem to remain in their burrows.
wofum1947 writes:
C'mon. All this to-do over what amounts to less than a 3% cut in federal spending? And, its just off the expected increases in funding. It's not as if we go back to the last time we had a budget and cut from those figures. Since we've only had "Continuing Resolutions" for the last four years, the amount of funding given to federal agencies and programs has been allowed to steadily increase over that time. These "cuts" are not even in the amount of those increases that have occurred but in the current/proposed increases.
Trapper writes:
Now you done gone and started "cutting and pasting", C1 will now have to chastise you.
One should always be careful what one says. Of course NOW that he is Emperor in waiting, he could care less.
wofum1947 writes:
Read an article about and saw an interview with Messers Simpson and Bowles. They have come up with a new plan to reduce the deficit. In broad terms it cuts $600 billion from Medicare and Medicaid spending, raises $600 billion in revenues by closing tax loopholes and breaks, cuts $600 billion in defense and mandatory spending, and cuts $600 billion in discretionary spending. Mr. Bowles made the statement that if we just slowed the growth of discretionary spending to what it was in 1990, we could save $300 billion annually. Mr. Simpson stated that they went back to where there was almost agreement between all parties last year in making these recommendations.
Wonder if anyone will listen to them this time?
USpatriot writes:
You must be color blind!!!
sunny writes:
Cut and pasted from Yahoo. (yes C1, another cut and paste!) I thought this was pretty interesting considering your response to stricuckoo22.
"Yet, is not calling Obama 'black' a disservice to his fair skinned mother? Where does she fit in? Why is her racial composition and genetic contribution being ignored?
Calling Obama 'black' harkens back to slave days when even 1/8 black blood rendered you black. This still seems to be true today. Any black blood makes you black, and this is the case with Obama. But when is a 'black' an 'African-American'? When there is fear, of course. A black is called an African-American almost exclusively by whites who are afraid to call them 'black', lest they commit social faux pas de resistance and be branded a 'racist' by their (oddly often white) peers.
The big difference is that blacks have no trouble in calling themselves black, as it embodies 'black pride' and even black militancy, where as 'white pride' has been decried and outcast as merely fascist, or even Nazism."
And still waiting for one of you Libs to comment on my earlier post. And waiting, and waiting.....
Citizen1 writes:
Are you talking about the cut and paste? BHO was absolutely correct then and continues to be now. In 2006 we were in two wars and UBL was alive and foundation was being made for the biggest financial meltdown in our history. Spending is actually lower under BHO and he has already made huge cuts. Wolfum is correct guys, its only 3%. Our debt is of concern and BHO will fix that like he has done with the rest of the mess.
The bigger story is the return of Molierre to the discussion. Bobert has not even acknowledged his triumphant return
Here are some links which Sunny can have JJ read to her while they listen to Ted Nugent.
http://www.factcheck.org/2012/06/obam...
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-met...
Texanforlife writes:
Comrade 1 You just misspelled a word in this post. It is very apparent that it is not eyesight or proof reading. Can you tell us which word it is? I ask you because many of us believe your poor spelling is akin to your ignorance.
sunny writes:
You have highly insulted me C1. I can read all by myself and do not need anyone to read to me. And who the hell is Ted Nugent? You obviously know much more about him than I do.
As far as your links....pretty good. But it doesn't change a thing as far as my post goes. Obama has still increased the Federal deficit, not decreased it and has raised the deficit ceiling. So tell me how this changes anything? I think you would excuse this man if he shot his dog!
Citizen1 writes:
Sorry for the insult Sunny. I am glad you looked at the links. Peace.
sunny writes:
The links were good. I would urge everyone to read them. But it still doesn't change my mind about Obama.....sorry.
Have a good evening C1....till we battle again.;-)
georgebush writes:
Another typical Republican, all they do is Whine and Complain.
georgebush writes:
So! 1 Black Man, President Barrack Obama has total control of all the do nothing Republican Politicians in Washington. WOW! double WOW!
georgebush writes:
218 do nothing Republican Politicians in Washington and they blame 1 black man President Obama.
georgebush writes:
1 black man president Obama, owns 218 do nothing Republican Politicians. WOW!
sunny writes:
OMG!!!! Are you telling us Obama is black? Who would have thunk it? (and who gives a rats a** anyway?)
Trapper writes:
Now, now sunny, that should be "What difference does it make", at least according to the Ex Sec. of State.
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