Desperate measures:

Thursday – June 23, 2011

Desperate measures:

There is nothing more dangerous than to have a leader, especially the leader of the free world, act out of desperation instead of motivation.

I would rather question someone’s motives than question the desperate measures that are on display at the White House these days.

The President is releasing oil from the strategic oil reserves. He is doing this, because he has no standing with OPEC. He is doing this, because he cannot display the leadership that it takes to take on OPEC and tell them to increase their production of oil.

The political motives of this president are now directly associated to his inability to increase his poll numbers. He is playing politics in the most dangerous of ways. He is now acting out of desperation to appease the base.

Bill Clinton released oil from the strategic reserves and it did little to bring down the price of a gallon of gas. The price of gas will come down a bit, estimates are less than 1%, but it will not reduce the price permanently. Everything that this president has done has been artificial with languishing permanent affects. OPEC is now saying why should we increase our production when you are releasing 30 million barrels of oil? If I were OPEC I would be saying the same!

If the Presidents motives were to put OPEC out of business by developing our own domestic oil reserves I would not question him. But his motives and his actions are now being dictated by his political desperation. This is a no win situation!

The word from the White House this morning is that we are a quarter of the way through Obama’s presidency and a quarter of the way through of what we want to do. If the permanent situation of high unemployment which just creped up to
9.1 %, reduction in the strategic oil reserves which is just another government stimulus plan and more spending is a quarter of the way where we want to be, then I do not want to know what the other three quarters will bring.

The President now wants to nation build here at home instead of abroad. His motivation now is to ask for more spending on infrastructure and technology based jobs. The Senate is now asking for tax increases with more spending Isn’t this what the original stimulus was designed to do? When new motivations are dictated by failed policies then desperate measures are sought, this is only human nature.

This president has the thinnest resume of any Chief Executive in our history. This President had a clip board in his hand not more than eight years ago as a community organizer. He served less than one hundred and fifty days in the U.S. Senate and now he is fighting three wars and dictating the continued and failing economic policy of the world’ s greatest economy. Should we as a people now start acting out of desperation? This is the wonder and the resilience of the American people. We have the ability to regroup and reinvent ourselves even when our Government fails to do so. However, when the economy keeps going backwards and doesn’t move ahead because of failed policy even the American people can only stand so much before they take desperate measures. It’s the American people that are doing the hard work while they focus on making a living. They are beginning to ask the same of their President!

Today, the new jobless numbers were released and again we were told that they were higher than expected. There were 429,000 new faces at the unemployment line last week. The White House now says this is not just a blip as the President said it was two weeks ago. Ben Bernanke is now saying this is a downward trend in the economy.

Virtually every week for the last three months there has been more than 400,000 new applicants for unemployment benefits per week. Our homes are continuing to lose value and all the economic indicators have been pointing downwards and the debt is still exploding. All this is saying is that the unemployment picture is getting worse because of all the alarming trends. The administration the Democratic Leaders in the Congress and the Senate are all calling for more spending a doubling down, if you will, on government sponsored job creation.

A new number from the CBO is out and they are now saying that if things continue on the same track that by 2021 the U.S. Debt will exceed the entire size of the U.S. economy. At that point the country will default.

Some still argue that this is all George Bush’s fault. When I hear that kind of ignorance I say the Democrats have owned the House and Senate since 2007. They have controlled the Government from 2008 thru 2010, until the Republicans took the House in 2011. The Democrats still control the White House and the Senate; they still control the bad legislation that has put us in the ditch since 2007. This is the problem and this is why we must take the Senate and keep the House in 2012, it would also be nice to take the White House as well.

This downward trend is the cause of failed policies by a failed President who has implemented failed ideas. This downward trend is the cause of a failed Party whose motives are now being examined because of the desperate measures that are now being played out in Washington.

Gregory C. Dildilian
Founder and Executive Director
Pinecone Conservatives

A footnote: I don’t want to fear my Presidents motives any longer. I do not want to question his political desperation any longer. I just want November 2012 to get here because we cannot afford these people in office any longer than that!