Obama: It Could Be Worse

When he was campaigning in 2008, Obama's slogan was "Change you can believe in." Now, after we've seen what he means by "change," and we don't believe that we like it, it's his message that has changed. Faced with voter backlash and the possibility of losing one or both Houses of Congress, NOW he wants us not to change a thing.

And his new slogan is... "Remember, it could be worse."

It's an obvious message for an administration that hasn't accomplished anything that the public can really get behind and support. Most people didn't like (and still don't like) ObamaCare. Ditto for financial reform. Many people remember Obama's promise that WITH his stimulus package the unemployment rate wouldn't rise past 8%. NOW he excuses almost 10% unemployment (and more by some measures) by claiming that the economy was in worse shape than he thought it was.

That doesn't fly with me, though. I remember Obama saying that if we didn't pass his stimulus bill, our economy might enter a depression FROM WHICH IT MIGHT NEVER RECOVER! Sounds to me like he thought the economy was in pretty bad shape, you know?

But that is Obama's trademark... make excuses and blame somebody else.


The scapegoat of the moment, and the people he's been blaming for everything since the day he took office, is the Republican party. Yes, the Republicans are the author of all our ills. If, that is, we ignore the fact that the Democrats had control of Congress for TWO YEARS prior to Obama's election.

When the Democrats took control of Congress in January of 2007, this is what our economy looked like.

- The unemployment rate was 4.6% (now it is 9.6%)

- The DOW was over 12,500 (now it's between 9,500 and 10,500)

- We had a record-breaking 52-month streak of job creation

- The federal deficit was $8 trillion (now it is $14 trillion and rising rapidly)

So now he's going to try to convince YOU that the Republicans had their chance and blew it, that they don't deserve to get another crack at it. That may be true... but the question SHOULD BE whether Democrats had their crack at it and blew it even worse. And I think that is true, as well.

The Democrats like to cry about how "the Bush Presidency" was filled with too much spending... but their own efforts DWARF those of the Republicans. Democrats talk about Bush's yearly deficit hitting $400 billion... but they don't want to talk much about Obama's deficit hitting $1.6 TRILLION.

I think that the Democrats have shown exactly how much they hate this country, how much they value their own pet theories over objective reality, and how much damage they will do to this country if allowed to remain in control. At the very least, we need a MUCH stronger minority party so that the hyper-liberals in charge can't just ram through every one of their pet projects and ignore the MANY people who don't like their bills. Better would be a slim Republican majority in both houses.

Today we have a single party in control of the Presidency and both houses of Congress... and a filibuster-proof majority, at that. I personally believe that NO party should have that level of control over our government. That's when abuses and excesses occur. That's when our government ignores us normal voters and does whatever the heck they want to... as we've seen.

So remember, when Obama says "it could be worse," you should think how bad things could get if Democrats retain their massive majorities in Congress this November.