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Because this president has been so clear about not stepping on the toes of congress and requiring them to do what they were voted into office to do, it has become apparent that so many have decided that he should not honor that pledge.   They are all asking the president to make laws instead of doing what they were hired to do.   This wish may soon be their undoing. In this debt ceiling debate, Republican Tea party members are always saying that this president has never presented a bill.   Unless I missed my guess, the Legislative Branch is the ones who make laws, while the Executive Branch is supposed to enact them but then with the way some people rewrite history, I could be wrong.   Either way the Tea Party may have just handed President Obama a moment in history that no other President will ever be able to match. By not doing everything that they could to be the ones to save this nation by voting to extend the debt ceiling and debt reduction, they have allowed ...

It has become the norm for representatives of the people who get elected by promising to work for the few forget that they also must represent the many as well.   When you are elected to office, you carry with you more than those who elected you, you have now become the face of this nation and your actions or inactions reflect upon this nation.   The question which should be asked and answered by those chosen is what kind of face will others see? John Boehner may be judged on how he can not act like the adult because he has to check with Rush Limbaugh before putting a plan on the floor but Eric Cantor will also be judged on his lack of leadership skills when it comes to him whipping the votes to pass anything.   It’s an established maxim that if you cater to the minority instead of the majority, you will always be changing planes in mid-air.   These guys are now doing it without a parachute, or so it appears. If the Republican Party wishes to save itself from the T...

According to an article written by Carrie Budoff Brown of Politico titled “Phone tag and wrong numbers: The collapse of the debt talks ”, the talks fell apart for many different reasons yet I still find it hard to believe that given the dire circumstances this nation is in, any leader, regardless of party, would not do everything within their power to lead and not follow. Ms. Brown’s article says that “President Barack Obama tried to get House Speaker John Boehner on the phone late Thursday, but never heard back. The silence continued into Friday, and White House aides began to wonder. It never took this long for the president to get his phone calls returned, particularly from Boehner. After all, the two chatted regularly, forging a working relationship over the many weeks of debt-ceiling negotiations — two men who were each trying to lead their parties someplace they didn’t really want to go.   Obama finally heard from Boehner’s office at 3:30 p.m. Friday: Expect a call in two h...

It’s time that we all begin to take responsibility for our actions or in the case of the progressive left, inaction.   We are the reason that this is happening because when it was time for us to step up to the plate and keep these freshmen Republicans out of office, we choose to sit back and watch this world implode.   We wanted to send Washington a message to not take us for granted but what we ended up doing was dooming America to this dive off a cliff. Hide behind your reasoning all you want but in your heart of hearts, you know that we did not step up and protect this nation from enemies foreign and domestic as we should.   We did not put our own selfish wants and needs behind the need of the nation as a whole.   We complain about the Tea Party taking us to the cliff’s edge but truth be told, they only had the power to do this because we gave it to them.   Unlike the voters of Wisconsin is calling back representatives who lied and mislead them, they are abl...