Tag Archives: leadership

Obama needs to lead?

Well…this is just a short one to comment on some of the statements from the right coming out of this debt ceiling debate…one of the common refrains is that Obama needs to lead on the issue and is not doing enough to solve the crisis. But, the only place they want him to lead is in their direction, to give them all of the tax cuts, spending cuts, and gutting of the social safety nets they want and they consider anything else a dereliction of duty. I just can’t believe this nonsense…

Told you it was going to be a short one…oh, and I got to sixty for the month…yay…but, I really need to get 62 since July has 31 days….damn…

Tim Pawlenty’s new leadership…

Well…I always have to laugh when I hear anyone of the supposed repub presidential candidates talk about the need for “new leadership” in Washington, and then go on to say they are the ones that should be leading. The latest of these idiots is the former governor of Minnesota, Tim Pawlenty, who chose to criticize the administration for it’s spending to get the country out of the worst recession since the twenties, and it’s lack of support gutting seniors healthcare that is proposed by one of the other “brains” of the repub party, Paul Ryan. What kind of leadership is he talking about? Leading the country back to the deregulation that caused the last meltdown? Leading the country back to the bad old days when the majority of our retirees lived a life of abject poverty after lives of hard labor? Leading the country back to the discrimination that blacks and gays have felt for many, many years? Leading the country back to the time when the middle class didn’t exist and all of the riches of this country are in the hands of the robber barons and labor has to beg for the scraps that are left? One thing we don’t need right now is any form of repub “leadership”, I think that is an oxymoron anyway…the repubs never lead, they just follow the instructions of their business masters to the detriment of the rest of the country…geez…