Things kind of go in cycles, don’t they? Unpopular Nixon-Ford got us Jimmy Carter 35 years ago. An unpopular George Bush has given us Barack Obama. Some people really don’t appreciate the Republicans until the Democrats seize power, and that is exactly what’s happening now.
Barack Obama has bungled this economy almost to the point where it’s beyond repair. He made a bad situation much, much worse, and now this is his economy, he owns it. Bush has been gone over 900 days, the point and blame game is over. It ended two years ago. Somebody needs to tell that to the partisans in the White House and the country, most of them still don’t get it. They never will, they’re too far out there and we just can’t quite reach them.
Voices are becoming louder and louder with comparisons of Obama to Carter. So much so, jokes have been cracked about “the good old days of the Carter administration” and of referring to Obama as “Jimmy Jr.”
Having lived through the Carter administration, although I was a mere teen, I still remember it vividly (I have a very good memory). Remembering Carter and his policies and comparing them to Obama and his policies, there is no doubt in my mind, Obama is considerably worse than Jimmy Carter.
Speaking of the term, “Jimmy Jr.” I ran across this great piece in the Washington Times written by Charles Hurt. A great piece I urge all to read:
It has taken three decades, but Americans are finally living through Jimmy Carter’s second term.
Now we’ve got Jimmy Jr. barking at us from the White House about eating our peas and ripping off our Band-Aid. He might not even let us have our Social Security checks.
These are just the latest in a long line of nagging lectures. Already, we have been taught how we should sneeze into the crook of our arm. We need to drive less. And we need to caulk up those drafty houses of ours.
What ever happened to the soaring rhetoric and big bold ideas President Obama promised us in that historic election of his?
Is this what he meant by a new kind of politics? If so, no thanks. Oh, and it is not new. Jimmy already dragged us through all this once and we just barely survived it.
One of the most unpleasant things about Mr. Carter was the condescending disdain he could barely disguise for struggling Americans and their irritating malaise.
Increasingly, Jimmy Jr. is having difficulty concealing that very same disdain for us as the political winds around him turn hostile and all of his bright ideas lie fallow as nothing more than socialist hocus-pocus.
But even Mr. Carter never laid bare so baldly and plainly as Mr. Obama did earlier this week his deep-seated contempt for this whole annoying process we call “democracy.”
The problem with reaching a deal to raise the debt ceiling, he explained in a long sermon, is that there is this huge wave of Republicans who won control of the House in the last election by promising not to raise any more taxes and to cut the absurd overspending that has driven this town for decades.
He bemoaned – in public – that these Republicans are more concerned about the “next election” rather than doing “what’s right for the country.” In other words, he is saying the honorable thing would be for these Republicans to ignore the expressed wishes of voters, break their campaign promises and raise taxes. Wow.
As if the whole problem of Washington spending us into oblivion is the fault of stingy taxpayers and stupid voters. And what we really need is Jimmy Jr., who knows what is best for us despite what we may think. Read the rest
