"Blamer-in-Chief"

It was 50 degrees this morning when I went out to do my crossing guard job today. The cool temperature reminded me that autumn is only a few weeks away and certain preparations will soon have to be made. Air conditioners will be removed from my windows, furnace will be checked, deck will be cleared, lawn mower will go into my shed and the snow thrower will come out along with my shovels.

Each season brings change that must be dealt with, and those seasons come every year; winter, spring, summer and fall are never a surprise to any of us. The routines we each go through are repetitive and necessary to prepare for each season’s differences. I have never had a year without a winter, summer, spring or fall; have you?

Were any of you surprised to see cold temperatures in January, or heat in August; I think not. We know those things will happen and we address them accordingly.

Every year our government faces the obligation of designing a budget; this is a mandate that is supposed to be followed under certain precepts in our Constitution. Strangely, our Congress has been very lax in its obligation to fulfill this duty. We are once again being asked to extend the “Debt Ceiling” so the government can continue to function, and once again, it seems the Congress is not fulfilling its obligation to confirm a budget.

In the last 5 ½ years we have not had a budget passed by our Congress! This is ludicrous and irresponsible action from our elected representatives.

The United States has been operating on very shaky fiscal ground due to excessive entitlements, pork spending and a health care initiative that threatens to bankrupt the entire economy.

Since the last mid-term election, the Republican controlled House of Representatives have submitted budgets to the Democrat controlled Senate. Every budget proposal from the House of Representatives have been dismissed without regard by the Harry Reid controlled Senate, along with the budgets submitted by the Obama White House; although the Obama budgets didn’t receive even one vote in favor of acceptance.

President Obama made a statement last week accusing the Republicans of obstructionist action in regards to a new Federal Budget. Once again, Mr. Obama is suffering from a loss of memory when it comes to who is actually responsible for the lack of a Federal Budget; or he is once again resorting to political name calling to deflect the blame away from his Democrat controlled Senate.

This situation, like all situations that cause the Obama Administration to look poorly, is being blamed on someone or something other than the failures of Barack Obama and his inept leadership in the face of every crisis. The failure of a budget rests solely in the lap of the Democrats and Barack Hussein Obama, and nowhere else; recent history PROVES this.

Since his first day in office, Barack Obama has yet to accept responsibility for any actions that have gone awry; he blames and that is all he does.

The real question is this; “When will Barack Obama behave like a President?”