How Do We Get This President to Move?

We are witnessing a vacuum of leadership in Washington. Never in my days on earth have I ever seen an administration that focuses on low priority issues and avoids high priority issues. Now I understand how Obama could abstain or vote “present” on most of the legistlation that came before him in the Illinois State Legislature before he became a Senator and why he sponsored so little legislation in his two years in the U.S. Senate.

I really don’t want this to be another Obama bashing post, but you all know that the world is in turmoil and the only superpower left is just filing in line behind lesser nations waiting for global initiatives that will never come.

1. We await action on the nation’s 2012 budget, and on the deficit ceiling that is not being addressed. Instead, we fund our government via legislation for 2 weeks at a time because the Democrats do not want to deal with the real need to cut spending, which Obama completely ignored in his budget proposal.
2. Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Bahrain, and Libya all are in various stages of regime change, much of which can be very favorable for our interests and adverse to Al Qaida. Yet we watch on the sidelines reluctant to take any action while the world waits for the U.S. to lead. Even the Arab League and the President of France plead for action to save Libyan lives, and our President clearly doesn’t want to appear too “aggressive or arrogant”.
3. The earthquake and tsunami in Japan has serious repercussions for the U.S. economy as well as the world; they are the world’s 3rd largest economy. Surely, we will provide aid to a staunch ally but now the Democrat left has another reason to stop development of nuclear power in the U.S., just as the BP oil spill caused a ban on offshore deep water drilling. So now we can develop more expensive and less viable energy sources (wind and solar), while we sit on top of the largest natural gas and oil reserves in the world, and send billions to Brazil to develop their offshore oil industry.

While the world is on fire, our President plays two rounds of golf during the Japanese crisis, goes to some high schools with his wife to discuss the major problem of “bullying” and devotes his Saturday afternoon radio speech to the nation on spending more attention to women’s history month. Nero fiddles while Rome burns!

I can’t wait until he whales in on his prediction of the final four of March Madness (the NCAA basketball tournament for you non-sports fans) at his next press conference. I have previously written at least two posts on the characteristics of great leaders and how this President doesn’t measure up. Leadership is being a great communicator, but also setting an example through actions that we all want to emulate. How do we inject some energy into our President? He runs this country like he has overdosed on valium.