Obama Mocked Commissions, Then Established Four

[Kramer]

Obama Mocked Commissions, Then Established Four

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20009286-503544.html

President Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform is meeting today as part of its efforts to craft recommendations by December on how best to address America's red-ink problem.

Mr. Obama established the commission in February, saying debt and deficits can "hobble our economy" and "saddle every child in America with an intolerable burden."

Yet the president's decision to establish a commission to address a problem he described as potentially catastrophic seems odd in light of his earlier criticism of commissions in general. As Ari Shapiro noted on National Public Radio today, the president mocked the notion of commissions to address problems back when he was a candidate.

Here's Mr. Obama on September 18, 2008, not long after the economic collapse: "Senator McCain's first answer to this economic crisis was - get ready for it - a commission. That's Washington-speak for 'we'll get back to you later.'"

"Folks, we don't need a commission to spend a few years and a lot of taxpayer money to tell us what's going on in our economy," he continued. "We don't need a commission to tell us gas prices are high or that you can't pay your bills. We don't need a commission to tell us you're losing your jobs. We don't need a commission to study this crisis, we need a President who will solve it - and that's the kind of President I intend to be."

To be fair to the president, the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform was created after the Senate failed to pass legislation establishing a bipartisan panel that would have been able to force up-on-down votes in Congress on deficit reduction measures. He pushed for the stronger panel before accepting the current commission, which has no enforcement power.

Still, as Shapiro notes, most commissions end up having little real world impact - much as then-candidate Obama suggested. (One notable exception is the Sept. 11 commission.) The deficit commission is just one of at least four commissions set up by the Obama White House: there are also commissions on the BP oil leak, nuclear power and potentially creating a museum of the American Latino.

[sirs]

Political cover, pure & simple.  The buck stops with.....the commissions

[Kramer]

Political cover, pure & simple.  The buck stips with.....the commissions

how can anybody respect our politicians these days? I despise them... to me these people are the worthless types that either end up living in their parents basements or become politicians. You know the worthless people that go to college, get a degree, then graduate and think OK well I have a degree now I can skate through life because I have a special title i.e attorney. So they decide politics is where they will excel, a place to lie, steel, cheat and get all sorts of stuff for free. They can't make it in the real world, they can't succeed under the rules we all have to follow, so they become scumbag politicians. Low-life scum that suck us dry. Worthless people that nobody can respect.

[sirs]

Power.....that's all its about in Government now.  FAR worse than greed or money, but the power to dictate other people lives based on their supposed greater knowledge of what's good for you, and screw your freedom.  Dems & Repubs, but exponentially worse with liberal --> Socialist --> Communist/Fascist politicians.  Which unfortunately are 99.9% Democrats.  (NOT to be confused that 99.9% of democrats are of the radical left.  Merely that the radical left is 99.9% Democrats)

[Kramer]

Power.....that's all its about in Government now.  FAR worse than greed or money, but the power to dictate other people lives based on their supposed greater knowledge of what's good for you, and screw your freedom.  Dems & Repubs, but exponentially worse with liberal --> Socialist --> Communist/Fascist politicians.  Which unfortunately are 99.9% Democrats.  (NOT to be confused that 99.9% of democrats are of the radical left.  Merely that the radical left is 99.9% Democrats)

these are the pipsqueaks that would have died on the first day of the Bataan Death March.