Obama's Lack of Leadership

Does it really need to be said? He's off on his Rio trip... he sends Joe Biden to Russia, but he and his family get to go to sun-drenched Rio.

Meantime, the budget battle continue:

Story #6: Budget Battle: GOP Acts Like They Lost the Election

RUSH: "Frustration with Obama Builds." This is from Roll Call. "President Barack Obama’s laissez-faire approach to the ongoing spending debate is winning him few friends on Capitol Hill." Folks, this is like the third article recently where the Democrats are saying, "We're losing the budget debate," and they're complaining about Obama. The third article. I had a couple of them yesterday. There's real discontent. The guy's not there. He's not even voting "present." He's not showing up. He's leaving all the dirty work to them. The question I have with all of this... You know, this guy from Roll Call could just as easily be Biden's new press secretary.

It doesn't have to be somebody from the Washington Post. It could pick somebody from NBC or CBS or ABC. It doesn't matter. All these stories on we're losing the budget debate because Obama is not playing a role in it? Why the timidity on our side? Why is our side acting scared to death when the Democrats think they're losing the budget debate? I gotta tell you, if I'm the Democrat caucus in the House or the Senate, I have to be asking myself, "How could we be so lucky? We got shellacked! We got shellacked in November. They ought to be mopping the floor with us here every day, and they're acting like they're afraid of us!

"The guys who one in an almost-record landslide are acting like they're afraid of us, they're afraid of the media." Imagine what it must have felt like to be a Democrat last November, to lose and get shellacked like they did. Imagine what it must have felt like the House was gonna be like as a place to go to work. They really felt bad. They don't doubt the Tea Party. The Tea Party instilled the fear of God in 'em. Our guys somehow don't like the Tea Party, want to try to marginalize the Tea Party. It's a bunch of kooks or nuts or whatever, I guess, to these guys. So the Democrats were thinking, "Jeez, this is gonna be horrible! We're gonna the floor mopped with us every day," and they're probably just stunned that the Republicans are acting afraid of 'em or intimidated by them.

There was a Daily Caller story a couple days ago: "GOP Leaders, Mainline Caucus Fume at Conservative 'No' Votes on Three Week Continuing Resolution." This a story about how the leadership was livid that the freshmen (some of the freshmen, the Tea Party caucus) did not go along with the $6 billion -- and, by the way, how about this as irony? How about this? The day that the leadership very proudly, very happily passed this $6 billion in spending cuts in the continuing resolution -- and the speaker, John Boehner, went out there with serious cuts, meaningful cuts, $10 billion -- $72 billion was added to the budget deficit the same day.

Seventy-two billion dollars added to the budget deficit the same day the House Republicans were all ecstatic at cutting $6 billion from it. Can't do that $105 billion for Obamacare. No, no, no! Can't break the rules to do that. No way. USA Today had a story: "Tea Party activists knew that the dozens of members they got elected to Congress in November couldn't balance the budget or eliminate the country's debt overnight. Now their patience seems to be running out. Tea Party officials across the country said they were angered to see more than 30 Tea Party-backed members of Congress voting for the three-week spending plan passed by the House of Representatives this week, which included $6 billion in cuts."

So the 30 Tea Party members, they're hearing about it from their voters and their constituents, and everybody's scratching their heads. The Democrats are actually scared; they're frustrated. They think they're on the verge of they could be losing the budget battle -- and they could be.

That's the sad thing.

They could be losing this budget battle big, which would mean the nation is winning it.

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