Presidential Double-Talk

At a Town Hall meeting in New Mexico last week, President Obama made some “interesting” comments.

The first was that our current deficit spending is unsustainable. This was followed by a statement that we can’t continue to borrow from China.

I think that all of us can agree to one response to both of these statements: DUH!

Which of these statements didn’t apply 2 months ago when he was writing out checks to the tune of 1 trillion dollars? What made it sustainable then, but not now? And who did we borrow from for that stimulus spending, because we sure didn’t have it then either?

Double-talk doesn’t begin to describe what this is!

Is this allowed?!?

Senator Arlen Specter recently switched political parties, Republican to Democrat, mid-term.

Why is this practice even permitted?

Here’s a guy, nominated by his previous party, then elected by his constituents to represent them in the U.S. Senate. That nomination was based on a person who represented himself to stand for certain ideals, certain standards, to hold certain values, that then caused him to be placed in office, based on those things.

Then, in mid-stream, he changes political parties, trading in everything that caused him to be elected for something else entirely.

This is a slap in the face to both parties; to the Republicans who placed him in office, and to the Democrats who weren’t good enough for him when he ran.

To add insult to injury he’s now upset that the Democrats won’t grant him the seniority he thinks he’s entitled to.

The solution to this debacle is simple: given that he has misrepresented himself to the Republican and Democratic parties, as well as all voters in Pennsylvania, he should be disallowed to hold any office, and removed from the one he currently holds.