RightChange: The STOTU 2012, Time To Give Someone Else’s Ideas a Shot

Get ready for some anti-Congress populist rhetoric folks; President Obama is addressing the nation tonight.  At his last State of the Union appearance, he exclaimed, “the rules have changed,” calling for a new government controlled economy filled with high-speed rails and Sputnik like pet projects. Obama has told us in all three STOTU speeches that these Progressive projects were supposed to be the key to winning the future.  He even said three years ago that if he couldn’t get the job done, “there was going to be a one-term proposition.”

In true Obama fashion, he is acting as though he never spoke those words, and he is begging the electorate to give him another term to “get the job done.”  Tonight, he will present to you another long to-do list with lagging tasks he failed to cross off in three years.   He will also give you an explanation for why they haven’t been completed.  Hint: Senate Democrats, the Tea Party, and the rich.  He will also place part of the blame on you for “getting a little lazy.”

Instead of presenting you with all of the cold hard facts of how things are actually worse than they were in 2009, let’s pause for a rhetorical moment.

When Obama was elected President, he did not promise to get things done if and only if everyone agreed with him.  He promised to get things done no matter what.  Why are Americans buying into his pity party?  Not every American believes the way to economic prosperity is to raise taxes and spend money.  Not every American hates millionaires.  And not every American buys into the notion that everything should be fair.  Obama is the President of these Americans and it is his job to find a middle ground. 

Did he ever stop to think that our economy is gridlocked because he refuses to work with the leaders that represent the Americans mentioned above?  We may not get the perfect alternative to Obama in 2012, but we need someone who is capable of working across the aisle, as unappealing as that aisle may be.  Clearly Obama’s big government projects haven’t pulled us out of the ditch yet and by his own ultimatum, it’s time to give someone else’s ideas a shot.

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