December 5th 2008
Mother-In-Law Here; Honeymoon Over
Barack Obama didn’t even get to move out of the Office of the President-Elect and into the Oval Office before his honeymoon ended. And it wasn’t the Republicans that did it:
Democrats are growing impatient with President-elect Barack Obama’s refusal to inject himself in the major economic crises confronting the country. Obama has sidestepped some policy questions by saying there is only one president at a time. But the dodge is wearing thin.
“He’s going to have to be more assertive than he’s been,” House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank, D-Mass., told consumer advocates Thursday.
Frank, appropriate in his role of peevish mother in law, thinks the time has come to forego false impediments like the Constitution, and get on with business.
“At a time of great crisis with mortgage foreclosures and autos, he says we only have one president at a time,” Frank said. “I’m afraid that overstates the number of presidents we have. He’s got to remedy that situation.”
Frank – who bares half of the responsibilty for the mortgage melt-down seems to have forgotten that the first bailout was going to free-up mortgages. Since it hasn’t, he might want to question the efficacy of funding the auto industry’s run on the bank – as should the man who bares the other half of the responsibility:
“The Obama team has to step up,” Sen. Christopher Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee and one of the lead negotiators, said Nov. 21 in Hartford, Conn. “In the minds of the people, this is the Obama administration. I don’t think we can wait until January 20.”
Nag, nag, nag. And don’t even get them started on confirmation hearings!
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