However, teams can fire their manager or head coach just about any time for leading a team of incompetents. Given the incompetence in Washington and the fact that we cannot change out most of the team/politicians until November, 2012, it is a time to change out the manager. The following letter was recently emailed to my Democratic Senator, Senator Bill Nelson of Florida. It calls for the resignation of head coach Barack Obama, based on the facts listed in the letter and the additional reasons listed after the letter.
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September 15, 2011
Senator Nelson:
I had never voted for a Republican for national office in my life (I am 58) until last fall's midterm elections so I am not a die hard Republican or Tea Partier. However, as a concerned American I have had enough. Obama Care that will cause me to lose my health care insurance along with tens of millions of other Americans. Sky high national debt. Ineffective economic policies. A President who acts more like a Prince than the leader of the free world once you take into consideration his multitudes of vacations, international travel, golf rounds, and NCAA basketball picks. A Federal government who is more into oppression than freedom, just ask Boeing and Gibson Guitar.
Now we have a solar energy panel company in California going belly up and half a billion dollars of taxpayer money going down the drain with it because a Democratic donor is involved and this administration did not do any due diligence as far as the financial stability of this company. What part of the Federal government is not investigating this disgrace? At last count it included multiple Senate and House committees, the FBI, the Treasury Department, and lord who knows who else.
Let's not forget the atrociously bungled "Fast and Furious" gun running, law breaking effort from the ATF that has resulted in Mexican drug cartels getting their hands on weapons with monstrous firepower, with the help of the Federal government, firepower that we know has helped kill dozens of Mexicans and a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
And now I understand that the White House has been trying to get a Pentagon general to falsely change his Congressional testimony in order to benefit a significant political donor and supporter of the President, and that Congress is about to get serious about this breach of integrity also.
Enough is enough. As my Senate representative, I am asking you to support the resignation of this entire administration immediately so that we can begin cleaning up the messes of our economy, political patronage, and the blatant waste of taxpayer money that this Presidency has resulted in. Failure to ask for the resignation will certainly lump you into the disasters listed above as a silent co-conspirator and force me to work for your defeat in 2012.
The country cannot stand any more of these shenanigans and waste, all of which diminish the Constitution and our freedom. I hope you agree, for the sake of the country and your re-election bid.
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Not included in the letter, due to space limitations, are the following reasons why the President should do the honorable thing and resign from office, based purely on the ineffectiveness of his administration and policies and the divisiveness he has wrought on the country:
- Gas prices are significantly higher than when the President took office.
- Unemployment is significantly higher than when the President took office.
- This administration has set records for deficit spending, with annual deficits averaging about a TRILLION dollars a year, deficits that were established in cahoots with a Democratically controlled Congress
- These deficits are orders of magnitudes larger than any other deficit by any other President by any measure.
- Consumer confidence by any measure is at its lowest point in decades.
- Small business confidence by any measure is at its lowest point in decades.
- Every economic policy or program of this administration has been a failure, from the economic stimulus program to Cash For Clunkers to first time home buyer rebate program, initiatives that illustrate the small time, non-strategic thinking and economic insights of this administration.
- North Korea and Iran are three years closer to being nuclear weapon armed nations.
- The Middle East peace process is still in tatters.
- This President involved the country in another Middle East war, Libya, illegally deploying U.S. troops in combat without Congressional approval.
- Not only has the President not gotten our troops out of Iraq, he is seriously considering extending their presence in the country beyond the agreed to withdrawal date.
- There is apparently no effective strategy in place to successfully end our military involvement in Afghanistan.
- There is apparently no effective strategy in place to stabilize nuclear armed Pakistan.
- Most of our public schools continue to under educate our kids, we continue to not have a comprehensive national energy policy, our borders still leak, we have no effective and compassionate policy to deal with illegal immigration, and our health care costs continue escalating far beyond the inflation rate.
- Obama Care is an unfolding disaster that will add to the national debt, will see the termination of existing health care insurance for tens of millions of Americans, will increase taxes on all businesses which will drain economic vitality and job expansion in the country, and will not address or solve the root causes of our increasing health care costs.
- Recent reports indicate the Federal program to support unemployment insurance programs has been defrauded of $19 billion over the past year or so, more than 10% of its budget wasted for no good reason.
- Annual taxpayer money lost to fraud and criminal activity within the Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid programs continues to be well over $100 billion a year.
- Housing prices continue to decline while college and other costs continue to rise.
- This Presidential administration has often demonstrated a perverted view of our Constitutional government as it assumes it can ignore or not enforce laws it does not like, ignore judicial rulings that it does not agree with, or rule by decree when Congress does not pass the legislation it wants passed.
- Government functions continue to be less than stellar in the performance of their duties: dozens of SEC staffers found to be chronic Internet porn surfers, Interior Department employees who contributed to the Gulf oil spill crisis because of lax oversight, Energy Department employees who gave out billions of taxpayer dollars to companies that have already gone out of business, etc.
However, there are three other, deeper reasons for this President to resign:
1) When President Obama took office, his approval ratings were sky high. The nation, as a whole, was anxious for hope and change, and were likely willing followers of his lead. His party had control of the House of Representatives, and filibuster proof control of the Senate. He had a historical opportunity to actually make things different, and hopefully, better for America.
But he blew it. He was more interested in the pomp and pageantry of being President than actually being President. He set a record for international travel in the first year of his Presidency. He filmed a TV commercial for the George Lopez show. He hosted numerous championship athletic teams at White House photo ops. He worked diligently on his NCAA March Madness basketball picks. He appeared on numerous television talk shows.
Before he knew it, he had blown his chance at history. His popularity soured, he lost the filibuster cushion in the Senate, and then his party lost control of the House. For this reason alone, blowing a rare historical opportunity to make fundamental change, justifies this call for his resignation.
2) A true leader unites, a true leader steps out and makes the right decisions rather than the politically palatable decisions, a true leader is a statesman and not just another Chicago politician.
Over the past three years, American citizens who have dared to have a legitimate and honest difference of opinion with this President's policies and plans have been branded as racists, Ku Klux Klan members, knuckle dragging Neanderthals, a__h___s, gerbils, terrorists, barbarians, other such vile names. They have been called unpatriotic and told to go to hell. They have had a union leader state that he was going to "take these sons of bitches out," where the bitches are anyone opposed to President Obama's policies.
During all of the name calling and mudslinging, this President has remained silent and allowed his staff, his supporters, and his party to to defame and insult Americans for voicing an opinion. This is unacceptable. It has made the country as divided as it ever was, all because this President would prefer to play politics and breed hate than be a leader and be representative of ALL Americans.
3) No one forced the President to run for this office. No one made him accept the role of President of the United States. He should have known going into his term that things were not good. Regardless of how much one hates President Bush, the situation in January, 2009 was what it was. By taking the oath of Presidency, Obama accepted that situation on his inauguration day. He did so with open eyes, no deception.
To use a poker analogy, President Obama was dealt the hand he was dealt when he took the oath of President. Nothing was going to change that situation or that poker hand at that point in time. However, a true leader, heck a mature adult, would not constantly bemoan the hand he was dealt but would look forward to make the best of that hand and ensure that subsequent hands were optimized for the best chance of winning.
This President never did that. For three years, whenever anything went wrong, it was the Bush administration's fault, it was never the Obama administration's fault. It was never the the fault of the Democrats that controlled Congress for four straight years. It was never forward looking leadership, it was always backward looking blame.
In fact, I truly believe that this administration is not capable of looking forward for solutions. Their habit, their culture of looking to place blame elsewhere now makes them dysfunction relative to resolving issues. Their track record indicates that this dysfunction exists, giving their track record of resolving no major issues facing Americans today
An athletic cliche goes as follows: "You are what your record is." The record of this administration is 9% unemployment, almost $15 TRILLION in national debt, annual TRILLION dollar deficits, a divided America, historic opportunities missed, a failed foreign policy all over the world, unabated government program fraud and hundreds of billions in lost taxpayer wealth, failed economic policies, rampant political patronage, a disastrous health care reform law, and so much more.
But most important, this administration is a leadership void on every imaginable dimension. It is a void that will likely not change any time soon, given its ability to blame others and duck its own responsibility. In these times of crisis, America is looking for intelligent, decisive, and inclusive leadership. We do not have time to waste another year under this current cloud of inertia. President Obama, your record is what your record is. Time to step aside and give others a chance to lift the cloud, it is the only patriotic thing to do.
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