The Buck Stops... over there

Welcome to the “Pass the Buck” presidency!

President Harry Truman had a sign on his desk that said “The BUCK STOPS here”, meaning that he is the person who is ultimately responsible. It was a statement and a testimony to his strength of character. We all know that there were some tough decisions made during his presidency and President Truman took the credit and the blame.

I’m not seeing that same sense of responsibility in the current administration.

Of course, we didn’t see it in his candidacy either.

We all remember the host of people that were “thrown under the bus” during his campaign. Some have actually resurfaced, including Samantha Powers who was originally put under the tires for her anti-Israeli comments.

There was the recent horrible memo put out by the Department of Homeland Security. When asked about it, President Obama pled ignorant and referred any questions to the Secretary of Homeland Security. Napalitano should have seen it coming.

This week there was the flyby of Air Force One escorted by fighter jets over New York City as people ran from buildings in a panic, reliving 9/11 all over again. Louis Caldera got the finger pointed at him for that one and a statement from the Whitehouse Press Secretary Robert Gibbs that the President was “furious”. Just as a side note, the President should probably point the “fiscal responsibility” finger at him as well, considering the New York “fly by” pictures cost the tax payers over $328 THOUSAND. Nice.

The entire first hundred days, the president has traveled the country touting his economic changes and embellishing the record by his claims of, “The deficit that I inherited.” True, the Bush administration handled the economic challenges last year very poorly in my opinion, but as a Senator, President Obama helped shape that deficit. The link above is from the AP, shockingly enough, and calls the President on his stretching of the truth finger pointing.

The ONE case that the President claimed full responsibility for is when half a dozen of his cabinet appointments turned up with tax issues and I did give him credit for that. But with all of the finger pointing at the people around him, you have to conclude that a) he doesn’t know what is going on in his own Whitehouse b) the people that he has picked to be responsible for key areas of importance and expertise aren’t up to the task, or c) no one has informed the President that he’s actually the one in charge.

Okay, that was a little snippy, sorry, I’ll take all of the blame for that one.

It is very humorous to see that the very same people who will accept the shift in blame from President Obama to pretty much ANYONE else, are the same people who blamed President Bush for ANY and EVERYTHING that happened during his two terms.

But the buck can only pass for so long. To paraphrase one of the many thrown under the bus during the campaign, eventually the chickens will come home to roost.


*****Update: I thought this video went along nicely.