A Pivot Here, A Pivot There

“I’m going to talk about where we need to go from here; how we need to put behind us the distractions and the phony debate and nonsense that somehow passes for politics these days, and get back to basics.”

President Barack Obama, 2013

According to Conn Carroll with the Washington Examiner, this is Obama’s eighth time to pivot towards the economy.

With this new pivot proclamation, what can we expect him to actually focus on this time around? He forced the train wreck that is Obamacare down our throats with one pivot to the economy. After a battle to raise the debt ceiling, he supposedly pivoted back to the economy.

It seems to be a pattern that whenever the stars do not align as he dictates, Obama announces a pivot to the economy. This pivot was likely announced to detract from the scandal of the week. The facade that two rouge IRS agents in Cincinnati is falling apart with White House records showing Obama’s IRS Chief Council appointee, William Wilkins, meeting with him two days before the IRS changed targeting criteria that led to conservative groups being scrutinized. Definitely time for a pivot to one thing all Americans still have in common – the blustering economy.

If I may propose a piece of advice, President Obama, there are some solutions to heal the economic woes of our nation:

1.    Secure the Keystone Pipeline.

2.    Remove regulations prohibiting states like Virginia to drill offshore.

3.    Repeal your signature legislation that is proving every day to be impossible to implement.

4.    Acknowledge that progressive principles are great in theory, but do not work in real life.

Please, for the love of our nation, begin your pivot with these ideas.

By SB

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