America Is Looking For a Leader

With all the uncertainty in America right now, the only obvious answer is America needs a Leader.  Our national debt surpassed our GDP, our parties in Washington have stopped compromising, and our President stopped leading.  It is time for a Leader!

Now don’t get me wrong I am not taking sides.  I believe just as Gov. Christie pointed out in an interview a few months ago that both parties are to blame for our National Crisis.  In his words “they spend more time talking at each other than with each other.”  Now this is seen everywhere from blocking of bills to just plain looking idiotic and out of touch, to inside party attacks for being a compromiser. 

Look at the last budget bill and what Speaker Bohner tries to do.  It wasn’t two months before that stale mate the Senate in a almost unanimous fashion brought a bill that set the plan for a year.  He and the Tea Party Caucus wouldn’t vote on it, saying it need more and ask for a short temperay fix.  But when the Senate brought that (a two month extension) He called for a year extension, the same one he said a month earlier he didn’t want.  Why?  Because both parties want to fix things and no one wants to compromise. 

Look at Indiana and the effort the Sen. Dick Lugar did to get bills passed in the Senate.  But yet the right is attacking him saying he compromised?  Wait isn’t that what we want him to do, and that is get stuff done.  Standing on principle is fine but in the end don’t we want results?  I sure do!  But why is this so bad, and why have we become so polarized as a nation?  The President!

The White House and their spin that came from the Super Committee failing to come to an agreement and the lack of involvement by the President.   The White House said that the President knew it wouldn’t work and stayed out of it.  Why?  You’re the leader, that’s your job to get involved. 

Now I am not saying the President is the only to blame for the polarization in this nation, but it is his job to bring them together and by his actions with the super committee he doesn’t feel he needs to because it is doomed for failure.   But in mu opinion that’s what being a leader is: you take risk, you step out on limbs, and you lead.  After all that’s what the name leader means…LEAD.  

No one ever lead from being in the middle of a pack, or from staying out things.  America 2012 is coming up let’s elect a Leader.