Okay, I've had it.  It is time to let loose about President Obama's "plan" to fix health care and the economy.  He and his minions have said so many outrageous things in the last week or two, that I can't even begin to catalogue all of them, let alone respond to them.  But this little bit of demagoguery is unbelievably vile.  It is part of a speech President Obama delivered recently in MacLean, Virginia.

The key sentence in the video is, "But I don't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess. I don't mind cleaning up after them, but don't do a lot of talking."

He was referring, of course, to Republicans, insurance companies, doctors, bankers, and auto executives.  I will concede for the moment that -- with the exception of doctors -- all these had a role to play in our current national financial mess.  But their culpability is miniscule in comparison with what Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Chris Dodd, and Barney Frank have done, or are attempting to do, to the American people.  These are the ones who should NOT do ANY talking, except to apologize for the mess they have created.

Chris Dodd and Barney Frank are the geniuses who engineered the Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac monstrosities who pressured banks to make thousands of bad mortgage loans to people who could not possibly afford them, and then bought up the bad loans and repackaged them and sold them as "investments" to unsuspecting investors -- many of whom were retirement fund managers.  The Bush administration and Republican legislators made repeated efforts in 2007 and 2008 to convince the Senate and House banking committees to reign in Fannie and Freddy, but they were stonewalled by the Democrats (led by Dodd and Frank), who insisted nothing was wrong.  And let us not forget ACORN's involvement in pushing for the bad loans, as well.  This is what led to the implosion of the investment banks and the massive $850 billion bailout bill at the end of Bush's term. 

Following that, Rahm Emmanuel declared that a good crisis like this should not be wasted, and along came the so-called "stimulus" bill, which was really a massive exercise in porkbarrel spending, most of which is not scheduled to take effect until just before the 2010 congressional election.  The whole point of this so-called "stimulus" was to pay off Obama's friends and to get Democrats re-elected.  And to put the country into even deeper debt.

Then, as if the present debt is not enough, the Dems have added the "Cap and Trade" energy bill and the healthcare bill into the mix, which will drive the country EVEN FURTHER into debt.  We are talking about multiple TRILLIONS of dollars of debt over the next ten years, if all of this passes both in both the House and Senate.  My grandchildren will be still be paying for this mess for many years to come, in the form of taxes, inflation, unemployment, curtailed freedom, government mismanaged health care, and a much lower standard of living.

And, for the record, my standard of living isn't very high even now.

So, Mr. President, if the people who created this mess should keep quiet, then I suggest that YOU lead the way.