I am getting really tired of seeing this.
Front page lede at CNN.
http://www.cnn.com/...
President Bush has been noticeably absent from the machinations aimed at righting the nation's financial course. Analysts and key players differ over whether President-elect Barack Obama should get his economic team in place and take charge, or sit back and await his turn at the helm.
"Somebody has to speak up soon," said CNN senior political analyst David Gergen, explaining that he understands why Americans are growing anxious and yearning for direction and leadership.
"I think ... sort of the bottom feels like it is falling out for many people," said Gergen, who has advised four presidents. "They sense there's a total lack of leadership in Washington, that the White House is silent, the treasury secretary has been battered, the Federal Reserve can't speak up. These automakers come up to Capitol Hill and fail. And the president-elect is silent in Chicago."
We have a President.
Unless Gergen is endorsing immediate impeachment and removal, or outright revolution, he should damn well know better. Obama has nothing to say until the 20th of January, as the leader of the country, and yet he has been speaking out, asking for consideration for Detroit, for example.
David Gergen isn't the only one, of course: tune the dial on AM radio or the TeeVee channel and the narrative is "it's Obama and the Democrats" who are getting blamed for this implosion on Wall Street. Republicans have been in charge roughly 75% of the time these last 30 years in government, but somehow "it's Obama's fault, it's the Democrats fault".
It's grating on my nerves.