On the way to work I heard that our President has decided to be the chief lobbyist for Chicago’s bid for the Olympic Games in 2016. He is leaving Washington with a ton of unfinished business that requires his immediate attention. On 60 minutes yesterday, General McChrystal said that he had only talked to the President once in the approximately 70 days he had been the commander of our troops in Afghanistan. Iran shot off some short range missiles over the weekend. They are planning on shooting a long range missile next Monday. There are plenty of critically important issues for Barack Hussein Obama to occupy his time with in Washington. You would think that obtaining the Olympic Games would be a low priority item at best.

Why is Barack Obama hot to get the Olympic Games for Chicago? One reason is that Mayor Daley is in political trouble. Without the oomph of a big splash, he just might lose his next election. Chicago has become a dysfunctional town. He might lose the election even with the Olympics. Without the Olympics, he is most likely the former Mayor Daley. Barack Obama is a good friend of Mayor Daley. He wants to keep his friends in office.

Why isn’t Barack Obama meeting with General McChrystal? Barack Obama selected General McChrystal for this position back in March. At the time, Obama said that General McChrystal would carry out his strategy for Afghanistan. Now, General McChrystal is calling for more troops to be committed to Afghanistan in an effort to win the war. According to General McChrystal, with the troops we can win the war. Without the troops, we cannot win the war. Barack Obama is undecided on what he wants to do. He would like to vote present, like he does on almost everything else. He has to make a decision. The angry left is telling him to withdraw from Afghanistan. The military is telling him that the war is winnable, if we follow this plan of General McChrystal. He is torn between wanting to please the left which put him in office and the military which could give him a military victory he would desperately love to have. A military victory would go a long way to secure a second term in office for Mr. Obama. What is he to do? His answer is to jet off to Copenhagen, Denmark to talk about the Olympics. That is the same as voting present.

Mr. Obama’s healthcare proposal is being destroyed right before his eyes. The people lining up against it grows longer every day. The number of people supporting it shrinks. According to the polls, far more people strongly oppose Obamacare than strongly approve of Obamacare. Democrats in Congress are looking at 2010 and seeing a disaster in the making. They know if they vote for the Obamacare bill, they will be on the street looking for a job. Obama is pressuring them to vote for the bill with a heavy lobbying effort. The Democrats are caught between a rock and a hard place. Their most likely scenario is to just not bring it up for a vote until after the 2010 election. That would infuriate the White House, but might get them re-elected. If they got re-elected they could pass the bill and we would all lose.

The Tax and Tax bill is the next one in the hopper. That bill is supposed to save the planet from a non-existent problem. If they pass the bill, the problem will not occur. The people that passed the bill could claim credit for curing the non-existent problem. The real reason for the Tax and Tax bill is to raise taxes on everybody. The Democrats believe that all the money in the country belongs to the government and you only get your share through the largess of the federal government. So, when they pass a tax bill, they are really just recouping some of the government’s money. At least that is how the Democrats think. Maybe not directly, but indirectly through their actions that is the policies they stake out.

Obama has no reason to leave Washington at this time. There are too many highly important issues on the table that require his immediate attention. While I love to watch the Olympic Games and love to cheer on the athletes, the security of the United States and our allies is more important. If the problem was solved with Iran and he had met with General McChrystal to iron out any problems, then I would say go ahead. But he has not done any of these things. He has not made any effort to do any of these things. He has done everything in his power to avoid the highly important issues. He is not leading us. He is trying to follow some unknown leader that has abandoned him at this time. Obama needs someone to tell him exactly what to do to get him out of the mess he is in. There are a lot of us conservatives who would gladly take on that job. It would be a monumental task, but one I would gladly do.