The State of the Union speech is right around the corner and Barack Obama flying Air Force 1 into overdrive pushing items he wants to take credit for including lower gas prices.
President Obama Chooses Vetoes Over Veterans
President Obama has enough time to threaten to veto three bipartisan bills from Congress. His Administration made room in the schedule to issue 300 new rules in the first week of the new year. The President is even taking the time to tell people what cars they should buy.
But he can’t seem to find a single spare minute to visit the Phoenix VA at the center of a nationwide scandal even though his motorcade drove right past it today.
The Veterans Affairs system is still broken. Though the House and Senate passed the start of good reform last year, the bureaucracy still needs major reforms so that veterans get the care they need in time. But the President still hasn’t taken the time to offer a long-term plan to fix the VA. President Obama needs to change his priorities.
It’s time for the White House to stop blocking bipartisan bills that the people want and get to work on real solutions and genuine reform. Don’t drive past the problems, Mr. President. Start helping us fix them.
In the first two days of the new Congress, President Obama has already issued three veto threats against bipartisan bills. Despite the bills having strong support on both sides of the aisle, President Obama has indicated that he will veto bills restoring the 40-hour workweek under Obamacare, approving the Keystone XL pipeline, and delaying a part of the flawed Dodd-Frank regulations.
Obama: Don’t buy that gas guzzler, fuel prices are gonna go up
President visits Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant today
“I would strongly advise American consumers to continue to think about how you save money at the pump because it is good for the environment, it’s good for family pocketbooks and if you go back to old habits and suddenly gas is back at $3.50, you are going to not be real happy,” the President told The Detroit News in a phone interview, ahead of his visit to Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant today.
“The American people should not believe that … demand for oil by China and India and all these emerging countries is going to stay flat,” Obama told The Detroit News. “Just demographics tell us demand is going to continue to grow, that over the long term it will grow faster than supply and we have to be smart about our energy policy,” he said.
Obama is using the stop at the Ford facility in Wayne, Michigan to tout his administration’s auto industry bailout. The facility, where Ford produces the Focus and C-Max, is currently idle due to slow sales.
