President Kennedy said that our problems are man made and therefore can be solved by man. True leaders such as Kennedy had character, courage and wisdom to propose and make changes that addressed the true nature of our problems that man created. Our leaders today in congress, especially republicans and their leadership have no concept of character, courage or wisdom and as a result put themselves on a path to obstruction with an unAmerican ideology.
Republican leadership roles in the U.S. House and Senate under John Boehner and Mitch McConnell are actually void of any real leadership to move the nation and its people forward with solving the nations made made problems, especially the budget stand off they created themselves. They gave up that leadership position when they vowed not to work with President Obama. Their lack of character, wisdom and courage to serve the cause of the people and the nation has produced the use of outright lies in their talking points on almost every issue.
The republican expression of cutting spending, balancing the budget and creating jobs on the watch of democratic administrations and not applying the same standard to republican administrations has made the republican the "phony" party. Precedent concerning the past actually tells us that the nation and its people do better under democratic administrations and that includes balancing the budget, cutting spending and creating jobs and an economy that works better for all, especially the middle class.
Under the current administration the republicans in congress have done everything in its power to obstruct the President's policies and proposals because they have enough votes in the House and Senate to do so under the present rules. Character, courage and wisdom does not exist in their elite world of politics. During the administration of George W. Bush, they rubber stamped the policies that gave the nation and its people the second great republican depression and now want the people to pay for their corrupt demands and unAmerican behavior.
America has never seen as many man made problems as we have today due to the republicans determination to obstruct. Kennedy as a Senator and President knew how important it was to have character, courage and wisdom. He was a veteran of WWII and knew the meaning of sacrifice for the benefit of the nation and its people.
The problem with lacking those three virtues feeds on itself. There is no one inside or outside of congress in the republican party who is willing to say enough is enough and set a different course and scrap their unAmerican ideology. Worst of all today, is that some republicans are trying to express a different message but are not changing their policies or unAmerican attitude. This has been going on too long and America and its people deserve better. Republican Senator Marco Rubio in his response to the President's State of the Union address was the same old republican talking points, nothing to offer the people and complete disregard for the 2012 Presidential election which told the republicans their prescription for the economy stinks. Character, courage and wisdom is completly absent in the leadership of the republican party.
