Super Committee's Failure Gives Obama a Super Excuse for Our Faltering Economy

On July 17th, while debt ceiling talks were at their height, I had a post on Big Government in which I wrote:

Look folks, we literally have Obama right where we want him. Not only is he beatable, he has actually already beaten himself by spending this country into the ground. Now is no time to do him a favor by raising the debt ceiling and letting him off the hook.

Republicans had the world by the tail for a brief moment and, but lacking the courage to do it, they could have stood their ground and guaranteed Obama was going to be a one term president.

Instead, Speaker Boehner–with the encouragement of that great conservative stalwart John McCain–entered into an asinine agreement to allow a Super Committee to form and make decisions in lieu of Congress’s unwillingness to do so. As a result, Obama not only got a bit of breathing room but actually received a reprieve yesterday, when the Super Committee failed to reach an agreement on spending cuts. Now Obama can stand back and fault the Republicans for the committee’s failure, thereby shifting the blame for our faltering economy from his horrid policies to their unwillingness to meet the Democrats half-way.

Thus, as soon as the Super Committee’s gridlock was announced, Obama pounced on the chance to paint Republicans as inside-the-beltway politicians who are out of touch with what the people need: “There are still too many Republicans in Congress who have refused to listen to the voices of reason and compromise that are coming from outside of Washington.”

As a result of the Super Committee’s failure–which is really Obama’s success–our military will face a $600 billion cut in funding. So now McCain is all worked up and issuing press releases that describe these cuts as a “threat to the national security interests of the United States” and vowing that they must not “be allowed to occur.”

Earth to John McCain: We told you this back in July when we, as conservatives, opposed Boehner’s attempts to reach across the aisle and throw Obama a life preserver. You, however, responded to our concern by describing Tea Partiers as “hobbits” given to “crack political thinking.”

The truth is, the Tea Party was right in not wanting to compromise with Obama just as they were right for not wanting to vote for McCain in 2008. But now, in a worst of both worlds scenario, we’re listening to McCain tell us everything we already know (as if we didn’t know it), while we watch Obama walk away from the scene of the crime with nary a charge against him.

The Super Committee’s failure has given Obama a super excuse for our faltering economy.