11:11 AM
Julio Barreto
President Barack Obama and congressional leaders have demonstrated a failure to lead in their respective approaches to tackling the budget. Both the president and the Republican leadership are more concerned with positioning themselves favorably with the public than they are in reaching a bipartisan solution to our mounting deficit. The president’s decision to present a deficit reduction plan was opportunistic, simply to distinguish himself from the proposal presented by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI). Ryan’s plan was approved by the House of Representatives along party lines. While a clever move it only occurred because Obama has an eye on reelection which would be in jeopardy if he appears disinterested in tackling such a thorny issue.He passed on a leadership moment when he decided not to endorse...
