This is hardly rhetoric, much less statements that should be uttered by a President of the United States. ”Bad Luck?” ”Things we could not control?” ”And that washes up on our shores?” “The tsunami in Japan…broke supply chains and created difficulties for the economy all across the globe?”

So who is responsible?

Behold.

“…But here’s the thing,” he said, ”the question is, how do we handle these challenges? Do we rise to the occasion? Do we pull together? Do we make smart decisions? And what’s been happening over the last six months — and a little bit longer than that if we’re honest with ourselves — is that we have a political culture that doesn’t seem willing to make the tough choices to move America forward…”
And here’s the clincher: ”… So there is no shortage of ideas to put people to work right now. What is needed is action on the part of Congress, a willingness to put the partisan games aside and say, we’re going to do what’s right for the country, not what we think is going to score some political points for the next election…”

Congress should have solved those things, you see, and more specifically, the Tea Party.

“Partisan games” is code for the Tea Party. The President, his campaign aide, David Axelrod, and a host of other Democrat Socialists have been demonizing the Tea Party for weeks. From the talking points, and what appear to be the targets of those talking points, one can surmise that the Democrat Socialists’ strategy is to marginalize the Tea Party, and to divide and conquer the loosely organized coalition of the Tea Party.

More: http://campaigntrailreport.com/2011/08/16/splitting-the-vote-by-marginalizing-the-tea-party