In the days and weeks leading up to his fifth State of the Union address, President Obama has been having difficulty with the Congressional Black Caucus, for not supporting what they believe to be “their struggle,” for not appointing more black judges, and doing more for blacks in general.
When your core base is turning on you, something has to be awfully wrong in Obamaland.Hours prior to the SOTU address, we caught up with Congressman Dennis Ross, in his Washington, D.C., office where he elaborated more on Obama’s CBC problem.
Ross stated that Obama as going to make a “big push for credibility” by pushing for equality, and look to increase the federal employee minimum wage by executive authority to make that case.
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When asked about the President’s Black Caucus problem, Ross affirmed what his colleague Rep. Steve Southerland stated earlier in the day, in that this was only a “symptom of his major problem of not being a leader,” adding that Obama had to “reach out and build consensus along the lines of not only the opposition, but also their own party.
This president has yet to reach out to anybody in his own party, let alone anybody in the Republican Party.
Ross’ observation seem to be a common thought in Congress, as even Democrat staffers have grown to dislike the President for his lack of “rank-and-file” outreach to them, and to Republicans.To kick the President while he is down, Ross echoed the now excepted notion that Obamacare is a disaster, and that Americans will witness Obamacare “absolutely implode,” as well as “ watch it go right of the cliff, and take part of our economy right along with it.”