"The empty suit"

During my 35 year career I was President of three different companies; one of them my own. I had many very competent managers during those years; in fact they were the reason for my success. But I also had some incompetent managers along the way and looking back they all seemed to have two things in common when there were problems -  they pointed fingers at others or they became "experts" at coming up with excuses; they rarely stepped forward, took responsibly, and told me "they screwed up and would correct the problem".

Sadly this pattern of behavior is being played out on our national stage by people that we elected to represent us and work for the good of this country. The Obama administration is one long series of excuses and blame on others without any admission of "I screwed up and will correct the problem".  To list the endless excuses and attempts to blame others would be too much for this Blog and most readers know what they are, but Obamacare has managed to take center stage.

In the private sector business world if you screw up repeatedly, you are gone. That motivation is probably why the private sector is so much more successful that the public sector. No one in the government can be fired. If you were a CEO of a major insurance company how long would you have kept Kathleen Sebelius managing your new, great national insurance care program? In the private sector she would have been on the street back in November. Obamacare has had so many revisions, delays, and changes that no one even knows what the law is all about anymore.

Sooner or later incompetence throughout any organization falls back on its leader and I believe if you look at Obamacare, our economy, our Foreign Policy and the myriad of new regulations strangling our society, we have a leader in this country who with his "golden oratory" epitomizes the definition of an "empty suit".