Letters: Why wait and vacation?

Published: Tuesday, Jan. 1 2013 12:00 a.m. MST

President Barack Obama speaks to reporters in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington after meeting with Congressional leaders regarding the fiscal cliff, Friday, Dec. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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Summary

President Obama continues to lead by the seat of his pants by creating what the media calls the "fiscal cliff."

He hasn't had a budget proposal or a sound budget in over three-plus years — even when his party held majority in both the House and Senate. Why does leadership wait until the last minute on key issues that affect more than 300 million citizens?

The president also cut short his vacation in Hawaii to face the fiscal cliff problem. What a poor soul. At the same time he was gone, businesses and taxpayers were left wondering what's going to happen in 2013.

Now we get four more years of this "leadership."

Jim Dublinski

Salt Lake City

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atl134

Salt Lake City, UT

So... when is the letter going to blame Republicans too for also being on vacation?

7:01 a.m. Jan. 1, 2013
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one old man

Ogden, UT

I don't understand why, when it is so easy to check the truthfulness of any statement from anyone, some people simply refuse to do it.

Isn't repeating a lie without checking to see if it is a lie is just another form of lying?
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9:52 a.m. Jan. 1, 2013
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KJB1

Eugene, OR

Whine, whine, whine, whine, whine. If you've paying attention, Obama and the Democrats have been the ones taking the initiative here. Boehner couldn't even convince his own House to bring his plan to a vote.

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1:41 a.m. Jan. 1, 2013
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