President Obama’s serial vacationing and golfing while “Rome is burning” will come back to haunt him and fellow Democrats this November and beyond. His behavior shows a lack of compassion, understanding and leadership. His constant rhetoric that the economy is improving is nonsense. The people know better that it is not. This administration has ruled out of ideology instead of reality. They have manufactured a “crisis” on health care when we had an honest to goodness crisis on the economy that they have neglected and ignored.

Americans are asking themselves, “what good is affordable health care in 2014 when I do not have a job to pay for it in 2010?” The president and his administration have been aloof to the economic problems of the everyday American. They have done what they have wanted to do instead of what the American people needed to be done. They passed 2,000 page bills that no could have possibly have read before voting on them. They have grown government and increased the national debt in record proportions and they made promises that have not been kept.

Remember the stimulus bill? The president promised that if the 1,500 page, $700 billion bill was passed, our national unemployment rate would not exceed 8 percent and that millions of jobs would be created. We now know that by the president=B9s own standard of success, that bill was a complete failure. Unemployment topped 10 percent after the bill was enacted and still hovers around 9.5 percent nationally. Billions of stimulus money remains unspent and Americans are asking themselves, “where are the jobs?”

The Democrats are the party in power. They control it all, the House, the Senate and the White House with high majorities. It is their watch. It is their record. It is their fault.

America don’t despair, help is on the way.

Bradley A. Blakeman served as deputy assistant to President George W. Bush from 2001-04. He is currently a professor of politics and public policy at Georgetown University.