President Barack Obama is once again loading up the teleprompter and hitting the road. Today he's traveling to Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University to try to convince anyone who will listen that his administration has made progress with regard to the nation's economy and that the sad state of the nation's economy is all the Republicans' fault.

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In his prepared remarks, Mr. Obama will accuse Republicans of refusing to help as he's tried to rescue the economy, overhaul health care laws and enact new Wall Street regulations. He'll also claim that most in the GOP "sat on the sidelines and shouted from the bleachers" and said no to everything from clean-energy investments to tax credits for college tuition. (source) Has the statute of limitations finally run out on his seemingly constant blaming of his predecessor for his own failings? Has he now moved on to blaming his political opponents who have had little to no power to stop his progressive agenda?

And now the list of people who don't want to listen to President Obama bluster and blame has grown to include other politicians. When President Obama and Senator Arlen Specter (D-Pennsylvania) land at Pittsburgh International Airport today, Mayor Luke Ravenstahl will receive them by himself. The rest of the region's top elected officials declined White House invitations to attend Mr. Obama's speech

Congressmen Jason Altmire and Tim Murphy have previous engagements. Senator Bob Casey Jr. and Representative Mike Doyle are out of town on anniversary trips with their wives. Allegheny County Executive Dan Onorato will be campaigning in Philadelphia. "It's peculiar, to say the least," Gerald Shuster, professor of political communication at the University of Pittsburgh, said about elected officials declining such invitations. (source)

But no matter how small the audience may be, President Barack Obama speaks on. Oil still flows into the Gulf. An international crisis is building in the Middle East. The national debt has climbed to $13 trillion thanks in large part to the president's obscenely expensive policies. The national unemployment rate remains near 10 percent. And our president is traveling to Pittsburgh to give yet another useless speech that no one wants to hear about how wonderful he is and how any and all problems we face are someone else's fault.