Obama is in jail. At least George Obama is. He was arrested for possession of marijuana. He could probably get a Cabinet position with that record.
We’re at a halfway point of sorts. 88 days since the election and 88 days until the milestone of 100 days is over. So far, he’s signed one piece of legislation. Now you can sue a company for discrimination after you’ve retired. Just hurry up and sue before the company goes bankrupt.
The RNC has chosen Michael Steele as their new chairman. This is an important position, given that Howard Dean at the DNC used his position and his bitterness to sell out his party for money, condone voter fraud and get an unqualified community organizer elected president.
Let’s hope the Republican party can prosper by adherence to out principles instead of by selling them out.
Today was interesting. This is the day after the House Republican revolt over a spending package where every dollar spent is considered stimulus, even if it goes to people who already have money. This is also the day the None signed his first actual piece of legislation. It’s apparently written so that one Goodyear executive can get back pay.
One was lauded by conservatives, another by liberals. What this reminds me of is the delicate coalition of groups needed to get the None out of office or to blunt his power. There are three groups in DC right now. There are conservative Republicans, blue dog Democrats and the Obamalytes. The last group represents a large group of liberals and a small group of conservatives who have hitched their wagon to a political neophyte. The first two groups are strong enough to resist the third, but only if they stand together.
The truth is that liberals and conservatives aren’t enemies. We have ideological differences, but we both think we have the right ideas. What I hate are the idiots who vote but have no idea what they’re voting for and the sociopaths who consider the business of government to be some kind of game. The None is one of the latter. He seems to revel in talking policy with his political opponents more than enacting legislation. For all his faults, Bill Clinton actually believed in something.
The true believers are the ones who make this system work. Every two years we sit in fear as to how many idiots in that 20% undecided/uninformed group will be swayed by political ads, how tall the candidate is or how folksy they act. This was a rough year for us.
Pork bill step 1. Most of the Democrats and none of the Republicans in the House voted for the deficit package. The stock market accelerated to levels not seen since, well since the Inauguration crash of last week. The None wants to bailout the banks even more by buying up troubled loans. Wait, didn’t I see the peviews to this movie before?
So, the None went on Arab television to talk about his Muslim heritage, (huh?) his ties to Arab countries (what?) and his study of the Koran. (how?)
Apparently, our green president is trying the “stand up to a bully” approach when it comes to al-Quaeda, basically making fun of its mama and pretending its not important. (see Iran) The bully strategy has limited success. If the bully doesn’t want to bother, you’re in good shape. Otherwise, the bully will kick you in the nuts and steal your lunch money. Now you have no cash and you can’t stand up straight.
You know, I wondered about the None’s posture.
How do you like him now?
There were a lot of Republicans who basically gave up on this election because they didn’t want to get in front of a runaway train. They also had a more visceral hatred toward Hillary Clinton. I still think that left over conservative rage over Hillary would have lost her the election to John McCain.
And that was the problem. President Vip was marketed as a uniter (don’t deny it) who was a different kind of politician. With a billion dollars of McCain-Palin bashing, the alternative didn’t look that bad.
And inside of a week, hope and change has turned into liberal rage. My honest opinion is that Hillary Clinton would have already been more sane and more intelligent in her decisions in this first week. So far, we face the possibility of Gitmo detainees being released to hostile countries and becoming the next generation of al-Quaeda. We have the possibility that the next car bought by a consumer will be a high priced, 50mpg tin can to subsidize the 20mpg SUV that actually turns a profit for auto companies. The Congress is trying to push through a budget buster that will cost too much, do too little and payback all the liberals who bought off the Democratic Party.
Yep, this guy was so much better than John McCain.
If the campaign season really lasts almost two years, preparations have to begin now. For me, that involves the idea that a conservative Democrat may be preferable to a middle of the road Republican. One reason for a stimulus package passing now is to give the public time to forget that their wishes were totally ignored by the people who supposedly represent them.
Current bad economic news is being compared to 1982 which was the worst data… right before another recovery. We could be spending $800 billion on top of $700 billion in TARP on top of $7 trillion in Treasury backing money when only $200 billion will apply to the next year and a half. Why are we spending money that doesn’t exist, except as ink in the printing presses?
The new regime is smart. They were smart enough to know that getting enough Republicans on board for TARP 1 made it a bipartisan blunder. If no Republican voted for it and all the Democrats were forced to vote yes to pass it, this election might have turned out very different. I’m sick of making a bad bill better. If a bill sucks, don’t vote for it. Don’t ignore Rush Limbaugh, ignore President Vip. Take a damn stand for once. Or sit down after the next election.
“You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done”
This is what the new president told Republican leaders yesterday. I can see why he might single out Rush, since he is one of the very few who has not implicitly wished for the new administration’s big government agenda to accidentally work. No, he thinks that conservatives should work for the passage of conservative ideas.
That statement about Rush says two important things, if you read between the lines. Most of what President Vip says involves reading between the lines. Either he’s using precise legalize to give himself wiggle room, or he’s using catch phrases and double entendres to talk around a point.
First, the president doesn’t understand the first thing about the leadership of the Republican Party. These are guys who spent a great deal of time not listening to what Rush Limbaugh has said about them. I notice he didn’t tell anyone to avoid Rush when he spent months talking about what a lousy conservative John McCain was. The Republican Party has undergone a decade-long slide away from conservatism until they’ve become like the Democrats of the early 90s, with more tax cuts. If any Republican were to listen to Rush, it might lead to tipping the fragile balance between blue dog Democrats, greedy Congressional leaders and scared Republicans.
I think the second part is the most important, however. For the last couple of years, Pelosi and other liberals have made noises about reviving the so-called “fairness doctrine.” It expands the concept of equal time beyond political candidates and into political speech. Basically, if a “conservative” talk show host has a three hour show on a station, that station may be required to air a “liberal” host for an equivalent length of time. Beyond the problems in determining who is a conservative or liberal or how biased they are, many “liberal” radio shows get awful ratings. Air America has lost tons of money trying to stay on the air and mostly exists on the Internet.
Airing a low-rated show to keep a high-rated one is pretty costly. The net result of such a mandate would lead to either no talk radio or no radio station at all. Not a bad result if you make up the federal government. Even liberals will sometimes be a pain in the ass to you. Eliminating all political speech makes it a lot easier to be the only voice.
So, do what the president says. Ignore that guy who disagrees. Don’t listen to the voice in your head that tells you a second bank bailout makes no sense. Don’t try to remember when your politician said the opposite of what he’s doing now. Just shut up and vote. And don’t look at that other name on the ballot.
On the third day of President Vip’s regime, we learn that unmanned drones carried out attacks on the border of Pakistan, (pronounced pahk-ee-ston according to him) killing 17. Who’s air raiding villages now?
President Vip gets to keep his Blackberry. Besides earning the everlasting devotion of Research In Motion, he’s also solidified yet another hollow victory. Much like Pelosi’s huge ass government funded plane, the Secret Service and the military will probably have to use millions of dollars in technology to bypass the antiquated cellular system and filter out potential enemies by rerouting the transmission pattern.
