Monday, August 8, 2011

Nobody cares about the apology



But she's right about the plan.  That's what the country is watching for. 
But that's not what Obama does.  He's used to saying big, pretty nothings, and having everyone tell him how cool he is ("No-drama Obama") for it.

And he's filled his administration with ideologues.  Their repeated (and likely unsupervised) tactical machinations have led us to a point where nobody in their right mind would trust anything that the White House says:
  • The Department of Justice's political interference in the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case.
  • The ATF's gun-running scandal
  • The "cram-down" of Chrysler and GM secured creditors, so that the UAW could get the money
  • The complete failure to propose a budget, with both houses of Congress controlled by his party until the beginning of this year
  • Demonizing Wall Street, "The Rich", and anyone who doesn't give big bucks to his campaign.  And some who do
  • Obamacare, with 4000 pages of unread law leading to who knows what regulations from the Secretary of HHS?
In short, why on earth would he expect that anyone with two neurons to rub together to give him the benefit of the doubt?  There's an easy answer.

He doesn't see the problem as the Economy.  He sees the problem as getting re-elected.

And so, the need for the Plan.  We don't care about the big, pretty nothings.  We care about what you're going to do to get 10 Million Americans back to work.  Which means that we care about how you're going to get businesses to start hiring.  Which means we care about which of your constituencies you'll throw under the bus to get private hiring out of regulatory-induced vapor lock.

Because that is the issue at hand.  And quite frankly, if Obama doesn't deal with this credibly - with actions, not words that are big, pretty nothings - then Mussolini could beat him this next election.

6 comments:

Paladin said...

Didn't you hear? He *does* have a plan to solve the unemployment problem. Patent Reform. Now we just have to sit back and watch the jobs roll in.....

ProudHillbilly said...

I sit back and watch in awe.

Matt said...

Sometimes I watch in "shock and awe", just when you think they can't top the stupid stunts they've done..... They surprise us yet again.

lelnet said...

Hmm...Obama, or Mussolini?

Depends. Do we get to specify that it's Mussolini in his present condition (in which case it's a no-brainer -- Il Duce 2012!!!) or do we have to run the risk of getting either Mussolini grabbed from the 1930s via time travel or else Zombie Mussolini?

Even if the choice was Obama or a Mussolini who was still, one way or another, capable of walking around and speaking, I might very well say Mussolini would still be a better bet.

To anyone who has actually studied the history of political thought, it is transparently obvious that Obama is an orthodox fascist. I, for one, would at least rather be governed by a fascist who admits he's a fascist than one who tries to pretend he's a believer in representative democracy.

SiGraybeard said...

I've heard this girl say one of the best things I've heard, at about 2:55 Something along the lines of "so he inherited a tough situation from Bush - so what? That's what a CEO does. I get handled bad messes everyday."

Of course he inherited a deficit. The deficit for February of this year was greater than the deficit for they year 2007. Then March's deficit was almost twice that. I know he wants to put this turd on anyone else's plate, and certainly the 15 trillion debt is not all his. But the annual deficits, insane anti-business regulations, the anti-citizen regulations and hostile business climate is all his.

NotClauswitz said...

The air is going out of the Obama balloon.