I have heard of some marriages like this. The courting was great. The romance was great. The wedding plans were great. The wedding was spectacular. Wedding album showed all the right photos.The plans they made for their marriage are wonderful. Now that they have come home from the honeymoon things just don't seem right. Then over the next few weeks, you get clues that things are not right. In your head you start hearing "Doo doo doo doo" (twilight zone music).
I'm getting the same clues regarding the Obama Presidency. On the surface this thing looks ideal. Great inaugural photos. Supporters are in denial. But the signals lately are not good. Obama's brain trust fails to answer the call because they don't pass the simple test of paying taxes. (Don't even go there about the "high bar". Paying your taxes is the lowest step these people couldn't get over.) Obama farms out the authorship of the Stimulus Package bill to big spending liberal Nancy Pelosi and it comes in looking like a San Francisco shopping spree. He then sends Geithner, his money guru to Capital Hill and the poor guy literally gets laughed out of the room.
In Whist or Bridge if the person in the lead has an Ace -10 and he suspects his partner has the King then he leads his 10 first. The opposition puts his Jack on the 10 and it looks good for him until the partner hits it with his King. With the King comes the inevitable taunt "You sent a boy to do a man's job!" It's beginning to look like that in Washington.
Democrats can respond that they were successful in getting the Stimulus Bill passed and things are going their way. But when you look harder, the reality of America isn't just summed up in the 61-37 vote in the Senate. America also consists of its people, and polls of people show a different percentage mix. And just as importantly, America consists of its GNP - of the collective businesses and production capacity. That isn't measured in polls, unless you call the stock market a poll. And it just gave a huge thumbs down. Doo-doo-doo-doo . . . .
Obama had to go back into campaign mode to try to muster up poll support for the stimulus package. He gave the microphone to a woman who pleaded for a kitchen and a bathroom. He gave it to a McDonald's employee who wanted better benefits. It apparently worked well enough to get the Senators to approve the Bill. But I predict that this form of extreme (and extremely dishonest) media manipulation will become ineffective if he tries it again. I think he just spent a very big portion of his political capital on this. Three weeks into his term of office. Things are not like we were lead to believe. They can posture and grandstand all they want. This marriage is in trouble.
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Well written...it is certainly "Change." I often wondered if the "freedom fighters" helping Castro years ago had change in mind too.....but not the change that happened with his regime..that's what always bothers me about the BS of change. Change is what you think it means to you...then you wake up and find it's not what you wanted.
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