Obama's Flop Sweat
Nothing is more frightening than the sinking feeling that you know you’re in over your head.
I vividly recall when I took over the Pink Garter Theatre in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and had to pretend that I had the first clue about what I was doing. I didn’t. And it didn’t take very long for people to find out that I didn’t. The result was that that first theatre season was a steady stream of misfires and mistakes, accompanied by sleepless nights and moments of wild panic. Flop sweat sucks.
Anyone else see where I’m going with this?
Barack Obama couldn’t possibly have lived up to the expectations placed upon him, which makes the fact that he’s in over his head all that much worse. His lashing out over resistance to his wretched stimulus bill is childish and silly. According to him, we will never recover economically unless this bill passes. Never! That’s an absurd statement on its face, and it also ignores the fact that there is next to nothing in this bill that is stimulative.
Recessions end. Even depressions end. The question isn’t if, it’s when. It’s a lot harder to shorten them than it is to prolong them, and a trillion dollars worth of pork isn’t going to shorten anything. Amity Shlaes’ masterwork The Forgotten Man demonstrates just how much the expansion of government did to kill business incentives and deepen the Great Depression. For four elections, FDR was able to blame Herbert Hoover for the nation’s woes, even during the “Depression within the Depression” of the late 1930s. How long will Obama be able to blame George W. Bush for everything? I don’t know. It depends how bad things get, as well as how many times Obama falls short of fixing things.
The one component of this that is startling to me is just how broadly Obama misread his mandate. He rejected calls from House Republicans to cut taxes, on the grounds that the American people rejected that idea at the polls this November. Really? Obama promised to cut taxes for 95% of all Americans. Now he’s only cutting taxes for people who don’t pay taxes. That’s a boon to his Treasury secretary, I guess, but it demonstrates the fact that he never believed his own bullcrap.
Obama, for all his post partisan blather, is proving to be a remarkably leftist president. This is not a remarkably leftist nation. As the incongruity between Obama’s rhetoric and his results continues to grow, as I believe it will, a lot of people are going to realize that no matter how much the Emperor works out, he still looks silly without any clothes on.
The flop sweat is beading up on his forehead even as we speak.
I vividly recall when I took over the Pink Garter Theatre in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and had to pretend that I had the first clue about what I was doing. I didn’t. And it didn’t take very long for people to find out that I didn’t. The result was that that first theatre season was a steady stream of misfires and mistakes, accompanied by sleepless nights and moments of wild panic. Flop sweat sucks.
Anyone else see where I’m going with this?
Barack Obama couldn’t possibly have lived up to the expectations placed upon him, which makes the fact that he’s in over his head all that much worse. His lashing out over resistance to his wretched stimulus bill is childish and silly. According to him, we will never recover economically unless this bill passes. Never! That’s an absurd statement on its face, and it also ignores the fact that there is next to nothing in this bill that is stimulative.
Recessions end. Even depressions end. The question isn’t if, it’s when. It’s a lot harder to shorten them than it is to prolong them, and a trillion dollars worth of pork isn’t going to shorten anything. Amity Shlaes’ masterwork The Forgotten Man demonstrates just how much the expansion of government did to kill business incentives and deepen the Great Depression. For four elections, FDR was able to blame Herbert Hoover for the nation’s woes, even during the “Depression within the Depression” of the late 1930s. How long will Obama be able to blame George W. Bush for everything? I don’t know. It depends how bad things get, as well as how many times Obama falls short of fixing things.
The one component of this that is startling to me is just how broadly Obama misread his mandate. He rejected calls from House Republicans to cut taxes, on the grounds that the American people rejected that idea at the polls this November. Really? Obama promised to cut taxes for 95% of all Americans. Now he’s only cutting taxes for people who don’t pay taxes. That’s a boon to his Treasury secretary, I guess, but it demonstrates the fact that he never believed his own bullcrap.
Obama, for all his post partisan blather, is proving to be a remarkably leftist president. This is not a remarkably leftist nation. As the incongruity between Obama’s rhetoric and his results continues to grow, as I believe it will, a lot of people are going to realize that no matter how much the Emperor works out, he still looks silly without any clothes on.
The flop sweat is beading up on his forehead even as we speak.
posted by Elder Samuel Bennett | 1:54 PM
9 Comments:
Yeah!!!
The guy has had 15 days (17 if he wasn't so lazy and worked on Sundays) to resolve the biggest economic disaster since the Great Depression.
Why hasn't he accomplished a full recovery for the nation yet?
He should resign in disgrace. Or maybe he could call George W Bush and get some good advice on what to do.
If only McCain had won the election everything would be okay by now!!!
Rush urged everyone to hope for failure! Time to support Rush's efforts.
LOL,
POUNDS
I don't think he should resign in disgrace. He hasn't done anything criminal; he's just flailing about like someone who's in over his head.
McCain would be worse in his own way, because he would know exactly what to do, and he'd be exactly wrong.
I'm just ticked they're still talking about it. Dad had to miss his flight, and the baptism. Boo. BOO!
Buyer's remorse will be setting in soon, if it hasn't already...
The Democrats are making the same mistake the Republicans made after GWB was elected the 2nd time and they attempted to spend his "political capital" on Social Security reform. They mistook a win for a landslide mandate, and now are trying to ram through their pet projects under cover of a stimulus pkg. You can already sense the backlash building, although I'm sure the "progressives" will blame it on right-wing talk show host inflaming the masses (which will lead to reintroduction of the Fairness Doctrine for debate). People are not stupid, no matter what Pelosi and Reid think.
To be honest, I think the Dems sold Obama down the river on this one, and he had no idea the junk they'd throw into it. Now, he either has to call them out on it and risk alienating the Dem portion of congress or tow the hard line and deal with the backlash from everybody else. Let's see if he really has the courage he professes in this post-partisan USA.
Does the humbled SC anticipate getting into any more sweaty flop situations in the future?
Barry O's approval rating plummets to 37%
http://buzz.yahoo.com/article/1:ee87b4ea593ce4c0f89f34fe6bb36070:ce8336f66682810098dc9622be7dcb15?usc=1
Ha! What a dumb ass.
While Barry O's theatrics have been inartful--to put it mildly--don't write him off too quickly. He is a quick learner, AND he still looks to get something like 800 billion dollars worth of goodies for his folks. That's not too bad for a pol.
I think we're going to see a lot of this because the Democrats have such a wide lead in both houses of Congress that they have to take what they can get before 2010 brings it all to an end. Expect more arguments along the lines of "We won, F*** you" for the next 20 or so months.
Pelosi scares me more than Obama does. He's just green. He's smart though, left politics notwithstanding (although why are you surprised he's a lefty president? The man is more left than even the Clintons).
But Pelosi isn't green. She's just scary.
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