The latest poll numbers suggest that nearly 2/3 of Americans are opposed to the spending bill now being tweaked in the Senate. And for good reason, with most of the spending targeted for 2010 and beyond, and much of the spending going to earmarked pork projects in democrat districts, Americans have awakened from their stupor and are saying "NO" to more government debt.
And who is it that has educated the public to oppose this bill? Obama himself.
He railed against runaway spending during his campaign. He promised to take a scalpel to the budget. He talked about tax cuts to stimulate the economy. America was primed for this kind of change, and, as he continues to remind everybody, he won.
Then, once in office Obama railed against CEO's who ran their organizations into the ground. He belittled corporate leaders who risked the investments of their shareholders with reckless deficit spending.
He called them to accountability for failing to recognize the dangers in borrowing more money than they could repay, and for putting their stockholder's money at risk by investing in failing enterprises with a track record of being unable to repay their debts.
Obama taught us to be angry with these CEO's, and to ridicule them when, in the face of this crisis they spent borrowed money on their own luxuries, flew in private jets and in essence treated their stockholder's money as their own.
Then, like a slap in the face, we woke up. We began listening to him and looking to him for leadership. We agreed with what he was saying, but then suddenly we noticed that what he was preaching was not what he was practicing.
In fact what America is now seeing in Obama is America's CEO taking the most expensive private jet in the world (Air Force One) on an extravagant trip to an exclusive spa to meet with his board of directors (congressional democrats) to find a way to mortgage America's future and to take this borrowed money and invest it in failed enterprises with a track record of being unable to repay their debts.
Along the way, the borrowed money is also going to buy luxuries (earmarks) for the board (congress). He has in fact now began to threaten political warfare instead of bipartisanship unless the Senate authorizes him to risk the investments of the shareholders of this nation (you and me) by engaging in a level of deficit spending that eclipses all prior deficit spending in the history of the world.
Right now the only urgency is being felt by Obama, whose political capital has been rendered as worthless as a Bernie Madoff investment by his own ineptitude, abandonment of the principles by which he claims to have been elected, and by allowing himself to be shoved around the circle by Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner.
Once in office Obama has embraced the exact same policies he campaigned against, and continues to speak out against. The problem is that this kind of performance indicates the strong possibility that he suffers from severe mental confusion.
He does fine on the rope line, he flashes a big smile, but winning the Mr. America competition should require more than looking good in the swim suit and evening gown competition. There has to be a brain inside that pretty little head and so far the one Obama is exhibiting seems to belong to an old stoner.
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Posted by: Wayne from Jeremiah Films | February 06, 2009 at 02:05 PM