The State Of Dis-Union
Women and children first.
Captain Hope E. Changey delivered his first State of the Union address last night and basically gave a pep talk to all the terrified passengers who are scrambling for the rail of the severely listing USS Obama. Don’t panic, was his message, I’m still in control here. Unfortunately that is exactly why so many of his once ardent admirers are now looking for a new Messiah. Or at least a way to save their own skin while this captain goes down with his socialist ship into the turbulent and icy waters of public disapproval.
The president once again tried to tie his failures to the previous administration, laying out the deficit and unemployment numbers he was faced with on day one of his reign. He brought up the debt incurred by “fighting two wars” and also erroneously claimed the Bush tax cuts were responsible for the current deficit. The problem with the Democrats continuing to hang onto that “last 8 years” mentality is that if my memory serves me correctly George W. Bush got reelected during that time, fighting two wars and cutting taxes. Both of those issues were hammered repeatedly by his then opponent John Kerry who, having been soundly defeated by the voters, has since been sent back into both obscurity and the Botox Club waiting room.
The other problem with the Obama approach is that just hours after he arrived in Washington as a US Senator he began to campaign for the job he now holds. That campaign spanned two full years plus during which time he constantly beat the deficit drum claiming the Bush deficit would bankrupt the country. The American voters are not necessarily outraged that he has not eliminated the old deficit but rather that he has tripled it in less than a year. There was, of course, no reasonable explanation for those inconvenient mathematical truths other than to once again use magic numbers to create a deceptive figure of ambiguous heritage regarding the jobs supposedly saved by the hundreds of millions spent on rehabbing the habitat of the California jumping blue tit mouse and installing tattoo removal machines on the gang riddled streets of L.A..
"Somewhere along the line, the White House lost its way. Instead of focusing on solutions to help America’s families wade through the wreckage of the worst economic crisis since the 1930s, Washington has wasted valuable time wrestling with partisan politics in an effort to rush through drastic reforms that do not directly address our most immediate needs."
That quote is not part of the Republican response to the president’s address. No, that quote comes from Democrat Congressman Ike Skelton of Missouri. Skelton added: "The president’s address has lent us all hope – hope that the administration is finally heeding our concerns. It’s about time." The comments of Skelton and other Democrats puts the exclamation point at the end of the sentence that reads – Things are not going well in the land of Pelosi and Reid!
Congressional Democrats are scared, as is their less than fearless leader Barack Obama, who displayed his concern by chiding Republicans to not use their newly elected vote in the Senate to thwart his agenda. An agenda so fraught with untenable spending and oppressive government restrictions that he was unable to accomplish it even when he had filibuster proof rubber stamp.
But the most telling moment for me came when the president scolded the US Supreme Court for their recent ruling on corporate campaign spending. With all the Justices seated right in front of him this say anything community activist qua president was caught in yet another bold faced lie when he claimed their ruling would allow even foreign companies to spend on campaigns without limits. "With all due deference to the separation of powers," he said, the Supreme Court last week "reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests – including foreign corporations – to spend without limit in our elections."
Well, with all due deference Mr. President, if you’re going to lie about what somebody actually did it would be best of you did it without them sitting there on camera to reply “simply not true” as was done by an obviously perturbed Justice Samuel Alito.
No Mr. President, with all due deference, the Supreme Court acts in accordance with the U.S. Constitution.
You might want to try it sometime.
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