Sunday, May 17, 2009

Oh My You Could Imagine

For all you "hope and changelings" these are the best of times and the worst of times. For those who understand history it is certainly not the best of times, but fortunately for you its the best of times. Can you spell socialism? Unless of course you are paying attention to the drift away from those wonderful campaign promises.

Early on we had the ... we will not torture ... quietly though ... we will create a commission to study how to torture within the law.

Who can forget those wonderful words ... we will close Gitmo in twelve months. Right after we first have to figure out where to put the bad guys. Europe who complained about Bush, now says ... we do not want those bad people. Don't worry Congress ... particularly the Democrats want to close that bad place. Surprise, every Congressman and Senator has said ... sure do it ... just don't put them in my backyard. Liberal outrage against the injustice is not as loud as "I need to get reelected so don't upset my voters".

This administration will be open and transparent. The loud public announcement, we will hand out those gruesome pictures to satiate the ACLU's lust for torture victims pictures. Except, oh, maybe not because it might endanger our troops. You say thoughtful, I say a year ago, you were yelling at the Bush Administration for blocking the public's right to see all.

Of course, we can not forget the "I am a friend of Israel without question" that was such a wonderful campaign tune. It only runs on conflict with "I want the Muslim world to love me like no other". Well, when Bibi comes to town on Monday, Obama can make a long list of what Israel must do for peace. Then when Abbas and the other Arab leaders come in the following weeks, Obama can tell them what Israel will do and wait for their thank you because we know there will be no similar demands upon them because "what can you expect from Arabs?"

And of course, we can all remember, the fiscal discipline promise. California's pay attention. California about to go bankrupt structures a deal to balance the $42B deficit caused by Republicans spending when they said they would save. Okay, they are politicians. So, among their cuts is $74M in compensation to the home health care workers. Imagine that cutting compensation! Well, the home health care workers union remembered the campaign promises of the man they helped get elected. So, they make a phone call to the White House outlining their problem. So, without hesitation, the White House hung up the phone and called the Terminator. See Mr. Terminator, we know you have a fiscal crisis on your hands. We know you are asking everyone to sacrifice. You are raising taxes and cutting spending. It is a novel idea that cutting spending. How did you ever think up the idea of raising taxes on all citizens and not just the excessively wealthy? Well, we salute your efforts. Oh by the way, if you do not give our friends back their $74M we will be forced by the laws of one hand washing the other to not give you that check for $6.8B in stimulus money we promised you.

And of course, there were all those Bush era threats to do harm to their enemies. Well, Obama is not about to let that philosophy be discontinued. Seems the hedge fund guys did not like the Chrysler deal. Seems hard as it is to imagine, that the deal favored the UAW over all other creditors. So, the hedge fund guys tried to hold up the deal. Well, the White House made a call to those bad people and said ... go along or we will destroy you!

Imagine that from the Hope and Change Guys!

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