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A failure to act, and act now, will turn crisis into a catastrophe." - President Obama, Feb. 4.
Catastrophe, mind you. So much for the president who in his inaugural address two weeks earlier declared "we have chosen hope over fear." Until, that is, you need fear to pass a bill.
And so much for the promise to banish the money changers and influence peddlers from the temple. An ostentatious executive order banning lobbyists was immediately followed by the nomination of at least a dozen current or former lobbyists to high position. Followed by a Treasury secretary who allegedly couldn't understand the payroll tax provisions in his 1040.
Followed by Tom Daschle, who had to fall on his sword according to the new Washington rule that no Cabinet can have more than one tax delinquent.
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After Obama's miraculous 2008 presidential campaign, it was clear that at some point the magical mystery tour would have to end. The nation would rub its eyes and begin to emerge from its reverie. The hallucinatory Obama would give way to the mere mortal. The great ethical transformations promised would be seen as a fairy tale that all presidents tell - and that this president told better than anyone.
I thought the awakening would take six months. It took two and a half weeks.
click on the link to read the full article...what I posted were just a few things out of a longer article.
I am a support of our President and do not like his selection of cabinet except for environment and energy. I think he could have done better with a random selection of professionals from anywhere but Wash DC. This might have avoided having his administration infected by insiders.
A failure to act, and act now, will turn crisis into a catastrophe." - President Obama, Feb. 4.
Catastrophe, mind you. So much for the president who in his inaugural address two weeks earlier declared "we have chosen hope over fear." Until, that is, you need fear to pass a bill.
And so much for the promise to banish the money changers and influence peddlers from the temple. An ostentatious executive order banning lobbyists was immediately followed by the nomination of at least a dozen current or former lobbyists to high position. Followed by a Treasury secretary who allegedly couldn't understand the payroll tax provisions in his 1040.
Followed by Tom Daschle, who had to fall on his sword according to the new Washington rule that no Cabinet can have more than one tax delinquent.
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After Obama's miraculous 2008 presidential campaign, it was clear that at some point the magical mystery tour would have to end. The nation would rub its eyes and begin to emerge from its reverie. The hallucinatory Obama would give way to the mere mortal. The great ethical transformations promised would be seen as a fairy tale that all presidents tell - and that this president told better than anyone.
I thought the awakening would take six months. It took two and a half weeks.
click on the link to read the full article...what I posted were just a few things out of a longer article.
I am a support of our President and do not like his selection of cabinet except for environment and energy. I think he could have done better with a random selection of professionals from anywhere but Wash DC. This might have avoided having his administration infected by insiders.
Yes, the malaise of that infection, I have termed Virulent Smarm.
At the Government lab where I worked, the scientists used to remark that flesh eating bacteria was the dumbest bacteria ever found - because it was so aggressive that it would kill the host too quickly for the host to transport it to another host for creation, or continuation, of a host reservoir. All other bacteria maintain a reservoir.
It wipes out the host by its greed, which then causes its own demise.
(George Bush Regime?)
And then, inexplicitly, it reappears out of nowhere.
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The Age of Obama
