Posted by
Tomás Aquinas on Thursday, July 23, 2009 5:31:21 PM
Yep. That's what The Obamessiah says. That's why we have to get his Obamacare signed right now. Boldly and quickly.
Next time I go for a colonoscopy, will it be with a government-assigned astrologer?
Will
I have Sistah Cleo shoving a tube up my poop chute, aligning those stars I
usually see when undergoing that wonderful process every five years?
Will I even be able to get a colonoscopy? Or will it be too much money
to waste on a curmudgeonly old fart that ain't gonna vote for The One
no matter what?
Obama got up there in front of the country on
the telly and prattled on, and said nothing. It was his usual smooth,
glib, smoke and mirrors.
Here's one:
He
rejected the notion that his administration only wants to "spend and
spend." In an odd boast, the president said his administration has
already reduced the 10-year deficit projection from $9.3 trillion to
$7.1 trillion.
"An odd boast"? Are you kidding? This
guy keeps bringing up those ten year projections like he's going to be
around then. Is he going to take a cue from The Honduran or The
Venezualan, both pals of his, and simply appoint himself Leader for
Life? Besides ... he can't support that statement. Worse, none of the
fawning, simpering panderers of the press even questioned that statement.
Or any other, for that matter.
Then The One popped this jewel:
"You haven't seen me out there blaming the Republicans."
Really? How about this:
"Now,
that's not good, but it's $2.2 trillion less than it would have been if
we had the same policies in place when we came in," Obama said, blaming
the Bush administration for the scope of the deficit.
Got
news for ya, brutha Prez ... it ain't Bush's fault any more. Wake up,
take a wander to the Rose Garden, and take a whiff. It's your bag,
dude. And check out his opening statement, where he wields the tar
brush mightily:
"I've heard
that one Republican strategist told his party that even though they may
want to compromise, it's better politics to 'go for the kill.' Another
Republican senator said that defeating health reform is about
'breaking' me."
So it's personal now, is it?
Speaking
of blaming Bush and the Repubs ... American GI's are checking out in
Afghanistan in increasing numbers. That's not Bush's deal either. The
One has bought into Afghanistan. That's his bag, too. No hard question
from the fawning, simpering, panderers of the press on that one, either.
Meanwhile,
Obama has already concluded his own investigation into the Cambridge
Po-Po dustup over Henry Gates, the black Harvard professor. He has
determined that the Cambridge police "acted stupidly". Maybe they did.
But the mayor of Cambridge - black female, BTW - has said she doesn't
have enough facts yet to make that determination. You gotta remember,
the cops were responding to a break-in in progress call, wherein the
suspect(s) was/were described as black men. And Gates was being less
than cooperative. Maybe that was because the cops were being jerks.
Could be. Who knows? Apparently, only Obama. And perhaps Jetstream
Jackson and Al "Jewbaiter" Sharpton.
We're poised to blow
another trillion-and-a-half, but not really, because "Smoke and
Mirrors" Obama tells us he's really reducing the deficit.
Meanwhile, I have an appointment with Sistah Cleo, up at AVRMC.