Obama: the cycle of “Change”

February 18th, 2009 admin

There was never much hope among the educated that the Obama administration would do much for the cause of freedom, save for adopting a slightly more sane medical marijuana policy, considering ending the abortion of a war in Iraq, and closing Gitmo.  That said, such immediate idiocy of Obama & Co. is a bit of surprise. Both of the nations two remaining fiscal conservatives had predicted that the new President would delay the implementation of Marxist moronity until summer.

There was no time, the then President-elect explained as he readied for phase one of Operation Outspend Bush even as the echoes of his own voice blaming Bush’s spending record for the economic woes America faces were still audible.

In fairness, it takes a brave soul filled with self-confidence, and equally assured of public complacency to even attempt a feat as far-reaching and dangerous as outsquandering Bush the lesser.  Mr. Obama, apparently feels up to the task.

Beyond the dual absurdities of calling for abject socialism without limit, and the championing of the heretofore veiled and sanitized concept that government can do limitless good if given limitless power, comrade Obama is now performing his Disaster-is-Necessary trapeze act without a net, making real decisions rather than paper ones. This first of many colossal blunders-in-waiting (as recognized by everyone without a government job) has been relegated to fail-safe by Mr. Obama’s economic advisers, who, judging by their obtuse refusal to accept plain economic realities, likely doubt gravity and a heliocentric galaxy, as well.

Passing billions of newly-printed dollars through the extraordinarily greedy and inefficient hands of the state before watching as the remnants are gifted to companies helmed by those too stupid to turn a profit, we are told will magically “stimulate” an economy choked out of consciousness by government itself.   This is the plan conceived by the Godlike agent of change.  Excuse me, waiter, I ordered the change.

I loathed Bill Clinton in a way that defied explanation.  But George W. Bush made me long for the days of the sexually frustrated and Teflon-coated Bubba.  I hated Herr Bush with a passion usually reserved for 20th century tyrants from other hemispheres.  But I may miss him yet.

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