|
I used to have an uncle, (he died some years ago,) who was a nasty drunk like this guy. And my late uncle didn't sound drunk. He just was a mean drunk.
It's been a good week in politics.
1. Obama opens his first formal press conference with a rambling ten-minute statement he read from a teleprompter. Has any president before now used a teleprompter during a press conference? After taking the first question, Obama goes off on a rambling 12-minute response that didn't answer the question. Obama finishes the rambling response with "OK?" as if he himself was not sure what he had just said. Unlike GW, who was known for being generous with follow-up questions, Obama grants not one.
2. Timothy Geithner, Oabama's tax-cheating Treasury Secretary, holds a press conference to explain the details of the Pelosi/Reid pork package. His explanation is so bizarre, rambling and lacking in detail that the stock market tanked to the tune of 400 points after he spoke. Some vote of confidence, eh?
3. Obama received the largest popular mandate of any democrat since LBJ in 1964, but instead of using this mandate to fashion "targeted, temporary and timely" stimulus measures he promised during the campaign, Obama turns this legislation over to the insane clown posse that runs congress. Before this bloated pork bill is finished, Harry Reid goes before the cameras to say that House and Senate differences in the bill had been smoothed out, which infuriates Nancy Pelosi because apparently they had not been smoothed out at all. What is emerging from this clown posse is a trillion dollar sop to every wacked-out leftie special interest group out there, not the least of which are corrupt uinions and ACORN.
4. Judd Gregg, a Republican universally respected in DC, walks away from his nomination as Commerce Secretary. This is the single Obama nomination that failed not because of scandal but because of principle. Gregg said that Obama's dangerous decision to move the Census Bureau to the chief of staff's office prompted his withdrawal. We are moving quickly from a presidency that stumbled out of the staring blocks to a failed presidency. We are not yet a month in.
5. The democrat Senate approves William Lynn, a lobbyist for the Raytheon company, as Obama's Assistant Secretary of Defense. Obama promised to close the revolving door between lobbyists and government. Oh well, so much for that promise, eh?
|