A WTH Day!

Driving down 95 today, saw a bumper sticker that just about made me hurl my chic filet (they have the best cole slaw btw)!

What did it say, you ask?

SAVED EMBRYO ON BOARD

I don’t think I’ll let you in on what thoughts were running through my mind when I read that, but suffice it to say they weren’t kind!

Also, just read some stuff and politicians are losing their friggin minds!

Pat Buchanan, has he gone off the deep end or what? He is living in the fifties. He is a shameful bigoted person.

Gorilla Glue???? Give em Hell Zell ought to go to hell!

And to top it off a mix of racism and abortion, enough to make you want to bang your head against the wall! Don’t even bother adding in the fact that this guy thinks Obama and Clarence Thomas represent some of the greatest minds ever to have lived.

What planet am I living on??? Obama used race to divide and accused Hillary and Bill of racism which was reprehensible, and this garbage that I read today is also reprehensible. This is racism pure and simple. And it really makes me very angry. All of them and their small bigoted minds – SUCK!

Krugman Unleashed: Obama Administration Has Made Another Financial Crisis More Likely

Cross posted at Katalusis

Paul Krugman has gone easy on the Obama Administration in the past several weeks with only mild criticism and soft-pedaled warnings about the ongoing financial crisis. But record profits just reported by Goldman Sachs have set the Nobel-prize winning economist off this morning. In today’s NY Times op-ed, Krugman writes:

The American economy remains in dire straits, with one worker in six unemployed or underemployed. Yet Goldman Sachs just reported record quarterly profits — and it’s preparing to hand out huge bonuses, comparable to what it was paying before the crisis. What does this contrast tell us?

First, it tells us that Goldman is very good at what it does. Unfortunately, what it does is bad for America.

Second, it shows that Wall Street’s bad habits — above all, the system of compensation that helped cause the financial crisis — have not gone away.

Third, it shows that by rescuing the financial system without reforming it, Washington {the Obama Administration} has done nothing to protect us from a new crisis, and, in fact, has made another crisis more likely.

If you can stand to read more, go here.

Morning Widdershins: DO WE REALLY NEED AN OVAL OFFICE?

Obama "On Duty:" Hanging with Willie Mays, Flying Air Force One

The MSM and the pundits are at work once again making every effort to impress us with the “superiority” of President Barack Obama. It was bad enough having to slog through the glowing texts and commentary that was offered during the primaries and leading up to the election, but if it were possible I would like to issue a cease and desist order going forward. Give it a rest for once! I get it. He is “cool”.

What I don’t get is this approach to governing. It was not that long ago that we chided the then Commander in Chief for his frequent vacations to Crawford where he was involved in an almost never ending battle to clear the brush from the “ranch” while the nation was being plundered and his war delivered the bodies of young soldiers home for burial in the dead of night. We waited anxiously, counting the days when we would see the back of this disengaged fool while expecting a more” hands on” executive to steer the course of the nation back onto firmer footing. Instead we get a series of unknown “czars” doing much of the heavy lifting.

What we seem to have gained as a replacement is a more polished version of disengagement. For the past six months of this new administration we have seen and heard more from the current occupant as he whisks from place to place, press in tow, cameras recording every movement. His almost daily appearances before the camera is designed to make us believe he is busy working out the problems that beset us. His speeches are either an admonition or a term paper prepared by a student outlining the situation.

Knowing that most of his speeches are written by others, one has to ask just how much time and effort he himself has put into crafting these messages when it is clear he spends as little time as possible in the Oval Office itself.
He has traveled throughout the country making “campaign stops” along the way in the presence of a handpicked audience much the same as W did back in the day. Supporters are yanked from the crowd with prepared questions all recorded specifically in time for the 6pm broadcast. This is another photo op reinforcing the image that your president is hard at work on your behalf and hey, isn’t he terrific handling those questions and looking “cool” under pressure?  Puleeze!

If not flying all over the world, we are treated to those adorable “date nights”, play time with the dog, the proud parent at a kid’s soccer game, “spontaneous” burger lunches, sporting events, including the latest trip to St. Louis where he sat in the booth and offered “color” during the game. His face is plastered all over magazine covers and he is able to sit for hours with friendly newscasters giving “exclusive” interviews which are then turned into hourly programs designed for ratings.

Remember, this is the same guy who could not find the time to meet with injured soldiers in Germany when he was overseas last year parading his “wonderfulness” to the European community. The same guy who was unable to attend an event honoring Martin Luther King. The same guy who casually blew off the British Prime Minister during his state visit. The same guy who was unable to work into his “tight schedule” a photo op with the mayor of San Francisco for fear of appearing too friendly toward the gay communityWhere does he find the time? I mean for the Oval Office. From my perch, I see him doing little work beyond having his picture taken and reading text from a teleprompter that you know has been crafted by someone else.

It appears that Emanuel and Axelrod are handling foreign policy, Nancy and Harry are pushing through whatever they choose on the domestic front, Geitner is sending taxpayer money to the Wall Street geniuses, and Gibbs is playing doorkeeper.

While greedy lobbyists from all industries write and rewrite our current policies, and the congress critters fight over the spoils, our vaunted leader has assumed the role of top salesman for a continual infomercial in selling the nation a questionable bill of goods.

Spare me the glitz and glamour. Spare me the unending and unearned praise. Show me a president who is actively engaged for once and not some “cool dude” with an easy smile and a pocketful of platitudes. Those ridiculous comparisons to FDR, JFK, and MLK are wearing thin when it becomes more apparent each day that we have a classier version of the “Super Shammy” guy engaged in the selling of himself. Park the plane and stay put for awhile.

I expected more than a glossy version of Will Smith playing a role. I sort of expected some degree of leadership to emerge after 8 years of what went before. Spare me the “cool” and give me some “busy” for once. There must be somebody within the walls of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue who has the directions the Oval Office if asked.

Obama, won’t you please come home?