How loud do the alarms have to get? There is an economic emergency in the country with millions upon millions of Americans riddled with fear and anxiety as they struggle with long-term joblessness, home foreclosures, personal bankruptcies and dwindling opportunities for themselves and their children.
The door is being slammed on the American dream and the politicians, including the president and his Democratic allies on Capitol Hill, seem not just helpless to deal with the crisis, but completely out of touch with the hardships that have fallen on so many.
While the nation was suffering through the worst economy since the Depression, the Democrats wasted a year squabbling like unruly toddlers over health insurance legislation. No one in his or her right mind could have believed that a workable, efficient, cost-effective system could come out of the monstrously ugly plan that finally emerged from the Senate after long months of shady alliances, disgraceful back-room deals, outlandish payoffs and abject capitulation to the insurance companies and giant pharmaceutical outfits.
The public interest? Forget about it.
Wait…Herbert’s complaining about Team Lightbringer’s obsession with health care while basically ignoring out of control unemployment? He condemns the Democrats in Washington for their lack of transparency and the fact that they’re ignoring what’s best for the citizens while plowing ahead with the president’s vanity project?
What is this guy, a FREAKIN’ TEABAGGER?
This is a truly historic moment as it marks the first time in two years that a New York Times Opinion page article was typed without the author’s lips being affixed to Barack Obama’s ass.
This outrage from those who used to be drunk on Hope and Change is pathetically predictable. The things that the president is doing to disappoint now were all evident to anyone who didn’t buy a ticket to the Cult of Personality Extravaganza back in 2008. What we’re seeing now are manifestations of Obama’s pathological narcissism and complete unpreparedness for the job, both of which were more than apparent to a lot of us back in the day. A year into it, he’s still as unprepared as ever. Why? Because his narcissism prevents him from making a critical assessment of his actions. He just blames Bush and schedules a town hall road trip so he can be soothed by the sound of his own voice.
Democrats have been twisting themselves in knots to make excuses for the president’s ineptitude to this point. Almost all of the excuses have involved the nefarious deeds of the “Just say no!” Republicans.
The bloom is WAY off this rose now, however. When the New York Times Opinion Page begins to echo a lot of what all of us crazy bitter-clinger tea party people were saying last summer while dragging down the tone of American political discourse it might be time to peek around for a flaw or two with the historic president.
Or they can just keep pretending. I seem to remember that was a plank in the Democratic party platform at the 2008 convention.
It doesn’t matter what the NYT says. zero did this by design. They are destroying the middle class on purpose. Then poof, serfdom.