Cradle to the Grave Spending

The President really should have been beating his chest, he was so proud of his huge government, huge-spending plan to socialize America. Right now he's telling you exactly how (well not exactly how, cause he and the Congress will slip crap into bills to legalize them) he's going to "change" the country in the image of the far-left's socialistic/communistic shangra-la. We can't say we didn't see this coming. But nobody stood up to stop him. People tried they will say, but ultimately they were discredited in the eyes of the public and shunned. Funny, now that he's actually in the White House, he's talking an awful lot about specifics.

He sure did point the finger at the Republican side of the chamber though, didn't he? That and his shot at Rush Limbaugh. And was it just me, but was there something different about the way Biden and Pelosi were shot last night. Was it the camera angle? Because they seemed to be at, shall I say a more predominant, or more prevalent presence. Nancy Pelosi seemed to be in your face. Like she and the President are at the same level of prominence, the same level of importance. Even more than Biden. And once again, her blinking...I couldn't look away.
I think Bill Clinton may have had his message sink in because the President seemed to do away with the total "doom and gloom" attitude.

Why am I picturing Al Gore and his infamous "HE PRAYED ON OUR FEARS!" freak-out?

She sure seemed a lot more smug than usual, smirk and all, instead of that sower-puss she wore when Bush was speaking.
The Dem side of the chamber clearly loved taking every little word Obama used to let the people know that he isn't to blame for any of this, and that the Republicans are the ones who should play nice, and that they are the only ones at fault-for everything, then howl in compliance and a false sense of righteousness every time the President gave them an opportunity. Let's hear it for the power.

But regardless, what did you expect from a man who did nothing before he became an Illinois State senator, never made a decision (other than not to make a decision) has no experience, yet was anointed President of the United States. But, even before all of that he felt obligated to write two memoirs, with one having the word audacity in the title. Indeed.

This speech, in the eyes of the Democrats, was everything all the commentators (even the ones saying "My God" into an open mic on MSNBC before Bobby Jindal's republican response) said it was. It seemed to be sold as an attempt (in these oh, so hard times) to be "thrilling," "inspiring," "exhilarating," "uplifting," "life-changing," and all the rest of the swooning words that I've heard after the speech. From every loony liberal from Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews to Rachael Maddow and Joy Behar (along with every far-gone celebrity in Hollyweird)

But what happens when these union-only jobs end? What happens to all these short-term jobs like fixing highways, building bridges and parks end? O.k, so the union members (thus the union) made some money. What then? Where, all of a sudden, do these 3.5 million (so called) jobs go?
And I won't even go into the Michael Moore school of false Cuba-like medicine that the "Rules for Radicals" scholar that is the President, is a follower and imposer of.

And for the love of Peter, I still heard a lot of chastising of the Republicans for not blindly playing along, a whole lot of talk of spending, claiming it was the answer and everything will be fine because of it. But still, where is the stimulation? Seriously? He made it sound like all those billions is going to help, but he's assuming all the money given to the states governors is going to be spent wisely, if not criminally.
All that comforting rhetoric won't change the fact that this banking on stimulating the economy from "the bottom up," is probably not going to be as effective as they might have wished.

But, I tell ya, he sure seemed nice and oh, was he so, so sincere. As the San Francisco Chronicle said, he was "sober and sunny." Aww.