The Real You At Last

I’ve been hold off commenting on “The Debt Crisis” because it changed minute by minute. One minute it looked like Boehner and the Republicans would prevail with their plan of pushing every old person off of a cliff. The next minute, it looked like Reid and the Democrats would win with their- Meg Ryan- in- “When Harry Met Sally”- glee of a possible new tax. “Oh, new…revenues..oh yes…yes, VALUE ADDED TAX! YES! YES! YES!”

In the end, it was all very complicated. In the middle was President Wonderful and his increasingly irrelevant Presidency. He came up with a brilliant culprit: businessman who ride in private jets.

If we could just get those rat finks to pay up, we could probably get that there health insurance for every ‘Merican and maybe a light rail, too.

It would have been okay to mention it every now and then, but it seemed like the President mentioned it in every sentence of the day because he was the only person who could analyze this and present the balanced approach. The balance approach featured, in my favorite phrase of the Obama Administration, “a tax increase on the wealthiest among us, the millionaires and billionaires.”

The problem was the President and his team consider “Millionaires and Billionaires” to be couples making $250k and over. They never explained why $250k is “wealthy” while $249K is not. That is because they pulled it out of their political rear ends.

In an attempt to prove to the country that he was doing something Presidential, (like for example: leading), the President gave one of the most bizarre Presidential speeches since President Carter’s “Malaise” speech. The President gave, for the umpteenth time, his assertion that his was the only balanced approach. He called for new revenues. The only problem was Senator Reid (who is as much to blame for the Obama Presidency as anybody) had already dropped any new revenues from his plan. That left Obama arguing for a plan that did not exist anywhere except in Obama Land.

We really shouldn’t blame Obama, bless his heart. He had a thin resume. There was nothing in his professional background that would even lend anyone to think that this is a guy who can bring opposing parties together. Obama is what he is: a garden variety liberal Democrat.

Peggy Noonan wrote, “He (Obama) revealed that his foes have given him too much mystique”. I’ll say. When has he last given a memorable speech? 2004? Were we just too tired of the tongue tied Bush to think that just because Obama could link a noun to a verb that he was Winston Churchill?

Noonan concludes by saying: “He is not a devil, an alien, a socialist. He is a loser. And this is America, where nobody loves a loser.” I’m not sure he is a loser. He sure is over-rated. He is like the trade for the speedy center fielder that doesn’t work out. He is the draft pick that is a bust in camp. He’s brings nothing to the table because he has nothing to bring. We’re seeing the real Obama at last, and it is not Presidential.