An Illusory Brilliance: The Swan Lake of Liberal Stumble

Conservative Refocus ^ | 12/23/2010 | Barry Secrest

[Barry Secrest]

The White House recently announced that Rock Star Jon Bon Jovi had been appointed to Obama's Community Solutions program. Bon Jovi responded by saying that he was "honored to have been selected by the President to serve on the newly created White House Council for community solutions." To which we must point out--only the ever brilliant Obama could actually choose a Star best known for a song called "Living On A Prayer" to represent his economically clueless Administration. This, therefore, leads us into a the storyline for this week that has largely been missing in public discourse.

In fact, one of the most satisfying, if not endearing, spectacles for many Americans in the year of our Lord, 2010, had to have been witnessing Senator Harry Reid, lips all a quiver, hands and voice shaking, grudgingly retracting his gargantuan Omnibus spending bill from the floor of the Senate. While many might make fun of John Boehner's attempts at stifling his very honest and rather patriotic emotional outbursts , Reid's journey into nearly tearful authoritarian spite in front of the entire world was a thing of beauty to behold.

[Barry Secrest]

When we look at just a few of the many major undertakings of the Obama Administration and his busy little Congressional elves,none of these have actually turned out very well, despite the fact that they have been crowed about as brilliant by members of the Media and the Liberal Logheads and a number of even Conservative Pundits: