Mark Steyn: It's all bumps, no road in Obamaville

Orange County Register ^ | 6/10/11 | Mark Steyn

[passionfruit]

"There are always going to be bumps on the road to recovery,'' President Obama said at a Jeep plant in Toledo the other day. "We're going to pass through some rough terrain that even a Wrangler would have a tough time with.'' His audience booed. They're un-fire-able union members with lavish benefits, and even they weary of the glib lines from his 12-year-old speechwriters.

We're not on the road to recovery. You can't get there from here, as they say. Obama was in Toledo to "celebrate" the sale of the government's remaining stake in Chrysler to Fiat. That's "Fiat" as in the Italian car manufacturer rather than "an authoritative or arbitrary decree (from the Latin 'let it be done')," which would be almost too perfect a name for an Obamafied automobile. The Treasury crowed that Fiat had agreed to pay a whopping $560 million for the government's Chrysler shares. Article Tab : New Chet's Restaurant in Toledo, Ohio, will close its doors Sunday June 12, 2011, due to the economy and a smoking ban, the owners said. The restaurant, located near an auto plant, was mentioned briefly by President Obama in a speech to Jeep autoworkers during his recent visit to Toledo. Without you, who would eat at Chet's ... the President told the workers. New Chet's Restaurant in Toledo, Ohio, will close its doors Sunday June 12, 2011, due to the economy and a smoking ban, the owners said. The restaurant, located near an auto plant, was mentioned briefly by President Obama in a speech to Jeep autoworkers during his recent visit to Toledo. "Without you, who would eat at Chet's ..." the President told the workers.

Wow! 560 million smackeroos! If you laid them out end to end, they're equivalent to what the federal government borrows every...

[passionfruit]

Steyn at his finest!

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[Kartographer]

OBAMAVILLE

Gett’n a head fake,
watchin' msn’s take;
All of their pundits oozing foul oil.
Clean’n my six gun on my front porch swing.
Felling my blood--
It’s beginnin' to boil.

Wasted away again in Obamaville,
Searchin' for a job so I can earn my salt.
Some people claim that Bush is to blame,
But I know it's Obama’s fault.

There’s no rhyme or reason,
They are all commitin’ treason
With nothing to show but a brand new tax or two.
But they are real beauties,
Despotic duties, how they got passed
I haven't a clue.

Wasted away again in Obamaville,
Searchin' for a job so I can earn my salt.
Some people claim that it’s Bush we should blame,
Now I think,-- hell with them it’s Obama’s fault.

I blew out my flip flop,
Stepped on a pop top;
Cut my heel, but I just cruise on back home.
Because no medical care will the doctors render
They say there’s little service I can tender
And there’s no need for me to hang on.

Wasted away again in Obamaville
Searchin' for a job so I can earn my salt.
Some people claim that Bush is to blame,
But I know, it's my own damn fault.
Yes, and some people claim that Bush is to blame,
And I know because of my vote it's my own damn fault damn fault.

[Billthedrill]

An absolutely brilliant piece. BTT.

[definitelynotaliberal]

I so appreciate the President’s timing - making the comment about the eatery right before it closes, inviting Common to the White House the one week of the year that police forces across the country commemorate their fallen fellows, etc.. When he’s good, he’s oh-so-good.

[TwoSwords]

We’re all Irish, now.

[Lazlo in PA]

The latest is chief economic advisor Austan Goolsbee, the genius who in 2007, just before the subprime hit the fan, wrote in The New York Times that this exciting new form of home "ownership" was an "innovation" that had "opened doors to the excluded" and was part of an "incredible flowering of new types of home loans."

This Regime is so done if our candidates can muster the balls to point out these quotes to the public.

[passionfruit]

“We’re all Irish, now.”

And we’re living through an economic potato famine.

[TwoSwords]

He screams rebellion. I concur.

[JLS]

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Thanks for the heads up passionfruit.

[Vendome]

There’s always going to bumps on the road of misery.........

[sinanju]

I actually saw Goolsbee for the first time earlier today—I think it was on BloombergTV.

What a smarmy, oily specimen! He couldn’t give a straight answer to any question. He gave the most long-winded, terminology-laden, weasel-worded replies you can imagine. Big words, elaborate syntax, all of it meaning very little except that things are getting better, prosperity is just around the corner, it may be tough but two years ago we were on the brink of doom.... oh, and of course we kinda, sorta need to raise taxes so the government can give the right incentives and make the right investments to get private industry going again.

All of it smilingly, unctuously delivered, oozing flattery to his female interviewer. Some boy wonder! Oh what a brain truster! Come to think of it, most of FDR’s wonder boys ended up bailing out for academia as well. Even treasury secretary Henry Morgenthau eventually admitted that what they were doing wasn’t working.

[Lazlo in PA]

You should see his Glenn Beck rip off that he did a couple of months ago to convince people we were in a full recovery and Beck types were just panicking our simple minds. I'm sure it is still on You Tube. Embarrassing.

This tool is considered the funniest man in DC. Shows you the quality of men in DC.

[Tunehead54]

Yep. Brilliant take on our current position.

“The American Dream, 2011: You pay four bucks a gallon to commute between your McJob and your underwater housing to prop up a spendaholic, grabafeelic, paramilitarized bureaucracy-without-end bankrupting your future at the rate of a fifth of a billion dollars every hour.”

... Pass this one around - nothing will change if we don’t act. Night.

[jocon307]

That is the money quote of that piece.

I’m starting to wonder if our entire society is going to crumble around me.

[Gritty]

Steyn at his finest! I just wish he had something more cheery to write about...

[TheOldLady]

Bumpity bump bump!

[Taxman]

Which was followed by:

“In a sane world, Americans would be outraged at the government waste that confronts them everywhere you turn: The abolition of the federal Education Department and the TSA is the very least they should be demanding. Instead, our elites worry about sea levels.

The oceans will do just fine. It’s America that’s drowning.”

The entire article was an inspired, brilliant piece of writing.

I hope and pray that America will wake up before it is too late!

[Dustbunny]

Mark Steyn nails it once again.

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping.