No, He Can't ("wheels coming off Obama Administration")

Prospect Magazine ^ | 3/26/09 | Bull

[pabianice]

Barack Obama was always going to disappoint. When you promise almost everything to almost everybody—I’ll stop the fighting in Iraq but I’ll also keep going after al Qaeda there; I’ll make the economy grow more but I’ll spread the wealth around, and so on—you will inevitably let many people down. Human beings, even those who read fluently from teleprompters, simply cannot walk on water.

But few expected the wheels to come off the new administration so quickly. Just weeks into its existence, the Obama White House is in trouble. The US stock market has lost a quarter of its value since Obama’s election. While a Rasmussen poll in early March had his approval rating at 56 per cent, his net approval (the number of people who strongly approve of what he’s doing subtracted from the number who strongly disapprove) had contracted from 28 per cent the day after his inauguration to around 6 per cent for March—worse than Bush at the same time in his first term. The administration is in a fully fledged staffing crisis: having lost a record ten high-profile picks, it has scores of senior executive jobs unfilled—including every single treasury position below the department’s top job. The head of Britain’s civil service, Gus O’Donnell, has complained about the trouble he’s had finding key administration personnel ahead of the G20 conference in April. “There is nobody there,” he said. “You cannot believe how difficult it is.” Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner looks terrified before executives and television cameras alike. Five months after the election he has yet to deliver a plan for the banking system, much less restructure a single financial asset.

Even the sympathetic press is starting to speak of an “incompetence” crisis.

[pabianice]

Wait until electricity bills and the taxes on gasoline increase by 300%...

[BenLurkin]

wheels coming off Obama Administration

Can’t happen soon enough!

[Semper Mark]

“wheels coming off Obama Administration”

It never had wheels. It crawled up out of the sewers.

[ignorancerunsrampant]

"HE NEVER COULD!"

I have said since November the America will have buyer's remorse before summer begins.

[Tax-chick]

For anyone interested in reading the whole article, the printer-friendly version comes out to 7 text pages, much fewer than the average papal encyclical.

Now I’ll go read it!

[rockinqsranch]

“wheels coming off Obama Administration

Can’t happen soon enough!”

Just a thought....with no wheels the bus sits on the ground, no room underneath. What’s he going to do with those he wants to toss under it?

See!? Typical Lib. Never looks at the consequences ;)

(Mr. Data, “Ah...Humor, heh.”)

[Tax-chick]

Nice big type, too!

[Red Badger]

Si, Se Pendejo!..................

[arthurus]

The wheels are not yet loose. He is still getting what he wants. Opposition doesn’t matter if he gets his way anyway.

[La Lydia]

Obama’s top people are publicly (if inadvertently) confessing to precisely the sort of cabalistic secret agenda that was most loathed about the Bush administration. Imagine the apoplexy of Obama’s political base if Dick Cheney had called 9/11 a “good crisis” because it provided cover for a long-intended invasion of Iraq.

The administration’s Trojan horse agenda—using a standard, near-finished recession as an excuse for radical social interventions and a fundamental expansion of the state—hurts the economy and markets in a crucial area: trust. Combined with the prospect of high inflation and high taxes, this means that money is put on ice.

[orlop9]

How ironic, one of our founders beefs with the king was “Freedom of the Press”, & we now have to read about the new administration from a UK mag, again & again.

[TheRightGuy]

The wheels are not yet loose. He is still getting what he wants. Opposition doesn’t matter if he gets his way anyway.

I heard last night that senate dems and bamster agreed to drop cap and trade ... this time around anyhow.

[TurtleUp]

“You don’t think socialism is evil?” Joe the Plumber asked.

Obama answered, “When you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."

"I can't believe that!" said Joe.

"Can't you?" Obama said in a pitying tone. "Try again, draw a long breath, and shut your eyes."

Joe the Plumber laughed. "There's no use trying," he said. "One can't believe impossible things."

"I dare say you haven't had much practice," said Obama. "When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

[Hop A Long Cassidy]

Great post... bump.

[throwback]

Zero is a punk. Besides having no ability to think on his feet, he has no political savvy. As much as I despised Clinton, he knew when to push and when not to. Clinton was a survival expert. If he had to sell out to a conservative idea like welfare reform to remain viable, he did it. Zero believes his own press clippings. He's doomed. hee, hee.

[tumblindice]

Like the old boy in the even older truck on a narrow mountain road:

`I’ve had some bad times lived through some sad times
But this time your hurting won’t heal

You picked a fine time to leave me, loose wheel.’

[mikeus_maximus]

But he drivvels so authoritatively, with such a sonorous voice and eloquent style while saying nothing. And that's all the masses need.

[MrB]

I’m still paying for my own mortgage(s),
no one has reimbursed my gasoline bills,

and my flying unicorn still has not arrived!

[paul544]

N. Korea is about to give him the boost he needs and the distraction he’s been waiting for.

[penelopesire]

“and my flying unicorn still has not arrived!”

Hate to break it to you, but there are no ‘unicorns’ coming.....just jackasses....LOL