The Time for Empty Talk Is Over

As President Obama's presidential term has unfolded, he has made it increasingly clear what he meant all those times he haughtily said, "I won." It's his world, and he has no intention of sharing control over it.

This was on stark display when he attempted to pre-empt the Republican debate with a grandiose joint session of Congress called solely for the purpose of delivering another round of economic propaganda.

He would have us believe that his speech will be of monumental import, but everyone knows, Democrats included, that it will be nothing more and nothing less than a sales job. There will be nothing new in this speech, no new ideas, no new information.

There is never anything new in any of his speeches, including the 50-plus orations he delivered on Obamacare, but he nevertheless keeps going back to the well. He has degenerated into a habitual pattern of presenting an idea and, after the public rejects it, making further speeches to convince us that we are the ones who are wrong. With each new speech, no matter the subject, he ends up with fewer supporters of the proposition in question, yet he remains oblivious to the diminishing returns he is achieving.

He's been talking about jobs incessantly since his presidential campaign began. When he presented his stimulus package, he wasn't equivocal; he betrayed no uncertainty. He didn't say to the American people: "Folks, I am recommending bold action. I realize we just spent nearly $1 trillion on TARP, but I'm asking you to trust me with almost another $1 trillion of borrowed money to try something that might strike you as a dangerous gamble. I'm not sure injecting this money into the economy will stimulate growth, but we have to try something, even if it very well may leave us in an even more precarious national debt predicament."

Instead, he assured us, with great confidence, that his plan would work and that it would jump-start the economy and get people back to work. He was so sure of his plan that he even acknowledged that his re-election would depend on its success or failure.

Back then, unlike now, he had enormous political capital and the confidence of a great percentage of the American people, many of whom trusted him.

Today we know the results of his reckless experiment. The economy and jobs are tanking, and our exploding debt portends imminent financial collapse.

But from all appearances, he remains as clueless to his economic failures and the bankruptcy of his ideas as he is to their unpopularity with the public. How much more empirical evidence will he need before he quits shoving us toward the cliff?

Perhaps the only thing more difficult than conceptualizing the sheer magnitude of the number 842 billion is trying to figure how anyone could seriously think that injecting more borrowed money would stimulate the economy when $842 billion didn't. Please ask yourself whether anyone who claims that is an insufficient amount of money to test a theory should have your trust about any subject remotely touching on economics.

And yet that is what the Paul Krugmans and the Obamas would have us believe; the government hasn't spent enough money, and if we just hire more people to dig and refill ditches, we'll get back on the road to recovery.

Obama's reckless experiments would be objectionable enough if the only negative result they generated was to depress an already ailing economy. But he continues to add unconscionable amounts to the national debt as if it's a nonevent.

It would be one thing if he were to demonstrate any openness to ideas that he hasn't already tried, ideas that deviate in any way from his leftist playbook.

But any semblance of newness in his upcoming talk will have nothing to do with substance, only packaging. He's such an inflexible ideologue that he's incapable of entertaining new ideas. Even if he came to believe, correctly, that the only way out of this nightmare would be to radically reduce spending, structurally reform entitlements, streamline the tax code, relax onerous regulations and restore some certainty and predictability in the business environment, he would not act on those beliefs. He will not pursue an agenda that violates his leftist ideas.

So I don't have to be clairvoyant to know that his speech will just be more propaganda designed to divert attention from his failed record and upstage his Republican challengers. That's what makes his stunt to overshadow them all the more reprehensible.

Obama is the one man standing in the way of reversing the economic meltdown and the existential debt threat to this nation. It's time for him to quit playing games with his speeches and join Republicans in taking remedial action to restore America's financial health.

"With each new speech, no matter the subject, he ends up with fewer supporters of the proposition in question, yet he remains oblivious to the diminishing returns he is achieving."

Of course he remains oblivious, that's one of the classic symptoms of the sort of narcissist he is. Every time something fails, it strengthens his beliefs that a) the masses didn't understand and support his brilliant idea, and b) there are people within his own ranks working to undermine him or who are also too stupid to understand his ideas. Each failure makes the circle of people he's willing to even listen to shrink a bit. We've already gotten to the point that he only talks to a few people he didn't appoint and we'll soon be at the point that he starts firing his own appointees for what he perceives as attempts to undermine him.

Read up on Hitler in the few months prior to his going into his bunker and staying there. Barry has the exact same mindset. He knows that his brilliant ideas and the hand of destiny have put him in charge because he's so superior and special so anything that doesn't work out has to be something evil people undermined or stupid people didn't properly respond to. If Barry recognizes that he cannot win in 2012 he'll react mentally the same way Hitler did, by taking that as proof that this nation should collapse because any nation unable to live up to his ideals and work for his plans doesn't deserve to continue to exist.

I personally think abortion is the emotional detonator that will finally set off the huge pile of explosive excrement the Fascist party have been piling up over the last fifty years. Of course, there are a limited number of ways that a community organizer who sat in the anti-American, anti-Capitalist, church of the black racist Rev Wright for twenty years might go about encouraging civil unrest to go along with financial collapse. He who is treated like a dog won't focus on abortion but on "inequality" of various sorts both real and imagined along with a liberal dose of the traditional fascist vomit about how the evil Joooz subverted his plans.

Given the fact that there are no longer exceptions made for those who oppose abortion and social engineering on individual moral grounds, the inequality issue fascists have so successfully blown out of proportion in the past will work against the democrat fascist party this time. It's the ultimate case of blowback, really. That'll dissolve the middle ground in all political debate in this country and the last time that happened we ended up in Civil War. I doubt it goes that far this time, but it has been wealthy eugenics fanatics who have kept the fascist party well funded for the past six decades. The democrat fascist party cannot afford to back off of their dedication to human sacrifice in the form of the mass murder of infants and cannot remain in power unless they do. So, there will be blood.

JMHo

Regards

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