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发帖数: 29846 | 1 by Rick aka Mr. Brutally Honest
Keith Koffler at Politico is being quite perceptive:
Barack_obamaPresident Barack Obama seems to be governing in some
parallel universe — where the United States exists without mortal dangers
threatening its economy and the nation’s most pressing exigency is the
reelection of its president.
But when Obama swore to defend the Constitution, and therefore the
nation, he did it in the dimension where the rest of us exist, where the
economy appears to be headed toward its annual spring stall and an endless
series of massive budget deficits threatens to unleash a financial crisis at
any time.
While big issues simmer untended, our leader is focused like a laser
beam on trivia that benefit him politically but do the country little or no
good.
Obama devoted a full week this month to smacking the rich around with
the “Buffett rule” — which his own advisers acknowledged was more a
crusade for “fairness” than a way to fill the budget gap. This is
approximately like complaining to a bank robber that he is cutting in line.
The president then launched a crusade to hire a new crew of federal
enforcers to nab crafty oil speculators who might be driving up the price of
gasoline — assuming these speculators exist.
This ploy was a model of PR efficiency. It not only portrayed Obama as
riding to the rescue of motorists besieged by $4 a gallon gas, it showed him
ready to slay a few more Wall Street types he’s set up as the boogeymen of
his administration.
He moved on last week to solve the crisis that subsidized student loan
rates might rise to their normal level — something everyone should have
been planning for, because the end date of this benefit was set five years
ago in a vote that he missed.
Obama has now been touting this marginal issue — which will very likely
have a marginal payoff years from now in a workforce better educated by a
wisp. White House press secretary Jay Carney stomped his feet about the
fools who couldn’t perceive that this was an “investment” in the economy
— what the White House always says about its spending programs that might
have some unknown payoff years from now but do nothing to help us out of the
mess we are in.
Meanwhile, no one knows at what point the markets will give up on the
United States and determine that we are about as serious about curbing our
spending bender as an alcoholic mixing cocktails at a 12-step meeting.
In November, I'm seriously hoping we throw the euphemistic drunk out on his
arse so that the country can begin to come out from under his benders and
resume a course fixated on recovery.
Seriously hoping. |
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