It seems to me His Telepropmpterness wants two things, adulation and power. He will say anything to get them. Remember his, “I could never disown him…” absolute? Or, “No earmarks”, except, a Falstaffian number, “drink not, above seven days a week”? Or go through the budget line by line? (Maybe he’s been doing this for 3000 points.) Or the sea levels will recede…? (By 3000 points?) And so on, ad infinitum. Do any of his voters still believe the ‘Iraq, 16 months and out’ promise? He can,will and does promise anything and sound believable, as long as she can read it. (Is he, in this way, Reagen-esque? An empty suit delivering lines?) Mark my words. He both doesn’t care and does know exactly what he is doing. He doesn’t care that people around him, Rahm Iago, Nancy Iago, Harry ‘The Bland’ Iago, and all the other swill and vile Iago’s around him do whatever they want with policy as long as he can read off the lists. He will continue to tell himself nonsense about fairness, and deliver on the political deals he made to occupy the high office where he ought not to be sitting. He’s got his; his voters believe he is sticking it to someone. When smolder inflation bursts into open flame those latter will begin to know something is not right. I expect Obama will direct their anger towards “Anybody but Bush, uh, er, Obama”, and anybody but Congress. The very marginal and poor will suffer terribly. Americans a few steps above this will struggle to make ends meet. The sophisticates and the elites, the glitterati and the Pols will insulate themselves upwind in their echo chambers. If their is violence, various Federales will be unleashed. I would take the “Six years of failed policies” and the “Eight years of failed policies” of President Bush anytime rather than the failed policies of the last several weeks. These economic bankruptcies reflect political bankruptcies, which reflect moral bankruptcies. “WARNING!! THE ‘A’ WORD APPROACHETH!! WARNING!!’ If the murder of children in the womb does not stop, circumstances will force it to a stop, and circumstances will force upon the unwilling that last resort in disaster, prayer on one’s knees. I will now step off my soapbox, and the ridicule can commence. ‘IHS’
