Really, in the thirty seconds or so that I skimmed over the excerpt of Obama’s speech (life is too precious to waste reading speeches made by Presidents), I did not spot anything of substance I haven’t heard before now.
Statistically speaking, by randomly glancing at paragraphs and taking them in, I should be able to tell how original the speech is relatively quickly, based on how many things I read that I haven’t heard before. It’s like a negative binomial distribution, where I’m looking at how many times I spot things coming out the man’s mouth which I haven’t heard yet before he fails out by reverting to his old habits.
So how’d those Bernoulli trials go?
Fail.
Fail.
Fail.
“Pass this measure immediately…,” sure, what the hell, that sounds new-ish.
Pass
“…millionaires and billionaires…” FAIL!!!
Fail.
Fuck this, at that point I just closed the page down and went back about my day. If this clown thinks that repackaging all the same shit we’ve been rejecting up until now amounts to a good faith effort, he can go fuck himself.
I can’t believe he was going to try and sidestep a GOP debate for this trash. I mean, I wasn’t interested before and I’m not interested now.
Even if there was one crystalline concept in all of that garbage… that he would wrap a good idea in a pile of shit tells me he can’t distinguish between “useful” and “useless.”
That includes his red meat for the Republicans, in the form of tax incentives. Fuck tax incentives, they haven’t exactly brought bounties of employment upon us before now. Either cut taxes outright, or leave them lay. It’s more onerous to business if we keep changing the tax code every four months, because they are expected to read it, interpret it, and adapt to it. Huge pain in the ass, if you’ve ever tried to read lawyer hocus pocus.
That’s what happens when you write law in a form of English that hasn’t been used in over 100 years.
If Obama had really wanted to shock the market, he should have said:
“…no change to tax code…”
“…no change to regulations…”
“…freezing implementation of new regulation…”
“…I’m firing all my friends and ideologues I put in charge of this Administration, because I realize now they’re extreme and incapable of governing this country…”
That amounts to a total restructuring; a government baptism by fire, starting with the laying off of the following:
Eric Holder
Mary Schapiro
Lisa Jackson
Janet Napolitano
Margaret Hamburg
His entire economic team
All his legal advisors
That would be a good place to start. He could also extend it to include anyone involved in Operation Fast and Furious; that is the most shameful thing I have ever heard of.
He will also immediately stop being seen with men like Jeff Immelt. That’s not a business connection, it’s a corruption charge in bloom.
And he can lay off his entire White House Press Corp and his re-election campaign managers too. The man is an obvious narcissist; he is far too infatuated with himself and the way he appears, so he needs to get rid of the mirrors he surrounds himself with.
He can rehire a smaller, lighter, less asinine press for the sole purpose of conveying information from the White House, and retain a management base to control his funds and operations. However, his current election managers have way too much sway over his actions; almost every move he makes reeks of political motives.
I want to see him without the crutches following him around, trying to make every little movement or gesture PC.
Because that’s ultimately his biggest problem. He’s surrounded himself with people who tell him he’s right. He’s surrounded himself with extremists whom he trusts. And so we get this constant stream of craziness because no one stops to say, “Hey, that won’t work,” or, “Maybe you should quick targeting citizens, because you sound bitter and are turning the country off.”
He needs to pop his own bubble, and he needs to do it on national television. Short of that, this administration is a lame duck for the rest of Obama’s presidency; totally ineffective at doing much of anything, including things the government should be getting done, like national security.
And that’s particularly frustrating, because we’re probably going to have him through 2016.
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