We're less than 20 days into the first 100 of the Obama administration and already we've seen a lot. Between the fizzled and frazzled cabinet nominations, pledging to spend dollars regardless of where they come from in the name of "stimulus", stonewalling the press and weaseling around decisions after they've been made and cast into stone.
Then there is the borrowing of trillions of dollars overseas, far above and far beyond what any president before (up to and including the "Hated Bush") that Democrat leadership has determined is both "reasonable" and "necessary". When that self same behavior, even though it was substantially less money, by Republican presidents over the past three decades sent the left into multi-generational paroxysms of bile and spew.
But if President Obama proposes doubling or tripling or perhaps even more, the deficit it's somehow okay with the left. I guess Mr. Obama forecasting "trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see" somehow slipped under the left's radar?
Perhaps the best joke yet is the case of former Senator "Tiny Tom" Daschle, our newly minted Secretary of Health and Human Services. Daschle improperly claimed deducations for a driver and luxury car. He knew since last June he had a problem with it, and that he owed. He didn't disclose it, apparently, to either the Team Obama vetters or to the Congress at his confirmation. And all the vetters did such a crappy job that they never found it.
Daschle quietly paid $140K, about triple Secretary Geithner's exposure, in taxes plus interest and penalties early in January. And even then he didn't disclose, nor did anyone find it and report it, until after his confirmation and swearing in.
Tthis is the man, who made tens if not hundreds of millions as a lobbyist after leaving the Senate and whose wife still is a very highly paid lobbyist, that is now overseeing the single largest piece of the federal budget. In an administration that said it wasn't going to put lobbyists on the payroll.
Yet no one on the Democrat side of the aisle has stood up and said... "Whoah, I've got a little problem with this."
America was sold a carefully packaged and brilliantly marketed bill of goods last November. Mr. Obama could just as well have been played by Robert Preston considering just how well his Music Man act has duped an entire nation.
So let's sum up the first 100 so far.....
** Commerce nominee withdrawn because no one figured out in advance that he was the target of an ongoing criminal grand jury probe concerning pay to play.
** Treasury nominee with tax problems that can only be caused by utter stupidity or deliberate chiseling, and who also has household help with immigration issues.
** HHS nominee with major tax problems that can only be caused by chiselling... he was told, reportedly, by his tax preparer that the deductions were no good and he took them anyway.
** Justice nominee with a far less than stellar record as a deputy AG in a previous administration concerning pardons and the overt appearrance of pay to play.
** A president who signs EOs without, apparently, considering any of the consequences of his actions and who only becomes analyitic in retrospect.
This, dear friends, is the change we can believe in. And it leads me to wonder what is worse.... a willing hypocrite or a deluded "useful idiot"? Those seem to be the only two columns available to describe the behavior and mindset on display by the Obamaniacs so far.
I think I need to puke now.........
