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Neither the first caucus nor first primary has been held. No Republican
candidates have yet to declare formally. Who will face off against the union-label
community organizer-in-chief? That’s not really important. Because the whole
country recognizes that the presidential kick-off is taking place right now in
state budget battles across the Midwest.
And Governor Scott Walker has already set the tone. Following in the wake of
firm resolve set by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Walker is taking the
tough stands long demanded by the people of the states — but conspicuously
avoided by the adolescent debt-enabling politicians of both parties. On their
heels, and soon to be spotlighted in the public psyche, are Governors Kasich and
Daniels, among a swath of others.
During the last presidential election, we saw the most widespread adolescent
display in American history. Throngs of wild-eyed fawners and fainters joined
hands and chanted, “Yes we can march off this cliff,” as though there were no
tomorrow. Formerly presumed intelligent media elites were reduced to a teenage-swoon
mentality the minute Barack Obama entered their midst. A man with a postage-stamp
sized resume held a majority of modern Americans enthralled with nothing more
than teleprompted oratory, giddy-girl-crush syndrome, yellow-brick-road finance
wizardry, and Jack-and-the-Beanstalk promises. And the whole Obama bag of fibs
and tricks depended on that fantastical pot of gold over the rainbow actually
being there.
Has ever such a nation of ninnies held such a public display of foolishness?
On the other hand, there is rarely a situation so dire that it doesn’t possess
at least some semblance of a silver lining. For one thing, disastrous errors in
presidential elections — thanks to that pesky old document, the U.S.
Constitution — only last four years. It is very, very difficult for even the
most ill-prepared, anti-American president to destroy the United States in such
short order. (Remember Jimmy Carter.)
Secondly, the election of the “lightworker” has helped even the ninnies living
for decades under union-held rocks in the rust belt understand our budget
realities.
Now that Obama’s Clintonian triangulation has lasted for a nanosecond, the real
adolescent Barack has once again emerged in full public view. Following a back-
against-the-wall compromise on tax rates and a somewhat-presidential speech in
Tucson, our out-of-control teen in the White House produced another dream-scheme
budget and tried to pass it off as “investments” for “winning the future.”
But there’s a limit to how many times the public can be fooled with lying rhetoric. The
false heralds of “stimulus” and “shovel-ready projects” and “jobs saved and created”
have already sobered the fawning masses. Where two years ago they lunged towards the
cliff, shouting “Yes we can,” they are now standing stalwart with heels firmly dug into
the cliff’s edge, shouting “Stop before it’s too late!”
Obama got rid of his Animal-House press secretary and brought in a Carney-man
who looks like he just started shaving a month ago. The guy famous for saying “words
matter” seems to have never learned that symbols matter even more. And no matter
who speaks to the press for Barack Obama, the image of the president playing a
whole lot more than working is firmly planted in the national psyche.
When candidate Hillary Clinton jabbed that Obama would have to “learn on the job,”
she had no idea what an understatement that was. Obama’s real task was to grow
up while on the job as president.
Well, the adolescent president of the adolescent fainters and fawners spent
nearly his first two years playing pat-a-cake with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid
and high-fiving it in the Oval Office with Rahm and Axelrod. As they giddily
pushed an already ailing economy further and further towards the cliff’s edge,
this trio of out-of-control, head-in-the-clouds adolescents mocked and ignored
the rising Tea Party. They passed their “big f***ing deal” ObamaCare in
adolescent vainglory and awoke the citizenry from their chanting, drugged-up
state.
Even now that sober-minded voters have put a set of brakes on Obama’s little
socialist dune buggy, our adolescent in chief has quickly abandoned his Clinton
mask for the more tantalizing delights of spending other people’s money.
At this point, I could not care less which Republican runs against our
adolescent president. As long as that person is a grown-up with a grown-up’s
perspective on the presidency and has demonstrable experience to that effect, he
or she will get my vote.
So, here’s my help-wanted ad for the next president of the United States of
America:
Any governor who has successfully brought his state back from the brink of
bankruptcy will move immediately to the front of the candidates’ queue.
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