Observations from the Cheap Seats

Friday, May 28th at 10:24PM EST

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1970′s Redux – WOW!! What a week!! In the span of just seven days, President Obama is proving that his administration is as crooked as President Nixon’s and as incompetent as President Carter’s.
In an amazing display of idiocy, the White House trots out an explanation today in Sestakgate (nah . . . don’t like that – not catchy enough) . . . an explanation today in Spectergate (that’s it – has the very subtle ring of a pornography cable channel, doesn’t it?) . . . that could be construed as an admission of a violation of federal law. And, if not, the implausible story of Emissary Clinton is the first public misstep in a cover-up of a non-issue, which will cement this Administration’s penchant for shading the truth as the norm, not the exception. So much for transparency!
Who knew that incompetence is spelled “oil spill?” In sum, forty days ago, the White House claims that it was in the background, letting the professionals do their job. The job doesn’t get done . . . the oil continues to gush. Now, forty days later, the White House claims it was in the forefront of this fight and that it was always directing the oil spill recovery effort from day 1, passing off on all suggested courses of action by BP, while relying upon them to provide prospective solutions. Again, WOW!! I have heard of taking credit when unearned, but I have never seen an administration switch courses and fall all over itself to borrow trouble, to all of a sudden accept responsibility for a response effort that to date WASN’T working. In case you’re not getting my point, you take credit and claim responsibility when things are going well, not when they are going poorly. This administration has this all backwards. That, my friends, is President Carter in a nutshell – remember, the economy is doing terribly needing a boost of confidence, so what does Carter do – he tells us all that our country’s prospects are dimming and that we are buried in a ‘malaise.’ To Carter’s defense, it took him nearly 4 years to demonstrate such glaring incompetence – Obama, apparently, has it down pat in just 15 months.
So Touchdown Timmy is over in Europe persuading everyone to keep their powder dry over the growing European debt crisis, while our own debt has grown to exceed $13 trillion. Hey, Timmy, instead of eating crepes and burning up miles on Air Force Two, might I suggest you get your butt back here to the US and figure out how you can convince your boss to stop bankrupting our own country. All your efforts to convince the IMF, China et al., to keep bankrolling European folly will be for naught if we don’t gain quick control over more extravagant American folly.
Speaking of European debt – I still can’t get over rumors that Greece might want to file suit against US Banks for the problems of its insurmountable debt. Let’s set this straight – Greece, a country whose economic malaise is the product of its decades-old unwillingness to say “no” to every labor union demand emanating from the entanglements of centuries-old European socialist sub-culture, is looking to scapegoat the problem. Apparently the Greek government is drinking too much Ouzo these days. NEWSFLASH to Athens – 1. If you spend and pledge more money than you have in the bank or on its way to the bank, you create “debt.” 2. Debt is not a good thing. 3. Eventually, you either pay your debt or you go belly up. That’s no one else’s fault, but your own.

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Shades of Nixon and Carter, all in one week, ouch!

nessa (Diary) Saturday, May 29th at 7:36AM EST (link)

Thanks Lords, your observations are always appreciated!

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Richard Mullins (Diary) Saturday, May 29th at 12:24PM EST (link)

Since we could book them as an act we have Barack Obama as both. Obama must be becoming a Duck-billed platypus of the Political World.

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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.

Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.

Spectergate! I hope that catches on.

Brian Hibbert (Diary) Saturday, May 29th at 9:02AM EST (link)

The “gate” thing has been overdone in some cases, but in this case it seems a good fit… We’ve got an illegal action (bribe offered to candidate to make him drop), then a cover up attempt, next maybe we’ll even get “What did the president know and when did he know it?”.

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I'm thinking "The Sespool"

6eorge Jetson (Diary) Sunday, May 30th at 2:56PM EST (link)

Incompetence and deliberateness, that is the Obama admin...

penguin2 (Diary) Saturday, May 29th at 12:08PM EST (link)

profile. They have the power, the agenda, and have the tools in place, but because there is nothing structurally sound……they are having a hard time holding it together.

I hope they destroy themselves before they irreparably bring the country down.

Excellent observations, Lords86, and I love how you write them.

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