Another Week, Another Faux Pas

And so it goes.

More presidential nominations withdrawn. More international offenses given (this from the President who was going to 'revitalize' (or should we say 'reset') our relations overseas). Perhaps the mistranscription of the the Russian word for 'reset' as 'overcharge' is highly appropriate, especially in light of the 'stimulus' porkage, er , package. One wonders which heads rolled over that. At least Hillary had grace under pressure, and made a laugh of it (at Obama's expense?).

The lapdog 5th Estate is beginning to get a tad uneasy. As are a number of prominent Democrats. And if the Republicans can either transform Steele or discard him and find someone to better serve, then they may truly become a phoenix rising from the ashes. Time will tell. Between Obama's seeming lack of competence and Steele's foot in mouth disease, one wonders (and remember, I hailed the selection of Steele!). Maybe the education revolution that moved away from the three R's and competition is bearing it's bitter fruit in our 'rising, new' national leadership? Lots of self esteem and no common sense and poor judgement to boot. But wait, it'll all resolve after the commercial. Isn't every (TV) problem solved in 48 minutes of air time, or less?

In the meantime, North Korea has moved to a war footing, and other than one day of alarming press coverage...who is taking notice?

Stay tuned.

M.C.

SPOON Fed!

New ideas! Change! In spite of President Obama's promises for changing the way 'Washington' does business, even I never imagined he'd go this far!

Pundits galore declaim how aweful (sic on purpose) the last two weeks have been for our new President, as nominee after nominee comes up with undisclosed tax problems.

One wonders: "How can Team Obama be doing such a lousy job of screening the candidates? How embarrassing for the President!"

Except- they aren't/it isn't. It's part of The Plan to stimulate the economy. Known as:

Stimulus Plan of Obama Nominees- SPOON.

Get it?

How wonderfully inventive and out of the box. Look at all the hundreds of thousands of dollars the President has pumped back into the economy by deliberately selecting candidates who have past tax liabilities, that, upon public disclosure, have to be paid up as a price of admission to whichever position they have been nominated for.

Brilliant!

Except...

It hasn't quite worked out that way, nomination wise---tax collection wise yes, but...

Bill Richardson should have been a warning shot across the bow that the 'strategy' needed some fine tuning. But, in spite of 'tax issues', the President got a few past the nomination process, then the whole thing went on the rocks. Great idea, although, it's more the quantity and frequency that is 'new' for this type of 'problem'. On the upside, the SPOON extends even to family members (Hilda Solis's husband). And the Daschle approach (tax on 'freebies') was really a nice touch.

But, hey...isn't this a variation on pay to play? We guess the Washington version isn't working any better than the Chicago Way.

Let's see how "Treasury Tim" plays out...maybe he is leading by example? (Irony detectors on, please).

MC