Day 40. Working

I don't know why, but for some reason I was working until the wee hours Saturday morning. I have no clue what Obama did today. I'm trying to make money to pay the mortgage and put gas in the car. Call me crazy, but I don't want Obama buying me stuff (OK taxpayers, really). It hurts that free-loaders will be taking some of my hard-earned money, but its a slightly lesser pain. Yeah, I guess I am a sucker.

Day 39. The war is over.

So that school girl's did will not be in Iraq for 100 years like her teacher said (youtube vidoe was removed--don't want public schools to 'look bad'). Obama is pulling ALL troops out of Iraq by Aug. 31, 2010. (Except for the 50000 that will have to stay back.) You hear that terrorists? Take the next 18 months to plot and plan.
Supposedly the brain trust of the democratic party is all upset by this plan. "Too many troops...". This talk seems like lip service to the anti-war constituents.

Day 38. Oh what a budget.

This is nuts. $634,000,000,000.00 for National Healthcare. $1,000,000,000,000.00 in new taxes, $1,750,000,000,000.00 deficit. What the hell?!?

Day 37. Finishing touches

Obama is putting the finishing touches on his huge budget, after detailing lots of spending yesterday. The government is out of control. A democrat senator (Byrd of WV) is concerned about all the czars for this and that in this administration.

Day 36. Sate of the Union.

Wow, is it just me or is anyone else annoyed by the president's reading a teleprompter. He moves his head too far, then his eyes have to drift back to the prompter. It seems like this guy was watching a tennis match... it's very distracting.

Then there is the head cheerleader, Nancy Pelosi. That woman could not wait to jump up and clap. When she wasn't jumping up, she had that forced smile. It looked very uncomfortable. I think it was to keep her cheeks tight so they would not end up in her lap.

Finally Joe Biden. That guy has a permanent frown, but when he was grinning--wow! Did he get some new teeth? I had to put my sunglasses on. If someone digs up a picture of him from back in the campaign days, with yellow teeth, please link to it here.

OK, finally the speech. I had to turn away to listen to it for all the distractions (see above). I began hearing his words near the end when he was talking about the Florida banker, the town in Kansas that is rebuilding on their own, etc. I guess I missed the inspirational story about the folks in New Orleans rebuilding without help from taxpayers. What a difference values, government programs and self-sufficiency makes in shaping our country. You know who will put us on the right track...those who do not have their hands out!

The way the president talked, everybody is going to get something...who the hell is going to pay for all this?

Savers, like me, that's who.

Day 35. Too busy.

Big project at work. No time to find out how we got screwed today.

Day 34. I'm resting.

Day 33. Raising taxes.

This article talks about the president's plan to trim the deficit.
To sum up, the president used his weekly radio address to say he is determined to get the deficit under control. How? Raising taxes. On who? Businesses and the wealthy.

Yeah, that'll work, especially with the economy in the state it is in.

Day 32. Mr. Mayor, you are my scapegoat

From this article...

Using his presidential pulpit, Obama demanded accountability, from his friends in local government as well as his own agencies. He said the new legislation gives him tools to "watch the taxpayers' money with more rigor and transparency than ever," and that he will use them.

"If a federal agency proposes a project that will waste that money, I will not hesitate to call them out on it, and put a stop to it," he said. "I want everyone here to be on notice that if a local government does the same, I will call them out on it, and use the full power of my office and our administration to stop it."

The president has started to identify his scapegoats for when the trichinosis sets in from the raw pork deal being shoved down our throats.

Flash forward May, 2010. He'll say, "Nope. uh, it wasn't, uh me that wasted the, uh, taxpayers money. It was those, uh, mayors and other local officials that, uh, I have been, uh calling out these, uh past few months".

Day 31. Oh, Canada!

The president went to Canada.

Day 30. Mortgage program

Now all Peggy needs is free gasoline.

Day 29. Domestic and foreign affairs...

Today the president saved out country by signing a giantic pork bill. Whoo Hooo. We're screwed.

On the foreign side, the president will be sending 17000 troops to Afghanistan. Someone tell me when the soldiers in Iraq will be coming home.

Day 28. Another day off?

Deciding to skip signing the urgent pork bill to avert a catastrophe, the president apparently took President's Day off, thinking that this was his holiday. There are many comparisons made between him and Lincoln.

Actually, I have no clue what the guy did today as I was busting my ass at work. Somebody has got to make some money to pay for this pork bill.

Day 27. Ah, the good life.

"catastrophe", "urgent", ..., the rhetoric was amazing...Bradley Schiller has a very good write-up on it.

But now its over. "I won". "Lets celebrate while the middle-class schlubs break out the Made in China chocolates they got at Wal-Mart because that's all they can afford."

"C'mon, baby. Let's go get some dinner at Table 52 and sleep in Sunday morning."

Overheard at Table 52 Saturday night?...
"Waiter! Bring me pork. I must have more pork!"

Ah, the good life. He's livin' it.

Day 26. More joy over pork bill

The president used his weekly radio address to tout the pork bill some more. I am going to go get drunk again tonight.

Day 25. A quarter way through.

Here we are a quarter of the way thru the first 100 days. It's Friday the 13th. It's a sad day. Only god knows how much it will cost and what exactly is in this so-called stimulus bill. OK, god probably does not even know. Pork, pork and more pork. I am going to go get drunk now.

Day 24. #3 down.

Obama's 3rd cabinet nomination (a Republican) has withdrawn his name from nomination for Commerce Secretary. Why? Another tax problem? Nope. This guy just can't stomach the pork bill.

Day 23. Wag the dog.

Plenty of manufacturing jobs in Washington. In a brilliant move (rivaling the Bill Clinton drama when he made a cross out of some stones on Omaha Beach in Normandy), the Obama Administration seems to have manufactured a similar moment with a woman (who's name is now of the household variety as this article put it) named Henrietta Hughes. That does not quite have the same ring as Joe the Plumber, but with the media's help it might.

Maybe Henrietta could get over to New Orleans and find some of the Katrina housing that has gone unused.

PS. Your blogger is checking to see if Henrietta knows Peggy Joseph.

Day 22. What's for dinner?

Pork. Lots and lots of pork.

Day 21. I won.

Stumble thru some town hall meetings. More fear mongering, more double talk. Blah, blah, blah.

Day 20. Get packing

The president is packing for a trip to garner grassroots support for his socialist pork bill. Seems a little late for that, but since the poll numbers show support dropping, he must figure 'better late than never'.

Day 19. More fear mongering

Same old rhetoric, same old fear mongering to get potential scapegoats (republican senators) signed on to the pork bill.

I guess this is the bill that Peggy Joseph is waiting for...




Hope and change?...not yet.

Day 18. Obama gets schooled.

Obama has showed us his inexperience and naivety. He appears to have no standing or gravitas as president. This is a hard lesson--the inner workings of the beltway. Perhaps it would have helped if he spent more time in the state legislature and US senate. He is trying to ram this bill down our throats--a bill he tossed to Nancy and Harry which the porked up even more. It seems that Nancy and Harry are sacrificing the historic president to make this bill their own. They have gotten O to ratchet up the rhetoric and verbal arm twisting, doing Nancy and Harry's dirty work...nice move by them. Quite frankly, he looks like a spoiled three year old throwing a tantrum. I thought he was supposed to be a unifier. Wasn't he going to pull the troops out of Iraq? Suckers.

Charles Krauthammer has a nice column on what he calls the 'awakening'.

So the senate has reached a compromise, great. I just hope the republicans will hold strong like they did in the house.

Day 17. Comrade Obama

The president is fear-mongering again today. Remember yesterday's red flag? There should be two today.

He actually wants to cap the pay to executives of the banks receiving the bail out money. When will that stop? What else will the government demand to control? Will my neighbors be informing on me for this blog?

This is starting to get scary. The house Republicans stood firm on their vote. Lets hope the senator Republicans do the same. For the sake of the country.

Day 16. Chicken Little

The sky is falling, the sky is falling...
When ever a politician wants to ram something through the process, a red flag (like this one) should go up...

Speaking of China, the AP is shouting copyright infringement over the use of their photo. Apparently, the 'art' based on this photo is bringing in mega bucks. Now there's an economic stimulus plan. It beats the hell out of printing money.

Day 15. Wow, what a day!

This morning, O, was "absolutely" behind Daschle. This evening, he "screwed up". All the while, Iran is launching satellites into orbit and O's response is that we will use "all elements of our national power" to deal with them. Say, what?!?

Kids get some more wood for the fire, our enemies have not yet arrive to sing Kumbya...they are off threatening our national security.

I'm glad we'll have "Joe Biden, war hawk" to back up the O when he is messing himself under his desk when the first international crisis hits.

Day 14. First (of many) broken promises.

From politifact.com

One of President Obama's major campaign planks was making government more open and accountable. ...

I know, I know, you all were hoping for some change...sorry, "I won."

Day 13. Superbowl Sunday.