Here We Go Again

Two weeks ago I called for Obama's impeachment because his press conference was preempting several of my favorite TV shows. In what is shaping up to be a disturbing pattern, he's doing it again tonight when he delivers a nationally televised speech to Congress.

So much for this week's installments of The Mentalist and Fringe.

It almost makes me sick to say this, but I miss George W. Bush. At least when he was in office, he never gave a crap about the wishes of the American people. He never felt the urge to explain himself. I guess that's why he called himself The Decider. It just goes to show that sometimes there are advantages to living under a dictatorship.

Obama's speech tonight will focus on the economy and the recently passed stimulus package. The rescue plan has come under serious fire from Republicans. Among other things, they're critical of the massive deficits it's going to cause.

WOW!!!! Talk about your deathbed conversions! When Bill Clinton left office, the Federal budget was showing a surplus of $230 billion. Bush wasted no time getting rid of that, and the last several years of his presidency ended up showing record deficits. Where were the Republicans in Congress when Bush was practically pissing red ink over everything he touched!?!? For Republicans to suddenly find religion on this issue is like a serial killer finding Jesus just as he's being strapped into the electric chair.

I don't know if Obama's plan will get us out of this financial mess or not. But it's clear as day that the GOP has no right to sit there and snipe. It was their own inept leadership that led us down this path to economic ruin. Let big business be big business was the Republican mantra for years. Free them from the constraints of overly zealous government controls and big business will lead us into a time of eternal prosperity. Even that financial guru Alan Greenspan once said that business leaders will act in their own best interest.

Right. Now look where the philosophy of deregulation has gotten us. You would think the accounting shenanigans of Enron and Worldcom earlier this decade would have served as a wake-up call, but no. Of course not. And certainly not with the Republican politicians who were the primary recipients of political donations from big business.

And now these very same Republicans want to offer their own solutions? Give me a frakking break. That's like Captain Joseph Hazelwood of the Exxon Valdez offering to teach a course in navigation.

And yes, I do love my metaphors.