What happens when you take charisma, run it through great character, promote it with even greater rhetoric and fall in love with celebrity along the way?  Why, the current Barack Obama Presidency.  My prediction is that this guy is the new Jimmy Carter for the 21st century only instead of trying to get the Middle East to be peaceful, he want the entire world to work together.  Jimmy Carter may have been the greatest fluffhead on the planet next to Barack.  Both of them are working on impossible dreams of world peace and economic equality.  This is great stuff if you are writing Law Review Articles but hardly the thing that new Presidents should be working on.

My prediction is that this administration is DOA from an effectiveness standpoint by midyear.   There are two many initiatives going too far and too dispursed with no real plan except for a press conference and unfunded mandates behind them.  For a real clue as to how America looks in four years take a look at Nancy Pelosi's California.  Between saving the spotted sea salamander and making sure that every individual has access to health care, California has spent itself into oblivion.  It would be easier to set up a terrorist training camp in Burbank than to get a new piece of spending reduction legislation passed.

Here's my list of "softball" pitches in the first three weeks of  Barack's "Change has Come" plan:

1. Closing GITMO- Here's a surprise:  it was going to close anyway.  Setting the closing date a year in advance gives him plenty of time to sort through the remaining Constitutional Issues, pay off the wrongly held folks, deport the bad guys, and talk to Raul and Fidel about creating Six Flags over Gitmo to kick start their economy.  Cuba is the next Cayman once we get through the Kennedy Years legacy.  Don't send Hillary to Cuba, send someone from the Four Seasons.  They need our money, we need their beaches, and Russians don't go for tans anyway.  All Barack did by announcing that Gitmo was going to close was reaffirm that Christmas will be celebrated on the 25th of December as usual.

2. Leaving IRAQ-  Gosh, another no brainer.  We either leave Iraq in the next couple of years or turn it into the new Korea.  They are done with us as a liberating force, are beginning to have elections, and without our intervention going forward will return to the Mosque's R'Us culture and strategy that has kept them in the economic and cultural dark ages for 2000 years.  So, for Barack to announce we are leaving is like saying school will recess for the summer.

3. BAILOUTS-  Barack and the Democrats just bought the 2012 elections in all the Rustbelt States (Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, and Pennsylvania ) by keeping the auto guys on life support.  He would have done better to take the money, buy their houses, give them some start over cash and send them to North  Carolina.  Instead he's extended their life support for 90 days so they can futz around with electric cars and horse compost decomposition fueling strategies that are all the buzz on FaceBook by people who can't afford the new cars anyway.   The automobile industry needs to fail just like the steel industry did in the 80's.  It will be a better industry, a different workforce, and create better products. 

4. Executive Pay- Good luck with this one.  Wall Street has been figuring out how to steal money from clients for longer than Barack has been figuring out how to protect it.  Capping executive pay just guarantees that really creative people start working out of Nevis at the Four Seasons and selling their products over the web.  Capital will flee to where capital is uninhibited.  Because Barack is a an academic bureaucrat with no real business experience, he doesn't get this.

5. The SEC and FINRA-  If there were two more moronic organizations in the United States run by two more incompetent people than Chris Cox (SEC) and Mary Shapiro (FINRA) I would be hard pressed to find them.  Mary's reward for merging (under false pretenses by the way) the old NASD and the NYSE is that she got a 57% pay increase to 3 million per year and got to keep her 25 million defined benefit program.  Where is the investigation on her compensation cap?.  This woman has the IQ of a garden snail when it comes to the financial literacy that is required in the 21st Century to run a global capital and creation regulatory body.  Ditch this woman and send her back some branch bank in Peoria where she runs the Christmas Club Program.  As for Chris Cox, fire him and put him in charge of FEMA.  Heckuva job, Chrissie.. 

6.  Economic Stimulus-  The only thing I really like in Barack's package on Economic Stimulus is the 400 million earmarked for studies on STD (sexually transmitted diseases).  It's clear to me that before this is over we will all need treatment of some sort for the unnatural economic sex acts that will be performed on us.  Remember, an ounce of prevention is worth, well, maybe a 400 million cure.

7. FORECLOSURES- The bank's who perpertuated the mortgage fraud need to do three things immediately: a. Reset the interest rates to the initial rates or lower for legitimate owners and not speculators, b. Restore credit ratings to where people can borrow again, and 3. Use bailout money to create equity by paying off 25% of the inflated mortgage debt.   If I were a homeowner facing eviction due to a subprime mortgage, I promise you I would refuse to move out and that I would shoot the first person that came across my threshold to make me do it.  The banks are the criminals here and they are getting paid on both ends of the transaction.   Here's a little tip for the truly desparate:  If you are going to be evicted, AND you have no reason to live past the eviction, you should just set your house on fire and either shoot yourself or decide prison is a good place to wait out the recession.  The reason this works so well is that your fire insurance will not pay off for arson, you totally screw the bank, and you get a place to live for a while.  When you get out, you can always work for company that cleans up this type of damage since in Barack's new 3 million job world we are all plumbers, carpenters, and electricians.

8.Global Warming- As I write this I am sitting in 19 degree winter weather in Charlotte, NC.  The central part of Kentucky has no power due to  ice and snow and the west and midwest look like Caribou World to all but Al Gore and his carbon credit confederates.   NOW HEAR THIS:  GLOBAL WARMING IS A SCAM and AL is the new MADDOFF of this enterprise.  Given the choice between the earth warming and my housing projects selling, I'll take the housing projects succeeding.  If you want to know the truth, I want to turn on the Discovery Channel this Sunday and see Al Gore swimming some 50 miles from shore in the Arctic, while the Polar Bears look down from a cruise ship.  If he could just drown, the movement would stop and the bears would be safer.

The problem with Barck,  his team of Rivals Philosophy, his redistribution of wealth program, his sneaking cigarette's in the bathroom and the inability to decide on a frigging dog or when, for that matter, shapes this administration up as the biggest losing proposition since the flyer from Maddoff Investments arrived in your mailbox.   Barack has succeeded in putting together the largest copy, cut and paste Presidency since Microsoft Word was invented.

I have great friends in Canada.  And while I think it's a sleepy country with the energy of a Nyquil Shooter, at least they can call an election.  I think the best day for Barack in retrospect will be Inaugural Day. 

  I think it will, in retrospect, have be our worst.

My friend, you have a gift for clarity with words. My blog, www.centurionag.blogspot.com, takes them to task, but with substantially less humor.

Keep up the good work.

Randy

 Randy Brunson | 2/6/2009 4:38:58 PM

Hi Dan,

Is your blog set up to allow followers?

Randy

 Randy Brunson | 2/7/2009 8:57:11 AM