Obama Is a Two-Faced Liar. Aw-RIGHT!
http://www.truthout.org/013009R
Greg Palast, Truthout: "Republicans are right. President Barack Obama
treated them like dirt, didn't give a damn what they thought about
his
stimulus package, loaded it with a bunch of programs that will last
for years and will never leave the budget, is giving away money
disguised as 'tax refunds,' and is sneaking in huge changes in
policy,
from schools to health care, using the pretext of an economic
emergency."
Way to go, Mr. O! Mr. Down-and-Dirty Chicago pol. Street-fightin'
man. Covering over his break-your-face power play with a "we're all
post-partisan friends" BS.
And it's about time.
Frankly, I was worried about this guy. Obama's appointing
Clinton-
droids to the Cabinet, bloated incompetents like Larry Summers as
"Economics Czar," made me fear for my country, that we'd gotten
another Democrat who wished he were a Republican.
Then came Obama's money bomb. The House bill included $125
billion
for schools (TRIPLING federal spending on education), expanding
insurance coverage to the unemployed, making the most progressive
change in the tax code in four decades by creating a $500 credit
against social security payroll deductions, and so on.
It's as if Obama dug up Ronald Reagan's carcass and put a stake
through The Gipper's anti-government heart. Aw-RIGHT!
About the only concession Obama threw to the right-wing trogs was
to remove the subsidy for condoms, leaving hooker-happy GOP Senators,
like David Vitter, to pay for their own protection. S'OK with me.
And here's the proof that Bam is The Man: Not one single
Republican congressman voted for the bill. And that means that Obama
didn't compromise, the way Clinton and Carter would have, to win the
love of these condom-less jerks.
And we didn't need'm. Nyah! Nyah! Nyah!
Now I understand Obama's weird moves: dinner with those creepy
conservative columnists, earnest meetings at the White House with the
Republican leaders, a dramatic begging foray into Senate offices.
Just
as the Republicans say, it was all a fraud. Obama was pure Chicago,
Boss Daley in a slim skin, putting his arms around his enemies,
pretending to listen and care and compromise, then slowly, quietly,
slipping in the knife. All while the media praises Obama's "post-
partisanship." Heh heh heh.
Love it. Now we know why Obama picked that vindictive little
viper
Rahm Emanuel as staff chief: everyone visiting the Oval office will
be
greeted by the Windy City hit man who would hack up your grandma if
you mess with the Godfather-in-Chief.
I don't know about you, but THIS is the change I've been waiting
for.
Will it last? We'll see if Obama caves in to more tax cuts to
investment bankers. We'll see if he stops the sub-prime scum-bags
from
foreclosing on frightened families. We'll see if he stands up to the
whining, gormless generals who don't know how to get our troops out
of
Iraq. (In SHIPS, you doofuses!)
Look, don't get your hopes up. But it may turn out the new
president's ... a Democrat!
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