Faster Than a Speeding Bullet...That Kills You

Ok, I gave him three days of a clean slate, and it’s already caked over in the chalk of bad decisions. All the policies I opposed in his campaign platform are already in the works, threatening to pass, and the palpable arrogance I sensed all along is rearing its ugly, big-eared head like never before.

In a private meeting with select members of Congress yesterday, Obama and the team discussed the bail-out package, the stimulus plan, and Rush Limbaugh. When a philosophical debate over tax policy went on for what Obamessiah thought was too long, he settled it in a truly tasteless way. He said he was right because “I won,” referring to his electoral victory. Apparently, when you’re voted into office, everyone else forfeits the right to question your opinions. The comment came after a Republican Representative from Virginia conjectured that cutting income tax would do more good than sending home stimulus checks, and Obama, perhaps unable to muster a convincing argument against this, just said, “I won.” While this was a joke in the context of the meeting, his audacity still astounds me (and even IN the meeting, only the Democrats were laughing). By this token, every other idea Obama has for the next four years should also be praised and go untested because of this single victory.

That’s what our balance of powers is for, Obama: to keep you from becoming an egomaniacal dictator.

Later in the meeting, Obama commented that we’d all get more done if the Republicans would stop listening to Rush Limbaugh. Funny, I think we’d all get more done if the Democrats would start being Republicans, but I’m not going to announce that in a congressional forum discussing the financial well-being of our country. It’s no secret that Obama would strip all conservative talk radio off the air if he could have his censorship-loving way, but to claim that one party’s chosen source of political entertainment is downright counter-productive is just silly. Really, Obama, you can do better than that. Maybe.

Aside from my qualms with Obama’s overall demeanor, when the meeting got down the discussing the more important issues on the agenda, Obama still let me down. He wants to start sending out stimulus money by February, eventually totally 825 billion dollars. The bail-out package is also working its way up, now estimated to cost more than 750 billion. Together, we’re already looking at 1.6 trillion dollars in new government spending, all coming out of our pockets. The stimulus plan will give $500 back to families making under $200,000 annually, but something tells me that it won’t quite feel even, and everyone making over 200k will be footing the bill for those who make and contribute nothing.

So even though Obama’s campaign promised to slash government spending, it looks like it’s the government spending that will actually be slashing us. What’s worse is that when a few Congressmen present at this meeting proposed a discussion about possible tax increases, Obama said it was “too soon” to talk about it. While I am in no way a proponent of increasing taxes, from the outside looking in, all I see is more than a trillion dollars going out, and no extra money coming in.

DOES THIS SOUND LIKE A DEFECIT-FIXING STRATEGY TO YOU?

Obama has already put into the works potential to ruin our country’s economy, to a point lower than it is right now. And he’s been in office for 72 hours. He’s got about 34,000 hours left in his first term.

May God help us all.