Note to Otto: After you find the sickening "Friday cutie" cat picture for
the DUmp lounge, you might want to post this in general discussion.  Their
comments are always so well thought out and well written.

It's been a good week in politics.

1.  Obama opens his first formal press conference with a rambling ten-minute
statement he read from a teleprompter.  Has any president before now used a
teleprompter during a press conference?  After taking the first question,
Obama goes off on a rambling 12-minute response that didn't answer the
question.  Obama finishes the rambling response with "OK?" as if he himself
was not sure what he had just said.  Unlike GW, who was known for being
generous with follow-up questions, Obama grants not one.

2.  Timothy Geithner, Oabama's tax-cheating Treasury Secretary, holds a
press conference to explain the details of the Pelosi/Reid pork package.
His explanation is so bizarre, rambling and lacking in detail that the stock
market tanked to the tune of 400 points after he spoke.  Some vote of
confidence, eh?

3.  Obama received the largest popular mandate of any democrat since LBJ in
1964, but instead of using this mandate to fashion "targeted, temporary and
timely" stimulus measures he promised during the campaign, Obama turns this
legislation over to the insane clown posse that runs congress.  Before this
bloated pork bill is finished, Harry Reid goes before the cameras to say
that House and Senate differences in the bill had been smoothed out, which
infuriates Nancy Pelosi because apparently they had not been smoothed out at
all.  What is emerging from this clown posse is a trillion dollar sop to
every wacked-out leftie special interest group out there, not the least of
which are corrupt uinions and ACORN.

4.  Judd Gregg, a Republican universally respected in DC, walks away from
his nomination as Commerce Secretary.  This is the single Obama nomination
that failed not because of scandal but because of principle.  Gregg said
that Obama's dangerous decision to move the Census Bureau to the chief of
staff's office prompted his withdrawal.  We are moving quickly from a
presidency that stumbled out of the staring blocks to a failed presidency.
We are not yet a month in.

5.  The democrat Senate approves William Lynn, a lobbyist for the Raytheon
company, as Obama's Assistant Secretary of Defense.  Obama promised to close
the revolving door between lobbyists and government.  Oh well, so much for
that promise, eh?

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