It shouldn’t take much longer for even the slowest fifty percent of Americans to notice. Sure, there have been some minor screw ups, like those petty issues with tax evasion and snatching half of a cabinet officer’s responsibility from him before he is even confirmed for the office, but they’ve been apologized for, so we just say, “little harm, no foul.”
But it is beginning to look like The Messiah simply can’t overcome his total lack of executive experience. Take a gander at this proposal:
Campaign Continues--Administration Lags
We’ve got a decision that rather than maybe just oversee the recovery efforts of the Big Three automakers to insure they aren’t squandering tax dollars we’re going to set up a committee. At first it was going to be a “czar”—that sort of super-mensch of government which announces by dictatorial fiat how things should be. But, on further consideration that would be a bad idea. It would be too easy to point the fickle finger of failure at one individual and then the clueless dolt who appointed him, AKA The Messiah. Nope, what we are going to do is use the last refuge of the left for solving problems through government intervention. We are going to appoint a committee!
Remember the old joke about a camel? That’s a horse designed by committee.
The astonishing part is that just like the Presidency itself, we appear poised to give control over a very technical and complex industry to a group of political animals who have absolutely no background in the auto industry. They are not engineers or MBAs. They aren’t sales or marketing professionals. In fact the great probability is that like the Prez himself none of them will have ever managed a business of any kind. Apply the concept to your next scheduled airline flight. Six charcoal suited, well-coifed, legislators head to the cockpit—none of them having ever driven an airplane before. Or, maybe your next doctor visit. Walk in and explain your symptoms to government commissioners on health, Daschle, Reid, Biden and Feinstein. Take two aspirin and call them next election day.
But, what is the President doing in the executive mansion? He’s campaigning. He’s never actually been any sort of manager or executive so he falls back on doing what he has proven he does best. He hops in the jet and travels around the country making campaign speeches. Are we noticing yet?
Remember when Bill Clinton kept AF One on the tarmac for an hour while he got his haircut in LA? At least he had made the California visit for a reasonable presidential purpose. Compare that to Saturday’s Valentine date for the Messiah. “Hey, Michelle baby. Wanna grab the jet and go out to dinner? A couple hours each way and we chow down at our old favorite in Chi-town.” No government business involved!
I think I would call that abuse of power as well as a significant carbon footprint. So far, however, the abuse has been excused as simply a romantic interlude.
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