The Comedy of Errors

Probably no one noticed it except the Czar, but CNN has a nice summary of everything that’s wrong with the Obama administration.

The story discusses how the GOP is starting to turn the flame up on the Obama economic recovery plan, starting with Joe Biden’s comment that “the truth is, we and everyone else misread the economy.” Once again, Biden reveals the truth behind the incompetence of the Obama administration, that they had no idea what they were getting themselves into.

The President fires back “Rather than say ‘misread,’ we had incomplete information,” thereby maintaining another Obama tradition of explaining to us what all of his staff should have said. And assuming that the President is correct and that Biden is incapable of remembering basic policy as the Number Two Man in the Executive Branch (Jeez, can no one remember their lines?), Obama is really saying that his chief economic advisors, including Tim Geithner, lack a basic understanding of market conditions—even though the causes of the economic crunch were being clearly documented as they were happening. They, like millions of Americans, could have sorted out the situation by reading the WSJ. As ‘Puter might say, they should have put down their Econ 426 tomes and cracked open an Econ 101 book.

All right—either we are incompetent or we are too inexperienced to explain anything we’re doing. Obama supporters, the Czar grants you the freedom to choose which explanation you like.

Then, the President adds that missing information or not, he would not have done anything differently. So the collapse of Chrysler and GM, the misplacement of billions of taxpayer dollars, threatening inflation, and a historically high unemployment rate...the President feels these are all good decisions. Either he thinks these are good for everyone except the victims, or he does not care what the outcomes were, so in addition to choosing between incompetence and inexperience, the supporters can now choose between cruelty or arrogance. No surprise poll after poll shows Americans think he is headed in the wrong, wrong, wrong direction.

The story concludes with a quote: “One thing that we’ve seen is that the president’s popularity, while he’s still popular throughout the nation, really is taking hits in key states.” This is not GOP propaganda: the President’s popularity in Ohio has now slipped below 50%. This reveals another suppressed side to the current administration: the Democrats may have won by many millions of votes, but on a state-by-state analysis, Obama actually won only by small percentage points. That mathematical truth is now starting to unravel.

So Obama supporters—who appear fewer in number—you may choose. Is your Hoper and Changer incompetent or inexperienced? Is he cruel or arrogant?