I'll Eat My Hat

There are people all over the country who now claim that Mr. Obama is now finally positioned on the right side of things due to his stance on the Bush tax cut (sic). However reluctantly, Obama appears to have bitten the bullet and done what’s right. Let’s say the Bush tax cuts (sic) are extended for a year or two. For ordinary families it would simply mean that the status quo has been maintained. Hurray!

Keep in mind, we will have done nothing to reverse our downward slide. In fact, we have made our situation worse by accelerating our descent into debt via the pork that has now become attached to this bill. We have set ourselves up to fight this fight again the next time it comes around - hence, there continues to be uncertainty. Not even the president is fully on board which he made perfectly clear at his (not Bill Clinton’s) presidential press conference. So, if it fails to ‘stimulate’, which it will, for there is nothing to suggest that (contrary to the opinions of Pelosi and Reed) paltry unemployment checks magically turn anybody into big a spender.

We have become so desperate as to grasp at mere straws just to prove that our bold new experiment with socialism works, that we are now quite willing to overlook the big picture. Hitler was the impetus behind the concept of the Volkswagen. It was a huge success and has survived to this day, yet we are not prepared to proclaim the Hitler years a triumph based on this alone. What’s scary is that Obama himself could dive into the frigid Potomac and save a drowning child just before the 2012 elections and we would potentially reward him with an additional term in office, overlooking the fact that every one of his major policy initiative is geared to diminish our nation in some significant way.

I hold to my prediction re the fate of the Bush tax cuts. If it turns out that I am wrong, I will admit it. If anyone should demand that I eat my hat, I will gladly do so. It should be a relatively easy feat as I don’t wear hats in any case.

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