While everybody’s obsessing over The President of the Perpetual Press Conference’s Very Big Most Impressive First Day of sternly issuing orders for people to get around to doing stuff later right away, and do-overs, I’ve been watching developments concerning the sneaky Peetes that are flying under the radar to all our detriment, and one that’s flying crash bang into the radar, and the tower, and everything else in his way, like the big jet in “Airplane!” presumably just for the hell of it.
First, Barack the Magnificent (He Is) is getting journalistic high fives for announcing in one of his many press conference/availability/chance to be on camera and talk again, yay! thingies, that he, fer sher, was gonna tell those people to start looking right now into closing Guantanamo Bay sooner, rather than later because, they do bad stuff to good prisoners there and you can’t do bad stuff to good prisoners anywhere else ‘cuz waterboards are not portable, and besides if you could, and you did, you’d have to sell tickets and let us all watch. So, I guess now all they’ve gotta figure out is how to make it look like the people they’re holding because they feel like it are going to get a fair trial whenever they get to their new digs, ‘cuz that’s important to some people. We know they’re going to figure out what it is they should be most concerned with figuring out within a year, ‘cuz Obie said so on His Very Big Most Important First Day and he wasn’t smiling ear to ear, which is a long way for him.
Anyway, the TelePrompterReaderInChief also spouted proudly that the people who started working for him yesterday, would now get the salaries they had agreed to start with from now on. Again, the Propped Up President is getting major media style points for cutting the salaries of people who haven’t even started yet, which sends a “fart in the wind” belt-tightening message to Big Business, so, it must be as important as knowing that when he signs one of these executive order thingies we know he did it himself after talking to his lawyers.
Another thing he promised was that lobbyists can’t work for him as lobbyists, and people who work for him can’t lobby, which is the same thing, but different, and which I guess is a big deal for the few guys willing to give up their lucrative lobbying jobs to take a pay cut before they even start a crappy government job they never wanted anyway since Obie’s show order doesn’t stop lobbyists from…lobbying, and doesn’t say anything about the firms they work for, as far as I know, and, it’s limited to the executive branch, and they have to take another pay cut on Day One. But, like the pay cut thing, Barry’s Boyz knew it was coming which gave people who aren’t even lobbyists on his staff like David Axelrod, time to give up not being a lobbyist in advance. Whew!
But, while all this is going on, the more evil aspects of Obalization are going on right under our noses. Timothy Geithner, the Teflon Top Trainee’s staunchly defended choice for Secretary of the Treasury, and tax cheatWHOA! Did I just type that the President of the United States, though referred to derisively, seriously supports a tax cheat who only ‘fessed and paid up when he found out he was up for the job, for Secretary of the Fucking Treasury? Yup,uhdee-ud. ‘Cuz, he dee-ud. And the Finance Committee approved him after he blamed Turbo-fucking-Tax, and are now sending him to the fucking United States Senate for rubber stamp approval, and this makes sense? Obviously, the reason WeaselBoy has not backed down is he knows they can’t make him since he’s the only one who knows where the bailout money went ‘cuz he’s part of the reason one was needed. And, he’s not telling where the rest of the bailout money is going until they give him the fucking keys to the fucking vault. Nobody moves, nobody gets hurt. Since everybody is supposedly too busy basking in the afterglow of two, count ‘em, two administrations of the Official Oath of Office for the obscenely expensive price of one to pay any attention, the flufferMedia can obey orders and largely ignore it, or otherwise minimize it, too.
On another sour note, the Let ‘Em Eat Cake Crowd has been quietly preparing to stick it to the ever-increasing ranks of the poor for the benefit of the Pretender President’s vaunted “Middle Class.” (insert celestial Hallelujahs here) Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education and Shaun Donovan, HUD Secretary, can now go about the business of kicking under-performing kids out of inner city schools and tearing them down (the schools) while militarizing the wild, out of control kids without fathers so the test numbers look good once you get rid of the really stupid and bad ones, (the kids) and tearing down government subsidized housing and replacing it with mixed income housing with 33% available for about 5 % of the now homeless people you kicked out of the projects since gazillions of people live in the projects and only googobs of “mixed income housing” can go up at one time, respectively.
Who knows, maybe one day, one of those homeless militarized kids will become so good at surviving the warfare of the streets, or XBOX 360, that he, or she, will figure out a way to kill zap all the bad guys humanely before you have to take them to Guantanamo Pelican Green Bay or someplace and read ‘em Elizabeth Alexander poetry until they beg for waterboarding.
Aaaannnnnddd, the wheels on the bus go…
