Sorry, America, I'm the bearer of bad news

[BlueStateSaint]

Amazing that history is repeating itself.  And, that someone could see this from across the pond.

Sorry, America, I'm the bearer of bad news

I predicted it all: the corruption, naivety, incompetence and wasting of tax dollars, says James Delingpole.

By James Delingpole
Last Updated: 6:05PM GMT 14 Feb 2009

Towards the end of an American tour last week to promote my new book Welcome to Obamaland: I've Seen Your Future and It Doesn't Work, I began to feel ever so slightly guilty. Partly it was all those people I met still wearing their "Vote Obama" badges like religious talismans, still quite obviously brimming with audacious hope for their country's bright future under the new Obamessiah. Who was I to come from the other side of the pond and rain on their parade?

Mainly, though, it was because I'd never expected the Obama project to go pear-shaped quite so soon. Sure, it was nothing I hadn't predicted in the book: the cronyism, the corruption, the naivety, the incompetence, the wasting of taxpayers' money on pet, left-liberal causes. Even so, by the time I left Washington DC, I was feeling almost sorry for the guy. Couldn't he at least have had a honeymoon before the divorce papers came through?

It's still early days, of course, with plenty of "time for change". But, after only three weeks, Obama's presidency has begun more closely to resemble the shambles at the end of the John Major administration than the golden dawn we might have expected for this Tony Blair Mk II.

Tom Daschle, the trusted comrade who was going to mastermind the new Obama universal healthcare plan, was forced to resign over tax irregularities. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, the alleged financial whiz who was supposed to sort out the US economy, somehow managed to survive a similar scandal – only to preside over a "stimulus" package so vague, ill-thought-out and wasteful that Wall Street share prices have been plummeting even faster than Obama's approval ratings.

"It will create millions of jobs," declared House speaker Nancy Pelosi, optimistically, of the $789 billion (shaved down, after much opposition protest, from over $850 billion) "stimulus". Conservatives have re-christened it "Porculus", noting that about half of it has rather less to do with boosting the economy than it does with pork-barrelling favoured constituents on the liberal left and expanding the welfare state.

The rest is at:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/4624008/Sorry-America-Im-the-bearer-of-bad-news.html

[thundley4]

"As long as Democrats put more and more people on the government dole, they will have their voters. But when there are more people in the cart than pulling, then you have Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico, etc. Those are great countries, right?"

The first comment below the article pretty much sums it up.

[Baruch Menachem]

The real divorce is the average voters divorce from reality here.  He still seems enormously popular.

It will be a lot worse.

[Willow]

The real divorce is the average voters divorce from reality here.  He still seems enormously popular.

It will be a lot worse.

Yes it will..

[JohnnyReb]

The real divorce is the average voters divorce from reality here.  He still seems enormously popular.

It will be a lot worse.

Yes, we HOPE for a CHANGE.