Obama, back in February, (pre Stimulus, and Omnibus Spending bills):
“A smidgen of good news and suddenly everything is doing great. A little bit of bad news and ooohh , we’re down on the dumps,” Obama said. “And I am obviously an object of this constantly varying assessment. I am the object in chief of this varying assessment.”
“I don’t think things are ever as good as they say, or ever as bad as they say,” Obama added. “Things two years ago were not as good as we thought because there were a lot of underlying weaknesses in the economy. They’re not as bad as we think they are now.”
“And my long-term projections are highly optimistic, if we take care of some of these long-term structural problems.”
I know I speak for all Americans when I applaud March 12th President Obama for standing up to the politics of fear that have been cynically employed by February 5th President Obama. It’s time for 2/5 Obama to stop manipulating people’s emotions, just to try to make things harder for 3/12 Obama. In this time of crisis that isn’t actually that much of a crisis, Late-Winter O needs to learn how to work together with Early-Spring O. Americans didn’t vote for 2/5ths of success.
Aw…come on, you can’t blame the guy for not being wasteful.
Hat tip: Expose Obama for video.
Nice Deb 
Well, obviously, the reason 3/12 Obama is so upbeat is because he was able to finagle a couple of trillion dollars out of us by doing the Chicken Little dance.
Now, the sky has been returned to it’s rightful place (by Obama), and all will be well until he wants some more pocket cash.
At which time, the sky will start to fall again on cue, forcing Teh One to once again solve the problem by throwing some more of our money on the fire. Literally.
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Jana–good analysis! Rahm Emmanuel’s words keep ringing in my ear. The question becomes, “When does the next crisis occur in order to grab more power and drive the economy deeper into a hole?” My understanding is that the G20 is going to meet later this month to try to figure out a global financial system in order to attempt to solve the crisis.
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“Barack Obama will restore fiscal discipline to Washington”
No, seriously; I read this from a truly trustworthy site.
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/fiscal/
Oh, and “Obama and Biden believe that a critical step in restoring fiscal discipline is enforcing pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) budgeting rules which require new spending commitments or tax changes to be paid for by cuts to other programs or new revenue.”
No really, why is everyone laughing.
“End Wasteful Government Spending” So he’s going to cancel most of the stimulus too?
Is there nothing this man can’t do (or undo, or reverse, or redo, or whatever)?
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I have seen Liberals honestly admit they were wrong about something, and then (1) expect that conservatives would fix their mess (2) when that failed to happen they began saying that conservatives were just as much the problem; and (3) became so full of shame and anger they began to deny it was all Liberals’ fault in the beginning. Expect the same cycle here. Right now they’re beginning to admit the Emperor has no clothes, enjoy it, it won’t last long. The best we can hope for is that they’ll stay out of the way next go round.
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