Monday, 20 April 2009
When Did We Elect Dave As President?
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This morning, I was perusing CNN's web site when I was befuddled to read that Obama was going to gather his cabinet to seek 100 million dollars in cuts.
At one point in the movie Dave goes and visists a day care center to later learn that the center is being cut from the budget. Dave is outraged that they would do something so slimy as visit a center that was going to be axed. So the chief of staff challenges Dave: "Yeah. And if you can find a way to cut three hundred and fifty million dollars from the federal budget then you can keep your lousy shelters"
Dave then calls the cabinet together with the media and works with each secretary until he saves enough money for the shelter. At one point Dave is talking to the commerce secretary and asks about a program to make people feel better about the cars they drive.
Dave asks "I don't want to tell some eight-year-old kid he's gotta sleep in the street because we want people to feel better about their *car*. Do *you* want to tell them that?"
With the media all around the Secretary of Commerce has no option but to respond quietly "No sir."
This is the exact scene I envisioned with Obama playing the role of "President". I can see it now. Obama sitting around with his cabinet and asking them about program X. "I don't want to tell the next generation they will be saddled with a crushing debt so we could have X. Do you want to tell them that?"
This presidency has become a farce. Do they really think we are this freaking stupid? That a silly publicity stunt will make everything all right? I mean come on. The 100 million they are going to "save" is .0125% of the 800,000,000,000 dollars they spent on thestimulus porkulus bill. It is a small pittance of the enormous debts we are going to be running over the next three years. And yet some how we are supposed to feel good that they are going to go line by line through the budget to save us taxpayers $100 million. That we are going to believe that Obama is doing something fiscally responsible. Give me a break. This is a classic case of Obama fiddling while Rome burns.
President Obama returned to Washington on Sunday night with his eye back on his domestic agenda and a plan to save government money.On Monday, Obama will gather his full Cabinet together for the first time as president and challenge it to cut a total of $100 million in the next 90 days, two senior administration officials said....
....The agencies would have to report how they saved on expenses after 90 days, the officials said.
A senior administration official described the edict as part of Obama's "commitment to go line by line through the budget to cut spending" and "reform the government."
My first thought was, "Did we elect Dave as President?" Does anyone remember the movie 1993 movie "Dave"? It starred Kevin Kline as a regular guy who happened to have an uncanny resemblance to the president. The president falls into a comma and rather than let the Vice President take over the chief of staff, played by Frank Langella, enlists Dave to fill in as the President. He sees Dave as a puppet that he can use to continue has hold over the strings of power.
At one point in the movie Dave goes and visists a day care center to later learn that the center is being cut from the budget. Dave is outraged that they would do something so slimy as visit a center that was going to be axed. So the chief of staff challenges Dave: "Yeah. And if you can find a way to cut three hundred and fifty million dollars from the federal budget then you can keep your lousy shelters"
Dave then calls the cabinet together with the media and works with each secretary until he saves enough money for the shelter. At one point Dave is talking to the commerce secretary and asks about a program to make people feel better about the cars they drive.
Dave asks "I don't want to tell some eight-year-old kid he's gotta sleep in the street because we want people to feel better about their *car*. Do *you* want to tell them that?"
With the media all around the Secretary of Commerce has no option but to respond quietly "No sir."
This is the exact scene I envisioned with Obama playing the role of "President". I can see it now. Obama sitting around with his cabinet and asking them about program X. "I don't want to tell the next generation they will be saddled with a crushing debt so we could have X. Do you want to tell them that?"
This presidency has become a farce. Do they really think we are this freaking stupid? That a silly publicity stunt will make everything all right? I mean come on. The 100 million they are going to "save" is .0125% of the 800,000,000,000 dollars they spent on the
Posted by at 7:30 AM in National Politics
Comment: at Tue, 21 Apr 8:21 AM
Sorry about that. I have no clue as how I hit the wrong post to comment on. It was meant to go to the tea party post. If you'd like to delete it (or both), be my guest.
Interesting post. I'm just wondering if you're trying to say that the tide has now turned. Could it be that suddenly the democrats are working at their jobs, coaching t-ball, PTA, got a hair cut and got a real job while republicans have hippied to the streets in search of a tree in need of a good hugging? From the looks at the teabag fest pictures and vids I've seen, I can almost smell that marijuana aroma of my rock concert days.
I can just imagine how popular these events could have been if say FOX News had allowed Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck as well as the rest of their anchors to synchronize a perfected drum role prelude.