Change We Can Hullucinate In

Some random thoughts.

The President Elect campaigned heavily on change. That he wanted to change politics as usual. That the problem was the Washington insiders and lobbyists. You heard the spiel. Well nearly all his insiders and WH picks are not newbies .... they are all former Clinton folks. These are the folks you'd have expected to see in a Hillary administration. These are folks who I'm sure bear loyalty to the Clintons, no? I heard that Rahm is a notorious leaker that would leak anytime Clinton rejected one of his ideas. I wonder how he and the anointed one will get along. Here's a good take on this by Dick Morris.

Seeing Paul V. last week was reassuring. He is the Godfather of the Fed. and the only Fed. Chairman who knew what he was doing. (He was appointed by Carter, but he was kept on by Reagan. At one point, Paul V. was known as the most powerful man in the world. He smoked cigars and didn't care where or with who especially in meetings. My type of guy. If he were in any cabinet post, it would be reassuring. But we shall see.

I hear that the new admin will create new types of Courts to try all those scum bags that are now in Gitmo. Secret courts outside the regular criminal justice system. I wonder if the lefties will give him a pass.

And now there are folks wanting to make a national holiday for Obama? Are you kidding me? He hasn't served a day yet and they want a national holiday? Hmm, how about these folks who don't have national holidays, "Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Adams?" just to name a few. Oy vay!

Oh And how about this? Obama has created the office of the President Elect? Check out the seal at the news conference? The thing is, the office does not exist.

Some interesting reading for your Monday (I've been out of the loop as mom has been in the hospital) but here's a good one from my favorite NPR/Fox Correspondent, Juan Williams on what an Obama victory means for racial politics.

And here's another op ed from today's WSJ by Mr. Pollster who shows us that contrary to the opinion of the elitist lefties, Reaganism is not dead. Interesting note:

Mr. Obama won the White House promising tax cuts, but he will be governing with a Democratic Congress bursting with desire for a more activist government. As he faces this challenge, he might remember the fate of another man who made taxes the central part of his campaign: the first President Bush, whose most memorable campaign line -- "Read my lips, no new taxes" -- was as central to his victory as Mr. Obama's promise to cut taxes for 95% of Americans. George H.W. Bush famously reneged on that promise. Voters rejected his bid for a second term.

Mr. Obama ran like Reagan. Will he be able to govern that way, too?

To Answer Mr. Rasmussen, don't count on it. But pigs have been known to fly on occasion, so I'll wait and see.

Posted by Cigar Mike at November 10, 2008 09:19 AM

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Posted by: Ken Hahn at November 10, 2008 01:45 PM