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by Greg Palast

January 29, 2009

Republicans are right.  President Barack Obama treated them like dirt, didn't give a damn what they thought about his stimulus package, loaded it with a bunch of programs that will last for years and will never leave the budget, is giving away money disguised as "tax refunds," and is sneaking in huge changes in policy, from schools to health care, using the pretext of an economic emergency.

Way to go, Mr. O! Mr. Down-and-Dirty Chicago pol.  Street-fightin' man.  Covering over his break-you-face power play with a "we're all post-partisan friends" BS.

And it's about time.

Frankly, I was worried about this guy.  Obama's appointing Clinton-droids to the Cabinet, bloated incompetents like Larry Summers as "Economics Czar," made me fear for my country, that we'd gotten another Democrat who wished he were a Republican.

Then came Obama's money bomb.  The House bill included $125 billion for schools (TRIPLING federal spending on education), expanding insurance coverage to the unemployed, making the most progressive change in the tax code in four decades by creating a $500 credit against social security payroll deductions, and so on.

It's as if Obama dug up Ronald Reagan's carcass and put a stake through The Gipper's anti-government heart.  Aw-RIGHT!

About the only concession Obama threw to the right-wing trogs was to remove the subsidy for condoms, leaving hooker-happy GOP Senators, like David Vitter, to pay for their own protection.  S'OK with me.

And here's the proof that Bam is The Man:  Not one single Republican congressman voted for the bill. And that means that Obama didn't compromise, the way Clinton and Carter would have, to win the love of these condom-less jerks.

And we didn't need'm.  Nyah! Nyah! Nyah!

Now I understand Obama's weird moves:  dinner with those creepy conservative columnists, earnest meetings at the White House with the Republican leaders, a dramatic begging foray into Senate offices.  Just as the Republicans say, it was all a fraud.  Obama was pure Chicago, Boss Daley in a slim skin, putting his arms around his enemies, pretending to listen and care and compromise, then slowly, quietly, slipping in the knife.  All while the media praises Obama's "post-partisanship."  Heh heh heh.

Love it.  Now we know why Obama picked that vindictive little viper Rahm Emmanuel as staff chief:  everyone visiting the Oval office will be greeted by the Windy City hit man who would hack up your grandma if you mess with the Godfather-in-Chief.

I don't know about you, but THIS is the change I've been waiting for.

Will it last?

We'll see if Obama caves in to more tax cuts to investment bankers.  We'll see if he stops the sub-prime scum-bags from foreclosing on frightened families. We'll see if he stands up to the whining, gormless generals who don't know how to get our troops out of Iraq.  (In SHIPS, you doofusses!)

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I very much hope... by Daniel Geery on Thursday, Jan 29, 2009 at 8:15:49 PM
I have a lot of respect for Mr. Palast ,,, but ... you knew by Mr M on Thursday, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:15:36 PM
As long as we have the FED, we're slaves ... by Mr M on Thursday, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:21:23 PM
Sunshine, subpoenas, and special prosecutors!!! OH YEAH! by Tim Riley on Friday, Jan 30, 2009 at 2:55:54 AM
Right on Mr. M by truthseeker7 on Friday, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:30:32 AM
Well said. by Nathan Nahm on Thursday, Jan 29, 2009 at 9:01:01 PM
Rah rah rah by Mad Jayhawk on Thursday, Jan 29, 2009 at 9:50:04 PM
You really ARE mad, aren't you? by Bia Winter on Friday, Jan 30, 2009 at 4:17:33 PM
The right man for the job by kato krause on Thursday, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:22:29 PM
Palast could not be more WRONG by Bruce Cain on Thursday, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:08:11 PM
Immigration by Dennis Kaiser on Friday, Jan 30, 2009 at 7:51:48 AM
oh, goody, a Democrat! by mary sunshine on Friday, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:20:05 AM
I think I am in love! by steve scheetz on Friday, Jan 30, 2009 at 8:45:22 AM
In My by shadow dancer on Friday, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:53:37 AM
Small bore worries by Scott Baker on Friday, Jan 30, 2009 at 2:52:11 AM
Where Greg is coming from by Perry Logan on Friday, Jan 30, 2009 at 5:23:38 AM
First Prosecute Murderers and Do Housecleaning by ramsheyi on Friday, Jan 30, 2009 at 5:33:06 AM
Well said. Very well said indeed. by Robert Hoogenboom on Friday, Jan 30, 2009 at 8:37:17 AM
Steady funding of the Gatekeepers by csnet on Friday, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:15:34 PM
Very Precious Indeed by ramsheyi on Friday, Jan 30, 2009 at 6:18:32 PM
If you'd actually read... by Mystic Wizard on Friday, Jan 30, 2009 at 2:33:34 PM
Yes, you're right. I didn't say 9/11 was done by Israel, by Robert Hoogenboom on Friday, Jan 30, 2009 at 5:59:53 PM
9-11 by wagelaborer on Saturday, Jan 31, 2009 at 1:32:23 PM
Amy not a gatekeeper by Perry Logan on Saturday, Jan 31, 2009 at 6:07:56 AM
crumbs by jersey girl on Friday, Jan 30, 2009 at 6:30:21 AM
Right on, Jersey Girl! by wagelaborer on Saturday, Jan 31, 2009 at 1:37:01 PM
correction on my last post by jersey girl on Friday, Jan 30, 2009 at 6:52:05 AM
Everybody funny... by William Whitten on Friday, Jan 30, 2009 at 8:09:54 AM
Carp if You Will, My Man Gets It Done by Jason Paz on Friday, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:19:47 AM
I agree with Paz and Palast by Jere Hough on Friday, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:42:06 AM
While I can appreciate... by Daniel Geery on Friday, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:04:25 PM
I agree with much of what you say, but, (there's that pesky by Mr M on Friday, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:31:16 PM
But the Repugs get the last laugh. by Samuel Bryan on Friday, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:02:40 PM
THE MULTIPLIER EFFECT by Blaine Kinsey on Friday, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:42:22 PM
I just posted this on the "farmer's being harrassed" article by Theresa Paulfranz on Friday, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:56:17 PM
Heehee by Bia Winter on Friday, Jan 30, 2009 at 4:27:00 PM
YOU NEED TO START HERE by MARGARET BASET on Sunday, Feb 1, 2009 at 3:50:59 AM

 
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