A-I-D-A

A-I-D-A.  It stands for Attention, Interest, Decision, and Action.  This message is on the the other side of the chalkboard that Alec Baldwin's character in Glengarry Glen Ross uses to hammer his pitch to the beleaguered salesmen about to lose their jobs.  "Attention - Do I have your attention?  Interest - Are you interested?  I know you are, because it's **** or walk.  You close or you hit the bricks.  Decision - Have   you made your decision, for Christ?  And Action."

Obama got our attention with the stimulus, the bailouts, Obamacare, and all the other harebrained ideas his administration has offered or concocted.  We are extremely interested in turning him and his cronies out through the elective process.  We have made our decision and remain enthusiastic about our choice to reverse his policies.  According to the polls, decisive action will be taken on November 2nd to set a new course for America.  ABC/AIDA.   Let's win that Cadillac El Dorado.  Vote!  Let's not settle for the steak knives.

ABC

In the movie Glengarry Glen Ross, Alec Baldwin's character berates the sales associates to "ABC", "always be closing."  Mickey Kaus, of Newsweek, reports that Barack Obama has changed the meaning of "ABC" to "always be condescending."  Apparently Mr. Obama has once again offended the electorate by claiming that American's "fear and frustration" is to blame for his and his party's downfall in the polls.  In a speech this past weekend to supporters, the president said, "Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared."  Remember that during the election of '08, Obama told a similar audience in San Francisco that middle Americans tend to "cling to their guns and religion" or otherwise show "antipathy towards people who are not like them," when confronted with a faltering economy as well.  Which makes me think, if indeed Obama is right about our fears and unclear thinking when we are scared, then that explains his election victory in "08.  He's so smart.

 

Liberal Arrogance is Authentic

In the latest issue of Time Magazine (from Real Clear Politics, remember I cancelled my subscription to Time), Joe Klein authors a piece entitled Ignorance as Authenticity, and  subtitled Why Do Some Idolize Ignoramuses Like O'Donnell.  Like a dog with a new chew toy, media elites just can't get enough of O'Donnell/Angle/Palin, or anything else that seems foreign to them, i.e., conservative women.  Just ask Meg Whitman.  Joe tries to explain to us that these "Tea Party know-nothings"are absolutely unqualified to join the Washington elite because they aren't really smart enough, and because they don't agree with him or Obama.

"There is something profoundly diseased about a society that idolizes its ignoramuses and disdains its experts," he writes.  "It is a society that no longer takes itself seriously."  Didn't our president just admonish us recently in a speech for not being serious about his transformational reform of government?  Mr. Klein goes on to say that we don't get Obama because his policies are "abstruse."  Abstruse is defined as difficult to understand.  In other words, it's not that we disagree with Obama's policies because they are an anathema to our values and ideology, it's the fact that we are simply too stupid to understand or comprehend them.  Further translation; the American people are too obtuse to grasp the wisdom of Obama.

Benchwarmers

What's scarier than the first two years of the Obama administration?  The next two years of the Obama administration.  Why?  Because for the first two years we were treated to the best and the brightest the Democrats could muster to help President Obama carry out his/their insidious plans and policies.   Now that a large number of his most key appointments and first string wonks have left the White House playroom, Obama now has to draw upon second and third choices for backfill.  This should make us all extremely nervous.  Then again, if his collection of valedictorians couldn't fulfill the promise of a progressive's dream, even with huge majorities in both houses of Congress, perhaps we can all sleep better knowing that a Republican majority in at least one chamber will thwart any further attempts at making us more European than Europe.

 


 

Obama's Animal House

Caught bits of President Obama's visit to Madison, Wisconsin on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.  You know it's gotten really bad for BHO when even Jon Stewart makes fun of you.  The president's speech to the crowded quad at the University of Wisconsin was angry, confused, accusatory and belittling.  And those were the parts directed at his supporters!  He can't seem to get beyond the car-in-the-ditch scenario, and with each passing attempt he adds another layer of stupidity and silliness.  The latest version has Republicans drinking Slurpees as he and the Democrats continue to operate a stalled vehicle which incidentally, remains in the ditch.  I thought the stimulus, the bailouts, the buyouts, Obamacare and quarterly extensions of unemployment benefits had already pulled the car from the ditch?  Why are we still in the ditch Mr. President?

Meanwhile, a number of top, key officials have vacated or will soon depart Obama's broken down jalopy of hope, leaving behind a back seat full of empty promises, discarded dreams, and other progressive detritus collected along the way of their two-year road trip.  Back at the frat house, media pundits are speculating on which brother or sister of Phi Delta Obama will step up to repair the damage.  The reality is that nobody the White House names to replace the freshman class of 2012 will do any better.  How can they?  They all drink from the same trash barrel of ideas and their biggest supplier of grain alcohol is their leader Barry.

I'm sure Dean Vernon Wormer would agree that oblivious, deceitful and arrogant is no way to go through life either, unless of course your subjects can be kept fat, drunk and stupid on liberal bromides like universal healthcare, transfer payments, cap and tax, etc.  Thankfully, main street Americans have seen through the hazing and are poised to put Phi Delta Obama on double secret probation beginning this November.  

The Truth About the '08 Financial Collapse

Obama's Keynesian Juggernaut

My takeaway from President Obama's much heralded (if you pay attention to CNBC) economic town hall meeting with a live audience on CNBC is this; The Obama administration wishes to raise taxes on individuals making over $250,000, tax capital gains at least an additional 5%, and capture additional taxes through financial regulation of Wall Street, because they are going to continue to spend massive amounts on new and existing government programs.  If the president's visit was intended to deflate a growing sense of unease or that his administration is anti-business, I thing Mr. Obama sorely missed the mark.  Once again, a golden opportunity to reposition himself as a defender of free market principles was squandered.