Drunk On His Own Kool-aid

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The president's amateurish leadership reflects a "champagne appetite" on a beer budget. He's content to spin tales of wondrous things he wishes the government to provide for Americans, unmindful of the fact that America is broke. No problem. He just sends his kool-aid drunk elves staggering down the steps to our country's basement where they print 90 billion dollars of paper a month to fuel his "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" dreams. Wanting to have 4 more years of spending bliss, he trys to hide his Kool-aid pitcher behind his back as he goes next door to the conservative's house to assure them he's really "okay" and that he's just been misunderstood...after all...he IS a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize! (gag) Moving to the center is an obvious political ploy that worked for Clinton, but won't work for Obama, IMO.

It's not that the president wants to hurt the country; it's that he believes that the best things the country has ever done have been done by government.

The president is dazzled by the vision of those shiny high-speed rail trains -- and by solar panels, electric cars and other pet projects that have caught his imagination. What he has been unwilling to do is to permit the vast private sector to make its own decisions -- to follow its own ideas.

Instead, the administration has been saddling the private sector with a stifling load of regulations. The burden of Obamacare, most of which does not take effect until 2014, is mostly in the realm of fear and uncertainty. Employers do not know how much each new hire will cost under the new health care regime. Nor can they estimate how the 129 new boards, commissions and agencies will affect the business world.

As Steve Wynn, CEO of Wynn Resorts, recently complained:

"I'm saying it bluntly, that this administration is the greatest wet blanket to business and progress and job creation in my lifetime. And I can prove it, and I could spend the next three hours giving you examples of all of us in this marketplace that are frightened to death about all the new regulations, our health care costs escalate, regulations coming from left and right."

Thanks Mona Charen

townhall.com/columnists/monacharen/2011/08/02/why_obamas_economy_wont_improve