Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Time to Change Partners

(As compared to "dance with the one who brung you.")

I know I am not alone in being baffled at the ineffectiveness of the Obama junta in making change happen.  But many of those inner-circle appointments rankled from the start, including Wall Street sweethearts who were installed in critical roles.  Perhaps like you, I wanted to hope that Obama had the upper hand and Rahm/Geithner/Summers/other swill/et al would be severely reined in and actually managed.  The idea was to actually begin to overturn the financial debacle caused by the criminal deregulation over the last couple decades that led to the law-breaking corporatist sycophancy and such that was more-or-less a merit badge for the bush and clinton pogroms.  This despite the fact that Geithner, Summers, et al, were principle in that same outrageous ongoing ripoff of our country.  You'd have to be Truly Stupid not to be suspicious.

In brief, Meet the New Boss - we've been fooled again.  At the least, Obama is a Total Stooge for still allowing Rahm to actually pretend to be a player in governance when all he has ever wanted is to be on the front page of magazines.  Asshole is as asshole does might well be the definition of Rahm from what I see.

It ain't pretty and it ain't going to be easy. And in this case I'm merely referring to trying to overcome innate cynicism and find a glimmer of hope.

I started on draft of this post a good while ago, but, semi-miraculously, this dusty link still seems pertinent.

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