Paranoia Desperation Strikes Deep

The Wizard of 0 is down to desperately praying that Republicans will willingly join his column as he heads into the valley of the Little Bighorn:

Speaking to members of the Democratic National Committee on Thursday night, Obama vowed to continue his year-long quest to overhaul the nation’s health-care system, to curb rising costs and extend coverage to millions of families and individuals who don’t have it.

But he suggested a different way forward than the partisan, closed-door dealmaking underway between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.).

“What I’d like to do is have a meeting whereby I’m sitting with the Republicans, sitting with the Democrats, sitting with health-care experts, and let’s just go through these bills — their ideas, our ideas — let’s walk through them in a methodical way so that the American people can see and compare what makes the most sense,” Obama told DNC members.

There is a little fly in the Wizard’s ointment:

But given the public’s dim view of health-care reform, lining up 51 Senate Democrats even to approve fairly uncontroversial fixes could prove impossible. “We are not picking up votes. We are losing votes,” said a senior Senate Democratic aide.

Maybe you can get Arlen Specter to join you for a chorus of Kumbaya! Oh wait, you did. How did that work out for Benedict Arlen?

Seriously, I would have loved to have been in that room when the super-genius Wizard delivered his new strategy to the Democratic National Committee. The looks of sheer disbelief exchanged between members must have been hysterically funny – well, if you were not a member of that organization, that is.

Because this is, without a doubt, the most sophomoric understanding of how politics works that I have ever seen reported in the Washington press corpse. If this is an example of the advice he is getting from the “best and the brightest” he surrounded himself with, you can surely see why he is in the spot that he is.

Any Republican who sits down with the Wizard right now is going to the Little Bighorn with Barry. Any who do not know that deserve to.

Any of the Wizard’s maladroit munchkins who do not are quite a lot less than the best and more than several notches below the brightest.

You’re All Stupid

Object to the Obama agenda – you’re stupid. Object to government takeover of a huge chunk of the American economy – you’re stupid. Worry about skyrocketing taxes and unsustainable debt – you’re stupid. Have legitimate concerns about the direction the country is taking – you’re stupid.

So sayeth the left.

Go read what McQ sayeth in response. It is too good to excerpt and too true not to click over and read.

America is its people – it is not the government. We do not work for Washington. They work for us. They forget that at their peril. Yes, the voters can turn on a dime and savage a politician who lets them down or tries to sell them snake oil – or just to plain sell them.

That is how it was meant to work. Because we the people are America.

America is not the state. America is the people cooperating to act as a state.

Via Memeorandum.

Oh. The…. Humanity?

For the love of all that is holy, is there no safety for the White House Press corps?

Reporters ventured out to cover the speech amid a massive snowstorm in Washington that could dump up to three feet of snow on the region.

According to the White House pool report, as the motorcade drove back to the White House after the president’s speech, a medium-size tree branch snapped under the weight of the snow and fell on top of an SUV carrying photographers.

The windshield of the vehicle was reportedly covered in snow and the driver brought it to a stop. The limb was dragged off the roof and the vehicle returned safely to the White House.

The post is – I am not making this up – “Snowstorm puts W.H. press corps in danger”. Let’s see, government SUV piloted by professional driver in an official motorcade. Doubtless traveling at a safe speed given the conditions.

Oh. My. See how these professionals risk their very lives to bring you all the talking points that the White House sees fit to regurgitate for them? My heavens! One of them must have spilled their free mocha lattes!

Out here in flyover country, I drove 50 miles one way to work yesterday – drove myself, mind you – through several inches of newly fallen wet snow over ice. I didn’t file a pool report, however. I did do my bit to keep the lights on.Today, I shoveled wet, sloppy ice and snow from my walkway and driveway.

Nobody will ever file a pool report about the average person who simply copes with the world as it really is from day-to-day. We get to work even when the roads are badly plowed and full of a gazillion potholes – some large enough to swallow a Buick. We don’t travel in motorcades, we drive ourselves. We shovel our driveways and sidewalks, nurse our tired backs and get up the next day and do it again.

Do go read the entire post over at The Hill. Feel free to add to the already contemptuous comments about the heroic press corps.

Exit question: Should we all adopt The Wizard’s phrasing and begin to call them the White House Press Corpse? That actually seems rather apt.

UPDATE: Good. Lord. CNN is also hyping the dire danger the press corpse was in as they bravely flew through the snow. At the blistering pace of 15mph. At least CNN appears to be a little less breathless than The Hill about it, but seriously, this is news you can use?

One wonders how many of the brave press corpse had to change their underwear after their brush with death.

The Bonfire Of Mr. Vanity

Mark Steyn:

But, since Obama’s mispronunciation is a pithier summation of the State of the Union than any of the dreary 90-minute sludge he paid his speechwriters for, let us consider it: Is America a Corpseman walking?

Well, we’re getting there. National Review’s Jim Geraghty sums up Obama’s America thus: “Unsustainable is the new normal.” Indeed. The other day, Douglas Elmendorf, director of the Congressional Budget Office, described current deficits as “unsustainable.” So let’s make them even more so. The president tells us, with a straight face, that his grossly irresponsible profligate wastrel of a predecessor took the federal budget on an eight-year joyride, so the only way his sober, fiscally prudent successor can get things under control is to grab the throttle and crank it up to what Mel Brooks in “Spaceballs” (which seems the appropriate comparison) called “Ludicrous Speed.”

Obama’s spending proposes to take the average Bush deficit for the years 2001-08, and double it, all the way to 2020. To get out of the Bush hole, we need to dig a hole twice as deep for one-and-a-half times as long. And that’s according to the official projections of his Economics Czar, Ms. Rose Colored-Glasses. By 2015, the actual hole may be so deep that even if you toss every Obama speech down it on double-spaced paper you still won’t be able to fill it up. In the spendthrift Bush days, federal spending as a proportion of GDP averaged 19.6 percent. Obama proposes to crank it up to 25 percent as a permanent feature of life.

Sit back and think about that “strategy” for a moment. Would it work for you with your personal finances? You’re deeply in debt so you spend more to get out of it? Let me know how that works out for you.

Obama is paying lip service to creating jobs, but he is sucking the capital right out of the markets with his psychopathic spending spree. What’s left for small business? A proposed one-shot tax credit, paid for with borrowed money that the businesses are almost certainly going to be taxed to pay for at a future date.

Such a deal!

How stupid does Obama think those small business owners are?

The economy is burning down around us and Obama is feeding the flames.

Do go read all of Steyn’s column. As always, it is worth the read.