The Brilliance of the Hawaii Surfer Dude, Obama

 In control? Or not?

I woke up at 2:57 AM with the notion that the Obama Hawaii surfer dude was absolutely brilliant. It seems that the president is back in the good graces of my unconscious mind and the dream-state mind. It does not surprise me at all any more. The sleep parts of my personality have always been more brilliant; while I am desultory, they are agile, lithe, and rapid; while I am feckless, they are competent and effective. It's a tough world and to get by, I have to struggle and play the role like Willie Best, while the parts of my intelligence which do not usually see the light of day are like Paul Robeson and Langston Hughes and W.E.B. DuBois

The brilliance part - of Obama, not my sleeping intelligences - comes in the fact that he is setting up the Republicans for a monstrous fall. By increasing the deficit by almost a trillion in the lame duck session, the voters will be catered to and yet these same voters will ask over Xmas recess about how's that budget balancing thing comin'? Hmm? Hmm?
So the new Congress comes back with sharpened blades to pare the budget... and people will howl! The austerity budgets will not be enjoyed by Americans any more than do the Greeks and Irish enjoy their own.
And Obama can argue against each and every budget cutting measure. He may veto those which benefit him the most politically.

It will be like shooting fish in a barrel.
Even though such measures are required, everybody will hate them. It will take years and years for any good effects to show up. What politican who takes away your pork will last that long? We are not an altruistic nation when it comes to getting back the money taken away from us in taxes.
We are going to say that we bailed out and enriched the people that almost destroyed the financial system (here we assume the financial system has not been destroyed - it may be a long-term phenomenon that takes a long time to actually play out and the financial system may have already been in chemo and found it doesn't work!).
For this we received stagnant wages and 10% systematic unemployment.

I think there are going to be a number of Nights of the Long Knives in the Republican future.

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