This Is Going To Be Almost Inconceivably Ugly

“This is going to be almost inconceivably ugly.” That is how Dr. Paul Krugman ended his blog post on 28 August 2010.

It is a short blog entry, but to me it is a monumental one. I hope he doesn't mind me quoting liberally from it. He begins, “I’m finding it hard to read about politics these days. I still don’t think people in the administration understand the magnitude of the catastrophe their excessive caution has created. I keep waiting for Obama to do something, something, to shake things up; but it never seems to happen.”

Let me interject that this excessive caution (I call it a lack of testosterone) means that Obama's version of Universal Health Care does not include a vigorous public option, making it very close to worthless. Guantanamo is still open, the unwinnable war in Afghanistan is raging and expanding, the financial reform legislation is tepid at best, Obama has approved offshore drilling in environmentally sensitive areas which even George W. wouldn't touch, and President Obama has also demonstrated that he is strongly anti-environmentalist and pro-nuke.

Dr. Krugman goes on to say: “the important thing is that all signs are that the next few years will be a combination of economic stagnation and political witch-hunt.”

All because President Obama has no balls. He had a major frigging mandate, and because he was afraid of getting sand kicked in his face by the racists and Republicans, he frittered away the mandate. Then Barack got his surrogates to attack his base in the Democratic party, calling the progressives and liberals “retards.” Sorry Mr. Obama, I hate to say it, but we now see that you are one pussified loser.


LINK TO KRUGMAN BLOG: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/28/failure-to-rise/

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