ORAC Nice one
GTF
I didn't make up a "stupid statistic" the calendar and BHO did! Somehow, just 143 days after entering the Senate, he thinks he can be President. And so far, he has come close and may, in fact, be right. Using your FP controller analogy, subtract days off, travel, the fact the Senate only works 3 days a week and BHO didn't have 70 days experience, but I'll stick with 143 plus his days campaigning since, which took him away from any Senate work.
I've read his website and, damned, if I can find any ideas that aren't Democrat cant since 1972. He'll restore Clinton-era taxes, which aren't new and, probably really a marginal change in the wrong direction. He has no plan to confront the yawning Social Security/Medicare funding gap ($53 trillion, TRILLION at the end of 2008) Read the Coming Generational Storm
Coming Generational Storm, if you want a primary source. Current credit crunch; beyond claiming it is all the Republican's fault-NOT one suggestion, just let the Democrat caucus work it out. Domestic ideas-he has platitudes. He is blithely committing us to a nasty face-off with the Russians by endorsing further enlargement of NATO. As Wiley says, the international thugs are judging him for a reenactment of the Cuban Missile Crisis. And I cannot find ANYTHING in his background, resume, friends and associates (Rev Wright, Ayers, Daley) to indicate ANYTHING other than a conventional Democrat pol. SHOW ME SOMETHING beyond smooth talk. And I'm laughing at 11th most powerful Senator--read the criteria, he has no legislative record, no seniority, just SIZZLE which is a criteria, believe it or not.
Hat tip to Wiley
The epitaph for Republicans will be:
They betrayed their Principles in the hope of keeping Power, and now have neither Principles nor Power
The Dems mantra:
Their only Principle was Power and, sticking by their Principle they got Power
Good bumper sticker for BHO:
EVERY DISASTER IS A CHANGE Hat tip to G. Will