I watched the Chosen One’s first presser last night and besides my eyes glazing over and almost falling out of my chair with boredom — which the press themselves looked ready to do — I wonder what the man actually accomplished except for nailing shut the coffin on bi-partisanship before his first month in office is done.

And boy is it ever done! Michelle Malkin announces that with the votes of three turn-coat Republicans, Specter, Snowe, and Collins, the Senate has passed the so-called stimulus bill 61-37 and adds:

Now, it’s off to the House-Senate conference backrooms to stuff more pork back in.

You didn’t think that they’d really leave out the “pork” now, did ya? Not with good ol’ Chucky Schumer telling all of us that he doesn’t care a flyin’-fornicatin’-rodent’s-hairy-hiney what WE think. Watch him taunting his GOP co-senators.

“American people really don’t care”, huh Chuck? They’ll care plenty when they have to pay the bill! They’ll care even more when the bill comes due and this porky, portly non-plan of non-action creates nada, nothing in the realm of jobs. Well, maybe they’ll care.

Wall Street isn’t impressed and the Dow is plummeting, in fact, the more that Obama’s Treasury Secretary Geithner speaks, the faster it tanks. Perhaps it’s because he’s talking about injecting another $1.5 – $2 TRILLION into the banking sector. That’s trillion, with a “T”! On top of the $800 plus Billion for the stimulus, the original $350 Billion TARP funds and the more, More, MORE $$$ that we keep hearing will be required before we can dig out from this financial crisis. The Anchoress remarks on the Wall Street free fall:

Stocks Tumbling: As the Senate passes a bill to end America as we know it. Well, Michelle Obama did say her husband would “never let us go back to the way we were.” Is anyone surprised – by any of this?

Geez, I got a huge headache! I’m not the only one. My buddy Laer at Cheat-Seeking Missiles saw “No Magic” in the Pres’ presser either:

Unfortunately for the newly dour Mr. Obama – who, it seems, never thought for a moment that being president would be anything but fun – the American people have started paying attention. They look at the crazed spending and obscene overreach of Porkasaurus and say to themselves, “I just don’t believe this guy any more. If this is how he deals with a crisis, he’s right – we may not be able to reverse it.”

He also presents AOL poll results that show Obama’s stature with the lefty side of the populace being taken down a few notches to boot. Ed Morrissey thinks that Obama told two big whoppers about the GOP and blew his history review of Japan’s economic failures in the 1990s. Lie number one is that the GOP wanted to “do nothing” about the crisis. Lie number two is that the GOP is solely responsible for the trillion dollar deficit, and he told the reporters, and the American people, that Japan messed up by not acting swiftly enough.

In other words, Obama gets an F in economic history despite supposedly having the best and brightest cribbers working on his staff. He gets an F for honesty as well as an D- on bipartisanship. It’s a lousy start to his four-year class on how to be an executive.

Ace sees the classic “bait & switch” of a shifty used car salesman:

Bait and switch. He promised a much more sensible stimulus with more tax cuts — and costing only $174 billion — as Candidate Obama.

As President Obama, he is ramming an $1.3 trillion porkfest on us and claiming the “people have spoken” and have endorsed this plan through their votes.

Actually, to the extent they endorsed anything, they endorsed the more Republican-friendly $174 billion plan.

He also notes that the AP is starting to “wonder” about Obama’s facts and figures.

Watching the presser on C-Span, as it wrapped and the Mighty-”O” exited stage back and the mikes still live — what I saw was a classic South Park moment — everyone looking a bit stunned with “What the Hell was that!” looks on their faces, with nervous laughter all around.

I keep snappin’ my fingers in front of my face — I still can’t wake from this nightmare — all I can hear in my head is that voice form on high sayin’, “I Won! Deal with it!”

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