Wow — BBQ sauce as an art medium!

Remember when mom told ya, “Don’t play with your food?”

Heh!

I saw this on Drudge this AM and read Camille Paglia‘s harsh critique of the Obama advisers. So harsh, in fact, that for her they shouldn’t be part of the administration any more, if ever they should have in the first place.

Yes, free the president from his flacks, fixers and goons — his posse of smirky smart alecks and provincial rubes, who were shrewd enough to beat the slow, pompous Clintons in the mano-a-mano primaries but who seem like dazed lost lambs in the brave new world of federal legislation and global statesmanship.

Heads should be rolling at the White House for the embarrassing series of flubs that have overshadowed President Obama‘s first seven weeks in office and given the scattered, demoralized Republicans a huge boost toward regrouping and resurrection. (Michelle, please use those fabulous toned arms to butt some heads!)

She then goes on to lament President Obama’s poor luck at being saddled with such incompetence, and for the administration’s war against Rush Limbaugh, all the fault of said idiots too, no doubt — on and on she whines as if the Chosen One his own self has had nothing to do with choosing those that are closest to him, that are feeding him this constant stream of horse-shit counsel.

Purple Avenger over at Ace sums this all up nicely:

The Paglias of the world can’t envision a scenario where Obama is to blame for anything – he inexplicably possesses a tautological purity of intent for them, despite a background and associations suggesting the man is about as pure of intent as Carlo Gambino.

I find it impossible to believe that the most “media connected” president ever, who still has a Blackberry, isn’t wired in on what’s going on within his administration. Chances are someone even leaked Paglia’s column to them in draft form and Obama knew about it before it even went to press.

Its not a lack of communication, its a lack of character.

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“Get the f**k out of my office!”

Just what a Chicago voter wants to hear after making an appointment with his elected alderman and trying to present to him a petition of several hundred signatures opposed to a development project supported by said alderman. Sounds like Ricardo Munoz is channeling his inner Rahm Emmanuel.

And then, at the national level, from Charlie Rangel you get this:

“Why don’t you mind your goddamned business?”

This from the guy that heads the tax-writing committee — funny how Democrats just don’t want to pay their taxes, while at the same time they push to raise them for the rest of us.

Not funny, ha ha . . . just — funny.

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With headlines like these:

Obama mulls reaching out to moderate Taliban

CRISIS IS ‘GREAT OPPORTUNITY’

CHAVEZ CALLS ON OBAMA TO FOLLOW PATH OF SOCIALISM…

Obama can not assure economy will grow again by end of year; Urges Americans not to ‘stuff money in mattresses’…

. . . What else can we say?

Lying awake this AM a thought briefly flashed through the ether of my consciousness — if the Obama administration continues apace and totally bankrupts the U.S. economy, would that be grounds for impeachment? Evidently, my fevered brain isn’t the only wad of gray matter on this side of the planet firing the same neurons. Ace is looking at the economic fallout and the dire potential outcome:

Even if one concedes that this is a legitimate ideological goal for The Leninist One to pursue, should he be pursuing it so vigorously when there’s a thirty percent chance of the economy turning into a depression?

Yeah, thirty. A commenter tells me the economist who previously figured it at 20% has now upped it to 30%. It was 20% when the markets lost a quarter of their value; now that they’ve lost 50%, it’s a 30% chance.

His link to Roger Kimball puts it in the strongest of possible terms regarding Obama and this question — is President Obama “intentionally attempting to bring the stock market to its knees?”

And here we have the ’enry ’iggins moment: “By George, I think he’s got it!” “Each step strengthens the role of government in people’s lives.”

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That’s where Obama’s much heralded–and astronomically expensive–”green” initiatives come in. Only they aren’t really (or are only incidentally) “green,” i.e., concerned with the environment. At bottom, they are pink, i.e., they are political weapons in a socialist battle against “greedy” business interests.

Who, I wonder, was the political genius who saw the advantages of exploiting people’s sentimental gullibility about the environment for partisan profit? We’ve long known that environmentalism, as the philosopher Harvey Mansfield put it, is “school prayer for liberals.” But I wonder whether even Professor Mansfield could have foreseen what a tool pseudo-environmentalism would be for the radical wing of the Democratic party? The inestimable value of a green, that is, a pink, philosophy is that you can never be green enough. And in pursuit of zero-carbon-emissions purity a government can impose crippling sanctions in order to force compliance. And don’t say Obama didn’t warn you: as I and many others pointed out during the campaign, he promised that, if elected, he would do all he could to “bankrupt” the coal industry.

And this brings me to my new favorite section of the Constitution of the United States: Article II, Section 4, “Disqualification”:

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

What we need now is some clever legal talent to show how deliberately sabotaging the United States economy counts as Treason, a high Crime, or at least a Misdemeanor. Any takers?

Read the comments under Kimball’s post — the term “groundswell” comes to mind. Michelle Malkin has tales of folks all over the place goin’ all John Galt. Laer Pierce has numbers to back up his game, and says that they show the American voter damn sure bought themselves a pig in a poke last Nov. 4th.

But my numbers show conclusively that the American voters were wrong when they decided to put their bet on a spend-crazy Obama who said before the election that he would not cut a single spending program despite the worsening downturn – a promise he’s kept.

Wall Street is not buying the Obama spin, just like it didn’t buy Carter 30 years ago, despite his popularity. And Wall Street won’t buy the spin, ever. It will buy – or sell – based on real, not political, results, something Obama has never delivered in his flighty career

I don’t think aspirin is gonna help with this fever . . . alright, now where’s my copy of Atlas Shrugged?

Technorati Tags: Obama administration, bankrupts the U.S. economy, Atlas Shrugged

How does this:

Relate to this?

I ask, you decide!

The Anchoress has all the background and links to much, much more. I especially like this one: Barack Obama – Narcissist or Merely Narcissistic?

Makes ya think . . .