What's up for your summer plans? Well, If you're Barack Obama, you shouldn't exactly be planning a long vacation. Why not? If you thought things were percolating already, you'd better sit down. As Obama, said in another recent money grab in LaLa land, "You ain't seen nothing yet." This was the trite phrase Al Gore used frequently in the 2000 Presidential campaign. Al was right, but in a way neither he nor anyone else foresaw.
The election that never ended, (in one sense, it still hasn't ended, as Democrats are still sore over losing) wracked America in ways not recently seen. There were slow-burning dramas (ah, those chads) to lighting-quick events (the tossing of the military ballots) to events we still have questions about (how many people in the Florida Panhandle didn't bother to vote because NBC called the election for Gore?) Some periods of time that span an event are simply so pregnant with so many ramifications, it takes a wise man years to digest them. This summer promises to be one of those time spans. Better hold off on those vacation plans, Mr. President.
The slow-burning dramas are probably the best place to start. The festering sore once known as the American auto industry is most salient now. As the government acknowledges, to dispose of this shell in bankruptcy will take months. Most of the dealerships, where most of the jobs reside, will be gone by next year. Obama will continue to pour money in, so the unions will get enough for their dues and a healthy Obama 2012 contribution, but the end is near. This sad story will be the news media's version of a funeral dirge played throughout the summer. Think Beethoven's Seventh.
Interest rates and their effect on the economy will be another slow-burning drama. A Reuters story today (5/31/09) was almost cute in its doe-like tone. In "Federal Reserve Puzzled by Yield Curve Steepening" by Allister Bull, the puzzlement concerned why long bond yields are rising. With the government not only printing money at a breakneck pace, but also buying its own debt, it's a wonder this hadn't started months ago.
Article comments
1 - Ruvy
I was once a Brooklyn Dodgers fan, Dock. And they were not as bad as you make them out to have been. I mean every summer we could listen to them on the radio in the afternoons and evenings hearing them as we walked down Bedford Avenue and S. 8th St. in Williamsburg. It was great - till they moved to LA. What a bummer!
I enjoyed reading your piece. I think you over-rate the Israeli regime and their willingness to defy Obama and actually make sure we stay alive. I enjoyed reading what you wrote, but don't expect the so-called "leaders" here to have enough balls to do what is really needed. They are more likely to follow their usual pattern of kissing American ass.
Also you forgot the "back-to-school" activities for the Blessed of Hussein, which will most likely involve dealing with the swine flu as it makes a nasty comeback in October.
Just a thought for you, Dock, since you linked to an apostate Jew, Nostradamus. The two Jewish holidays that deal with Divine Redemption are Sukkot (beginning in October) and PessaH (in April of next year). The intermediate period is the flu season.
Have a great summer!
2 - Mr. Dock Ellis
Of course, you're right Ruvy. The Dodgers had some fantastic players and did win the World Series in Brooklyn. They were labled "bums" in an affectionate sort of way. The comparison would be the Cubs today, but that doesn't quite fit.
I would be very surprised if Bibi did nothing. Iran has famously declared it will "wipe Israel off the map." I believe they are sincere in their desire. I believe today the Middle East is one event from blowing wide open, like 1914. Perhaps, Barack Obama will be the modern day Franz Ferdinand. Going to the Middle East now is like sticking your head in the lions mouth-lots of risk for little gain.
I just hope we all make it to flu season. And I thought always thought Nostradamus was forced to convert. Perhaps I was wrong.
3 - Ruvy
Dock,
I might be wrong about Nostradamus - either he or his parents might have felt forced to convert to Christianity. Like you, I'm not sure; but I do know that if you shake his family tree, a whole pack of Jews come falling out of it....
But in the entertainment biz (and this all is really entertainment), you should never fuck up a good segue....
Gotta run,
Ruvy