Cowboy Confessional

Some things simply fail to surprise.

Take the Sunday television program 60 Minutes, produced by CBS “News.”  To suggest that the cast and staff of 60 Minutes is in the bag for Barack Obama would be insulting.  Their devotion runs much deeper.  They individually and collectively drop trou, bend over any available railing, chair or table to offer every orifice and their very souls to CBS’s political Messiah.  Thus it was utterly unsurprising that in fewer than five days after Obama lost majority support in the House – and nearly in the Senate – that 60 Minutes provided him a metric ton of free television time to explain away how the nation individually and collectively pulled up their pants, and gave Barack a swift kick to his base partisan crotch.

Perhaps less surprising than Steve Kroft’s supplications was Barack Obama’s continued cluelessness.  In rather frank wording, Obi Wan Obama admitted being surprised by the electoral backlash over Obamacare.  Assuming that good Angus beef has not saturated my brain cells, I recall polling at the time of passage showed 60-62% of the public wanted nothing to do with Obamacare.  A thinner majority might accept undesirable legislation as a side effect of the inferior form of government called Democracy.  But when politicians override the will of a large majority – say 60-62% of The People – then voters take it as a personal affront and unelect those responsible.  House Democrats are still collecting their dead, and Senate Democrats are suddenly acting very conciliatory.

Maybe they should be bent over a railing for the duration, and let the elephant provide servicing.

That such simple equations bypass presidential observation explains why Obama is also oblivious to the concerns of the wider world and jobless Americans who watch as the Federal Reserve furiously bails the sinking ship of financial state by promising another $600 billion buying spree of government debt.  This effectively floods the market with so much cheap money that Chinese investors holding Treasury notes are screaming aloud and gold has eclipsed $1,400 an ounce.  Obama further lifts his soiled skirt of ignorance by mistakenly proclaiming “the Fed’s mandate – my mandate – is to grow our economy.”

I checked the Constitution, relevant legislation concerning the Federal Reserve, and exit polling of last week’s election.  No such mandates.

Everyone has their blonde moments, even normally dark haired mulattos.  But Obama shows perpetual lack of perspective, depth of knowledge, much less the ability to listen to and obey.  Given the dangerous state of the world – with a militaristic China becoming the second largest economy, Tehran ready to test nuclear weapons, and Islamofacists perpetually experimenting with assault tactics, America stands a solid chance of non-existence.  Anyone as completely clueless as Barack is bound to botch-up basics at exactly the wrong moment in history.

60 Minutes is there to sooth the process.  It has been said that government exists to service us, and that the media provides the Vaseline.  After Sunday’s performance it can also be said that Steve Kroft is the president’s intellectual jism spittoon.

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