House of Eratosthenes

Don’t let a crisis go to waste. Have you ever considered how embarrassing it’s going to be if future generations actually pay attention to what was said, right about now, and when? They’ll be all like “So Rahm Emmanuel got caught saying ‘never let a crisis go to waste’ — and then, after that, Barack Obama gave one speech after another with the word ‘crisis,’ hundreds of speeches a year, years at a time??” Yeah I know, junior, I’m having trouble figuring it out myself and I’m living in it.

Obama blamed “a failure of responsibility,” according to excerpts from the speech provided by the White House, saying “it is essential that we learn the lessons of this crisis, so we don’t doom ourselves to repeat it.”

“And make no mistake, that is exactly what will happen if we allow this moment to pass – an outcome that is unacceptable to me and to the American people,” Obama will say.

Alright, get out the daubers and cards and let’s get this party started. Lessons, crisis, teachable moment, responsibility, make no mistake, let me be clear.

But there is a problem. What was that Einstein said about you can’t solve a problem with the same mindset that created it? How about with the people who created it?

Everyone from disgraced former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer to analysts at the Brookings Institution and Barclays Capital to the GOP leadership and Rush Limbaugh has noted the reeking political opportunism in the air.

As the New York Post reported Tuesday, the Democratic National Committee immediately bought sponsored Internet ads on Google that direct web surfers who type in “Goldman Sachs SEC” to Obama’s fundraising site. “It’s time to hold the big banks accountable,” the money-grubbing DNC message bellows. But just like his crony capitalist predecessor George W. Bush, Obama has relied on Goldman Sachs and Wall Street power brokers to engineer massive government interventions to “rescue” failing businesses with the tax dollars of ordinary Americans.

While irony-challenged Democratic candidates like mob-linked banker Alexi Giannoulias in Illinois (who hopes to fill Obama’s old Senate seat) call on Republicans to return their fat-cat Goldman Sachs donations, the Democrats are silent on the $994,795 in Goldman Sachs campaign cash that Obama bagged.

The democrat firefighter comes bringing buckets of gasoline.

When he throws the gasoline on your burning house and the flames leap up higher, and you notice it, he makes fun of you for noticing it.

And then he lets you know that union rules prohibit you from doing anything to fight the fire yourself.

Then you find out he set the fire in the first place.

And he makes fun of you for noticing that.

You’re gettin’ there. What should be apparent to all concerned is that (a) 0bama is a lapdog and (b) his owners have sinister intentions re the American economy.

Cui Bono?

http://washingtonrebel.typepad.com/washington_rebel/2010/04/jump-how-high.html
- rob | 04/22/2010 @ 10:07
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