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Monday, July 25, 2011

A Little Perplexed

I'm not quite getting why Obama devoted a speech to selling the so-called "balanced approach" of cuts and revenues after endorsing in the speech and even before the speech the Reid plan that is all cuts and no revenues. No doubt these gambits and positionings and so on will be clarified by their sequelae in due course...? I was frankly hoping Obama would just demand a clean bill and stealth an appeal to Wall Street to bring out the long knives for Crazytown, but found the whole prime time address weird and kinda sorta superfluous. This impression of weirdness was not exactly helped along by its Boehner coda, by the way, in which a dead-eyed dullard with a too-thick tongue told scary lies while playing at being Mirror-Universe President or something, hunched over a podium in his paneled office. I was, like, why is Boehner contemplating destroying the economy for no reason while telling us about having two daughters -- I mean, Obama has two daughters, too, what's your point, dude, are you drunk?

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