Posted by
Arik on Monday, July 27, 2009 6:01:35 PM
Let me start with a word to the wise - Don't start playing Mafia Wars, or Pirates, or any of the games like them on Facebook. They are like crack for nerds and you will not be able to think of anything else.
Hi, my name's Arik, and I'm a Mafia Wars-aholic.
Anyway, Despite the fact that I haven't written anything for almost two weeks, I have been paying some attention to the non-Pirates world. There's been a lot going on. The good news is that, according to Obviously unbiased columnist
Paul Krugman from that bastion of unbiased reportage, the New York Times, the recession is over. In fact, some are saying that our economy hasn't been this good since the halcyon days just after Clinton rescued us from the economy of Bush the Elder. So, let there be no more discussion, King Barry the Munificent has now saved us from the greedy Wall Street Vampires. It's official.
But wait. What exactly are they basing this judgement on? Well, the stock market is up over 9000 for the first time in a while. Never mind that a few years ago it hit 14,400: Barry has brought the market back to life. And what else do they cite? Well, that's pretty much it. Remember when it hit that 14,400 under Bush? The only people getting rich, they told us, were the Evil Robber Barons on Wall Street; Main Street wasn't feeling any effect from that. Now that it's finally rebounded to 9000, everybody is apparently rolling in (freshly-minted) greenbacks. So say the media.
Now, I see signs that the economy may be sputtering back to life. And I do believe that Oblahma is responsible for that recovery. I just have a different view of how he's doing it.
First and foremost, we don't have Tax Cheat Timmy, he of the gigantic prosthetic forehead, trotting out there on a daily basis, telling us how he's going to dismantle the U.S. economy. I think it is no coincidence that the market started stabilizing shortly after he and his inane, nonsensical blather disappeared from the national radar. When someone who obviously has no clue what they are doing is put in charge of reviving the U.S. economy, things are not going to go well. Now that we don't have to hear him yammer so much anymore, market confidence is slowly returning. On the other hand, it would just take a few words from him to drop the market again. And Quickly.
Next up is a slowly-building rebellion among the so-called Blue-Dog democRats. These are the guys who can't be out-and-out bugfork nuts, like the rest of the dems, because they face constituents who actually ponder the issues and candidates when voting, rather than just the 'd' or the 'R.' As they slowly grow a pair of whatever kind of pair they need to grow, they will stand up to the Froot Loops in the rest of their party and start thinking of their constituents, especially as election time nears.
Lastly, does anyone remember when Dear Leader said that the market indices were sort of like a tracking poll? Well, guess what, it looks like he was right! If you notice, as his approval ratings have trended steadily downward, the market has trended steadily upward. As the Jackarse-in-Chief continues to try to ram his radical agenda down the throats of an unwilling populace, look for his numbers to drop even further. And look for the market to rise even higher. People are coming to realize that this guy is not only NOT the second coming, but that he is little more than a pompous, arrogant stuffed-shirt who has about as much business being President of this great nation as I do of being President of the NAACP. I can't even dance.
I'm starting to get a little more hopeful, seeing a little glimmer of sunlight from behind the clouds. DoucheBarry is starting to run out of political capital, a lot earlier than I think anyone expected, especially him. He's resorting to threats and innuendoes now, instead of relying on what the democRats perceived as a mandate from the electorate, which means he's getting desparate, and while a desparate Oblahma may be a dangerous Oblahma, it is also an Oblahma that will soon collapse under the weight of its own self-importance, leaving America a better and safer place.