Rubber Chicken Littles

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Rubber Chicken Littles
by Ed Naha | March 20, 2009


When asked to define his credo for good governance, President Ronald Reagan once replied, "A little song. A little dance. A little seltzer down your pants." Oh, wait. That was Chuckles the Clown. Well, you get the idea.

Watching the current crop of GOP braying bozos react to all things Obama is like having a ringside seat at a very cheesy circus. Refusing to acknowledge that the world has seismically shifted in the last six months, these clowns are planting their oversized shoes firmly on thin air and daring gravity to put a stop to their buffoonery.

Having no ideas of their own, they're criticizing Obama for having too many! Ayup. The harlequins are howling that Obama is trying to do too much at once! It's scaring everybody! Reeking of Republican talking points, even journalistic jesters are afraid!

On "The Today Show," Matt Lauer opined, "Is President Obama taking on too many issues at the expense of turning around the troubled economy?"

ABC's Jake Tapper ruminated that Obama's "first 50 days have been marked by presidential action on nearly every issue under the sun. Of course, for his critics, that's precisely the problem."

Included in the "his critics" category, presumably, is Sean Hannity, expounding on the missteps of "the presidency of the anointed one, the Messiah, Barack Obama." (Sean's going for a Pulitzer this year...in crap flinging.)

What both the Republican rib-ticklers and their MSM minions can't come to terms with is something "The Washington Post's" Howard Kurtz summed up nicely. "Obama is a president who can walk, chew gum, dribble a basketball and work his BlackBerry at the same time."

Obama, aware of the simpering sniping about his addressing topics OTHER than the current fiscal crisis, is fairly good-natured about explaining his actions.

He told a group of business leaders, "I am not choosing to address these additional challenges just because I feel like it, or because I'm a glutton for punishment. I am doing so because they are fundamental to our economic growth, and to ensuring that we don't have more crises like this in the future...

"Would I prefer to tackle these challenges without having inherited a trillion-dollar deficit or a financial crisis? Of course. But that is a choice we do not have."

Obama directly answered the hand wringers by stating; "I know there's some who believe we can only handle one challenge at a time. They forget that Lincoln helped lay down the transcontinental railroad and passed the Homestead Act and created the National Academy of Sciences in the midst of civil war."

So THAT should calm down all those with the Punch and Judy jitters, right? Ummm. Not really.

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