Today I gave a confab on FOX thirty seconds off mute, the sofa-panel talk was about Republican candidates having sufficient time in upcoming debates for discussion of their own economic plans and ideas. The conversation switched right then to their token liberal invited to goof up the conversation from his liberal fun mirror carnival corner. The guest said, "Well, it looks like the winner of the upcoming debates will be Barack Obama because none of these candidates have anything in place, just disjointed ideas nothing coherent, nothing in place, whereas Obama presents a solid economy with 1 million new jobs *click* Such a nice round number for ass-pulling, don't you think? Maybe he said 8 million, some government provided number when we all know by following closely for years and discussing along the way that the numbers themselves are jacked and too bogus to be useful anymore long ago to conceal what matters most to economists. Bogus numbers flowing glibly expertly memorized and presented dazzlingly to imply intelligence and impress a false tale.
It is not Obama's economy. He can have blame but no credit. They help only by stepping away. Presidents do not create jobs. Unless you want to say outright that presidents create government jobs as Bush did in a gigantic and unacceptable way, and that always takes from the economy and never contributes. The president can jack the economy. The president can gravely affect the economy by assisting friends and inhibiting what he does not like as this president has. Presidents can wreck economies much more easily than they can assist portions of healthy economies. All that a president need do to improve economy is get out of the way. This administration however does the reverse, Obama binds up the economy with torrents of new regulations. Any US president can do very well with a slash and burn attitude toward his own government departments. Gina McCarthy exemplifies the problem of government department overreach and incompetence and disruption. Her activism like Arne Duncan's activism in Education threatens their own government departments being pared back to reasonable size and to reasonable function so the economy can function without its hinderances.
Comments are not complimentary to Jazz Shaw's pice on Hot Air about Gina McCarthy busting a move on air conditioners. The Hot Air post is fronted with this photo on their front page. Gina's down-y mouth caught my interest. That's all. I'm that superficial. I keep thinking, you know, there are face exercises that can correct the loose muscles over time without surgery. C'mon, Gina, let's do some together. Gina's mouth does not have to hang down like a hound dog. Trump does that, do you notice? He sets his jaw and assumes a practiced visage, he knows what he's doing with his face. He assumes the position behind desk, behind podium, behind table, of a bullfrog. He actually juts his jaw and sets his face in place. He does the same bullfrog pose repeatedly. He knows it's disarming, challenging, impenetrable, amusing, judgmental, confusing, so there! All at once. It is an odd and remarkable pose and his face now faithfully obeys, his whole body, actually, falls into place. Just like Gina's face obeys, we're on first name basis after all this intimate face talk, her face faithfully conforms by being decades impressed to accurately reflect her dominate state of mind.
