Abu Wabu

The Messiah's latest expiration date has arrived, that being the one on His campaign promises. You remember, the ones He made promising "pay as you go" fiscal responsibility ("Every dollar that I’ve proposed, I’ve proposed an additional cut so that it matches.”), give 95% of Americans a tax break, cut wasteful spending, and "put an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas".

So much for all that; it was all lies anyway, we knew that. And now He's throwing as much crap at the wall as He can in the form of recycled campaign rhetoric (which is all it ever was: rhetoric rather than anything substantial like oh, say, policy), hoping some of it will stick like it did during His campaign for Hopey Changiness. It's all as predictable as, well, as any of his ridiculously vacuous campaign speeches.

His trump card in all this? "I won." As Rich Lowry explains, that little turn of smarm is all the proof anyone needs that the Messiah has run out of arguments for the substance, in fact the very existence, of the Porkulus bill.

As far as political arguments go, “I won” has its power—provided it’s made on behalf of an agenda ratified by the American electorate. But Obama didn’t campaign on a sprawling, nearly $1 trillion new spending plan. If he had pledged in October to double federal domestic discretionary spending in a matter of weeks—including increasing the budget of the National Endowment for the Arts by a third, spending hundreds of millions more on federal buildings and throwing tens of billions on every traditional liberal priority from job training to Pell Grants—he’d have been hard-pressed to win at all...

...Now, circumstances change, and no president can adhere to every jot and tittle from his campaign, but the “I won” argument only works if the campaign program matches the governing program. Obama himself seems confused on what exactly “I won” means...

...When Barack Obama ran last year, he didn’t say he’d engage in faith-based economic policy on a grand scale. He didn’t say he’d toss aside the normal processes of governing. He didn’t say he’d quickly act to add waste to the federal budget. And he didn’t say he’d try to brush away criticism with the mere assertion of his victory. On the stimulus, when Obama says “I won,” he’s out of better arguments.

Reminds me of another self-absorbed punkass "franchise player" completely clueless to his own lack of character and judgement: