Stoogeland Returns

The Blogosphere ate us yesterday--two long posts about the closing of Gitmo and the surveillance program. But the title alludes to the end of the Obama's honeymoon in this town. Off to a crisp start, Obama faces opposition to his stimulus package from the hill. Conservatives are back on the bitter bus. Obama speaks Indonesian at State--ha-ha real evidence of his foreign born nature. Roberts by muffing the Oath of Office was signalling to the 'birthers" he knows. Tons of garbage picked up after the ceremony but no one mentions no arrests of any of the 2 million visitors. The speech was mediocre and did not give the clear clarion call for freedom of George W. Karen Hughes protested the lack of graciousness toward George W. They invited him and didn't arrest him--right. They let him get out of town. One senses Junior is in for a winter of the LBJ mope--pining away in Texas for greater respect. Pro-lifers held their Washington march against Rove v. Wade yesterday. They mentioned that for the last eight years the President of the United States sent them a message to encourage their work. Obama re-affirming his pro-choice policy yesterday called for a dialogue over this issue. "No dialogue, you are a baby-killer." Somehow Barney Frank has become the poster child of the failure of the stimulus package--I thought it was Bush's. By closing Gitmo and the CIA's black sites, Obama has taken away the total defense of the United States. You can not close Gitmo because one of those released became a leader of Al-Qaeda in Yemen--but I thought Bush released the guy. We are in for a winter of incoherence.