I don't get it. Why are people surprised that we have mendacious morons in government?

Obama apparently said, in response to the idea that he’s trying to do too much at once.:

President Roosevelt didn’t have the luxury of choosing between ending a depression and fighting a war. President Kennedy didn’t have the luxury of choosing between civil rights and sending us to the moon.

WTF? (1) Roosevelt probably prolonged the depression. (2) Fighting WWII was most certainly a choice, and maybe not the best one. (3) Kennedy did nothing much by way of advancing civil rights other than voting against Eisenhower’s 1957 Civil Rights Act. (4) There was no point whatsoever in going to the moon.

Obama wants us to believe that not accepting his package deal of uneccesary programs is a “luxury” we cannot afford, which is even more ridiculous than the historical examples he picked. When it comes to responding to the basis of the actual crisis and repairing the wreckage of the banking system, the adminstration seems neglectful, ineffectual, and has become the butt of jokes.

Obama supporters do want to believe. . . in something. They suspend reason and actively seek ways to believe whatever he says. This isn't unique, it is always so. No disappointment is greater than having a President who won't play along, such as Bush I - the vision thing. . . feh. Eventually the effort becomes too great, people tire of any President, and then we elect a new one.

The problem with Obama is that has no clue how to govern so that the system continues to function as specified. This isn't news either. We elect a dud President every now and then, and in the past this has marked a bottom from which we subsequently rose again. If the dud doesn't do too much harm this will happen again. Even the foolish policies of FDR didn't permanently wreck the union.

It isn't that the current mess doesn't bother me, it's that the old mess bothered me too and I don't expect good governance. The best course is always to work to limit every regime in order to minimize the harm that they will surely do when they have too much power. We'll have to suffer through a couple of years of unusually bad governance. Hopefully the midterm elections will improve the balance of power by throwing congress to the other guys, and they don't all collude to continue bad governance.