I suppose it's only fitting that I kick off the new year with another shot at the worst President of the United States since Buchanan (widely blamed for setting the stage for the American Civil War), and is still tracking nicely to be the worst President in the history of this country.

Of course, I refer to President Obama.

I just wanted to remind all that Obama was washed into office billed as a breath of fresh air after 8 years of the reviled Bush Administration (which is looking better and better in hindsight compared to the current Obama Administration).  Obama was supposed to bring a new paradigm to Washington.  He was going to right the wrongs of President Bush, and save us from the Republican Evil Empire.  He was also supposed to rule from the center-left (can't help but guffaw on that one)

Well, well.

So far Obama has turned out to be anything but.  The Obama Administration thus far has a feeling of classic political sleaziness, with more than a touch of thuggery, and way more than a dash of ineptitude.  Hope and change is already well along at turning into despair, political status quo, and international humiliation.

The remarkable thing for me about Obama is that there is absolutely NOTHING I can latch on to in agreement.  Nothing.  I can't remember a time in my adult voting life where I so strongly opposed every single action undertaken by a sitting President.  I can't even say that about Carter, who in many circles is regarded as an awful President in his own right - and for good reason.

So C-Span challenged both Obama and the Democratic Party to open the reconciling negotiations between the egregious House health care bill and the appalling Senate bill.  Obama, who promised repeatedly that his administration would be open and transparent with the American People, opted for total secrecy.  And thus, once more dear friends, a rather ordinary professional politician who lied his way into office, defrauds the people who put him in power.   Oh yeah, mark my typings, when the Frankenstein Bill meets the Dracula Bill in conference, the bastard child produced by that unHoly coupling will include another broken promise about raising taxes the middle-class.  When the CBO estimates the additional cost of healthcare is going to be two trillion dollars, you can conservatively double that to come closer to the real cost, and brace yourself for a triple.  After all, when has the true cost of a Government run social program ever come in at or under budget?     

I understand the need for secrecy in dealing with matters of National Security.  I understand the need for some levels of secrecy in diplomatic dealings so as to protect our friends, and deal with our enemies out of the light of day when necessary.   But I do declare that public domestic policy set by a handful of people shrouded in secrecy is a very bad, very ominous thing that is a direct tacit threat to our democracy.

Today I joined the Republican Party. 

Update:  So Obama offers C-Span a whopping 1 full hour of coverage of the secret conference meetings.  The intellectual equivelent of spit in the eye of everyone who expected Obama to fulfill his promise of transparency.

Meanwhile, Jack Cafferty, a commentator and long time news hound currently working for CNN editorialized recently that he was hoping that voters remember "this crap" come November.  Cafferty is not exactly known for his right wing sympathies.  And therein lies the rub, and the warning.  When the leftists in power finally start really pissing off the left media, you know they're in trouble.  It's starting to sink in - Obama was full of it from the very beginning.  It's frustrating for me to sit here knowing full well from the very beginning that the Obama story being fed to the American people was a total sham.  Now The Stupid Nation is slowly awakening to the fact that, once again, they've been had by a professional politician who told them what they wanted to hear so he could get elected.  Which begs the question:  How many more times are we going to buy one load of bullshit after another from politicians lying their way into office?