POTUS

So today is the day we celebrate Washington's and Lincoln's birthday. This is also a good opportunity to explore those who wish to hold the job.

While I have been disappointed with Obama on a number of issues, Congressional Democrats and Republicans have been far more depressing in their stubborn unwillingness and inability to address all of pressing issues of the day. Climate change is a key example, as is Guantanamo Bay.

But Obama's likely opponent is either without ideas or filled with bad ones that make non existent problems worse. Romney wants to give his fellow one percenters a massive tax cut, raise taxes on the middle class and poor. And he has no desire to tell the voters what else he wants to do.

Santorum wants to tell you what to do with your lives. Freedom, he said, is not having the ability to choose how to act, but to act as Santorum thinks you should. This is known as a Theocracy, while Romney's vision is of a Plutocracy. So I will take disappointing instead.

Newton versus Willard

As much as I have enjoyed the cartoonish fight between the one preventer and the former lobbyist for the one percent, one of these clowns might become president.

John Kerry was tagged with being out of touch because he had become a creature of the Senate. Willard Mitt Romney is out of touch because he has no concept of what it is like to live paycheck to paycheck, to worry about bills, finding a job, keeping a job, or about health insurance. He literally was the guy who was doing the firing, jacking up profits at the expense of its employees and in many cases he company itself.

Willard wasn't a turnaround specialist, he was a flipper. And then he became a flopper. Romney has been willing for since he first ran for office in 1994 to say whatever he thought the electorate wanted to hear. Voters were just a tool, a stepping stone to the real power to do whatever he wanted and could do. There is a reason Willard did not run for reelection. Romney would have lost. Badly.

So the man with no shame would tell one thing to voters one day, and something completely different the next. It is as if Romney thinks he still lives in an era without video and audio recording devices that can transmit Willard eating cake and having it too.

Not that the professor who sold his wife and integrity for power, and then traded in wife number two for a newer model, then resigned in shame, and then became a shill for whoever would pay him is any better. But Newt Gingrich will not last through March while he is pummeled for a month with no money, no supporters, and no organization to defend against Willard's millions. The only thing behind the former speaker is the eighth richest man in the US. Soon enough, he too will get tired of his play thing that keeps losing and saying crazy stuff while he gets crushed.

In the meanwhile, I will try to enjoy my February as I hope you will as well.

January 31, 2012 at 10:51PM

@Saintless trying to link my tweets to my blog so I don't have to write posts and tweets. I used iftt. Suggestions welcomed. http://twitter.com/thethirdavenue/status/164586736767344641

January 31, 2012 at 10:48PM

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January 31, 2012 at 10:18PM

Wish this existed when I was in high school http://t.co/M04JlSr http://twitter.com/thethirdavenue/status/164578282661089280

January 31, 2012 at 08:48PM

Utah Legislature wants to disregard the 17th Amendment and the Supremacy Clause http://t.co/lMbdyyl http://twitter.com/thethirdavenue/status/164555657087942656

January 31, 2012 at 07:55PM

RT @freddoso: Turnout in FL '08 was 1.9M. This time, not looking like we're going to make it there. http://t.co/FnOSVQlB http://twitter.com/thethirdavenue/status/164542401216655361

January 31, 2012 at 07:19PM

RT @pandagon: Newt to the future! If Obama hadn't taken down Gadaffi, it would be a lot easier to get black market plutonium, though. http://twitter.com/thethirdavenue/status/164533310561849344

January 31, 2012 at 07:32AM

RT @TPM: POLL: Private sector experience of Romney, Gingrich viewed unfavorably http://t.co/mrKPqA0l http://twitter.com/thethirdavenue/status/164355302450413568

January 31, 2012 at 12:03AM

How about using that money to improve Utah's public schools instead? http://t.co/1WdxsW1 http://twitter.com/thethirdavenue/status/164242405799890944

January 30, 2012 at 11:34PM

http://t.co/m2Ry4V8 http://twitter.com/thethirdavenue/status/164235146663436288

January 30, 2012 at 10:55PM

OOPS: Romney ‘Proves’ Gingrich Supported ObamaCare With Three Quotes He Also Said http://t.co/lfb9tg8 http://twitter.com/thethirdavenue/status/164225218519375872

January 30, 2012 at 08:41PM

Americans don’t know much about Romneycare — except that it’s very similar to Obamacare http://t.co/BcseO9I the ACA has more cost-cutting. http://twitter.com/thethirdavenue/status/164191432826036226

January 30, 2012 at 12:47PM

RT @jdickerson: Late endorsing politicians of losing candidates should avoid deck chairs on the Titanic metaphors. http://twitter.com/thethirdavenue/status/164072199819505664

January 30, 2012 at 12:33AM

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January 28, 2012 at 08:03AM

http://t.co/KlIPfxd http://twitter.com/thethirdavenue/status/163276120639279105

January 28, 2012 at 08:01AM

RT @NewYorker: Daily Comment: What government debt did for Romney at Bain: http://t.co/Y16thPzs http://twitter.com/thethirdavenue/status/163275462771097600

January 28, 2012 at 07:53AM

RT @TwistedSifter: Picture of the Day: Graffiti by the 1% http://t.co/d7dp8mVH http://twitter.com/thethirdavenue/status/163273602060398592

January 28, 2012 at 07:48AM

http://t.co/F2Z6EGR http://twitter.com/thethirdavenue/status/163272278400958464

January 28, 2012 at 12:48AM

http://t.co/DehT3KS http://twitter.com/thethirdavenue/status/163166482849742848