Conservative Refocus

By Barry Secrest

It would now, almost posthumously, appear that America has had about all of the "Hope and Change" that She can ill-afford for the next good little while. As a large number of nations have now met in order to reach some sort of "blood in the water" consensus with regard to America's outrageous debt problem and what they should do about it, we did get a rare bit of positive news related to the economy, believe it or not. In fact, if we might dare to use the same type of fringe reasoning and cause and effect rationales that the White House and the Democrats routinely put on display, we would then feel confident in our breaking news report, that tropical storm Emily has been steered away from the US mainland by none other than Obama, the Meteoric Messiah's, bold efforts.

To explain, when the loosely formed eye of tropical storm Emily had coalesced to such a degree that it could blurrily peer at the viraling ill-effects of Obama's  now estranged US economy, the storm quickly veered away and accelerated out into the safer environs of the vast and brutal Atlantic Ocean. To which we can only remonstrate, Bravo, Bravo Mr. President! Saved once again by Obama's redoubtably dubious economic efforts.

In fact, it has taken everything that we have not to finally and unequivocally blurt-out, "we told you this was going to happen, to Paul Krugman (and a host of others), and we said it some time ago,"  but... fortunately we are not predisposed to gloat about our unfortunate happenstance, unlike some others that we know. No doubt, a Nobel Prize will be just around the corner (Not!)  for our having out-dueled the liberal economist in chief in our nearly three year-long  effort at extreme prognostication.

When Hope and Change Becomes Despair and Chaos

To wit, and as predicted in a very recent column, on Friday August the 5th, 2011, America's gold-plated AAA bond rating was downgraded to AA+ status with a negative outlook, which was merely the first ignominious step for an increasingly beleaguered America. Unfortunately for us all, the painful progression of further degradations, which the US will be unnaturally forced to endure as detailed in earlier columns, will most likely be the rule rather than the exception for some time to come. All of this due soley to the mantra of change we can believe in, or put more succinctly, Change We Can Hardly Believe....

So, welcome to the now officially terrifying world of Obamanomics and yet another clueless foray into outrageous infamy for the Obama administration, where the act of being is overrated and the premise of seeming in all things is officially the rule of the day. Unfortunately for Obama, the Media and the now verifiably clueless Democrats, all of that has now changed, and seemingly for a long, long time to come, as the chain of America's vast financial trust between the government and the civil society has been irreparably sundered, if not at least for this regime, but probably for the next as well...