I just couldn’t watch…

I tried to be a good citizen and watch Dear Leader’s inaugural address, but his inability to read a teleprompter combined with his pauses for the toadies to applaud turned my stomach. I turned it off and waited for a transcript.

I’ve found several nuggets that I think we should use over the next four years to measure his performance. Here’s one:

"… Sometimes our differences run so deep, it seems we share a continent, but not a country. We do not accept this, and we will not allow it. Our unity, our union, is the serious work of leaders and citizens in every generation. And this is my solemn pledge: I will work to build a single nation of justice and opportunity. I know this is in our reach, because we are guided by a power larger than ourselves, who creates us equal in his image. And we are confident in principles that unite and lead us onward."

He “will work to build a single nation of justice and opportunity” my ass! This is clearly horse hockey. Dear Leader’s agenda will be to take care of his base: the “haves and the have mores,” and the rest of us be damned. His real agenda is concealed among the nuggets here:

“Together, we will reclaim America's schools before ignorance and apathy claim more young lives. We will reform Social Security and Medicare; sparing our children from struggles we have the power to prevent. And we will reduce taxes to recover the momentum of our economy and reward the effort and enterprise of working Americans. We will build our defenses beyond challenge, lest weakness invite challenge. We will confront weapons of mass destruction, so that a new century is spared new horrors.”

“The enemies of liberty and our country should make no mistake, America remains engaged in the world, by history and by choice, shaping a balance of power that favors freedom. We will defend our allies and our interests. We will show purpose without arrogance. We will meet aggression and bad faith with resolve and strength. And to all nations, we will speak for the values that gave our nation birth.”

The real agenda is to dismantle Roosevelt’s New Deal, something that conservatives have hated for all of the 70 years that it’s been around. And they’ve got a real chance to do it. Social Security is really just a red herring; it’s not much of a problem. Medicare/Medicaid is a disaster waiting to happen, and it’s been made even worse by the drug benefit that was added by the Bushistas.

Then we have to wonder who we’re going to attack next? Iran? Syria? North Korea is out; they are too much of a threat to their neighbors, South Korea and Japan, and to us, for that matter. Also, who knows where we would come up with the troops for any of the Neocons’ military adventures. Is it getting drafty?

What fun! Four more years.