It is absolutely impossible to get a handle on our President. I am beginning to understand why some folks with negative views of America and her people ascribe every evil under the sun to him.
You just can’t ever figure out what he’ll do next.
He came into office pledging fairness and free trade and then passed a steel tariff. He’s staunchly pro-life but hedged on the stem cell issue and hasn’t forced the point on abortion or cloning. He was elected in no small part because he was a conservative Republican and the red state Americans were behind him yet he voices his willingness to approve an extension of the Clinton “Scary Weapons Ban.” He wants to push democracy in the Middle East against the wishes of nearly every other nation on Earth and yet he won’t take hold of the situation in Iraq and he happily flogs a worthless “roadmap” for the Palestinian question that’s chock full of the same old useless ideas.
Now we’ve got a tax deal at last. Less that half of what was asked for and not without some very bad things included but it gets across the idea of the original plan if not its substance.
The problem is, it’s all set to expire at the end of next year.
Of course, the argument goes, Congress will never sunset the provisions because then they’d be tax-raisers. Well, excuse me but haven’t I heard some of the more portside members croaking that tax increases might be just the ticket to save the world? I dunno, I think the bill will help but will it be enough, will it last long enough and will people give it a chance?
And what will our fearless leader do next?