On The Horns Of A Dilemma
Ron on Obumbler’s dilemma.
So PotUS Terribilis has perched himself precariously on the horns of a very dangerous dilemma which he created all by himself.
Building the ugly, perplexing, smelly, complex beast took a long time, but he finally managed to lash it all together with a nice strong length of red line. With unknown “rebels” and unpredictable Gulf States on one horn, the lunatic Iranians and abstruse Russians on the other, and the bottomless maelstrom of Islam in the middle, he still climbed willingly up the ass end of the abomination, kicked away the ladder, discarded his climbing harness, and perched himself up there, one hand and one foot on one extreme and the other foot and other hand on the opposite extreme.
Then, shouting to Congress, “You gotta back me up, guys, ‘cause I’m really a nice guy once you get to know me . . . except, of course, for that part where I don’t understand the economy and want to get rid of all our nukes and downsize the military and really don’t know what the hell I’m doing.” It’s lonely up there at decision time, and having never had to do that sort of thing before, he wants the safety net of somebody to shift the blame on when it all blows back in his face like a badly tuned formula 1 racecar trying to run on diesel.
I have no sympathy whatever for the fool. He created the dilemma by surrounding himself with advisors and “experts” whose experience is purely academic and by diddling around with issues he never fully comprehended but thought he could solve simply by giving a speech and going to fund-raisers.
Dilemmas come up often in the teaching of classic literature. I was going to rewrite an old fable about one to make it fit his situation, but I remembered the little poem about the centipede’s dilemma, which works perfectly for a neophyte wannabe with no real-world experience suddenly confronted by real problems requiring leadership completely beyond his grasp:
A centipede was happy – quite!
Until a toad in fun
Said, “Pray, which leg moves after which?”
This raised his doubts to such a pitch,
He fell exhausted in the ditch
Yannow Obeavis, it’s kinda hard to get the Republicans to come to your rescue when you have spent the last five years demonizing them and refusing to cooperate with them in any way shape or form. No input into Obummercare and forcing it through Congress with legislative tricks without any Republican votes. It didn’t have to be that way. A bipartisan bill would have been much better but you and Speaker Blinky made sure that wouldn’t happen. Now the country is stuck with a piece of crap and your party lost the House.
A my way or the highway on spending and the budget because, “I won”. Bushitler actually worked with Congress on legislation. No Child Left Behind was essentially written by the Floater, a Dimocrat. Now the Dimocrats are pissed off about a bill that was written by “The Lion of the Senate”.
As your spiritual mentor, Jerry “Goddam America!” Wright once said, “The chickens are coming home to roost!” Karma is a bitch ain’t it, Obutthead?
