Give the President a "Hurrumph"

This is of course a reference to the movie Blazing Saddles. In one scene the Governor played by Mel Brooks is being ridiculous and the cabinet secretaries are sitting and saying "hurrumph hurrumph". At one point the Governor says "I didn't get a hurrunph from that guy" to which his assistent Headley Lamar says "Give the Governor a hurrumph". Then the Governor says to watch your _ss.

I quote one of the funniest movies in history because watching the early Obama administration reminds me very much of this scene. President Obama is constantly spitting out words of wisdom, which are by themselves all that is needed. No action or results are ever necessary. The main stream press then responds in kind by telling us how brilliant he is and how lucky we are that he decided to grace us with his wisdom.

He goes to Egypt and says many of the same things President Bush said for eight years and it is a magnificent new beginning. Let's not pay attention to the fact that the sticking point in the middle east is still that Israel will not make an agreement with the Palestinians or anyone else before they stop shooting rockets into their country. I don't think they can be blamed for that. The area of Gaza will never advance until Hamas decides to rule instead of conduct terror. Beautiful words or not these things are true. Iran and other terrorist entities will not stop their terror and support of terror until we surrender friendly words or not.

Today I hear he is vowing to step up speed on the stimulus package. The problem with that is that he chose to fund things that don't happen quickly. He chose building programs similarly to what Hoover and Roosevelt did. Unfortunately for President Obama the states have many more Bureaucrats that Hoover and Roosevelt had to deal with (not that their programs worked anyway). For him to say he is going to speed it up simply can't happen. My personal opinion is that he doesn't care that it can't happen. The fact that he says something tells the masses that he cares and that is enough for a Hurrumph.

More examples? President Obama talks constantly about health care reform. Rather than show how his program will control costs, the fact that he says they will control costs is enough. We know already how he will control costs, just like every other national plan controls costs, he will have rationing. It may not happen day one, but we will have rationing. It is not possible not to. When you give the users the illusion that the plan is free demand will go up dramatically. How will costs go down then? Note I didn't say price, I said costs. Costs can only go down if some process improvement occurs, either technology, or raw materials or labor costs. Since he is owned by labor I don't think labor costs are going down any time soon. If it is a process improvement it would be the first time in history that this came about from a government program. None of this matter though, since he is going to pass something that is all that is needed. Hurrumph!