Time Marches On

Waiter — This sammich tastes like diarrhea!

Received E-Mail from a friend suggesting I look at this week's TIME ragazzine. "The content and tenor of the article falls outside the normal Time lockstep, with the Obama administration" I did.  The goose-stepping looks pretty much the same, considering.  I mean, Obama's failure is out there.  It's as plain to see as a wad of hand cream on a dark blue dress.  Somethings can't be ignored, only camouflaged.   In a recent survey 47% of Americans said that they would have to sell some of their possessions, if they had to come up with $2000 (like paying to get a car transmission fixed,  or paying the utility bill).  Splat!  It's hard for TIME subscribers to swallow this, unaccustomed as they are to intra-cult criticism.  But, if you must man-up and deliver foul tasting medicine, the old hide-it-between-slices-of bread gambit is time proven effective. Republicans are trying to pin every economic problem on Obama in the run-up to the 2012 election. Let's be clear: the slow growth the U.S. is experiencing is not an Obama-specific problem. Many of the ingredients in it were already baked into the economy and were simply laid bare by the financial crisis. ” But at the same time, the growth problem is Obama's. Every President inherits his predecessor's economy; indeed, it's often what gets him the job. It's then up to the new guy to change the numbers as well as the debate. Now it looks as if Obama is losing that debate. ” The Republicans have pulled off a major (some would say cynical) miracle by convincing the majority of Americans that the way to jump-start the economy is to slash taxes on the wealthy and on cash-hoarding corporations while cutting benefits for millions of Americans. It's fun-house math that can't work; ” They've been doing stuff like this since shortly after Henry Luce  went to heaven.