"Everything You've Built Here Is Falling Apart"

The times, they're not a-goin' very well for the frustrated American dictator....

***The man whose primary mission given him by Democrat Jesus was to ruthlessly politicize the War on Terror at George W. Bush's expense now blames the powerful pushback his efforts have encountered (and which he should have expected) on....politicization:

In an exclusive interview with CBS News chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer on CBS’ [De]Face the Nation, Attorney General Eric Holder said that political posturing has delayed some of the administration’s top priorities — bringing self-proclaimed September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to trial and closing the prison and Guantanamo Bay.

Holder said the administration will make a decision as to where [the KSM] trial will occur “as soon as we can.”

“But we are bound and determined to hold Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and those who worked with him… responsible for happened on September 11,” he told Schieffer during the interview, which took place at the Aspen Ideas [snerk] Festival in Aspen, Colorado.

Holder wants to try Mohammed in civilian court, but some others say the trial should take place in the military tribunal system. The Obama administration is still in the process of determining what course of action to take, but Holder expressed frustration over the debate.

“One of the things I think that is particularly bothersome to me is that this really has become something that has become political,” Holder told Schieffer. “And politicization of this issue, when we’re dealing with ultimate national security issues, is something that disturbs me a great deal.”

"Frustration over the debate".  Eric the Red is "frustrated over the debate".  As in, "The Messiah has spoken," and everybody was supposed to exclaim, "Yes, your Majesty" and genuflect on our knees, and KSM would have gotten the civilian "trial" at the Holy Tuesday Mosque that he always wanted.

'course, if "holding KSM responsible" was what mattered, that could have been done before The One even took office, and he'd be in hell now with his six dozen "Martha Rae, denture wearers".  But no.  Because, y'see, dismantling the War on Terror, THAT was "doing the right thing."  THAT was "the nature order."  THAT was "the way of things."  The American people having a say in this matter, and saying pretty darn near with one voice, "Oh, HELL no!", THAT's "politics."  THAT "disturbs" Eric the Red and Godbama.

***Remember how the Internal Revenue Police were supposed to be able to enforce the ObamaCare individual mandate?  Remember how O-Care opponents said it'd never work because that function is beyond both the IRP's mandate and its area of expertise, and they'd have to turn the IRP into the Obamastapo to even have enough warm bodies to bust down every door in America and drag the inhabitants down to the nearest O-Care office for branding?

The White House is still batting oh-fer:

A warning that federal tax officials will need more congressional funding to administer the Democrats’ health reform law has rekindled the partisan debate over its cost effectiveness.

Senior Republicans have said for months that the new responsibilities required of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) under the legislation would saddle the agency with billions of dollars in additional costs — expenses not accounted for in the bill.

A Wednesday report from the National Taxpayer Advocate (NTA), an independent watchdog within the IRS, backed those claims, finding that the agency currently lacks the resources to take on the new duties. …

“Before ObamaCare passed, [Minority Leader John Boehner] and others warned that it would require an army of new IRS agents,” Boehner (R-Ohio) spokesman Michael Steel said in an email. “Democrats denied it. Now we know the truth.”

This joins a long conga line of "We told you so's" for O-Care resisters-cum-repeal advocates, showing once again the staggering degree to which the Donk Poliburo was frantically MSU just to get SOMETHING in place as a comprehensive socialized medicine placeholder so that the cement of time could begin to set.  Now The One is faced with the delightful choice of calling for expanding the IRP even more, or dropping the individual mandate before it can be struck down by the courts - which would accelerate the destruction of the private health insurance market and our plunge into the abyss of single-payer, an end Uncle Barry seeks, but not before he has to face already angry voters again two years from now.

Oh, and sixty percent of the public backs an immediate repeal of the entire tyrannical boondoggle.

***On the face of it, this would be good policy news for the White House - though not for anybody else:

And the Ocean Endeavor's exodus probably won't be the last, according to oil industry officials and Gulf Coast leaders who warn that other companies eager to find work for the now-idled rigs are considering moving them outside the U.S.

Devon Energy Corporation had been leasing the Endeavor to drill in the same region of the Gulf as BP's leaking Macondo well, which has been gushing crude since a lethal blowout April 20.

But Diamond announced Friday it will lease the rig through June 30, 2011, to Cairo-based Burullus Gas Company, which plans to send the Endeavor to Egyptian waters immediately.

Larry Dickerson, CEO of Houston-based Diamond, signaled that other of his company's rigs could be relocated, too.

This is, of course, one of Red Barry's purposes for doing jack squat about Armus - to drive out and otherwise eliminate every last means of fossil fuel energy exploration from the portion of American territory he hasn't abandoned to Mexico.  He's gonna get his thousand dollar a month electric bills and ten dollar a gallon gasoline, no matter what he has to do.

And that isn't hyperbole, my friends:

The Gulf economy won big when the district court knocked down Obama's drilling ban as "arbitrary and capricious" and won again at the Fifth Circuit, which refused to keep the ban in effect during the appeal. Unfortunately, the Obama Administration keeps signaling that it won't allow drilling no matter what the courts say. On the day the Fifth Circuit ruled against, the administration announced that if any company attempted to resume drilling it would reissue its drilling moratorium, forcing the issue back to the courts again.

Would I be impolite to point out that despite the Obamedia's conspicuous disinterest in Armus, this anti-energy jihad of Red Barry's isn't taking place in a political vacuum?  Gosh, I hope so.

***All this drip, drip, drip starts piling up, my friends.  But it's Dems at lower levels of government who are the political "first responders" to the public's mounting comprehensive anger at Barack Obama's communization rampage.  And they're getting as fed up as their pissed-off constituents:

Democratic governors facing grim budget choices, lingering unemployment and angry voters are pointing a finger at their colleagues in Democratic-controlled Washington to explain this year’s toxic political climate.

Few will fault President Barack Obama directly for their party’s plight heading into the fall midterm elections [on the record, anyway], but the chief executives gathered here for the National Governors Association (NGA) meeting believe the Congress and White House have made an already difficult year worse. …

“I think the bottom line is they’re not seeing the jobs that should have came from it,” said West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin, explaining why voters in his state were dissatisfied with the massive spending bill. “Are we just protecting government or are we really stimulating the economy? Maybe it’s too early too tell.”

Colorado Governor Bill Ritter said expectations for the immediate impact of bill were set too high.

“They may have oversold the job creation part of it,” observed Ritter, whose 2006 election heralded a Democratic resurgence in the Mountain West and whose decision not to run for re-election this year has illustrated the party’s declining fortunes in the region.

“They’re not satisfied with the pace of job recovery that they expected when the Recovery Act was passed,” he said of his state’s citizens. “Whether the President of the United States inherited this situation or not, he’s now owning it. For the federal government, this administration and the Congress to have not delivered [jobs] more quickly has become the problem.”

None of this is new, of course.  Everybody with the slightest grounding in economics and no Obama KoolAid in their bloodstreams said at the time Hogzilla I was rammed through Congress on the fumes of the Panic of 2008 that this was a one hundred percent waste of one hundred percent excess debt that wouldn't create REAL job one.  As time passed, and the "official' unemployment rate soared past the eight percent ceiling that it wasn't supposed to touch after Hogzilla's passage and into double digits, Lucifer's credibility plummeted in equal proportion.  Now he's having to rely on driving Americans out of the workforce to keep his "official" unemployment rate in the nines, and if you add back "discouraged workers," it's been between ten and eleven percent for the entirety of his presidency.

He is, quite literally, drowning in his own boomeranging hype, and trying to stay afloat by grasping at straws of purest, USDA, 100% Grade A bullshit about "recovery summers" and "Hey, it could have been fifteen percent!" and "green jobs are just around the corner" with tens of billions more in squandered deficit spending while, yes, deliberately laying waste to the energy sector.  You could almost get the idea that Barack Obama cannot, will not, and does not want to create jobs.  And guess what?  More and more Americans are reaching that conclusion, which is why the GOP is poised to regain not just control of Congress, but enjoy its biggest haul of governorships in ninety years.

It's all well and good to sacrifice much of his party's gains over the past four years in the short term in order to muscle into place policies that will, theoretically, guarantee unchallengable Donk power in the long run.  But what if he's wrong?  What if the Republicans retake the House AND the Senate?  What if Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader McConnell and "young guns" like Paul Ryan armed with committee chairman gavels start rolling back the Obamunist excesses of last year and this?  What if the Tea Party momentum doesn't diminish, but increases in intensity and stamina?  What if the latter half of Red Barry's term is consumed with defending all the policies that destroyed the Pelosi/Reid Politburo, thus even more closely tying him to them?  What if other "unexpected" setbacks come hurtling his way?  And what if the GOP doesn't "play it safe" in 2012 with a Romney or Huckabee but goes for broke with a Mitch Daniels, Tim Pawlenty, or even....Sarah Palin?

Sure, Jimmy Carter was overjoyed when Ronald Reagan won the right to challenge his re-election.  Right up until Election Night, when he could no longer escape the reality that the drip, drip, drip of failure piles up until it reaches critical mass, beyond which not even "some kind of a god" can escape.  Add in active malevolence, and maybe Peter Ferrara becomes a prophet after all.