Sea Street

PROMISES AND PLANS on MARTHA'S VINEYARD

The first time I met the girl of my dreams, I found myself promising her everything; I wanted her so badly. But I had no idea how to make all my promises come true and ultimately they didn't come true, and ultimately she left me. This is a metaphor for Obama's Dilemma. He has over promised and done it without a plan to make the promises come true.

Of course, at this time, I'm talking about Health Care Reform. All through his campaign he promised and promised and promised but Barack never developed a plan. He threw the whole thing in the lap of Nancy Pelosi who, pregnant with her own ideas, went into labor and delivered a mess. A plan that nobody understands, a plan that is unreadable, a plan that's given birth to myths and falsehoods.

The Town Meetings that have gone on and are going on demonstrate that some of the opposition to this is organized. There are people who obviously have talking points and there are people in different meetings who repeat the same slogans and statements word for word; but in my opinion, at least half of the folks that show up to interrogate their representatives are genuinely outraged citizens. In order to dampen down the protest, there's word out of Washington that the administration may forego the public option. In other words-government insurance, but this is not a good tactical move on the part of Obama and it will only embolden the opposition.

Obama has already used up a great deal of political capital vise-a-vie the Stimulus Plan. I recall he predicted that the sky would fall if his legislation was not passed. Now we know that the sky didn't fall and that the Stimulus Plan is not stimulating. He can't go back to Congress for any more money. All of this haunts his Health Care Plan like a ghost.

In defense of his agenda, he has compared himself to Lincoln. The difference between Obama and Abraham Lincoln is that Obama is no Abraham Lincoln. But Obama still had the cojones to say (and I paraphrase), "We're trying to do a lot, the same way that Lincoln tried to do a lot." WOW!!!! I have said all along that this guy's an ego tripper but those remarks took my breath away.

The main difference between then and now is that Lincoln had a Civil War to fight. And, speaking of war, Napoleon said, "You can't fight a war without a General." and Obama has yet to name a Secretary of Health, someone who could Shepard his Health Care Program through Congress. He has also failed to name his own Inspector General, someone to watch how trillions of dollars are being spent. He is fighting two Wars, but does not have an Army Secretary. He is trying to fix the Financial Markets but does not have a Secretary for Financial Markets. He also does not have anyone running the Agency for International Development. In all, more than half of agency heads and assistant heads have not been appointed. But why bother with all that; it's vacation time.

Yesterday I drove to Woods Hole where my wife and I love to walk around the hole. It's a beautiful scene, especially the garden that adjoins the bell tower that sits on it's far side. When we are finished walking, we like to go to Pie in the Sky and have one of their vegetable wraps. I'm not a vegetarian but since my heart attack, I've been moving in that direction. Coming home, we take the drive past Nobska Light on into Falmouth Heights. There's a good view of Martha's Vineyard the whole way. The Heights, which used to be home to the Four Brothers' Hotel back in the day, affords a good vantage point from which to view Oak Bluff with binoculars. Our President is over there vacationing, mingling with the types that voted for him. Now a days, there's just a tiny little bit of concern among them, concern that a President elected for his charisma may not have it all together. I see it in the faces of the media-Candy Crowley, Jessica Yellin, Rolan Martin. I see it in the face of big mouth Jack Cafferty and especially Campbell Brown. All those who were unfair, even vicious, toward Hillary Clinton; and that includes someone I've always had a crush on-Maureen Dowd.

Speaking of Hillary, what's going on with our Secretary of State who visited Africa, made some pretty ballzy and much needed speeches; but who, in the end, blew it all away by loosing her temper when her husband's name came up.

But back to Martha's Vineyard and the vacation, this is not a good time for a Presidential vacation. Speaking of timing, what about the time recently when Obama was in Moscow and took his second night off to have a date with Michelle at Moscow's most exclusive restaurant. This was no time for dating. Obama should have been meeting with Russians. He was sent there to do the people's business in a style that cost American tax payers a million dollars a day-Air Force One, the entourage and all that.

But now, Obama will spend time mingling with the beautiful people, the crowd that-on the whole-funded him. I expect that he will make a side trip to Hyannis Port to call upon Teddy Kennedy. The Kennedy Compound is just a few blocks from where I live, but I don't expect to see the president on Sea Street. Sea Street is not populated by the wealthy or the famous-the crowd that Obama feeds upon. I'm sure he won't be coming to see me, I'm just an average American; but at the same time, I'm one who knows average Americans very, very well and I know their patience is running out. They are fed up with the crowd in Washington. If things don't change as promised, they'll roll down on that crowd like a mighty boulder crushing and pulverizing as they go.
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