I Was Right -- Damn It

On Sept 27, I predicted in Chuckling Over The Here And Now that Obama would win the election and, perhaps more important,  why he would win.  You now see -- everyone now sees -- I was right both as to the results as well as to the reasons.  Why, oh why,  didn't the Republicans read my blog?

Okay, so now we're here at the end of 2012.  What do we see?  We see Obama laying out the campaign for his party for the 2014 midterm elections.  As to bipartisanship?  You're excused.  Go have yourself a good laugh and then come back in a couple of minutes.

The betting is now on whether an agreement can be reached between Obama and the Republican House.  They either compromise or go over the fiscal cliff and to sequestration.  ("Sequestration"; now there's a word only a politician could love.)  Anyway, you know what it means; namely, cutting all items across the board by an equal percentage, even if some items are more worthy than others.  My vote is that it will be sequestration.

Why?  (1.) Obama will be able to blame the recalcitrant and uncooperative Congress and (2.) it does a lot of what Obama wants done anyway.  It means raising taxes by way of the lapse of the Bush tax cuts and (3.) turning to a sequestered budget will lead to considerable chaos which Obama will enjoy.  He'll blame it on the Republicans.  As to the Republicans:  Their attitude will be -- if that's what the bastard wants, give it to him.

Is this a good way to govern?  No, but it's what you get if campaigning is more important than governing.