Scary and Strange

November 28, 2008

By Karl Rove

Thanksgiving Cheer From Obama

He's assembled a first-rate economic team.

When President-elect Barack Obama's economic transition team met this month, everyone was there -- inflation fighters, business leaders, union firebrands and leftist economists -- creating confusion about where the new administration was headed.

Mr. Obama's announcement of his economic team on Monday provided surprisingly positive clarity. He picked as Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, the respected, soft-spoken New York Fed president. Mr. Geithner has been a key player with Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke in confronting the financial crisis. Every major decision in the rescue effort came only after the three agreed.

The National Economic Council director-designee, Larry Summers, is another solid pick. Mr. Summers has been an advocate for trade liberalization, he was the Clinton administration's negotiator for the financial deregulation known as Gramm-Leach-Bliley, and he even attempted to rein in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the 1990s.

Mr. Obama also named a respected monetary expert -- Christina Romer -- to head up his Council of Economic Advisors. On Tuesday he selected a first-rate thinker, Peter Orszag, to be director of the White House's Office of Management and Budget.

HE GOES ON TO BITCH AND MOAN ABOUT SOMETHINGS BUT ENDS HIS ARTICLE WITH THE FOLLOWING

"But, overall, Monday's announcement of Mr. Obama's economic team was reassuring. He's generally surrounded himself with intelligent, mainstream advisers. Investors, workers and business owners can only hope that, over time, this new administration's economic policies bear more of their market-oriented imprint."

THERE ARE SOME THINGS ABOUT THIS STORY THAT SCARE THE HELL OUT OF ME.

THERE ARE SOME THINGS ABOUT THIS STORY THAT ARE VERY STRANGE

KARL ROVE is pleased with Obama's appointments?

HUH?????????????????????????????????????????????????????

AS SOMEONE WHO COMPLETELY VOTED WITH THE IDEA OF CHANGES TAKING PLACE FROM THE OLD BOY NETWORK STYLE OF DOING BUSINESS...I CAN'T IMAGINE THESE APPOINTMENTS PLEASING KARL ROVE AND ALSO PLEASING....

62 MILLION AMERICANS WHO VOTED FOR BO.

I realize we live in strange times and if Barack Obama appoints Karl Rove as a senior advisor to the White House then I will officially declare this as being the strangest time we have ever experienced.

Talk about a Quantum Leap.

I guess I should be somehow or somewhat or someway encouraged that an architect of George W. Bush's two term EVENT in the White House...would say nice things about the next President of the United States.

BUT EXCUSE ME....THIS IS KARL ROVE and all I can think is that he is behind some extremely sinister plot that will result in something negative happening to the party and their new leader.

IT'S A DIVERSION TACTIC

I MIGHT BE A CONSPIRACY NUT...a bit less involved than Mel Gibson was in that cool movie.....

BUT THINK ABOUT IT FOR A FEW MINUTES

IF A RIGHT WING POLITICAL DIRTY TRICKS PLANNER WANTED TO TAKE YOUR EYES OFF THE BALL THEN HE WOULD CREATE AN EXPLOSION AT THE OTHER END OF THE FIELD.

KARL ROVE SAYING SOMETHING POSITIVE ABOUT BARACK OBAMA IS A DEFINITIVE EXPLOSION.

KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE BALL AND DON'T GET DIVERTED.

ASCERTAIN THE DISCONCERTING DISEMBARKATION ADJUDICATED BY MR. ROVE.....

DON'T BE FOOLED BY THE BIG WORDS OR THE SMOKE BEING BLOWN UP SOME ONE'S ASS.

ESPECIALLY WHEN THE SMOKE IS BEING BLOWN BY THE ULTIMATE FIRE CREATOR OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

Michael Timothy McAlevey