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'That was not the deal': McCarthy, Ryan renege on immigration vow

Trump turns up the heat on trade: 'Tariffs are the greatest!'

Israel downs Syrian warplane ...

Gallup: Trump hits his highest approval ever

Will Trump pull a North Korea on Iran?

General Motors jumps into peer-to-peer car sharing

The fires of Athens ... Raging inferno ..'Biblical disaster' ...

... Rand Paul: We shouldn't reveal secrets to people who call our president 'treasonous'

When public transportation infrastructure earns a D-, the economy suffers

Iran threatens 'countermeasures' if the US blocks its oil exports

Long, slow, painful death of the NY Daily News ...

Toronto shooting suspect identifies as Faisal Hussain

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Pakistan high court bans Valentine's Day ...

Mexican migrants signal that they prefer detention over being sent back

La La Land: Streep pledges to stand up to "brownshirts" in new tirade

Monster alligator drags golfer into water ... bashes beast over head with club to survive

Cummings: Flynn should lose security clearance

Greece could replace EU currency with US Dollar ...

Franken: GOP colleagues question Trump's mental health

David Duke endorses Keith Ellison for DNC Chair

Blast kills 10, injures 60 in Pakistan's Lahore

Athens set for first mosque since Ottoman times

Playboy brings back nudes, year after ban ...

Trump takes TWITTER break, and world wonders ...

The Audacity of Hope

Lemmings

The Barry recently said that "The question is not whether things will get better; they always do." (See: Live Statement).  I hate to burst your bubble Mr. President but hope is never a substitute for good planning and coordinated actions.  I suspect that those people who plan for their retirement by buying lottery tickets will swallow such claptrap, but this is not the kind of wispy, Pollyannaish rhetoric that should be being uttered by the President of the United States.

Mr. Obama, if you think things will get better by themselves, I suggest that you talk to anyone on the streets of Athens, or Madrid, or Darfur, or even Detroit for that matter. (I will treat my expected longer-term ramifications of the President's auto bailout in a subsequent blog posting.)  I realize that you like to "lead from behind," but, to me, this suggests that you have your head somewhat proximate to your gluteus maximus ... and you view of the road ahead is somewhat brindle-colored.

And, as for your current run to secure four more years of yuks and soirees at your Pennsylvania Ave. palace, you have chosen the motto, "Forward", an auspicious yelp from a leader who doesn't really like to lead.  This somehow congers up to me the image of a piper urging his following lemmings to brave the freezing waters of the North Sea in the "hope" they might reach Greenland.