From the New London Day - PASS IT ON!!

By Kenton Robinson Published on 2/21/2009
END OF AN ERA

Now that the Obama administration has failed us, it's time to start thinking about 2012.

Imagine! One whole month into his presidency, and Obama hasn't: A) ended the war in Iraq so we could wage war on Afghanistan, Iran, Venezuela and Vermont; B)yanked our great nation's economy out of the toilet so that we could get back to spending the money we never really had for stuff we never really needed; C) implemented universal health care so we could finally lipo off those love handles; D) halted global warming so that we could have a nice cold, snowy winter like the winters we used to have; E) smoked Osama bin Laden out of his hidey hole; or even F) fulfilled every all-American couch-potato's constitutionally God-given-right to a digital-ready high-def flat-screen TV.

And that's hardly a comprehensive list of Obama's miserable failures. He has not - not once - stopped by to help me clean out my attic. Clearly, this whole “hope” thing was nothing but a sham.

Just about the only thing Obama has “accomplished” is to tell Homeland Security to stop torturing people who happen to look al-Qaidish. This will come as a relief to a lot of cabbies and clerks, but it's just the sort of panty-waist namby-pambyism Dick Cheney warned us about.

Obama's problem is that he never understood the importance of torture. How on earth does he expect to get anything done if he doesn't use it? Want to get those Wall Street bankers into line? Waterboard 'em. How about those pesky Republicans in the House and Senate? Shoot 'em in the face.

Think Obama will do that? No. Which is why I say we can't start planning soon enough to throw the bum out.

Speaking of Dick, he'd be the perfect bum to take Obama's place. This is because what we need is not a hopey bipartisan nebbish, but a leader, a torturer.

Cheney, with a little help from Joe Lieberman, would really turn things around. Or how about Sarah Palin, known for her exquisite torture of the English language? Or Mitt Romney, the man who tied his dog to the roof of his car? Or Rush Limbaugh, or Ann Coulter, both of whom torture logic every day?

Now we're talking hope.