Out of It....

I have been out of it for the past couple of weeks. Here are some observations about the world:

1) President Obama is digging his own political grave. He defends the indefendable in his own cabinet, he keeps taking the blame for Congress screwing up legislation as well as for his own cabinet appointees having troubled pasts, and he is overextending himself in the media. Not only that, but he's a complete partisan. He's limiting media exclusives to individuals in at the Huffinton Post, Black Enterprise, hispanic television networks, and blowing off the Washington Press Corps. Seems to me he's showing his true agenda for the economy when he talks to liberal bloggers and minority-based publications instead of economists, business publications, and major news networks.

2) The NCAA Tournament is the best time of the year for sports, bar none. Mizzou is putting up a fight, but the thought of having to play their next three against Memphis, UConn, and Louisville is very daunting. It has been an excellent season, and another one close to it is going to get the recruits back to looking at the black and gold as a strong place to play.

3) Royals season is coming up, and this town should be excited. Jacobs and Teahan have been destroying the ball, Davies is solidifying the #3 spot in the rotation with ease, and the team has a true leadoff threat. When in the past have the Royals had a solid leadoff batter, slugger, three starters, a lights out closer, and 20+ homer potential from 6 guys in their lineup? AL Central title, here we come.

4) The events happening in the United States are just alarming. The worst part of it all, is that the Government keeps refering to the current US Economy as a "Capitalist" system which does nothing more than give Capitalism a bad name. Capitalism was once, when pure and free, the most efficient system in human history for allocating resources based on individual freedom, choice, preference, and intelligence. Today, we have a government that tells us what we are going to buy, what businesses it is going to prop up, and fixes prices on things such as incomes, bonuses, health care procedures, and more. The funny thing about it all, is that the industries where the United States has faltered the most in recent years (lending, housing, health care, food products, energy, etc.) are also the ones which the government has the most control over through subsidies, regulations, and monopoly protection. Now they ask for more control. The irony is that the government will give itself power with no consultation of the people that control it.

Here are my recommendations for what to do about the world: e-mail your congressman and tell them that you will vote every single incumbent to power out of office unless they start voting themselves less power over your life (regardless of party affiliation), watch the NCAA tournament and cheer loudly, go out to the K and support the Royals this season because if they're in a pennant race that revenue will help them add that one bat or pitcher at the trade deadline to put themselves over the top, and watch Obama fumble around his speeches and jokes and laugh at him continuously. He's making several mistakes, and the media is going to turn on him in the very near future.

He's the new Bush. When you alienate members of the media and do not listen to the will of the people, you will be destroyed politically. The White House should be the summit, not a black hole where the president goes to die politically. Obama will make president #2 to commit political suicide in the White House. Let's hope the people vote him out of power sooner than they did Bush.