The title is a shout out to my northeastern pals from the 1980’s where everything was wicked bad, wicked awesome, or wicked cold.

Previously, we’ve asked how bad is it for President Obama? Well, Stephen Moore in the WSJ opinion section today cuts the Obama presidency to the quick.  The piece methodically takes the campaign issues and promises that the president rode on to get elected and compares it to reality in the here and now, three years after his election.  He makes the point that GorT made here.  Keep in mind that Mr. Obama campaigned on “pay as you go budgeting”.

It is hard to make a persuasive case for a $447 billion economic stimulus plan that looks and sounds so much like the $830 billion plan that Americans were sold two-and-a-half years ago. That first plan didn’t “create or save” the 3.5 million jobs the White House promised, and most Americans don’t agree with Vice President Biden that it worked beyond his “wildest dreams.” Tell that to the 14 million Americans—two million more than when all the spending and borrowing began—who are still out of work, or the tens of millions who do have jobs but have seen their income drop in the last two years.
American voters can’t conceive of how $447 billion of more debt and spending will create jobs when the last three years have already given us $4 trillion of new debt with no jobs. What is even harder to believe is the president’s assurance that the new American Jobs Act “will not add to the deficit. It will be paid for.” How can this plan be paid for when the first, $830 billion, plan has never been paid for?

But we’re ok because he made the following pledge that Mr. Moore points out:

[He pledged] he would “go through our federal budget—page by page, line by line—eliminating those programs we don’t need, and insisting that those we do operate in a sensible cost-effective way.”

Uh oh:

That hasn’t happened.

His energy independence plans have followed the same pattern:

Mr. Obama says he wants to make America less dependent on foreign oil, but this week he called again for raising taxes on domestic oil and gas production. He said last year that he believes America is “running out of places to drill” even though in the last five years new discoveries of oil and natural gas have occurred in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, North Dakota, Texas, Montana and Colorado—causing a near doubling in U.S. recoverable reserves.

Go back and read Mr. Moore’s complete piece – it’s worth it.  Then when your liberal friends try the “it’s all Bush’s fault” line or some other lame excuse, you can ask them about why Mr. Obama couldn’t live up to these campaign pledges which were under his control.

GorT

GorT is an eight-foot-tall robot from the 51ˢᵗ Century who routinely time-travels to steal expensive technology from the future and return it to the past for retroinvention. The profits from this pay all the Gormogons’ bills, including subsidizing this website. Some of the products he has introduced from the future include oven mitts, the Guinness widget, Oxy-Clean, and Dr. Pepper. Due to his immense cybernetic brain, GorT is able to produce a post in 0.023 seconds and research it in even less time. Only ’Puter spends less time on research. GorT speaks entirely in zeros and ones, but occasionally throws in a ڭ to annoy the Volgi. He is a massive proponent of science, technology, and energy development, and enjoys nothing more than taking the Czar’s more interesting scientific theories, going into the past, publishing them as his own, and then returning to take credit for them. He is the only Gormogon who is capable of doing math. Possessed of incredible strength, he understands the awesome responsibility that follows and only uses it to hurt people.