Have you heard the news? Hold on to your hats, folks: We've got a President who is
Doing.
Too.
Much.
Your read that right.
A president who is doing. Not talking - doing. And doing too much, at that.
It seems that Linda Chavez has gotten the memo, even if you didn't: this week's focus is that President Obama is doing too much. Get the word out. Now. And so she has in her column
Obama's Messiah Complex.
Take a jump with me ...
And so she begins:
President Obama reminds me of the fellow who's off to save the world while he ignores the disaster in his own backyard. Instead of focusing on the urgent problems facing the country -- the credit crisis and the collapse of the housing market -- he's diverting scarce resources and attention to solving health care, reforming education, and stopping global climate change.
Linda Chavez reminds me of the lady who's breathlessly describing a sporting event, saying "and the ball went this way, then it quickly went back that way, and then back this way, and that way, and then ..." as if she had no idea of the objective in tennis.
I wonder what it is she thinks President Obama ought to be doing about the credit crisis and the collapse of the housing market that hasn't been done instead of working on health care and education reform, and correcting global climate change. She doesn't say.
Should someone tell her we elected a president who doesn't have scarce resources and attention? Perhaps she's got him confused with that guy who used to pretend he was running the country. I can understand the confusion if she were using that one as a yardstick; nothing about that one pretending to run the country makes sense to me.
She has more to say, but I just overheard some co-workers talking about their 401Ks, so this paragraph from Ms. Chavez brought a grin:
Most companies operate on relatively thin profit margins; the corporate average has been about 8.5 percent since 1980. Those margins stay relatively constant because capitalism works. If a company's profits get too high, a smart competitor comes in and starts a rival business that makes the same product for less, and the greedy company loses customers.
That has clearly worked well in the mortgage, banking and insurance industries. How are your investments doing? I wonder how Linda Chavez's investments are doing.