The White House just announced the President will be and I quote, "President Obama to sign the middle-class tax cut bill at 3:50 p.m. today"
The middle-class tax cut bill? Only a political consultant would rename a tax cut extension for everyone a middle-class tax cut bill. Political consultants suck Satan's cock and are useless sacks of skin and bones.
I have said it before and I will say it again, jobs and gas prices decide elections. The President and the Democrats better do something to create jobs and crackdown on oil speculation so they can win in 2012. Did you all know that there are no oil supply issues right now? Oil supplies are at a 25 year high. If the President and the Democrats want to win they will attack oil speculators and try their damnedest to pass into law rules and regulations for oil price speculation. And if the response is what I expect you will see oil and gas prices drop at a good clip just because the issue was taken up by the President and the Democrats.
As Fred Kaplan says in his informative take on both the White House review and the thorny politics of the AfPak region, "Nothing about this war gets any easier." At this point, it's difficult to conclude that further US fighting in Afghanistan can do anything more than delay the inevitable—and possibly make it worse when it finally comes to pass. Without active support from Kabul, Islamabad, and the American taxpayer, tactical gains can never be more than limited and temporary. As bad as an American withdrawal from Afghanistan would be, our continued presence in the face of an impossible situation only makes it worse. A year ago Afghanistan still couldn't fairly be called anyone's Vietnam. Today, it's Obama's.
It is time to negotiate a peace treaty with the Taliban and go home. Afghanistan is a no win situation and we need to deal with that reality and stop wasting lives and money in Afghanistan.
Kudos to the Senate and House Democrats on DADT.
Bill Hicks turned 49 yesterday.
Louis CK.