Can someone explain to me what the hell is going on?

Back in October, which of course is way farther back than most humans with access to a broadcasting video camera or microphone or computer care to remember, then-Senator/Presidential-Candidate Obama said that not only was the $25 billion dollar bailout of Chrysler and GM (but not Ford...stop calling it the Big Three Bailout) not enough, but that later on, after he was President, they'd probably need (and get) at least $25 billion more.

Which strikes me as a funny thing to say if today he announced that there probably won't be any more bailout dollars for GM or Chrysler.

Now, despite my first instinct to do so, I really don't want to call The President of the United States a liar who would sell his own mother's soul to get elected, because insults like that should be made to someone's face.

Back in September, when I railed on lawmakers for sneaking the first $25 billion into their tax break package, I mentioned that back then, GM was still pretending the money had a purpose: to retool their factories to build hybrid cars. Of course, that all turned out to be a farce, as GM and Chrysler really just needed the money to linger like a rejected ex-boyfriend. Who then comes back and asks for "just one more goodbye kiss, baby. Then I'll go."

Yet the lawmakers, including then-Senator Obama, voted for the "Detroit Bailout" (that still didn't include Ford) without much ado, based on a promise that 30 dyas later the management at GM and Chrysler would unveil their brilliant schemes to do what they haven't been doing for 25 years: make an efficient vehicle for profit.

Of course that turned out to be a lie too, as GM and Chrysler both asked for "more time."

Now apparently theyve unveiled their plans, and both of their plans are inept; Chrysler's getting rejected (merge with Fiat within a month or face our wrath) and GM's getting so rejected that their CEO jumped ship.

And surprise of the century, Obama has changed his tune on bailouts, claiming that pretty much the entire industry must reorganize before it'll get any more Federal money.

Is there anyone in the world that isn't a damnable liar?! There are people who say anything, and I mean anything at all, all to obtain more power. Then there are the people who will lie right to your face for the sake of perserving the status quo. Then there are the people who are so greedy they'll lie about anything as long as it makes them money. There are the people who will lie to their constituents saying "this is the best for the country, even if you people that elected me hate the decision" and it turns out to be an awful idea for both the country and for the constituents.

Now, before an Obama supporter hits me in the face with a bat, remember this: I voted for him. I believed him. I thought he was a smarter man, and a more socially responsible person than Senator McCain.
And before Obama supporters say to me "well the situation has changed," or "he didn't know everything he knew now," or "the conditions of the first bailout weren't met," KNOW THIS: I WAS AGAINST THE FIRST BAILOUT TOO!
But if you are going to shove cotton into a gaping wound, shove a lot of cotton! Not just some, then say "this wound won't stop bleeding. We demand that the cardiovascular system reorganize faster, and show some localized clotting before we add more cotton!" As soon as we passed the first bailout for GM and Chrysler, we were committed to taking whatever steps necessary to keeping those companies afloat. Stopping the bailouts now isn't just bad policy once, its bad policy twice.


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