horse of george

My immediate reaction to Obama administration announcing it is now going to adopt an attitude of budgetary discipline after indulging in a near Bacchanalia of spending? I'd say that operatives are so convinced of the efficacy of Obama's putative charms that they have come to believe that good policy is merely the result of effective stagecraft - that no matter how stupid, wrong-headed, ill-advised, ill-considered, ideologically tendentious, shamefully superficial, cynically preened, pandering, driven by a shallow concern for optics something they may do may be they don't care - they obviously believe that as long as they can get Obama up in front of a camera to declare solemnly that whatever he chooses to do must be right and good and beyond reproach then enough suckers will buy into it to indeed make it appear to be exactly that.