Coal is black. So is Michelle's purse!

The name of this Blog is “Obamameltdown” but I never dreamed when I started it last winter that the meltdown of the Obama phenomenon would begin this soon. I prayed and I hoped but this is amazing even with my meager interventions to the divine.

For the first time, a bunch of polls have started to indicate just that. Today’s ABC/Washington Post and Drudge and Gallup surveys all show less than a 50% approval. Rasmussen’s data got more granular when they reported that only 30% strongly approved of Obama’s policies and 38% didn’t.

I leave you to draw your own conclusions ….

Today’s post was going to be about foreign policy and, specifically, about the Middle East and even more specifically Obama’s abandonment of Israel.

But now, I’m conflicted because I don’t know whether to do a fashion piece or an economics piece. Even my devious mind cannot find a way to put all that together

So I’ll just write and see if a miracle happens.

It isn’t too long ago that Obama and his thugs were beating the crap out of corporate America for going to Las Vegas in order to reward and thank the people who had made their company successful. Think frugal they were told.

In other words, they were ordered to set an example or else.

So, last Monday I think, there was Ms. Obama striding through a Russian park with a $6000 purse. Weren’t we taught that one leads best if one leads through example? And weren’t we enjoined to think frugal? At least she didn’t wear the $600 sneakers. But, I guess, they’re reserved for visiting food banks.

OK, she can carry whatever she wants and even I could come up with $6000 if I had to but let’s turn to a sum of money that blows my mind and it all revolves again around the “Cap and Trade” bill which past the house a week ago.

I have written about this before but, when I did, I had no idea about the depth of the cesspool over which Nancy Pelosi presides.

When Cap and Trade came before the House for the first time it was DOA. So many Democrats were elected from “carbon heavy” districts and they told their leadership it was a no-go. So Pelosi and Waxman tried again and they proposed two solutions. One was bribery to members in some districts such as Toledo, Ohio. The other they thought was more subtle but they were wrong. Anyway, the idea was to create ‘islands” that would not be subject to the constraints within the legislation. For example, huge swathes of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and West Virginia would be beyond the pale. Now that pissed of Texas so Houston et al were added.

And that was how it stood until late one afternoon when some other aides actually read the text and nudged their bosses awake and pointed it out. When the house convened next there was pandemonium among the rest of the Democrats because they knew that they would have to explain to their potential electorate that they were being screwed. So, when they wouldn’t sign up for that, a new idea was floated and this is what will kill it eventually in the Senate.

Plan B or C, you call it, inserted wording that said, effectively, that the US would impose trade tariffs against any nation that sought to export any product into this country that would be cheaper than the US equivalent. Think, coal, oil, and natural gas for a start.

That would incite a trade war that we are ill-equipped to fight. Obama knows it and so does the Senate.

Now enter one Robert Byrd, the senior senator from the great state of West Virginia and recently out of a month-long hospital stay. He is 90 something and therefore unlikely to run again. But right or wrong,he would prefer to be remembered as the defender of coal miners than as a Ku Klux Klan member. As a result he is leading the charge to end this charade.

So, “Politics makes strange bedfellows” or so I read once.

For a brief period, Senator Byrd, more strength to your arm.