The two Reason editors (multi-media and print) critique the first hundred days:
So here we are, 100 days into the great eight-year triumph of Hope over Change, a new Era of Really Good Feelings in which only one thing has become increasingly, even irrefutably, clear: President Barack Obama is about as visionary as the guy who invented Dippin’ Dots, Ice Cream of the Future. Far from sketching out a truly forward-looking set of policies for the 21st century, as his supporters had hoped, Obama is instead serving up cryogenically tasteless and headache-inducing morsels from years gone by.
On issue after issue, Obama has made it clear that instead of blasting past “the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long,” (as he promised in his inaugural address), he’s moving full speed ahead toward policy prescriptions that already had less fizz than a case of Billy Beer back when Jimmy Carter was urging us all to wear sweaters and turn down our thermostats. Instead of thinking outside the box, Obama is nailing it shut from the inside.
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Here’s a good one. Supposedly, Obama and Congress have committed 12.8 trillion dollars in various forms of debt and credit to the various bailouts going on. Of that amount, currently they have lent or doled out about a third of that amount.
I remember those Dippin’ Dots kiosks. They were in all the malls in Miami when I lived there. They were there for years, and I could never figure out how they managed to break even, because I never saw any customers lined up at them.