Early day for me today, and there’s not much to say about our government or the President. You have to wonder if he actually thinks he’ll get anything through Congress between now and when the next President gets sworn in. He’ll be lucky if the Republicans are willing to cut him a pay check or pay for his Secret Service protection. I wish he’d announce he’s running as a Republican.

Obama would have been a fine President in an era when nothing actually happened, I think. Like, say, an Eisenhower. In good times with no real challenges, he’s have been fine. But sometimes the country is faced with tough times, and a President is in office that rises to the occasion. I think JFk qualifies for the way the world didn’t end over the Cuban Missile Crisis. I think FDR stood up and led the country through the end of the depression and the second World War (all the while securing the middle class and protecting the elderly). Lincoln, clearly, had a few issues to deal with.

Bush Jr. is an example of a President who failed to rise to the occasion. He was in way over his head, and in some respects you can kinda feel bad for him. I don’t think he signed up to actually have to do any work (I know he liked to think of himself as the “Decider in Cheif” but I think he was more suited to being Ombudsman and “Delegator in Chief,” which is where Cheney came in).

And now there’s Obama. It’s a shame he didn’t rise to the occasion. Not just about this latest fiasco, but on everything from health care reform (sorry, it’s lame, even if a few people are better off) to Wall Street to, well, you name it. He can’t even just stand up and say “gay people have the right to get married,” instead coming out with some bullshit about “evolving.”

He’s not a lame duck president. He’s just plain lame.

I shudder to think what these teabaggers will do when President Bachmann is sworn in.