Post #316 Happy Days Are Here Again!

Santa Clause has been good to the Obamas, and President Barack and First Lady Michelle are dancin' a jig in the East Room.

Osama Bin Laden is dead.

The guy who was to replace Bin Laden is dead.

Muammar el Qaddafi is dead.

Kim Jong-II is dead, and the New York Times dutifully reported that the CIA "missed" Kim's illness.

Iran's top nuclear scientist is dead, and another has been wounded in a assassination attempt, and the Iranians blame Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

And we are finally letting the Iraqis fight it out themselves.

Hosni Mubarak is out-of-power.

Bashar Assad is nervous, and Ahmadinejad can't sleep.

On the home front, consumer confidence -- whatever that is -- is up, and consumer spending is at a higher level now than when George W. Bush tanked the economy. The stock market is healthy again. Unemployment is down. The trade deficit is down. And America is on the verge of becoming an oil-exporter nation again -- for the first time in nearly a decade, we will export more oil than we import.

The point is, despite the efforts of the GOP -- the Grand Ol' Pissers, the economy is coming back, and the GOP will pay a political price in 2012 -- in 2012, the voters will say no to the 'Just Say No' crowd. They never should have bet against America.

Of course, anything could happen -- Martians could attack. But things look good for those in the White House now. l'd hate to be betting my political future on the fear that something could happen. Can't the 'loyal opposition' offer a better view of the future?