March Hubris

 

 

Hubris -  Indicates a loss of contact with reality, and a overestimation of one's own competence, accomplishments or capabilities, especially when the person who exhibits it is in a position of power.

Not to sound like Chicken Little, but the world is on fire. It is on fire and every day the flames grow larger and hotter. And as the world burns, for the first time in decades, we don't have a fireman. This month as we all watched, the map of the world was being redrawn. Crimea is now a part of a resurgent USSR, Ukrainian warships have been seized by Russian troops, and we have a Boeing 777 which has gone missing.

If one was not listening to or watching the news, it would appear that everything is just fine here in "la-la" land. The NCAA tourney is going on (often referred to as "March Madness"), and our Bracket Picker in Chief is fully engaged in the drama taking place on the hardwood. In fact, things are so placid right now, our Bracket Picker decided to kick some of the rust off of Air Force One and send it to China for a wee bit of vacation. Oh, before I forget - not just the plane, but the Bracket Picker's wife, kids, mother-in-law, and who knows how many other tag alongs went with.

I do have to hand it to the crowd we now have in Washington. In most of the past Administrations, when the optics were this bad, they would have been mortified. Nope - not this crew. They really don't care. They are more Teflon coated than the Clintons. FLOTUS wanted to take a journey to China - no problem. She thought of taking mom and the kids with her - easy peasy. She wanted to stay at the finest hotel in China - hey Janet Yellen, print us some more cash!

Between imposing sanctions on Putin's next door neighbor, barber, and high school sweetheart, POTUS is focused like a laser beam of raising the minimum wage. Forget for a second we have a host of other domestic problems that are killing our economy right now. Then also forget that a raise in the minimum wage will not only cost jobs, but a wage of $10/hour will still keep a family in poverty. But POTUS does not seem to grasp this, because HE HAS NEVER HELD A REAL JOB!

The Russians are having great fun with our March Hubris. They now refer to our President as a "prankster". They are not mad of him, they are not scared of him, they only mock him. The ONE easy, and I mean easy thing he could have done when the Ukrainian crisis first started was this - by executive action, immediately authorize the Keystone Pipeline. That would have sent shudders throughout global oil markets. It would have told the world we mean business, and we have the resources to supply our friends in the Euro Zone. The price of Russia's "black gold" would have dropped like a rock.

So, did POTUS take that easy step. Nope - he was working on his brackets instead. As March Hubris continues, so do the flames which are sweeping across parts of the world.