No, I don't wish him well;.  I'm so sick of that namby-pamby qualifier, "Of course we wish him well . . ."  I don't like him; don't like what he stands for.  Why should I want him to succeed?  This nonsensical idea of hoping he succeeds is premised on the idea that his success will mean that that the economy has turned around and for the better.

Quite the opposite!  Obama's success means socialism, plain and simple.  It means the economy will be stuck in a Luddite limbo.  Progress will end on any and every front:  economic stagnation will be the rule; healthcare will be rationed out (who will be the winners in this rationing system, I wonder?); productive people will be asked to work in order to support those living off the system.

Don't you love cap and trade?  How it will create the incentive for alternative forms of energy through confiscatory tax policies?  This is alot like the way they keep raising the cigarette tax in order to finance bloated state government budgets.  Yet as less people smoke, somehow the spending models built on the humane goal of eliminating cigarette smoking never seem to be scaled back.  And the tobacco companies just look overseas for their sales growth -- did you think they would waste their time trying to develp a safe cigarette?  I don't even think such a thing exists.  Yet, these same experts believe that we will develp alternative enrgy sources.  What will happen is that our quality of life will go down as we start to use less energy in response to increased energy taxes -- we are going to have some cold unheated homes, so we betterhope for more global warming.  The energy companies -- no dummies they -- willo pursue growth opportunities overseas, where the regulatory environment will be more inviting.

Fossol fuels will not go away.  We just will find it more expensive to use them here.  Throwing gobs of money at alternative energy research will not produce a breakthrough -- you cannot dictate or legislate innovation.

But let's get really real here:  Gobs of money will not be thrown at alternative energy research or any other kind of basic research.  Instead, the tons of money generated by this tax and trade caps scheme will instantly put gobs of money into the national coffers.  Our politicians will just build spending models based on ever-increasing sums of money coming in, forgetting that the revenue intake from this scheme will quickly flatten rather than grow; ultimately the revenue stream will begin decreasing.  But those entitlement programs -- both those being proposed now, as well as those not yet dreamed of -- will be with us.

So I don't want Obama to succeed.  His success means institutionalizing lowered expectaions, zero-sum growth, and makes failure a virtue.

We must continue to resist.  If only our elected leaders showed some spine.