The method of Obama's BS artistry

The president claims that we must pass a government-run health insurance program — possibly the most wide-ranging and intricate government undertaking in decades — yesterday or a "ticking time bomb" will explode.

If all this terrifying talk sounds familiar, it might be because the president applies the same fear-infused vocabulary to nearly all his hard-to-defend policy positions. You'll remember the stimulus plan had to be passed without a second's delay or we would see 8.7 percent unemployment. We're almost at 10.

A commonly utilized Obama strawman states that "the cost of inaction" is unacceptable. "Action," naturally, translates into whatever policy Obama happens to be peddling at the time.

Obama is such a clown, worthy of mockery, if only people would look. There's real humor there. I mean, apply his stock words to, say, choosing a Happy Meal at McDonald's. That would be frickin hillarious.

Alas, sources of satire like SNL are too busy kissing Obama's ass to find anything to mock. They had some mojo for a minute there, with their skits about Hillary answering Obama's phonecalls at 3 AM, but have been strangely absent since.