LeBoutillier Can See Right Through Obama

Imus is planning to buy a new car, he told his guest John LeBoutillier, to help the struggling auto business. Yet he endured ridicule all morning from Bernard, Charles, and Lou because the car in question happens to be a $100,000-plus Mercedes.

"He's doing his patriotic duty to help stimulate the economy," said LeBoutillier, a former Congressman, displaying the full range of his ass-kissing capabilities.

During this time of national financial strain, LeBouillier was reminded of something his mother said: "It takes a rich person spending money for a poor person to have money." But that sentiment has become unseemly in politics, because rich people are vilified.

"What makes the economy work is people spending money, hiring people, filtering down," said LeBoutillier. "The Obama program is aimed at stifling that, and hurting the rich, and big business, and all business."

The President announced yesterday that he wuld seek a 3-year spending freeze in domestic programs to pay down the national debt, which LeBoutillier called "total PR."

"If he believed it, he should have done it the day he was inaugurated," said LeBoutillier. "This is clearly a reaction to Scott Brown, and to the tea party movement in Massachusetts."

Obama, he added, is struggling to right his administration's path. He chalked Obama's sudden populist tone up to his lagging poll numbers.

"Everything is seen through his eyes," he said about the President. "That's how he is and has been, and how most politicians are."

LeBoutillier thinks Obama's ignorance of how the economy works has exacerbated the country's problems, but he credited the President with having one good idea.

"Breaking up big banks is the way to go," he said, citing Theodore Roosevelt's theory that "few people should not control all the money in the country."

Though Obama ought to admit he made a terrible mistake by pursuing health care reform with such gusto, LeBoutillier does not think tomorrow night's State of the Union address will include such a mea culpa.

"He'll talk jobs, that's their big thing," said LeBoutillier. "As if talking about it is going to create it."

And no, I-Man, there is no chance he will resign.

-Julie Kanfer