Can I say it yet? "I TOLD YOU SO!"

I waited. Really, I did. A whole 6 weeks.

But, I'm finally going to say it. I TOLD YOU SO!

To all the moderate Dems and moderate Reps: I told you so!

To all the Clinton Dems who followed party over principle: I told you so!

No, The One is not a moderate or even a Democrat. He's a ditherer (Krugman) who "doesn't get it" when it comes to the stock market (Weekly Standard) who caused the stock market slide (Business Week) and the majority of BW poll respondents think he's screwed up the economy. Oh, and Steve Forbes believes The One is repeating Bush's worst mistakes and dooming the US.

In other words, he's not up to the job. So, on Wall Street, is the buyer's remorse greater for worthless Citi stock or O votes? How about Main Street?

The One Has No Clue But Don't Take My Word For It

The One has had a rough week. On Tuesday (2/3), I blogged about the little voice in my head (OK, one of many) that kept screaming, "He doesn't know what he's doing!" Well, it turns out that I'm not the only one with a nagging internal voice. Or, the voice in my head has gotten so loud it's now communicating with Beltway pundits. Yeah, probably the second one.

The Recap:

Award for Most Energetic and Frankest - Lindsey Graham on Fox News calling BO "AWOL" from leadership. There's video here.

Award for Snarkiest (in a good way) - Andrea Tantaros of Fox News, calling the first two weeks "amateur hour."

Award for I Told You So - Dana Milbank asking if the Obamara honeymoon is over. He documents the President and First Lady's flight to their favorite child's class to escape the White House. Escape? It's gonna be a long four years. Oh, and, yeah, they dote on their youngest child, the one who looks happy. The older one seems to be an afterthought. If I've picked this up in cursory reviews of pix on the interwebs, I can't imagine what it must be like in person. Note to BO PR: try to get the Mrs. to look like she cares about her firstborn.

Award for Having the Nerve to State the Obvious - tie and both go to RedState. First up is Jeff Emanuel examining why the Majority Party is acting like the Minority. Next, is Ken Taylor stating up front that BHO is "In Way Over His Head and It Shows."

We knew the halo would slip but who had "2 weeks" in the office pool? I mean, other than Hillary.

(shhhh ... The One doesn't know what he's doing)

I realize that we're only two weeks into The One's presidency. (Have the oceans ceased to rise yet?) But, I sense a trend forming. AND IT SCARES THE SHIT OUT OF ME!

When BO propped up his Turbo Tax-challenged "financial whiz" for Treasury Secretary, I had a sneaking suspicion that The One had no fucking clue about economics, finance, Wall Street, or sub prime mortgages. My sinking feeling was that Geithner, the "wunderkind" who couldn't read the gazillion or so reminders from the IMF that he had to pay the taxes for which he'd requested reimbursement IN WRITING, was BO's great plan to save the US from bankruptcy. It looked to me like The One was outsourcing his economic plan to "an expert" because he couldn't tell a credit default swap from a swap meet. And, I believe I'm right.

That's not the scary part.

How many times have we been told by both Democrats and Republicans that Geithner is THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN SAVE THE ECONOMY? Yeah, well, it turns out he's been involved in every bad economic government decision made since Lehman's sent out a gold-threaded SOS this summer. Oops.

So, now I have a new sinking feeling. Maybe Geither has no fucking clue, either? Maybe he's just a pawn of the Wall Street crowd? Maybe he didn't pay his taxes because he's a tax cheat with a wonky moral compass instead of a wonk who can't read basic English? Maybe he subscribes to the Helmsley school of tax thought?

Let's recap:

1. President with the financial acumen of your average high school freshman but we taxpayers are the parents he's hitting up for cash.
2. Treasury Secretary who can't understand a form that says "you owe this much money."
3. Treasury Secretary who paid up his taxes when he got caught, not out of legal and moral obligation like the rest of us chumps. (Note to TG: there's no statute of limitations on owed taxes if you intentionally didn't pay what you owed.)
4. TS who has the financial acumen of your average college freshman but we taxpayers are the parents he's hitting up for cash to pay off his poker debts to pals Hank, Ben, Bob, and John.

Two weeks in may be a little early to panic. Or not. I'm switching to Panic Mode Plan M: First, we're going to need a harder mattress. Then I'm going to convert our savings into gold, silver and copper pipe, and stash it all between the box spring and the mattress until the economy recovers or we get an administration with a clue. Yeah, we better get used to sleeping with a piece of metal up our ... never mind. Many Americans are going to have that feeling soon.

Atlantic Monthly Needs a Genetics Lesson

There's something a little off about an Asian-American professor rejoicing in the thesis that "white America" and "white culture", meaning mainstream American culture, are doomed to insignificance. In a disturbing and, frankly, racist piece, Hua Hsu gleefully posits that "white Americans" will soon become the minority - and by soon I mean 30 years. (Keep in mind it's in Atlantic Monthly, home to the blogosphere's resident hysteric and formerly a respected publication.)

I'm not going to get into Hsu's ridiculous assertions about Fitty Cent's social relevance or Sean "Can't Pick a Nickname" Combs' parties in the Hamptons. No, I'm going to discredit the whole sorry premise.

Ever heard of inter-racial dating?

Let's use Hsu's favorite example, Tiger Woods. Yes, he's African-American. He's also a proud Thai-American and - God forbid! - a proud Unhyphenated American. He married a Swede. Something tells me he's not that hung up on racial identity since he married a woman from another continent. What will his kids look like? With such attractive parents, they'll probably be gorgeous - and American.

The most obvious rebuttal to Hsu's bizarre hypothesis is the science of genetics. Each parent donates an allele (gene) to the child. Dark alleles are dominant over light. That's why Black and White couples usually produce dark kids. One parent's dark allele dominates the other parent's light one.

Now, let's move on a generation. If those "mixed-race" kids marry other "mixed-race" kids or -God forbid! - white people, they could produce white kids.

Let me repeat that: second generation "mixed-race" kids can produce WHITE kids.

If each parent passes on the "white" allele to their child, the child will be white and not a person of color. Ever. Those dark alleles are gone, genetically speaking.

Uh oh! There goes Hsu's theory of The Great Brown Wave.

We need to keep one thing in mind. Just because people appear "white" doesn't mean that they've lost their ethnic heritages. You're still part Japanese or Guatemalan or Black even if you don't "look" it. Maybe defining people by color or ethnic background is so last century?

There's nothing wrong with being brown or black. Nor is there anything wrong with being white. That we even have to say this exposes the ugliness of Hsu's article. Throughout this "expert's" piece is the insidious smugness that "white Americans" are going to get a much deserved comeuppance in a few short decades, for what, other than being melanin-challenged, the author doesn't bother to say. Could there be anything less American in spirit than punishing innocents for the color of their skin?

Here's my prediction. Americans will soon tire of being hyphenated much the same way hyphenated wives drop one name. "Mixed-race" kids will tire of society asking them to choose a parent every time they check an identity box. The racial lines will blur and - God forbid! - these kids will be far lighter than race-obsessed liberals can imagine, not because of some hideous plot or racial injustice. Because it's the way nature works.

When racial definitions become obsolete, will professors like Hsu rejoice that America will finally have lived up to its promise? Don't bet on it. Then, their race-based theories will be doomed to insignificance, the same oblivion they wish on mainstream American culture.