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We're hardly into the new era, and already the honeymoon is over. Broken promises, failed reforms, and betrayals of principle have crushed my dreams of this so-called "change." To summarize:

Plastic clamshell packaging has not yet been banned.
I and several other friends have dry, painful skin and a recurring cough.
Nothing, not even a plan, to replace our nation's dilapidated traffic cones.
Open punditry is still tolerated and even encouraged.
The President-Elect cannot cure the King's Evil by touch, nor has he called his men to horse against the Dragon, as it was foretold in olden times.
Just like his predecessor, he has not protected us from the Manimals. I am already on record here and here and yet I hear nothing from Mr. Obama.

Welcome to another eight years of tyranny and incompetence. WON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN!