OK, so maybe "Slouching Beast"....

....wasn't the best way to describe the incoming Obama Administration. The term I was subconsciously referencing was "Drooling Beast", and of course it is an Ayn Rand original...

In The Fountainhead (Rand, 1943), the antagonist is an Obama-like figure named Ellsworth Toohey, a charismatic orator who pushes - in code words, always in code words - a socialistic future for America. Not taken seriously by the rich, or fey intelligentsia, due to his smooth speaking style, he is showered with cash and support and rises to power and prominance.

Sound familiar? Rand was soooo prescient...anyway -

Tortured sculptor Steven Mallory see through Toohey, and recognizes what type of ideal he represents, and what type of rule he would impose upon the nation. Mallory uses analogy to describe who Toohey/Obama really are:

"Listen, what's the most horrible experience you can imagine? To me—it's being left, unarmed, in a sealed cell with a drooling beast of prey or a maniac who's had some disease that's eaten his brain out. You'd have nothing then but your voice—your voice and your thought. You'd scream to that creature why it should not touch you, you'd have the most eloquent words, the unanswerable words, you'd become the vessel of the absolute truth.

And you'd see living eyes watching you and you'd know that the thing can't hear you, that it can't be reached, not reached, not in any way, yet it's breathing and moving there before you with a purpose of its own. That's horror.

Well, that's what's hanging over the world, prowling somewhere through mankind, that same thing, something closed, mindless, utterly wanton, but something with an aim and a cunning of its own."

Remember in one of the earlier presidential debates, when Barack Obama was informed by the moderator that his plan to raise capital gains taxes was proven to be a treasury-drainer as opposed to a revenue-gainer? Obama confessed he knew that to be true, yet declared his intention to move forward with it anyway...

Barack Obama and his liberal cadres are that drooling beast, you know...