After repeatedly having his ass handed to him by Vladimir Putin for the past 8 years, Barack Obama decided yesterday that it was “now or never” to finally take strong action against Russia... whether Russia had done anything wrong or not.

Which is why, in reaction to the so-called “election hacking,” Obama ordered 35 Russian diplomats (described by the White House as “intelligence agents”) out of the country, closed a couple of domestic Russian facilities (described by the White House as “intelligence agencies”), and promised to unleash a cyber counterattack (described by the computer literate as “fat chance”).

Unfortunately, despite requests from the Senate and House Intelligence Committees, Barry has failed to produce any compelling evidence that Russia was behind the Wikileaks document releases which revealed to American voters that the Democratic party, from Hillary on down, is populated by sleazy, bribe-mongering crooks, lunatics, and sex addicts. In fact, it’s highly questionable whether any final intelligence analysis will even hit Obama’s desk before he leaves office – making the timing of his saber-rattling highly suspect if not downright dangerous.

Mind you, Hope n’ Change isn’t suggesting that Russia didn’t hack into the email servers of Hillary, Leon Panetta, and the DNC. Of course they did; the cyber-porch lights were left on, the cyber-front door was wide open, and there was a big cyber-sign on the porch saying “please don’t steal anything while we’re not home.”

The secret keepers were, in the laughable words of James Comey, “extremely careless.” Meaning neither Russia nor anyone else had to be extremely clever to steal documents.

But all of that being said, no evidence has been presented that it was Russia who gave damning but 100% truthful documents to Wikileaks. It could have been a mischievous high school kid or, our personal belief, a Democratic insider who wanted to save our nation from Hillary.

Which is why it’s disconcerting that Obama, while still vacationing in Hawaii, has prematurely chosen retaliatory action against the only suspect who has a huge nuclear arsenal and pretty much no sense of humor.

Perhaps, before the big ball drops in Times Square on New Year’s Eve, he just wants everyone (especially Historians) to think that after 8 simpering years in office his own balls have finally dropped.