Don’t Blame Me — I Voted for the Other Guy
When do those bumper stickers come out? You know, the ones which say, “Don’t blame me — I voted for the other guy.” There does seem to be an awful lot of angst over the sub-performance of the White House midway through the First Hundred Days. And those presidential poll numbers are certainly floating downward.
Jake Tapper asks if Barack Obama is doing too much. Howard Fineman complains that “the American establishment is taking his measure and, with surprising swiftness, they are finding him lacking.” And Camille Paglia unloads on everything from Barack Obama’s incompetent staff to the petty attack on Rush Limbaugh. Even Tom Friedman has taken to pleading with the president to focus on the plunging markets and financial recovery efforts. Then there are the conservatives who have become apoplectic and, frankly, entirely reengaged by the fear of a fundamental shift away from the free market system in America.
The swiftness of the criticism seems remarkable given the reverence which the media displayed toward Obama and the presidential transition which most commentators regarded as unusually smooth. But all honeymoons must end, and it seems Obama’s is ending more abruptly than most. Warren Buffet spoke for many when he said he senses the economy “has fallen off a cliff.” The same might soon be said for the confidence in the president.
The reasons are many for Obama’s increasingly hostile reviews — the cratering economy, the embarrassing nominees and non-vetting, the defections from Democratic ranks on Obama’s spending plans, and the growing unease from center-right pundits who convinced themselves and others that Obama was really a moderate.
So can Republicans now sit back and relax, safe in the knowledge that Obama is not the political colossus he was once thought to be? That would be foolhardy. But the flak which the president is getting from the punditocracy and the resistance which he is encountering from Congress suggest that Republicans may not be in the political wilderness for as long as they once feared.
In order to hasten their return, Republicans would be wise to do five things.
First, don’t get distracted. The Rush Limbaugh baiting by the White House seems to have largely backfired and the Republicans should let it die. David Frum decided to engage in race-baiting against Rush Limbaugh? Ignore it, as one would any stunt designed to gin up audiences and heighten the protagonist’s profile. The favorite game of the MSM is starting or encouraging food fights on the Right (or better yet, getting attention-starved conservative pundits to do the dirty work for them). But it benefits the Republicans not at all to spend time castigating one another when there are more important matters at hand.
Huh? No sane conservative would ever propose any kind of a cap-and-trade plan to regulate what the lunatic global-warming morons want to regulate. I don’t know what you’re even talking about, here. Conseratives would propose a plan to push for domestic development of energy, including opening up drilling, getting lots of nuke reactors going (including loosening up insane regulations that were meant to do nothing but kill the nuke industry), …
I don’t know why you think a conservative with a brain would like anything approaching cap-and-trade for illusory “pollutants” whether we’re in a recession or a boom. Conservatives are about encouraging growth, which means cheap, plentiful, and domestically supplied energy.
Well,this was pretty much the political equivalent of a ‘shotgun wedding’ to begin with…and now the bride is beginning to see what a total jerk the groom always was to begin with
A powerful way to fight Obama and his “drones” is to paint a picture of what they’re angling for. Some kind of liberal utopia like this one:
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2009/03/obamas-utopia.html
that is a Central Planner’s dream. Carbon cap-and-tax is just the beginning.
“David Frum decided to engage in race-baiting against Rush Limbaugh?”
“But it benefits the Republicans not at all to spend time castigating one another when there are more important matters at hand.”
David Frum is an Uncle Tom Republican. Thankfully, he is rapidly becoming a marginalized figure. The MSM has also decided to place most of its bets on Ross Douthat, a younger version of himself. Conservatives cannot allow the Frums and Douthats of the world to stab them in the back. Pretending they don’t exist inadvertently provides them with a sort of legitimacy. These backstabbers must be taken to task, in the majority of instances, after saying something dumb.
Excellent article, Jennifer. I think most voters want and value a two party system. The Republicans are regaining their footing and are being helped by the administration.
I have always admired but not always agreed with James Carville. He said it well, it’s the economy, stupid. Somehow I’d feel better if James were in the Obama inner circle.
In the modern era of shortened attention spans, it really isn’t surprising at all that his honeymoon may already be ending. Obama rose to the presidency on a wave of public love. This love was based on Obama as a blank symbol on whom people imprinted their hopes; it was not based at all on a true admiration of a man and his accomplishments (of which, of course, he has virtually none). That distinction, between raw emotion and real respect, will bring Obama down.
I’ve been pondering for some time what historical figure could truly be considered analogous to Obama. It certainly isn’t Lincoln, as was suggested during the election, but I believe that I have finally arrived at the answer. The legitimate parallel is to Kwama Nkrumah, the figurehead and leader in the 1957 independence of Ghana. He was loved, until his absurdly ambitious and poorly planned socialist agenda collapsed under its own weight, and revealed him as an arrogant and weak leader. In the end, he was hated by his people.
I will not extend this analogy so far as to assert, and I do not believe, that he will actually become a socialist dictator, or that America is turning into Ghana. Others may say such, but not me. My point is simply that raw emotion is fickle and easily turned. “Obama love” neither had nor has a solid anchor in reality, and there is nothing to keep it from turning.
Mark my words: Obama will end his one term hated by average Americans.
I agree with you, Class Clown. Obama appeared from nowhere and he’ll end up back in nowhere, obscure in some pit of a liberal infested college teaching (Bill Ayers authored)drivel to a snoozing, hung over group of college kids…
I just hope the grown ups can clean up the mess he leaves behind in Washington.
Given the freaking campaign lasted three years, Obama is like a tired incumbent in his fourth year of office. Frankly, and it is easy to forget, he had fallen behind McCain prior to the economic meltdown. I think that was because Obama was so overexposed the public had grown weary of him until they decided “enough” as far as the Republicans.
So in addition to his massive economic incompetence, there is fatigue with this president already. He very well may not be re-elected, and I’m certain his party will be punished for its gross excesses the next two election cycles. Whatever was new or magical about Obama dissipated the day he started to lie blatantly about earmarks and anything else that annoyed him.
I’m reluctant to read all the way to the end of critics on Obama because all too often the author’s crescendo usually entails a shout out about the new presidents intent of doing what he thinks is best for the country. Or that the president is very smart and the author supports him.
As a New Yorker my first, circa 2006, impression of President Obama was that he was a young David Dinkins; our first, and only, black mayor of NYC. Dinkins was a calm and noble man with a sterling background who was elected mostly because of a belief in racial progress. This lasted about six months until the NY Post renamed him “Do Nothing Dave” because of his general cluelessness of how to solve the city’s problems, and an indifference that there were any.
The end began when a reporter wrote a feature article about the man that began with “He is not nice.” After that illusion fell we just marked time until the next election. Dinkins was the last Democrat elected mayor of New York City, a town of 83% Democrats, in the past sixteen years.
President Obama seems to be on a similar course, a one-trick Pony, ie a good reader, that has no business being POTUS. When the “he is not nice” illusion falls there will be nothing else there.
We shall now see if the Media Industrialized Complex (MSM will send their paparazzi after these dirt bags.
Notice the circus surrounding Bernie Madoff and his 68 billion dollar theft right under the all searching eyes of the Stupid Ethics Crooks. (SEC)
And we thought Martha Stewart was a crook?
As a New Yorker my first, circa 2006, impression of President Obama was that he was a young David Dinkins; our first, and only, black mayor of NYC. Dinkins was a calm and noble man with a sterling background who was elected mostly because of a belief in racial progress. This lasted about six months until the NY Post renamed him “Do Nothing Dave” because of his general cluelessness of how to solve the city’s problems, and an indifference that there were any.
The end began when a reporter wrote a feature article about the man that began with “He is not nice.” After that illusion fell we just marked time until the next election. Dinkins was the last Democrat elected mayor of New York City, a town of 83% Democrats, in the past sixteen years.
President Obama seems to be on a similar course, a one-trick Pony, ie a good reader, that has no business being POTUS. When the “he is not nice” illusion falls there will be nothing else there.
>I’ve been pondering for some time what historical figure could truly be considered analogous to Obama
Caligula?
When I watch CSPAN’s Washington Journal, the callers disturb me. Most of them are looking for the Govt to save their lives. Most of them are blaming the GOP for the Sub-Prime-rooted Economic collapse.
How representative are these people of Americans in general? One would assume that these people are the most informed!
The Republicans have to latch themselves to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. They have to stress to the public why these documents are importnat. The Republicans have to object to everything that goes against these things.. and most importantly they have to abide by them as well.
If our Constitution is not reaffirmed , this country is over.
In 2006 my local Congress Weasel Betty “Rubble” McCollum in her campaign said, “The failed economic policies of the past six years…” and in 2008 said “…the past eight years…”
I want the bumper stickers which say, “Failed economic policies…past eight weeks”.
The press during the campaign was no different from the ‘audience’ in an infomercial for some miracle blender-food cooker and GPS/deathray combo device.
It is interesting to note that the most unqualified people are usually the most arrogant…. every failing he has is from those two points.
Right Brain said “When the “he is not nice” illusion falls there will be nothing else there.”
That reminds me of something Limbaugh said on his show on 26 Feb 09 (go to his site and find the day for the full transcript /audio)
He said:
Yeah, I’m trying to convince people. But how do you convince liberals? Well, you see, you have to understand why liberals are what they are. Now, many people confuse liberalism with a set of political principles and thus begin to argue with them on the basis of those political principles. That’s not how you do it. Liberalism is not… Well, it is in some respects, but a lot of people also believe (I am one) that liberalism’s a state of mind, that liberalism is a psychosis. And what is it based on? What is liberalism really based on? Well, you can use the word “fairness.”
But what is that? I mean, that’s an obscure concept, practically impossible to apply. Unless you assume that everybody is the same as everybody else, that nobody has any differences of any kind, then you might be able to talk about fairness, but of course you can’t so that’s not the case. So this notion of “fairness,” what liberals really want — and there are a variety of liberals. I mean, the intellectual liberals want control. But even the intellectual liberals and the nonintellectual liberals, the one thing they have in common is they want to feel good about themselves. That’s why they believe the things they believe. You can’t apply logic to liberalism because it is illogical
…
So liberalism is simply — eh, it’s more complex than this, but it’s basically — just a way that they can feel good about themselves. So how do you attack that? Well, in the process of making themselves feel good about themselves, they destroy people’s lives. Just tell ‘em that. Just tell ‘em they’re cruel.
(mocking metreoseuxal voice) “What do you mean, Mr. Limbaugh? I care!”
(as himself) “About what?”
(mocking metreoseuxal voice)”I care about African-Americans and poverty.”
(as himself) “Really? What have you done for them?”
(mocking metreoseuxal voice)”Well, we’ve — we’ve — We care about them. We don’t like the circumstances in which they live because of you.”
(as himself) “I’m not doing anything about it. You guys have. You guys have transferred money. You have spent money. You have sent welfare. You have destroyed the black family — and you have felt good about yourself in the process! You think you’re helping but you’re not, and that’s why we are never allowed to look at the results of liberal programs. We only have to, and are allowed to, look at their good intentions, because their good intentions are what make them feel good about themselves.”
So all these liberals — again, you have different versions. She asked me how to persuade liberals in her neighborhood there. We’re not talking about the Dick Durbins and the Ted Kennedys.
…
It’s about making themselves feel good, and they don’t. So they’re angry and enraged and they get really mad — they get really mad — when you tell ‘em that they are the exact opposite of what they think they are. That’s why I say tell ‘em they’re cruel. “Do you realize how cruel what your beliefs are? Do you realize the cruelty your beliefs have been imposed on people?” They don’t want to hear it! They are the sweetest, the nicest, the most caring and compassionate. You make them feel otherwise about themselves, and, bam. That’s why they hated Bush. That’s why they hated Bush, among other reasons. He didn’t care about them. He made them feel insignificant. He didn’t give ‘em the time of day. Tell ‘em they’re cruel. Just tell ‘em they’re mean. It’s the exact opposite of the way they think about themselves. You’ll destroy ‘em.
The most frightening thing about Obama’s election is that so many people were willfully deluded by the nothingness of Obama’s platitudes – especially when all evidence indicated that Obama was (and is) an empty suit.
The wanton recklessness of it all is astounding. There is something fundamentally wrong in our society when people dismiss evidence the way this generation does.
“Then there are the conservatives who have become apoplectic and, frankly, entirely reengaged by the fear of a fundamental shift away from the free market system in America.”
Become? Reengaged? WTF? We saw this coming over 3 years ago when Obama’s popularity started gaining traction. The ‘fear of a fundamental shift away from the free market system in America’?
Uh yah, it’s called soft socialism, euro-style. You need to bone up on your critical thinking. This is every conservative and libertarian’s nightmare. And we’ve had it since..oh I’m going out on a limb here, some of us- since birth.
Vince P “If our Constitution is not reaffirmed, the country is over.”
I tend to agree. It would be a refreshing experience to read a few press releases from elected officials that basically say “I still support the Constitution of the United States”. The LACK of such an easily expressed verbal/printed endorsement (even indirectly) is beginning to be a little weird.
I have asked my elected officials (state and national) to affirm to me in writing that they defend and support the Constitution as written. None of them have replied. Keeping their options open, I would guess.
(…and please don’t anyone suggest that they took that oath when they assumed the office and that should be sufficient)
obama “said that oath” as well, and we all know what that was worth. Just weeks prior to him saying that oath, tapes of him saying the opposite were played across the internet and radio. He has never denied or retracted his recorded comments saying that he felt portions of the Constitution left something to be desired.
Regardless of where he was born, he is not an American with America’s best interests at heart. And of course, we can’t fuss at him about that, can we, since he never said he was.
Vince P:
Caligula is a good comparison.
If you remember your history Caligula was hailed as a “savior” when he first became emperor, he eventually thought himself to be a god. He then drained the treasury with lavish celebrations, games and “public works” and when the money ran out started a campaign excessive taxation on literally everything, outright theft and terror all made legal by the senate. He was cruel, arrogant and foolish and treated everyone from his mother to esteemed Romans to the ordinary citizen like they were lower then dirt and they all were expendable. He greatly abused his powers and tried to expand them. He grossly mishandled the affairs of state. What he cared about most of all was partying, debauchery and taking vacations when he wasn’t viciously attempting to destroy all who dared oppose him. He had no morals, he committed incest, enjoyed torturing people and he turned the palace into a brothel on more then one occasion. He also had no sense of duty and honor-it was all about him.
There are many pictures of Obama where he looks like he is thinking that famous line of Caligula’s about the Roman people from “I, Claudius”-”If you only had one neck, I’d hack it through!”.
Anyone else notice the distinct absence of Obama bumper stickers? All of the people in my neighborhood that used to have them emblazoned on their Prius’s have quietly been peeling them off. Can’t imagine why?
That “…next round of elections — will be here before you know it.”
No kidding, and somebody had better make sure they’re a whole lot cleaner than the last round. Or there’ll be no getting rid of the Dems.
To all Republicans and Conservatives:
Please leave. Please just pack your stuff, your bibles, your guns, your racism, your intolerance, your greed, and your ignorance and leave. Africa is a great place for you, or perhaps South or Central America. I mean, isn’t that your dream scenario? Low taxes, all business, who cares if your surroundings are crap as long as you are getting paid?
You people must go. You live in a fantasy world devoid of any rational thought outside your own myopia. You think you “work so hard”. Most of you are completely full of **it. The only reason you haven’t lost your jobs (yet) or your home, is because thus far, you are lucky. You didn’t make any “wise” or omnipotent decisions that separate you from “all the losers who are losing their homes”. The housing market is over inflated everywhere. You didn’t, “stay within your means any more than anyone else”. You are so completely narcissistic that you think you are still safe because you are smarter, or work harder, or are somehow intrinsically better. You aren’t. You are greedy, ingnorant, and very “un-American”.
Funny how so many of the conservatives I meet in Colorado are Government Contractors ready to rape the system yet complain about taxes and the government. Funny how all those companies made Billions off of the Iraq War and yet complain about Ear Marks. Strange how we are “socialists” because after so many big businesses raping our country for the last 20 years are now asked to pay for what they reaped. Wake Up!!! Reagan was wrong. Dead wrong. He destroyed California and destroyed this country.
The reason the USA is so strong isn’t because of the “values” conservatives expound, it is because our GOVERNMENT and its people believe in providing a solid ecosystem for Capitalism to flourish. Those roads, schools, police and fire departments, the Grants for Science and Technology, pollution control and Regulation are why this country has been so strong.
As with any successful business, the US reinvests some of its capital in order to insure long term gain and success.
You think that because some jerk 200 years ago murdered Natives, enslaved Africans, and pillaged the land by simply claiming it, that you somehow worked so much harder than the rest of us and are “deserving” of more?
You think that you “sacrificed” for this country? Heck, you didn’t even fight in the war – it was prodominently the lower and middle class that fights the wars.
YOu make me sick and you need to get out. YOu hae no clue of how, why and about what our country was founded. News flash: OUR FOUNDING FATHERS WERE ALL LIBERALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So, grab you pig-faced leader Rush, and your “ho” Sara Palin and go somewhere like Mexico or Africa where your philopshy is welcomed.
Good thing you pray so much, ’cause you have an aweful lot of sin to be forgiven for.
The teachers in my area are very wary now of his new education plan. They already teach to the test too much. Their view is that he will increase that problem.
Peter is trolling and still being affected by the FULL MOON.
I just hope he doesn’t take an M-16 into the social services food stamp office.
Now that Bambi has caused the stock market to loose 24 percent of its value in 52 days the Democrats and the Industrialized Media Complex are coming un-glued and blame us.
Peters cigarettes have had a 300 percent tax increase and he will need to sell more food stamps to get the money.
So he blames it on the conservatives.
Peter- ‘My Boy.’
You ain’t seen nothing yet!
23.Peter
Wow.
What makes you think there are no conservatives in the lower and middle class? That’s the neighborhood I’ve lived in my entire life and I’ve never been anything but a conservative.
You sound like a really miserable person.
I will grant you, however, you are good at namecalling.
May I suggest that you pack your keyboard and leave for daily kos before you have a stroke. Good grief.
Besides your apparent misery, you are also very ignorant and stupid.
Peter,
Oh,boy. What a well-crafted, reasonable argument you make. I sense the discipline and measure in your words. The wisdom pours out of every sentence. You, my friend, are Thomas Jefferson incarnate. Ah, to be so confident that one’s opinion is so..so..so right! Keep up the great work. I will await your future postings with baited breath.
The honeymoon may be over, but I’m looking for the annulment!
Well, Peter sure has done a wonderful job of proving the point: liberalism is a mental disease- a malignant, hateful psychosis, coupled with abject ignorance and, of course, bigotry. This is manifested in name-calling, on the same level as the six year-old throwing a tantrum.
I would invite Peter to pack up and depart- he would I’m sure be very happy in Cuba or Venezuela or Zimbabwe, those paragons of leftist economics. Please leave America to the grownups.
Peter:
There is some inexpensive property available in Cuba along with the phylosophy that will suit your personal perspective.
Has the DNC, in its campaign to denigrate Rush, decided what it is that Rush hopes Obama fails in accomplishing? In fact Rush wants his country to succeed and Obama to succeed in keeping our country free. But then portraying the truth does not fit the campaign goal
What grownups? I don’t see any grownups. We’re working on our second generation of perpetual adolescents.
Peter,
Now for the shredding of your “amateur hour” post:
Our founding fathers WERE liberal. That is why they created this nation “Under GOD.” Got that?
That is why they stressed “individual liberties.” That is why they set up a system of checks and balances to ensure that the individual was top dog in this neck of the woods. Also, you dimwit, drive around the areas of your town/city/campus where business thrives – notice the trees, green grass, smooth roads? Notice the lower crime rates in these areas? Now, drive your fool self downtown to an inner city area. Notice the dirge of business? Notice how dirty it is? Notice the higher crime? Notice that more tax dollars (ie government) are being spent there?
Notice the stuff you use every day? Your IPod, your Prius, your Bush Lied, People Died tee shirt? All made with profit in mind, big guy. Before posting, take a deep breath, collect your thoughts, and then make the right decision – turn off your laptop, and get that Chicken Tetrozinni to table 14! Or your fired.
You guys are hilarious. The economy craters (predictably) right in front of your eyes, but you won’t even consider that there might be the slightest thing wrong with your economic philosophy. Just face up to it: Milton Friedman was WRONG. Keynes was right.
It is really hard to take people like Peter at face value. Even if he does hold the belief set he espouses – it is hard to believe that anyone believes that communicating in that style attracts support. Peter has to be a plant – or just likes to see people respond to him. No one who can type can really be that stupid.
Oh!
And Peter ‘My Boy.’
24 million people are 2 months or more behind in their house payments.
12 million of those just since Nov. 08- Guess who/what was elected Nov. 08?
Soon we will have tent city’s with dirt strips through the middle call Bambi boulevards.
Get in line and get your tater and broccoli soup
over at the Messiah kitchen.
During my ‘tours’ the Vietnamese homeless showed us how to sleep in/under the road culverts,
more protection from the rain and bullets.
And did I mention the Demorats are gonna raise your cigarette tax another 400 percent but it will be over 6 months so you can file for nicotine patches on your Medicaid.
“Elect Obama and Quit Smoking!”
“YES WE CAN”
“YEAH U DID”
I wish people would remember that the economy didn’t even show a sign of tanking through the first six Bush years it was only after a year of Dim-o-crats controlling congress, heading the committees, writing the laws and forcing banks to give out loans that couldn’t be repaid that the economy finally succumbed.
Peter has hold of the TALKING POINTS !
Here is the same propaganda from a TOOL who calls himself ‘MORPHEUS’ responding to Corzine’s 1 billion dollar tax increase on its citizens:
….”Actually, i do believe in the principles of our Founding Fathers, but I don’t think they could have realized where their forward-thinking LIBERAL ways would take this country…
“… the Founding Fathers were LIBERALS when they came up with the grand experiment that became (and continues to be) America.”
Peter you… and Morpheus…and every socialist like you are fools…parrots and losers. Get out of the road. NO ONE will ride my sweat and labor for a free ride …OR the sweat and labor of my forefathers your philosophy makes a mockery of.
Get ready for the fight….a battle you haven’t the will or courage to engage.
I and American’s all over the country will work for your defeat. You have no idea.
If these sorts of numbnutty comments keep up, there might be a new cliche that goes “Hell hath no fury like a conservative scorned”.
And the Democrats corruption continues to be unearthed…Here’s an excellent article in today’s Wall St. Journal about more ethical probes into Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd’s real estate dealings. This time it’s in Ireland.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123681364667801647.html
Let’s not forget the secret ingredient that makes this stimudoggle possible: Pelosi. Carter and Clinton probably would have done something this radical, if only the congress had gone along. He’s only this bad because congress allows him to be.
This is what you get when you pitch checks and balances out the window.
Who let the sophomore from Animal House in?
WOW! Somebody cuts and pastes from HuffPo and Daily Kos! It’s a typing Peter!
Wow, more liberals here to pee in the pond. Good additions to the conversation. Oh wait, I forgot, you don’t want give and take conversations, just pronouncements with no logic to back it up.
As if John “The economy is not my strong point” McCain would be doing any better. Please pull your heads out of your rears and at least pretend you live in reality. Obama inherited a poor Republican economy, a horrifically mismanaged federal government and a Consitution that was ripped to shreds by neocon lawyers like John Yoo. Non-crazy Americans realize that it’s going to take time for Obama to fix all of Bush & Co.’s mistakes, and as long as you keep screaming “tax cuts” as your big plan to save the economy, you can bet your big collective conservative behinds that there won’t be a Republican candidate that will come close to touching Obama in 2012.
Note to Peter…President Pork was born in Africa wasn’t he? You just made your point moot.
Vince P your #16:
Thanks for your insight on a probable source of
Bush Derangement Syndrome. Like him, I hail from the Permian Basin and like him I just don’t much care about those folks who spend their time bitching and moaning instead of trying to correct
things. And it does drive compulsive complainers up the wall.
I suppose this petertroll is another good example of the same thing. Generality of people on this thread keep their nose to the grindstone instead of catering to his kind, and he just can’t stand that.
BTW: While all this is predominantly on the left, it is not entirely limited to leftists.
Some righties go unhinged as well.
Again, thanks for your insight. Was valuable.
About the time everyone points out that Peter is a buffoon, BHollis bubbles up. Kind of like a fart in the hot tub.
It is all over for you racist hatemongers. There was an election last November: we won, you lost and you will never get another chance. We have a new Leader now and he has the love and support of the great majority of Americans.
President Obama rules this country now and regardless of how you kick and scream he will lead us into the light of a new world of justice and peace. You racist hatemongers can either get with the program or get out.
Funny you should ask about the bumper stickers, Jennifer. I recently designed and copyrighted one, hope to get them out there soon. Long live free speech and free markets.
“Milton Friedman was WRONG. Keynes was right.”
John Maynard Keynes? Yah right. And that’s why Great Britain is the strongest nation on earth today.
Dude. Pass the bong. Quit bogarting the weed.
23. Peter — You are an uncaring cruel man.
#23: Peter: the only one who has to leave here,is a liberal cretin like you.obviously suffering the effects of tertiary syphillis. Get thee to the Daily Kos where your rantings can pass for wisdom, or flee to the nearest VD clinic,and get cured. Or not.
“OUR FOUNDING FATHERS WERE ALL LIBERALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Impressive…and no less than 27 exclamation points. Were you the runt of the litter growing up? Felt the need to shout to be heard? Or perhaps you have a Napolean complex?
I do applaud your basic grasp of American history. Your use of caps….to get your point across…
not so much.
44. Steve P.: You always make me laugh. Thanks, keep posting on here I always like to see what non-thinkers have to say.
48. Yes We Did: Why is it always about race? Are you feeling guilty about some hate crime you committed?
44STEVEPEE:YOU ARE KIDDING US AREN’T YOU? a monkey suffering from autism could do a better job than this OHOLE. Cramer, Buffet, Grove,are all jumping ship, his economic team refuses to tackle the banking crisis,the Dow loses 3000 pts, since his election,and you are still defending him? A word of advice: stop Drinking the funny yellow liquid you were named after, and switch to water,it will prevent future brain damage!
Dear Ms. Rubin:Where can we buy the bumper stickers? Best regards,Deguello
“President Obama rules this country now and regardless of how you kick and scream he will lead us into the light of a new world of justice and peace. You racist hatemongers can either get with the program or get out.”
Just about the time you figure nobody could exhibit a greater degree of ignorance and stupidity that the last moron someone like “Yes we did” shows up and establishes a whole new nadir. This one will probably reappear next year as a finalist for a Darwin Award.
“You think that because some jerk 200 years ago murdered Natives, enslaved Africans, and pillaged the land by simply claiming it, that you somehow worked so much harder than the rest of us and are “deserving” of more?”
It’s very comforting to listen to liberals when their synapses are fully firing: on 1 cylinder.
Excellent article. One point:
But he remains, at least for now, supremely confident and more than willing to push ahead with an agenda that is, in large measure, economically unwise and politically unsustainable.
I don’t know if it’s so much “supreme confidence” as it is a weak executive who can’t stand up to the radicals (elosi) and union shills in Congress. His constant resort to letting them figure out the details tells me he’s someone who isn’t confident of his own ability to control the situation.
Steve P: Why do you care what Republicans or conservatives think or do? Is there something, beyond supporting the Democrat program, broadly speaking, that you think the party should be promoting that Democrats aren’t? If so, please detail.
By they way, did ever answer my question as to whether you have been offering similar advice on threads at the DailyKos, FiredogLake, DU, or the HuffPo – I mean given that you’re all neutral and nonpartisan, that is?
I want a bumper sticker that says, “Don’t blame me – I’m a conservative.” Or maybe, “Conservatives don’t spend like drunken sailors.”
All Democrats didn’t vote for The One. Seven votes in my house went to McCain/Palin. Some of you Republicans didn’t support McCain, and I’m sure with all the other corruption of the caucus’s and Acorns voter faud. Enabled this joker to the White House. Pelosi is a horrible Dino, I realize everyone wants to point blame, Blame San Francisco for Pelosi, cause the rest of us have no vote on her.
B Hollis:
I doubt you even know what Keynes wrote. Please explain the Keysian IS/LM model as formuled Sir John Hicks.
23: Peter put away the LSD and get some sleep.
The revolution is eating it’s messiah…
Blacks, hispanics and single mothers will never abandon a government which gives with both hands and takes nothing. The fact that it takes their dignity is as nothing to the small but tangible payouts they receive. When you combine that with the fact that they sense, correctly, that this government is aligned with them in the war against white males and…well, they’ll never abandon their parent and buddy the state. Add homosexuals to blacks, hispanics and single mothers and you have a significant % of the population that WILL NEVER TURN AGAINST THE STATE, no matter how terrible its performance. Therefore do not assume the Obama administration will be turned out of office based on its criminal incompetence. Who whom is the apposite equation.
Dear Yes We Did:
Do I have to repeat myself? Apparently. In case you missed it, I’ll give it to you again:
You won a popularity contest – no more, no less… but you lost the big battle for something greater than Obama: your personal freedom. You wait, you’ll see. This rosy glow you’re feeling after your victory? It’s just like an alcohol induced high: what goes up must come down. Get ready to start feeling dizzy, nauseated, shaky, and full of remorse.
You wait. You’ll see. You might want to stop the juvenile gloating now – I understand eating crow can cause choking.
P.S. You’ll notice I did not resort to childish name-calling in my response to you.
Marc Malone says: “I want a bumper sticker that says, “Don’t blame me – I’m a conservative.” Or maybe, “Conservatives don’t spend like drunken sailors.””
Those would be very ironically funny bumper stickers, considering that the so-called conservatives who were in the WH the last 8 years are to blame and did spend like drunken sailors.
Steve P….Obama didn’t “inherit” anything from Bush. He “inherited” the economy from a Democratic congress. Don’t whitewash the truth. You libs must be programmed somehow to pass the buck…”It’s Bush’s fault…blah, blah, blah”. It’s time for President Pork to own up to almost tripling the national debt in 90 days in office. Bush at least spent money on a fending off terrorism. President Pork is spending it on……pork. Can’t wait to see what he has to add to the debt once he actually starts concentrating on the economy. God Help Us All!
It’s time for the liberal left to GROW A SET FOR ONCE and own up to the fact that they’ve gifted the USA with Carter II.
Steve P….Just in case your next diatribe is going to be that everyone in the real world thinks Obama walks on water….
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123671107124286261.html
You need to qualify that with…Only the unintelligent, uninformed, brain-dead, sheeple still think Obama walks on water. The bloom is definitely off the Teleprompter, er, I mean rose.
I think there is a lesson to be learned here. Look at how much “Peter” detracted from the conversation. With one post, he commanded attention and derailed what was and is a substantive conversation about our direction. One post! That’s all it takes? If we are to be organized, and assert our desires on this government, we cannot let the loudest, most profane, sophomoric person take over. All this becomes then, is a contest of debate, which you will not win… as illustrated by prior posts and the “liberal mentality”. As the saying goes, stay frosty.
68. Steve P.
Yes, they did. Therefore, following your own logic, by definition, they lost their conservative street cred. But, you already know that. That is why even you designate them “so-called conservatives.”
obama– I DID NOT VOTE FOR HIM– didn’t trust him the from the first time I saw & listened to him– WHY oh WHY oh WHY oh, why didn’t more people vote for McCain??????????
The stuff that Obama said he stood for got him the Democrat nomination. Regardless of the fact that his deeply disturbing characteristic of mocking the working class was clearly part of the package, he was elected President. I never expected someone, who was handed his party’s nomination, to be so utterly insecure. Have we ever had a president who mocked the people? With the nastiest of smirks on his face, Obama seemed to relish his demeaning tactic of putting down a working class citizen for setting his sights on earning over $250,000 per year. What is wrong with this man?
And so were Jesus and Mohammad, right? If you want to read a lot of populist “I’m a have not/the rich J*w*s did took all my candy” drivel, read Mein Kampf sometime. The author of that is much closer to a “liberal” (in the current sense of the word) than Jefferson.
AThinkingPerson says “Steve P….Obama didn’t “inherit” anything from Bush. ”
Yes, genius, he inherited a budget deficit that was double what it was when Clinton left. The National Debt on January 19, 2001 was: 5,727,776,738,304.64
And here’s what it was on January 20, 2009: 10,626,877,048,913.08. That’s an increase of 5,005,369,081,097.44, or 87.39% in eight years.
In other words, George W. Bush and the Republican Congress increased the National Debt by nearly the same amount as we managed to accrue over a period of 212 years.
AThinkingPerson says “He “inherited” the economy from a Democratic congress. Don’t whitewash the truth. You libs must be programmed somehow to pass the buck…”It’s Bush’s fault…blah, blah, blah”.
Wrong again. Democratic congress came into power at the tail end of 2006. If you really think that the economy was going strong and from 2001-2006 and then suddenly went completely off the rails in 2007 when Democrats gained a majority, then you obviously don’t understand how the economy works and should stop writing as if you do.
You write so eloquently about libs being programmed to pass the buck, but you can’t even admit that your party, which had near total control of our federal government from 2001-2006, and a president governed incompetently and never vetoed a spending bill, is responsible for what happened on its watch. Democrats were not in the White house the last 8 years, and were minorities in congress for 6 of those 8 years. What kind of man, or political party, can’t even admit that he/they screwed up? Talk about failing to take responsibility. This is why
a majority of Americans dislike you. Not because you failed so miserably, but because you spend more effort trying to wiggle your way out of claiming responsibility than you do contributing to the cleanup of your mess.
AThinkingPerson says “Bush at least spent money on a fending off terrorism.”
Oh, I see, so when a Republican pours a crapload of money into the Iraqi economy it’s good, but when a Democrat pours a crapload of money into the American economy, it’s bad.
You sure love beng a hypocrite, don’t you?
You fools keep telling yuorself this nonsense and pretending you did not just make it up but it is simply not the truth. President Obama’s approval numbers are still rising and the GOP’s are still dropping like a rock. Keep lieing to yourselves, but it is not working in the real world.
Keep dodging resposibility and pretending we where all not here for the past 8 years. You are only preaching to the kool aid driking choir. Your policies have failed this country worse than any adminstration in history and your only solution is more of the problem and lie and deny.
It is not working!
This country is LEADERLESS and the Congress is robbing the Treasury of the US with no regard for responsibility. Don’t Blame Me just doesn’t cut it. Somehow law abiding citizens should be able to throw elected officials in jail. It is appaling the idiotic pork projects admendments. Someone help!
#76 Steve P:
Relax. And realize that Obama is spending a lot more than Bush ever did. The idea that they’re “pouring money into the American economy” is absurd. What they’re doing is printing dollars we don’t have for their own political wants and desires. This will result in even higher debt, taxes and inflation. Also, what you fail to realize is that much of this money will be spent later versus now, as well as the fact that Japan tried the same kind of nonsense in the 1990s and it failed. Do you want us to fail, Steve???
If they talk like crooks and they steal like a crooks, they’re still crooks. Don’t really care about the last eight years now. It’s time to move forward, and if I’m being robbed blind through the use of propaganda and selective use of the facts I’m going to complain.
#61 MARC MALONE: How about:” O” is all that’s left of my 401K”.best regards.
I know some liberal folk and when I talk to them these days it’s either:
All politicians are jerks.
or
McCain would have been just as bad.
None of them defend the Narcissist in Chief.
It’s worth knowing that an individual with a narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) has no friends, just like our new prez , because when one is the most wonderful smartest being in the universe who needs anyone else.
It is impossible to like a NPD over a prolonged periods of time because they cant conceal their arrogant disdain . Once the media and crowds stops fawning things will get interesting. NPD’s often become vengeful and violent when they don’t get the adulation they crave.
The irony is that my staunchest supporters are from the generation that will have to pay for all this crap. I’m so fortunate to be blessed with such fools. Thank you, NEA.
This is hilarious. You people were saying the honeymoon was over before Obama was sworn in. Which is it? Was it over in December? Is it over now? Were you lying then, or are you lying now?
The self-destruction of the GOP is truly an awesome sight to behold.
Please don’t call these malignant dwarves “Liberals.” A Liberal believes in liberty. These creatures are Progressives. They are believe in the progressive dismantling of liberty.
#76 Steve P…. Again, whitewashing.Was Bush II’s budget bigger than Clinton’s? Yes. Was Clinton’s budget bigger than Bush 1? Yes, Was Bush 1′s budge bigger than Reagan’s? Yes. Geez Steve. We could play this game all day. Suffice it to say that in 90 days…. 90 DAYS not weeks Steve, follow along…..President Pork has almost tripled the national debt. On what?????? Do tell the assembled posters what President Pork deemed so worthy that he tripled the national debt during a recession (and might I add, he’s apparently not done spending yet??). Did he solve the economic crisis Steve? Did Wall Street love his new plan Steve? Did he earn the confidence of the consumer Steve? Nah. Quite the opposite Steve.
So this mess the GOP is trying to “wriggle out of”?? Do tell. Is the newly tripled debt the GOP’s fault? Is having an inept Treasury Secretary the GOP’s fault? Is having every newly appointed cabinet member found to be a tax cheat the GOP’s fault? Come on now…you can do it….I know you can form a complete sentence without the words…..”Well, Bush and the GOP…”
And since you are a card carrying member of the pass-the-buck club….If President Pork isn’t going to take the credit for racking up the national debt into the trillions….just when WILL he start taking credit for anything? Three months? Six months? Two years? Will he ever claim responsibility for anything or will it be more of the old dodge ball tactics he’s now famous for? I have to admit he’s a wiley one….signing the MASSIVE omnibus bill in secret? My, my, my he must truly have been ashamed to have to HIDE to put his signature on it. Can’t say I blame him though.
I’d suggest taking a breather Steve. You might just see what a lame-duck you’ve elected and be able to save face a bit if you admit the liberal left’s shortcomings. Oh, and you might just grow a set yet in the meantime.
Uh, Peter, perhaps you’ve never heard, but when people use the word “liberal” to describe the founding fathers, they mean that they were CLASSICAL liberals, not the modern, progressive, leftist type. There are big philosophical differences.
Had they been the progressive, leftist type, the American Revolution might have ended in a reign of terror, much as the French Revolution did. Fortunately, that was not the case because America’s founding fathers established a Republic that respected individual rights, property rights, and the rule of law. Perhaps you should look into such things before writing another embarrassing post.
would anyone please point out the last time any liberal politician actually admitted they were wrong…
#74
Obama seemed to relish his demeaning tactic of putting down a working class citizen for setting his sights on earning over $250,000 per year. What is wrong with this man?
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I does tie in with the NPD, is his pride. Someone that out-of-touch-arrogant has such deep insecurity, that he is completely convinced anything anyone else gets, takes away from him. He is utterly convinced that for someone else to succeed, means he will fail.
Of course, if he does succeed in his agenda, the country will fail. (but he will be King of the Hill – {Never mind it will be nothing but a molehill when he’s done}, so, he wins.)
86. AThinkingPerson: Great points.
87. Kurt: Thanks for the clarification. A simple search on the internet would have informed the non-thinking of the change in the word liberal.
Please, Steve P., Keep posting! I think you went to school with my son. He told me about a boy that would sniff Elmers in the back of the classroom. That’s you…I know it.
It’s time for the liberal left to GROW A SET FOR ONCE and own up to the fact that they’ve gifted the USA with Carter II.
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If we’re lucky. Frankly, I think he’s going to make those of us old enough to remember, nostalgic for the incompetent-weasel.
re:88
that was “supposed” to be an “It”.
re: 89
I need to change that too. (my head hasn’t been doing well today.)
It should be “treasonous-weasel”.
Updates: Sheriff Arpaio, Rush Limbaugh, Stem Cells, Global Warming, Hypocrisy
The following are updates on articles recently posted on http://genelalor.com/.
Arpaio and the Rule of Law vs. the Injustice Department: Not surprisingly, Arizona’s Sheriff Joe Arpaio is fighting back. In his effort to enforce America’s and Arizona’s immigration laws, he refuses to be intimidated by Justice Department, (translate: President Barack Hussein Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder), threats of investigation. To emphasize his resolve, Arpaio has advised the Mexican Consul General’s office that now they will have to wait in line like everyone else to see Mexican prisoner-nationals: http://www.mcso.org/include/pr_pdf/Sheriff%20Continues%20Enforcement%20Despite%20Investigation.pdf. For informational purposes only, the sheriff’s phone number is (602) 876-1801 and emails may be sent to him here: http://www.mcso.org/index.php?a=GetModule&mn=Contact_Us&p=pubcom.
Durbin and the Bogus Unfairness Doctrine vs. Conservative Talk Radio: Senator Senate Majority Whip, Dick Durban (D, Il), continues to pretend that his party, now with a stranglehold on both the presidency and congress, won’t push to re-establish the so-called “Fairness Doctrine:” http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=44895. He’s being honest and lying at the same time, aka dissembling and being disingenuous. They won’t try to pass a new Fairness Doctrine, designed to eliminate Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and other conservative talk radio personalities from their airwaves. Rather the Dems will circumvent the issue by passing legislation that accomplishes the same censorship under a different label. To grease the skids, they even plan erecting a billboard attacking Limbaugh: http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=44897.
Obamian Politics of Death vs. Innocent Pre-born Babies: Already recognized, based on his rabid pro-abortion record, as the most bloodthirsty chief executive in America’s history, Obama confirmed the validity of his rep …
(Readn the rest at http://genelalor.com/.)
Someone 75
**** GAZE ****
#76 Steve P . . . You’re my new hero! Don’t expect the hard facts to persuade a misnomer the likes of “athinkingperson” much less “astinkingperson” like kfed5 or Ms Attitude. No, they’ve allotted all their available brains space to the pill-popping gas bag El Rushbo . . . “Sorry, no vacancy!” . . . “Occupado!” . . . “I hear you thinking but you can’t come in!” . . . “ditto . . . times 2!”
Where this board is concerned, Steve P, we’re left with the consolation that convicted felons can’t own guns or vote and meth heads can’t remember what they’re supposed to do tomorrow. It’s fun though, isn’t it, to drag them through the litter they consider logic? Or knowledge? Or humor? Yes, it’s good to be smart . . . and progressive . . . and right . . . and rich.
All is good in the land of liberals. All is black in the conservative backwaters of America. Now to all you right-wing lunatics out there, go get your f%$kin shine box.
I’ve got a tee time, so I’ll close with this: Keep it up Steve P. On behalf of all the brainiacs in the world, I salute you. We know you can’t keep ‘em honest, so just keep ‘em scratching.
WOW. This thread needs an old Priest and a young Priest stat!
Steve P.,
I found some great clothing I think I’ll be wearing:
http://www.cafepress.com/cp/browse/store/thewhitehouse/955102
After all, they don’t make “Uppity white person” T-Shirts.
-And, since our POTUS and First *cough* ‘Lady’ are racists…what does that make YOU?
Thanks for playing checks & balances.
0bama bumper stickers have definitely been disappearing. It’s hilarious. Now THAT is a change I can LMAO at.
steve p is lolo:
Obama will end his one term hated by average Americans. huh? correction
Obama will begin his one term hated by average Americans. all the special ones love him.
Ricpic is racebaiting. not all conservatives are white and not all brown faces vote democrat. we love America, that is what should bind us. so far this recession hasn’t touched me but i’m not in debt up to my eyes. i’m just thinking about what i have to do to survive this. learned my lesson from Katrina and the people of Mississippi, don’t wait for the government to save you. start making a plan about what you need to do, those people you say good morning to, are the ones that are going to help, not some knucklehead 2000 miles away. better have a skill bro.
95 . . . Yeah, even I gotta admit that last one was a little over the top. Good call, Delia. And well said, by the way.
Sure, the budget deficits run during the Bush years were bad, and many, many conservatives complained loudly about them. But take a look at the table presented here
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OGE3YjcyZTczODAzZTIwMTdiZTc4M2U4MTgxMDg1OTY=
from Obama’s own estimates that one can assume are not skewed to make the administration look “bad”.
So, Steve P. are you really saying that this is comparable to the Bush years? Really? No excuses about how awful it is now. Look at those out years ahead. If everything is so well in hand why the nearly 3/4 trillion deficit in 2019? What do you think accounts for that? Could it be the follow on for programatic changes taking place right now and projected to take place over the next 4+ years of budgets. The stock blame placed on Bush depreciates with every passing minute.
The Republicans need to fight back when the Media and Left Politicians make damaging charges against the party or individuals. And defend their position. I always thought George Bush and the Republicans in Office, did not defend their positions, especially the Iraq and War on Terrorist.
“W” Bush let the media say anything and he never defended his position. Only Dick Cheney stood up like a man with a pair. The Republicans always appeared to wanting to be like by the Elite Left and the likes of Chuck Schumer and Pat Leahy. WHY, WOULD WE WANT TO BE LIKED BY THESE PEOPLE.
Define them as the LEFT, and make you case for INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM and CAPITALISM. America will accept their position if they present their case for The Republic and Constitution.
#73 SAL:
“obama– I DID NOT VOTE FOR HIM– didn’t trust him the from the first time I saw & listened to him– WHY oh WHY oh WHY oh, why didn’t more people vote for McCain??????????”
Because he would have been just as bad, in his own way, if not worse.
He would have betrayed the very people who voted for him, which is why I voted for Barr.
While I am horrified at what the Alleged Hawaiian is doing, a part of me is vindicated in that at least he’s doing what I expected from him.
While he was still acandidate, I researched his record and especially his Illinois state Senate district…and that told me all that I needed to know.
I’m also IMMENSELY pleased that it is his most fervent social liberal supporters who have been getting it shoved up and broken off inside of them.
Better THEM get shafted from their Messiah than ME getting shafted from a RINO.
Questions that will blow Liberals’ gaskets:
Why are we STILL in Iraq?
Why is Guantanamo STILL open?
Why are there STILL earmarks in Obamabudgets?
Why is the PATRIOT Act STILL the law of the Land?
Why are we STILL paying billions to Big Business?
What happened to the “post-racial Presidency”?
Really, not much has changed except that we’ve won in Iraq,(thanks to Bush and Petraeus), we’re poorer, we’re deeper in debt, and our taxes are higher…oh, and we may soon be unemployed.
And this may yet be reminisced about as the Salad Days of the fellow who claims to have been born in Hawaii’s Administration.
By comparison to Obama and McCain, George W. Bush is looking more “Rushmore-worthy” by the minute…
Hey,
I’ve got my “Don’t blame me. I voted for Sarah.” button.
All of my family are liberal except me. I guess I am the black sheep. Everytime I have a conversation with them about the issues of the day they get to screaming and yelling when I try to explain an alternate point of view. I dont hate liberals just dont agree with them but while I am calm they are hysterical. I want to make this one point to suggest that if this economy doesnt kill us civil war will. Oh and by the way the Republican Party was created around the civil war to abolish slavery. This is a conversation I had that turned into a fight with a liberal family member
Family ” You spend too much time listening to Rush I can tell. He will corrupt your mind he is the biggest jerk and does nothing but call people names. He is a racist biggot and a serious FEMINAZI”
ME : ” Did you just here yourself you just called Rush a bunch of names and you just got on him for name calling. Isnt that a little hypocritical”
Family ” Im not going to talk about this anymore your too set in you way and your wong about your veiw”
True story this is an actual conversation.
#76 wrote, “Oh, I see, so when a Republican pours a crapload of money into the Iraqi economy it’s good, but when a Democrat pours a crapload of money into the American economy, it’s bad.”
So, you think that Iraqi economy = American economy? So that putting money into one is the same as putting money into the other. Context matters not at all?
“This is why a majority of Americans dislike you. Not because you failed so miserably, but because you spend more effort trying to wiggle your way out of claiming responsibility than you do contributing to the cleanup of your mess.”
Hmmmm, let’s see now, you know the minds of a majority of Americans? My, my, my. With such powers you must be quite wealthy by now, I mean, really, you should be able to anticipate market trends with ease. Maybe you and #86 can find a tee time together, eh? And, by the way #86, that’s not tee times? Rich? Hmmmm…and what specifically have you done for the poor lately? Speaking of hypocrites.
I will agree with #86 on this: The current admin has been good to me because I’ve bet against it in the market. I’m old enough to know, that if you’re careful, you won’t go broke betting against a Democrat Congress and Democrat President.
Whenever during a White House dinner Mrs. McKinley had an epileptic fit, McKinley would simply drape his handkerchief over her face so that the conversation could continue…
— any further comments on Jennifer Rubin’s five things Republicans must do?
While everybody seems to assume the abrupt honeymoon ending is taking the Obama people by surprise, they’re dead wrong.
The Obama clan are smart as smart can be. Well, substitute greedy and the bullseye is yours.
The brown eyed handsome man and his merry sidekicks knew very well the spending explosion would be very unpopular (because it’s wholly unnesessary, but it’s made thousands upon thousands of Democrats million and even billionaires.
Their greed overcame the backlash risk. Ralm Immanuel in an early meeting about this very possibility said, “What risk?” When you have enough money for the rest of your life thanks to trillion dollar spending schemes, then what risk are you talking about?
And isn’t that the point; power Democrats are in this for the money. Of course this excludes the Kennedy’s who already have more money than Citi Bank.
Plus, whatever they do, they’ll always have the slacker vote and the black vote. Or more accurate called, the knee jerk vote.
And the voting public has a short memory. A few brilliantly written and delivered speeches, and chances are, the damage done by mortgaging our children’s future will be little more than a glitch, a hiccup, a misstep as Obama takes us down a Socialistic path that results in ripping to shreads the fabic of this nation, much as a cat sharpening his claws on a priceless one of a kind oriental carpet till the rug looks more like a great room sized cat toy.
While everybody seems to assume the abrupt honeymoon ending is taking the Obama people by surprise, they’re dead wrong.
The Obama clan are smart as smart can be. Well, substitute greedy and the bullseye is yours.
The brown eyed handsome man and his merry sidekicks knew very well the spending explosion would be very unpopular (because it’s wholly unnesessary, but it’s made thousands upon thousands of Democrats million and even billionaires.
Their greed overcame the backlash risk. Ralm Immanuel in an early meeting about this very possibility said, “What risk?” When you have enough money for the rest of your life thanks to trillion dollar spending schemes, then what risk are you talking about?
And isn’t that the point; power Democrats are in this for the money. Of course this excludes the Kennedy’s who already have more money than Citi Bank.
Plus, whatever they do, they’ll always have the slacker vote and the black vote. Or more accurate called, the knee jerk vote.
And the voting public has a short memory. A few brilliantly written and delivered speeches, and chances are, the damage done by mortgaging our children’s future will be little more than a glitch, a hiccup, a misstep as Obama takes us down a Socialistic path that results in ripping to shreads the fabic of this nation, much as a cat sharpening his claws on a priceless one of a kind oriental carpet till the rug looks more like a great room sized cat toy.
Looks like Obama himself has been posting here; Go away dummy!
Some people are saying the honeymoon is over already?
Can those people actual say Obama worse than George I have no brain Bush?
Can we relive the good ole dazed and confused past?
1. We don’t torture (chanted to the camera daily)
Oops busted “Well we only did for you America and gees you caught me”
2. The economy is strong folks and we never need to raise taxes because all is well and strong…. (Hmmm where the surplus money is the Democrats had 8 + years ago?
3. Weapon of mass destructions exist folks we must attack Iraq…. Hmmm billions later and yep it’s a great program to kill off our children and spend. Because remember folk’s freedom aint cheap…..
4. Remember Dick Dark Vader who abused his powers and manipulated everyone?
5. How about the Republicans doing nothing for alternate energy? Yea I am sure Obama who is pushing alternative energy has to be the devil correct?
6. How about the past life of GW where he bankrupted his first oil company? I am sure he did well with the US right?
8. JUST THINK IF GW WOULD HAVE HAD HIS WAY AND LET AMERICANS INVEST THEIR SOCIAL SECURITY IN THE FAILED STOCK MARKET…. CAN WE SAY SOUP LINES FOR THE ELDERLY?
Lastly when did the republicans get religion and start worrying about spending??????
WAKE UP AMERICA AND GET WYA OUT OF YOUR HEAD…. THE US NEEDS INTELLIGENCE NOT IDIOTS IN OFFICE…..
You people are idiots. You expected Obama to save the economy in 50 days. This is why you lost your insane.Just go reread your bible in your basement with your guns and wait for the second coming.
zackisright.blogspot.com
“OUR FOUNDING FATHERS WERE ALL LIBERALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Thank you others for pointing out hat what was liberal then is (supposed to be anyway) the creed of republicans now. Classical liberalism. Still the gold standard.
My husband is hispanic, and also military as is all his family. I can assure you they may be brown but are NOT democrats. I was raised a spoiled little rich white girl who of course thought it was sooo terrible and unfair that we had so much. 0f course I felt no real need to give up personally, but I was a very liberal democrat. Thankfully I grew up. And out on my own, having to actually work, I realized I had been full of crap and so were the democrats.
I love the book “Who Really Gives”. It’s been proven in my life. My husband and I give a lot though we don’t have a whole lot.
#108 rachel peepers:
“And isn’t that the point; power Democrats are in this for the money. Of course this excludes the Kennedy’s who already have more money than Citi Bank.”
Ummmm, Rachel?
You and I each have more money than Citibank.
The bum I give twenty bucks to has more money than Citibank.
The seat cushions in a taxicab have more money than Citibank.
Just sayin’
Why is everybody comparing the government to
drunken sailors?
In defense of drunken sailors, a subject I know
a little about, they spend their OWN MONEY!
oomo
so glad to know I’m getting under your skin. (though as I tell my children often – there is nothing to be proud of in needling someone who is so easily needled.)
Now, run along and find a dermatologist for your rash.
Wow! This really struck a nerve with some of the loons around here. There was a full moon last night.
“You people are idiots. You expected Obama to save the economy in 50 days. This is why you lost your insane.Just go reread your bible in your basement with your guns and wait for the second coming.” – “Whatnow” at #111
The few times I’ve gone over to places like DailyKos and the DU I’ve read scatology like this. “why you lost your insane” Evidence that this person is most likely under the age of 30, since proofreading what they scribble was not an ingrained habit in the schools of self-esteem.
The rest is a meme all too common over there. And Obonga surely did pick up on it, as he said to that group of super rich people in San Francisco last Spring that we are “bitter clingers to guns and religion.”
I’m not judging Obonga so much on the results of 50+ days in office. However, we have to keep in mind the fact that the equities’ markets are forward-looking. What investors see, going forward, is not at all conducive to their good fortunes. What they see are more taxes and out of control government spending. They see socialized healthcare and the cap and trade system that imposes a carbon tax on the economy. That aspect of the new taxes alone will shave 1% to 3% off GDP growth. And in a slow growth environment that is significant.
Investors see an environment fraught with foreign policy mistakes and a defense that will be significantly downsized, with critical weapons and defense systems cut from the Pentagon’s budget.
“Whatnow” takes us for simpletons, as his caricature intends to convey. Will he match his eloquence and sophistication against ours?
And, also knowing something about being drunk and being a sailor, when we run out of money, we STOP spending.
Peter @ 23:
“…Those roads, schools, police and fire departments, the Grants for Science and Technology, pollution control and Regulation are why this country has been so strong.”
So, according to you, America is our stuff? And you call conservatives shallow?
Just WOW! Oh, you are from Colorado? That explains it, you are suffering from hypoxia.
I must be a full moon, all the moonbats came out tonight!
Everyone take a chill pill. If Obama keeps screwing up, (and there’s no reason to think he won’t), he’s out in four years. I have faith in the American people. Most people who voted for Obama didn’t really like him, they were just fed up with the Repubs. That was it. People are always tired of whoever has been in power for eight years. They just can’t help it. Oh sure, Obama has his whiney, adolescent obots, the ones who all spent their junior year in France, but they’re the minority. It was the folks who were sick of Bush, who put O. in office. They were sicker of Bush, than they were apprehensive of O., and that is how this mess happened. However, they are not going to be pleased with O., as he is a disaster. They will get rid of him. However, the Repubs have got to muzzle the creationist activists, (the ones who really are trying to change the curriculum in our schools), as they make the conservatives look stupid, and they need to get on about the economy, and responsible spending, etc. I have been a lifelong democrat, (I know, for shame), and was so horrified by Obama and his lack of character and weak resume, that I voted Repub for the first time in my life, due to the fact that, although I didn’t agree with McCain on everything, I respected him, and had no respect for Obama. If I can come around to reason, so can most people.
Hear, hear! Boglee has point. Comparisons in this forum of the current or previous administration to a drunken sailor, in terms of their respective spending habits, is indeed a libel against drunken sailors.
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whatnow?: “You people are idiots. You expected Obama to save the economy in 50 days.”
Au contraire, we’re all amazed at how quickly he’s driving it over the cliff.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123690358175013837.html
“Overall, Rasmussen Reports shows a 56%-43% approval, with a third strongly disapproving of the president’s performance. This is a substantial degree of polarization so early in the administration. Mr. Obama has lost virtually all of his Republican support and a good part of his Independent support, and the trend is decidedly negative.”
What was that about approval ratings?
What assumption to people operate under when posting, that they are going to change the mind of the person they are arguing with? Somebody is wrong on the internet… yawn.
Our bumper sticker should be “Don’t Blame Me–I voted for Romney”.
Another point that was not made in the article is that Republicans in Congress must place the blame for the bank failures squarely on Democrats like Chris Dodd and “Bawney Fwank”, who pushed Fannie and Freddie into making loans to insolvent borrowers, loans which were later bought up by other banks and spread throughout the system. Obama himself was doing this (on a smaller scale) as an ACORN community organizer in Chicago, intimidating Chicago bankers to make loans to insolvent borrowers.
Energy policy needs to be another talking point. Oil prices might be low now, but oil supply and demand are extremely delicately balanced. If supply exceeds demand by 2%, we get $40/barrel oil–if demand exceeds supply by 2%, we get $140/barrel oil. If the economy picks up and demand increases slightly, or if some major supply is interrupted (Venezuela, Mexico, Iran, or a hurricane in the Gulf), triple-digit oil and $4/gallon gasoline WILL be back.
Obama is basking in the low oil prices CAUSED BY THE RECESSION, while hundreds of billions of barrels remain undeveloped offshore, and a trillion barrels of shale oil (over 100 years’ worth) sit uselessly under the Rockies. We might be able to run some small power plants with wind and solar (better yet, nuclear power), but our cars and planes need OIL!
This issue might not get much traction NOW, but it won’t take much to send oil prices back up again, and the “media ditz” Sarah Palin will suddenly seem like a genius…
And putting a tax on CO2 emissions to prevent “global warming” is absolutely ludicrous–it will just increase everybody’s electric bills in the middle of a recession, while not cooling the earth, since the Chinese will build more inefficient coal-fired power plants, so they can make cheap widgets for Wal-Mart and lots of money, then buy all our T-bills and eventually own our Government.
We need to educate people on the energy issue, slowly but surely…then when 2010 comes around, WE TOLD YOU SO!!!
Obama can pretty much pass any legislation he wants. There’s really no effective oppossition in the Congress and the media, despite recent murmers, will still generally support him.
The Republicans simply don’t have any articulate, passionate, or young candidates. Remember, McCaine was the Republican nominee. Behind him we had the Ken doll Romney, the glue horse, Thompson, thrice divorced Giuliani, and a Baptist preacher. No wonder we lost. I’m surprised it wasn’t by a lot more.
Love him or hate him, Rush Limbaugh ended up “leading” the Republican party because nobody else would. It’s sad, but if it wasn’t for guys like Rush, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck and Savage that “normal” Americans would not be heard. Far be it from our RINOS to speak up for us.
Suggestion for a bumpersticker: MY 401K IS DOWN THE OHOLE!
one of my own…I’m ever so glad you’re on Steve P’s side and not a member of the GOP. With your limited grasp of the English language, I’d be embarrassed to claim you as one of us. Keep those “witty” posts coming! (I’m sure ole Steve P. is just glowing with pride that you’ve claimed him as your own.)
You just prove the point that the educational system has failed us.
130 a thinking thing . . . “limited grasp of the English language” eh? It seems I’ve intimidated you. You must have gone to public school, right?
OBAMA WYA
#111
UNFORTUNATELY, NOT ONLY DID WE GET AN UNEXPERIENCED IDIOT,
BUT A USURPER, AS WELL. GOD WILLINT, THE REPUBLIC WILL SURVIVE THIS JACKASS WITH ONLY MINIMAL DAMAGE.
S.M.
SORRY FOR THE TYPO – I MEANT INEXPERIENCED IDIOT !!! THE REST STILL STANDS.
S.M.
Interesting and valid points…I would add just one. Republicans failed to effectively COMMUNICATE by utilizing the Internet and media in this past election and need to completely re-tool for the next one. Effective use of the media means acknowledging that a huge proportion of the electorate is woefully ignorant of government and civics.
The assumption needs to be that people need to be EDUCATED, rather than merely INFORMED. The Dems used their resources (such as Jon Stewart) wisely and presented their case. Republicans need to go further.
For example, FAR too many people did not even know that Congress was controlled by the Dems for the last 2 years. They don’t understand how a Pelosi gets into power.
In 2010 we need to create a HUGE educational campaign to EXPLAIN to people that a vote for a Democrat Representative in THEIR DISTRICT is effectively a vote FOR NANCY PELOSI. She is reviled by many and a proper explanation of how our government WORKS (i.e. civics) could yield better results than simple political ads in the upcoming battle.
BLAME ME! BLAME ME!! OH PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE BLAME ME!!!
http://wancow.blogspot.com/2009/03/rush-limbaugh-did-you-vote-for-this.html
one of my own…. Intimidation is a typical liberal trait and one President Pork used extensively to get elected. No wonder you use the term so loosely. Don’t flatter yourself. You are a mere blip on my radar. A distinctly uneducated blip at that.
Gentlemen:
The situation is much worse than most of you imagine.
Yes, the vacuousness of Obama’s ideas and the frivolity of his methods will become more obvious with the passage of time, so obvious that even the idiot “man in the street” can’t miss them. But it won’t matter.
The Democrats have, I believe, been pursuing a plan to split the electorate into two camps – Camp A, those who just want the government to get off their backs, and Camp B, those who rely on, or even live on, government handouts. If voters from Camp B outnumber voters from Camp A, then the US is finished. Voters from Camp B will always vote to loot the treasury, run up unpayable debts, and rob taxpayers from Camp A. The end of the US is then inevitable, because that sort of socialism is economically unsustainable.
The Democratic plan to wreck the US economy will move people from Camp A to Camp B as their savings, investments, industries, and jobs are destroyed. The unions and “the poor” will become increasingly reliant on handouts (call them “stimulus packages” or whatever, they’re still handouts) and increasingly reliable Democratic voters. They, added to the newly impoverished (and newly dependent), will be an unbeatable voting bloc.
But perhaps the fix isn’t entirely in yet, because the Democrats are hedging their bets a bit. The Census, now controlled by the White House, will be manipulated to ensure the perpetual re-election of Democratic legislators. It will be manipulated by adding correction factors to the raw data, as was done in the past by professional statisticians. But from now on, party hacks will derive the correction factors from voter registration lists. Now the purpose of all those fraudulent ACORN registrations should be clear. The Democrats will never be voted out of office. They will continue to loot the treasury and impoverish the country’s economy, thus adding to the population of Camp B and ensuring their own re-elections, until the US is reduced to third-world status.
137 Tom Swift . . . a beautifully stated high school perspective
“Funny how so many of the conservatives I meet in Colorado. . ..”
“Peter” is most certainly north of Castle Rock. Take that mouth south, boy, and see how long you last.
137 Tom … that has been my thought since the election. Once the # of voters (legal or not) who want to live on welfare checks of all sorts outnumber those of us accustomed to working for a living, all future elections will go their way.
Unfortunately, there is such a thing as being outnumbered at the ballot box by lazy, dishonest people. I’m afraid we had an example of it in November.
What do we expect?The sheep voted for a sheep dog and got a wolf. We all have to pay the price.
Here’s an interesting little little from Dana Perino . . . ” . . . the Bush administration, while presiding over the start of the current recession, nevertheless deserves some credit for the modest uptick that Wall Street experienced this past week.”
Wow, how’s that for gall? Little lady’s sporting a set of big brass ones, ain’t she? On one side you got Cheney saying, “You can’t blame Bush for the economy” and on the other you got Dana Peroxide saying that if anything good happens with the economy, Bush deserves the credit.
Is it any wonder why all the smart, fair and progressive people turned away from that gang and toward Obama?
#138 Take it up with de Tocqueville. Not surprised you didn’t recognize it having probably slept through high school and thereby becoming a charter member of Camp B.
143 gnubi . . . Sorry, the references to Obama and ACORN and the census threw me. That Alexis really saw things coming, eh? My opinion stands unchanged and unassailed.
Don’t blame me. I voted “content of character.”
LOOKS LIKE BARNY MADOFF TOUGHT HIM EVERYTHING HE KNOWS, WHICH AIN’T THAT MUCH !!! THE “ON THE JOB TRAINING IS OVER ” I HOPE
As we watch the bloom come off the Hope & Change rose, I wonder when Afghanistan will start to creep into the American psyche? The AP reports that four American soldiers were killed in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday. I’ll bet very few people read that in their dying local liberal newspapers. Will there be a body count published everyday on Obama’s watch? If not, why not? Will your local rag be profiling local Guardsmen and women heading to Afghanistan for their second or third tour? If the NY Times is still around in June, will we see what the recruitment figures are for new high school grads? Will some Dem congressman reintroduce a bill to reinstitute the draft?
Don’t hold your breath……..but you should ask your progressive friends these questions. And keep asking.