‘I’m Maureen Dowd, and I’ve Been Had’
Then there’s David Brooks who like Michael Douglas in Fatal Attraction, sounds like he is quite remorseful to have chosen the wrong date. Looking for a moderate, he wound up with a crazed leftist:
You wouldn’t know it some days, but there are moderates in this country — moderate conservatives, moderate liberals, just plain moderates. We sympathize with a lot of the things that President Obama is trying to do. We like his investments in education and energy innovation. We support health care reform that expands coverage while reducing costs.
But the Obama budget is more than just the sum of its parts. There is, entailed in it, a promiscuous unwillingness to set priorities and accept trade-offs. There is evidence of a party swept up in its own revolutionary fervor — caught up in the self-flattering belief that history has called upon it to solve all problems at once.
So programs are piled on top of each other and we wind up with a gargantuan $3.6 trillion budget. We end up with deficits that, when considered realistically, are $1 trillion a year and stretch as far as the eye can see. We end up with an agenda that is unexceptional in its parts but that, when taken as a whole, represents a social-engineering experiment that is entirely new. …
Those of us who consider ourselves moderates — moderate-conservative, in my case — are forced to confront the reality that Barack Obama is not who we thought he was. His words are responsible; his character is inspiring. But his actions betray a transformational liberalism that should put every centrist on notice. As Clive Crook, an Obama admirer, wrote in the Financial Times, the Obama budget “contains no trace of compromise. It makes no gesture, however small, however costless to its larger agenda, of a bipartisan approach to the great questions it addresses. It is a liberal’s dream of a new New Deal.”
And then there’s David Gergen who frets that not enough time is being spent on the economy (oh, that) and too much on an overly ambitious agenda. So he calls for a “course correction.”
Andrew Sullivan, back from his investigative work on the Sarah Palin pregnancy, has now discovered the fiscal conservatives have been had. Alas, his hopes for fiscal sobriety are being washed away in a spending spree worthy of a drunken sailor:
We are being presented with what can only be described as a massive increase in government spending and power with the only fiscal balance being wringing much more money from the successful. The president predicted a tight budget and spending control in his non-SOTU, and he appealed to fiscal conservatives by promising a long-term attack on entitlement spending. I see nothing here yet that fulfills that promise.
Meanwhile, Marty Peretz, who attested to candidate Obama’s pro-Israel and tough foreign policy bona fides during the campaign, now is incensed the president has put into a high level national security post Chas Freeman, the Israel-bashing toady of the Saudis who assigned responsibility “both ways” for 9/11 and bemoaned the Chinese didn’t crack down on the Tiananmen Square protesters quick enough. He pleads with the president to dump Freeman and writes in language as bitter as any scorned lover:
But Freeman’s real offense (and the president’s if he were to appoint him) is that he has questioned the loyalty and patriotism of not only Zionists and other friends of Israel, the great swath of American Jews and their Christian countrymen, who believed that the protection of Zion is at the core of our religious and secular history, from the Pilgrim fathers through Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy. And how has he offended this tradition? By publishing and peddling the unabridged John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt book, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, with panegyric and hysteria. If Freeman believes that this book is the truth he can’t be trusted by anyone, least of all Barack Obama. I can’t believe that Obama wants to appoint someone who is quintessentially an insult to the patriotism of some many of his supporters, me included.
All in all it is one dismayed and bitter group, filled with recriminations and a bit of self-flagellation. And it’s not hard to recognize that, as in any grieving process, they have passed through denial (when all who criticized their beloved Obama were excoriated and ridiculed) and are in the second step: anger. They were misled or deluded into believing Obama was a moderate or an indefatigable supporter of Israel or a fiscal grown-up or a reformer (take your pick).
They and the rest of the country are figuring out the bitter truth: Obama bears little resemblance to the moderate and soothing figure who tied up John McCain in knots. He bears even less resemblance to the Agent of Change. Rather he’s pretty much the Chicago pol who went to the Senate to be its most liberal member.
And for the wounded Obama supporters, we can offer just one bit of counsel: you have lots of company. There are trading floors filled with sympathetic souls and businesses filled with stunned executives. They didn’t get what they bargained for either. Just ask Jim Cramer. Oh yes, please do invite him to your sessions when he’s not busy with the “I lost my life’s savings” support group.
Wah. Wah. Wah. Someone call David Brooks a wahhhhmbulence. His ilk should be thrown in the street. Then have a bus full of conservatives (with Gingrich driving) run over him.
It’s about time.
I don’t blame President Obama at all. He told us all about his plans during campaign even if his propaganda arm the MSM sugar coated it. We knew who his associates were as well. I blame the voters who deluded themselves into thinking that Obama was whatever they believed him to be. Obama can’t be held responsible for the childish fantasies of the electorate.
Obama’s radical associations were plain to see.
If these people trusted the media instead of their own eyes and ears, then whose fault is that?
It’s a little suspicious that these “smart people” suddenly find out that Obama is a total liar and megalomaniac.
I think they are trying to have it both ways, so people still pay attention to them and read their drivel.
They all have a Britney Spears complex. The crying, the wringing of the hands… and soon rehab.
Anyone who could NOT see THEN that The One was fundamentally nothing but a demagogue with an agenda probably should not NOW be whining about it. As a famous philosopher once said —- Stupid Is As Stupid Does.
It was very much apparent what type of man he was long before the election. I’m NOT a ‘conservative’. Can’t really abide the Limbaughists, or the so-cons,who have twisted ‘conservatism’ out of all semblance of reality, so my position on Obama is not at all partisan. I don’t want him to fail because I want someone else to win. I just want him to fail because he’s going to be BAD for the country in a very fundamental sense. IMAO at least.
I just can’t stand this guy(demagogue). Can’t and won’t even listen to his speeches which evidently cause all hearts to go pitter-patter in exaltation. His complete self-absorbtion gives me the creepy-crawlies. I don’t trust the guy, and I have no belief that he is remotely competent to be President. That supposedly 60% of the sheeple still think he is the best thing since sliced bread speaks volumes about the intellectual/emotional level of the great unwashed. And what it says is hardly reassuring.
As Bonnie sang — ‘(we’re) holding out for a hero’ in these horrible times, but this guy ain’t it. Not be a long-shot. Except in his own mind of course. There he is already a legend.
To the now ‘regretters’ you cited —- GROW UP. NOW.
jerryofva-
Ditto. My anger has been zeroed in on Obama for the last month or so. Then, this morning, I woke up. My blood is boiling at the idiots who voted him in.
What were they thinking??? Many I know that voted =:0 bama knew nothing of his voting record in congress and were more than willing to dismiss his hatred of our beloved country as nothing more than a rightist smear. The facts were right in front of them and they intentionally choose to ignore them. Now the truth of the matter comes out and they are shocked!!!
save me a spot in the soup line,…
Since they have proven themselves professionally incompetent, they should change professions — perhaps road construction, or building windmills.
Somehow, these guys finally waking up to what Obama is reminds me of those school assemblies where some “former” drug addicts warn everyone about the danger of using drugs. Sure, they had personal experience, but it was experience at being stupid. They never came across as very credible to me. The same applies to those pundits who’re finally waking up to realize Obama isn’t who they dreams he’d be.
All these pundits and press so eager to mimic the actions of band wagon mediocrity chose not to do their jobs as reporters, collectively evolving into blind supporters.
I agree with those who don’t have much sympathy. Rather than fall into the fawning that went on over how he’s so great, ran such a terrific campaign, yadda, yadda, they should have been more detached in the primary. Poor judgment led to this presidency.
So far, Obama has done nothing that has surprised me. Not a thing.
This article would be sweetly ironic were it not for the fact that the grave dangers posed by the President and his reckless spending proprosals pose grave dangers to our country; there’s nothing remotely funny in that!
I will never understand why Americans acted like children in believing the sweet nothings the President whispered in our ears last fall. Did we have to suffer this to learn the lesson of our childhood that ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS? Why was there any doubt that the President would behave in exactly this way??? I will never understand this lack of judgment.
I seem to recall a speech by Biden to the faithful some months ago in which he asked for future support for the new president. Seemed odd at the time. Why would Obama require that level of support after he was already elected, one wondered. What made Biden think this most popular of presidents would need robust defending in future?
Because the bastards knew that what they were peddling as “change” was a revolution. America has experienced a socialist coup.
Jennifer, back in October, I wrote this response to one of Roger Kimball’s articles. I went back to survey my thoughts from that period to overlay them on today’s landscape. Roger had written about Chris Buckley leaving the reservation…(Ann Althouse had done the same), Andy had long ago left the reservation and I responded to Megan McArdle when she drifted into the Obama camp).
(At one point, I even remember a lovely Jennifer Rubin wondering aloud whether the gifted political orator and chessboard master was actually going to govern from the center, I hope it is not impolitic or discourteous to mention it)
Begging your permission, I would like to revisit my thoughts written to Roger and see how they overlay in today’s landscape.
In point of fact, Roger, I assume you do not disagree at all with what Christopher Buckley finds appealing in Sen. Obama, neither do I.
He displays a soft temperament, is at times inspiring with his delivery of ideas, soothing and calming in demeanor. Anyone who disputes this is unable to continue in the quest for principled disagreement.
We tend in this country, to overcompensate away the deficiencies of the last guy in office. Nixon was sort of brooding and had dark corners, Ford was affable and light. But Ford was portrayed as a clumsy oaf, so Carter was the nuclear engineer. But Carter was limp and cowardly, and Reagan was brave and heroic. But Reagan was sleepy, cowboyish and dim, Bush Sr. was erudite and gentler. But Bush, Sr. was a wimp married to his grandma, and Clinton was dashing and bold. But Clinton often ruled by polls and plebiscites and spent time chasing his tail literally and figuratively, (some of which he put on the payroll), so we closed the last chapter with the current President Bush, married to a sweet librarian and not leading by watching polls but rather, destroyed by them. Going it alone was a mantra, a badge of honor. Perhaps, most importantly, this President Bush, in a war of words…most often fought on a battlefield between his brain and his tongue.
So, the most eloquent speaker, who appeals to the “world court of opinion” and prodded on by a media in his pocket and not on his watch…will “cure” the ills that have befallen us.
What Christopher chooses to ignore, are all the signs of what we will have to cure in the next election. He glosses over them as if they are invisible. That is what surprises most, that is what deadens the heart and chips away at the soul.
Christopher is clearly brilliant enough to see and chooses instead to avert his gaze. The thuggery and mean-spririted henchmen who do the dirty work, keep clean the hands and the image of “first class” comportment. The abject slander heaped upon opponents, comes not from the mouth of the candidate…but from the bellowing rage of his campaign.
The crushing of dissent by teams of lawyers, calls to action and “in your face” aggression come not from written directive, but from the planning committee seeking to choke off relevant inquiry. Clearly, Christopher cannot be so mesmerized as to wash this grime away with a simple wave of the hand. He has fallen for the image and he has been distracted by the persona.
So far, up to this point, I’m ok with what I had written. I believe we had not yet seen the degree to which dissent would be ignored, unwelcome and crushed…utilizing Pelosi and Reid to cram down legislation with an in your face attitude of “We won”…many people, including Clive Crook were still holding fast to the belief that principled dissent would be received with open arms.
I love liberals, Roger…as I suspect you do. Many of them surround my daily life. But I despise leftists. A liberal is ruled by compassion, a leftist by deceit.
A liberal wants to try a different approach, a leftist wants to replace the system.
A liberal believes in fair play and honest disagreement, a leftist believes in hiding the truth and crushing dissent.
A liberal believes you may have a point, a leftist believes there are no points other than his.
A liberal says this country is great, but can be greater through dialogue. A leftist believes some other country is great and this country makes him puke.
A liberal wants equality for all persons regardless of gender, color or creed, a leftist wants class and racial warfare.
A liberal wants to take the poor and give them a chance to be rich, a leftist wants to take the rich and make them poor.
Here is where my overlay given today’s facts needs closest examination. Are we in the midst of a compassionate liberal agenda or does it contain the venom and windpipe crushing
brutality of a cramdown of leftism? Does it gain height by stepping on the necks of principled dissenters? Does it seek elevation via the digging of trenches for those on the wrong side of class warfare? Does it seek racial warfare through name calling (cowards)? Does it seek to attack the wealthy and make them poor…in order to gain parity, but not equality? Does it seek to mask the truth…suggesting that newly created problems are “inherited”?
And if it does these things, does it suggest that the implementation of this new system is not classic liberalism, but entrenched leftism? I leave that to others to decide, but in forecasting the differences…I certainly wanted to see how this played out.
The liberals are gone, Roger. The leftists have consumed them. I love the liberals, I despise the leftists. What Christopher cannot see…is the leftist magicians on stage, not with their trinkets hidden up their sleeves…but dangling from them in plain view…and daring us to shout out what we see….because, if we do…they will scream that we are racist and paranoid and not nuanced enough to appreciate the trick they are about to pull.
And if a brilliant and informed man like Christopher Buckley can be taken in by the sleight of hand, what possible chance does that leave for those who stand to vote the difference in this election? I’m afraid this magician’s show will make many of our fondest liberties disappear. For that, we will all pay the price of admission.
That price, it appears…comes in the trillions.
The acid wore off. Bummer.
…entitlement programs never go away…
Sure they do…once the economy collapses and we abandon the dollar, all those entitlements evaporate.
Then we start over.
Historians will remember this as the age of Madoff. And include the the stealth socialist president and his Chicago cronies in the discussion. America has been had. The liberals with buyer’s regret sound like madoff’s clients.
Well I wasn’t fooled – this is what I expected.
Maybe these pundits ought to retire their puns and turn off their word processors and find another line of work. They helped lead the nation to this disaster. Did they not think that sitting in Rev. Wright’s church for 20 years meant something? Why didn’t they bother to investigate that he was a member of the New Socialist Party, that he was the most left senator, he had no experience and in fact seemed to go out of his way to avoid a track record via “present” votes, that his mentor during his formative years mentioned in his book as Frank was really Franklin Marshall Davis, a member of the Communist Party USA. It was all there to be seen if they hadn’t been bamboozled by someone who happens to be exceptionally good at reading a teleprompter. These people were supposed to be smarter than that.
There have been tons of bloggers and posters who knew more than these idiots.
We need a revolution.
Two men are outside. One man says look at how blue the sky is and how cool and refreshing this breeze feels! The other man screams profanely and says all I see is darkness! The sky sucks and the only breeze I feel is putrid!
They began to argue and argue! The other man shouted down anybody who disagreed with him and even convinced others the sky was dark and the wind was putrid! Eventually the sky is blue man was laughed out of town. The town got worse and worse.
The misery was horrific. Until one day one of the followers of the man who said the sky is dark realized what was wrong! His head was up his own butt! That’s why it was dark and that putrid wind, take a guess. That man saw the sky as blue as the sea and felt the cool breeze and he finally realized the sky is blue man was RIGHT all along.
Don’t be so hard on these people. They’ve spent most of their lives with their heads up their butts. You all have had the privilege of seeing the beautiful skies of America and felt the wind of Liberty at your face. They’ll come around soon and when they do just show them what they’ve been missing.
I have no sympathy for these so called pundits. They should have been under psychiatric care for years prior to this last election.You didn’t have to be a rocket scientist to understand what Obama had in store for the country. The main stream media seems to still love him and continue to make excuses for his short comings.
The liberals thought Obama was a leftist because Republicans didn’t trust or like him.
No, we said he was marxist and now the left is discovering he is indeed marxist and seeking control not equality. Unless you call bringing the rich into poverty with the poor.
Maybe people who have lost money can get it back by selling “Don’t Blame Me, I Didn’t Vote For Him” bumper stickers…
The only thing we can do now is learn both Russian and Arabic!
These news people are not allowed to say their sorry. Because of their lack of creditable journalism that put this two face monster in the White House. You betcha I’m angry. I cancelled my two local newspapers and hope all the lying, bully reporters lose their jobs like the rest of us. I’d rather read from journalist that report the facts
“B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-But he went to Hahhhvahhhd.”
A typical line that would be heard during sessions. The idiots should definitely look for a new job. Their current jobs are clearly “above their pay grades.”
The only idiot missing is that maudlin,precious,little snob,Peggy Noonan.Put all these useful idiots together on a garbage scow,rename it the SS “Ship of Fools”,and cast it adrift,near where those football players became shark food.
seven whines: “No, we said he was marxist and now the left is discovering he is indeed marxist and seeking control not equality. Unless you call bringing the rich into poverty with the poor.”
Sorry, but you tin-hat wearing nutcases are the only ones still screaming “SOSHULIZZUM!!1!!”. The rest of the country, i.e., the grownups, are quite content with the President and are willing to grow the Federal government in order for it to be effective in providing much needed aid to Americans during this crisis. We’d appreciate it if you would grow up as well.
Remember Pundits and MSN:
ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES.
13. Chad3337:
Bingo!!
Thank you!
Jilly,
The points you raise are correct, but the problem is they aren’t factual. You had to deduce from the membership in Wight’s church a conclusion about Obama that he denied and then sweet talked his way around. A stronger line of questioning woukd have have been more specific. For instance, he didn’t get all the asbestos removed from the housing project despite his best community organizing efforts. Why did that fail? What false ideas did he believe, what has he learned, and how has he changed his thinking? Had any of his failures been pursued, we might have had a better insight into the character and real temperment of the man. He has never been one to stick around and solve the problem. He has come up with grand ideas and dealt with their shortcomings by moving on and up, always in pursuit of more power and more money.
He was bored by the state legislature and is bored by suburbs. The nitty gritty of real life could be allowed to intrude on his life of the mind in a circle of elites. Our remorseful pundits need to figure out where they went wrong, and I think it was in desiring to belong to this circle. They are a far cry from the ink-stained newsmen of yore.
I feel supremely smug today. I am a conservative Democrat and I didn’t fall for the bulls**t being espoused by the WON. I think I’ll pull out my yard sign “Democrat for McCain” and write in bold black magic marker “I told you so”. I can appreciate the irony.
Plato’s allegory of “The Cave” is most appropo at this point in time. Frankly I hope any conservative Dem who voted for Obama apologizes to every one of us, we deserve it because we were right about his leftist agenda. I also think they should apologize for their own “racist remarks” concerning those of us who refused to follow the herd.
They all got snookered by Teleprompter Jesus. But they failed to conduct due diligence and dig into his background. Most of us here at PJM did not fail in that task. I don’t feel sorry for them.
“gynecological sleuth and blogger Andrew Sullivan”
LMAO! He would do well to check his own plumbing.
To #28 Steve P,
When has the federal government ever been effective in providing aid? Anyone remember Katrina? How about social security? What about all the pork your “effective” federal government is passing right now? Even if they could, for once, be effective, why would we turn over our freedom to choose to the federal government? I’ll put my bets on the American people. Take away the majority of taxes and government controls and we would do a better job of getting out of this mess than the federal government does.
#28 Stevie P……NO< NO< NO< only 44% approve of this fiscal mess. Where is the majority in that figure?
A minor caveat: All it will take is an ever so slight backing off by Obama from the speed and breadth of his reformation, and the “Centrists” will proclaim that “he got the message; he’s back in the middle; he’s still the One; he’s still ours.”
Just wait.
Once we talked about democrats and republicans. Republicans were the hated neocons and the fready dinky religious nutjob righties. Everyone was calling the democrats “liberals” and lefties.
However, they were calling themselves “progressives”.
So I looked up Progressives. And voila! There is Lenin and the Bolsheviks. And voila! Lenin says Take Over The Banks. And a Lenin economy is Nationalize the Banks, and Nationalize Big Business, and Control Commerce, but allow small business. Exactly like our very articulate, handsome, and suave President. Destroy the wealth masters so you can gain total control of the economy. And Cramer VOTED for this guy. So STFU Cramer.
So if we didn’t read Mein Kampf until after the fact. And we didn’t “hear” Obama say what he was going to do. Michelle told us all along “Obama will take you out of your comfort zone” “Obama won’t let you eat/spend/have whatever you want” “Obama is going to change things”.
We got exactly what he said he was going to give us. That Buckley and Parker and Brooks and Gergen and Dowd were blinded by his suave is not shocking. It is a demonstration of their shallowness.
So now what….., I guess they are all want to squeal like little piggies because, duh, it is going to hurt their big fat paychecks more than they were willing to be hurt.
Guess it is Bye bye capitalist greed, Hello etopian nightmare.
Hope? Nope
Change? Yes, from wealthy prosperity and greed to bankrupt and controlled.
To help redeem themselves, maybe these people can help lead the charge for a way to get Obama impeached and out of office before he destroys the whole country.
If the red/blue state divide was geographically easier, I really think that we would be hearing rumblings about a U.S. split similar to the Civil War.
Already gun sales are through the roof and anger amongst the non-Obamatron populace is hot. Unless Obama is stopped, it is going to get worse.
#23 Marauder:
“Maybe people who have lost money can get it back by selling “Don’t Blame Me, I Didn’t Vote For Him” bumper stickers…”
Yep. I’m considering going over to Cafe Press and printing up some that say “46% of us saw this coming.”
Great piece, Jennifer. Allow me to dilate one of your riffs:
After anger comes Bargaining: “Please let me keep what belongs to me!” Then, when they realize that they too will be looted, Despair: “I did this to myself, and now I loathe myself more than usual.” Finally will come Acceptance: “So long as we’re all miserable, I guess it’s ok.”
The fact of Obama being elected is more the fault of the 42% of the electorate who didn’t vote in November than those who voted for him. A friend of mine said that neither one was any good and didn’t cast a vote. Even though it was obvious that those who vote decide for everyone, he wouldn’t get off the dime and commit. We can have our revolution in 2010 by taking back the Senate and the House.
Also, a subheadline up on Fox at this moment:
PRESIDENT OUTLINES PLAN TO CUT WASTEFUL SPENDING, SAYING TAXPAYER MONEY HAS BEEN ABUSED
Did you get that?
“..taxpayer money has been abused…”
BWAHAHAHAHA!!!
No shinola, sherlock.
cfbleachers:
This is something I have long felt in an inchoate sort of way. Thanks for putting it in writing so that I could remember that I knew it!
I’m sorry, but it was crystal clear that Obama was a radical. All of these people who are now claiming to be duped are dopes.
With some exceptions, BO is doing exactly what he said he would do. Many of the centrists that voted for him rationalized his words as rhetoric to please the left during the election. They ignored his extreme voting record and his slips that revealed how he really felt. So far he is still the teflon President. Hopefully some of this will start to stick.
So with all the Democratic whining now, their leader Pelosi plays ball the same as Obama. Tell them what they want to hear, do what a good Marxist should do and let them eat cake.
Burden them into submission.
Problem is the 58 million that voted Obama in are still in the swirling Jonestown kool-aid tub waiting for their hand out. Crass I know, but we all have a lot to lose before the slow reality soaks into the “following”.
For every post/comment to a blog write your representative at all levels. Keep the pressure up.
The burdens we carry are Pelosi, Reid, Murtha, Dodd, Schumer, Frank, et all. These egomaniacal serve themselves as the savior of the masses (or theives of the masses depending on the view). Point: the messiah complex has been well seated before Obama.
Now that we’ve vented, let’s start to encourage those who are coming around. We only need 5% of the duped to figure it out in order for the nation to grab onto that root protruding from the wall of the abyss of socialism and start to climb out. Apparently the moderates did not knowingly support socialsim. This is GREAT news for those of us who want to be free!
No quarter for the mainstream media, who babbled and scribbled, leading the sheeple to believe and vote. The msm had no brains in October and have none now. So shut up already, idiots.
As for my fellow Americans: You have been had by a false messiah. If I were you I’d get down on my knees and try to contact the real one….as you’re gonna need Him.
Steve P:
Grown-ups don’t repeat their mistakes and expect to get a different outcome. President Obama’s budget is a repeat of the New Deal. Here is what Hans Morgenthau said about the success of the New Deal before Congress in May of 1939:
“We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and if I am wrong . . . somebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises. . . . I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started. . . . And an enormous debt to boot.”
Barak Obama is not a grown-up nor are you.
There are only three ways to measure a man (please enlighten me if I am missing something):
1. What they say, 2. what they do, 3. Who they associate with.
If one completely ignores 2 & 3 then I can see how they were duped by this fascist. But if you are a “journalist” you are required to explore all three, eh?
I take heart in that only 4-5% of the “white” moderate middle-class of this country needs buyer’s remorse to boot this clown out of office (remember, the Fascist rec’d no mandate). Of course, I am assuming that The Fatherless, Narcissistic Fascist will not suspend elections due to some orchestrated crisis in, say, October of 2012. AND assuming that the voting machines have not been retooled by an ACORN-funded tech firm.
SteveP: See my first post. You are the guy who DOESN’T see the blue sky. You’ll figure out the rest.
I’m an old lefty, and even I am dismayed by this stimulus bill. It seems like it will create short-term jobs, but what happens when these projects are finished? Sort of reminds me of CETA jobs in the 1970s.
As far as the disillusioned pundits-I don’t feel sorry for them at all. They willfully ignored reality, forgetting that old saw: “Watch what I do, not what I say.” Jeez-I thought every grownup knew that!
There are many great responses here, but I have to say that Larry J. is just hilarious! I totally remember recovered drug addicts speaking at school assemblies!
One more point-why on NPR do they always talk about “at the end of his first term”, or “not until his second term” is though it’s a given that he’ll be re-elected.
My favorite line so far came from (I believe) Press Secretary Gibbs. When confronted with the fact that Obama has not done a single thing he promised during the campaign and is instead spending money as if there is no tommorrow while raising taxes on 100% of the people, Gibbs replied, “It’s not like you weren’t told. McCain’s campaign said we were going to be doing this right from the start.”
Obama said no earmarks. Line by line, I’m going to exise them if I have to.
Pappa Bush said no new taxes.
Lying Presidents live high off the hog. Until four years later it’s slaughtered.
I am happy to see that some of the MSM is waking up. We need all the help we can get. O bam is a dangerous sociopath and one poster hit the nail on the head saying that he will change his tune and pretend to see the light soon NOT. While everyone is focused and freaking over the spending, he is methodically taking over more and more control. This is serious stuff. I read this am that his helicopters, being produced by the Navy are way over budget, so he is going to make sure that contracts are handled by the GOVERNMENT from now own. Is that an oxymoron or what. Welcome to the fold Maureen Dowd. Glad to see you finally woke up
O. is a true, red Marxist who promised he would spend us out of existence to destroy class differences and that is what he is doing. Don’t blame me: I voted for the other guy. My fear is that all the people who are sucking off the government nipple will keep him in power. People like “free stuff”. He will sell us out to the Russians/Islamists. Shame on the useful idiots in the press plus people such as Chris Buckley, Peggy Noonan, Anne Applebaum and Kathleen Parker. He is also a big suckup to the abortion industry. Shame on any pro lifer who supported him.
Steve P.
Please enlighten everybody as to how the Federal Governement “grows” itself?
With whose money? How is this money created? What capital does governement create? Seriously. Put your devilish cleverness aside, big guy. What happens when the government debt is no longer absorbed by Pensions and Sovereign Wealth Funds? What happens to interest rates? to tax collections? To important social safety net programs? To “real” defense of this country? Put the donkey-ears away and really think about the path Dear Leader is taking us down. If Bush was wrong to spend profligately, how would you label Obama’s? Are you aware of the critical difference between spending on social programs vs. public works? Surely, Steve P, you have aspirations of a prosperous future , yes? Name one successful person, JUST ONE, that credits government as the main force behind their success.
The President has only just begun. It will get worse!
I believe it was Will Rodgers who said -”democracy is the government that people deserve.”
I remember C. Buckley saying “I think Obama is too brilliant to jerk this country hard left.” Many said “Uhh, are you sure about that Chris?”
Rasmussen’s Strongly Disapprove number on 3/1 was 30%. Inauguration day was 19%. I think this is groundswell un-support. If people are going to act like sheeple, maybe we can capitalize on that. Nobody likes the losing team. They feel like losers. We need to put some reins on this guy in 2010 if it’s not too late.
All is hogwash.
WHEN are any of these going to start telling truth about Obama as he is?
Until then, count me as unmoved.
I always look at the friends. He has lousy,evil friends. We are the company we keep. If you voted for him I think you need to get your head examined asap.
I never liked lectures and that is how Obama’s speeches come across to me with a finger wagging in my face. I know regular people (not well-to-do)that have lost 70% and 40% of their retirement savings. They did not vote for O. I hope the idiot columnists (and newsmen Ha!) all wake up to what the plans of this administration are before it is too late to save our wonderful country.
I don’t know about a support group, but there’s a snarkfest.
http://www.escapefromo-topia.blogspot.com.
Don’t blame Jim Cramer; he was a Hillary supporter.
What scares me (besides Obama) is how many clueless people are in influential positions.
As a lefty, I have to say he gives socialism a bad name. The first things I knew about Obama were the freezing tenants in Rezko buildings and the scare-mongering about Social Security “crisis.” Then he methodically divided Democrats and race-baited while avoiding calling himself a Democrat. He’s a con man, backed by the same money interests that installed Bush. I blame the Republicans, for having made the American people so desperate as to need a savior.
Buckley, Parker Brooks and Stein have exposed their incompetence. They are either incompetent because they heard what they wanted to hear or because they did not examine what Obama was actually saying. Even a commoner like Joe The Plumber understood what Obama was plainly saying. When one has proved their incompetence should they continue the trade at which they are demonstrably inept?
These “moderates” who went for Obama don’t believe in anything and become furious with anyone who does.
They feel everyone should have a house, but there should not be any national debt or massive taxation or bank failures to pay for it. The country should have it’s first black president, but he should not be the Marxist he is. Everyone should have government provided health care, but the government should not take over THEIR healthcare. Andrew Sullivan wants everyone to be forced by the government to celebrate his choice in sex, but he does not want the controlling police state stealing his money that makes it all possible. And Dowd – what the heck did this wacko think she was getting when she discovered Obama attends a Black racist “liberation” church? Can’t the idiot read? No, she can only feel.
Moderates are useful idiots – always have been and always will be.
FOOLISH TALK BY THE PRESIDENT
Is Obama just plain naive?
http://greensrealworld.blogspot.com/2009/03/foolish-talk-indicates-foolish-mind.html
66. gmanedit: I blame the Republicans, for having made the American people so desperate as to need a savior.
Assigning blame doesn’t really help get out of this situation. Lefties deserve a _little_ of this blame for nominating and voting this sucker in. But there’s plenty to go around for everyone.
What’s more important is what to do to stop this ‘change’ or ‘unchange’ or whatever you want to call it. First we need to let every politician know our opinion on this corruption of government. Second is voting the buggers out of office and putting in some term limits. The list of things to do goes on but I haven’t the space to write it here.
I actually blame Newt Gingrich for not shutting the Federal Government down. They could have killed the beast. People might be amazed how little is essential.
The military, FAA, Social Security, and Passport Agency are all that come to mind. I don’t know who would miss ATF, Agriculture, Education, Commerce, Energy… We’d have been ahead if Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac were killed then. The next year’s budget would have declined 50%. We could even have afforded extended unemployment benefits for bureaucrats.
It’s the same political game locally. Threaten a school budget and they lay off teachers. Ever heard of an administrator being fired?
To all of the critics who are chortling “we told you so” wake up you fools . The people who now claim they were fooled will be fooled again next week. Liberals and lefties, it make no difference which philosophy they embrace. They will NEVER change their philosophy. They deceive ,they distort and they lie. They are lying now and many of you are believing their lies.
It is their nature .
They were all so entranced by his physique, and ghetto strut that they failed to look any further than that. Now they’re stuck with EXACTLY what I knew he was…a lying, Chicago thug…he was my Senator so I know what I’m talking about. Too bad, too sad. I hope these morons learned something. It’s a shame we all have to suffer because of these idiots. The man is getting even and won’t quit until he feels justified, which is never going to happen. His “payback” mentality is pathological.
In the 1950s a Chassidic Jewish group in Brooklyn needed to choose its next leader after the death of the previous patriarch. There were two people in line for the position. One wanted the position (thought he deserved it), the other did not want the position. The one who did not want the position had graduated from the Sorbonne in Paris with a degree in electrical engineering, went on to study mathematics there and was expecting to pursue research as his life’s work. The group chose the person who did not want the position and he turned out to be very, very good. His name was Menachem Schneerson.
Anecdotes do not suffice to make policy, but an underlying philosophy for future choices for president of the the United States one might take away from this story is the following: when two people want the same position, all other things being essentially equal, choose the one who wants it least.
If any good thing can come of this, perhaps it is that the talking heads and so-called “journalists/pundits” will lose their credibility for a very long time.
Bace in the 1970′s I read an article that said that the U.S. was divided between “pre 1950″ and “post 1950″ personalities. The “pre” group needed proof before they believed something. The “post” group believed something based on how the felt about the one who said it – or the source.
This might have had something to do with the widespread advent of the television around that time. I don’t know.
Anyway, I think that this last election might have proved this theory.
If only. The “shovel ready” project is a myth. This won’t even be spent until ’11. By that time, the pigs will have picked the cash over pretty clean.
Here’s a prediction: Most of the money that’s earmarked for infrastructure will go to studies, litigation, and designs of projects that will never be built. These “stimulus” projects will never get their IES’s finished. The radical greens that 0bama has installed at the EPA will make sure that nothing ever gets built. When it’s all done, a lot of law and consulting firms, and a number of environmental and other NGOs will walk away with most of the cash, and the poor union suckers who supported this will have to pay the bill out of their unemployment checks.
74, agreed. If only we can have another Silent Cal. The way to solve the problem of government is to have people running it who would rather be playing golf.
donttreadonme says: “If Bush was wrong to spend profligately, how would you label Obama’s? Are you aware of the critical difference between spending on social programs vs. public works? Surely, Steve P, you have aspirations of a prosperous future , yes? Name one successful person, JUST ONE, that credits government as the main force behind their success.”
Here’s what you’re not getting – Bush spent profligately on a meaningless war and on no-bid contracts to his buddies in Republican-friendly industries. Obama is spending profligately to pump some money back into the middle class, which has been repeatedly raped by 20 years of Republican economic policies of voodoo capitalism. And again, just like in the 30s, Democrats are going to have to save the middle class from Republican sociopaths. And again, just like in the 30s, Republicans are going to whine and moan about class warfare and socialism, but in the end will find themsleves in the same wilderness of marginilization after turning their backs on American working people. I love how history repeats itself.
Personally, and, I know, OK, so what, but personally, though not an Obama man, I do not want this economic fix that Bernake, yes, Bernake is engineering, not Obama, but what is he to do, Bush went down that path and Obama, smart as I kept hearing people say that he is, can’t possibly understand the dismal science of economics enough to get this fixed. This pork crap and his broken promises already are very frightening. The apparent fact that this country is becoming even more divided by a supposed unifyer and bipartisan leader is, well, bordering on the tragic. It appears that it is going to be a long long lonely lonely time until Happy Days are here again. Still, I, for one, do not want him to fail. Failure should not be an option.
All these “best and brightest” couldn’t figure out during the campaign that Obama was a committed hard core socialist, yet us knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing troglodytes out here in flyover country had it figure out all along.
Who’d a thunk it?
Excellent point 71 Marc D. Let’s hope republicans don’t chicken out this time too. What did flinching do for Gingrich’s political career? Make a stand and stick with it. Liberty or death.
Gosh, aren’t these luminaries the ones who have proclaimed themselves to be the public’s watchdogs? If they are so easily fooled by someone who didn’t fool 48% of us, who needs them? They are not only irrelevant but an actual liability to the public, since apparently 52% of folks still think they serve a useful function and got sucked in along with them.
Uh, Steve. The 30s were a shitty time. No one here wants to repeat that. The New Deal failed. Obama is an epic failure.
Still, I, for one, do not want him to fail.
I do. It is a fallacy that if Obama fails, then the American people fail. If the American people rise up and say, “Enough! Stop what you are doing!”, Obama fails and America is saved.
The people that voted for Obama are getting just what they deserve. Sadly the rest of the country has to suffer with them.
59. Historical perspective:
“I believe it was Will Rodgers who said -’democracy is the government that people deserve.’”
Yep, he did and he also said that ‘the only time a politician is lying is when he opens his mouth’.
Everyone knew who Obama was when he made his “we are the ones we are waiting for” speech in Berlin. Now thanks to George Bush, feckless Republicans in Congress, greedy and corrupt Wall Streeters and 52% of an ignorant electorate we are going to pay the price and I mean big time. Get ready for hunger and civil unrest in this country because if Obama’s cap and trade goes through the average person will have to choose between heating their home or eating a balanced diet. This winter will be interesting for sure. I’m glad I live in the Southwest!
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Who is John Galt?
#33 Teleprompter Jesus!! What a great line!
I like “teleprompter Teddy Ruxpin” better.
Not only is this guy DUMB-O, (his ears are a dead give away)I can`t believe these female bloggers have a crush on him and some infantile CNN loser has one on his wife. The first time I saw the Obama`s I referred to them as “THE LEES” Homely and Ugly. They are two of the most unattractive people I`ve ever seen in my life. And Holder I`m black so come and get me, coward.
@Dings: >>I, for one, do not want him to fail.
Dings, please differentiate between Obama and America. We are a nation of laws, not men. I want Obama to fail and America to succeed.
Face it Barak Hussein Obama voters,we tried to tell you his intentions. Thanks for all the damage you’ve done to our country.
Jennifer, don’t reduce foreign affairs at Israel strictly – Obama’s secret letter to Medvedev caused quite a stir in Eastern Europe who now yell that a Ialta or a Molotov-Ribbentrop is a foot again.
Also, we cannot discout Obama’s frivolity: what, after all, was the reason to give poor Brown such a contemptuous treatment?
Corollary: do the McCain voters have a better sleep than liberals? I think so -
Ms. Rubin;
“All in all it is one dismayed and bitter group, filled with recriminations and a bit of self-flagellation.”
Can’t you REALLY figure out why they’re pantyhose are in a twist?
The stupid bastards finally realized that every single one of them makes over 250k a year.
The fellow who claims to have been born in Hawaii actually means to raise THEIR taxes.
And…no more unlimited mortgage interest deductions, caps on charitable deductions…on and on.
This wasn’t supposed to happen to THEM. It was supposed to land on OTHER PEOPLE.
The simpletons…like Marxist subversives and traitors when the Red or Peoples’ Armies finally come rolling in, they’re SHOCKED at being the first “Enemies of Socialism” to be marched off to the re-eductaion camps.
“And it’s not hard to recognize that, as in any grieving process, they have passed through denial (when all who criticized their beloved Obama were excoriated and ridiculed) and are in the second step: anger.”
Yeah, well…their voyage of self-discovery doesn’t mean a tinkers’ damn to me.
I do, however, EAGERLY await their arrival at the stage of “Atonement”.
Because, boy, do they have an outstanding bill!
And the Alleged Hawaiian is working out splendidly…this is only the second month of his Presidency, and if the midterms were held today, there’d be a conservative tsunami.
Those of you who claim to be disgusted socialists and liberals, the Marxists have LONG held that the nation must be destabilized through economic bankruptcy in order to advance the revolution.
They have ALWAYS been quite clear and open about what means they would use to achieve their objectives and their history is littered with betrayals of the working class and the poor and their duoes and fellow travelers.
To claim you’re a socialist but not a Marxist means that you haven’t been paying attention.
Are you payiing attention NOW, comrades?
If we survive this. If we still can vote and if the people who count the votes are honest. It will be several generations before another Democrat is elected president. And as many to get back the wealth we lost. As for what “people were thinking”? They weren’t, they were in love. But love can turn into hate in short order. So Obama may be in for a rougher handling from his ex-supporters then from us that never believed in him in the first place. On top of that the “ex-es” will suffer loss of self-esteem, disillusionment, possibly even mental breakdowns, etc. No surprise they were obviously irrational love sick idiots to start with. Arrested adolescence.
Obama is a radical.
His propaganda is on par with Soviet style propaganda. Attack your enemies (i.e. attack people like Limbaugh who are not in power).
Then Lie. Lie. Lie. Most people are stupid and don’t know how to tell the truth from fiction.
I mean come on. Remember he was going to use a scalpel. Oops. Lie. He was against earmarks. Oops. Lie. He was against lobbists in his administration. Oops. Lie.
You know that trillion dollar deficit he “inherited”. He just doubled it in less than 100 days.
Think of what Obama has said: “irreversible recession”. Name one time in history that is occurred. None. Lie. He’s a class warfare fear mongerer.
The president we currently have is for command economy. Stalin would be proud of him.
I want Obama to fail and America to succeed.
Obama’s failure = America’s success
misanthropicus:”Corollary: do the McCain voters have a better sleep than liberals? I think so -”
Unfortunately, this McCain/Palin voter does not. Being proven right, especially so quickly, is not comforting in the least. Frankly, I am terrified.
April 1st 2009:
Federal taxes will increase from .39 cents to $1.01 a pack on cigarettes.
This beating up on the smoking minority is cynically being sold to “fund Children’s Health Care Programs”.
Just to give you an idea of what kind of diabolically too-clever-by-half politician we have in the White House.
The internal logic of his own agenda is hastening his demise faster than I would have thought possible from an ambitious politician.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see cars bearing Obama bumperstickers being vandalized by summer time.
What this means, gang, is every smoker is going to have a dollar’s worth of memory to vote against Democrats every time they buy a pack of smokes.
And if you happen to see a fellow smoking a cigarette and carrying a firearm, then you can probably safely assume that you aren’t looking at an Obama supporter.
I would urge the fellow who claims to have born in Hawaii not to be “bitter” and therefore “cling” to the office of the Presidency and the comforts of politics.
I have no objections, and would think more highly of him if he stepped down,
Lest “The One” become “The ONLY One”.
My only dipute with the article is at the end when Ms. Rubin states that Obama tied up McCain. Obama did no suh thing. To the contrary, McCain kicked Obama’s rear at the Saddleback Forum, and McCain outpointed Obama in the debates moderated by mainstream media people. McCain showed Obama to be a no-nothing neophyte about foreign policy in the first debate. McCain commanded the subtance about a variety of subjects in the third debate. But substance, experience and knowledge did not matter as the economy tanked and as the Obama money and the Obama loving media took effect.
Those who fell for Obama fell for pretty talk; that’s all. McCain was and is a man of substance who knows his stuff concerning foreign policy, military matters and national security — no small subjects at a time of conflict with the radical jihadists. Obama is a conniving, shallow, inexperienced radical politician. The “moderates” taken in by Obama and the majority of American voters made the wrong choice and have no excuse for it.
we don’t have history to clue into. all of this is very new.????? when the commies take over they always seem to get rid of the intellectuals who rationalized them to the unwashed masses. Unless you watched the new CHE movie.
didn’t you figure out who was driving the bus? to quote Forest Gump “i may not be a smart man but i do know what love is” hey smarty pants don’t you feel the love anymore… the wheels on the bus go thump, thump, thump.
oh, puhlease. cry me a river over their disaffected hubris. they were *warned* before they ever cast a vote.
Well, well, well….the MSM is having a case of “buyer’s remorse” over their chosen one. They did so much to make his shine that they couldn’t see the warts that were all over him (lack of experience, voting “present”, his campaign rhetoric, etc…) even to the point of slandering both McCain and Palin…all in the interest of having Obambi elected president, to make right for all of America’s wrongs to African Americans. “Hope” and “Change” includes cutting off/taking away every program and opportunity to help people with lesser means have an opportunity to send their kids to better schools, help them succeed in business or even keep their taxes down so they can save for a new home or send their kids to college – or even for their retirement.
Kanye West said, “George Bush hates Black people”….looks like Obama hates everyone that is trying to succeed in America, regardless of their race, creed, religion or political affiliation…unless they are a (D) that make more that $250K per year, and contributes to his campaign or are part of the “Chicago machine”.
This is an email that my husband sent to some of our friends on the election night. It pretty much summarizes how it was possible for this calamity to occur. I post it with his permission
Katherine
“Guys, I’ve been severely depressed for the past several days. It’s unbelievable to me that a person with the character (deceit, conceit), beliefs (wealth redistribution, well documented hatred for this country, its past and its values), current behavior (flag, anthem), explicit plans (destruction of this country’s economy, remaking of this country’s constitution) and well documented past and current alliances and explicitly pledged allegiances, how a man like that can come within even a sniffing distance of congress let alone presidency. I think he should be impeached for perjury upon his being sworn into office for “protecting the Constitution” which he declared to be shameful, and for “defending against terrorists foreign and domestic” for his middle-east plans and obvious associations with the domestic type.
All of this because of 20 somethings who took their schooling from Ayers-like “teachers”, 30-somethings who think that all of this is for free and will last forever, 40-somethings who want to look so open-minded that their brains fall out through the opening, 50-somethings who want to look and behave like their 20 something children, and 60-70 somethings for being senile and re-living their never truly existing glorious revolutionary youth.
It’s revolting.
Germans also didn’t quite realize what happened in July 1932.”
Obama is just continuing what Bush started – but trying to make it for everyone, not just the greedy CEOs of unjustified corporations. Anyone know any other solution? Haven’t heard many constructive suggestions anywhere.
#95 Stalin would be proud of him.
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I’m afraid of who his Beriya will be.
The strength and core of Obama’s support in the election and now: young people under 30 and single females. These are typically, especially these days with our dumbed down education system K – university, our least wise and discerning citizens. The female vote is disturbing, since we know it tends (not exclusively) to laser in on the abortion issue. Our single women have absolutely no conscience at all about killing the unborn. And the men who sire these tragedies have no conscience as well. I see no reason why Obama and his party are going to stray from that core of support. I think they’ll keep most of it, although I suspect a large minority of them will defect. That might be enough to tip the balance, along with the many Republicans and conservatives who just stayed home. Add in perhaps most of the “moderate” Middle Muddle, and you may have the makings in 2010 and 2012 of a rout.
I sure would like to see his birth certificate. All this damage has been done in 6 weeks by a guy who isn’t even eligible to be POTUS.
There’s a considerable distance between buyers’ remorse and a revolution.
the kimbaya foreign policy is not working out too good either. first, he wants to hold hands with the psychotic nazi from iran while they are hammering and sawing a nuclear bomb. on the other hand, he makes an enemy out of north korea that has a missile long range enough to hit california. the russians are still scratching their heads over his “negotations”, and likely having a really big slug of vodka.
and a billion dollars (well, 900 million anyway) for the make believe “palestinians” and their friends hamas, the terrorists who murder not just jews but their own people as well.
our trillions of dollars in the hole? he’ll just make more. get the wheelbarrows ready.
in case you want to buy a loaf of bread, that is.
and jobs. no, we dont have any of those. even the illegals are leaving town. because thanks to mr. obama, there are now no jobs no american won’t take.
Brooks, Buckley Sullivan..et al…Now that you’ve all seemingly successfully extracted your enormously bloated heads from your foul asses, you may go wash and then work your penance out by first asking apologies of every thinking American who could see that 1+1=2. Then shut the F___ up for the next four years and let real thinkers and true conservatives deal with the nightmare you helped create.
#94
Hell hath no fury like a (useful idiot) scorned?
And it’s been only…what..? 43 days since Obama was inaugurated…?
So… is this a new record…? Should we call the guinnes people..?
An old woman was walking down the road when she saw a gang of thugs beating a poisonous snake. She screamed at the thugs and rescued the snake, taking it back to her home where she nursed it back to health. The two became friends and lived together for many years.
One day on their way into town, the woman picked up the snake and he bit her repeatedly. “Oh God,” she screamed, “I am dying. I am dying!” She turned to the snake and looked it in the eyes. “I saved your life. I was your friend. I trusted you. Why did you bite me?”
The snake turned to face her as she drew he final breath and hissed,
“Old woman, you knew I was a Snake.”
>Anyone know any other solution? Haven’t heard many constructive suggestions anywhere.
CUT TAXES
CUT SPENDING
STOP THE BAILOUTS
STOP PRINTING MONEY
cfbleachers,
Thanks for reminding us of your original post. I read it then and was impressed; I was and continue to be in absolute agreement. Everyone should re-read it once a month.
To those commenters who can not understand how people were taken in remember this: The goal of the con-man is not to convince the skeptic, but to give the gullible reasons to continue believing.
Our guillable, guilt-ridden society has gone from one that would never elect a guy simply because he was black to one that elect a guy simply because he *was* black. The whole thing was affirmative action on steroids, but done through some sort of mass hypnosis.
Never mind BO’s lack of experience or leadership, terrorist and anti-American allies…it didn’t matter. And because BO spoke in the vague terms of “hope” and “change”, the foolish masses interpreted it to mean whatever they liked.
IDIOTS!
There’s a simple solution to all this and it happens in November 2010. Let’s be nice and welcome the mistaken back into the fold.
Poor Maureen Dowd! Smitten with a Kenyan/Indonesian Mack Daddy. He didn’t give her enough love. In fact, he wants to take too much of her hard earned money! Imagine how all the other girls must feel!
I don’t trust any of these “disgruntled” pundits a bit. I bet $10.00 to a donut, given the same set of choices with the same set of candidates, and knowing what they know at this minute, they’d still be spinning Jimmy Obama in the most favorable light.
I can hear these pukes 40 months from now, “Oh, he’s made some mistakes and some of them costly. But it’s to be expected from the dynamic and talented newcomer. Barack Obama’s pros have vastly outweighed his cons. Obama has proven quite the formidable opponent, nuanced and popular – a dynamic speaker of immense appeal, both here and abroad. While he has struggled as any human would in that position, he deserves another four years.”
If anything, this enlightened disgruntlement only proves these lightweights playing the usual game of straddling the fence. None of the listed are to be trusted – not now; not four years from now. And you can throw the feckless Kathleen Parker into the mix.
These people: the pundit class, the talking heads, the intellectual elite! They who make their fortune and fame from telling us, the great unwashed rabble, how and what to think. They couldn’t see the obvious BEFORE the election? Obama is the same now as he’s always been. Yet they were so impressed with how post-racial they were being that they chugged the kool-aid just like they were at a frat party! NOW they’re sobering up? ROTFLMFAO!!!!!
I wonder if we could go back in time to read newspapers from another election where a socialist supported by jews and gays and a host of other groups “suddenly” started to put ppl in box cars and have them disappear…
At least the military is stepping up and try to kick him out.
http://defendourfreedoms.us/
quote:
thirteen28:
All these “best and brightest” couldn’t figure out during the campaign that Obama was a committed hard core socialist, yet us knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing troglodytes out here in flyover country had it figure out all along.
Who’d a thunk it?
yep we’re just a bunch of hick red neck idiots out here, don’t know nothing, but someone else said it pretty good a little earlier in the thread as well. see below…..
know a man by 3 things:
1. What he says
2. What he DOES
3. The company he keeps….
3 simple character traits to use as a measuring stick. Obama fails at all 3.
Actions to take today.
1. Join the NRA
2. Join the Heritage Foundation
3. Cancel all print media and cable until the next election.
4. Start supporting organizations targeting the defeat of Dodd, Pelosi, Schumer, and Franks.
5. Visit local and state government meetings and FORCE them to STOP TAKING FEDERAL MONEY. If it can’t be supported with local funds, then DON’T try to get someone else to pay. Threaten to fire them if they don’t turn this around in a few months.
6. Call you Democratic representative and Senator OFTEN and tell them you are MAD and not going to take it any more.
7. Target Repulicans who have defected to be defeated the next election cycle (Alexander, Bond, T. Cochran, Collins, Murkowski, Shelby, Snowe, and all time favorite Specter.
8. Call Republicans who have held rank. Thank them for voting against any and all programs that will bring our country to its knees. Invite them to join the 3rd party.
A few more weeks and Dowd, Gergen, and all will be demanding the O produce a valid birth certificate.
One of the all-time favorite comment threads I’ve read. Thank you all for a most entertaining hour.
I’m still completely stumped as to how anyone in their right mind–let alone people who’ve been covering politics for decades and ought to know better–ever trusted Barack Obama. Since when have politicians’ pretty words ever meant anything? The first rule of political discernment is: Look at what they DID yesterday, not at what they SAY today. Obama’s radical record was right there for anyone to see. How were they able to delude themselves that the individual with THE most left-wing voting record in the Senate was actually a “moderate”? Did they think they could wave a magic wand over that voting record and make it go away? I’m always amazed when I see literate, educated adults falling into the “magical thinking” that child-development professionals tell us should be outgrown by the time a child reaches the age of reason.
If nothing else, Obama’s repeated opposition in the Illinois Senate to born-alive infant protection legislation should have raised red flags. They should have been asking themselves: What on earth kind of person supports leaving already-born, living, breathing, squirming little babies in a dirty-linen closet to die a slow death from suffocation and/or dehydration? Anyone who could take that position has something WRONG with them! They’re either mentally unbalanced or morally abominable, or both.
If a person is so clueless that they can’t see anything wrong with something as OBVIOUSLY evil as infanticide, what on earth would make you think you could trust their judgment on matters that are far, far more complex, such as the economy? And if a person is so MORALLY clueless that they can’t see anything wrong with child-murder, what would lead you to believe that they would draw a line at much lesser evils such as lying, cheating and stealing?
Looking at Obama’s record in the Illinois Senate and the U.S. Senate, his resume (ACORN-affiliated community organizing, sharing an office with Bill Ayers for 3 years, etc.), along with his personal associations (not only Ayers but also Jeremiah Wright, Rashid Khalidi, Khalid Mansour, Tony Rezko, etc.) and his dirty-tricks political style (the ways he got all his opponents knocked off the ballot or otherwise forced out), it was pretty damn obvious to me a long time ago what a scoundrel he was. I have a real hard time feeling any sympathy for these idiots who should’ve known better, who had access to all the same information that I did but simply REFUSED to take it seriously and draw the obvious conclusion.
Now all those people just have to answer one question: Why should we ever take them seriously again? (Assuming you ever did.)
Dowd doesn’t feel had as much as disappointed. Obama had promised to end politics as usual and hasn’t and she isn’t surprised because she quotes King Lear:
And when it comes to whore’s oaths, she should know. You can read more appropriate Lear quotes here:
http://dowdreport.blogspot.com/2009/03/maureen-and-bard.html
Boo hoo.
They allowed themselves to be duped. All the evidence was there. They chose to ignore it.
Boo hoo.
Welcome back L.B.J. & the ‘Great Society’ except this time you could call it ‘Entitlement Change’.
If this keeps up, say goodby to the middle class as we know it today. God help us.
“We” all knew what was coming, saw it miles away. We’re not surprised, either. I don’t know how surprised or otherwise “fooled” the pundits really are. Like they’ve been doing for so long, they’re exaggerating their “buyer’s remorse.” Or at least it seems that way to me.
“Conservatives” need to do a better job next time. Oh, yeah, let’s knock off the racist jokes for good. Example, #118′s “Mack Daddy” remark.
I’ve been trying to figure out the answer to this question: Back when America was first founded, ALL Americans had at least a little piece of the qualities that allowed them to build America in the first place. What are the three most important of those qualities? And for bonus points, why did most Americans lose them?
Here’s what I came up with, and I’d appreciate constructive criticism:
1) True Moderation: I often hear people say, “All things in moderation”. I almost hate those people, because they are deliberately mutilating the original saying-”All things in moderation, INCLUDING MODERATION”. In other words, I believe that the #1 quality America requires is the ability to recognize when a situation has changed, and when a particular solution will no longer work because of those changes. As many of my fellow posters have pointed out, this quality is sadly lacking in many fellow Americans.
2) Intelligence: Intelligence is defined as “The ability to learn about, understand, and deal with new and/or stressful situations” and “The ability to use knowledge to manipulate the environment”(both definitions courtesy of the Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary). I think it’s safe to say that many Americans are also severely challenged (sometimes incapable) of the aforementioned uses. Whether it’s because they don’t focus and concentrate, or because they haven’t trained and exercised their innate intelligence, it’s a severe problem.
3) Social Awareness: Many people think that they know who’s who, who they can trust, how to wrap a man/woman round their finger, etc. So why is it that people are frequently social idiots when it comes to politics? In politics, it’s extremely important to recognize when someone is not telling the whole truth, or even when they are outright lying to you. Instead, many Americans blindly accept the “facts” as given to them by the news source they can most easily access-usually, the TV.
As for how Americans got to this state: back in the day, an American could not survive without these skills, because they would be slaughtered-economically, politically, and socially-without them. Over time, though, various government agencies absolved us from these duties, mostly because the idiots & leeches of society realized they could vote for what they wanted instead of working for it. People used to haggle and bargain in stores and marketplaces-now, govt. controls the price of EVERYTHING. People used to do their own investigation when they got news of a bandit/Indian/politician’s raid-now, they sit at home on their Lay-Z-Boy chairs with a beer in one hand and a TV remote in the other. People used to engage in friendly social competitions in the form of debates, arguments, discussions, and casual tavern brawls (that last was used to relieve stress when a situation was getting out of hand)-nowadays, people use “majority rules” as a club to kill opinions they don’t want to hear, and if the dissenting voice still won’t shut up, they resort to more violent means.
Hey MoDo, when BHO said he was going to “go through it line by line” he was referring to his bag o’ blow – not the spending bill you silly fool.
I have consistently looked at past works to give a good idea of what a politician will do in the future, and Barack Obama’s was written with his narrative of personal attacks, utilizing machine politics to defeat opponents, and funding by big labor and lobbyists. He was adept at putting in hundreds of earmarks to the tune of tens of millions of dollars while a freshman senator. His thin capabilities showed he could vote ‘present’ and would foist work on others that he could take credit for if they worked, and blame if they didn’t. He was and is a bought and paid-for machine politician from Chicago.
He would not address his past activities and shunned any who asked into them, and those who did were viciously attacked not on the political grounds but on racial ones. Those who dared to examine the content of the man’s character and didn’t give a damn about his skin color were attacked by the Left. The race card got played so often it was a constant sight on the table, always down on it by the end of the campaign. Those who showed good faith in wanting that past explained were vilified, often by those same ‘buyer’s remorse’ types we hear from today.
Recognizing one’s own faults is only a first step.
Finding humility and, at the very least, apologizing to those who have showed good faith in the system and expected reasonable and reasoned thought is necessary.
Redeeming one’s own character means ensuring that you never, ever, fall into the trap of your bias and weaknesses and constantly battle them so as to overcome them and be a better person.
Our duty to our Nation is that which we speak of under We the People as that is the People speaking, not our government, as that comes before any government can be formed. Those are the duties we have as citizens to each other, and yet we lose sight of them when we put politics and bias ahead of our duties. We speak of those as not just cumulative responsibilities but those we take up each and every day as individuals and the very first thing we seek to do is come to a more perfect Union with our fellow citizens. To do that requires this faculty known as ‘reason’. At our founding those with and without religion, yes there were atheists back then who spoke up for such a Nation, put reason and our ability to reason and learn from past mistakes and promulgate past successes to become a better people and society as paramount.
Change without analysis of what it can portend is horrific. Even if you ‘hope’ for a good outcome, when your good sense tells you otherwise you must rope in your hope, deeply question ‘change’ and seek to eliminate that which harms us as individuals and society from the realm of the possible. Hope and change is meaningless without reason and restraint as, no matter how well intentioned the action, its effects must be understood before taking it.
Drunken sailors, at least, fall down into a stupor and can do little more harm, although they might be robbed blind by those who run a crooked establishment. Yes the party these columnists invited everyone to is one very crooked establishment, with more than just alcohol spiking the punch. Now they feel their pockets being lifted and dare to complain when there were those of us pointing to the toxins put into the punch warning them? I am sure it tasted so very good, so very sweet… to mask the bitter poison being handed out. And as they writhe in pain with their kidneys shutting down because of their ill thought out imbibing, I am supposed to feel pity for them?
Until they excrete the toxins, sober up, read the labels, and damned well put good sense before hope & change, they can go to hell. That doesn’t require emotional backlash against the man they wanted elected: it requires reason and restraint and doing no harm before proposing any change and withdrawing anything put in that causes harm to our society. They drank themselves senseless on hopeful politics and abdicated their duty to themselves, their Nation and their fellow countrymen of using reason and analysis to see what was being put before them. That punch must have tasted oh, so very good… right until the poison hit. And now we will all pay for that sweet imbibing. They can redeem themselves by working as stalwarts to address their sins against those they wronged and castigated, and then step up to the plate to find a way out of this mess that repeals ‘hope & change’ and removes the money from this spendthrift government. Only they can turn themselves around and pick a better way, for the one they are on now leads to no good at all.
I dunno–I’d probably feel used the same way these pseudo “sages” do-kinda like the vaseline on the finger of the rubber glove
Except for Dowd, who was always going to vote for the liberal Democrat, all of the other columnists mentioned in this article were completely un-credible in their pre election support of Obama. They wanted to be on the winning side of the first black president and they just hoped he would be moderate. They can’t possibly have been so stupid as to misunderstand his past votes and radical associations. There was ample evidence that Obama was a clever, articulate lying radical who wanted to fundamentally change the U.S.
I must admit I’m extremely puzzled as well. I live in THAILAND, for crying out loud, and I don’t spend my life reading the news, but I figured out Obama long before his absurd nomination antics. He’s a disordered narcissist and a committed leftist, whose most recent statement was “I’d rather carry a debt than see people go without health care.” When you understand that Obama understands his terrifyingly destructive “economic policies” as “carrying a debt,” you understand that his disconnect with reality is TOTAL. He doesn’t listen to anyone else — those who disagree with him get ATTACKED.
Why am I puzzled? This was all very obvious to me as a part-time observer living abroad. I made sure to vote for McCain by absentee ballot. But these people we are talking about are full-time PROFESSIONALS. They should have been ringing the alarm bells, not cheerleading!! Now they’re “SORRY.” Well, that and 8 trillion dollars will put everything right again.
“I remain to be convinced that Obama is any better than his predecessor.” Now THERE’S the understatement of the century!
I wish to protest the despicable slur on drunken sailors! When drunken sailors run out of money, people quit giving them whiskey. The Obama admin goes and steals more whiskey.
What amazes me is that these guys get paid big money to write columns, and they got it all wrong about Obama before the election. If I get reincarnated I want to come back in a profession where I can be so wrong and still have my employer pay me big money.
Obama’s radical record was right there for anyone to see.
No it wasn’t. It was if you visited (for Joe Siw Pack) obscure blogs but plenty of people, enough to make or unmake a president, don’t do it and rely on the MSM for information or more exactly they _trust_ the MSM for information (meaning that they have their anti-BS shields down). Also there is a strong instinct to believe what you see in print. You need to have grown in a dictatorship to be able to systematically ask yourself: “Is that true?” when you see something on TV or read it in the newspaper. And this defense doesn’t work when the media simply silences the information. The media silenced everything fishy in Obama’s past and there was a lot of it. It didn’t help too that in the precise moment a glimpse of Obama’s past had been revealed and that some hard questions were being asked Hillary had to be idiotic enough to open her big mouth and talk about she being sniped at. This allowed Obama and the MSM to browse Wright’s story under the rug. Of course the MSM commenters “failed” to point at the inaccuracies and downright lies in Obama’s justification about reverend Wright. Intead they told of “having tears in my eyes” or from “best speech since the Gettysburgh address”. And thus Joe Six Pack trusted them instead of reading the speech by himself, what anyway required some knowledge he hadn’t in order to notice the smoke and mirrors.
Finally there was the problem that McCain didn’t do his job. A presidential election is not a gentleman’s game but a trial. In a trial the job of the prosecution is not to be fair but to bring to jury’s attention any element who could land the suspect in jail and let the other side to bring contrary elements or refute yours. McCain’s job was to be Obams’s prosecutor just like Obama’s job was to be Mc’Cain’s prosecutor and his own defender in front of the jury of American voters. However revealing the other guy’s dirty clothese doesn’t work when the MSM spin it as mud slinging. And that is what they did at any of McCain’s timid attempts.
I also consider “Get out the vote” campaigns a denial of democracy. Even if they were not partisan and they wasn’t they leads people who have no interest in politics and know nothing about them, to vote. Sorry but someone who believed that Republicans controlled Senate and Congress had no business voting and should had better remained at home.
There is only one thing who can really be reproached to voters: having allowed their desire of wiping out the slavery stain overcome reason: an African American in the White House is Good Thing ™ but that does not mean just vote blindly, no questions asked, for the first guy who happens to be somewhat dark skinned: there will be other African American candidates. Now there are good reason to think that the President of the United States doesn’t want merely to reshape them but to weaken them as much as possible, perhaps even to destroy them.
JFM wrote: “…plenty of people, enough to make or unmake a president, don’t do it and rely on the MSM for information or more exactly they _trust_ the MSM for information (meaning that they have their anti-BS shields down).”
Absolutely. Critical thinking skills are at an all-time low and insufferable gullibility is at an all-time high. I blame the teachers.
This was a truly “historical” election. The fools elected a man who had spelled out what he was going to do in his books, his contribution to a book on Saul Alinsky, his ties to Columbia’s Khalid, his course descriptions, his speeches, his voting record, and his political and church associations. All this was out there during the campaign. Why weren’t these “journalists” paying attention?
Here’s a list of economists who disagree with Obama’s stimulus bill:
http://acuf.org/issues/issue127/090302news.asp
JFM, I beg to disagree. You say that the fools (yes, FOOLS) who voted for Obama can only be reproached for their reverse racism. Well, there you go again, evading the issue of individual responsibility. Do you also cry “no fault” for people who didn’t read their mortgages?
Anyone who is clueless enough to believe the MSM has only himself to blame. It’s called LAZINESS. It’s called NOT CARING. Voting for people who make nifty speeches is just as stupid as voting for the cutest candidate. As I was saying six months ago, I don’t mind the model of Calvin Coolidge a bit: someone who shuts his yap and attends to the job.
People who voted for Obama made a MISTAKE, and you’re not going to help anyone by trying to pin the tail on another donkey.
What it comes down to is that all these people turning around discovered all their cocktail parties they were planning on attending are rife with greedy, grinning liberal douchebags. Who would want to keep such company?
Grichens
What you say is true but it is not the whole truth. When a candidate or someone related to him says something about the other candidate, the economy or whatever most people will not take what he says at face value. Fewer will do it when the person reporting it is supposedly neutral. And still fewer will think into doing it when the person reporting is in a position of authority (eg a journalist) respective. I often half joke that America should sign a treaty with North Kora so all American children spent two years there so they learn to disbelieve what they see on TV
Jaafar
I didn’t vote for Obama. In fact the day it became evident to me that McCain would lose I was unable to sleep for the whole night just thinking in my children, in Iran, in nukes, in terrorists and what looks like a covert Muslim in the White House.
who voted for Obama can only be reproached for their reverse racism
Some were reverse racists, many just wanted to wipe out the stains of slavery and post Civil War discrimination but in their eagerness (and because the MSM pulled wool over their yes) forgot to take a hard look at Obama. I am lenient towards the second group. Lenient as one year at Gulag instead of 25 for the first group.
Anyone who is clueless enough to believe the MSM has only himself to blame. It’s called LAZINESS
It is called not having time, not being learned enough, not having a computer and a broadband connection or preferring to spend their time in other ways. That is perfectly right with me: America is a free country. But such people should not vote. They should have the honesty to say themselves: “I haven’t done my best to be able to give an enlightened vote so I don’t vote”. That is why “Get out the vote” campaigns should be illegal. In other countries you will see a few, very few government sponsored placards and TV advertisements advising you to register but that is all. In fact in some countries government is not allowed to advertise for going to vote (only for registration) and you will never have activists calling you or visiting your house.
What is your prediction for the MSM now?
1. Mindful of their precarious jobs, they won’t decide whether to go pro- or anti-Obama until public consensus becomes clearer.
2. They switch to a recovery theme, ending with the same self-fulfilling prophecy as ocurred last year when they manufactured the recession. This creates a win/win for the MSM and Obama. The inevitable appearance of a recovery allows Obama to claim credit for it and validate the same marxist policies as the MSM.
3. They go anti-Obama, following the time-honored tradition of creating drama, disaster and tension to sell news. A Depression theme would likely spike more interest in news sales than a Recovery theme.
Secession is starting to look like an option.
Forget buying the toys from China. Get some of those SKS’s before they run out, or the dollar weakens too much and the price goes up.
God, what a mess of things O and the Dems have made. I kept warning all the Obama voters and independents I came across.
“I told you so.” is one phrase that is gonna get some high usage.
Sapwolf I have wondered whether you could take an already individualist state – Idaho for example – and find a legal path not to secede not from the Union, but to bar Federal government, services and taxation from that state.
There is probably law that can be interpreted to allow this. It is not worth doing if it is outside our laws, because the point is to show that it is the federal government that is out of bounds.
If it could be pulled off legally and non-violently, public support would be nearly unanimous. It would be a demonstration and reaffirmation of the original freedoms the country was founded on. We would be a much stronger country for it, paradoxically.
I for one say that rather than chastise and ridicule the aforementioned pundits for their temporary blindness to the pre-election facts, we should instead welcome them (back) with open arms to the good ship Sanity. Their widely read columns and articles so early in the new administration are helpful toward legitimizing the inner thoughts of many other nameless, faceless Obama voters out there who are also feeling similar regret and betrayal.
Here’s a plan:
Let the economy collapse. It will hurt for a few years, but after the Socialists are swept away by angry mobs with torches, American ingenuity can build the nation back up again, like it has after other calamities.
Cancel the national debt. That’s right. You lent us money? Sucker. Hey we’re always being told to cancel other nations’ debts to us; why are they so special? Then when people realize we can’t be trusted with loans, we will have to LIVE WITHIN OUR MEANS.
One other cost-cutting measure: quit our membership in the totally time-wasting United Nations and send them packing. That piece of real estate on the East River will fetch a billion dollars, and our cancelled financing of this racist, fascist, commie, criminal League of Evil can go to paying the military better salaries and buying more JDAMs to take out mullahs everywhere.
#27 deguello
“The only idiot missing is that maudlin,precious,little snob,Peggy Noonan.”
You nailed it. One big reason that many “elite” Republicans liked Obama is the “he is one of us” Ivy League factor. I recall Noonan cattily sneering at Gov. Palin’s state-school education — reading that, I heard the voice of a legacy-admissions sorority bimbo gossiping about the clothes the day students wear. That was the last time I clicked the link to read Noonan — life’s too short to waste on a dessicated has-been copywriter turned society columnist wannabee.
And Chris Buckley? Never heard of the clown before he endorsed Obama. Did any of you? Hopefully he kept making payments on the rock, that, as a Buckley might elevate his nose and say, out from under of which he crawled.
America has the leadership it deserves.
Well, unless EJ Dionne, Frank Rich, and Eugene Robinson start criticizing him, then this is just kids play…..
http://dissentingjustice.blogspot.com/2009/03/rush-new-bush.html
I never I thought I’d see this smug, superior bunch of asexual empty vessels admit to being fools. But I think we should give them credit for that. No one likes to admit error; and I grant that these are qualified dissents, but it’s better than nothing.
I know the effete water-drinkers in Manhattan are starting to freak out because many people I know there have gone silent.
If even Russ Feingold is starting to raise an eyebrow or two there might be some hope yet. After all, that’s like Beria objecting to Stalin.
“…we should instead welcome them (back) with open arms…”
No, no, no. Fire them. Never read them again — unless they pull a Whittaker. Or come up with $8 trillion as payback for their COLOSSAL STUPIDITY. (Dow at 6600 as I write this…)
155.James. Serious question here.
I agree with your point equating Feingold’s objections to Beria. I wonder if Feingold has what it takes to pursue his objections at any cost, as Beria did, according to some historians. I’m not suggesting assassination. I’m suggesting that the actual price that Feingold would have to eventually pay (for continuing to object) will not be known by Feingold until pretty far down the track.
How far can Feingold successfully carry his objections before the duo of Pelosi/Reid call him in for an adjustment?
We are now at the same point we were the weekend of the Halloween Massacre with Nixon, when it began to look like everyone in power was going to roll for Nixon and nothing would stop him. Then he discovered someone who wasn’t willing to roll. He fired him. Then he discovered the replacement wasn’t willing to roll…and he fired that one. And the next one was replaced by another who wouldn’t roll…..can it happen again? If it can, it’s time.
I would only consider listening to them if they were to finally admit that THIS is the face of Socialism. THIS is what it looks like. THIS is what its policies engender. Then, they have to publicly repudiate it.
If you really want to make some money, print up a bunch of McCain bumper stickers for people to use to cover up their Obama stickers.
Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos!
It wasn’t just the media. Obama had so much money he blanketed TV with ads for weeks, most of them promising a tax cut and fiscal responsibility. He was even on Food TV, Travel and Animal Planet.
The one bright spot is that he has a dismal record of actually getting things done. His ideas may be hard left but his work habits are those of an easily bored ticket puncher. He did the community organizing thing, did the lawyer thing, did the state senator thing, did the teaching thing, all without a substantive accomplishment to his name.
Frankly I hope these useful idiots end up living in a refrigerator box and eating out of dumpsters. Its what every rich person who voted for Obama deserves.
2. Cybergeezer:”It’s about time.”
I have a different line in mind:
“It’s too late to ‘pologize”
“I hope all the lying, bully reporters lose their jobs like the rest of us.”
Nah. I hope they are tarred and feathered in the public square. Actions have consequences.
Barak Hussein Obama practices Taqqiyah.
Voting for Obama should disqualify anyone from ever voting again. It was an act of treason.
They’re sorry now? They were pretty dang sorry then, they just didn’t know it. The problem is we have only begun the slide, we have not yet plumbed the depths the Obama Delusional have bought us.
Christopher Buckley has buyer’s remorse? Boo Hoo.
Here was my take on his defection to the enemy camp:
http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2008/10/17/thoughts-on-christopher-buckleys-defection/
Why are you all bitching? he’s done exactly what he was elected to do, break into the treasury and shovel it out with both hands and a shovel
Well. Well. Well.
We all knew this day was coming but, may I ask,
“So soon?”
Your days of lobster and brie are coming to a swift end and you will find that crow ain’t so tasty after all.
We get to vote again in 2010, November. Until then, we need to make a lot of noise!!!
Brooks supports expanding coverage and reducing costs ….
gee, why didn’t someone think of that before?
*sarcasm*
I’m going to join Brooks –
I support perpetual motion machines and educational mandates to insure all our kids are above average …..
gee, I feel better about me now.
Maureen Dowd has demonstrated to me that she is actually an intelligent woman who has aa mind of her own. I have always disliked her snobbish put downs of George Bush, which I thought was based on her predilection to a dislike of all things Texan(which offends me a little). I think she shows that, despite her predilection towards Democrats(especially the Ivy League type), she has the integrity to be offended by some of the blatant political stunts she has seen from President Obama. I think, like all of us, she just wants a President whose word is good for something. I thought we had that with George Bush, but she didn’t. I have never thought we would have that with Barack Obama, and she did. She does at least prefer integrity to the overt political prattle. Now, if we can just get her to listen to the voices of the folks who yearn for real liberty as well as integrity, she would make a convincing advocate. That said, I should have to admit that I have a predilection to that little twinkle in her eyes.
It’s a little late for “Oops”.
Good article. A few weeks before the election I exchanged email with a friend of mine who is an entrepreneur who was raising money for the Democrats. He told me that he was voting for Obama because “he is brilliant”. I guess I should go see how his prospects are now.
Steve P:
Let’s see – your best defense for Obama’s complete incompetence is: “Oh yeah, well Bush was worse!!” Wow! That must have been impressive on the playground when you were in grade school! Too bad you didn’t get back in from recess in time to catch your history class: Roosevelt’s New Deal didn’t pull the country out of the Depression – it just prolonged the recovery until the increased production for World War II provided the private sector jobs necessary to do the job!
It must be a little embarrassing to look in the mirror and realize how you look to other people with that purple Obama Kool-Aid stain around your mouth
A little like the guy who was duped into carrying the snake across the river and was bitten for his trouble.
I think the mad rush to take all your money and give it to Obama’s friends, sponsors and co-conspirators is his secret way of fulfilling his promise to enact “reparations.”
It would never fly with that label, however.
Hello everyone:
I am so glad to have ventured onto this site because I had been wondering how long it would take for people to wake up to what has been done. How long before folks who voted for Barack Obama would see the damage that would be done.
Let me say this, I am a born again believer in Christ and for two reasons this man was poison to me for this country. Not that we had not already been poisoned by the immorality and vile filth we subject ourselves to each day.
I get to the point: We have become a people looking for a savior who has the answers and can heal our illnesses. How did we get so ill? Greed. Let me remind you that God has told us what will happen to a people who divorce themselves from Him
Your eyes saw young, handsome, eloquent speech, in fact speech like none other.
Do you not know that there is a portion of a book that goes into detail to show us how easily we will fall for the anti-Christ. And he will be just like this man. Mark what I am NOT saying, I am not saying that Obama is the anti-Christ but doesn’t it amaze you how easy it was for many to fall for this man?? Obama is ungodly for sure.
Please, for your own sakes, Come to Christ and come back to where America once was, then and only then will we be healed by the hand that has gone from us, the hand of God.
If this offends anyone, so be it.
What about the fact that so many have taken Obama to task over his birth place and if he is eligible to be President. All of them have met with scorn from the bench and the media.
Not one media representative has even brought this to light. Obama is a liar and now a theif and I say to impeach him before it is too late.
He promised not to take our guns but he has begun to do just that. He is also a murderer in that he wants to and has sided with Planned Parents and others even placing a known abortion proponent into an office for human services. This man is insane.
All these people are experiencing the after effects that are very similar to the one that battered women feel, (unfortunately, I know this part well), it’s like waking up after being lulled for a long time. However, let the economy even out, or the Dow to bounce back up. They will forgive him, and wait for the next beating. I remember when William F. Buckley would speak of his wonderful son when Chris was a little boy. Thankfully, he didn’t live to see this. I must say, there are some very smart commenters on this thread. Kudos. I just can’t wait until someone muzzles David Frum and puts us all out of our misery. Please. I might even be willing to chip in money for it. Or help hold him down.
From 48 to 52,
Told ya so.
With malice
I agree with all who want to forgive those who voted for this man. It took nuch courage to admit your mistake.
It will not do us any good to be angry and even vengeful, what we do need is to band together and get this guy out of that oval office. Him, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and the entire socialist mob.
I am willing to forgive but what now??
It’s all Bush’s fault and the idiots who voted for him.
Remember with fondness the days of your innocence when knowledge was flighty; only the heart-light of your feelings mattered. The grave consequences of your vote should not be your burden. You acted with impunity as you searched for a better world and a brighter tomorrow.
Consequences are for others. Are we rich? Libertarian? Homophobic? Racist? Limbaughist? A CEO? Of course not! We have no worries! Sign on, we are invited on a magical mystery tour of excitement with a familiar acronym : HOPE.
Help Obama Piss-off Everything.
Enjoy your tour.
cfbleachers,
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. While I’m not as erudite as you, you have the uncanny ability to say exactly what I am thinking. I only wish it wasn’t true. Have to run now – need to buy some more ammo before the Mexican’s get it all.
viligant,
what organizations are working against Pelosi, Frank, etc?
Your ideas are superb…willing to try.
As much as I dislike Obama, and what he stands for (a no talent, non-accomplished con artist), I am surprised at how ambitious he is. He always seemed a little lazy to me; voting present,the part time college teaching gig, not bothering to write an article for the Harvard Law Review (when he was the freakin’ editor,) he just never seemed ambitious. He seemed ambitious in getting opportunities, but once he had them, he never did anything with them. And that’s how I thought he’d be with the Presidency (although I was horrified he won, and I’m a lifelong Democrat (though not anymore!)). I just thought he’d be happy to sit there and be famous. But Egads, the dude is drunk on power, and is completely re-designing the architecture of this great, yet not perfect, country, that he and his wife genuinely seem to hate. Good Lord. Still, at the end of the day, if the economy is still tanking, this guy’s goin’ down. He’ll only be one term. We’ll survive.
We have seen the condencending, fatherly orator thet can read speaches well. It’s scary but I fear within the next couple years the angry guy. I have seen it in his expressions. Its there. The Right will be Right and the Left, left but the middle will increasingly peal away from BHO. As this happens BHO’s anger will become more evident. I fear for my countries future. I hope but don’t believe I’m.
I am a Canadian…conservative…I have been following the situation in the Sates quite closely and pegged Obama and his wife frauds from the onset. I just hope Americans who did not vote for this snake oil salesman will stand up and fight Obama’s attempt to hijack the nation, even if it requires a revolution. How could America have let this happen I ask?
I must agree with cfbleachers. This is as close to my own thoughts as I have found, except I am a little more conservative. What cf says about the differences between liberals and leftists are similar to my feelings about conservatives and rightists. BASICALLY, I BELIEVE ALL RADICALS ARE WRONG.
Folks, remember this:
What helped Obama in the last election is not only (1) the MSM refusing to vet Obama and (2) the MSM and other VIPs(Hollywood/TV stars and entertainers) speaking on his behalf, but also (3) the unpleasant results from McCain-Feingold, McCain’s being duped by Obama’s flip-flop on agreeing to accept federal funds, and (4) the refusal of the FEC to investigate the fradulaunt campaign contributions that came pouring in for Obama from suspected off-shore origins — maybe Saudi’s but who knows?….
Actually, John McCain was incredibly naive and stupid and in a way he deserved to lose. We could all see this coming from a mile away, and yet McCain thought he could win by being a “gentleman” — yeah, right.
Also, the youth of America are incredibly spoiled and naive and lazy. They want EVERYTHING handed to them and think the new socialists policies will make life easier for them and still let them sip lattes while they play on their laptops at Starbucks and then drive around in late model cars that Daddy buys for them. But what do you expect after most have been educated in “socialist-dominated” Politically Correct government schools run by Democrats?
And the rest of Americans, the true working class may mean well, but most are simply are not canny enough to understand economics and public policy and the ramifications of electing extreme left-leaning candidates to public office. They just don’t get it.
I don’t think Teleprompter Jesus will leave power easily. I hope everyone here is ready to tighten their utility belts.
Also, I don’t think any bills he submits to Congress are really his. He’s too dumb to hold a map the right way. Who is pulling his strings?
His goal is simple: He is returning the money, that he considers stolen, to it’s rightful owners. All other actions work toward that end. It’s glaringly obvious. In the process of doing that, the puppetmasters are getting filthy rich and all powerful.
I believe his goal may be much more nefarious then we even realize. Since we have taken the fight to the Muslims and won militarily, it is almost certain that they realize they have to shift tactics to prevail against us. And don’t give me any crap about how not “all Muslims are terrorists” cause that’s just the kind of PC thinking bullsh** that CAIR and the NYT wants us to believe. If push came to shove you better believe even the “moderate” Muslims would take up arms with their more “radical” brothers. They realize they cannot best us on the battlefield, so their aim is to take us down from within. The quickest way to do this is to cripple our economy. Obama is a Muslim,(despite his protests to the contrary), he sympathizes with Muslims, and I believe his goal is to destroy America by destroying our economy, and marginalize our allies, especially Isreal. He is certainly off to a great start. I know this line of thinking seems a bit radical, but remember what Obama himself said in his book “The Audacity of Hope”…
“I will stand with them (Muslims) should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
—Barack Obama—
Here is a link to Atlas Shrugs with more on this topic: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/02/obama-islam-the.html
That’s my 2 cents, your mileage may vary…
Wait for it. Much of the public is still feeling the glow. But the 2010 mid-term election will shift the congress back to the right, and Carter will move up one position from the all time worst Prsident.
I’m sorry to say that it’s a good thing WFB did not live to see what a sucker his talented son had become.
And now I see that President Genius is going to go find some moderate Taliban to settle things in Afghanistan. There may be some, in mass graves….
jennifer,
Drunken sailors spend their own money.
Well, follow Emperor Misha at the Anti-Idiotarian Rothweiler blogsite:
Disappear into the underground economy. Show on paper you are unemployed, stay aloof, economically speaking. Barter for things, work on self-employment, and avoid paying taxes whereever possible. This is now how you keep more of you money and build towards your future.
Forget paying into the kitty to pay for illegals’ healthcare, bridges to nowhere, etc!
This is the seed of rebellion!
(Oh, and don’t forget to mail teabags to your ‘favorite’Congressmen 15 APRIL)
I’m way late.
All your dupes are mine
As long as the Left is not revealed as the essence of evil, we’ll continue down the road to slavery.
When any Democrats and most Republicans run for re-election, we should call them RECIDIVISTS. Repeat offenders! Perpetual perps! The Dems voted without reading the bill?
To label this confrontation political rivalry – Dems against Pubs – is to misunderestimate their intentions.
I weep that we’re insuring millions yet to be born will live in poverty, enslaved, solely because of our inaction.
I’d say all us vets can recall a mindset that said our Founding Fathers would have taken to the streets, far quicker, armed, outraged!!!! that one political party was even CONTEMPLATING, what they are rapidly succeeding in actually doing; and our Founding Fathers would have been filled with Judeo-Christian wrath, and focused on stamping out this incidious evil. All of them thinking something like “Lefto delenda est.”
Course, that’s just what I’ve been led to believe. Wow. Nearly 70 years in, and I find out my mental model was delusional, all this time. I served for what? My father’s service and his father’s service? Tens of hundreds of thousands brave souls lost for what?
Sacrifice – giving up a higher value for a lower value. Liberty is the higher value. We explicitly make it all a sacrifice, if we do not honor the gains they made in defending and advancing freedom. Over and over, whenever called.
Our majority Left (now calling themselves progressives because we’re on to the liberal thing) are only a coupla “clicks” different than the Taliban, philosophically. Is this guy the Ambassador or a suicide bomber? Or both? Hard to negotiate from strength in that environment.
The Democrat Agenda has morphed, rather more rapidly than I expected into a gameplan for overlording. They’d like you to view them as “clueless” – then they can just “apologize” if their objectives are not fully met. And try again.
Sending them a tea bag? That’ll sure have’m looking at their tracking polls, while they obscond with the country, and conspire to insure their re-elections in 2012, while we pay them to do it. How “civil” of you all.
How about sending them a postcard, including just a picture of a a weapon? With a tag line something like: This is a picture of a weapon – FOR NOW!
Would that statement be construed as “making a threat”? Well, if that’s considered a threat by our overloards to be, then we should know about they’re objections as soon-as-possible, provoking their initial response, to know better how far down that road to serfdom, they think we are. No?
Griffin@97
Being proven right, especially so quickly, is not comforting in the least. Frankly, I am terrified. Well said.
Ergo, it occurs to me that these dupes who voted for Obama and now have come to regret it should be treated and viewed diffidently; not insulted. “I told you so” and “See” and “You deserve it” may be emotionally and intellectually satifying; but we need these people to come back. At least a lot of them, or we are already doomed.
Treat all those who will renounce the dark side like prodical sons. Help them recover, patiently.
geoffgo I agree. Anyone who realizes the dark plans of this administration is a patriot in my book. Left or right it does not matter. We need all the voices we can muster.
Attend your closest Tea Party on April 15th!
The most silly part of this entire article is the delusion that McCain/Palin would have done anything different, considering the tendency of Republicans to back the precious Spend/Bailout/Spend administration.
Q: For what reason did McCain heartily shout out an intended suspension of his campaign?
A: To nationalize some banks.
In the last, swap precious for previous.
A crowd of”educated’ elitist stupid dupes, who lack the excuses of drug abuse, welfare dependence, tertiary syphillis,and stalinist sympathies,that motivated the average O’hole voter.These clowns prove that the USA has become a third-rate,third-world nation.
I’m Maureen Dowd,and I’m a pompous,vastly overreted,overpaid nincompoop!
In all fairness to Obama, God himself could not have fixed what was wrong with the Bush Presidency that so distorted the Constitutional objectives. That said, Obama has a choice at some point in how he leads, will lead, or has led Americans toward a departure from the Bush camp and its self serving prerogatives.
Continuing to pander to Bush policies cannot aid Obama in how history will be written by him, and acquiescence is no friend of progressives who seek to identify themselves.
Taking on the world is not a job for amateurs usually; whether Obama can break that mold is debatable.
206. Pat:
In all fairness to Obama, God himself could not have fixed what was wrong with the Bush Presidency that so distorted the Constitutional objectives. That said, Obama has a choice at some point in how he leads, will lead, or has led Americans toward a departure from the Bush camp and its self serving prerogatives.
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I guess yo were asleep last Oct when Jobs were at 6 % with 512 GDP (PAT ) ………. Now 12.2 Trillion later under Obama they are 10.2 % Jobless really 17.5 % includes not looking or part time …. 1 are now 6 without Jobs dating back 26 years to your over hero Carter .
I also guess you forgot Clinton established Freddy and Fanny( FRAUD AND SCAM ) putting this nation 21 Trillion in debt while the left this past summer still backed(FRANKS, WATERS AND DODD ) and Your Boy has put 16 Billion in the last 3 Months in Both and Fanny is 5.1 Billion in debt last month alone …… goofy one !
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Continuing to pander to Bush policies cannot aid Obama in how history will be written by him, and acquiescence is no friend of progressives who seek to identify themselves.
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Obama is staying with the wars is doing what he must do since the world is at war bigger than his and your radical Marxist agenda ! LEAVING GITTO IS HARDER THAN HIS DUMB ASS THOUGHT!
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BUSH LOWERED TAXES AS THE GRP WAS 506 billion not like now 12 months later at 12.2 Trillion by 2020
21 Trillion dollars ……. that is far higher than the world debt and ad 40 % to boot !
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Taking on the world is not a job for amateurs usually; whether Obama can break that mold is debatable.
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Your hero admits he has never had a course in Economics , Lead anything but ACORN , run a Co , made a payroll or had a Capitalist damn Job .
Whether or not can brake the mold is debatable……… ? B/S That is insane .. look at the countless lies and moronic things he has done just in 10 months …… You don’t raise taxes in bad economies times …..you drill for oil in bad economic times ,,,,,, you don’t raise health care prices in bad economies ……… you don’t bring in a huge Carbon credit Tax in bad economics or the death tax ………You don’t raise taxes on Business’s during bad times for starters !
Obama in comparison is a reminder like to all Marines ….. Just because Boot Marines have had 50 hours of self defense training does not mean they want get their ass whipped by a ReCon like me with 22 years in Judo , quick kill MMA .
OBAMA’S GOLF IS NOT 100000 millionth TIGERS GAME ….. AS IS Obama’s Economic KNOWLEDGE EQUAL TO THOMAS SOWELL A MASTER DR OF ECONOMICS ……… And a REAL 100 % BLACK MAN THAT IS A DEBOUT CONSERVATIVE MEANING A REAL WINNER .
Gee, with all this buyer’s remorse you have to wonder how they could have missed his avowed intentions throughout the campaign. His philosophy, friends, mentors and associates, were all leftist radicals with an Anti-Democracy chip on their shoulders.
He said he was going to “fundamentally change” America, and that’s exactly what he’s doing. That “change” involves socialist doctrine and lots of spending for the cause. He’s vacillated on Iraq and Afghanistan, but not enough for the defeatists. His leftwing supporters have discovered what we’ve always known; he’s a Marxist Chicago thug seizing power and control.
When it comes to crisis, the suave, smooth-talking bullshitter can’t think or decide his way out of a wet paper sack.
Welcome to the post-euphoric ObamaNation.
Economic difficulties are very real, just look at the main economic factors. High unemployment with increased foreclosure rates, banks violating foreclosure laws, the middle-class is getting screwed every single day and it keeps shrinking. Middle class is the backbone of the American economy and the future of the United States. Nothing has been done, or to be more correct there are no real results that show us positive economic trends for the future… I don’t think it’s correct to try to estimate our economic well being with Dow Jones numbers, there are many more complex economic factors at play… What’s even worse is that the Fed has run out of tools to deal with the situation.
The Republicans have captured majority in the House but that does not guarantee the GOP automatic win in 2012. If the GOP won’t be able to deliver what it has promised, they will be in the same situation as Democrats today…and time is working against both parties, much needs to be done very soon, unfortunately for some politicians they’d rather spend their time for political infighting and other obscure reasons, rather than try to decrease unemployment and create real solutions for our economic woes.
Just look at these facts:
#1 Ten years ago, the United States was ranked number one in average wealth per adult. In 2010, the United States has fallen to seventh.
#2 The United States once had the highest proportion of young adults with post-secondary degrees in the world. Today, the U.S. has fallen to 12th.
#3 In the 2009 “prosperity index” published by the Legatum Institute, the United States was ranked as just the ninth most prosperous country in the world. That was down five places from 2008.
#4 In 2001, the United States ranked fourth in the world in per capita broadband Internet use. Today it ranks 15th.
#5 The economy of India is projected to become larger than the U.S. economy by the year 2050.
#6 One prominent economist now says that the Chinese economy will be three times larger than the U.S. economy by the year 2040.
#7 According to a new study conducted by Thomson Reuters, China could become the global leader in patent filings by next year.
#8 The United States has lost approximately 42,400 factories since 2001.
#9 The United States has lost a staggering 32 percent of its manufacturing jobs since the year 2000.
#10 Manufacturing employment in the U.S. computer industry is actually lower in 2010 than it was in 1975.
#11 In 1959, manufacturing represented 28 percent of all U.S. economic output. In 2008, it represented only 11.5 percent.
#12 The television manufacturing industry began in the United States. So how many televisions are manufactured in the United States today? According to Princeton University economist Alan S. Blinder, the grand total is zero.
#13 As of the end of 2009, less than 12 million Americans worked in manufacturing. The last time that less than 12 million Americans were employed in manufacturing was in 1941.
#14 Back in 1980, the United States imported approximately 37 percent of the oil that we use. Now we import nearly 60 percent of the oil that we use.
#15 The U.S. trade deficit is running about 40 or 50 billion dollars a month in 2010. That means that by the end of the year approximately half a trillion dollars (or more) will have left the United States for good.
#16 Between 2000 and 2009, America’s trade deficit with China increased nearly 300 percent.
#17 Today, the United States spends approximately $3.90 on Chinese goods for every $1 that China spends on goods from the United States.
#18 According to a new study conducted by the Economic Policy Institute, if the U.S. trade deficit with China continues to increase at its current rate, the U.S. economy will lose over half a million jobs this year alone.
#19 American 15-year-olds do not even rank in the top half of all advanced nations when it comes to math or science literacy.
#20 Median household income in the U.S. declined from $51,726 in 2008 to $50,221 in 2009. That was the second yearly decline in a row.
#21 The United States has the third worst poverty rate among the advanced nations tracked by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
#22 Since the Federal Reserve was created in 1913, the U.S. dollar has lost over 95 percent of its purchasing power.
#23 U.S. government spending as a percentage of GDP is now up to approximately 36 percent.
#24 The Congressional Budget Office is projecting that U.S. government public debt will hit 716 percent of GDP by the year 2080.
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