State Budget Battles Herald the Return of the Grown-Ups
When candidate Hillary Clinton jabbed that Obama would have to “learn on the job,” she had no idea what an understatement that was. Obama’s real task was to grow up while on the job as president.
Well, the adolescent president of the adolescent fainters and fawners spent nearly his first two years playing pat-a-cake with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and high-fiving it in the Oval Office with Rahm and Axelrod. As they giddily pushed an already ailing economy further and further towards the cliff’s edge, this trio of out-of-control, head-in-the-clouds adolescents mocked and ignored the rising Tea Party. They passed their “big f***ing deal” ObamaCare in adolescent vainglory and awoke the citizenry from their chanting, drugged-up state.
Even now that sober-minded voters have put a set of brakes on Obama’s little socialist dune buggy, our adolescent in chief has quickly abandoned his Clinton mask for the more tantalizing delights of spending other people’s money.
Enter Governor Scott Walker and his fellow adults.
No, 2012 will look nothing like 2008.
At this point, I could not care less which Republican runs against our adolescent president. As long as that person is a grown-up with a grown-up’s perspective on the presidency and has demonstrable experience to that effect, he or she will get my vote.
So, here’s my help-wanted ad for the next president of the United States of America:
Seeking the Anti-Celebrity. Despite the current president’s self-adulating love of a camera’s glow, this position requires a person willing to forgo talk-show gabfests in favor of long hours, hard work, and tough decision-making. Hollywood-celeb support and vast numbers of Facebook followers and fawning Twitter-tweeters will not serve as any applicant’s substitute for a fact-checked resume. Any applicant who inspires female fainting spells, mindless chanting, or banana-republic iconography will be immediately disqualified.
Executive Budget Experience Is Non-negotiable. The applicant for this position must demonstrate that he has (a) earned his own money, preferably in either his own business or profession, with at least some of his work experience not in the public sector, and (b) balanced his own family budget and not lived above his means on credit cards. The applicant will enhance his chances for hire with government experience at the local and state levels and a demonstrated background producing balanced budgets in an executive position.
Any governor who has successfully brought his state back from the brink of bankruptcy will move immediately to the front of the candidates’ queue.
Knowledge of the Foreign Policy/Money Connection a Definite Plus. A candidate for this position must demonstrate that he/she understands how a nation’s debtor status and trade imbalances weaken national security. A willingness to withhold aid to foreign nations who work against American interests is paramount.
Keen Awareness of the Economic/Energy Nexus a Double-Bonus. A demonstrated willingness to drill here and now will be a definite enhancement to the applicant’s prospects for hire. Americans no longer wish to be held hostage to every burp and belch in the OPEC world. Nor do they want to see their food prices inflate on that ethereal butterfly of ethanol.
And, finally, only genuine grown-ups need apply.
Christie, Walker and Kasich are doing good jobs at not allowing themselves to be baited into adolescent back an forth with the junior high kids raging in the streets. I don’t hear as much from Bob McDonnell but assume the same about him.
The constrast between them and the sneering, smirking, lying, finger-waving Obama has to be noticed by a lot of people who yearn for an adult in the White House.
Yea! Even a pimp or a ‘rapper’ would, at least, be more imaginative.
CRACK . . . It was only a matter of time. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gop-cuts-20110226,0,2818119.story
Bob McDonnell had the advantage of taking over a state that has always had strong “Right to Work” laws. In addition Collective Bargaining for State and Local public employees is banned by a 1993 statute signed by Governor Wilder. Governor McDonnell competently and quietly solved the budget crisis a year ago and while it’s not a cakewalk the adults are in charge so common sense will out.
McDonnell’s hole to dig out of was not nearly as deep as the ones in Wisconsin or New Jersey. Even with the last dim-witted Democrat Governor, the state assembly was in Republican hands.
Add the fact that VA is a right to work state, our first black Governor way back signed the law making public unions illegal, and finally:
We have the People’s Democratic Republic of Maryland just north of us to show how bad liberals can be.
McDonnell has done a good job with managing the debt; there are still some pension funding issues, but they are manageable in comparison to what the rest of the Nation’s taxpayers are facing.
proreason, it is hard to digest why so many millions (other than Blacks, who closed their racial eyes, and whites, who placed electing a black uber alles to prove their ‘non racist’ bonafides)were duped by a less than mediocre carnival barker,posing as POTUS for 2 years.
Whereas Carter, and a few others, were clearly out of their element, Obama is a stratosphere above them in incompetency.
I watch the spectacle of America descend into a laughingstock under this anti-American POTUS and it pains me deeply.
IF he gets reelected, the citizens will deserve what they get, however, the rest of the free world will descend into free fall too.
I can’t think of any more pressing-other than decapitating the Iranian Hitler and his surrogates, plus the defanging of Soros-world agenda than making sure that his days in the White House come to an end-SOON!!
Iran isn’t even on little lenin’s radar. He couldn’t care less.
He is busy “transforming” the greatest country ever from freedom to Cuddly Statist Control. The Middle East is just a distraction from that, plus he has spent his life with anti-semites, so the hatred spewing from Iran sounds like the truth to him.
Also remember that although these issues are life and death for Israel, from little lenin’s perspective, if he can get control of the American military (REAL control, not just constitutional control), he will have the military power to do whatever he wants in the world. Whatever happens between now and then, so what?
This guy is the most dangerous person to appear on earth since Stalin, not because he is more cruel than that maniac, but because he is taking down the greatest force for good the world has ever seen.
Of all the things to worry about, Obama using the military as his personal thug squad/imperial stormtroopers should be last on the list.
People of the US military are honorable and self sacrificing to a fault. The very, very first bit of training in boot cam is about “illegal orders”. There are laws to follow, and those breaking the laws, even under direct orders of the Commander in Chief are going to be prosecuted. Recruits are taught the phrase “Sir, that is an illegal order and I will not obey it.”
The sergents teaching say ‘yes, you’re screwed if you do, and screwed if you don’t, but refusing probably means losing your career, obeying will lead to imprisonment and quite possibly execution.’
I don’t know of any other military that covers the subject to recruits.
Also, the US military has no desire to be empire builders. Generally they would be happiest if our enemies would shut up and surrender already, so we can move on to rebuilding their country and making the enemies all into corrupt politicians.
Because that’s when the US military gets to go home.
A major problem, as I see it, is that Obama fails to deploy our military in a timely manner to deal with foreign enemy piracy on the high seas, as the Constitution empowers, and expects, the federal government to do.
And, as you pointed out, when the military is deployed, it is hamstrung with such ridiculous rules of engagement that it can’t possibly win.
Case in point: This Somali pirate nonsense has been going on much too long. But the pirates are jihadis, so you won’t find Obozo doing anything to curb their activities. And the Senate and House are too pusillanimous to declare war on them and vote funding to clear out the pirates, according to their Constitutional duty.
See: This is 2011! Why do we still have pirates?
Crumbs of hope to the masses? Problem is, you don’t defeat dictators at the polls. You kill them or they kill you. That’s the choice for the people, who lives and who dies.
Anonymous, if your recommendation is a bridge too far for many, at the VERY least impeachment must be considered.
Considering ALL the anti-American dictates which he has executed in 2 years time, the charges should be easy to compile.
The fact that several books have been written about Obama’s anti-American agenda should make the task much more doable.
I can’t image another POTUS more ‘worthy’ of impeachment than Obama.I suspect that he and his surrogates are shocked that articles of impeachment have not been written with his name on them up until now.
They are yuckking it up as the US is TRANSFORMED into an unrecognizable entity.
Truly a world disaster.
Adina of Israel, POTUS impeachment? Who would impeach Obama? Who elected him?
All branches of our government in this country are guilty of this man holding the highest office in this nation. The guilt is for not vetting Obama to run for office. It took him four years to go from a unknown to a candidate for Prestident on the Democratic ticket. It took four years to absolutly scrub this man’s background and hide his true identity to foist him on the American people. All of this takes a lot of money, so where did it come from?
Looking around the leadership in the Senate and House, even Supreme Court, there seems to be no guts for the process. As to the US being transformed into an unrecgonizable entity, in this country it is called a ‘beat down’. All of America loses. See you in 2012. My thanks to you for posting Adina.
xs child-here’s hoping that 2012 comes before Obama careens the (heretofore)Republic off a cliff.
IF there is anything left to save I pray there will be a credible candidate to beat him.IF another McCain is offered up on the ticket I won’t bother to send in my absentee ballot.Obama-lite is not gonna uproot all his disasters, a RINO just won’t cut it.
As a Constitutional Conservative I feel sick thinking of what is happening to my birthplace, and to the country where my relatives fled to during some very dark times.
Want a ‘Grown-Up’?
Peter Pace.
I think the Founding Fathers tried to get around this possibility by requiring a minimum age of 35. Unfortunately, they didn’t predict a society in which some people could never grow up. Maybe we should start calling him Peter Pan?
Don’t forget, back in 1787 average life expectancy was somewhere around 55. The age minimums for President, Representative (25) and Senator (30) were written with that stark fact in mind. A more logical limit in modern times would be 50, 40 and 45 respectively.
To elect an adult to the Whitehouse requires adult voters. Are we there yet ? The massive mob of dependent Obama daycare children still want someone else to pay their bills. They prevailed in 2008 and they are still out there. Scott Walker is suffering their tantrums. Let’s hope he stands tall and sets the standard for many other govenors. Anybody but Obama in 2012.
I AGREE! What I want to know is, where are all the voters who elected him? Why aren’t they out supporting him? It’s the same thing here in NJ. Christie is out there alone.
Distracted by the activities in Wisconsin and New Jersey, there remains that other “unionisation” of employees that must be laid on Obama’s doorstep: his EXPONENTIAL increase in the Civilian Federal Work Force, e.g.in security and medical bureaucracies and sundry other jobs with civil service security and perks. With racial, ethnic and sexual quotas. AND virtual impossibility of being fired if the job is not done to a standard of competency.
A locked in voting claque for Obama’s “Democratic/liberal big government Party. Another massive benefits dependency population. Bureaucrats, expensive out of proportion to their service, do a semblance of work in contrast to other groups which demand their “mortgage, gasoline and costs for their childrens’ care” be taken care by “government”-local and federal. Who are then bussed to the voting centers by Party flacks when needed, ALL on the dime of those CITIZENS who do pay taxes. I believe this is still considered “democracy” as represented by the Democratic Party of the USA.
What are, what can, the grown-ups to do about these groups? They are a large part of the problem confronting the USA today.
Crumbs of hope to the hapless Kyle-Anne? Looking at Libya and Khadafi alongside Obama’s suspension of the congress, the constitution and the Supreme Court this week, some grown-ups might conclude that you don’t defeat Communists and dictators at the ballot box.
You kill them or they kill you. The choice of who dies belong to the people.
Rally around Sarah Palin and soon. She may the last best hope.
Some writers and some commenters prefer to “fiddle while Rome burns”. Not a very sound idea or use of the time of real grown-ups.
So; Is Palin a ‘Thatcher’, a ‘Bhutto’, or a ‘Marcos’?
She is our Thatcher. Is this a trick question?
I have to agree; More like a Thatcher than anything else. And Thatcher had it pretty rough.
The trouble with Palin is demonstrated in her education history. She doesn’t have the attention span to lead a nation. It has been said that she is not “intellectually inquisitive”. I suspect she’s manipulative, but not smart.
Your very vague comments don’t cast your opinions in a good light. I “suspect” you of being uninformed, as if you are spouting the opinions of others, without having your own.
Palin is a Palin. I think she is unique.
Hear hear! Let’s add:
-a person who will go to task to advance the interests of the United States even at the expense of dictators enriching themselves of status-quo oil money
-a proponent of nuclear energy and in the interim to this ultimate solution, a proponent of domestic oil extraction
-a post-racial citizen (emphasis on citizen)
-a non-myopic person capable of thinking more than an election cycle in the future – maybe someone proficient in chess?
-a person willing to read more than a book a year, particularly books espousing opposing points of view
and finally
-a person whose mouth is not hardwired to a speechwriter-slash-political hack via teleprompter
The person should like Americans.
We have the Wisconsin Teachers Mafia to thank for this auspicious start.
TEACHERS
Early retirement
Extremely short working year
Short working days
Non contributory benefits
Untaxed Pensions
Higher than average salaries
USELESS sub standard end product
This is the way to sum up Teachers and most other Public Sector workers and the way to bankrupt a Nation.
Pragmatist…MOST of America’s teachers belong to the NEA and only for their liability legal expenses. The good ole North and East Coast teachers along with some areas of the West Coast are the rabid unionists.
Most of America’s teachers have never attended a union meeting and may well have to think awhile to remember who their NEA rep is in their school!
Many States have two teacher associations, one that is affiliated with the NEA and one that is afffiliated with NO UNIONS…up to the teachers to decide.
Most of the States I’ve worked with, teachers are paid on the baisis of ‘hourly salary’ and not salary. Many local districts today require the teachers to ‘punch the clock’…in and out.
Most teachers depending on their grade level work in excess of 60 hours per week on the clock and off the clock. There are after school activity requirements for the upper grade levels, after hour meetings such as admin, grade level leaders, distric EIP mediation, district special ed mediation and parent teacher conferences, etc., after hour planning, and a boatload of ‘homework’ requirements. Our local district requires a clock-in time of 7:00 am and and a clock-out time of 3:15 pm.
Teachers are faced with mandates of perpetual experiementation by federal and State education bureaucrats and a boatload of specific rigid laws that nearly all carry the potential of immediate termination if you don’t keep you lawyers hat on while doing everything else required. Teachers have NO legal right to know if any of their students have HIV or Hepatitis. Study up on ‘inclusion (federal law) and co-teaching! Could fill a book about what todays teachers go through without addressing behavior and family attributions…and is why the nations teachers on average leave teaching by their seventh year and for most is three years short of being vested in their teachers retirement.
Nope! I’m not an educator nor have I ever been, though I have a number of years in legislative consulting in education.
‘Has ever such a nation of ninnies held such a public display of foolishness?’
If Canada had not elected Pierre Trudeau as Prime Minister (1968-1979, 1980-1984) then I would answer NO. We did recover but it took at 10 – 15 years. If Obama is dumped in 2012 then the US might recover by 2022 – 2027.
We are still recovering from the PET days, just look at immigration policy that has not been changed and probably cannot be without a very strong majority in office. And I will not even discuss “Charter Rights” which changed the country beyond recognition.
Pierre Trudeau was Canada’s Obama. We have not recovered from Trudeau. We still have the millstone of socialized health care hanging around our necks. We pay for it every time we go to a cash register anywhere in Canada. Everything here costs two to three times what it does in the U.S. $45 for a case of beer, $26 for a stewing chicken. I could go on and on. In addition, American products sold in Canada are downsized for the Canadian market and cost twice as much. Compare the size and cost of Kraft American Cheese Singles in Canada and the U.S. They are not much bigger than a postage stamp in Canada and cost twice as much. Everywhere you go in Canada, you are met by nonsensical rules, regulations, and restrictions. Cigarettes must be hidden behind solid display cases so that our kids can’t see them. How dumb do we think Canadian kids are? We can’t have bottled water in the schools because our idiot Canadian kids will get the idea that water comes from a bottle instead of from the earth. Seriously, this was one of the arguments for removing bottled water in the Kitchener, Ontario, schools. What we have in Canada is helpless group-think, which always happens to people when they live in a nanny state and surrender themselves to the socialist government to be taken care of, cradle to grave. I pray that the U.S. will not go down this road and become another mediocre, mind-numbing, socialist country.
I understand your point about Canada’s high-tax environment, but high taxes on liquor and beer are a good thing, as they discourage consumption of the most devastating drug on the planet.
America’s real drug problem comes in bottles, is glamourized on every country-western radio station in the USA, and has made the Kennedys rich people.
I’m all in favor of keeping booze and tobacco legal, and think that other less-dangerous drugs (e.g. MJ, opium) should be legal as well… but high taxes to discourage abuse are a good thing.
Yes, I smoke. Camels.
NICELY DONE, KYLE-ANNE
You hit the high points, with superb garnish.
May I add:
“Shovel ready jobs” means “Union jobs”, to this juvenile. But, he doesn’t really know the difference.
He has threatened to get in our faces with his goons, and is in the implementation stage now.
Those trash bags you saw when the Dalai Lama was ushered out the back door of the White House were a collection of Obama’s soiled shorts right after he took office.
He does have the capacity to learn,(albeit slowly), but, he’s taking lessons from the Middle East demonstrations.
And Carter had the United States in his heart, even if he was so incompetent, but, Obama is as anti-American as you can be and still remain in office.
Why is that?
But Republican Governor Daniels in Indiana is running AWAY from standing strong and confronting the public employee unions that are bankrupting his state. Not all Republicans are men of steel (even if they do ride Harleys).
The problem is, in the day of the Dinosaur Attack-Any-Conservative-For-Any-Reason-At-Any-Time Media, most of the truly competent adults want absolutely nothing to do with politics.
And our Forefathers knew that it would take men with cast iron balls to do the job of maintaining our republic.
The Forefathers were legislators, but they went back to their homes to work. The masculine/females inhabiting the Congress these days, don’t know what a sweat bead is.
“We the People” should be able to challenge these pansies to a boxing or wrestling match.
Of course, you’d have to wear a nose clip, because they’d crap their pants.
Not to mention that unless you’re an absolute milquetoast you’re going to be savaged in the media vetting process. Who in their right mind would want to submit themselves and their family to the sort of inquisition you face running for office, particularly if you’re a Republican?
I think it was P. J. O’Rourke who wrote–and I am paraphrasing here–that anyone that actually wanted political office should be forever banned from having it, on the grounds of mental instability.
It’s another marxist tactic.
They make running repugnant for normal people (hello…Sara Palin), which reduces the opposition field to nearly nothing.
But with Pravda in their pocket, their contemptible marxist scum (hello…little lenin), not only receive a free pass, people so dangerous they should be locked away for life are lifted to sainthood status.
Of course, this is only one of thousands of tactucs, large and small.
Alinsky was a genius. You have to give him credit for being the most evil machiavellian strategist in centuries.
Look, even with a 2 to 1 advantage in freedom-loving conservatives over elbow-in-your-pocket dimwits, a thousand tactics chipping away at everything from the position of the family in our culture to chasing away good candidates eventually makes a difference in votes.
And when you hear them, the message is almost always identical, word for word, as if they are reading from the same exact page. They are excellent at organizing and getting out their message, which they repeat like robots.
ConservativeWanderer
“day of the Dinosaur Attack-Any-Conservative-For-Any-Reason-At-Any-Time Media”. How true Wanderer.
The message of media is beat up anybody any time and you’ll get on news or youtube.
Nowadays the best I can do is open my front door and look out. Wandering about is not an option. The attack for any reason at any time has flowed out to the streets and people are having shoot outs at the local Wal-Mart. I kid you not.
The author assumes that Obama, staring defeat in the face, will watch it coming with resignation, or, in defeat, go quietly.
I put almost nothing past this man. We had better be on our guard.
I totally agree.
Look at the past week-Obama will not relinquish power or the White House easily-in normal business as usual times I would agree with the author’s requirements for the the job but now we need a warrior, a Joan of Arc type willing to battle the Chicago totalitarians in order to save our country – I say it’s Palin, let them call her stupid, If loving your country is stupid, if energy independence is stupid(look at what Obama has done with his moratoriums)if shrinking the government is stupid and if taking a stand against our enemies is stupid then I don’t want to be smart-seems the really ‘smart’ ones are all Marxists anyway.
It’s distressing for some old-guard politicians that all the necessary qualifications named above are lacked by the oh-so-’experienced’ Hillary Clinton.
Lawyer? Check. Lived in White House? Check – and hid the Whitewater records there, too. Carpetbagger? Check. Good enough for the MSM, but not good enough for President.
On their heels, and soon to be spotlighted in the public psyche, are Governors Kasich and Daniels, among a swath of others.
Daniels? Not even.
He’s already going wobbly.
Is this the kind of grownup you mean? Today at a Town Hall meeting in Georgia, a constituent asked Paul Broun, Tea Party supporter, when “someone’s going to shoot Obama.”
Broun responded by laughing, then saying, “I realize there’s a lot of frustration with this president.”
Just can’t wait for you grownups to get back in power.
It’s gonna be a rough eight-years for them. They better stock up on their Medicare part D sponsored blood pressure medicine, so they don’t blow a gasket. Tee, hee, hee . . .
Go ahead and paint everyone who doesn’t want to see national financial collapse based on one guy’s bonehead remark. There’s some pretty choice rhetoric coming out of the union supporters in WI too.
That joke’s all over town. Got a youtube or other link?
Comment was directed at Shef.
Yeah. Well, the problem is that Obama starts with about 30% of the electorate in his hip pocket–blacks, and the chattering classes who see in him what they wish they saw in the mirror. They do not vote for him based on performance or even policies, but racial solidarity (blacks) and a crush (chatterers). They will not be peeled away by mere competence or logic.
So, Obama’s opponent has to carry the votes actually in play by 2:1 or more, a very high hurdle, esp. after allowing for the media bias and vote fraud that are simply part of the Democratic Party’s toolkit.
Well stated and unfortunately true. When the electorate is bought and paid for, or votes based on racial or even ideological solidarity, good government and competence is no longer an important criteria for an office seeker but rather the politics of government largess is all that matters. That is why government transfer payments are so corrupting, both of the electorate and the office holders.
“but rather the politics of government largess is all that matters. ”
This sounds like Venezuela and Chavez. Since on the topic of communist take-overs, what’s to say America hasn’t reached a ‘tipping point’, what with the many socialist programs already instituted? Rejection of unions and Obamacare (in the name of fiscal sanity) might be the straw that triggers a revolt where the forces on the left decide it’s time to really transform America.
Would the Media cheer them on? Yes. Would they take to the streets? Already have (here and elsewhere). Are bigger battles brewing? See California. The secret is in the numbers and just how hard it can get for people normally of sound mind. Loyalties may be fickle; times get tough, who’re you gonna believe, the greedy capitalist or a compassionate, welfare dolling government?
I’d hate to see my education and experience relegated to planting rice, ankle-deep in mud in the Central Valley during our hot summers. Especially when mere feet behind a defecating Ox. But, it might beat life in a gulag or firing squad. Ain’t democracy grand?
Let’s not forget the unions. The Democrats give the unions benefits and wage increases. The worker’s union dues are then funneled back to the Democrats in the form of campaign contributions, to the detriment of the taxpayers and voters. The unions contributed $200 million to Obama’s campaign, taxpayer’s money. It’s an unholy symbiosis between the unions and the Democrats.
["Walker is taking the tough stands long demanded by the people of the states —"]
Just to point out how ‘fickle-minded’ American’s are today….61% + rejected the Gov’s bill or, at least his strategic process, according to recent polling.
Sadly, this will be repeated throughout the nation as tough decisions are made to implement change thought to be the mandate of the people.
Rather ironic is it not, that so many of the elected GOP officials forget that the [citizen majority] party remains the democrats and add to that when you rock the boat of republican’s own economic comfort, they too will turn on the needed change efforts that they themselves mandated. Republicans along with democrats and other’s don’t have a clue how reliant they have become on union forced benefits and government entitlements to sustain their communities and their personal economic welfare….until a change effort hits home personally for them.
The author is just a tad more subtle than Myra Adams but not much. Her criteria exclude Sarah Palin for sure but who has saved his state from bankruptcy? Christie?…not by a long shot! I hear that, despite threatening suicide as the only means of discouraging folks from urging him to run, he’s formed an exploratory committee! Might be the only way to save his rep in the long run! (Its called the Peter Principle BTW!)
Basically I’m counting on the “fool me once theory” for Obama’s defeat. But the Republican nominee will have to be willing to point out all of Obama’s failures and broken promises and be careful not to make fanciful promises himself because the mess we are in is not entirely Obama’s fault and will take many years to fix.
May I add these qualifiers?
1: Will put Americans 1st… We don;t need foreign students being educated in US Institutions to become doctors, Engineers, physicists or NUCLEAR ENGINERERS… We need AMERICAN kids in those seats
2: Contrl the border, enforce the law
3: Cut taxes so we can compete in the world economy
4: Revitalize our Northeast Cities by encouraging light manufacturing in the US and NOT in China or India…
We should be building Ipads, Solar panels and Wind Turbines in places like Newark NJ, Syracuse Ny, hartford Ct and NOT in new Delhi or Beijing.
This would have 2 positive outcomes…
A: We put Americans to work
and B: They get off Governtment support… The spillover to the US psyche and financial position in the world would be HUGE. This is a great piece. mnaybe we are getting serious after all. peace
You have great ideas except…….the arbitrary and circular inflated values for goods and services forced by the labor unions will NOT allow America to once again be a world leader in any chain of manufacturing and logistics. Next, consider the corruption of [speculators] allowed these days in the commodities markets who have no ender user commitments to the commodities they manipulate to cover risky investments in the stock or bond sides of the market. That involves ALL raw and processed commodities along with energy commodites that have a volatile effect on manufacturing and logistics. Traditional ‘demand’ is but a small part of the driving cost equasion anymore! Corruption in America has become its economic demise!
Marry,
It’ll be interesting to see how much minority “solidarity” starts peeling away from Obama when gas hits $5 a gallon. Then again, maybe Obama will just “pull a Gaddafi” and shamelessly offer $400 walking-around-money to minority voters to keep them on the reservation.
What will the Democrat Party do next spring when its leadership realizes that one-third of the states will not allow Bumba-Dumba on the ballot unless he produces his original U.S. birth certificate, and he refuses to do so? He won’t because, of course, he can’t. He was born in Kenya.
About now in 2012 the American people are going to find out that Reid and Pelosi perpetrated the Obama disaster as a knowing, malicious fraud. Not even the lapdog media can cover that up. What credibility will any D-rat candidate have? They’ll trot out their usual rent-a-mobs, and the teat-sucker union boobs will threaten violence and wave their preprinted, all purpose Soros-funded placards. But is it possible that these clowns can continue to make fools of a majority of even half-informed citizens who are finally forced to pay attention because they can’t find jobs; gas at the pump costs $6.00 or $7.00 a gallon; food and clothing prices are rising 1% a month; and they can’t afford to heat their homes?
A wave of reality is building into an electoral tsunami. The utterly corrupt, lying, incompetent, irresponsible, anti-American, lawless, selfish national socialists huddled in the Democrats’ basement of juvenile delusion are about to be washed away into the dustbin of history.
You, our dear Kyle Anne, have been TEH grown up from day one:)
Thank YOU!
Really amazing to read these comments and notice how virtually no one sees the elephant in the room: the fact that Bush pushed through tax cuts that cost us $1.7 trillion (without making any cuts to account for that lost tax revenue). Then he started two wars (that will cost another $Trillion) and paid for those (off the books no less so no one would notice) with our Chinese credit card.
Then our wonderful free market banksters, investment houses, real estate and ‘financial products’ sold tons of ‘ninja’ loans (no income, etc) and then got them labelled as AAA and our economy collapsed.
It’s an amazing piece of selling on the part of the Republicans that they were able to do all this damage and then ride in as the saviors of our economy. They only care about the wealthy and corporations and are working hard to destroy the middle class. Lou Dobbs was right about the war on the middle class.
Tax revenues go up when tax rates go down. They did for Bush, just like they have always done.
Bush’s police actions cost very little. Most of the costs would have been expended anyway just maintaining military readiness. As a % of GDP, Iraq and Afghanistan costs were negligiable.
The economy was destroyed by democrats. Bush didn’t have a thing to do with it. The Alinsky scheme known as Loans for Deadbeats did it. Soros pricked the bubble.
We would have preferred dubya to cut costs, Dubya’s Plan D was unfunded, but it also is a nit compared to other government frivolities. Compared to the outrageous, unchecked, unbounded Liberal/marxist spending, dubya looks like Silas Marner.
Anonymous
Google fed tax revenue and you will find charts showing fed tax revenues were still falling in the Spring of ’03 when the marginal tax rate cuts were passed. They began climbing 3 months later and I believe by 2006 again exceeded the previous peak which was late in the Clinton admin. Liberals freq claim that Bush was handed a booming economy…not true as the fed tax revenue charts clearly show.
But Bush deserves some of the blame for the housing bubble crash, but heck even the “maetro” Alan “bubbles” Greenspan initially admitted he had kept money too loose for too long. But he eventually changed his tune when the preferred narrative became “Bush and the greedy bankers”!
Uh, what newspaper do you read to keep informed? I could refute your points one after the other but it is late and I don’t have the energy. Not to be snarky, just sayin’.
Does executive experience really matter that much, or just experience? How about Ron Paul? You know he’d be good for the economy, and good for personal liberty to boot.
The only qualification I’ve seen missing so far, is military experience.
And the only possible candidate, I can think of, is Allen West of Florida.
The world situation as it is, and our military involvement in it, would
be in better hands with a man that has been in combat, and put his life on the line for his country, than a man who has the main stream media in his
pocket, and benefactors like George Soros.
Ronald Reagan had no combat experience, and he didn’t do so bad.
Ulysses Grant had lots of combat experience, and his Presidency was plagued with multiple scandals.
The point is, military experience isn’t necessarily an indicator of Presidential quality.
Solid military and combat experiences are crucial in todays times! Ranking officers of experience are trained today in strategical geopolitics as never before. They, today experience personal and finite roles with some of the worlds leaders….many of them crucial to global and or regional peace and opportunities for American defined democracy.
This is not your typical 1980′s world and America. We need someone with the ability to play hard ball when approriate and still understand the blood and ecomomic investment to commit to combat in balancing their strategic approaches to the world of today.
Of course, todays military, and critical intelligence apparatus has become politicized within so there are few ranking military who would fit the needed order of abilbities and America first. The really great ranking officers disappear silently into retirement
Demonstrated leadership and decision making ability–can get it from running a business too.
“At this point, I could not care less which Republican runs against our adolescent president. As long as that person is a grown-up with a grown-up’s perspective on the presidency and has demonstrable experience to that effect, he or she will get my vote.”
Hear, hear!
Add one more to the job description: any potential candidate who has the lipstick prints on their heinies of rent-seekers, crony capitalists or members of Eisenhower’s Military-Industrial Complex is immediately disqualified.