In Denver, last August, standing in front of those stage-set columns to accept the Democratic Party nomination, Barack Obama delivered a speech that included the following promise (boldface is mine):
I will also go through the federal budget, line by line, eliminating programs that no longer work and making the ones we do need work better and cost less – because we cannot meet twenty-first century challenges with a twentieth century bureaucracy.
Today, Obama returned to Denver, and with elaborate ceremony signed the $787 billion “stimulus” bill passed last Friday by Congress, which runs to more than 1,070 pages. That left fewer than 96 hours between passage and signing (thus also violating his promise about posting legislation for five days on the internet before signing, to allow for transparency and comment).
When did Obama even find time to skim this monster bill? Let alone go through it “line by line?”
Obama enjoyed an intervening weekend heavy on R&R. Carbon-emissions-notwithstanding (personally I don’t care how much carbon he emits, but Obama wants all the rest of us to sacrifice on this front), on Friday Obama flew with his family and entourage to Chicago, where he helicoptered in from the airport, to spend time at his Chicago mansion and — as The New York Times put it — see a few friends and “reconnect to the rest of the country.” Over the weekend, he took Michelle out for a Valentine’s dinner at a South Side* restaurant. He got a haircut. He spent two hours playing basketball. He watched the N.B.A. All-Star game. He also gave his weekly video address. He then flew back to Washington, and on Tuesday flew to Denver.
Unless Obama was reading the bill over his Valentine’s dinner, and had it taped to the basketball backboard, when did he go through it line by line?
This man frightens me.
I cannot stand him anymore
How come his ratings are so high… grrrr I can’t stand him!!!
No, no, no — the stimulus bill counts as “one line”. And he went through the one line: it said, “Stimulus: $787,000,000,000″. And he concluded that the world as we know it would end if he didn’t get his way (in a sense, surely no one will dispute that — in “the world as we know it” Obama thinks he is the savior of mankind…). So he signed the bill….
BBB
“By signing the stimulus bill, Obama threw his promise to examine the budget “line by line” under the bus.”
Claudia, you are overlooking the fact that that promise is well beyond its expiration date.
If Obama wasn’t getting cover from the MSM, most people would come to realize this guy is dumb as a box of rocks. He doesn’t even know what he is supposed to be doing as president. Just hanging around and letting the crooks in Congress and his staff take care of things.
This probably isn’t as effective an opposition to the bill as others. Presumably, like Congressmen, Obama has people who are able to read it line by line. And, presumably, he and his advisors don’t have a problem with the contents. Discussing the contents is probably better.
However, the best thing of all would be to discredit a major supporter of the bill by asking them a question about the fact that the bill will allow jobs to go to foreign citizens who are here illegally.
I’m going to guess that the great majority of Americans will oppose illegal aliens gaining jobs under the bill. Note that there’s a limited number of jobs available under the bill, and therefore any stim job that goes to an illegal alien is one that was taken from a U.S. citizen.
If anyone wants to do something, go to a public appearance by a major supporter, ask the question at my name’s link, and upload video of their reply to Youtube. A “good” response would get hundreds of thousands or millions of views.
It seems as though every time this man opens his mouth he’s saying something that doesn’t really mean anything. He sounds more like a motivational speaker then someone with independent thoughts that convey a message. Every word out of his mouth is a calculated sound bite. I don’t trust him for a minute… and I still have to wonder who’s pulling his strings! He’s in way over his head, so who’s really minding the store?
He was going to bring the boys home from Iraq also. Now he’s sending more to Afghanastan.
This money will disappear just like the first 350 billion.
Actually, the restaurant is on the north side of Chicago, so there was an even bigger carbon footprint from his motoring there. While I can see it from my window, I certainly can’t afford to eat there. . .plus there’s often a 3 month waiting list for a table.
Guess he’s doing his part to stimulate the local economy-which includes paying our 10% plus sales tax (actually 11.25% in restaurants).
Remember:
All Barack Obama Statements Come With an Expiration Date. All Of Them
Why are people shocked that Obama lies? Really, what did you people think would happen when a man coming from five generation of COMMUNISTS was elected your president?
Wright said that Barack was a politician. That means he will say anything and lie about most everything for the sake of power and destroying the country. What, did you think George Soros was funding an American Patriot?
I am frightened. Everyday my stomach gets more and more into knots. I keep hearing people talk about things as if it is business as usual and I’m thinking “Do you not realize what is happening? This isn’t a guy getting a BJ in the White House, this is serious business!”
But no one else seems to care. And I feel crazy.
Totally agree with this Rosett Report. However,I don’t know where the information: “Over the weekend, he took Michelle out for a Valentine’s dinner at a South Side restaurant.” came from. Maybe the South Side part is propaganda put out by someone to promote the image that President Obama is still a homey.
However, the restaurant named in “the motto of the restaurant Obama chose for his Valentine’s dinner, Table 52…” has an address that in the Near North Side, alternatively called the Gold Coast.
How do I say this boy, acting as president, is worse than Jimmah Catta, and/or the Manchurian Candidate?
Terry Gain, #4: Claudia, you are overlooking the fact that that promise is well beyond its expiration date.
Indeed, that promise came a month before the financial crisis turned the entire campaign on its head, if not cinched the election for Obama right then and there, so his promise might as well be ancient history.
Pelosi – Obama – Ried Recession
This bill is a stimulus bill is a travesty. The only plan here was for the 2012 election.
Obama is not capable of the truth. His promise to do a line by line veto to remove everything that doesn’t stimulate the economy and the majority of us know it.
He and every member of Congress should be tar & feathered after they are removed from office. Shameful, Congress couldn’t take the time to even read the bill before the rush to sign it. Our grandchildren will look back in history as the day their government sold them into financial slavery.
In spite of the media, people are starting to understand that he Democrats caused recession with the sub prime housing mess, stand on energy and so many, many, many insane and stupid moves. Create a crisis is right out of the Hitler, Stalin, Marx playbook.
PORR, the Pelosi – Obama – Ried Recession started over two years ago but it became official on November 4, 2008. That’s the day that business started going “John Galt” and this will go down in history as the day the country was sold out without firing a bullet.
“I will also go through the federal budget, line by line…”
Here let me fix that:
I will also go through the federal budget, welfare line by welfare line…
There. Better
Totally agree with this Rosett Report. However,I don’t know where the information: “Over the weekend, he took Michelle out for a Valentine’s dinner at a South Side restaurant.” came from. Maybe the South Side part is propaganda put out by someone to promote the image that President Obama is still a homey.
However, the restaurant named in “the motto of the restaurant Obama chose for his Valentine’s dinner, Table 52…” has an address on the Near North Side, often called the Gold Coast.
Edited last sentence.
But if all of us knew that “line by line” was irony, why are we complaining now?
Such skepticism! “Surely it’s just too unbelievable to be true.”
All I can say is that the idiot messiah really loves flying around in Air Force One.
Other than that I have nothing good to say about the fool.
Obama = end of America as we have known it. Hello Tyranny.
Thanks, press.
I’d leave, but there is no place left to go. America was the refuge. That’s over.
Everyone just calm down!
Mr. Obama speed read all 1079 pages of the stimulus bill on the airplane and nothing was out of order- nuthing.
I am so happy.
An extra eight dollars per week will be stimulating.
Cant buy a car,
but will put 4 gals of gas in the lawnmower jug.
TO: All
RE: Heh
So….
….he’s thrown his friends, his mentors, his associates and his promises ‘under the bus’.
When will he throw his oath of office there?
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[Waiting for the other shoe to 'drop'....
....while loading ammo.]
To say that he didn’t know what was in the bill misses the point. The Dems, especially Pelosi, have been waiting for this moment for years. This is their manifesto for spending. They knew they couldn’t get it past Bush so they bidded their time, sabotaged the republicans, and developed a laundry list of socialist spending items.
Because Obama and the others in congress helped whip up the perfect financial storm, they were able to go all in against an impotent republican party. So Obama knows what’s in the bill – everything they wanted for the last eight years.
I think Obama has what could be described as an “out” on that budget promise. He said “budget,” not “bill.” Semantics.
#7 Eric had it right: when Obama’s mouth opens, expect a lot of words, but don’t expect any actual meaning. It isn’t that he’s lying, really… it’s just that he isn’t actually saying anything.
I also take exception to Obama’s use of the word “non-legal” when describing illegal aliens. Once again, the PC Police have come up with a way of sugar-coating a negative term so as to soften its true meaning.
so, my question is, when will the middle class which is being destroyed by abominations like this bill going to revolt and stop paying income tax? i am doing my part, will not voluntarily pay for crap like this bill. will the rest of the middle class join me, or will the middle class only whine as it is destroyed? that is my question, and comment.
Nice pretty orange balloon on recovery.gov – “Infrastructure and Science”. Asphalt and molecular biology. Looks like members of this administration did not do well on their Highlights for Children “which of these things is not like the others?” puzzles.
To Michelle #12 – I am also scared Michelle. I am having trouble falling alseep at night and then I keep waking up during the night. We are actually witnessing history. The history of our Great Country going down the tubes. I still cannot believe this guy is our POTUS. He will NEVER be my president. Never!!!
You seriously caught him in another ginormous lie. It’s becoming too apparent that he said things during his eternal campaign for the sole purpose of sounding good. He knew how to please his adoring audiences. See, his core voters, the hard-core income-redistributionists, weren’t large enough to get to 50%+……..so he had to continually sound reasonable to “rope” in, the gullible college kids, and middle-class. The “upper-class” who were already full of Bush Derangement syndrome, would be roped in with the same language he fed the college kids and middle-class.
We are in big trouble with this semi-socialist, and we have no one to blame but the college kids and middle-class, who mistakenly believed he would be sufficient for the economy. Boy were they wrong. Socialism doesn’t help the job-prospects of college kids OR the current middle-class. Didn’t Karl Marx despise that class almost as much as the “upper-class”? Claudia, thanks for nailing down his lies, but I think many of us with a healthy respect for Capitalism knew what his schtick was about all along. As I’m sure you did too. Obama was easily seen through by many of us, for what he was and is. How could 4% of our electorate (the ones on the “border”, in the “middle”, have been SO dumb? They’re the ones who are really to blame for this fiasco named B.HusseinObama. Yikes.
His blatant lies will not matter until the MSM calls him a liar…and that ain’t happening anytime soon…
The question is: Who sent him?
We know why? to destroy America as a superpower.
He is the front for an attack on the Nation. This is the biggest crisis in our history.
We must find out who is behind this. We must organize a resistance to this Communist Coup.
23. fear Obama:
Yea! I hear ya. I’ll opt for the six pack of beer. Man; I’m partying now!
It’s like the last meal for the condemned.
What part of “We are so screwed” don’t you understand?
23. fear obama & 33 cybergeezer . . .
Why complain about the $8? That’s more than most of us got from the Bush tax cuts.
Hope….Change……I, I, I…..
Hope: Hope to make you fools believe me!
Change: Change the direction of our country and core values.
I, I, I: I get what I want. I get what need. I don’t care what it takes.
Now, kneel before me!
I am the Supreme Being!
Beep, Beep, Beep, Beep!
“Wow! That was a crazy dream! I thought I was Obama!”
This is all like really bad sex.
http://smokebreak.blogshevik.com/?p=89
“The question is: Who sent him? We know why? to destroy America as a superpower.
He is the front for an attack on the Nation. This is the biggest crisis in our history.
We must find out who is behind this. We must organize a resistance to this Communist Coup.”
These are the right questions. The answers probably lay somewhere between the goals of George Soros’ MoveOn.org, the Saudi/arab cabal funding all the ex presidents’ foundations, etc, and Obama’s own anti capitalism view of the economy and world. This is one toxic brew and the producers and achievers are definitely being shown the door.
Here’s some doublespeak for ya . . . “$4 billion for ACORN!”
Somebody show me where in the Stimulus Bill ACORN is mentioned . . . Bueller . . . Bueller . . . Bueller.
Bad enough I have to deal with the policies of this self-centered piece of crap, but today I had to deal with the massive traffic jams caused by this pantywaste and his disciples as he visited Phoenix.
12. Michelle:
Don’t worry, honey, because you ARE crazy. And that’s OK. And I feel crazy. Look at Donald Rumsfeld. He’s completely out of his mind and he seems happy. I’m glad you don’t think a BJ in the Oval Office is serious, because a lot of people on this here board think it’s deadly serious. (Now THAT is frightening.)
I think you should go to the fridge and grab a quart of Double Chunko Chocolate, pour yourself a Pepsi, flip on the No Spin Zone, and forget all this “us & them” stuff. Let Mongoose run things. He’ll fix the global economy. All he has to do is find the Mexicans.
I wish I could forget the scathing disbelief and anger that got dumped on me by a close relative last summer when I was expressing something past concern and close to fear at the potential of this person being TCPOTUS.
She became very angry and acted as though I was being very paranoid and fearful. She said, “That’s ridiculous! As long as we have our Congress and the Supreme Court and all of the institutions are in place, there’s no way anything would change.” End of conversation. I was a silly fool in her eyes.
I said to others, “Don’t you understand what he can do just with Executive Orders?…forget even using legislation.”
All I was doing then (as we are all doing now) is believing what I was looking at, believing what he was saying about what he wanted to know, noticing the obvious lies and evasions. It wasn’t complicated then and it isn’t complicated now.
Sometimes things actually are just exactly what they appear to be. In this case, apparently things are even worse than they appear to be. It’s impossible to exaggerate or get ahead of the curve of “impossibilities” with this unAmerican jerk.
And now we’ve got a group that are completely shameless liars and really don’t care who knows it. They have what they want: power. They don’t care what they do to the country. They. truly. do. not. care.
One of your own, you seem like a reasonble person. Seriously, how happy are you with Obama’s performance so far? I honestly think that he is off to a poor start (multiple broken promises, Pelosi rolling him on the stimulus pkg, throwing $ at the economy before fixing the banking system), but I’m biased.
So how do you honestly assess his performance so far?
one of your own:
the bill mentions 4 bil for “Community Stabilization” NGO’s.
Since the Democrats only have these sort of things, it means ACORN and/or sister entities. You know full well that Obama is developing ACORN as a his personal political activist street level political organization, and that this will most certainly get the lion’s share. It is completely outside of the American Political tradition for a sitting president to do maintain organizations like this. It is an outrage and scandal, even if it were funded by only private monies. That it is to be funded by the taxpayer, and at this outrageous levels, in literally beyond belief. He should be impeached for it, and if he were a Republican he would be.
ACORN is a classic Communist Front Organization, and it was instrumental in the Voter Fraud machine that aided Obama in puling one over in this election–perhaps the most crooked national election in our history. ACORN would appear to be an American version of Chavez’s Bolivar circles or the Stalin’s NGO’s. It also bear a striking resemblance to Hitler’s SA, but updated in a fashion to hide its true meaning from Americans.
Stalin and, to a degree, Lenin similarly used NGO’s to control elections, to intimidate the population, stifle dissent and to attack political opponents in the USSR (yes, the Soviets had elections, they were just meaningless ones). Hitler and Mussolini, Peron, Allende and Castro also used a similar approach. Low level activism and street level thuggery are what they are about.
It is completely immaterial if ACORN is mentioned directly in the bill, and you know that. For anyone who has any understand at all of how communists and other totalitarian collectivists have used organizations like ACORN in the past, this business should send chills down their spine–if they had an ounce of love for the Republic, this is. We may never have an honest presidential or congressional election in our lifetimes again. We may have violent intimidations of voters on the street.
The fact that in the face of this threat to our liberty you can make idiotic comments like
“. . . Bueller . . . Bueller . . . Bueller.” say everything about you that any decent person needs to know.
The way the bill phrases this outrage is a brutally dishonest attempt to hide the true intent, as well you know. You comment as well would appear to be an attempt to obscure the truth. Once again, you engage in dubious and intellectually dishonest rhetorical ploys. You are either a liar or a fool. I suspect both.
You need to ask yourself just why the Democrat Party would attempt something so foreign, so alien to American political traditions, yet so typical of the political practices of the the tyrants of the USSR, the Chinese Communists in China, the Nazis, the Italian Facists and corrupt collectivist movements in Latin America.
Steeple: a reasonable person. How many moon are in your sky.
One is a one of the most dishonest, irrational trolls on PJM.
Why cannot you not see that?
“one of your own” is typical of how the Left is sounding now. Now that Obama has shown himself to be such a walking disaster, all they can offer in response is pathetic little tu quoques about Bush and other right-wing whipping boys. We’re talking about Obama, not Bush. It’s entirely possible to hate both of them for both making the same bad decisions. Two wrongs don’t make a right, and Bush’s errors do NOT give the Left license to make an equal quota of bad decisions, or whatever the squirrel-brained thought process here is.
it’s only the beginning…more stimulus will be needed, more banking money will be needed. the only government cutbacks will be military cutbacks. the assault from within by the marxbot,environmental rubes in lockstep and the external enemies of self-government will continue full on. however, we are strong, very strong and will not be defeated.
one of you own:
Why complain about the $8? That’s more than most of us got from the Bush tax cuts.
This is a nothing but a red herring and non sequitur. There is no point at all to this. It is It has nothing to do with anything. No individual or organization got that sort of relief then or now (or ever) out of a personal income tax cut, and in any event the 4 bil to acorn is has nothing to do with tax relief. Moreover, the aggregate of the Bush cuts was much larger tham 8 bill. Your statement is nonsensical: No individual got that sum from Bush, and no individual will get that sum under Obama, and in any event the bush aggregate was higher the 8 bil. Most certainly, nobody but the corrupt political machine of the Democrat Party will benefit from it. The Republic will suffer immensely from it. In fact, it may destroy us as a Republic.
here is some high level data on the three bug Bush tax cuts:
http://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/323.html
(BTW, a large part of what Obama is calling tax cuts in this bill are really “earned income credits”–they are essentially welfare transfer payment made to people who pay no taxes in the first place. So his talk about tax cuts is at the very last half lies.)
You have literally made no point. Just more idiotic, immature, left wing blather.
Again, all we seem to get out of you is intellectual dishonesty, regurgitation of lefty talking points, and adolescent, troll nonsense.
Re: #7. “It seems as though every time this man opens his mouth he’s saying something that doesn’t really mean anything.” Not at all. Some times, he says something that means something else.
Mongoose, I have no illusions. But I rather see if OOYO can state a defensible position before coming to that conclusion. So here is the invitation to do so.
Let us all begin reciting in brainwashed unison:
Barack Obama is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I have known in my life….
Barack Obama is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I have known in my life….
Barack Obama is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I have known in my life….
Obama’s dealing with unprecedented challenges. Was the economy worse during the Depression? Yes. But that was a different world. We no longer have the luxury of turning inward to our GMs and steel mills and Iowa farmers to provide for all our needs. The old models no longer apply. Globalization and the increasing scarcity of resources have us living in a permanently interdependent world economy. War is no longer war but defense asymmetrical extremism. Information is instantaneous and ubiquitous, and rife with abuse.
You can bring back John Wayne and Audie Murphy and George Patton and they couldn’t help us one bit against an idiot martyr with a can of gas (which is why this notion of “keeping us safe for the last eight years” is complete nonsense. That is as much coincidence as anything else. Don’t take my word for it. Ask my brother-in-law, he’s a TSA agent.) We got bombers and fighters and drones and Daisy Cutters and bunker busters and cameras that can see the parsley in your teeth from space. We got Marines and black ops and moles and spies and geeky dudes going through all of our Google records. But we can’t find a 6-and-a-half-foot Muslim in Pakistan.
My point is this: Obama inherited terrible economic, political, and social challenges in a time where our traditional strengths don’t dominate like they once did. (No, I’m not talking about virtues but the hard-wired tools of our defense and economy.) It doesn’t matter who he inherited the mess from. And now he has to try to fix it all. And he has to do it in the most polarized American society since the Civil War. And he has to do it with a right wing punditry doing everything it can to make it worse.
Broken promises? I expect that from politicians. Anybody know a politician who didn’t break promises? The Stimulus Bill before the banking fix? I thought the Republicans fixed the banking mess. No? Well, we’ll add that to Obama’s list. I’m glad he signed SCHIP into law. I’m glad he signed equal pay for women into law. I’m glad he got some money flowing into our economy. Trillion dollar debt? We already had that. Bush ran up a bigger debt than all previous American presidents combined! But he and the Republican Congress had nothing to do with any of this. It’s all Barney Frank’s fault!
If there were Democrats out there who thought the Republicans and the troublemakers in the world would rollover to have their belly scratched by Barack, well they were naive. And that’s no big deal. What IS a big deal is people who say that Obama is out to destroy America, that they want him to fail, who think, as Mongoose does, “The question is: Who sent him? We know why? to destroy America as a superpower. He is the front for an attack on the Nation. This is the biggest crisis in our history. We must find out who is behind this. We must organize a resistance to this Communist Coup.”
Straight out of Dr. Strangelove . . . Mongoose and his precious bodily fluids.
I didn’t like Bush. I thought he was a lightweight. Overmatched by the job. I truly believe he was a puppet of darker, more entrenched forces in this government. And I believe those forces pushed this country off its moral axis, and in doing so very nearly ruined our economy and our spirit. They were the worst possible combination for this country – incompetent and arrogant – at the worst possible time. I don’t expect anybody here to agree with that, nor should you expect to change my mind by pointing to some web page at the Heritage Foundation.
Honestly, presidents should be smarter than is Dubya. Presidents SHOULD be elite. They should be intellectuals with great spirit and vision and the ability to inspire. I think Obama has that potential. What he’s not willing to do is sugar coat the harsh realities. If it were anybody else in that office right now, we’d be hearing, “The fundamentals of the economy are strong! . . . The American worker is the greatest worker in the world!” I don’t want platitudes and flag waving. If I did I would have voted for Palin.
We’ve all gotten so soft and fat and spoiled that we can’t or won’t imagine a life that requires sacrifice to correct our problems. We expect this recovery to be easy and painless. After all, the last time something terrible happened to us, we were told to go shopping. “Wow, is that all I have to do? Go to the mall? Of course, Mr. President, I will rise to your challenge, anything to serve this great nation.”
I don’t want that. I don’t want to be shmoozed into some brain-dead complacency while Cheney hands out no-bid contracts to Halliburton. (That was disgraceful, as was that company’s performance in serving our troops. But hey, if you want to steal the really big stuff, you can’t hide it. You have to do that right out in the open. And he did.)
I want the truth. I’m an adult, I can take it. And I’m willing to do without to help get this country back on track.
Here’s the fundamental difference between us. If Obama could snap his fingers tomorrow and say, “This economy will be fixed immediately. All we have to do is agree to give up all cars that get less than 25 miles per gallon.” Would you do it? I would (and I just finished a resto on a 72 Judge). Lots of people here wouldn’t agree to that . . . “How dare that boy tell me what I can and can’t drive!. Yeah, come get my Blazer, Barack. See what else I have waitin’ for ya.” Being stubborn is not being principled.
How’s Obama doing? So far, so good.
By the way, I suspect Steeple isn’t Steeple at all. And Mongoose, your feet have come loose from their moorings.
#49, ELC: You’re right – some of that “other meaning” is cleverly disguised Alinsky-speak: No matter what, Barrack, don’t let the masses catch on to the fact that you are, to the core, a left-leaning worship-seeking radical.
It’s heartening to see so many other people who are able to discern the truth from the lies.
Obama is not doing “so far, so good” #52, One of Your Own. He’s like a bumbling Barney Fife, minus the actual intelligence.
I asked my Obama-loving sister if she knew who George Soros was. She said “Who the hell is that?”
Obamatrons know only what the MSM feeds them. And now that they’re hooked, a la smoke, mirrors, double-speak and empty promises, they will be reluctant to admit they voted for a vaporous puppet in a suit.
Cloward-Piven, Cloward-Piven, Cloward-Piven
one of your own = useful idiot.
Claudia Rosett, Thank you for such a wonderful op-ed. This is what it’s all about — holding him accountable. Your words inspired me so much. You are such a talented journalist —
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL08s5uH8as
Transparency: an open letter to Barack Obama
my request to BHO – Remember, the promise you made
#52. Hey, there. Hmm. If the all of the Limousines/Learjet libs gave up their wasteful, hypocrital preach out one side of their mouth and do the exact opposite crap, paid their taxes and lived by example maybe your argument would hold a little more water. Start by asking the nada potus to turn down the thermostat in the White House, quit the spendy cocktail parties, forgo the use of secret service and the presi-heli for frivolity and act like a president instead of a uppity dictator who says, “Do as I say, not as I do”.
Fellow Americans: It is time to WAKE UP!!!!!!!!! Now if I may paint a picture for you… The Democratic Party spent most of the last eight years running President Bush in the ground to set the stage for there obvious take over of this entire government, I did not overreach in that statement, they have the presidency, the congress and very soon the Oman will appoint at least two judges to the supreme court and that will seal the deal. The Dems with Barney Franks/Chris Dodd/Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid engineered the fall of the banks through Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac which gave us the housing problems. They have only talked of how dire the world as we know it is currently so that the blind people who voted for the Oman will believe that HE is the only way to see day light at the end of this. With the Dems owning almost all the MSM and talking of killing conservative talk radio they will soon control what we read, hear on radio and see on tv. With the passing of this “save us all Bill,” the Oman/Dems will have paid for the next mass voting for them in any upcoming elections…. READ MY LIPS … THIS WAS ALL ABOUT VOTES PEOPLE IN THE NEXT ELECTIONS!!!!!! This country will be in such a hole in two years that it will seem easy to swallow what we see on tv now from Castro and Chaves. Look in the near future for amendments to the constitution that will erode away our current rights to bear arms, free speech and assembly. Then we will also see a major push to nationalize healthcare, the banking system (well underway), transportation (ditto underway) and government access to our personal financial and medical records. Just think, of how medical insurance companies charge you for coverage now….. they will be able to exclude a person for almost anything they so choose, that also follows for banks when you want a loan for cars or homes and then follows to clearing you for the purchase of guns in the future. This is the tip of the iceberg PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! One needs to really be proactive in looking at the big picture down the road and NOT seeing it from what will be fed to us one day at a time until we don’t even turn on the news anymore. After Pearl Harbor remember how shocked America was, I HOPE SO, now the Japanese own most of Hawaii….. folks it’s HAPPENING AGAIN, but now it’s all over the United States. There are far to many people coming to America with no desire to fight for what we have made here, they are here to take it away with the help of lawyers and our own legal system. Have you noticed how easy it is for a Democrat to do something illegal as a politician and get totally away with it? Criminal activity (not paying taxes or lying under oath to name a couple) slides off their backs so easy one wonders why the coating hasn’t been applied to our pots and pans. They never get investigated, don’t pay fines or go to jail for anything. When we as regular citizens don’t seem to be as lucky to get out of a parking ticket….. we don’t use semantics to change the meaning of life itself….. we don’t find $90,000 in our freezer and figure that the FBI just put it there because during some investigation they figured that we needed it. COME ON PEOPLE WAKE UP!!!!!!!!! Almost everyday, the Oman and cronies can’t get enough time in front of the cameras or a microphone, patting each other on the back and taking our WALLETS FOR A RIDE!!!!!!! REMEMBER: IF WE FORGET HISTORY WE ARE VERY LIKELY TO REPEAT IT!!! God bless America!!!
56. Bikerken: one of your own = useful idiot.
Who can argue with such artful context?
57. Wake-up call: The Democratic (Republican) Party spent most of the last eight years running President Bush (Clinton) in the ground to set the stage for there obvious take over of this entire government, I did not overreach in that statement, they have the presidency, the congress and very soon the Oman (Bush) will (did) appoint two judges to the supreme court and that will seal the deal
See how that works there Mr. Wake-up? You like it fine when the Republicans do it. You don’t when the Dems do it. Well. sorry, but you’re just gonna hafta man up and take it. We did. Now it’s your turn.
“Well. sorry, but you’re just gonna hafta man up and take it. We did. Now it’s your turn.”
Oh, so it’s all about who’s got the Precious, is it? That’s what it always comes down to with these characters. I think that proves the worth of feeding trolls like this one (and allow me here to salute those who take the time and trouble to refute their tedious talking points) until they glutton up to the point they show their true colors.
What happened to the greek columns? I really missed them this afternoon at the signing.
I couldn’t make it to Denver so I simply faced south (I live north of Denver) and bowed down.
Well, I for one cannot wait to start getting my $13 per pay period, I’m going to hire a maid, a personal trainer and buy a private island! Thank you democrats, I don’t know what I’d have done without you!
one of your own:
Again, no real response from you but insults. this is because you have not real adult, informed or rational response to make. Your knowledge and critical thinking skill are so poor that all you can do is stick your fingers in your ears and call people names. You are an overgrown little boy. You cannot even get your metaphors right.
You refuse to answer my points because you cannot. You have not the faintest idea what I am talking about. It is beyond your programming and you are not used to actually having to engage with adults in any reasonable manner other than passive-aggressive subservience.
You have this arrogant delusion that because you dismiss in your mind challenges to you opinions, those challenges, and what stands behind them go away.
But they do no such thing. This is just behaving like a child. Decent people have forborne nonsense from people like you for far too. This is coming to an end.
You fail to understand that adults have no interest in your personal opinions of them, for they do not consider you to be an responsible adult.
Here is your profile:
Has mild personality disorders ranging from narcissism to borderline personality disorders. (these will get worse as time goes on, btw)
1) Young (under 30), inexperienced, and full of himself. Has yet to undertake any real challenges in life.
2) Poorly educated: Was a mediocre student, and took a mediocre curriculum at mediocre schools. You education consisted mostly of indoctrination and partying. You avoided any sort of hard course work like the plague. Your parents paid for it. You do not care i the least that you wasted their money.
3) If you have a job at all, it is a low level staff job with meager prospects of advancement or meaningful monetary reward. Your manages consider you to be merely an average worker. You hate your job. You hate working period. You think that you are going on to something greater. You are not.
4) You are not married and have no children (in fact, you have never been responsible for another person in your entire life). In fact you have a lot of problems with women, they really are not interested–you are a bad bet to them. You tend toward self abuse. You will probably never marry, but if you do your spouse will dominate you.
5) Owns no property of any meaningful sort. You rent an apartment somewhere. (you will be renting all of your life, I’d bet.)
6) Consistently drinks or engages in some sort of substance abuse on a weekly basis (I would wager that you have 2 or 3 drinks almost every night on your way home from you meager little “job”, and really booze it up one night on the weekend almost every week) You are hung over at least one day in 10.
7) Is an atheist
9) Has problematic relationships with his parents, most particularly his father–your father is deeply worried about your course in life and does not buy your act. In fact you have problems with relationships in general. You are in denial about this.
This is more or less you. I run a medium size tech company, and people like you occasionally fall through the HR cracks and we have to can them sooner or later. They all sound just like you, even as the go out the door. I often find out that they get canned by the next person that was foolish enough to hire them. I have been in the business and academic world longer than you have been alive, and I have seen people like you all my life. You will burn out and be out of options by the time you are 35. Such people always arrogantly spout this same left wing nonsense, and when some tries to reach them they react just the way you react to me. You are headed for a very bad fall, and sooner than you think.
No adult takes you seriously. Why should they? You are not an adult. Even you parents do not. You know this deep down inside. This is why you behave the way you do.
Another thing that you do not realize is that people engage you here not to dissuade you, but to point out to readers out there what sort of character the opposition possesses. It is not about you at all–you are a cautionary tale.
You have no idea what is coming, and 15 years from now when you do understand what has happened, when you do understand that you have aided in the destruction of your country, when you realize that you have enslaved yourself, you will not like it very much. You will not like yourself very much. That is what happens to narcissists when the world finally beats their vainglorious self delusions out of them. Then they have to live with it the rest of their lives.
Even the legislators who voted their support admitted to not reading it — I’ll bet the lobbyists wrote and read it though. Seems lobbyists are the trusted ones on how to spend our money and we are not trusted on the “correct” way to spend our own money.
This is change for the worst
I never gave much thought to “Airforce One”..it was the secure method of travel for our president. Now, all I can think of is the Harrison Ford line from the movie “Airforce One” ..GET OFF MY PLANE!!!
What is wrong with us! Which one of us has all the answers? As intellectual we claim to be WE are the ones who made this mess in the first place. Stop blaming the man trying to fix it and the one who helped make it, and think of ways YOU can encourage others to make better decisions.
Start by turning towards the future and letting go of the disease of racism. Sooner than later WE and our children will be the minorities!! GET OVER IT ALREADY! This disease is one of this countries most shameful characteristics known and mocked world wide.
It is YOU PEOPLE who make America shameful!!!
ONE OF YOUR OWN
#52
” I didn’t like Bush. I thought he was a lightweight. Overmatched for the job.” It would seem thet your hero “the Annointed One”
appears to be indebted to forces far darker and more sinister than Bush 43. Who financed his meteoric rise from the incredibly corrupt Chicago political machine ? I qoute ” Should the political winds change, I will stand with the Muslims”. Sound familiar ? Doesn’t sound like any utterances I can recall from previous presidents. What conclusion could you draw from such a statement ? Hmmmm…I seem to remember something about him being born in Kenya, and educated at madrassas in Indonesia. Perhaps not you, but it certainly does make me somewhat curious about your Messiah.
Face it, junior, your hero is superfluous,inexperienced, disingenious, and a true empty-suited lightweight. My country (the one for which I fought and bled !)needs a clown such as this about as much as it needed Jimmy Carter. How is Obama doing ? So far, pathetic…!!!!
63. Monghoose: Good god another pocket psychologist with a personality profile.
Well, here’s what I think I’ve discerned about you. You’re not a native-born American. English is a second language. I’d say you’re Asian. (How am I doing so far?) You say you run a medium-size tech company, which is perhaps the vaguest most meaningless description possible – does that mean you resell enterprise solutions, or does that mean you fix typewriters?
You write: You refuse to answer my points because you cannot.” Well, here’s a challenge for you, Crazy Train, point to one of your points. I’ll answer it. Point to one specific pint that requires an objective, fact-based answer and I’ll respond with a nice cream pie of an answer that I’ll give you Soupy Sales style. (Google alert!)
You write: “You have not the faintest idea what I am talking about.” Yep, sometimes that’s true, like with this, “It is beyond your programming and you are not used to actually having to engage with adults in any reasonable manner other than passive-aggressive subservience.”
You forgot to mention tooth paste and the pelicans. These are the kind of ramblings I hear from smeary homeless people pushing shopping carts and stabbing the air with their cigarette.
Honestly, you should inquire about some seratonin re-uptake inhibitors. They might help sand off the burrs of your depressive angst. Until then stay away from the knife drawer.
ooyo, first I assure you that I am Steeple, for whatever that is worth. not sure what you mean there, but my questions were genuine.
i think that the right side of the spectrum has to find ways to convince people who will actually spend time for logical analysis to find a reason to come to our side. it’s human nature to yell and scream about what we are seeing today, but I believe in the analogy of attracting bees with honey. i’ve not had much success with simply yelling louder.
as much because there are too non-thinkers like the Obama campaign worker who called my home. i asked her why she was voting for him, and her two answers were (“Because he is a democrat” and “My friends are voting for him”). these folks can’t be convinced until it’s far too late.
Welcome our Brave New World.
Lies and damn lies!!! He even believes his own lies.
Nothing good will ever come of this guy…nothing, ever.
One standard for him and another for the rest of us. You conserve, you live on less, you share, you sacrifice, you limit your carbon footprint…
I, OBAMA the great, will do just what I want to do and live it up at TAXPAYER expense!!!
I WON….
Well, you can lose as well twerp.
70. Steeple . . . i appreciate the outreach, but I’ve seen and know enough to believe I am right. Like you, I’ve encountered rickety reasons in voters for “the other guy” . . . . “I like McCain. he seems like a nice guy.” . . . “Sarah’s a mom, and that’s good enough for me.” Well, Nancy Pelosi has more kids than Sarah Palin.
Simple facts of the matter: I’d rather party with Ted Kennedy and Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton than Orin Hatch and Eric Cantor and Sarah Palin. I don’t respect people who claim to know who God is or what he wants. I believe helping the poor is more noble than making money. I believe if you make a mistake you should own up to it. (Barack did that. I respect him for it.)
So, you got your reasons and I got mine. Some time more people agree with you. Right now more people agree with me. Maybe you should consider joining us. We don’t have any honey, but we got some killer blonde Lebanese finger hash.
Obama has been nothing like he said he would be and a whole lot like we said he’d be. Remember during the primaries when the Obots would marvel over how the right wingers had the Clintons pegged after all…good times.
To Snoopington: It would seem that you hit another nail on the head in your comment….. “fought and bled for”…. I would suspect few others commenting have had the experience which would help their brain housing group find new meaning in “FREEDOM” if one day they woke up without it and wondered why the “military” didn’t protect them. It’s much the same with their thoughts about cops, they hate them until the day comes and they need or want them…. I’m with you, been there done that… 26 1/2 years in Navy EOD, and no I don’t have brain damage either. Thank you for your service!
All the name calling, the venom, the aggressiveness will not confront the fact that we have a huyge deficit that began under Bush, and that we have a huge govt that grew substantially under Bush, and the the Conservatives have nothing to offer of substance to help us out at this point but the usual cut tax nonsense, and that most economic pundits, the GOP govenors, and the American public like and want what Pres Obama is trying to do, despite the nay saying from the GOP. The GOP has lost now in the last two elections and are aligning themselves up for another defeat in the next election.
obama is a treasonous, resentment fueled, know it all, leftist hypocrite. the first time i heard him speak, i knew in my heart, he was lying, and would say anything to come out of nowhere, as do all republicrats. impeach him now, to avoid future trouble for us, our nation, and our children.
You people want to know who is behind all this mess?? Has anyone read about the Illuminati & the CFR????
Mongoose, I think you have profiled this obot, OOYO accurately….I’d add, he/she, more likely he is/has been addicted to computer gaming, probably a virgi and is very proud of his ability to anonymously insult on opposition websites. A 20 something loser.