The Omen
Over at the Washington Free Beacon, Matt Continetti has a fine piece up on “The Obama Derecho.” He’s referring to the nasty storm that crippled the Washington, D.C., area a few days ago, and whose aftereffects are still being felt, but also to the long-term crippling effects of the Obama presidency — a gift that will keep on giving long after the Emperor Hussein is turned out of office:
Safe to say most Washingtonians had never heard of a “derecho” before June 29, when one of these speedy and destructive windstorms ploughed through the capital, leaving behind dead bodies and battered homes and more than a million households without power. Now the storm is over, and one can expect this obscure meteorological term to pass just as swiftly into everyday speech. Exotic, vaguely menacing, and evoking senseless, abrupt calamity, “derecho” is an especially apt description of America in the age of Obama.
Like the homeowners in Fairfax County, Va., picking up felled tree branches and putting in insurance claims, Americans across the country are still recovering from the Obama derecho that struck the nation from 2009 to 2010. The damage from that whirlwind has been ugly. The cost has been enormous. And another one may form at any moment.
Continetti’s story is a handy clip-n-save (with links aplenty) aide memoire to the ongoing disaster being wrought by the Punahou Kid and his coterie of Alinskyite radicals, including the ineffable Jake Lingle (f you don’t get the reference, please click here), and the Iranian-born Valerie Jarrett. Just as during the Clinton era, when the scandals came so fast and furious that no one could remember them all, Barry is betting that the American people won’t be able to keep track of his various enormities — so do yourself a favor and bookmark Matt’s story for future reference. You’re going to need it.
Be afraid. Be very afraid
Here at PJ, my colleague Ron Radosh has an illuminating essay about the nature of socialism. I’ve always found it amusing how lefties twist and turn and squirm whenever we try to slap the S-word on them. They whine that they’re not really socialists, or that our definition of “socialist” is incorrect, or that there’s nothing wrong with socialism, or that we’re all socialists anyway — and hey, what about the military? Our friends across the aisle simply hate it when we call them what they are, because to name something is to begin to understand it.
That “termites already in place and boring away” analogy is beautiful.
My worry is that that the very same 52% who put the Chameleon in Chief in office will again outvote common sense and the urgent need to face reality.
The Lesson here is beware of Pied Piper “Charisma”……beware.
“Derecho”, in Mexico, means “right turn”.
Behold the destruction!
And, right on time, MSNBC: Fires in the West and power outages during a heat wave in the East prove the urgency of Climate Change!
No, it proves CYA for criminal midgets too stupid to manage either a forestry program or a power grid.
Normally “derecho” means straight ahead or in a straight line, etc. In the storm sense, “derecho” refers to straight line winds.
“Derecha” means right as in on the right side. It can be modified to masculine in certain uses, but it’s common default is feminine.
“El derecho” refers to rights as in “human rights.”
“Derecho”, in Mexico, means “right turn”.
Behold the destruction!
And, right on time, MSNBC: Western fires and Eastern heat waves prove the urgency of Climate Change!
No, it proves CYA for criminal maroons who are too stupid to manage either a forestry program or a power grid.
Woopsie! Apologies, connection problems, Democrat county. Go figure.
I disagree on the point that the left and Obama will not really mind if Barry loses. Both have invested extensive emotional capital in his presidency, and Barry’s ego is as big as his deficits. And it will negate a golden opportunity for the preening and strutting that Barry and the left covet so greatly.
Also, at the very least Mitt says he’ll issue a 50-state waiver to Obamacare, which will slow that monstrosity down somewhat. This will be a gross inconvenience to the left’s plans. Who wants to delay the grand prize’s implementation until the next Democrat presidency when they can have it right away — especially in the wake of the gift John Roberts gave them? Just because Dems take the long view doesn’t mean they’re adverse to instant gratification and will resent not having it.
They can, to be sure, look to the wreckage across the land that they have created, and might chortle as they watch thoroughly befuddled Republicans trying to smile and ingratiate their way through the furious Democrat and media oppostion to taking the slightest step to undo the damage, but the left will still be very, very displeased. I only hope we will be fortunate enough to see such an outcome.
Obama losing’s greatest effect would be on the implementation of the various UN schemes like Education For All, Quality Assurance, the environmental programmes, the Future Earth Alliance operating over in Sweden but co-managed through the US NSF and an entity called the Belmont Forum, and the Millenium Development Goals (to be in place by 2015).
Our President has signed us up for and is financing this global sustainability restructuring of economies, societies, and people’s defining, filtering mindsets.
A new President who understood the nature of the poisons and how they are being administered would cause great pain to the Left agenda just by distancing us from most of the UN programmes.
And then start hacking at the federal bureaucracy and the ones it funds at the state and local levels. The typical state DoEd has the feds paying half to 3/4′s of their annual budget. Guess where the loyalty lies? Yet most state governors and legislators are unaware of that fundamental point.
Few things would please me more than to see the US get out of the UN & while they’re at it, send those jerks from the NYC headquarters packing.
The thing that’s most disconcerting about Obama is his unhappiness with us. He doesn’t see anything exceptional about America (while at the same time trying to bypass the law to grant amnesty to the illegal aliens who risk everything to get here). He buys into the flyover country theory of the heartland. He doesn’t like free enterprise. He doesn’t like our most natural allies, Great Britain and Israel. How did such a queer character ever get elected President of this great country?
I’ll give you a perfect example of how. There was a young couple in the elevator yesterday. I decided to toss my peeeve of the day at them:
Me: Are you guys Obama supporters?
Them: Yes (both)
Me: Are you under 26?
Them: No, and yes, but just barely.
Me: Are you ok with the fact that every single person under 27 who has a parent employed by government (state, fed, local), will now be getting free medical insurance paid for by taxpayers, regardless of their own ability to pay for it themselves? Every one of them in this age group will get it for free or almost free. Their govt employee parents might pay 15% of it or less, and that’s it?
Them: Umm…I guess…my dad works for the government.
Me: (incredulously) You’re ok with that?
Them: Why not?
Me: You don’t care? So if everyone’s taxes go up to pay for these young people, even if they can afford it themselves, even if they make twice as much as you and their employer offers it, but they’ll get it for free or almost free until age 27 at taxpayer expense just because one of their parents works for the government? You’re fine with this??
Them: No response, just blank looks and stupid expressions on their faces.
That’s why he got elected. These people are stupid oafs.
What’s the deal with the time stamp. I post this at 5:14 PM Eastern Time and it says 9:14 PM. Clock is wrong? Azores? Greenland?
“Them: No response, just blank looks and stupid expressions on their faces.”
Is it any small wonder that some think that only property owners should vote?
Given everything that has happened over the past four years, I’m just surprised that Obama is still doing as well in the polls as he is. To still be pulling in an almost 50% approval rating when the economy stinks, we’re a laughing stock around the world, and our national debt would make even the Chinese tremble, is literally amazing to me. And I haven’t even mentioned all of the scandals that have seemed to bounce off of this administration, from Solyndra to “Fast and Furious.” I think Americans also have short memories, forgetting about Obama’s disasterous response to the Gulf oil spill and to the the terrible treatment received by Israel’s prime minister at the White House. I really do think we’re back in 1979 with Jimmy Carter, rather than in 2012 with a socialist megalomaniac in charge at the White House.
I just can’t see this guy being re-elected under any circumstances. But if he IS re-elected, I think it speaks volumes about where this country is at psychologically and what we’re willing to give up in order to have socialism replace our current form of democracy in this country. Being a Constitutional Republic may not mean much if Obama is re-elected, a fact that is probably lost on many people in this country. But the big question is, do they really care if it happens? Well, we’ll find out in November.
I’m not surprised. America is more politically correct than ever, and PC has no connection to reality. In that sense, Obama is incapable of failure. Libs blame and excuse by default.
That means that if Obama fails, it the fault of conservatives. You’re talking about a political party that honestly believes black crime is due to white racism. The Third World is the Third World because of the dregs of Western imperialism. All-female armies never ravaged the world because men hate them. Haitians aren’t like Singapore because of a string of bad luck.
Liberals live on faith, faith in a narrative and they do not budge from that narrative.
Drag out a problem and a Dem will have ready-made excuse for any member of their Rainbow Coalition. If they can be that insane with a half century of black crime and hundreds of years of Third World failure, it’s no big deal to see Obama as a success in progress.
In a conversation with friends, I referred to the sudden slam of weather as “Satan’s hot breath sweeping the northeast.” I stand by that comment and it’s accuracy.
I think this “The Left won’t really mind if Obama loses and neither, one suspects, will he.” is completely wrong. If Obama loses then he’ll be a loser, just like Jimmy Carter (kids, ask your parents because you’ve probably never heard that we had a President named “Jimmy Carter”). Bill Clinton gets speaking engagements and large sums of money because the Left, and the Democrats, consider him a winner. If Obama loses then he’ll be the next Al Sharpton, who’s both morally and financially bankrupt. Obama was never a political insider, he’s done nothing to “bring the Dems together”; instead he’s insisted that it’s “all about I, Barack Obama”. And he’s going to find that payback is Michelle.
It’s just as bad for the Left. Carter’s loss to Reagan set the Left’s agenda back at least 20 years. Had Carter won then HillaryCare would have passed (although it probably would have been MondaleCare) and every major industry would have been nationalized by now. The problem with Capitalism is that shows that the promises of Socialism are lies. The path to Prosperity is in Freedom, not in Slavery.
There is a song by the Prodigy with the lyric: “it’s an omen the writings on the wall.”
mene mene tekel upharsin
This country is found wanting and its days are at an end. It is not so much Obozo that is the problem as a people who elected this Muslim compliant multicultural metrosexual marxist believing all his platitudes. For a population more concerned with the latest celebrity meltdown and obsessed over who wins American idol, do you really think they care about fiscal sanity? As long as the government goody gravy train keeps rolling in, who cares? They will vote for whomever promises the most goodies. And the stupid party never gives a strong coherent message and never gets down and dirty in the fight against the demonrats for fear of being called names.
Perhaps we are getting the government we deserve. Let Obozo be reelected. Let us go over the fiscal cliff and crash at the bottom. Only then can we cull the herd of looters, moochers, parasites and ethno-racial grievance mongers.
I have to agree with you and I wish I didn’t but the social climate in this country is what it is. The only thing I would add is the horrible fiscal record of the Republicans when they were in charge and how they paved the way for this monstrosity that is now in power.
I don’t know from Prodigy, but there’s always a Bible lying around somewhere. Not speaking for anyone else, but I’ve long had the feeling that this country is on the verge of a time of judgment, like the Civil War, or what the cycle of WWI and WWII was for the whole world. Things will be better on the other side, but the costs for those of us who will have to live through it… well, Trainwreck, let’s just say your callsign puts you ahead of the game. Andrew Breitbart was one of our most hopeful signs, and when we lost him so suddenly, that’s when I was convinced that we probably weren’t going to escape this time.
No, Mitt Romney doesn’t understand it. He and all his ruling class republican buddies assume the leftists are clones of themselves, just willing to be slightly greedier and willing to squeeze the public slightly harder.
They don’t see any substantial difference between the marxists and themselves, probably because they are fully aware that they are essentially criminals themselves and they can’t even imagine why such a lucrative con game as the republicans have been playing for decades even NEEDS to be improved upon.
And also, of course, they know that if they play nice, their position at the feeding trough is secure. 99% of Congress increased their net worth since 2008, while average Americans lost 43% of their net worth.
Why would any smart criminal even consider the old forms of assault, battery, and robbery when just being a US congressman assures a lifetime of wealth and power. And that’s if they DO NOTHING but wallow in their positions. The activists like obama, pelosi and reed become richer and more powerful than all but a handful of kings and emperors throughout history.
Yesterday’s mafia serves in congress today; republicans as well as democrats.
This government doesn’t need to be reformed. It needs to be dismantled with a bulldozer.
A little off topic, but the recent Obamacare decision is another example of the Supreme Court as a failed institution. Trusted with the responsibility and authority to enforce the Constitutional limits on Federal power, it has regularly and predictably ruled in favor of the expansion thereof.
Maybe we need another Constitutional Convention with only one item: We really meant it the first time.
Forget it. We are well and truly split down the middle as far as ideology. The only thing I would pray for is a bloodless split with an agreement to relocate populations.
If obama looses, I think we will see civil strife on a scale we haven’t seen for a long time, if ever. His cultist followers will not take kindly to their emperor being tossed out of office and since laws mean nothing to them unless they can slam wage earners with them, they will feel they have nothing to loose. What do you expect from folks that have been taught all their lives they are victims.
True, true.
But miracles do happen.
If we keep fighting for Freedom.
#6 Darcy/Landru “These people are stupid oafs.”
And there you have it. The “multitude of fools” who elected Obama.
And that is our problem. The United States of America really no longer exits. A nation that has no sense of its own history and founding principles is no longer a nation; it’s only a collection of people with no common purpose or identity. Over 75 years of progressive education and media have done their job well. As bad as Obama is, he isn’t the greatest problem. It’s the multitude of fools indoctrinated with political correctness, educated to lack any independent reasoning or critical thinking, and having little if any moral foundations for living their lives. Take such a herd and continually bombard them with media propaganda to keep them confused and restless, and you will have set the stage for a stampede. Now we are just waiting for the storm and the first clap of thunder that will set them off.
It’s not going to turn out well.
I’ve often joked that 0bama was born of a jackal.
This post sealed the deal. LOL!
I’m keeping a list of “What’s Wrong”- currently 80-90+ pages with links.
Every single day there’s been something new to add. Frightening!
Let’s not forget that it is Obozo’s serial offenses to the American spirit that resulted in the creation (and the solidification) of the “tea party”. Just in case anyone wonders what is a constitution good for, we found a vivid illustration: It’s a standard by which We The People can recognize the merits (in this case the demerits) of whatever the governement is really cooking behind the curtain while playing the violins to tranquillize the sheeple.
This president has awakened a giant: The fervor of the deep patriots whom we usually don’t hear from, at least as far as what the TV screens show. As Andrew Breitbart put it: There are two ways, one is America, the other one is Occupy.
A funny thought on the way to the ballot box. Suppose the Republican’s hold both houses of congress and the presidency then funble the ball? Was the post 2010 election a forshadowing of the ineffectiveness of the party?
Anyway, the funny thought was that traitors are treated worse than enemy combatants. The Republicans had better beware; the nation is in no mood for excuses. We’re at war. They can conduct it peacefully or leave it to us. In which case the first customers to be fitted for new silk ties for their next journey home will be them.
The damage us done. If Romney is elected and he fails to purge the tens of thousands of EPA, EHS, DOE, DOJ, IRA, DHS, etc. etc. drones Obama put into place then it’ll take the next democrat legislature and/or president all of two seconds to put Humpty Dumpty back together again.
While we all understand that those Obama suporters are either ignorant, greedy or purchased….some may even be dead….we tend to forget that the conservative (?) element chose Romney to challenge him. We had a chance to
nominate a real fighter for a return to the Constitutional governing we all desire. And he was abandoned big time. Our loss. Our shame.
God Bless the U S A !!!! And Newt Gingrich.