Missing the Boat
Probably the most famous example of a “poisoned pawn” in military history was the German attempt to bleed the French army to death at Verdun. It was said that the German General Staff in 1916 had concluded that the best way to defeat France was to give them a rock to smash their heads against. They would take a position on the French line and watch the French exhaust themselves in counterattacks.
The string in France has reached breaking point. A mass breakthrough—which in any case is beyond our means—is unnecessary. Within our reach there are objectives for the retention of which the French General Staff would be compelled to throw in every man they have. If they do so the forces of France will bleed to death
The Germans, of course, failed in 1916. But forty years later the French would fall for the same gambit in a distant Indochinese valley called Dien Bien Phu. The French paras easily won control of that isolated valley. But it was holding it, as Vo Nguyen Giap had foreseen, that proved fatal. General de Castries, facing defeat, saw the parallel immediately. “Diên Biên Phu, c’est Verdun sans la Voie Sacrée” — Dien Bien Phu is Verdun without a resupply route.
Time will tell whether November 7, 2012, will prove to be Barack Obama’s greatest moment of fortune or misfortune; it will show whether Mitt Romney missed his chance to be Mariano Rajoy. Leo Linbeck III wrote at the time:
The President ran a brilliant campaign. He ran overwhelmingly negative ads, early and focused and targeting the battleground states. He was able to define Romney, and his messaging was perfectly calibrated for his target audiences. Given his first term record, he really had no other choice, and his execution was first-rate.
But now he will reap what he sowed. His pretense of being a uniter, someone who can reach across the aisle and work together to solve pressing problems, lies in ruins. Whatever reservoir of goodwill and trust that existed in January 2009 is now bone dry.
So, yes, he won. But it will almost certainly be a Pyrrhic victory. He chose to divide the country deeply to win his second term. He will find that the nation he will again lead is not governable by him, and he may have tipped it to where it is not governable by anyone. He is so deeply despised by so much of the country that he will never be able to do what needs to be done (assuming he even wanted to, which does not appear likely).
The reaping will begin sooner than he probably expects. The ship of state is heading toward the Scylla and Charybdis of the fiscal cliff (in 2012) and Obamacare (in 2013). At work, we have been looking at the impact of Obamacare, and all I can say is that the average person has absolutely no idea how enormous the impact will be on their life. It will be an enormous shock to the system, and it will hit almost everyone in the country.
The president will, in other words, be saddled by the legacy of the previous administration. He bought the next four years at a great cost. Will it pay off? Or will he be like those college students who’ve found that getting into big time debt to get a degree in fashion, sculpture, and performance doesn’t pay off? Maybe 2013 will be Verdun without the Voie Sacrée.
The most important thing about Allen West’s demand for a recount in Florida is that unlike Romney, he’s not giving up and is making the administration pay for every bite of that poisoned pawn. Is he doing this in the belief that he can really reverse the anomalies? Or is he doing it because he intuitively understands that he is ironically in a very enviable position: he has the freedom to attack what the other side must defend, at whatever cost?
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When it all goes bad, he can blame it on the wealthy and business owners as wreckers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrecking_%28Soviet_crime%29) and punish them even more severely.
As always, Richard, your use of historical references to illustrate your primary point is masterful.
In the aftermath of this US election and as I watch for the consequences (both unintended and otherwise) to unfold, I am also reminded of John Birmingham’s Disappearance trilogy that speculated on the impact to the world that removing America would likely bring. While the potential collapse of the US will not be as abrupt as in that work of fiction, I foresee the effects will likely be equally as brutal and I fear for my American friends.
Here in Australia, I cannot easily stockpile weapons and ammunition, so I shall concentrate on collecting popcorn and cheap red wine instead, as I wait for the American ship of state to steam towards the fiscal iceberg.
The 2012 election will prove to be a Verdun without a resupply route for the USA, most likely, Wretchard. But not for Obama himself. With the republicans demoralized and the democratic party, the MSM, and at least 47% of the country at his beck and call, nothing will stop Obama from taxing and spending as he pleases. The Treasury will continue to issue dept, which the treasury itself will soak up (In other words, the treasury will continue to print dollars).
Taxes will be raised – first on those making more than $200,000, then on those making more than $150,000, then on $100,000, then $75,000 and so on. Most likely, social security and medicare will be “fixed” by forcing people with 401K retirement programs to show “economic patriotism” by investing their savings in treasury bonds, as well.
Obamacare will come into full effect, and when private insurance companies become unable to make any sort of profits, single-payer nationalized health care will replace them. Unemployment will go up, but food stamps and welfare will keep pace – for awhile. Obama will no doubt enjoy paying for his domestic welfare programs by gutting defense spending, so look for the US armed forces to decline en masse.
Of course, this course of action is not sustainable. That will not matter to Obama. By the figures of the congressional budget office, the USA on its present course faces national bankruptcy and econmic collapse within 15 years, by 2027. By that time, however, Obama will be long gone from the White house and will no doubt be enjoying a lucrative retirement.
It may be worth remembering that there’s an important distinction between a nation and a country. In this multinational country, Obama’s loss is not necessarily America’s gain. We should not wish any ill toward the United States of AntiAmerica, but should realize that we now have irreconcilable differences, and start talking about an amicable divorce.
I disagree with “LL III” on why Romney lost, 0bama did not run a great campaign, 0bama Lied, Lied and cheated his win, except for most of the “Tea Party” republicans the rest will work with the Demoncrat’s, the Republicans are whipped dogs, whipped by the Press, Whipped by the social circles they want to belong to, whipped by their drive to stay in their seats (power), America has gone past the tipping point, Demoncrats have separated Americans from the America it was, we are now “Tribes” (Blacks, Latino’s, Asians, Caucasians, etc.) There is little “us” any more and all about what can I get or what I am owed, proudly lead by the “Peace and Love” generation, the generation that surely sacrificed its best in that far away land of Vietnam, 0bama will get his Fascist America even if we “Fall off the Financial Cliff”, woe will be our Military men, women and their families, woe will be our entrepreneurs, woe will be on our middle class for they will bear the brunt of 0bama’s Fascist dream, Woe to our old allies who will surely feel the sting of 0bamas treachery, none more than Israel, for 0bamas favoritism towards Islam may spell great despair and death for them. 0bama election has sealed China’s rise as the worlds new super power.
With the republicans demoralized and the democratic party, the MSM, and at least 47% of the country at his beck and call, nothing will stop Obama from taxing and spending as he pleases. The Treasury will continue to issue dept, which the treasury itself will soak up (In other words, the treasury will continue to print dollars).
The Republicans are “the British gentleman sort of enemy”; the Colonel Blimp guy — the kind of foe who would scrupulously concede every point, stay within bounds, and never suspect any treachery. The election is over and so the GOP goes back to eating cucumber sandwiches and tea.
Allen West has the right idea. He is not playing the British gentleman game. Even if he loses the protest, it is still the right idea. He understands I think, that you have to make them pay to hold every inch they took.
The people that will be hurt the most will be the people that are dependent on government for their goodies. The rest of us have actual skills and the foresight to prepare for the storm.
Government money printing of a fiat currency ALWAYS = hyperinflation of the currency.
The only issue is the rate.
The free-fall collapse – made infamous in Wiemar Germany – is but the FINAL stage of the hyperinflation. In that particular case, the currency had been absolutely trashed even before 1923 dawned.
There are many in the US who have allowed themselves to be seduced by the easy life. They’ve made no provision whatsoever for the day when the gas stations, ATMs, banks, and grocery stores that used to serve them are now empty and shuttered.
They have no conception of how safely to warm their homes or cook their food when the utilities only come on in their neighborhood for three hours each week.
What will they do when the authorities tell them the water that comes from the tap is tainted with human waste?
In 1993 the city of Milwaukee had a little problem with cryptosporidium organisms in the public water supply. Medical teams investigating estimate that 403,000 people were so affected the severe vomiting, diarrhea and cramps caused by these critters that they had to visit either their physicians or hospital emergency rooms during a single month before the municipal water personnel managed to identify the source and fix things. Studies of death certificates over the next two years showed that as many as 54 additional deaths in the region were linked to the effects of cryptosporidiosis, 85 percent of which were patients with compromised immune systems.
FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND people seriously ill in one month.
In ONE mid-sized city.
Some folks will have the presence of mind to organize their neighborhoods. It will require pooling what fuel they have to arrange defended convoys to make a circuit of known food sources; other resources as well. They will probably be very quiet about this. In other desperate times, authorities have declared martial law, and imposed drastic penalties for hoarding, including death by hanging “pour encourager les outres…”
This administration has been very liberal in allowing itself authority to define its powers and impose its will by decree. Please do not expect them to temper that impulse.
We will increasingly have to learn basic first aid, and set up an informal system of medical care. Hospitals for two decades have seen a marked increase in the incidence of nosocomial infections. This is bound to accelerate under the exploding expenses of the naively mis-named “Affordable Healthcare Act,” especially taken in combination with the administration’s refusal to control the influx of newly-covered people who are not expected to be contributing to revenues, only costs.
Might be a good time to learn a smattering of herbal lore, and acquire some seeds to cultivate. Enroll in a good first responder training course at your local Red Cross, Fire & Rescue department, or community college. It’s worth it.
You might profit from applying this sort of logic to every aspect of life, before the strictures tighten, if you can.
“Obamacare will come into full effect…”
There is a significant chance, though an outside chance, that Obamacare will be defeated at the Supreme Court as a violation of the requirement that all tax revenue legislation must originate in the House of Representatives.
The Pacific Legal Foundation is leading this charge. It will take about a year to get to the court, but it is a significant case and a worthwhile effort to prevent future corrupt efforts to cram bad legislation down our throats.
http://www.pacificlegal.org
What does Mitt Romney think that he gains by going as meekly as McCain into the night after getting robbed?
The important thing about staying opposed to potentially disastrous proposals is that people remember who was against it when it goes wrong. But if on the other hand, you “reach across the aisle” then however noble and generous your intent, you essentially become an accomplice to the disaster.
Reaching across the aisle limits your downside to about the same as your administration; but there’s no real upside to it, not in this situation.
That is probably what the Republican Party is going to do, and of course nobody can stop them. They are risk averse. But you can never win that way. You have to be governed by the principle of ‘calculated risk’.
L o n g before the currency debasement reaches hyperbolic velocity…
The citizenry find that everyone is vaulted up into the maximum tax brackets.
The tax authorities can never keep up — and have no incentive to do so.
Hawaii State income tax schedules/ rates were not changed/ adjusted for inflation for d e c a d e s.
Ultimately, every common man was paying 10 or 11% marginal rates — with 10% triggered at the poverty line. (!)
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Because the US Dollar is the organizing field/ black hole of our economic universe, it’s collapse will reach all. There is no place to hide, no country to hide.
THAT’S what the Wan cannot comprehend.
Economic winter is dead ahead.
I’ve long posted WRT the employment burden 0bamacare/0bamatax must impose upon all — it’s a tax burden without graduation for assets or income — a pure labor tax.
And, in so imposing it, Barry has and is gutting the Democrat Party.
He’s the anti-FDR. He will be remembered.
0bamavilles under every bridge!
obama and his supporters are evil and that is the way it is.
nothing to see here folks.
stock up on food and good luck to you all!!!
The following questions keep nagging at me — and I will admit, they are in tin-foil hat territory. But if your goal is to eliminate American hard power in the world, and remove the US as a superpower,(and to make the US weak and open to attack by all the malcontents across the globe) what would you have done differently than what Obama has done in the last 4 years, and will continue to do in the next four? I can’t shake the feeling that his agenda is not just to introduce a European-style welfare state apparatus here, but something more. And the second question — who is driving the Chicago Machine that produced Obama?
16. Wretchard
“Reaching across the aisle limits your downside to about the same as your administration; but there’s no real upside to it, not in this situation.”
I don’t disagree, but one thing that really concerns me is how the Democrats will play this. I see them as adding a few items in their proposals that the country wants embedded in a heap of dung. If the Republicans don’t vote, the Democrats will lay blame on them. It is the Republicans who won’t vote for such and such…
The media will go along with this. People are ignorant and will buy this. Obama will issue executive orders to bypass the legislative process, and the country will hold the Republicans accountable.
The one thing the Dems will hold hostage is defense spending. I think the Republicans should fight, give in reluctantly to preserve Defense spending and position the conversation so that the country knows exactly that it is Obama’s plan that is destroying the country.
The Republicans suck at communication.
The Republican party is much too polite. In 1960 there was indisputable proof that the election was stolen in Illinois, in Chicago, but Nixon said he would not challenge the verdict because the United States was not a banana republic. Yet such concern for the good name of the United States did not deter Al Gore in 2000 from challenging the verdict, and in fact attempted to steal the election by having a recount only in Democrat counties in Florida and by seeing to it that military ballots were not counted. A few years ago the Governorship of Washington state was stolen in a recount, as well as the Senate seat in Minnesota that was stolen for Al Franken, both engineered by the same guy in recounts that found just enough Democrat ballots in the desk drawers and car trunks of Democrat party operatives. I do not expect the current Republican party honchos in the Congress to show much spine, and fully expect Obama to accept their limp handshakes and do as he will, all without hindrance. But that doesn’t say we are helpless to avert the coming catastrophe. We still have the Second Amendment.
What can we all say of the peace loving band
Who smile as they accept defeat
Who say good show chap and extend a limp hand
To those they know full well did cheat
By finding new ballots in desks and in drawers
And who rigged the vote in the past
They know how to cheat and know how to win wars
We know that this won’t be the last
Fight fire with fire, and go toe to toe
Show spine and your fortunes will change
They aren’t your friends they’re implacable foe
Buy guns and get down to the range
HY Conservative @ #10:
Obamacare originated in the House.
The House bill was passed through reconciliation in the Senate when they lost the 60th vote with Ted Kennedy’s death.
Unless I’m missing something, the Obamacare revenue-generating measures are House measures and so should withstand challenge on those grounds.
BotP @ 3: “… at least 47% of the country at his [Soetero's] beck and call …”
Let’s not get too despondent. Soetero did not get the support of 47% of American citizens, only of those citizens who decided to vote. In reality, little more than 1 in 4 citizens affirmatively voted for the crook. That is still too many, of course; but a decided minority all the same.
“… the USA on its present course faces national bankruptcy and econmic collapse within 15 years …”
On the other hand, let’s not get overly complacent. There is no way this wild ride lasts another 15 years.
Just watch! Government media will be ecstatic when Soetero’s negotiating skills (‘my way or I go to the golf course’) persuade the Institutionals to kick the can a little further down the road on the fiscal cliff. But investors in the US & around the world will vote with their feet, and the pain will be just as quick. Europe of course is a lost cause — dead man walking. Time is not on Russia’s side, nor on China’s, nor on Iran’s, nor on Israel’s, nor on Venezuela’s; one of them has to act at some point, before its’ time runs out. “Events, dear boy. Events”.
That’s when Soetero will find out that he may have made himself Emperor of everything within his reach, but there are a lot of players beyond his grasp. Things will get nasty for a while, but eventually it will get better, much better. Our task now is to find a way to convey the lessons learned to our grand-children.
The paperwork for Obama care is deeply flawed both from the stand point of helping people and its ability to be executed. It seems it calls for the states to set up and fund insurance exchanges that will be administered by Washington, however there is no means to force the states to set them up and fund them, hence if a state doesn’t set up an exchange then Washington has nothing to administer in that state and there is no mechanism to force a state to set up an exchange.
Also there is a sentiment of “OK you want to tax the rich, then we will tax the all of the rich.” The Hollywood rich, the Marin County rich, and the New York rich will have all of their tax dodging exemptions taken away and they’ll get hammered with a full 35% on their capitol gains.
“The Hollywood rich, the Marin County rich, and the New York rich will have all of their tax dodging exemptions taken away and they’ll get hammered with a full 35% on their capitol gains.”
New Republican: a wealthy Democrat who has just realized the IRS is coming for him too.
I think his agenda is to expose socialism, or some similar goal.
Imagine Titanic ramming the iceberg on purpose in order to teach people a lesson: Make them appreciate that water is wet, and you’ll drown in the freezing cold without prayer and lifeboats.
That’s what you get for voting wrong… you asked for it.
As for who is behind this, David Icke thinks shape-shifting reptoids may be to blame and are returning to Terra firma soon. Our planet used to be theirs, apparently.
Regarding your historical facts, Guglielmo Marconi was in New York when news of the Titanic disaster arrived and helped one of the major papers get the story via wireless telegraphy. Maybe he had taken an earlier boat. In fact there was a time during WWI when the French Army essentially went on strike in a broad sector, and the line easily could have been broken through but the Germans weren’t aware of that was not too well hidden on the French side. Romney poured himself into all the proper Republican niches to get the nomination; not fitting those he would have been thrown out. The chances it will work with another candidate who does that and goes on to win the presidency rise to the level of slim. That probably contributed to the false bravado; otherwise they’d had to face ‘that you can’t get there from here.’
13. blert
L o n g before the currency debasement reaches hyperbolic velocity…
The citizenry find that everyone is vaulted up into the maximum tax brackets.
The tax authorities can never keep up — and have no incentive to do so.
Hawaii State income tax schedules/ rates were not changed/ adjusted for inflation for d e c a d e s.
Ultimately, every common man was paying 10 or 11% marginal rates — with 10% triggered at the poverty line. (!)
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But for retirees, taxes aren’t all that bad.
The Hawaii unemployment rate was 5.7% in September 2012
…and the current job-related healthcare insurance is outstanding.
I guess BHO “Care” will screw us out of that.
I’m investing in a PV system for my son’s house…
Electricity at over 30 cents a killowatt yields about a 5 year payoff.
My 69 yr old Cardiologist at first said he’d quit, but now he’s fighting on.
Being a Jew, he said 2008 was the first time he had not voted Democrat for Prez.
His folks were schoolteachers in Jersey, where he said 498 graduates out of 500 at his public school went on to college!
He was in the founding era of cardiac stents, practicing in Westminister, CA, where a Doc friend of mine (Vietnam Vet) quit and went into Radiology, ’cause too many of his patients were dying. Not so for my Doc. He says one guy he did an angioplasty w/o a stent was still running marathons 17 years later. Shades of Dana Carvey.
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I would really appreciate it if you would re-tell that story about Obama and his typical white grandmother in the elevator.
Somehow, Michelle and the kids never made it out here for her funeral, despite endless oaths of love and respect.
Maybe a fear of flying?
Call me Marvin the robot of ‘Hitchhikers Guide’ fame – but I am so depressed.
Will the only sanity occur with a 20% drop in the stock market over the next few weeks? The jig is up for anyone expecting a turnaround due to domestic energy exploration/fracking/coal/methane etc.
When I look at local shopping centers and see at least 20% vacancy rates, where will opportunity come from?
Why would anyone continue going to medical school with its’ concomitant costs of hundreds of thousand dollar loan requirements with zerocare limited income potential?
Will H1B foreign doctors still want to come here?
I am on Medicare and most of my physicians seem to fall in that category -
what happens when they will no longer accept Medicare without an off the books cash payment as well?
I expect small wars to break out in the MENA and South Asia areas, now that the ‘global policeman’ doesn’t have the will and soon won’t have the bullets.
So, yeah,the light-worker, whan the election, but how do we, win the war?
Isn’t Medicaid gonna be in even worse shape than Medicare?
Sounds like states as well as doctors and hospitals get royally screwed.
What I would like to say to Obama voters is that supporting him (and the grifter Democrats) is stupid. And remember: only you can stop being stupid.
As I watched the campaign unfold I realized that the Washington establishment fears basic competence. The only threat Romney posed was applying some management to the goings on around that town. It totally freaked them out!
The stuff they are doing will not work. I would like to issue the following warning: in the end it is the people who try the hardest to prevent the epic fail who will take the blame for it. It won’t just be a memo in the personnel file. The fellows who were the defendants at the Moscow Wrecker trials were the conscientious guys. Don’t get caught! Turbo charge your CYA! Carefully time your Caribbean cruise. Better yet, sail around the world.
The Left values loyalty over competence and savors the power to protect those within the circle and punish those outside. The stooges who bring on the collapse will be protected. The good folks who try to stave it off? Not so much. You have been warned.
15. Lindal
‘Tin-foil hat territory’? … I think not!
Try to get a hold of ’2016: Obama’s America’ (or view on YouTube), a video based upon Dinesh D’Souza’s book ‘Roots of Obama’s Rage’.
Obama still has the media. It will be blamed on the House.
Ellen Sauerbrey (sp?) almost became the Governer of Maryland. She quite rightly tried to inverstigate, as the difference was within the Democratic Corruption Margin. She was successfully demonized as “Sour Grapes” and lost the next time by a greater margin.
Harvard Yard Conservative @ 10:
“There is a significant chance, though an outside chance, that Obamacare will be defeated at the Supreme Court as a violation of the requirement that all tax revenue legislation must originate in the House of Representatives.”
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Nothing’s going to come of that, I assure you. John Roberts has already said that the exercise of court power is not to be entertained on ObamaCare, that this issue must be solved in the political arena. He’s already proved that he’s serious about that and that he is quite willing to jump through hoops of fire in order to abdicate his Constitutional duty.
Here’s the thing: the US Constitution is a dead letter. The federal government is no longer constrained by any means other than a sense that, for now, the illusion is best left maintained. Yes, we’re at that point. There is no way a bunch of punters from the Pacific Legal Foundation are going to change that. Not after 35 of 50 states failed to do so. Not a chance.
The president bought the next four years at a great cost.
Heh, the Democrats’ response to all the reverse talk that Obama is responsible for the incredible hostility that Republicans have shown him by remembering this quote:
We must mollify angry fanatics who seek our destruction because otherwise they might get mad and seek our destruction.
- Ann Coulter
16. shivermetimbers:
“I don’t disagree, but one thing that really concerns me is how the Democrats will play this. I see them as adding a few items in their proposals that the country wants embedded in a heap of dung. If the Republicans don’t vote, the Democrats will lay blame on them. It is the Republicans who won’t vote for such and such…”
You’re correct, but that’s the beginning of the long game, not the end.
GOP takes a principled stand: DON’T DO THIS, IT WILL LEAD TO CALAMITY!
Dems and media portray GOP as obstructionist. Let’s assume the fallout is catastrophic: GOP loses ALL Congressional representation, Obama issues all orders by executive fiat.
Things get really, really bad: media and Dems blame GOP obstruction, “If we could have done what we wanted earlier it would have worked. Now we have to do more.” With no power whatsoever the GOP says “DON’T DO THIS, IT WILL BE EVEN WORSE!”
The Dems do it anyway. The people rejoice.
The REAL collapse happens and it’s entirely theirs. The GOP says “SEE! We told you! THIS is what we were obstructing!”
_Hopefully_ the people wake up. Hopefully it’s not too late.
Still sucks, though.
People will die.
A phenomenon occurs regularly in heavy traffic where a sudden change in pace due to a minor traffic incident causes a ripple effect in traffic flow that can last hours after the original impediment has been cleared.
Perhaps it is time for random mobs to walk peacefully into the choke points of our major cities during rush hour. No need for violence, bullhorns or chanting, just a peaceful stroll of well behaved citizens examining the condition of our roadways and ramps.
Taking after gasoline rationing schemes, those with street addresses ending in odd numbers show up on odd days and those ending in even numbers show on even days. Those whose addresses begin with even numbers, take the morning shift and those beginning with odd numbers take the evening shift. Rotation would be nice, say the above holds for even number months and then rotate for odd months. Those too shy and bashful could just linger while crossing the street; no mob would be required.
When police ask you to move on, just do so, no need to tarry, no muss, no fuss, no speeches no signs, no music, save all that for organized events. As few as a dozen folks would have a dramatic effect on business. Law enforcement are not slackers, as they move to interdict future slowdowns, just move down a block or two. It won’t take many, and there will be no need for tents. Walk in, look around, tie your shoes and walk off.
Sorry, duplicate post
MSO @33
Here in Seattle we’ve got homeless people who’ve been doing that for years……
Much preferring wretchard to Moran…I find however, that my spirit is not buoyed by Moran’s ignorant bliss, nor wretchard’s brilliant imagery.
My countrymen comprised in large part of fools following traitors into the abyss, does not lift my heavy heart.
Moran, ever the fool…suggests that this downward slalom of small c communism i no great concern, merely mischief that can be handled by holding one element of our weakening democracy. As we lose the Senate, the White House and soon the Supreme Court, as the Lawless Emperor seizes the country by the throat and evades every check and balance, ignores its rules and regulations and marches his army over the mountain…the Stupid Party stumbles along in tepid and trembling retreat.
Ahhh, but Moran says that Obama and the small c communists are impotent to destroy us from within.
The entirety of Europe is collapsing around Germany’s ears, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela show the depths of depravity…but Moran cannot let the scales fall from his eyes.
Wretchard, heaven love him, sees the collapse of the Soviet empire at the end of the road, it cannot hold…because the weight of its tyranny is too heavy a burden.
Orwell was forced into seeing depravity in the pastel colored fraud of radical leftism. But, he did not come lightly to the defense of freedom. Nor will we.
It will be a heavy burden upon us to fight…and fight alone. We have no Party apparatus at our disposal. The Republican Party has failed us. They are partisan, but not patriot. They will not lay down their individual perks for our safety and welfare.
Our best and our brightest are not among their national running ranks. (save Paul Ryan). The timid and venal do not satisfy the great need and grand need that befalls us in this moment. Limp-wristed retreaters cannot stave off the European decline as we follow like lemmings to the sea…all that is fraudulent and traitorous in radical leftism.
With buffoons voting for the empty promises and deceits and Republicans playing the effete and ineffective foils…we are left to our own devices to …survive…the onslaught of our destruction at the hands of those who mean to destroy us from within.
They may one day collapse as the Soviet Union did. But not before they hand us nine yards of hell. May our children live to see the day that recaptures what our parents bequeathed to us. A country better, freer, truer and more honorable than we have bequeathed to ours.
marymcl@35: “Here in Seattle we’ve got homeless people who’ve been doing that for years……”
I’m a good learner…
I think this is one of the best columns ever at PJM.
Alas, I see no turn of good luck from this man being elected.
America’s luck may have run out.
Time to pray.
Wishful thinking. Get your nose out of the books and take a look around you. Obama’s a dictator. He no longer needs our cooperation to govern. Half the country would drink bleach if he told them it was a good idea.
Agree with #38, though there’s a big place for better living through appropriate firepower. The ripples spread outwards, too. One lateral view:
More interesting than the future of Rajoy in Spain may be the future of M. Hollande in France.
Everything in France’s socialist state is now unraveling; many believe, more-or-less objectively, that the fan will be hit next year, no later. Seen another way: It’s taken the Krauts 100 years to get the Frogs where they want them.
Merkel is too frumpy, weak and muddled to know what to do.
But there are many others…
The secret simply will no longer keep
For America is losing sleep
It’s time to break the spell
Who is Allen West and what is he up to, do tell?
Rumor has it he’s a cannoneer
He’s a dashing buccaneer
I hear he’s handy with the quips
He’s the annihilator of Alinsky statist creeps with information on their lying at his fingertips
They say he’s nearly seven feet tall
And yet quite graceful… … all in all
I’m told there are lightning bolts when he walks
And thunder when he talks!
He’s been many times seen
Wearing DCU and then full OD green
I hear he’s steely as you please
He could be Samurai Japanese
He may be shrewd
He may be rude
Ah well, it’s hard to tell
Who is this Allen West, do tell?
The Alinsky statists may think he comes from Hell
But he may come from somewhere just around the dell
But he will be here and he will be there
You could see him giving the Alinsky statists hell most any time and most anywhere
He meddles with the Alinsky statist devolution
Stomping them mightily throughout each week
Spoiling every Alinsky statists lying elocution
La, what cheek!
ALL the republicans in the House need to do is refuse to raise the debt ceiling. Game over. You want the House back? TAKE IT! Real men gave their lives so that we can live free. Republican representatives… what are you afraid of?
I enjoyed your article very much. I also have the suspicion that neither Romney nor Obama wanted to really-really win this election because the problems coming upon the world are simply not solvable. Since WW2 liberals to the left and right have governed borrowing from the future. Well, the future is here. You simply can’t print that much money. The sweet bird of paradox is about to poop on mankind’s head.
(R)s were refusing to raise the debt ceiling last time; but they caved.
What happens if they hold fast this time?
Is there any comeuppance in what happens, or do union (private and gov’t) workers
continue their theft?
M@rk @42
“Republican representatives… what are you afraid of?”
Ultimately, it appears that most of them are terrified of losing their comfy position at the federal trough…Even though they’ve been demoted to foraging for the leavings in the slop.
I wrote about this last week. Think about it: The President was only able to win by pouring $350 million into 6 states (the ground game). But, he still needed to spend an additional $400 million in negative advertising in these 6 states to neutrailize Mitt and the GOP amongst women, blacks, hispanics, and Blue Collar workers. But, to get to that position, the President poured roughly $1 trillion into welfare payments ($60,000/person living in poverty) to buy their silence. Those people didn’t really need to vote (that was a bonus). But, they had to stay away from the protest lines and at the very least tolerate the economy (ie not vote for Mitt). The turn out numbers for 2012 were roughly 12 million votes fewer than 2008 -or about 4 million for the GOP and 8 million for the Dems. This was the entire ground game for Obama. And it cost this nation roughly $5.6 trillion in additonal debt.
Obama and the Dems made their bed.
I’m wondering about the US and political parties.
To have that corrupt, malicious, anti-American, Obama, win the election so slickly, so readily, well, it reminds me of Hitler taking over the Reich in the 1930′s.
I now realize that the Democrats began planning the 2012 election right from the first day of 2008. Their focus was on power, on creating a dependent and bonded electoral base. They totally ignored the economy, foreign affairs, trade…all the duties of a federal govt, and focused instead on developing this electoral base.
I note, that in my view, a federal government has NO business and NO right to legislate social issues, ie, anything to do with abortion, contraception, marriage, gender, etc. These issues belong to the people not to a government, unless you are a totalitarian Islamist or Communist government. Therefore, they must be decided by the people, personally and/or by referendum, at the State level.
The federal government must focus on and confine itself to: the economy, fiscal policy, security of person and property, foreign relations and interstate infrastructure. Period.
But, the Democrats, over time and particularly under Obama, have totally abandoned the federal duties and have instead focus on social issues. These inherenly divide a population – the tactical agenda of the Democrats – into Identity Blocs, amenable to political manipulation.
The GOP should, as does the PM of Canada, Stephen Harper, refuse to allow social issues within parliament, insisting that these are decisions to be made by the people not by a federal legislature.
Obama, right from day one of 2008, began to plan for 2012 and focused on developing a dependent population. The genuine duties of the federal government; namely the economy, security and defense, foreign affairs, etc, were all sidelined and their problems blamed on Bush. Every single area’s problems – blamed on Bush and nothing was done. The actions in these areas were in reality, geared to building support for othe 2012 election.
1)The Stimulus was geared to satisfying the massive public service unions. They put the US into enormous debt to bond the public service and unions to them. Remember that Obama, on one of his late night ‘pop talk’ shows told Letterman that the debt was ‘not a problem now’ but ‘would be later’. The esteemed interviewer did not ask Obama why putting a nation into massive debt was not a problem now.
2)Then, health care was geared to satisfying yet another portion of the population dependent on govt funding, the uninsured and poor.
3)Then, the EPA was developed to satisfy the environmental and green crowd. Obama couldn’t get Cap and Trade through Congress so he ignored Congress and had his unelected EPA set up the rules.
And, borrowed more taxpayer money to fund ‘solar energy and other green projects. The fact that they went bankrupt was irrelevant; his goal was to attach the environmental crowd.
4) Then, unemployment insurance was extended, and food stamps increased; this created yet another enormous sector of the population dependent on the government.
5) Going after single women, with making Catholic Institutions fund contraceptions.
6) Anti-Israel – to appease the leftist academics and get the loyalty of US Muslims.
7) Class warfare to divert the anger over the rising problems in the economy, from the govt and its failures…to ‘the rich’.
8) Approving same sex marriage – to bond gays and lesbians and the left.
9) The refusal to support Arizona’s attempts to deal with illegals, and the Act to allow illegal students to stay in the US; this was a focus on hispanics.
We can see that this was a coherent and single-minded plan: to focus on Identity Blocs in the population, make them dependent on the Democratic govt…to win the 2012 election.
The FACT that the economy was tanking, that bribing these identity groups was taking money from the economy..was blamed, as a red herring, on Congress who-wouldn’t-do-anything. On the GOP. On Bush. etc.
Now, they’ll start on the 2016 electiion. Obama himself doesn’t care. He probably doesn’t want Hillary, despite Bill Clinton having contributed to Obama’s re-election. After all, Obama couldn’t run on HIS economic record, so he ran on Bill Clinton’s !!!! heh.
He will now blame Congress and the House for any problems whatsoever, and move, more and more into doing what he does now. Ignoring Congress and ‘ruling’ (I mean the word) by Executive Fiat.
What can be done, when an infrastructure has been developed that sets up the majority of the population into adversarial Identity Blocs, all dependent on government, ie, other taxpayers’ money. What can be done?
I think Wretchard is right. Don’t give in. Don’t appease. Instead, the GOP should stick to their principles of sound fiscal management and let the economy implode under the Democrats. Let the Obama gang OWN their actions; let them OWN the economy.
But,I’ll bet the GOP will, like Chamberlain, appease the beast.
I am beginning to like the idea of Republicans voting present on economic issues, and letting Obama have absolutely everything he wants for the next two years. Whatever happens, he owns it. He will get what he wants anyway, but in this way he must accept 100 percent of credit or blame.
However, the other part of this strategy; Congress must vigorously investigate every hint of wrongdoing by this administration. Even if nothing comes of it, they owe it to history to document the corruption.
Give him what he wants on the economy.
At the same time investigate every hint of corruption.
Their economic theories will not work. Obviously. But when this national lesson in economics has run its course, there must be a strong record of the corruption that inevitably accompanies ever-expanding government.
The most enjoyable and often educational benefit of the PJM site is the free exchange of comments that follow the essays. Get rid of the “Link to this Comment” and stay with the “Reply” feature. Is someone on the site management staff afraid that the commenter’s exchanges might get a little too robust? If so, get over it. PJM isn’t for ninnies.
Lindal asked, ” But if your goal is to eliminate American hard power in the world, and remove the US as a superpower,(and to make the US weak and open to attack by all the malcontents across the globe) what would you have done differently than what Obama has done in the last 4 years, and will continue to do in the next four?
Eliminate the Drone program, NOT surge in Afghanistan, and actually propose a budget that had huge defense cuts in it (as I’m sure a lot of his lefty base wanted him to do) early on in his term.
Seriously, folks, the ODS around here makes almost any clear-eyed discussion of what is really happening…a challenge.
Dwight, your ignorance of how the left operates betrays your likely status as a useful idiot.
Etab: “To have that corrupt, malicious, anti-American, Obama, win the election so slickly, so readily, well, it reminds me of Hitler taking over the Reich in the 1930′s.”
And this would qualify as Exhibit B. And you wonder why a majority of the country does not take you seriously.
#48 4R&R – I’m not sure that the GOP should vote ‘Present’ on Obama’s agenda, unless by that you mean that they don’t appease him. I agree with No Appeasement.
The GOP should present their basic core economic principles: economic viability, small non-intrusive govt, etc, etc…and refuse, in Congress, to go along with Obama’s economic and other agendas.
In 2008, Obama could get that disastrous Stimulus through since he controlled the House. He doesn’t own it now. BUT, Obama is quite capable, if the House rejects him, of acting by Executive Fiat. He’s moved into this tactic more and more.
AND, to campaign, now, for 2014, on the theme that the GOP are blocking all his attempts at economic reform. So, the GOP have to, now, lay out their economic reform plan, and point out where Obama is not fulfilling it.
In other words, in a strange way, the GOP have to, now, set the agenda, and hold Obama accountable. Not the other way around.
#49 Yooper, I agree. The lack of a Reply option is a serious flaw in this thread. I’ve no idea why Wretchard, almost alone in PJMedia, does not have this option.
Excellent analogies and the Zapatero analogy is particularly appropriate. Romney and Ryan can at least be thankful they won’t have the coming government catastrophe hung around their necks—if they had gotten the chance to do something to avoid it the cure might have made them one-termers.
Meanwhile, our Zapatero is still in office. But does the recent election mean that O-voters are so ignorant they aren’t aware that Hope and Change was a trailer for a flick that turned out to be a bomb or does it say that the damage O has wrought hasn’t been bad enough yet to jump start even an O-voter’s thinking process? This question might matter if these people are more bought-off at this point than a coalition of the foolish.
We need to find out what Obama and the other thugs have on Roberts. If he would put it out himself, it would foil their plans. Then he could say”publish and be damned”.
Great points Richard.
53. ETAB
“I’m not sure that the GOP should vote ‘Present’ on Obama’s agenda”
Political Guerilla war. Making use of the terrain. In this case Terrain being the Socialist ownership of the Media.
If (R)’s vote against Bronco’s ‘New America’ plan, when the wheels fall off the Media will use that vote to pin the blame for no wheels on the (R)’s.
If the (R)’s play the [political game and try to modify the ‘New America plan, they will share the blame when the wheels come off. Given the media bias, share means they get 99% while the (D)’s get 1%.
By voting ‘present’ the (R)’s place 100% of the blame on the (D)’s and take the media off the board. Bohner ( I hope he is gone come January. I consider him the (D)’s secret weapon) will have to announce that while the (R)’s think the (D)’s ‘new America’ plan is a rolling fuster-cluck and the greatest disaster to ever happen to the USA, the voters want it and the GOP will not stand between the voters and their just deserts.
“the vice of capitalism is unequal sharing of prosperity, the virtue of socialism is equal sharing of misery”
Republicans lost this latest election for a few reasons which have already been discussed at length. At least we know their next candidate will not start the campaign by saying they would’nt mind any business’s to go bankrupt or that half the country (or 47%) is not worthy of notice, then ask for their support. Most everyone now wants the wars ended, financial reform, spending cuts and improved health care reform but one party said “how” they would actually do it while the other did not. People would rather vote for the devil they know eh? Great article, Thanks.
ETAB @47, good synopsis.
Obama, as noted, has been campaigning for re-election – on our dime and our time – since Jan 2009.
The Rs, should they choose to live to fight another day, need to streamline their vision, mission and message. And yes, that means ditch divisive and non-Constitutional social distractions and focus exclusively on core issues.
As ETAB puts it: “The federal government must focus on and confine itself to: the economy, fiscal policy, security of person and property, foreign relations and interstate infrastructure. Period.”
Do they recognize the opportunity? Are they up to the challenge? Can they redefine and communicate highly focused national priorities with clarity and precision? Can they behave as genuine leaders in the face of recent defeat? If past performance is an indicator of future performance, the answer seems obvious …
“Will it pay off? Or will he be like those college students who’ve found that getting into big time debt to get a degree in fashion, sculpture, and performance doesn’t pay off?”
And this kid wonders why he can’t find a job? Maybe, just maybe, we should make it harder for kids to GET a student loan. Maybe student loans should be treated like any other loan. If you are applying for a car loan, the bank wants to make sure you have a job so that you can PAY BACK the loan. If the taxpayer is going to get stuck for the cost of funding a student loan where the student has no way of paying it back, maybe we should start demanding that the kids getting these loans start majoring in subjects that can actually be used to GET A JOB! A degree in fashion, sculpture, and performance is NOT a recipe for success. A degree in engineering or science or even business administration can be. We should be giving loans out to people who will be going into a field that has the greatest probability of success. Majoring in 18th century lesbian poets isn’t going to cut it when you start looking for a job. Ironically, people who go to trade schools would probably be the best investment. When you have a trade, chances are you’re going to eventually have a job. But if you want to study “dance” or “fashion,” do it on your own dime.
What a totally stupid article and point of view.
The question is NOT what will happen to Obama or his reputation or his legacy or the legitimacy of the liberal progressive (i.e., socialist) agenda over the next four years if his policies are a total disaster (and they will be); the question is WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO ALL OF US, TO OUR CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC, to the AMERICAN CITIZENRY, over the next four years !!
Further, you assume that Obama will be held accountable for his soon-to-be-proven (yet again !) disastrous economic policies. Well, this is certainly no forgone conclusion.
Rest assured that mainstream economists (mostly all socialists or Keynesians at heart), and the ENTIRE mainstream media will be working overtime to attribute any and all shortcomings of his policies to “other” causes (e.g., the republicans, china, global warming, solar flares, the rich “fat cats,” Wall Street, the middle-east mess, etc).
Please recall the history more relevant than Verdun or the Titanic, and that would be FDR’s “New Deal,” (i.e, the destruction of the US economy).
He presided over the worst economic dislocation in American History and he was re-elected FOUR TIMES !!! His economic policies destroyed the lives of millions of Americans.
Yes, he inherited Hoover’s mess in 1933 (when FDR assumed office), but by 1940 the unemployment rate WAS STILL IN THE DOUBLE DIGITS; but he was re-elected again.
FDR was a world class expert in deceiving and manipulating the citizenry. He was able to convince voters that all the problems he was dealing with were the fault of someone or something else, and he was just doing his best to help the little guy.
Yea right.
Obama, in this regard, is EXACTLY LIKE FDR; a master manipulator and deceiver. A BIG LIAR WITH A MAGNETIC PERSONALITY. And he will have the media on his side. You watch; he will be the “Teflon President” no matter what happens. (To this day, FDR is considered a “great” president, despite running the US economy – and the lives of millions of citizens – totally into the toilet bowl).
Yea, many “leaders” have inherited a mess and their reputations suffered greatly as a result of being unable to ameliorate a bad situation. But more often than not, those that suffered most were the citizenry and their country.
Again, an incredibly stupid and dumb article by R.Fernandez.
Poor Citizen -
“business’s to go bankrupt or that half the country (or 47%) is not worthy of notice,”
Nice try. Actual quote –
“There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it — that that’s an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what. … These are people who pay no income tax. … [M]y job is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.”
Which leaves 53% of people who think you’re an idiot.
Demography is destiny! The Republic is lost; displaced by a population that no longer believes in or even understands the precepts of the founders. Obama is the symptom not the cause of the disease. Education is the cure but will take too long to be effective before economic collapse finishes the American experiment. What will follow is unclear but will be a harsh environment until a new Hegemon arises. Interesting Times!
@ No. 10 Harvard Yard Conservative
Thank you for sharing this encouraging news. I see from your link that the SCOTUS has also agreed to hear PLF’s challenge to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, which is equally good news.
We absolutely must gain control of the runaway train our shockingly corrupted election process has become if we are to make any headway in turning America around. No one will ever convince me it’s not the only thing that needed to be different on November 6th for Romney and Ryan to have won.
Old “Steadfast and Loyal” Allen West is doing what Romney should have done on behalf of the entire country. Thank God for people like these.
42. M@rk
ALL the republicans in the House need to do is refuse to raise the debt ceiling. Game over. You want the House back? TAKE IT! Real men gave their lives so that we can live free. Republican representatives… what are you afraid of?
Yes, and I add that the House should pass a balanced budget every day. One a day, and make that the line in the sand. They can say that the debt ceiling does not have to increase, the government can keep going without shutdown, if only the Senate, under H. Reid, would take the bills up for consideration.
If you turn the tables, and make the Senate out to be the briar patch that it is under Reid, you should go up in public opinion.
If the R’s concede passing the bill with the over $250k tax rates untouched, then the D’s have taken away any lever the R’s have. With the cliff still in sight, there’s a bit of willingness on the D side to make some concession. Without the cliff, they will run over the R’s, and the topic will never come up again. The deadline has been pushed out to the event horizon, and other more important things will be taken up.
tom
Dwight, considering the big picture, there is really only one significant difference between Hitler and Obama, at similar junctures in history. Both have taken advantage of economic crisis to ingratiate themselves with low-information, desperate masses, who in turn become unthinking, fanatic followers. Both blame all problems on somebody/something else – creating popular scapegoats that their followers are happy to blame for everything. Both offer, as cures to all ills, plans to take from those scapegoat parties. Both use ruthless means to remove or neutralize anyone that begins to represent a threat. Dissent quickly learns to go underground, because the fanatic masses attack it on sight; concern grows about when the price of dissent will be more painful than being called names by fools. Dissenters come to realize that the fanatics (many of whom used to be friends and family members) will only turn on their leader when the cities lie in ruin – they cannot be reasoned with by any amount of truth or civilized discourse.
The difference between Hitler and Obama is that Hitler rode a wave of nationalism and presumably didn’t plan on destroying Germany, literally and figuratively. On that regard, Obama appears to be pretty much the opposite.
#1 Among those you mentioned the divider in chief will blame, you left out the most important one…. Bush.
Regardless of what happens to our economy, the main stream media will do everything in their power to shield the divider in chief from any blame. If you remember the fairy tale about the emperor’s new clothes, in our present day fairy tale, the child that stated, “but he has no clothes” will be imprisoned for the rest of his life in a mental institution.
Well, I don’t agree. I don’t think Obama will pay at all, not according to his game plan. Along with the media, he’s succeeding in totally inverting the social consciousness and universal laws of cause and effect as they pertain to power and accountability. Obama will accomplish everything he intended to accomplish, leave the country in a state of semi-totalitarian ruin and serfdom, and the Republicans will be blamed for it all. His victory after four years of failure is all the proof you need. The media will blame the Republicans for dividing the country and cruelly thwarting Obama’s salubrious hopes and therapies and they will succeed. And the Republicans will play their compliant part by refusing the define their principles or define the intentions of the Left and engage the Left.
As we see The results of the Obama plan, I plan to be as ungovernable as possible. I have taken most of my capital out of my company . I borrowed against the assets .I took this capital and have invested in Canadian farmland. The rent alone returns me 6% . I expect Obama to print many moreUS dollars. Canada has a conservative government, that is a virtual conservative dictatorship. I predict the Canadian dollar to appreciate against theUS buck. They also have really nice cap gain laws.
With my company now not having huge cash reserves,anyObama regulations or taxes,will be immediately passed on to my employees. They need to see exactly what Obama’s policies do in real time. Their new healthcare costs,will demand a lowering of wages. If I have a good business idea, I will still pursue it, while taking as little risk as possible. Cheers!
He bought it with our money at a great cost to us.
He can go to his golf games, his wife can go on her Antoinette tours on taxpayers’ jets. What is unlucky about that? It may be the country’s unluckest day, certainly not his. So write something else, not any more sour grapes columns, please.
#52Dwight, good heaven’s, I wasn’t aware that a ‘majority of the country’ has ever, or will ever, read my comments! Are you saying that they do?! Wow! Gosh and golly, I didn’t know that anyone, much less a majority of the country, read me. Aw shucks.
Oh, and I stand by my comparison. Obama’s transformation of the population into dependent Identity Blocs, each adversarial against another bloc, each dependent on the federal government for basic needs, is exactly similar to Hitler’s takeover of the Reich.
#57 Stoicheion. Interesting analysis. I think your outline of what the GOP should do makes a LOT of sense. I see your point that IF the GOP resist, then, they’ll be blamed. But, IF they vote ‘Present’, I still think that they MUST publicize their different plan and why they disagree with Obama’s plan. Then, say – but heck, if you voters want it, then, you’ll see the results.
#59 GDI – I hope the GOP face up to reality and take social issues off the table. The Democrats have transformed themselves into a party which deals ONLY with social issues. They ignore the economy, foreign policy, interstate issues, immigration and borders etc. The GOP should move, heavily, into these areas and openly declare that the Democrats refuse to develop policies here…and focus only on the social.
And the GOP must, as Stephen Harper, the Canadian Prime Minister has done, declare that social issues belong to the decisions of the people. If you want government to make these decisions, then you want a totalitarian Sharia Law or communist style government. But, in the US, people are free; they must make these decisions themselves, privately or at the local state level by referendum. The federal govt must never intrude on this Power of the People. They must present it as acknowledging the Power of the People.
#66 Kyndyll – nice comments. Very accurate. That includes your last comment on Obama; he’s anti-American.
Time to grow up and break out of the circular firing squad. If there is hope left then those of us who are opposed to the Obama agenda have to learn to think tactically. We all know that the economy is headed for disaster over the next four years and what we must do is to make sure that the MSM/Democratic Party axis cannot blame conservatives of any stripe. That involves doing something we don’t want to do and that is to pretty much give the President more or less what he wants. Alternative 1 is to support Simpson-Bowles. Since it was chartered by Obama it puts him on the hook to accept a non-partisan deal that puts him the position of either pursuing his spending agenda in violation of the deal or accepting limits on his agenda. Alternative 2 is to give him sort of what he wants. Pass his budget but let the Bush era tax cuts expire for everyone to pay for it. That way you connect government cheese to higher taxes.
Keep in mind that Obama wants all the Bush tax cuts to expire anyway but wants to blame the Republicans for doing it. Tactically, that means that going over the fiscal cliff and blaming the Republican intransigence for it is his objective. Cutting a deal that keeps the Bush era tax rates for everybody but the top 2% should not be in play because it places equal blame for the next recession on the Republicans and increases the percentage of the electorate with zero tax liability. From a political standpoint I prefer the pass the President’s budget strategy because it checkmates his blame the House leadership strategy.
39. Mark Half the country would drink bleach if he told them it was a good idea.
But it would solve a substantial portion of our ‘problem,’ would it not? Ah, well. One can only dream…
Demand a Full Recount of the 2012 Presidential Election!
What are we a Third World Country or a Republic?
Many brave Americans have and continue to make the ultimate sacrifice to uphold and defend our “Constitution” and “Bill of Rights” and it’s a disgrace that their votes were suppressed again across the country.
I just signed the petition “United States Federal Election Commission: We Demand a Full Recount of the 2012 Presidential Election” on Change.org.
It’s important. Will you sign it too? Here’s the link:
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Additionally, please take some time out of your busy day to visit the following website for daily updates regarding voter fraud and sign the other listed petitions:
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Jake
We should all strive to be as serious as the Democrats, with their talking vaginas and shouting “racist!” at anyone who has principled disagreement with their polices, eh Dwight?
“0bama election has sealed China’s rise as the worlds new super power.”
We may be guilty of thinking too conventionally about the future of global politics. It may not be the rise to power of any one country that matters – but rather the rise of world socialism based on multiple powerful socialist governments who have every reason to cooperate to keep freedom and capitalism at bay.
BTW, does anyone know why the “reply” function is not active in the comment section of some articles but not others?
Enough of the crying and political rhetoric. Obama claims he has a plan to create jobs and pay down the national deficit by investing in a whole lots of stuff and asking the wealthy to pay a little bit more.
OK. Mr. President, it’s time to see the specifics of your plan:
1. How much do you want to raise taxes and on whom? Income, capital gains, or both?
2. How much additional revenue to you or your experts predict the increased tax rates will raise and what are your assumptions? For example, are you assuming people will invest the same amount with higher capital gains tax rates?
3. Will raising taxes increase or decrease the amount of private capital in the economy? How will this affect the number of private sector jobs? Is this increase/decrease in employment (and the associated tax implications) reflected in #2, above?
4. Assuming you are predicting an increase in revenue, how are you going to spend the additional revenue? Your latest jobs plan consists of investing in many things. Will we have the revenue for the additional “investing” and reducing the national debt? Please quantify this “investing”.
5. Are any specific spending cuts proposed? Please explain.
We ALL need to start demanding to see the specifics of his plan. I don’t care about George W. Bush, William Clinton, their tax rates and what they did to the economy. I don’t want to hear rhetoric about top-down or middle-out economic theories. I want to know Barrack Obama’s specific plan.
Irony: November 7, 2012 – the 95th Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.
Some may claim that it was October, however even the soviets celebrated it on the new calendar, in November.
wretchard @6: “The Republicans are “the British gentleman sort of enemy””
Precisely. I’ve been infuriated during the last several presidential elections as the Republicans get drawn into a dark alley at nighttime against a foe who is using rusty knives and broken bottles, only to hear the Republicans insist on waiting for a streetlamp to be installed so they can fight according to Marquis of Queensbury rules.
Mr. Fernandez, the fact that yesterday’s newspage reported that fifteen states have petitioned for secession only serves to prove your point. I’m of mixed feelings about this development. One the one hand, I fear that it may spark a second Civil War; on the other, I find myself regretting that my own state was not among the fifteen. Given what we’ve seen so far in terms of the erosion of liberties, part of me is very much afraid that, over the course of the next four years, America is going to become a place where only hardline atheists and communists, and “sheeple,” want to live. The rest of us, who want to preserve our liberties and enjoy self-determination, will want to leave – but given the situation in the world today, other than seceding, there’s nowhere else to go.
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39. Mark Half the country would drink bleach if he told them it was a good idea.
But it would solve a substantial portion of our ‘problem,’ would it not? Ah, well. One can only dream…”
Wait, they’d have Obamacare to take care of that bleach drinking, problem solved…
It’s tricky. The Republicans lost control of both houses of the Minnesota legislature because their shut down of the state was seen as obstructionist rather than as necessary to maintain fiscal discipline – even by voters who say they value low taxes and fiscal conservatism. There is a fine line to walk between adhering to principles and throwing a monkey wrench in the works.
One of the better ideas I’ve seen of late is to make sure the tax increases hit the left the hardest Eliminating the deduction for state and local taxes hits wealthy people in high tax states. Perhaps most importantly the last huge pool of untaxed wealth in this nation are the endowments of the private foundations, public charities and educational institutions. There are parallels here to the Reformation. Henry VIII had two reasons to go after the churches and monasteries in England and only one of them had to do with his divorce and remarriage.
Re 77.
Good ideas. Now if only you convince repubs. In Congress to implement it….Or describe how it could be done.
17. Walt
We still have the Second Amendment.
True, but for how much longer? I expect it will start to disappear before the end of Obama’s second term. Don’t take my word on it, read up on McDonald vs. Chicago and consider how the Supreme Court’s decision would change once Obama gets some more liberal judges appointed (up to three are expected to retire during his term). Once McDonald vs. Chicago gets overturned, expect to see this spread like wildfire among liberal cities and possible liberal states. How long before the Second Amendment is just removed completely?
Poor Citizen,
You ARE aware that companies go through bankruptcy reorganization all the time and come out of it stronger, aren’t you? There are bankruptcy laws that facilitate the process.
But in the case of the auto companies, a lawful bankruptcy reorganization would have had a negative effect on the unions upon which Obama relies for cash, manpower and votes. On the other hand, who cares about the evil bondholders, who SHOULD have been first in line for repayment of the loans they extended to the auto companies. So Obama, all by himself, threw out bankruptcy law and performed the delicate bankruptcy operation in such a way that ONLY the stockholders and bondholders would be harmed; the unions that were the greatest cause of the auto companies’ downfall were rewarded for their fealty to Lord Obama.
Romney would have let the companies experience a normal and lawful bankruptcy reorganization. However, he did not make that clear, just one of his mistakes.
#61 JA
One who cannot appreciate the eloquence of aphorism is in a poor position to ascribe stupidity to our host at the Belmont Club. Do you usually go into a friends home and make discourteous remarks? If not than why do it here; an apology is in order IMHO!
I love this part, “I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s an obsolete idea that a college education is like your golden ticket,” DiPietro says. “It’s an idea that an older generation holds on to.”
The older generations recieved degrees when college was really a “rigorous” challenge. So even a degree in the Humanities was considered something not everyone could earn. A hard mathmatics, Science, or engineering degree really meant something as to the character and intelligence of the reciever.
Fashion-sculpture-performance?! You might have gone all out for Womens Studies, or African American studies-the leftists have successfully executed their plan to dummy the entire nation down.
No more pragmatism. It’s time for the GOP to go for the jugular; Unapologetic defense of individual rights, liberty, laissez-faire capitalism. The dog and pony show of playing “nice” is over. We need to lambast the opposition for what they are; tyrants. And if they don’t like that rhetoric I can give a ****!
If I’m reading things correctly & I know that I am: Obama is the ONLY leader of u.s. EVER PREDICTED OF U.S. OUTSIDE of the figures already described in the BIBLE. YES, HE IS CALLED IN DEUTERONOMY 17:15 THE “FORBIDDEN FOREIGNER” AND IT HAS BE BE OBAMA BECAUSE HE IS THE “ONLY” NON-ANGLO-SAXON EVER TO RULE OVER ANGLO-SAXONS IN 6,000 YEARS OF THEIR OWN ACCORD! DUH! WILL THIS MATTER? YES, IT DEFINITELY WILL! Specifically, one WOMAN began man’s age through her “intellectualizing” and now WOMEN in MASS have put over u.s. the “forbidden foreigner” of Deuteronomy 17:15 as explained above! He also is the SELF-PROCLAIMED “RIGHT” ANTI-CHRIST(MARXIST) OVER U.S. OF REVELATION, CHAPTER 11. Oh, did I also mention that HE also is the “RIGHT” ANTI-CHRIST(MARXIST) OVER anglo-saxons too? Welcome to Adam’s world even BEFORE the 1ST MURDERER WAS EVER BORN!~just sayin…
71. ETAB – I, too, hope the GOP faces reality and takes social issues off the table. However, I’ve been arguing this point with Republicans for years (decades?). On the one hand, they claim they want a Constitutional republic, on the other, they leap to dictate social mores. They claim to be the party of fiscal responsibility, but their federal track record belies that claim. This mashup of confused principles, social control and mixed messages is a losing proposition.
The Tea Party’s success can in many ways be traced to its clear focus on core issues: economy, security, property rights, strong borders, free markets. The Rs would be well on their way to recovery if they adopted a similar model focused on core issues.
82. NC Mountain Girl – Yes, wouldn’t it be lovely if tax increases actually did hit the left hardest? Ain’t gonna happen. Obama and the Minions will protect, waive, dodge and distort law to ensure their acolytes in Hollywood, on Wall Street, etc., evade the tax tsunami headed our way.
Like you, I’ve been advocating for the elimination of non-profit status for 80-90% of those who shelter behind that facade. Unions, for example, don’t pay federal OR state taxes on member dues. (And employers foot the bill for collecting non-taxable dues on behalf of the union.) Make unions collect their own dues. And tax’em at both the federal and state level. It’s only fair. In 2011, PBS-Sesame Street-et al raked in $45M in merchandise sales AND $122M in content/media sales. Tax it. Now. This, too, is only fair.
In fact, I suggest we propose a Pay Your Fair Share Act, designed specifically to start with non-profits. (Then we can all stop and listen, while Lefty heads explode at the mere thought of paying taxes!)
The election was good luck to Obama no matter what happens. Does anyone really think that Obama gives a damn what happens to this country and the people? He could care less about the national debt, budget deficits, unemployment rate, the price of gasoline, whether Iran gets the bomb, etc. What he does care about is his celebrity status, living in the White House with all its servants, flying in Air Force One, private schools for his kids, and the fancy vacations. He will be rich the rest of his life no matter what happens during his second term. When the USA turns into Greece, Obama will hardly notice as he enjoys the life of the rich and famous at his Hawaiian estate.
If you haven’t see D’Souza’s film, 2016, you need to!
It’s not so much D’Souza’s predictions, but his look into Obama’s ancestry, past and current associations and the influence these people have had on his worldview and policy-making.
All his influences were anti-colonialists who see US and GB as colonial, empire-building monsters (the 1%) who have robbed from the rest of the world (the 99%) and it is up to him to help bring all of the 99% up at the expense of the 1%. Helps to understand why he backed the occupiers last year.
D’Souza says it even extends to nuclear weapons. How can the US, GB, France, Israel, etc who have multiple warheads really begrudge Iran, etc having only one or two warheads? He just wants to put us all on the same level.
We don’t deserve to be a world power because of all that we’ve done (in his mind) to the rest of the world.
It’s a zero-sum game and he’s going to be sure that everyone has an equal size piece of the action.
Wow, it’s always such a shock to drop in on the alternative universe of people like Richard Fernandez and his fawning sycophants. Only in this universe can an excerpt from an essay by Leo Linbeck lll gain nodding, unquestioned agreement. Cooke writes:
“So, yes, he won. But it will almost certainly be a Pyrrhic victory. He chose to divide the country deeply to win his second term. He will find that the nation he will again lead is not governable by him, and he may have tipped it to where it is not governable by anyone. He is so deeply despised by so much of the country that he will never be able to do what needs to be done (assuming he even wanted to, which does not appear likely).”
This is the continuation of the same alternative-universe, Obama Derangement Syndrome that has created the Invisible Obama that only conservatives can see, one the “liberal” MSM along with most Americans ignores or doesn’t see . And the twisted hysteria that created this distortion – illustrated above – is so intense that this imagined Obama elicits not just opposition but virulent hatred. He’s not just misguided, he’s plotting the destruction of America. He’s constantly smeared with every possible label from “fascist” to “communist” to “socialist” to “Muslim” to, hilariously, all of the above and new faux scandals are trotted out daily. Oh, and he reads from a teleprompter and his wife wants your kids to eat carrots!! And you wonder why you lost this election???
I’ve watched in awe for years as the conservatives have developed a competing reality reinforced by their constant repetition of the mantra that they are the victims of a “liberal” MSM. This drives them to tune out this “biased” reality and focus only on those that repeat the version of reality that they subscribe to. The echo chamber that has resulted reinforces this myth further offering not “fair and balanced” as they would like to believe, but an often fact-free bubble where any talking point continually repeated becomes unquestioned “fact”. Ironically, the same echo chamber that is seen by it’s devotees as the place to carefully scrutinize the facts pays no attention to it’s own sometimes blatant distortions. In fact it embraces and celebrates them like a badge of honor. This new set of competing realities – the right-wing echo chamber v. the rest of America – is what now drives more than anything the partisan divide that is making this country ungovernable.
And, if there’s one central reason for your failure in this past election it was that you share a “reality” that most Americans don’t, not because those that oppose your hyperbole-fueled misconceptions are “takers” and you are the “makers” or any of the other various excuses. It’s because you’ve been so successful at fooling yourselves with a faux reality created by the likes of Faux Nooze, Rush LIMPbaugh, Shawn Insannity, Glenn Dreck, and Shrill O’Liely. It’s because you’ve created a bubble that separates you from the rest of America.
Nothing could be more ironic than your success at creating a parallel universe leading to your failure to be able to connect with the rest of America and your defeat at the polls. So, please continue to drink the hysteria-sweetened kool-aid, it’s going to lead to more of the same.
Before we know it, Obama will be gone to his Pritzker gifted Hawaiian house and we’ll soon forget about him.
Others will not forget so easily. They are the crazed jihadi who Obama endlessly droned then endlessly bragged about.
They have long memories and longer held scores to settle. Who can protect anyone from them?
This is an excellent article and I really enjoy your process of thinking and writing. This reminds me of the author Robert Greene and how counter intuitive life can be. Thank you for this article. Wonderful to think about.
WRT a college education, it took about fifty years for the US education devolve from being first rate to the shambles in is today. That means that there are, probably, two generations that desperately need a good education. How do you reverse fifty years of neglect, and outright revolution to restore the education system to what it was?
David Horowitz said that since Kruschev’s secret speech on Stalin’s purges, the American Left’s only goal is power. Obama kept power on November 7th, and I think that means his goal has been met. I think in his mind anything from now on is either a bonus or a bump in the road.
California is a microcosm of the whole country. Rural areas are Republican, cities are Democrat. Its Democratic State government has just become bullet proof and has the majority in both houses. There is nothing to stop tax and spend now. I’ve watched company after company fold up and move to another State. With those moves, there is profoundly fewer revenue producing companies. There is going to be a huge round of new taxes to pay for the State’s excesses and again more entrepreneurs will leave the State. Already California shoulders 70% of the people of this country on welfare. What happens in California is the precursor of what will happen in this country. As taxes continue to climb, more people will cut their losses and move to countries where they will have more freedom to operate and make profits. We’ve already seen this in the form of NAPTHA, and outsourcing. What will be left is an empty shell of a now welfare State. The country will implode.
I just heard a radio announcer quote Benjamin Dsreali, “The only difference between a cannibal and a liberal is that a cannibal eats only his enemies.”
82 NC -
You’re on the right track. I think the GOP should propose a new tax that will raise a ton of revenue: a net worth tax. All legal “persons” pay 1% of their value every year. That includes people and corporations, both for-profit, and nonprofit. You’re worth $1,000,000? that will be $10,000 please. Harvard has an endowment of 10 billion? that will be $100,000,000 please. You’re some hollywood asshole worth $100,000,000? $1,000,000 please.
And then we get to do it again next year. Put that in your arugula and smoke it, liberals.
Due to the First Amendment, religious organizations would be exempt. But everybody else, from Walmart to Greenpeace, to John Kerry, cough it up.
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Such a tax is already being applied — by way of money printing — and its far, far above 1%.
Think 5-6% per year.
It’s the dominant reason that the economy can’t even get into first gear.
With our media culture and spineless GOP opposition, a Democrat is basically untouchable, no matter what happens. I expect things to get worse, for Barry to continue to foist the blame for that off on Bush or the always-cooperative John Boehner, and for Barry to consolidate and expand his gains from term one. We’ll all bear the brunt of Barry’s incompetence and malice, but a majority of the people will place the blame wherever Barry points his finger at. So I don’t expect Barry to ever rue the day of his re-election; that will be left to the minority of Americans who still have a clue as to what’s actually going on.
@93. Hey Obi Juan Baloney. Did it ever occur to you that half the country believes that you are the kool-aid drinkers? If you came here to actual read and discuss, you would find that most everyone on this site believes for one reason or another that Progressive excesses and the people who demagogue for them are bad for this country. It usually comes down to the fact that we value freedom and individual responsibility over collectivism and socialism. Even so, we would love to understand your logical arguments defending how bigger government and diminishment of the private sector is going to solve our problems and make life better for all of us. Instead what we hear are emotional attacks and rants.
And as for this reality that you think you own, it was written recently that “reality doesn’t need to win the electoral college vote” . It is going to win out in the end. So save your comments and let’s have a look at them again in 4 years.
Well….there are Democrat house documents about how Obama stole the primary from Hillary. I’ve heard them mentioned, I haven’t seen them. If Hillary is retiring, would anyone mind asking her?
Second, how at least one guy cheated in voting is in that guy who wrote Angela’s Ashes memoir. He made it sound all cozy and hometown like. Public school teacher and immigrant, I might add. If someone could point out all the people who do this, and how they are scummy thieves, it might help.
Okay, how many newspapers disowned Obama in the last week of the campaign? It seems like the editors might like a little help, a few pointers, some suggested reading, some letters to the editor, some essays, about why Obama is so disastrous.
Working poor people, people with massive school debts, and people working out their credit card bills, have legitimate concerns about how to pay for healthcare. Obama answered a great deal of that uncertainty. Someone’s need to start making the case for re-privatizing insurance across state lines, so that insurance is more like a cell-phone bill.
You know how there are websites about ‘people of wal-mart’ that pretty much exist to make fun of poor people? Why not one about union slackers? I mean, my state, the highway workers all seem to be working, but it’s private companies, I think. I’m not too up on that. But I know that cartoons of highway construction with 10 guys standing around, and one guy working, drive people nearly apopleptic. That’s a cartoon about a real-world moment.
Why wasn’t the candidate making a blog tour of big lifestyle blogs? Ann Romney would like Ree Drummond, I think. I’m pretty sure she’s got a scrapbooking daughter-in-law. The only candidate to hold a sock in progress for a photo is Obama- and that got him votes. ( Seriously. Read the comments at the blog- yarn harlot- he got votes for holding on to some woman’s knitting for a photo)
Or cable. Not even a campaign video. Mr Romney knows how to read a book to a kid- I know the man has practice. Why not read one as a commercial on some cable show that kids watch. Their moms watch, too.
I’m not really sure that the “people in the know” knew that Obama would win. This month’s Glamour is all about being young and married. For the last four years it’s been about being young, single, gay, or black.
and-people want transfer payments? There isn’t a law saying how big they are, is there? Why can’t they all be minimum wage, or $2? It’s still a payment. It just saves the budget. It’s meagre in Texas- people move back to Massachusetts or California, rather than be on the dole, here.
We emphasize life vs abortion, not so much for ourselves, as for public dependents. When we had a pro- abortion president, LBJ, he linked food shipments to India to how many people they sterilized.
Social workers have a habit in some states of pressuring children in foster care, late teens, mostly, to abort their child. They could be following the fifties parental script- get married or get buckshot. My parents were teens who married and they have children and a good life- so I’m a fan of that process. My closest friends are from that start, too. Do we deserve to have died?
And, dear goodness, now that he’s won, and we’ve proven beyond a doubt that we aren’t prejudiced, would someone please,please,please,please make a Kumar and Obama go to White Castle movie?
To #69 – What lovely insight. If only all cash-heavy businesses would do the same, the nation wouldn’t be such a long stretch of wasteland. For a while it will be, of course, but that will happen no matter what steps are taken.
Who would ever have thought we’d have such a Congress full of fools? When all they have to do is say “no,” they rush together like a gaggle of chickens when a handful of feed is thrown into the pen.
It would seem our nation is no longer one “under God.”
Check out George Soros and follow the money.
Winston #97 is partly correct: The Obama-ValJar-Axelrodent troika (along with Ayers, Soros et al.) are more interested in power for its own sake than what their exercise of power does for the people they claim to care about — which is why the prez didn’t much care about the details of the health care bill.
But I think it’s worse than that: To them, economic misery is not failure. Weakening and impoverishing the United States is a goal, even if many of their favored client groups suffer because of it.
Minor quibble. Zuikaku wasn’t mauled at Coral Sea, although her air group certainly was. Why the Japanese didn’t strip some of their less useful and less speedy smaller carriers, give her a scratch air group and send her out with Nagumo must be reckoned yet another Japanese error in the whole sorry collection of such that made up their side of the Midway operation.
Despite the absolute superiority of the IJN over the USN, that was more paper than reality. Most of the IJN was useless for that battle and should have been left in port to save fuel. Nagumo’s force was, at the point of contact, really too weak for its jobs. Nagumo really needed that extra deck, or any extra deck he could find.
OFFLMFAO – BARRY HUSSEIN LEGALIZES 7 MILLION ILLEGAL ALIENS (ILLEGALLY) AND TELLS THEM TO VOTE REVENGE AGAINST THE ‘OLD WHITE GUYS’ AND HE WINS BY 2.5 MILLION VOTES…………………
THE IDIOTS THAT DESERVE A PUNCH ARE THE LIBTARD COMMIE TEACHERS WHO HAVE BEEN PREACHING THAT OLD WHITE GUYS ARE EVIL
THEY VOTED FOR THEIR ‘CHECK’ OVER AMERICA
THESE IDIOT OLD WHITE TEACHERS EXPECTING THEIR ‘CHECKS FOR LIFE’ WITH PEOPLE LOSING THEIR JOBS AT 400,000 A WEEK (EVERY WEEK FOR 4 YEARS BOYS)
AND A GROUP OF THOSE OLD WHITE GUYS (LIBTARD EX TEACHERS) WERE LAUGHING AT ME THE OTHER DAY……………..I ASKED THEM WHY THEY VOTED ‘AGAINST THE OLD WHITE GUYS’……………………THEY LAUGHED AND SAID THEY ‘WEREN’T OLD’………………………58 – 65 YEAR OLD EX SURFERS………….
THEY SCREWED THEMSELVES AND DON’T EVEN KNOW IT……………………BARRY DESTROYED US BY GIVING 7 MILLION ILLEGALS ‘FREE AMNESTY’……………SCREWED US……………
THE POOR SANDY VICTIMS ARE BLACKED OUT
LOOK AT THOSE IDIOT NEW YORKERS ACTING LIKE ANYONE IS GOING TO COME AND HELP THEM……………….WHY NOT THEY CRY, WE VOTED FOR BARRY………………
AND HE IS GOING ON SOME VACATION ON YOUR TAX MONEY TO A ‘WARM PLACE’………………..
BUT YOU LIBTARDS DON’T GET IT……………..YOU ARE NOT IN A STATE THAT THE MEDIA CAN DESTROY A REPUBLICAN WITH YOUR STORY, OFFLMFAO – THAT IS ALL KATRINA WAS ————–THOSE LIBTARDS DIDN’T GIVE A CRAP – THEY LEFT THOSE OLD PEOPLE TO DROWN?????
SEE WHY THERE IS NOT A ‘DROP OF NATIONAL NEWS ABOUT YOUR HORROR’……………….BARRY FIXED YOU (OR SO THE MEDIA SAD)
AND THEN THEY VOTED FOR HIM……………….OFFLMFAO…………..IF ONLY THERE WAS A REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT LIKE BUSH, THEN WE WOULD WATCH YOUR HORROR ON TV 24-7……………..LIKE YOU ARE LIVING IT…………….
SORRY BOYS, YOU ARE TOTALLY OWNED BY LIBTARD POLITICIANS…………………..
AND NO ONE IN AMERICA GIVES A DAMN ABOUT YOU NOW……………..
WELCOME TO COMMUNISM……………SOME COMMIES (HOLLYWOOD STARS, BARRY) ARE MORE ‘EQUAL’ THAN YOU LOSER COMMIES………………….
WHAT A HARD WAY TO LEARN THAT LESSON….AND ALL THAT GLOBAL WARMING ‘NOT’ COMING YOUR WAY….SEE HOW THEY FOOLED YOU………..THEY TOLD YOU THAT YOU WERE VOTING TO ‘SCREW OTHER PEOPLE’……………..AND YOU GOT SCREWED…………….THAT IS WHAT CLASS WARFARE DOES………………..AND BARRY HUSSEIN KNOWS IT…………………..
GOD FORGIVE YOU BECAUSE YOU KNOW NOT WHAT YOU DID ON ELECTION DAY……….
The delicious irony of the failure at the polls by the Republicans is that it was set up by their willing encapsulation in their own alternate universe created by their own propaganda machine.
Tune into any of their echo chamber outlets and you get the same Obama Derangement Syndrome which has created the Invisible Obama that only conservatives can see. And this delusional distortion is so intense that this imagined Obama elicits not just opposition but virulent hatred. He’s not just misguided, he’s plotting the destruction of America.
I’ve watched in awe for years – long before Obama – as the conservatives have developed a competing reality reinforced by their constant repetition of the mantra that they are the victims of a “liberal” MSM. They thus tune out this “biased” reality and focus only on the one that supports their version of reality. The echo chamber that has resulted reinforces their existing misconceptions further offering, not “fair and balanced” but often a fact-free bubble where any talking point continually repeated becomes unquestioned “fact”.
And, this new set of competing realities – the right-wing echo chamber v. the rest of America – is what now drives more than anything the toxic partisan divide that is making this country ungovernable. And, as long as the Republicans continue to drink their hysteria-laced kool-aid, they’re going to continue to live in their alternate universe, separated from the rest of America and continuing to lose at the polls.
SOMEONE JUST RESPONDED THAT CONSERVATIVES ONLY SEE A BARRY HUSSEIN THAT DEMOCRATS DON’T.
SOME MYTH WE ALL HAVE THAT HE IS DESTROYING EVERYTHING
OFFLMFAO
IDIOT, THAT IS BECAUSE IF THE MEDIA DOESN’T FORCEFEED YOU, YOU DON’T SEE IT………………….
EDUCATE YOURSELF CAUSE LIKE HITLER’S MEDIA, BARRY’S MEDIA WON’T TELL YOU ANY TRUTHS THAT HURT BARRY
EVERY THURSDAY MORNING AT 8:30 FOR 4 YEARS AMERICA HAS ANNOUNCED THE PEOPLE THAT FILE ‘FIRST TIME UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS”””””””””””EVERY THURSDAY MISTER………..AN AVERAGE OF 400,000 AMERICANS HAVE BEEN FIRED……………….
THAT IS A WEEK!!!!! EVERY SINGLE MONTH THAT IS 1.6 MILLION FIRED
AND THAT HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR 4 YEARS STRAIGHT………………..
YOU DON’T SEE OR HEAR IT BECAUSE BARRY’S MEDIA WON’T TELL YOU ————–AND YOU CAN MAKE FUN……………
BUT THOSE PEOPLE ARE LIVING IN THE WOODS BEHIND YOUR WALMART……
HOW ABOUT DEAD SOLDIERS??? SOME FREAKING MYTH TO YOU ABOUT BARRY???? REALLY??? ONE OF HIS FIRST ACTS WAS TO TRIPLE THE BODIES SENT TO AFGHAN………………………THAT TRIPLES THE DEAD YOU IDIOT
BUT BARRY’S MEDIA HIDE EVERY SOUL AND EVERY NUMBER, TRY AND FIND BARRY’S DEAD, YOU CAN’T THEY MUSH THEM UP WITH NATO NOW…………JUST A HITLER MEDIA TRICK
BARRY HAS KILLED TRIPLE THE DEAD IN 4 YEARS THAN BUSH AND CHANEY IN AFGHAN…………………BUT YOUR ASSOCIATED PRESS (WHO GIVES THE FACTS TO MOST OF THE PAPERS AND NEWS STATIONS IN AMERICA) DECIDED AT CHRISTMAS 2010 TO ‘QUIT REPORTING THE DEAD SOLDIER NUMBER’…………………
SEE THE NUMBER WAS GOING UP SO FAST FOR A PRESIDENT WHOSE FOLLOWERS CARRIED ‘KILL BUSH’ SIGNS FOR HIS DEAD…………………
SO THESE ARE MIRAGES, FATHERS AND MOTHERS ARE UNEMPLOYED EVERY WEEK BY ALMOST A HALF A MILLION IF YOU ADD THE NON QUALIFIED FOR UNEMPLOYMENT FIRINGS…………………….
AND THOSE DEAD SOLDIERS ARE STILL IN THE GROUND……………BARRY AND HIS MEDIA DON’T ACKNOWLEDGE THEM …………..AND EITHER DO YOU…..BUT THEY ARE DEAD
AND YOUR PIG BARRY STOOD AND USED DEAD SOLDIER’S CASKETS AS A PHOTO OP TO BEAT BUSH…………………….THIS VETERAN REMEMBERS AND I MADE SURE THAT MY SECOND BOOK HAD PLENTY OF YOUR ‘KILL BUSH’ PICTURES……………..
YOU BOYS THAT HAVE TO BE FORCE FED FACTS………………TAKE A GOOOD LONG HARD LOOK AT SANDY’S DAMAGE…………………..AND THE BODIES STILL PILING UP……………AND REMEMBER HOW THE LIBTARD MEDIA HANDLED THE PRESS ON KATRINA
AND HOW THEY ARE BLACKING OUT THE HORROR ON LONG ISLAND…………….YOU PROBABLY KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THAT………………..
YOU PROBABLY VOTED FOR BARRY HUSSEIN BASED ON HOW WONDERFULLY HE HANDLED SANDY……………..
AND YOU LIBTARDS DROWNING AND FREEZING, IT IS JUST BEGINNING, WELCOME TO THE UNEMPLOYED AND DEAD SOLDIER CLUB………………………YOU ARE BLACKED OUT FOREVER IN BARRY’S WORLD…………………SOME MYTH………………..THE MYTH IS THAT ANYTHING EXCEPT BARRY LEGALIZING 7 MILLION ILLEGALS IN TIME TO VOTE AND HE WINS BY 2.5 MILLION VOTES……………..ANY OTHER REASON IS A MYTH………….NOW 400,000 WILL BE GETTING FIRED IN TWO DAYS (REMEMBER THEY ONLY COUNT YOU IF YOU ARE ‘UNEMPLOYMENT ELIGIBLE, IF YOU ARE AN ILLEGAL, SELF-EMPLOYED OR CASH UNDER THE TABLE AND LOSE YOUR JOBS………………….YOU ARE NEVER COUNTED………………) THINK HOW BIG THAT 400,000 NUMBER ‘PLUS’ THOSE OTHERS ARE EVERY WEEK
AND YOU LIBTARD PENSION COLLECTORS WHO DON’T GIVE A DARN………………..THOSE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT PAID YOUR PENSIONS………….THEY ARE TOAST AND GONE……AND YOU CAN’T DO THE MATH…………..4 MORE YEARS 4 MORE YEARS 4 MORE YEARS OFFLMFAO
So, Catherine, don’t know if you’re hitting the crack pipe or off your meds, but maybe stay away from posting nonsense until you straighten things out.
And, oh yeah, there’s a key just to the left of your left pinky that’s labeled “Caps”. Try turning it off before you go on your next rant.
oh this is a cheery piece. Little Lenin will have to live with his victory over the hapless Republican Ruling Class.
Yes, I can see it now. 10 years from now the tenacles of obamacare will begin to be cut out of the American public. Amrica’s flattened National Security and National Defense will begin a decades’ long rise from the ashes. A few survivors will straggle into Jeruselum and begin the hundred year task of trying to raise it from the dead again. 50 million American 30 year-olds will begin to abandon their hamburger flipping and take over lawn care from the illegal Mexican aristocracy. Who knows, maybe we will be ready in 10 years to challenge the hegemony of the Caliphate.
Oh, the future is bright. And all because of the ill-fated winner of the 2012 election.
is it a dream or is it for real
what’s the difference anyway
it is happening and it’s bad
a happy obama will flourish