Obamaville: The Next Kettle for the Tea Party?
I was interested to see that some enterprising souls in Wisconsin have erected a billboard along Highway 41 calling for the impeachment of President Obama. “America’s small businesses are failing,” it reminds motorists; “help us spread the message.” I’m doing my bit here.
Not that the fact of America’s stuttering economy is, by itself, grounds for impeachment as provided by Article II Section 4 of the Constitution. But it certainly is grounds for protest — a clarion call for a new species of “community organizer,” one not taught by chaps like Bill “just-a-guy-in-the-neighborhood” Ayers.
A friend presented this brilliant strategy, right from the Left-wing Democratic playbook. Remember reading about “Hoovervilles,” the shantytowns erected by the homeless during the Great Depression? I suggest that tea-partiers consider nominating various depressed municipalities Obamaville, in honor of the President’s magical non-stimulating stimulus bill which, at last count, had cost taxpayers some $850 billion and which, as of this writing, has left us with a national unemployment figure hovering around 10 percent.
Ten percent is bad. But take a trip to El Centro, California, where the unemployment (by the government’s own, probably conservative, figure) is 27.7 percent. Or try another part of Nancy Pelosi’s state, Merced, California, where the Labor Department says the unemployment rate is 19.8 percent. While you’re at it, you might wish to nominate the entire state of Michigan — where the unemployment rate in December was 14.6 percent — an honorary Obamaville.
“Welcome to Obamaville,” a billboard might say, “where seldom is heard an encouraging word and the taxes are higher today.”
Roger:
Looks as though some folks are anticipating you on this (this is from December 2009):
http://www.krdo.com/global/Story.asp?s=11660020
Heh. ..bruce..
How about, “Where seldom is heard an intelligent word…”?
or,
“Wastin’ away again, here in Obamaville…
Searchin’ for my last vestige of Hope…
Some people claim he’s the Messiah of Change,
But I know,
He’s Won Hopeless Dope.”
One sign up.
Colorado Obamaville:
http://obamavilleblogger.blogspot.com/
Hate to say it but some parts of the economy are slowing improving. You are right the public sector is booming. This will come to haunt us because it transfers control of resources from individuals in the private sector to the public sector, who are more likely to squander those resources. Still, there is some improvement. As well, the stock market has recovered but is probably in a bear market.
President Obama will not respond to the American People’s cry of STOP until after the November 2010 elections and the American People STOP THE MADNESS of a Socialist Democratic Party and Marxist Administration.
I do like the idea of representative OBAMAVILLES showing the RESULTS of Marxist Obamism.
Oh I’ve got a home
It’s no pleasure dome
But it’s mine and I now want to say
That times are now tough
And it’s getting quite rough
To keep foreclosure away
Home home it’s quite strange
I really wish things they would change
But seldom is heard an encouraging word
And the taxes get higher each day
Each day I quail
as I open the mail
To see what bad news it does bring
It only gets worse
and it makes me curse
And to fix it I can’t do a thing
Home home it’s quite strange
I really wish things they would change
But seldom is heard an encouraging word
And the taxes get higher each day
It doesn’t seem real
As our future they steal
Enslaving our grand-children too
This mad spending binge
Makes all of us cringe
Of the time when these bills will come due
Home home it’s quite strange
I really wish things they would change
But seldom is heard an encouraging word
And the taxes get higher each day
But now there’s a chance
To end this mad dance
And end this long slide with a roar
Tea parties abound
And they’re making a sound
That progressives just fear and abhor
Home home it’s quite strange
I really wish things they would change
But seldom is heard an encouraging word
And the taxes get higher each day
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While Obama’s policies on growing the economy are not “impeachable offenses” it is clear that he has done the economy great harm. Yes, he inherited a bad economy but his threats of cap & trade, tax hikes and health care mandates have scared would-be jobs providers (small businesses) half to death. This is why the jobs situation is so bad. Obama and his closest advisors are largely policy wonks with little or no practical business experience. It shows. Among other things, he needs to freexe federal spending and lower tax rates for everyone. You will then see optimism grow and jobs will be created.
“Hate to say it but some parts of the economy are slowing improving.”
Any improvement in the American economy is comparable to the unemployed guy already in bankruptcy proceedings who finds a decent paying job. The judge allows him to relax a little and buy a few extra groceries. However, he still is bankrupt—and cannot either sell his home or invest in a new business without permission from the court. Our fellow may now be eating three square meals a day, but the future remains very bleak, and especially that of his children and grandchildren.
If you count the underemployed the rate is 13.9%.
The number is around 18% if you count people who are
1. under-employed (i.e. you have a profession, but cannot find work and take a lower paying job)
2. self-employed, not making a profit because you can’t find work
3. unemployment benefits have run out
4. not actively looking for ajob
Yes, you could definitely call ALL of Michigan “Obamaville” and be pretty close to the truth. Recently, a Meijer (big box store chain in Mich) advertised for 200 openings for a new store in Petoskey (lower peninsula, nw corner) and over 1500 people showed up for these largely minimum-wage jobs. Pretty sad.
I often read articles here. It annoys me to no end that you have only one paragraph or so and then a link to PAGE 2. The second page is often no more than one or two additional sentences. That’s stupid and annoying and half of the time I see the first page and close the tab in silent protest.
C’mon, it’s Bush’s fault.
Btw, Obama achieves one of his greatest achievements in Iraq.
Tom Feb 16, 2010 – 9:04 am
The Margaritaville parodies simply write themselves, don’t it?
“Wasting again, my friends here in Obamaville,
waiting for those lost high-pointed polls.
Some people claim the economy is to blame,
but I know – it’s Bush’s fault!” [You can add "Republicans" or "Wall Street", for better effect.]
Well, that’s what Obama says, right? He never blames himself for it!
It’s difficult for the teaparty types to complain about “Obamavilles” when they’re part of the problem through action or inaction. There’s little or none opposition to massive or illegal imm. among the teapartiers, when opposing that in a smart way could make them look better and help free up jobs for Americans. Instead of doing that, they buy into false libertarian arguments that have resulted in millions more low-wage workers than low-wage jobs.
Eleven months ago I sent a letter to CAP trying to coerce them into helping U.S. workers and I got zero help with it:
http://24ahead.com/n/8902
Maybe Roger Kimball could either make a realistic argument for massive/illegal imm. or, instead of cutesy posts like this, he could decide to do something that would solve problems.
Keep plugging the Tea Partyers, Rog, they’re your natural constituency. This, from the Times, is about an Idaho chapter:
“Worried about hyperinflation, social unrest or even martial law, she and her Tea Party members joined a coalition, Friends for Liberty, that includes representatives from Glenn Beck’s 9/12 Project, the John Birch Society, and Oath Keepers, a new player in a resurgent militia movement.”
Rog, you’ve found your ilk. Congrats!
Liberty Lover says: “Hate to say it but some parts of the economy are slowing improving.”
Speechless.
Those Hoovervilles helped elect FDR, who basically threw away the Constitution and began the most successful era of “progressive” government and set the stage for all growth of government that came later.
If we couldn’t see this coming before the election, we shouldn’t be permitted to vote. Both our major parties let us down. Before we start building Obamavilles, we need to know what comes next and more of a track record from our leaders than “Hope” and “Change.”
LOL, Roger! Dang, if I weren’t unemployed and broke, I’d buy some billboard space. Maybe I could paint something on the back of my jalopy, like “Model O.”
7. How about abuse of power and numerous usurpations including the various czars he appointed not subject to congressional oversight?
Oh Roger;
Thank you ever so much for explaining to us who Howdy doody really was! I knew it was some lame Hollyweird actor, I just didn’t have the name quite pegged. Been wondering about that a ton of years, show started just a bit before I was born…
But now I want to know who did the Buffalo Bob Howdy Doody part… Was it Babs Streisand in drag???
She seems like the good Socialist type who could be pulling Gibbs strings quite well.
Obamaville! Brilliant. But Gibbs is more like Buffalo Bob on lithium, and the marionette in the White House is the one who resembles Howdy Doody.
If you want to see the the real obamaville just go the Altgeld Gardens(chicago) and the surrounding area this is where obama started as a community Org.,It’s where he had his most significant accomplishments to date,(asbestos removal and a new employment center),but he ran away from these poor people and never looked back when he realized they wouldn’t help him fill his power hungry ego so he hooked himself up with the Chicago machine and the rest is history
“There ain’t no sunhine when you’re here.
Only sorrow every day.
There ain’t no sunshine when you’re here
Obama, just go away.”
TWO words need to be seen and heard seriously:
Impeach, and
Secede.
Roger:
“A friend presented this brilliant strategy, right from the Left-wing Democratic playbook.”
Is there such a thing as a “Right-wing Democratic playbook,” or even Right-wing Democrats?
Or would we just call those “Mensheviks?”
The reason unemployment is 30% in El Centro, Merced, Tucson, Yuma..etc etc..is that there are 30 million illegal aliens.
People with no skills, a 4th grade education and now they are
literally on the verge of starvation. And quess what?..desperate
people turn to crime to survive. Steal purses, smuggle drugs, break into houses.
Corporate America got $6 an hour laborers. The American taxpayer got charged $600 an hour per illegal in the form of crime,incarceration, hospital bills, white flight from cities,
etc etc
And next up comes the Demographic destruction of the USA.
Where whites will be the minority in 25 more years. Dont forget
the “anchor babies” are all US citizens..and they are turning 18 And guess what type of politician they will vote for.
26. Phineas:
is there such a thing as a right wing Republican playbook?
Obama is a great man and he is doing a wonderful job. We love him. Go Obama!!
Sorry Mr.Kimball,but libtards have beaten you to the punch,albeit using different names. Obamavilles,that is benighted areas riddled with corrupt,hypertrophied government,appalling schools, crime, poverty,welfare dependency,overregulation,crumbling infrastructure,high taxes, and a quality of life second only to Liberia, already have signs advertising themselves. Why just recently,I saw such a sign;it said:”Welcome to New York City”.