I just about spit out my coffer listening to Art Laffer the other day. He forecast a big GOP win in the 2014 midterms. He cited past elections as his metric. What a buffoon. How can someone with such intelligence on economics read politics and the reality on the ground so wrong? Obama was just re-elected with the worst economy since the Great Depression, a world in chaos, and debt and deficits as far as the eye can see. The fact is, Obama is different. He’s Teflon. Nothing sticks to him. Granted he has a corrupt press to carry his water. But still this cat is different. Mr. Obama isn’t interested in doing work for a living. His previous experience was as a community organizer. Hell, we don’t even know what kind of student he was because the most transparent president in our history won’t tell us. He’s a 100% partisan, who is happy partying with America-hating Psy, Jay-Z and Beyoncé, discussing policy with Leno and campaigning instead of working. Example? He’s conducting campaign-style rallies instead of negotiating with Republicans on the fiscal cliff. Why? Because he’s not interested in compromise. America saw our first Hollywood president, who’s wrecked the U.S. economy and re-elected him. It should be glowingly apparent, to anyone paying attention, that the old rules don’t apply here. Someone really should tell the Republicans. Because they’re just sitting in Washington, “waiting” for Obama to grow up. Newsflash, Republicans will be waiting awhile.
John Boehner, Mitch McConnell or any other high profile Republican should get booked on some TV shows. They ought to sit down with Leno, Letterman, the ladies of The View, or Ellen. They should bypass the press that, ignorantly or intentionally, focuses on raising taxes instead of tackling the real causes of America’s problems. I can see it now. John Boehner sitting across the desk from Leno, “I’m glad to be here Jay. Look, I wanted to get the message out to the people about what we’re proposing. I’d like to sit and talk with President Obama. But you, Jay, have had more face time with the president than I have lately. So maybe you can get him a message.” Then Boehner would inform Jay that he brought some clips to share. These clips would be of our esteemed president echoing Republicans sentiments that it’s possible to raise revenue without raising taxes. Another clip would show President Obama blasting president Bush as being “unpatriotic” and “irresponsible” for massive deficit spending. And lastly, a clip that shows Obama proclaiming that raising taxes in a poor economy is a bad idea. But this fantasy of mine would need a creative, dynamic, and energized Republican party. That party doesn’t exist anymore.
President Obama has been referred to as “The Amateur.” Well, Republicans just got their clocks cleaned by this amateur, un-serious, destructive, extreme left-wing president. What does that say about the current crop of Republicans in leadership? When will Republicans give up this fantasy that Obama is at all interested in what’s good for America? When will Republicans realize that Obama is more interested in righting some perceived past injustice that America has committed? The Republican leadership delude themselves in regarding Obama as a traditional Democrat president. They assign traditional norms and axioms to Obama that applied to past presidents who actually did have, in varying measures, America’s best interests at heart. I’ve seen no evidence that Obama is labored under those restrictions. His speeches, mentors and polices indicate a man who finds America, as founded, offensive. He has a loyal circle of people bound and determined to make sure America pays in one manner or another. The problem is shell-shocked Republicans still think he’s a “good man” who gives a damn about his legacy. Obama knows his legacy, if he succeeds in his mission, will not be written by America. America’s adversaries will write Obama’s legacy. He’s counting on it. They will praise him. He loves that you know? They will praise him as the man who brought down our once great nation from within. That’s the plan our aimless Republican friends refuse to acknowledge, and are apparently incapable of stopping. Is it any wonder conservatives fear for America’s future.
Thank you for writing the truth.
This is just perfect:
If the MSM wasn’t blocking for him, this clown would never have been elected in the first place.
Take that away – or even worse, from his perspective, have the press treat him like GWB – and he wouldn’t be able to do anything.
Yeah, but the press was waiting to create an Obama. He is far more their creation than a manipulator of them. The question is not how we remove the press from Obama but how do remove the MSM from America.
You may as well say that if we could just drain the Pacific Ocean the fish would stop swimming. It’s true, sure, but it’s just never going to happen. Making any plans that depend on it happening is foolish.
If we’re going to accomplish anything it’ll have to be by going through or around the media environment we have. How do we do that? I really wish I knew.
I’m not going to go as far as this, but, yes, people need to at least consider some kind of maneuvering for a greater global framework is going on. Not necessarily believe it, mind–I’m not there yet–but at least keep it in scan as a possible explanation.
But what would cause other nations to forgive America its debts?
Naturally, the old America of “Protestant work ethic” America would never accept such a deal (think of Lincoln paying off his debts, always), but, relatively-speaking, there aren’t too many old-school Protestants left in America these days, are there?
Of course, perhaps Barry expects the solution to our debt burden to come in the form of some great expansion of the economy, some great new resource opening up, or some great appropriation of property, where much by an individual(s) is sacrificed so that no one ever has to tell others to start carrying their own weight, instead of relying on others.
Right on, Daniel.
When apportioning blame, er, trying to understand the current political climate, it has to go at least 50% to the Republicans for not even trying.
Republicans are losers. They have lost and will continue to lose because they refuse to play offense. They continue to be defensive and blame themselves, the media, their advisors etc. The only hope for them is to attack and to stay on focus. When Paul Ryan sat there and took all the abuse that Joe Biden could had out he lost his debate. When Gov. Romney had a chance to score a knockout in the second debate by ssticking to the Benghazi fiasco he decided to look presidential by avoiding the subject. What impresses Americans more than anything else is being a winner and if the Rebublicans continue in the loser mode they will never come out on top,
A minor quibble, but I think he’s our second Hollywood president. Obviously Hollywood has changed. The Greatest Generation has morphed, transitioned, faded away leaving Hollywood to the inferior Peter Pan generation and its legions of Tinker Bells.
This inability to comprehend what one’s eyes and ears are telling you isn’t limited to Congressional or National-level Republicans; most of the responsible, working, tax-paying citizenry never see people like Obama and his minions and don’t know what they are. When I first saw him make that Convention speech I said to myself, “I know you, you’re the one they think they can dress up and fool people with.” I hate to have been so right. The Country is so deeply divided that the Red places are very red and the Blue places are very blue. Every capital city in the Country and especially DC has its Democrat places and its Republican places; they don’t eat and drink together, don’t go to social gatherings together except as a part of official duties and even when in the same place segregate themselves. They don’t even listen/watch the same stations or go to the same entertainment.
The unionized world puts up a pretense of everything being joint labor-management, but while they’re both there, they never even acknowlege each other except as required by official duties and law. I’ve been to week-long conferences and never once acknowleged the existence of the union people there nor they me, and all you have to do to make sure it’s that way is to show up wearing a jacket and tie. Ever notice how Comrade Obama almost never wears a tie when he’s addressing a union group? A jacket and tie is the management uniform and only the very highest level union officials will be seen wearing a jacket and tie; many of them won’t even wear a tie in a formal hearing. Back in my working days, we referred to a blue suit, white shirt, and regimental stripe tie as our BDU.
The only place you’ll ever see leftist/union apparatchiks is in their Democrat controlled neighborhoods and towns, in their watering holes and gathering places, and in, or more usually standing in front of, a capitol. The lefty groups hire some avuncular looking and acting lobbyist to put on a tie and go into the Capitol and sometimes actually even meet with a Republican, but the actual apparatchiks almost never do it and when they do, they almost never meet with anyone other than Democrats. In three years of working for my state legislature, I could count on my fingers the total number of times I actually spoke with anyone in the Democrat-controlled Minority. We had some Democrats that caucussed with the Republican Majority and we socialized, but the hardcore union/greenie/activist Democrats were non-persons. In the Executive Branch almost nobody outside labor relations and human resource offices had any dealings whatsoever with union reps except supervisors who had to endure them when an employee was being interviewed regarding a disciplinary matter and even those were usually conducted by somebody from LR or HR. Most elected and appointed officials NEVER met with a union rep or a representative of the leftist activist groups other than their lobbists. The policy on meeting with union reps and stewards is here: http://doa.alaska.gov/dop/fileadmin/lr/pdf/representationrevised.pdf It is still formally in effect but since Palin’s tenure the State is sadly in need of adult supervision so there is more “fraternization” than there should be. My state capital was more segregated than the small Southern town I grew up in and the segregation extended all the way down to even the “mating-age” staffers, though there was a little sleeping with the enemy at that level.
What most regular people and Republican officeholders don’t get is how utterly dishonest and outright nasty most of these people are in their own element. Most real people really don’t like lies or the people who tell them, but lefty apparatchiks don’t even recognize the existence of lying; if it fits the situation and serves their interest, it is the thing to say, truth as real people define it isn’t even a factor in it. You simply cannot bargain in good faith with these people because they won’t keep a bargain, even a written bargain, if it serves their purposes to break it.
When I was head of LR, I managed to keep a sullen peace for my four years but I did it with the constant threat of force, legal, collective bargaining force (mostly), but force nonetheless, and with a deep and abiding mutual distrust; they knew I’d screw them the minute they gave me an excuse – and vice versa. Most real people don’t like to think like that, don’t like to act like that, many just can’t, and they really aren’t comfortable around people who can do that sort of stuff. They can fake nice for a little while if necessary, but give them time and the mask will slip; you see Comrade Obama’s slip from time to time. If you have to deal with them, you learn how and along the way become a very, very cynical and distrustful person. I’ve carried a lot of water for Republican elected and appointed officials in my state and they pretty much all either know or know of me, but I’ll guarantee you that if I showed up at some Republican grip ‘n grin tonight, sometime in my first five minutes there, I’d hear somebody say, “there comes trouble.”
What and the hell does any of that have to do with the subject matter Mr. Sosa was talking about?