Shortly after declaring that he wants our economy to grow, he called for more action on “climate change.” This “action” will come in the form of more regulations on our industries. The science has left him and his party on this, but he does not care. He also does not care that his “action” on “climate change” will kill American jobs, as his previous regulatory actions have done. His war on coal has already wiped out thousands of jobs across America. How many jobs will he kill before he is satisfied?
How can America become a manufacturing powerhouse again, when our president is systematically shutting off the power?
If Congress won’t act soon on climate change, the president said, he will. This was a threat. Plain and simple. A threat to override the Constitution, sideline the Congress, and ignore the will of the American people.
But threats from a president who seated an illegal alien at his grand speech should come as no shock. To Barack Obama, the law is an obstacle, not a guide or a limit. He has swept Congress aside before via executive orders, and he intends to do so again.
His actions amount to a hacking of the US.. Constitution. Under our system, the two houses of Congress serve as checks on each other, and together, they serve as checks on the president’s power, and the three branches check and balance one another. But this president has the Senate in his back pocket through its leader, Sen. Harry Reid. Reid renders Obama impervious to congressional and court action against him. Thus, when his recess appointments were judged illegal by the courts, he simply ignored the courts. Harry Reid has his back.
Obama called for the federal government to “redesign high schools.” Does he not know that schools are creatures of local and state, not the federal, governments? Does he care? Does he see no limits at all on the things that should occupy a president’s time?
And again, on what basis does the president who cannot even submit a budget make the claim that he is qualified to redesign high schools?
It’s all absurd. Barack Obama is the absurd president. He makes no attempt to make any sense, yet the media will pretend that he is a visionary.
The reality is, Barack Obama is just a very powerful crank.
From there he moved on to pressing for “comprehensive immigration reform.” He claimed that he believes in stronger border security, which simply is not credible when his homeland security chief claims that the border has never been safer while there is a civil war raging in Mexico. He called on people of faith, whom he has attacked via the ObamaCare abortifacient mandate, to help him “get it done” on immigration reform. He hits you with one hand, then wants you to help him with the other.
When he turned to calling for a raise to the minimum wage, he made no sense. He called for a raise in the minimum wage to $9 an hour, decrying the possibility of anyone working full time on minimum wage living below the poverty line. Isn’t that why it’s a minimum? It’s not supposed to be a full-time living wage. No one is supposed to spend their career on the minimum wage. Workers should want, and work for, more. Raising it outside normal economic forces will kill, not create, jobs. Tying it to the increasing cost of living was one of the few ideas he proffered that made any sense, in that it would at least pull some of the politics out of raising the minimum wage by government fiat. But there is a basic question here that politicians pretend does not exist: Should the federal government even set a minimum wage at all?
When Obama turned to the war, his aim was as simple as it has been for years: End it. Whether we win it or not is not his primary concern.
In three years he’s more or less done, so I don’t worry about him too much. He can thereafter rant in impotent rage.
“In three years he’s more or less done……”
Oh, really? What do you think he is? A one-of-a-kind? A one-man band? Simply an aberration? The line of statist dimwits that are willing to kill to take his place is nearly endless. He has simply blazed the trail for these vultures.
No. In three more years our republic will be done and the damage that has been done will persist for decades to come. FORWARD! It’s all for the children, you know. They will be the ones to suffer what this Marxist jackass has done to their future well-being. It will never be simply “done” for them.
If you think that this man is nothing more than a potentially impotent annoyance whose present actions will simply fade with time then you are simply clueless.
In three years, more or less, the Republic will be a dead and vanished as Rome’s.
There are calls in some quarters to remove the 2-term limit. In any event, there are more like him waiting.
“In three years he’s more or less done, so I don’t worry about him too much.”
Really? Have you not been paying attention to what he has done in the past four years??? Do you really think our beloved Republic can withstand four more years of his over reaching, regulating, spending and “end run” executive orders?
I’m more worried than the author of this essay. As others have noted, POTUS has plenty of support. Time to revisit the ideology of the French Revolution, as I did here: http://clarespark.com/2013/01/21/citizen-obama-political-pluralism-and-the-elusive-search-for-unity/. The appeal to the organic NATION is proto-fascist at best. Recall how the French put up little fight to Hitler.
– Hate. His cowardly son Dorner blowed his brains out rather than immolate in Uncle Tom’s cabin.
had a son would he look like Christopher Dorner?
Considering that Dorner’s mother is just as callous and selfish as Mooch, I would say the answer is a definite “yes.”
Demagogue. He’s Huey Long in black face.
That is an apt comparison.
WOWIE! This is the BEST comment! I know of Huey, and am very familiar with his ideas. He really IS Huey in black face. God, please help us. Pray, folks. Perry Archer, Houston
“He called for a new revolution in manufacturing in America, through some government-centered hub system.”
Hmmm, sounds very, um, soviet.
Yes, Red China or pre-1940 Germany!
OBAMA’S NEW NORM FOR AMERICA…..”Middle Class equates Minimum wage”…. AND In Obamas’ world of economics, it’s the new standard for SURVIVAL. It is spooky, because this man gets dumber by the year. Also, please explain why the democrats allow him to shoot them the bird? Do they not understand his words when he says things like, “My administration”… “has”,…. “will”,…. “can”,…. “is prepared”,…. Heck, to hear him speak, “who needs either houses of congress?
And the leftists are eating that up because they are all little communists at heart even if they don’t fully realize it or truly understand what it will mean.
Of course, they will also be eating up the climate change nonsense without realizing the staggering cognitive dissonance of endorsing government manufacturing hubs and anti-manufacturing climate change proposals in the same speech and with the same breath.
The only thing that spares them is that one is government and can do no wrong while the other stamps out non-government at the government behest and must therefore be good.
Obama won quite a few more electoral votes than Romney. But that lead is …misleading. The popular vote was very close, and Obama won because of the Republican undervote (fewer turned out for Romney than McCain). So, dear Republican Representatives and Senators, please remember to represent your constituents and not some amorphous ‘will of the people.’ All that must happen for eeevil (Obama) to triumph is for good men and women to do nothing.
Your popular vote numbers are wrong and this fouls your analysis. Romney got more votes than McCain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2008
vs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2012
This popular urban myth that “Romney got fewer votes than McCain” started on the morning after Election Day, when folks compared Romney’s *preliminary* vote total to McCain’s *final* vote total in 2008. As of that morning, Romney did have fewer votes than McCain.
But these folks forgot that there were still hundreds of thousands of more votes yet to be counted. The final vote total for Romney wasn’t known till a month or so later. In the meantime, Romney picked up more of those uncounted votes.
He won by fraud! When 139% of cities or counties turn out to vote, we have a problem.
It was this case throughout America that he won.
We have a winner!
Thank you.
And let’s not forget the unknown number of illegal campaign contributions made through his illegally unsecured website. There is a possibility that he would not even been able to compete if not for them. As we all know in America: Money=Votes.
We had a ballot box/election district (basically the same thing here in Israel) that got voted more than 100%. The national election judge just threw out every single ballot.
Oh, and of course I had to show ID. We aren’t a third world country, you know.
Thanks Bryan – I just read the prepared text and mostly noticed what was missing, and what was emphasized, and, well,
am now so depressed because that is my reaction when anyone lies about anything really important.
I figure the millions of Americans like me, who lost their jobs/careers because they hit 50 (for me, that was in 2001) and maybe some of them, like me, got two more master’s degrees in high growth job fields, only to discover that might as well ask for the death panel because America is definitely not a Country for Old Anyone.
My career was in manufacturing, and, fwiw, de-industrialization started in 1978 as a deliberate policy, and here we are, 35 years later, and the president is so clueless that he thinks [i give up]
well, I’d have been happier if he promised to keep the USPS functioning (it IS in the Constitution), and to tell all the doctors I have to stop dropping Medicare patients, and those who stay in Medicare to STOP FALSIFYING MY MEDICAL RECORDS SO YOU CAN GET YOUR FRACKING BONUS FOR A FALSE CURE. (trauma of the month)
Everybody wants healthcare services they do not pay for. That is not going to work. Medicare premiums do not come close to paying for healthcare services old people demand. And they feel offended when the doctors say no mas.
This is another urban myth.
America is NOT de-industrialized. The manufacturing sector is still responsible for about 14% of U.S. GDP, perhaps even a bit *higher* than it was 50 years ago.
What has collapsed is manufacturing *employment*, down 80% since the end of World War II. And that’s because of automation, and because what we manufacture has changed.
Manufacturing silicon chips doesn’t require armies of men with wrenches and hammers the way heavy industry used to. Silicon chips are built by robots.
So, who builds the robots?
The problem with the left’s “de-industrialization” aka “we want it all to go away” argument is that their post-industrial Utopia needs heavy industry more than ever before. Ipods, PDAs, limousines, corporate jets, and cappuccinos do not miraculously spring out of the ground ex nihilo.
They have to be produced, from raw materials. Those materials have to be mined, processed, etc., before the enlightened elite’ can sit back, sip their cafe’ mochas, and Tweet each other about how much they hate technology and dream of forcing us all to “live in harmony with Holy Mother Gaia”.
This isn’t the first time power was in the hands of people with utterly no comprehension of what was involved in creating the civilization which sustains them. In fact, it has happened with monotonous regularity, in different cultures, throughout history.
The late Roman era senators who roused the mob to demand more bread and circuses.
The Emperor Justinian who bankrupted the Eastern (Byzantine) Empire trying to reunite it with the Western by force, bankrupting his empire in the process.
The rulers of Angkor Wat who built marvelous palaces and temples and neglected agriculture.
And yes, every single Communist state that ever valued “political awareness” over whether or not a job was done properly. The Red Guards of the Cultural Revolution were little more than the plebeian mobs of Marius’ time with iron bars for clubs instead of pieces of wood.
There seems to be a tipping point in the history of any culture, at which those who have been nurtured by it at no cost or effort of their own, both at the bottom of society and at its top, make common cause against everyone else. And begin to scream, “I hate everything, and I demand you get rid of it all to make me happy!”
Followed by, “I want everything, I want it now, and if you don’t give it to me I’ll make you sorry!”
After about one generation, those last four words inevitably change to “I’ll kill you”.
I strongly suspect that we have reached that point. And that those in charge, who either cannot understand or flatly refuse to do so, are getting ready to summon the mob.
clear ether
eon
two things: the north koreans detonated a nuclear weapon that had a uranium core. The iranians were there. korea uses plutonium while iran enriches uranium so it was either iranian fuel or an iranian bomb. It’s also the second uranium bomb that has been detonated in North Korea. The iranians were there then too
at one point in the SOTU obama stated: “In our democracy” Now I know that he knows that we have a republic(or atleast the remnants of one) but he needs to be reminded of it while the populace needs to have a lesson on the difference.
“The state of our union is weak and fraying. This president has launched attacks on faith and is going out of his way to divide our people. Our economy is not growing, it contracted in the final quarter of 2012. Our economy is not growing jobs. On the international front, North Korea greeted President Obama’s 2013 rendition of Give Me More Money with a nuclear test — a sure sign that his strategy of engagement, which his soon-to-be defense secretary supports, is a failure.”
Never mind all those minor difficulties. Just play some ragtime and waltzes and then Nearer, My God, to Thee and Autumn and enjoy the rest of the cruise.
Oh, and rearrange the deck chairs into something more attractive, too.
Why doesn’t Feckless Won just announce that he’s dissolving congress and the supreme court and declare himself Dear Leader?
He’s in reality done this already. Seems every time he runs into that pesky constitution that blocks his path he simply ignores it anyway. Anyone besides me think he’s just waiting for his ‘Reichstag’ moment? Or quite likely willing to create one? I don’t put it past this evil SOB.
I’m not convinced he will actually step down. Something will be made to happen that will make it “necessary” he stay on.
At this rate, someone, somewhere will get the bomb and use it. WWIII will likely ensue.
It is a psychopath. The evidence is there for those willing to see it. It becomes apparent when considering the language used (especially in emotive situations — the murder of Stevens? — flat, atonal affect, focused on himself having had a “tough day”.) And the multiple instances of “hypocrisy”? In their world view there is *no* hypocrisy! They are incapable of understanding what the term “hypocrisy” means, since they are utterly incapable of empathy — they cannot put themselves in anyone else’s perspective. They cannot comprehend “hypocrisy” — it is an alien concept. They cannot understand how others perceive them (it is an impossibility). I believe this explains a great deal about Obama.
Sociopath, actually.
Just a less-experienced, less-worldly-wise, less-slimy version of Slick Willy.
Enjoy the Decline, America! You voted for it.
Yes, America voted for it.
And you know what I find really stupefying? If McCain or Romney were President, those people who voted for Obama for all the “benefits” would be more likely to get them with either of those two “Republicans.” Why? Because, while they’re both RINOS, they would have given the business community a fighting chance, unleashed the energy sector (thus generating more revenue for the government as well as more good jobs), and put forth some kind of entitlement reforms that would have still allowed a decade or more of the current system to continue, with the oldest Americans being “grandfathered out” of whatever reformed entitlement system would follow.
What a bunch of fools our fellow “Americans” are.
After drinking a potion of Saul Alinsky, Jeremiah Wright, Karl Marx, Bill Ayers, Benito Mussolini, King George III, King Louis XVI and his own creation, Barack Obama is transformed into the cruel, remorseless, pathological, narcissistic, misanthropic, pyromaniac (clinical reference note #1) Herr Hussein, representing the hidden side of Obama’s dual nature brought to the fore. As Barry he has many friends and, with great effort, is able to affect a pleasing personality, but as Herr Hussein he has become more and more fanatical, more and more dictatorial, more and more scape goating, makes ever longer enemies lists, encourages demonization and dehumanizing of political opponents and becomes ever more isolated and fascist like as time goes by as Herr Hussein grows in dominance. After taking this potion repetitively, he now no longer needs to rely upon it to unleash his worst inner fascist demons.
Clinical reference note #1: Such individuals who lack ulterior motive have traditionally been referred to in layman’s terms simply as a variation of a pyromaniac. Most such maniacs lack conscious motivation although they are fully aware of the acts they are failing to stop or they themselves are committing. Typically they will feel intense pleasure, gratification, or relief when causing destruction or when witnessing or participating in the aftermath. Motivation is also classified as pathological and non-pathological. Some research suggests that feeling such joy at horrific situation is pathological. Other research suggests that some motivation for this comes from rational thought. Taking joy in horrific situations for envisioned gains in political power and/or the concealment of the imposition of devious plans are examples of supposed rational decision making.
I must say in conclusion that history has repeatedly and harshly proven that elevating such a profoundly disturbed man to the highest office in any country is never a good idea. Unfortunately it is a lesson that must be learned first hand in every nation and some of those nations survive and some do not.
Do I have company here at PJM in stating for the record that after November 6, 2012, I have completely lost interest in politics? I mean completely lost interest. If this country is so stupid to elect a feckless failure not once but twice, I’m wasting my time trying to reason with the insane, the parasites, and the stupid one more second.
I turned on FOX News once since then and saw Juan Williams and the insufferable Rivera and couldn’t hit the previous channel button fast enough. When I channel surf, I go past the MSNBC and CNN station so quick, the remote smokes.
I don’t even give a damn what Marco Rubio (my previous wish for nominee) has to say anymore.
More taxes, more fees, more regulation, more compliance, tax the rich, more infringes on freedom, guns kill people, exorbitant spending so we can put the screws to the kids and grandkids, demagoguing like puppets on a string, boiler plated speeches, glad handing for the military then forgetting them when they return, diversity and acceptance of illegals or undocumented (whatever we call criminals now), kissing the asses of those who wish to kill my children, hooray for the failed public school system but they need much, much money, big plans for a future endeavor to Pluto, leading from behind, middle class promises with no intention of being kept, and Obamacare will save us.
Snore. Somebody wake me up when the words rumble, revolution or secession are mentioned.
You have company Tex. I too lost my interest in politics and also have stopped watching Fox News. ( as well as every other TV news show ) In 2010, after the Republicans regained the House and came close to wining back Senate, my first reaction was that if the GOP decided to select Bohner and McConnell as their leaders, ( 2 re-treads from a previously failed Republican majority ) the GOP would go “belly-up” in 2012. They did…..and they did.
Yes you have company Tex. I started to feel this way back around 2006 or so. I really felt it during 2008 – I held my nose and voted for McCain (I cannot in good conscience vote for any Democrat). I forced myself to keep abreast of the news and politics over the next four years. Everything was so predictable including the co-opting and sell-out of the Tea Party class of 2010. It was masochistic to keep watching and nothing surprised me at all.
America has abandoned the ideals that made us great and is actively building the most sophisticated totalitarian surviellance state ever conceived. At the same time we have assumed the role of world policeman and therefore are the primary facilitators of the eventual world-wide government. The Republicans have been on-board with it and it predates Obama.
Our “system” is not what we thought it was. We have one main party, a bi-factional ruling elite. We are no longer governed but ruled.
You’re not alone. I totally skipped last night’s speech. Had to go to bed. I used to watch C-SPAN avidly. Now, there is little that is worth watching, unless I want to laugh at Obama supporters defending his drone policies when they would have been calling for Bush’s imprisonment (not just impeachment) if he had done anything similar.
The sad thing is I haven’t just lost interest in politics. I feel less and less of a stake in the future of this country. Maybe we should just let it die. Que sera sera.
Exactly. The problem is not Barack Obama. The real problem is a populace who would re-elect Barack Obama. This is not a problem that will go away when Obama leaves office. Pundits can write all the words they want about the terrible things Barack Obama is doing and the consequences of them but that just adding entropy to the universe. The 64 million dollar question is: What is to be done about the REAL problem.
NO.
The real problem is that the GOP–the only other major political party besides the Dems–has for years just written off about one-third of that populace.
The GOP never bothered to campaign in black neighborhoods or put ads on black radio stations.
Had the GOP listened to men like Jack Kemp (campaign actively in black neighborhoods) and George W. Bush (welcome and honor Hispanic voters), we wouldn’t be in the mess we’re in.
Instead, the GOP ended up a party whose base is 92% white, while the electorate is only 71% white.
THERE’S your problem.
MLK was a Republican. And no, the GOP despite being right is scared to death of getting the votes of people of color. I do not know why.
So in other words, become Democrats. You’re in luck, that’s the exact strategy they’re pursuing.
No, the real problem is both parties are as crooked as a wood screw. Both parties continue to grow the government one administration at a time. We, you and I, as the taxpayers of this nation are the willing fools to this charade.
I have voted for my last repub this last election. From now on I am pushing for a new third party, a Constitutional Party, a party that will follow the Constitution by the letter.
This will mean the destruction of the Privately Owned Federal Reserve System for it is not part of the Constitution. The Constitution says Congress shall take care of the money supply, not those who own the Federal Reserve System. Just this one move will quickly change our economic system. The Constitution also does not allow the Federal Government to directly tax the Citizen. Another big government scam. A third party based on the Constitution would be able to clean up this mess we are now in. The existing Congress is a den of thieves and needs to be cleaned out.
Term Limits of all elected offices is a good idea and it is time to have a Constitutional Convention so hard term limits can be placed on all offices of the Federal Government. One term in the Senate and three terms in the House and you are History. No retirements from Congress or the Presidency at all. You don’t want the job, no problem, don’t run.
It is time for the Citizens of this Nation to get serious. Government for the People and By the People.
Corruption in office is a Capital Offense. Conviction is automatic Death.
BTW it is time to IMpeach Obama every time lies or breaks the rules. He has so far deserved to be impeached no less than 40 times. What is wrong with the House? They need to hold him to the law, if the Senate does not remove him from office, so what, the House still needs to do their Constitutional job…
Exactly! The Repubs do nothing to stop any of this. The one good thing to come of this is that we will not have to waste time sorting the Repubs from the Democrats when it starts.
This is exactly one of the biggest parts of the problem. When Boner whines about being only a small part of the whole thing, it’s not only annoying, it’s a stupefyingly over-simplification on his part.
However, another subtle part of the problem is that those in opposition must be able to recognize the problems and stand against them. However, I must draw on my military experience to explain. Side note: Dr Carson’s statement about “going along to get along” is dead-nuts on the money.
While in the military, I was charged with taking care of a LtCol’s administrative tasks. He would often ask me to “get into the regs” and “figure out what he had to do”. When I did that, he’d get all bent out of shape and complain that “You can find more ways that something can’t be done than how they can be.”.
It was then I assessed that he wanted me to find ways/loopholes or similar that would allow him to circumvent the regulations and let him do as he pleased. i wasn’t about to do that. 1) It would result in an investigation and I would most likely take the heat and 2) the investigation would find him complicit and again, I would take the heat…from him.
Self-preservation being a big motivator, I tried to find ways to “go along to get along” but it came to an impasse when he wanted me to let a guy who should be on the fat-boy program skate because he was otherwise a good troop. My prior enlisted years indicated to me that NOBODY escaped the fat-boy program. Anyone caught trying to avoid it was duly lynched and I explained this to my commander.
Cutting to the chase:
Our current government is made up of salesmen and women. Schtick and Schlock is the currency of the elected official with the main theme being, “If you ain’t cheatin’, you ain’t tryin’ “. So, it’s no surprise that the pecking order is established by the whining democrats and the republicans the perpetual victims who become complicit in the crimes by simply trying to preserve their electability. It’s perhaps debatable that that’s a fool’s errand but, if a guy is a wishy-washy representative and simply never stands up to tyranny, and gets re-elected, how is that helping?
I’m afraid that viewing senior officers and how they got promoted left me with a very bad taste about how politics works. In order to be “in” you have to overlook obvious incompetence and obvious abuses of power. It happens in all scales from the small offices to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Pecking order..that little thing that is coded into our DNA where the dipstick who has three stars on his shoulder tells everyone that “The bigger engines give the jet more air to push against, so they’re faster” (I heard this at one meeting…obviously the general had not been made familiar with Newton’s 2nd and 3rd laws).
3-star general.
I recently heard something similar from a career pilot…only separated by 20 years.
While the media is so fond of trying to find gaffs and misstatements by republicans while ignoring the obvious tripe from democrats, we are at a very precarious place. But he point is that we have novices in government. Novices at any career path and novices at life.
One must consider who and what kind of person goes into politics. If they had abilities, they would want to capitalize on those abilities by building something, operating a machine of some kind, or any number of marketable job-skills. I would venture a guess that 90% of elected officials couldn’t change the filter in their air conditioner.
The second misconception is that elected officials are smart. Some are, most are not. Most have no working knowledge of anything. My LtCol boss was just this way. And, he was a fighter-pilot but had no idea how the USAF supply system worked or any of a myriad of day-to-day things like how to get his car repaired. He had no idea what the service manager explained to him in terms of why the fratziz didn’t bobulate the way he wanted. Or, to be more specific, why his AC system in his van kept leaking freon. The explanation was too busy and complicated for him.
Yet he had an MBA and was a senior officer in the USAF. But he was completely ignorant of 90% of the world around him. Such is the mentality and countenance of a politician.
On the other hand, I knew many other fighter pilots of high rank who could work on their own cars, had engineering degrees and understood basic economics. But this LtCol was an idiot.
It’s an odd juxtaposition and contradiction but perhaps worthy of study. How the peter principle so often applies…and my guess is it’s because of the networking and politics that people do. Promoting a non-threat vs one who questions and has ideas.
The same phenomenon often occurs in police work. I’ve seen it first hand more times than I like to think about. The reason is that the officer in question may wear a uniform, but at heart he’s not a soldier, or a cop. He’s a politician.
Politicians, like your unlamented LtCol, are rarely actually very intelligent. Rather, they have a high degree of low animal cunning which allows them to simulate actual intelligence, well enough to deceive others into giving them what they want. Namely, power.
As to why they want it, like the light colonel you went ’round and ’round with, they want the perks and respect that go with high office. They like being “important”, but don’t want to actually work. They expect admiration as their just due, but won’t do anything to actually earn it.
This probably explains why politicians rarely understand the military, or law enforcement. And why officers who rise through the ranks in peacetime by
“keeping their noses clean” (except for getting them brown when necessary), and gaming the system rarely last long when the lead starts flying and the enemy- or the criminals- are firing for effect.
cheers
eon
Good post eon.
When you say that cops or soldiers are politicians at heart, I think you mean that they’re plain old selfish.
Yeah.
Washington DC. Kabuki theater.
At least I was grateful to see Justices Scalia, Thomas and Alito skipped the SOTU.
You are certainly not alone. For my own sanity I have stopped watching the news after this election. It was so devastating. The only thing I can listen to any more is the Mark Levin show,. I used to think he was just a crank, but now I realize he is one of the only people who truly gets what is going on. The majority of the American public is under a spell of some sort. Maybe it’s in th efood we eat or the drugs they are all taking- legal and illegal. There is a spiritual battle going on, and we let our guard down long ago. I will do what I can to stop it, but if a communist can take the white house twice, what is there to say?
No, you’re not alone. I pay juat enough attention so that I’m not caught flat footed, but I really don’t care anymore beyond trying to take of me and mine. The rest of the country can just go jump off a cliff. Right now, it’s about trying to survive, and that’s it. God is getting more and more important and the rest of the world less and less.
You aren’t alone. When Obama was re-elected, I threw up my hands and decided that life is short, and I’d better just take care of me and mine. Either Americans want all this or the elections are rigged – either way, the result is the same.
An unfortunate downside is that I don’t read this blog, or others, like I once did. And I don’t even care about Rubio anymore! All our guys will throw it away, or sell out. In the debates, I kept waiting for Romney to bring up Bengazai. He stayed mute on the occasion or two where he could have talked about it. “He’s saving it for the third, foreign policy debate, ” I thought. Well, he wasn’t. He basically flamed out after the first debate.
You’d think all our guys were being threatened with the death of their family members or something. But I’m certainly no longer going to put any hope in any of them, and that includes Rubio, my erstwhile favorite. None of them will speak up, much less save us.
n the month of Obama 55
If American man is still alive
If American woman can survive
They may find
In the month of Obama 65
Ain’t gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies
Everything you think, do, or say
Is in the Obama Government mandated pill you took today
In the month of Obama 75
Ain’t gonna need your teeth, won’t need your eyes
You won’t find a Obamacare doctor who knows a thing to do
Nobody’s gonna even look at you
In the month of Obama 85
Your arms are hanging limp at your sides
Your legs got nothing to do
Some plutocrat’s machine is even doing your walking for you
In the month of Obama 95
Ain’t gonna need no husband, won’t need no wife
You’ll pick your Obama like son, pick your Obama like daughter too
From the bottom of a long slimy tube
Now it’s the start of Obama’s third term
American is 100 trillion in debt and has cried a billion tears
For what so many Americans never knew
Now America’s time is through
But through the eternal night
The twinkling of starlight
So very far away
Maybe it’s only yesterday
Obama and his SOTU: Lying liars and the lies they lie.
We need to index the operation and stand down. It’s come to this. Sequestration for the next four years is the only rational approach to this dingbat. Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Obama’s whole presidency is a fraud wrapped in a hundred fabrications inside a thousand lies.
Yes, but where are we going to find the “deperados” who are willing?
Sorry, I meant “desperados.” It’s hard to edit on this thing.
“When he turned to calling for a raise to the minimum wage, he made no sense. He called for a raise in the minimum wage to $9 an hour . . . Tying it to the increasing cost of living was one of the few ideas he proffered that made any sense”
It seems to me that the cost of living is dictated to some degree (maybe a large degree), by minimum wage.
If minwage goes up, then everything at the low end (most frequented by the poverty- and near-poverty stricken) goes up in tandem.
I see it as the McDonald’s index. If 1 hour of minwage = 1.25 meal deals, then raising the wage will still ultimately purchase 1.25 meal deals. It just bumps the cost of the lower end items to match the wage needed to produce it.
The folks that make $9 now, should be thrilled with the demotion to minwage though.
I’m no economist. I am however, an employer, so this is a snippet of the worldview from the deep end. Just sayin’
And there’s the rub, when the min wage goes to $9 everyone at or above that will expect a raise as well.
And that resounding thud you hear will be the door slamming in the faces of all the entry level workers looking for that first job, that first chance to get the on the job training to qualify for something better. Demographically it will impact Black and Hispanic youth the most, so thank you ever so much Mr. President.
There’s a tie-in that you never hear about: most unions base their salary negotiations on the minimum wage. If that goes up, every wage that is tied to it also goes up. Just follow the money!
In fact, that is why organized labor favors Obama’s proposed increase in the minimum wage.
As soon as the minimum wage hike passes, unions will then start demanding their own wage increases.
Minimum wage laws were always supported by labor unions, to protect them from competition from unskilled labor. When unskilled labor cant compete on price, then they have no competative advantage, and thus competition to the unionized labor is removed from the marketplace.
This had the side effect of driving business overseas, instead of to other parts of the country.
They are still up to their same country weakening for their own selfish greed, witness Boeing in Charleston. If Boeing built the new fascilities in Mexico they would be outside the NLRB’s reach to harass and threaten them, at the labor unions bidding.
And so it goes.
The Davis Bacon Act was passed because it was backed by the unions to keep the unskilled and black workforce from competing with them!
Bumpty Odumpty has no judgment at all
Bumpty Odumpty is heading for a great fall
All the tyrants Axelrods and all the tyrants MSM con men
Won’t be able to put Bumpty Odumpty’s pants back on again
Re:
“America, you were warned but you re-elected him anyway. And that’s the state of our union.”
This is our real dilemma: Those who voted for Obama are simply uneducatable and are only out for the any “benefits” which the Obama gaseous wind may cause to drift their way. These voters couldn’t care less for anything but the new attitude, “Yes! I! Can!”….and, “Stick it to the Man!”.
It’s a terrible situation because these leeches are a growing majority fed by illegal immigrants and their anchor babies.
And, this is cumulative, compounded because the Republicans will have to compromise their standards in order to appeal to the “entitlement” mindset of these new immigrants….it’s a vicious circle…or cycle.
It is worse than that. The people slopping it up at the trough include old people (calling themselves conservative or bulking at Obama-phoners) that are confused (senile) into thinking SS payments over the years were put in a lockbox to give them back something in retirement. They were self-duped sheep. The fact is that money went to regular old government spending. They were willfully blind in accepting the BS. They willfully elected leaders who deluded them. Bill Nelson (liar Florida). Bush tried a mild reform and the old people went ballistic. Idjits.
And they bought the lie of Romney that he would, could, protect them – that the current old people could continue to get the lie, the false promise.
The SS contract has been a fraud for decades. Fraudulent contracts are null and void.
The fact is we need to go back to FDR’s SS, where the eligibility age was older than average life expectancy. NOW.
Don’t get me started on Medicare. I don’t think it ever (certainly not now) had premiums that covered the outlays. People need to pay for their own healthcare if they want it. Keep the truly indigent alive as best as possible but if you’ve got it you HAVE to spend it instead of two houses (one in Ohio and one in Florida), or lottery tickets, or cable TV, whatever.
“if you’ve got it you HAVE to spend it instead of two houses (one in Ohio and one in Florida), or lottery tickets, or cable TV, whatever.”
Spoken like a true progressive obamabot. It is none of your business what a hard working, productive person does with their money. There might be a job for you in the administration as Secretary of Deciding Who Needs What. A major problem with SS is fraud and the abuse of disability payments…i.e. people receiving it who are not entitled to it. You do realize that there are few people living today that were alive when SS was born…and none were of voting age then. In addition, neither SS or Medicare is optional (you can opt out of Medicare, but then you lose SS). The people were not “duped”, the money was taken by the government at the point of a gun. Normally that would be considered theft, but not when government does it. Yes, the system is a Ponzi scheme, but get back to me after you have worked your entire life, had your money stolen by the government, and then had some idiot classify you as “senile” because you want some of your money back. There is no doubt that the system needs reform, but cutting off the people who have played by the rules all of their lives is not the answer. BTW, SS is already means tested. The more money you earn (up to the ever increasing ceiling), the more money you pay into the system. Medicare is similar, except there is no cutoff ceiling, they just keep taking it out of your pay without end. And, if you have been responsible, and have planned for your retirement with your own investments, up to 85% of your SS is taxed (i.e. the government takes back part of your benefit). The bottom line is that your immature and insulting comment indicates that you have been co opted by the obama strategy of division and his pitting of one group against another. The guilty are not the people who have paid into the system. The guilty are the politicians in DC who have plundered the system.
Yes, the government has been stealing from people ever since SS was implemented. It’s stealing from my husband and I even now, but the fact of the matter is that if it isn’t changed, then somewhere at some point, coming very soon, it will be entirely gone for everyone. No one will get anything anymore. I’m already pretty sure that I will never, ever see a penny of any of that money that is being stolen from me. And a large part of the reason why is because people like you WILL NOT hear about any kind of reform proposal because doggonit, you paid yours, so you’re getting it back! Well, here I am, paying mine, and I’ll be robbed for all of it because you won’t give a little.
I certainly understand your frustration, but once again your post lacks any evidence of critical thinking. It reads more like an hysterical rant. First of all, how do you know I am receiving benefits? You don’t. “People like you”? That is rather presumptuous, I do not believe we have ever met. You are correct about the money running out absent any reforms, but why don’t you advocate meaningful reforms (which are certainly possible) instead of demonizing others who are just as much imprisoned by the system as you are? “I’ll be robbed for all of it because you won’t give a little.”…truly an obama inspired sentiment…take it from someone else. Do you not have parents? Would you take it from them as well? You need to sit down and identify the true culprit here. It is the federal government that is destroying the system, not your fellow citizens.
Bryan: He makes perfect sense. I have two words for you. Cloward-Piven.
You are absolutely right. He’s following Cloward and Piven to destroy America by overwhelming the economy with people who demand “stuff.” He’s also following The Communist Manifesto. He didn’t start this but he’s continuing, with gusto, the decades-long effort to achieve the goals of the Manifesto.
Why does anyone think that Obama wants to grow the economy?
I agree with Obama on one thing. We have a crisis in healthcare. People want more healthcare services than they are willing to pay for. And asking people that do not use services to the extent they pay for them rightly bulk.
Why should a healthy young person pay the same insurance rates as an old sick one? My car insurance is based on the likelihood I will need to file a claim.
The only solution is pay out of pocket for routine stuff then if you want catastrophic coverage buy it. If one is truly destitute take care of them. But lets lose the fiction that the cost of providing services can be more than the price we pay.
People itch about the price while having no idea that the things they do raises the costs. Insanity.
There was a song back when descent was patriotic. Pete Seeger famously sang it on the Smothers Brothers Show. The chorus went “We’re neck deep in the big muddy, the big fool says to push on”. Seems relevant now.
America, you were warned but you re-elected him anyway. And that’s the state of our union.
“The larger the mob, the harder the test. In small areas, before small electorates, a first-rate man occasionally fights his way through, carrying even the mob with him by force of his personality. But when the field is nationwide, and the fight must be waged chiefly at second and third hand, and the force of personality cannot so readily make itself felt, then all the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most easily adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.
The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
H.L. Mencken, Baltimore Evening Sun, July 1920
3 pages of steaming Preston-excrement, summable thusly….
“damn field ni**erz, i wish they’d learn their place…time for me to go catch some more slaves…”
“How much will be enough? Liberals never answer that question.”
Stuart Varney asked Keith Ellison that question. He asked him, “On every dollar that Phil Mickelson makes, he has to pay 63¢ to the state and federal governments in income taxes. Is that fair?”
Ellison answered (paraphrased), “My poor homies need that money, so it’s fair to make Mickelson cough up.”
Ellison, Obama, Dorner — they all pursue the politics of resentment and Whitey-bashing.
What’s with the racism drivel ?
Besides which, Obama is as much Caucasian as he is Negroid.
Mulattos can be stupid, too.
The racism comment disappeared.
The idea that criticism of Obama is necessarily racist qualifies among the top 10 stupidest things in the universe.
Why could not Rubio hire Bryan Preston as his speech writer? I was waiting for something big, but it did not come. However, Bryan–you nailed it.
Rick Perry probably made the same mistake and was left with an unfocused and uninspiring campaign vs the energetic but meh, Romney. In that alternate history universe where the Constitution still matters, Perry gave a real speech instead of Obama’s clownshow last night. “The state of our union is in a difficult recovery from a mysterious man-caused disaster,” might be the underlying message.
Instead we can be assured that Obama is never, ever getting back together with the Constitution, to quote the great Obama political inspiration that is Taylor Swift.
In point of fact – America could afford universal health care. We would need tort reform first – about 58% of health care costs are liability insurance and legal costs. Don’t let people sue for anything less than maliciousness (i.e. no lawsuits for mistakes or bad outcomes). We need to cut the paperwork – ObamaCare mandates that doctors fill out more paperwork that used to be completed by cheaper admin people. Cut the time doctors spend on paperwork, cut the number of admin people they need to provide health care, cut the number of government bureaucrats reviewing that paperwork.
We’re $16 trillion in debt. We can’t even technically afford to put a #2 pencil on the president’s desk.
Tort reform–yes. Also, get rid of mandatory coverage imposed by liberals for things such as aromatherapy, massage, marriage counseling, and sex-change operations. Finally, allow insurance companies to sell across state lines. Competition is the key to lowering health care costs.
Need a little laugh ?
Are you losers REALLY this stupid? A………..mazing.
He doesn’t have a loose grip on reality, he has a tight grip on tyranny and the art of the Con.
Too bad YOU have a tight grip on your stormfront handle.
You can stop with the racist, obnoxious nonsense, or you can be banned. Your choice.
While we can agree that dano is playing racist and is over the top, I fail to see that he/she/it ought to be banned. There is no less obnoxious racism in “low information voters looking for their obamaphone and handouts” except that people who say that can claim it’s not — and due merely to the lack of _overtly_ identifying the targets of their derision. The meaning however is crystal clear. (Although I’m sure they exist I have never seen a white wielding an obamaphone.) The “dano” bot is merely being brief in his/her/its carictature.
You know, a thoughtful comment in these columns from someone on the left would be interesting and maybe even persuasive now and again. But comments like yours are simply infantile and best ignored. They do illustrate however, why many of us hold “progressives” in such contempt: they seem rarely to have a coherent thought, beginning at the top with Obama & Co.
You know, a thoughtful comment in these columns from someone on the left would be interesting…
To you, perhaps, but not for most. People here can’t even deal with republican moderates without accusing them of being card carrying communists.
Without vapid, knee jerk generalizations about “people here” and “conservatives” and who they are and what they do & do not think, random-thought would be wordless.
One could only hope.
I’m sorry, but America’s fate has already been decided. This article and others like them are just the death throes.
Do what you can to preserve your families.
Good luck.
Sam, I am very fearful that preserving our families is what it is coming to. I am trying to convince my daughter to keep my grandchildren out of the public indoctination…..er school system and send them instead to private school. But I wonder if even the private schools will eventually be targeted for being “racist, hateful, and xenophobic, and be shut down…..in the national interest of course.
Private schools, as well as public schools, are now being forced to adopt CORE, the brainchild of the Obummer administration and his school dunce, Arne Duncan at the Department of Non-Education. Adoption of CORE will put the last nail in the coffin of the American education system.
Strongly encourage your daughter to homeschool, any way that she can. I’m a retired public school elementary teacher and I would not send my children or grandchildren to a public school for all the money in the world. They are immoral dens of leftist indoctrination.
Absurd depravity is an apt description for Obama, his enablers, his supporters and everything they all believe; absurd people who have willingly depraved their humanity in service of an impossible man-made utopia. Marxism has been tried and has failed, utterly and miserably, for more than 150 years. What can possibly motivate its leaders now but depraved lust for money, luxury, power built on the backs of the useful idiots who believe their lies.
But for as long as the processes of time are called to-day there will be resistance to this eternally absurd depravity. Here is an example of intelligent, common-sense resistance presented by an economist, Dr. Timothy Morgan, employed by Tullett Prebon, one of the few global-reach London finance houses not party to the LIBOR scheme. It is definitely worth the reading time because a word to the wise is always sufficient: http://www.tullettprebon.com/Documents/strategyinsights/TPSI_009_Perfect_Storm_009.pdf
Thank you for this link! It is good reading for those with some time and interest.
only the low information voters can make sense of electing a failure, a proven failure and an unpatriotic failure to run this economy, when he has never shown any economic accomplishments, and his budgets are late, his plans get no votes and yet he is the person to follow off the cliff.
this is why it is obozo, our clown in chief, and his court jesters that are harming us while using slight of hand that he cares. HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHHAHA
Too bad the debt clock wasn’t hung behind Biden & Boehner. Why spoil the party…
A far more truthful title of his propaganda program last night might well have been labelled, “the State of our Unions.”
If Obama gets his way, you won’t have to wait three hours to vote- a Democrat will do it for you.
I just wanted to say, great job putting it altogether so succinctly Mr. Preston. Bravo! Your article should have been the opposition parties response.
If he’s as bad as it looks…If he indeed is the “illegal president”
doing this that and the other thing to get around laws, the constitution etc.
Why don’t you just go and forcibly remove the sonovabitch? I’m hoping the case is being prepared. All the T’s will be crossed and the I’s dotted so if we re-take the senate in 2014 and keep the house, impeachment proceedings will begin with the intensity and speed of a lightning strike. Maybe we’ll be able to cut 2 years off his blitzkrieg against the Republic.
So what are the Republicans going to do about the unconstitutional arrogation of power that Obama is already doing and threatens to do again? As a private citizen I have no standing to do anything. The courts wouldn’t allow me to file suit in federal court, and the GOP office holders just whine about his attacks on the constitution and do nothing. I pray that Boehner or somebody will grow a pair and cut off funding for executive branch departments that are unconstitutionally operating just on the power of executive orders. Specifically the EPA pulling an end run to impose Cap and Trade and stupid CO-2 limits. Come on GOP the house has the power of the purse strings. Use it or lose it!
They are hamstrung, Pogo, by a well-founded fear that the unfair reportage in the press will demonize them regardless of what they do and so Barry is running wild.
Speaking of fractured bizzaro lens…
The Dorn case is a great example.
First, we have conservatives spreading propaganda by the corrupt, brutal, left wing, progressive LAPD. Conservatives are openly supporting an organization that stands against everything they claim to believe in. They trash talk a man who fought against that same organization. However wrong or incompetent his actions, he struggled against the corruption and brutality. Bizzare: Conservatives are openly supporting the very people they claim to hate.
Now, we have the corrupt, left-wing, progressive MSM trash talking the left-wing, progressive and corrupt LAPD while defending and touting Dorn as a Hero. They’re speaking in support of the same man who struggled against their own corruption and against the brutality of their own ideology. Bizzare: The left-wing MSM is supporting the type of person they claim to hate.
His whole plan for the country can be summed up in two words, Cloward Piven.