Our Ten-Trillion-Dollar Man
Borrowing Is No Longer Stimulus?
The Congressional Budget Office not long ago forecast that Barack Obama’s $1 trillion-plus annual deficits — scheduled over the next decade — would result in almost another $10 trillion in aggregate debt. Going back to the pre-Bush tax rates this time won’t balance the budget. Slashing discretionary spending will not. So large has the splurge become, and so hooked are the constituencies of federal money, that massive cuts to entitlements necessary to stave off financial implosion may well prompt Greek-like protests.
That staggering sum was apparently conventional wisdom until the November 2010 election. But now there is fear that at some point in the future, Obama will not be known as the first African-American president. Nor will he be cited even as the hope-and-change phenomenon of 2008. Instead, posterity shall know him as the single greatest borrower in American presidential history, a novice who nearly wrecked the U.S. economy by borrowing over $4 billion a day without any feasible proposal how to pay back such a vast sum — taking a post-recession recovery and turning it into a stagflationary mess. In the third year of his tenure, Obama is still left only with “Bush did it” as an explanation of what went wrong.
Obama has managed the nearly impossible: the greatest peacetime deficits in U.S. history — about $1.5 trillion per year — in his first three years achieved almost no economic expansion. Instead, unemployment is chronic and stays over 9.2%; growth is stagnant; gas is sky-high — and the president seems stunned that none of what he had promised came to pass. All his liberal nostrums have been tried and been found wanting. There is no successful EU model, no winning blue-state statist paradigm for guidance.
Remember that his key advisors — Goolsbee, Orszag, Romer, Summers — have now quit and did not last even three years, their policies orphaned by the very parents who spawned them. Even the president joked that “shovel-ready” was a joke. When he evokes “stimulus” and “investment,” in response, we do not even think “borrowing” and “taxes,” but rather “he’s clueless again.” The old argument that we simply did not borrow enough (say, $5, $6, $7 billion a day?) is laughable beyond the point of caricature, given that the administration followed the Bush record of record peacetime debt. The only mystery is whether the massive Obama borrowing was a product of incompetence, a poorly thought out gorge the beast way of increasing taxes and redistributing income, or a more cynical effort at creating a permanent constituency of millions of new food stamp recipients and federal workers. Or more than that still.
Your Debt And None Of Our Own
Obama himself recently proposed a massive deficit budget that not a single Democrat in the Senate could vote for; then suddenly he flipped, and said that red ink of the sort that he ran up was now unsustainable. When did the president of the United States metamorphosize from the greatest Keynesian in presidential history to a fiscal hawk — January? March? April 1?
As he calls for higher taxes, he still has not offered any plan whatsoever that details where the president himself would cut. Remember that he conceded in December that higher taxes were bad; but by July they were then good again. He courts Wall Street one day for campaign money, yet on another calls them “fat cat” bankers and deplores their jets. Food stamps recipients now number 50 million — and we dare not imagine that even one has taken a dime without good cause.
The would-be employer is told to hire, but on what confident supposition, what rationale? That he knows well the tax rate to come, the health care costs to come, the regulations to come, the pro-business, veteran CEO appointee to come, the next presidential slur to come? Apparently Obama believed that capitalists were so greedy, so wealthy, so money-hungry that they would not mind much the redistributive obstacles he erected.
He talks grandly of getting America back to work, as his subordinates try to close down a Boeing aircraft plant, layer more regulations and burdens on energy production, reverse the order of creditors in the Chrysler mess, and take over GM — even as he continues the old “spread the wealth” and “redistributive change” adolescent rants with newer, sillier faculty lounge concoctions, claiming that at some point we have made enough money and that he himself has hundreds of thousands of dollars in income that he does not need and thus should have higher taxes on. (If so, please, help the Treasury out by offering to pay the gas for the Costa del Sol, Vail, and Martha’s Vineyard first-family freebies). One expects such banalities from the college dorm lounge, but not the middle-aged president of the United States.
Carter 2.0
Abroad the misdirection, confusion, and petulance mirror-image the debt mess. In Libya we have no mission aim, no methodology, and no desired outcome — our consolation only that Libya is a tiny country compared to a nearly 30-million person Afghanistan or Iraq. Obama went to the Arab League and the UN, but not the U.S. Congress for authorization — but to do what? Help the rebels? Enforce a no-fly-zone? Kill Gaddafi? Overthrow the government? All, some, or none?
Every word is on the money, VDH.
Even worse, the propaganda arm of the now clearly insane far left Democratic Party will not allow these very truths to become self-evident.
They will up the wattage on the airwaves of lies, distortions and place a thousand more masks on these very truths.
The Democratic Party has not produced a budget, has not taken a serious stand on fixing what they…and yes, it is mostly THEY who…. have broken this economy. This rather absurd notion that “Bush did it”, ought to come now not with a roll of the eyes…but with a spitting on the ground and cursing.
This imbecilic lie, that it was not Barney Frank and Chris Dodd who intentionally held up the banks, helped hide the cooked books, help “junk” the real estate and mortgage industry …is one giant lie.
Obama’s training at the Midwest Academy and at Cooper Union have set the stage for the takeover of auto, insurance, health, energy…and have driven them into the ground.
Obama’s days….every Sunday at 11:00…in the pews of “God Damn America”…and a spewing of Israel/Jew hating, his dinners with Rashid Khalidi and his honoring of Edward Said (another propaganda assist from a diseased media holding the evidence hostage in L.A.), has set our foreign policy course like a fuse to detonate the Middle East.
Every promise broken, every duty avoided, every responsibility shirked.
The CBO said it doesn’t score speeches…but we ought to. We ought to score the speech that decries Republicans not saying “yes”…to what, precisely? There is nothing produced except distortion and lies.
This is the first generation that is actually having a discussion about how to saddle our children and grandchildren with all the burdens of our reckless behavior. We are actually trying to figure out how to put them in the worst possible position so that we can continue to luxuriate in our own waste.
The “me first, me last, me always” generation. Not at all interested in making things better than we left them…but rather squeezing every last drop we can for ourselves and telling our offspring “yeah, it sucks, deal with it”.
This is a generation that cannot be shamed. In that particular way and almost every other…I am not one of them.
cf: I think I just posted what you have presented. It’s good to know I am not alone in these thoughts.
The masses got benumbed by 60s era near-hippie teachers for the last three generations. The culture got debased by depraved puppet masters who exploited the electronic and media revolutions since the 60s.
To blame the Demagoguic Party, the unions, academia, power mongers or pols will get you nowhere. They had the same teachers, and they have the “liberal gene”.
The real fault lies in the cowardice of the opposition.
Where is our Cicero? Why haven’t they delivered VDH’s denunciations line by line in the well of the Senate???????
Victor writes: “The old argument that we simply did not borrow enough (say, $5, $6, $7 billion a day?) is laughable beyond the point of caricature…”
Very true. But everyone can get their laughs from Paul Krugman, who touts this very comical idea of not borrowing enough at the Krugmanorandum blog on almost a daily basis. (And may I also humbly suggest for more laughs a short stop at Amazon afterward to order a copy of “Krugman and Reich, the Clownishness of Bearded Economists” by Fred Beloit.)
Wow…I enjoyed your comment almost as much as I enjoyed VDH’s essay! Could you imagine if we had VDH at the gates of Columbia Journalism School maintaining the media standards? What a wonderfully honest conversation we could have in America today! I could even see myself getting lazy because I wouldn’t worry about the truthfulness of the dialogue. I thoroughly trust the integrity of VDH. A National treasure. Max
Right on. I had to ask my daughter how she managed to get a Masters in Journalism at Columbia without understanding the difference between facts and assumptions.
Agreed, Charles. One of Dr. Hansen’s best, and one of cf’s best, too!
Obama is a malignant narcissist. His world and his views were shaped by those who believe America is an Imperialist nation, a capitalist nation, an evil nation run by evil groups. His goal from day one has been to “destroy” the American economy; then to replace it with a “progressive model” which is cover for communism/socialism.
However, he is supported by millions of American citizens who think along the lines he presents. His game of “death by 1000 cuts” reaches across every decision he can make, both domestically and those issues of foreign policy.
His lawyer trained mind employs a “passive aggressive” energy in all decisions.
What is really new with this evil muslim loving Kenyan is that he has actively chosen to “lie every chance” he gets to the American citizenry for whatever will further his goals.
However, America did ask for this. We voted, via a majority, this guy and his “people” into power.
Has it been “Get even with Whitey” all along?
Will his book “Dreams of my Father” be more than he ever thought? Could he end up just like dear old daddy? Freud might be smiling along with Shakespeare.
Sooner, rather than later is my hope. Listen for that frontier mom up north to come out and say “Good ole boys have done this!” Pay attention to that dark skinned warrior Rep. Allen West along with the other Floridian whose family landed from Cuba, Senator Rubio.
It’s time for this generation of narcissists (“Do your own thing” “Make love, not War” “Sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll” and my personal favorite “Hell no, We won’t go!” to get off the stage, to get in those rocking chairs and suffer the loss of the entitlements they had hoped to put over on everyone else!
Going over the cliff makes sense if you happen to be either Thelma or Louise, and life is just a movie. Only, this game is real and the pain is more than real!
Remember too: Hillary Clinton considers herself to be a “progressive” which is cover for commie/socialist…power hungry elite!
Anyone, anyone have a clue as to how to fix the problems the good doctor continues to define? Not history, not theory, real proposed solutions.
It is possible that the Obama regime’s goal of stirring social strife through class warfare, high unemployment, massive debt (and the austerity measures it will likely entail) will succeed; regardless of who is elected in 2012. Once these tensions begin to release, things will have to run their course. The nation will become more polarized, some elements will become radicalized. We could see large scale civil strife, a partial breakdown of central authority etc. etc. At that point it will depend on what kind of leadership emerges.
There are some on the Left for whom strife and even violence are desired outcomes, because they hope the chaos will allow them to install more authoritarian and even emergency dictatorial rule. (This is an old Leninist ploy). They will claim that both democracy and capitalism have failed, and seek direct control of the economy and the reins of power.
On the other hand things could (probably will) backfire on them. Having grabbed the tiger by the tail, they may realize too late that he is a lot bigger and meaner than they thought. Then it will be a hard time for them. Also they appear to be engineering crises overseas through their international network. They may find themselves outmaneuvered there too, though not necessarily to our advantage. This bunch telegraphs so blatantly that they can be played rather easily. Their blindspots are obvious now, and they are also vulnerable to defectors, some of whom are just waiting for the right moment.
Basically danger is everywhere but it is hard to predict how it will unfold. So the main thing is to be prepared psychologically, to stay focused and united, and to seek to gain the initiative as soon as possible. Remember that almost nothing is what it seems, and that everything the Dems say at this point is a deception inside a lie, within an illusion. You have to dig at least three layers down to see what they are really after, and it ain’t pretty.
Either way they will be have to exposed and discredited before we can restore the Republic. That is Job One, and many of the solutions you seek will flow from that process. Thus the short term looks grim. We have already run out of time for jaw-jaw. If the GOP fails to appreciate this, then they too will be rendered obsolete. But if they play it right, their heads will be covered in glory. In the longer term, most of the indicators are in our favor. I really think the Left badly miscalculated, and they are in for a bad ride.
Gylippus: I think your perspective is sharp and focused.
This past November voting citizens handed the democratic party a stunning, a very stunning defeat, while signaling to the republicans that there was a clear and defined road to travel.
The weak republicans, however, decided to play “defensive” ball with the democrats: We are here today watching this game of “default” being played by two groups: The “hysterics” and the “masochists” belong more in a marriage going down storyline, than this game of real life. See the old column in the Ladies Home Journal “Can this marriage be saved?” for advice.
Note that our recent Medal Of Honor recipient has had 8 combat tours: Have we also exhausted our military while depleting our treasury, creating a reality of weakness beyond anyone’s imagination? The Libyan adventure, so nice for bleeding us even more, is being noticed by others who have more evil in their designs than most Americans wish to dream.
We have an administration that works against Israel (never to be admitted by them, though); note the history of the Persians (Iran) and see if you get a sense they will directly challenge their neighbors or will they just keep fomenting terrorism through indirect support, etc. Does China want back Taiwan, will it let loose the nasty pit bull, North Korea? Is Russia willing to flex it’s new muscles? Does Europe have any spine remaining?
How will all our lawyer trained politicians figure out such problems, especially when most of them never felt the need to join our military? It’s so easy to pontificate from the sidelines using language rather than being prepared to employ a sword.
Watching Sarah Palin pull in a fish line loaded with the daily catch is just too much for some people. As is shooting a moose, then cutting it up in the garage–and of course after this procedure, offering it to family in a stew.
Perhaps having an Officer warrior fire his pistol next to one’s ear so that he’ll give up the information as to where the bad guys are, may be too direct a “life and death” situation for some. Ask Rep. West for guidance here.
Did not Mitt Rommey find a way to educate his four sons not to join the American military? The elite…
“Do what I say, not what I do” may have run it’s course with a majority of American people who are willing to fight for individual freedom. Something about American DNA, I suspect.
After the game of “musical chairs” we get to the final game of “hot potato” where food stamps will not be honored at such a time…
Freedom has never been free, nor has there ever been a free lunch!
I do get tired of people buying into the MSM/TPTB lies about this so-called deficit: “We are here today watching this game of “default” being played by two groups”. Please educate yourself; for instance: http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=190590
That both sides are playing this game should be a red flag to you – Obama is a tool as would any so-called Republican be; e.g. Palin, Romney, plug-in-whatever-name-you-want.
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“Perhaps having an Officer warrior fire his pistol next to one’s ear so that he’ll give up the information as to where the bad guys are, may be too direct a “life and death” situation for some. Ask Rep. West for guidance here. ”
Your beliefs and morals count for nothing if you’re all dead.
Just the little Fly in the Ointment for those who say “we can NEVER do this, under any circumstances.”
The single most important things in the near term are 1) Vote Obama out and Take the Senate while still holding the House, and 2) take the brakes off of the economy: drill, mine, invest, produce.
Two other things that have to happen: A new appreciation of and following of the 10th Amendment, and Congress, especially the House, re-establishing its Constitutional authority.
The fix is simple. Prevent the ignorant and the idiots from voting. Amend the Constitution such that people must prove that they know about an elected office and know the major differences among the candidates before voting, and that they understand the pros and cons of a referendum before voting. Complete know-nothings would not be able to vote for any office or referendum.
An alternate solution: Allow only those whose tax payments to a government exceed their benefits from that government to vote. Thus, federal employees would not be able to vote in federal elections. A person getting Medicaid from the state and federal governments would not get to vote in state or federal elections. Retirees sucking down lots of Medicare and Social Security benefits wouldn’t get to vote in federal elections. This fix isn’t as good as the first one, but it might achieve the same thing because those sucking from the teats of government couldn’t vote for more feed for the fat government sow.
Take back the money from all the spurious Climate departents, institutues, every organisation pushing Climate Change nonsense. Put it in the budget.
Expel every organisaition in the US established by the Muslim Brotherhood. Remove their governemnt funding _CAIR, Imam Rauf etc.
Redirect your pretax money to PRO American causes institutions.
REemove tenure from and expel antiAmerican Academics, fraudluant academics (eg Ward Churchill types) and redirect their wages to the budget.
Remove funding from the UN and chuck it out of the US. It is nothing but a refuge for despots. Offer all democracies a disused faculty lounge for the after-party.
Bill Obama for missed hours at work.
I’m no economist so will stop there. I was going to suggest remove funding from a lot of radical institutes but they seem to get their funding from private foundations and I know very little about those.
Eaay to fix: Obama must be defeated.
VDH: Come on, Doc, get real for a change! Obama’s right on target on his goals for this country. His primary concern now is to get a second term to set his policies in stone forever and forever so that we’ll never be able to undo his policies. That’s the only reason you’re seeing this kind of slacking off somewhat from his spend and borrow and spend some more policies plus his “Tax the Rich” til they’re broke policy too. Now, give him a second term and we’ll really see some change to our once thriving economy. Yep, Obama’s almost ready to do a victory dance once our nation is on a par with Greece, the home of democracy, and Syria, home of noted Islamist and societal philosophers, he’s got his dance moves all programmed for his January 20, 2013, dance steps.
Everything will be just great and kosher (To borrow an otherwise forbidden word) when we become on a par with the socialist countries of Cuba, Bolivia, and Venezuela. We’ll then be shouting Viva Obama, Viva Fidel, Viva Hugo the Great.
On the other hand, maybe you’re doing the right thing. Hard to tell these days what that is.
So, in either case, Cheers! Or, maybe not too difficult after all!
We have a Bankruptcy Court and lawyers who specialize in bankruptcy law for obvious reasons.
Who’s to say a country can’t become bankrupt?
What happens then? War…maybe. Assassination…maybe. Revolution…always?
Stay tuned…the game is far from over.
Disagree all you want, but calling the President an “evil muslim loving Kenyan” and “get even with Whitey” is unpatriotic and just shows your own pathetic racism.
How come no one has commented that the article says we have the largest “peacetime” deficit? Peacetime? I guess we aren’t at war in Iraq and Afghanistan? Do you know what the contribution of those stupid wars is to the deficit?
My biggest disappointment in Obama was that I voted for him because he was going to shut down the embarrassment of Guantanamo and get us out of a pointless war ASAP.
I think spending does need to be dramatically cut, but I also know taxes on the upper class can be raised and corporate tax loopholes can be closed. Do you think it is right GE made billions and paid $0 taxes?
Disagree all you want (I do) but your racism is better fit for a KKK site.
So how’s that Kool-Aid taste? Pretty good I’ll bet. You seem to enjoy it.
LG the fly annoyed that his anointed secular messiah is really an incompetent fool,buzzes around the table. Of course we get the perfunctory KKK slander. The left is such a boring predictable clown car. Go away ignorant troll. No one cares about your pathetic views.
I’m really tired of hearing leftists citing GE’s tax free year as justification for raising taxes on the “rich”, i.e., the GE shareholders, including union pension funds, mutual funds, etc.. For the record, GE was a beneficiary of all kinds of tax credits for it’s role in developing so-called renewable resources.
“Resources” that still don’t produce any appreciable contribution to this country’s energy needs. (>2%?)- For how many billions of tax-payer dollars?
Mostly I’m sick of the Left’s newly renewed efforts at instigating class hatred in this country. Just what we need- to further their statist agenda!
LG: My biggest disappointment in Obama was that I voted for him….
That’s almost as narcissistic as Obama – you’re disappointed in him because you voted for him?
Your own words disqualify you from ever being taken seriously about anything. The truth about Obama as available to anyone willing to do a modicum of work to learn about him, and the failure to do so reflects either naivete, laziness, or stupidity, or some combination of them.
Liberalism is more than just a mental disease, it is a sickness of the soul!
Blinded by the light of the campaign promises, LG? Can you make up for your misplaced vote by changing it this time around? Obama is betting his political life that you can’t.
LG, you probably voted for Obama because of fear of being called a racist. You apparently fear poor governing less than being called a racist.
GE and Obama are a perfect example of “crony capitalism”, something that Bush and the oil companies were accused of by the left. Jeff Immelt, the CEO of GE is also Obama’s economic adviser and a proponent of man-made global warming, for which his company received hundreds of millions of dollars from the Federal government to subsidize GE’s wind and solar power divisions. Ha-ha, no connection there between Obama and GE. Another example of crony capitalism is Obama and GM, Obama and big unionism, Obama and big environmentalism, Obama and big finance, etc. All of these special interests get favored treatment, while our manufacturing sector is demonized as being oppressive to workers, as polluters, as greedy and using tax loopholes to their own benefit. Is there any wonder why we are in a recession?
LG- You point to multiple wars as the source of our current fiscal catastrophe – except that military spending as a percent of GDP is historically low. Further, you ignore the Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security Money Monster that will destroy us all.
You do know that GE is a favored business at the White House, right?
You may or may not be aware that GE and its CEO Immelt are friends of the current administration, Immelt is also advising Obama on business and finance. GE spent a huge sum of money to elect Obama. Might there be a connection between that and GE not having to pay taxes?
Racism has lost its meaning because it is being thrown at anybody who dares to disagree with Obama’s policies and who realizes that only lies come out of his mouth. I have said from day one of his presidency that both he and the wife are in a pay back mode. Yes I mean it is payback whitey time. It is bizarre really because he never suffered from anything, he went to private schools, most likely benefited from affirmative action at all levels, never worked to support himself while in school etc. etc. ad nauseum. In other words he hasn’t and still isn’t living in the real world. I would personally never hire him because he has done nothing but feed on the public trough which is always a warning sign when looking for a good employee.
Lastly, he started two wars in Libya and in Yemen and if you believe that it is NATO or the UN I have a bridge I am ready to sell you.
Did somebody here call the President an “evil Muslim Kenyan?”
Wrong audience, wrong target.
You almost have a good point about the “peacetime” thing; almost. Despite our four theaters, it is one war we’re sort of fighting, and none of it with the level of resources, energy and firepower (or willpower) of WWII, that great existential calamity that VDH is alluding to. As a matter of fact, our relative expenditures for the GWOT, or whatever we’re supposed to call it, even fall short of Vietnam and Korea. Obama has managed to put us in a hole of WWII-like dimensions despite the relatively low level of conflict intensity. I mean, WTF?
Did YOU know that General Electric is one of Obama’s favorite corporations, because of all their “green” pretensions? (Haven’t you seen their TV ads touting their charging stations for electric cars?)
The CEO of GE, Jeffrey R. Immelt, was named by Obama to chair his Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. In exchange, Obama has made sure that no Democrats talk about ending special tax breaks for THAT corporation.
So if you think GE should not get away with paying zero taxes, then you should know that your hero, Obama, sold you out on that one.
Sorry pal. The call me a racist card for pointing out the TRUTH will not wash with me. If not for “whitey” the jug eared mulatto would not have been elected.
Just because democrats are racists doesn’t mean everyone is.
We don’t care what color he is, we care that he is trying to destroy our country. Because nobody is that stupid and still able to walk upright. Ergo, he’s doing it on purpose.
And he does love muslims. Are you going to try and deny that?
Perhaps you’d care to inform us as to where jobs come from. Or better still, to tax the boundaries of what you might call your education, enlighten us to the nature of wealth creation.
Well Professor I think Barry sees himself not as ruler of the free world but as “Ruler of the World”. I believe he is genuinely mystified that the entire population of the world has not formed a conga line and is shucking and jiving to whatever tune is currently playing through the hills and valleys of his juvenile mind. Being surrounded by sycophants who are disguising the truth about the economy is not helping the situation either. What is a mystery to me is how anyone can still support this man-child given that our economy is circling the drain and nothing seems to be getting better
You couldn’t flip a coin about every decision and cause this much havoc in a million years.
It’s deliberate.
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Exactly.
Yes it seems like Obama actually wants the country to default. He doesn’t seem worried at all. He proposes ridiculous budgets that even the democrats wont vote for. It’s incomprehensible that someone really is this inept. And if it IS on purpose. What’s the motive? What will emerge out of the chaos.
king obama is what will arise from the ashes
Apropos to your brief but uncannily accurate comment on our situation, the ghosts of Marx, Gramsci, Marcuse and Alinsky are having a good chortle at our expense.
Obama is like a spoiled child. All through his life people around him have told him how wonderful he is wonderful while affirmative action propelled him through life. Unfortunately the people he surrounded himself with were ex-hippies from the 1960s. He absorbed their world view and is forcing it on the country today.
Obamunism is upon us. The tipping point has been achieved. The Republican party is inept and we are each on our own. VDH is beating a dead horse, again. Regardless of how destructive Obama is he will have the continued support of the increasing number of dependents the Democrats have created. Obama will eventually be gone but the debt, deadbeats and socialists will still be with us. Does VDH have a solution ? NO.
What is the point of such defeatism? Are you really ready to give up your freedom without a fight? If so, why should I respect your opinion? Sometimes fortune has surprises in store. Maybe all it takes is a little nudge in the right direction. If the Greeks had taken your position when the Persian horde was advancing against them, Western civilization might never have been. But sometimes all it takes is standing up, and what once seemed like dire odds suddenly don’t seem so daunting. History is full of such examples. I maintain that we are much better positioned than you realize. Don’t give up just yet.
And your solution is ? I am not a “defeatist” but would prefer to hear SOLUTIONS from Dr VDH and from you. The point: Whatever it takes to provoke…. Never the less thanks for your thoughtful comment.
I am with you KRC. . . . .I am sick and tired of hearing all about the woes and troubles coming to our country. . . I want to do something about it!! There is way too much pontificating by the Conservatives, and no one manning the barricades or priming the cannons.Are there no leaders on a national scale out there, who will call all these pols what they are- lying SOBs- and then jump into the fight with fists flying? THAT is the man/woman I will support. I am sick to death of these “intellectual” discussions and writings. . . I want to see some action, dammit!!
RICK: If only we could see your kind of energy from Dr. VDH. Alas there is money to be made in “pontificating” no matter which side wins. VDH has no solutions, only observations and an ever ready pen. His only apparent passion occured when someone stole his chainsaw and left trash on the side of his road. Blah Blah Blaaaaaah. Description is a poor substitute for clear cut planning and actions although so much easier and safer.
There are a few national figures whom I believe are ready, willing and capable of leading a direct attack on the cabal of statists and crony capitalists who now control the Democratic Party. Figures like Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachman, Allen West, Rick Perry, Herman Cain, John Bolton…
Give them wings. Flood them with support. Send them money; and emails and phone calls demanding that they call Obama what he is: A wannabee dictator hell-bent on destroying democracy and capitalism in America. Attend their rallies, defend their names, let them know you will go the mat with them and support them in every way, through thick and thin… Prod them towards ever more open confrontation. The best leaders are the one’s who can most effectively tap the energy of those they lead.
So be careful what you for. A frontal assault will trigger a number of reactions. For one thing the MSM will go bananas. Front page headlines will blare every day that an extremist, racist fringe is mobilizing for an attempted coup d’etat. Brain dead liberals will dig-in, many centrists will buy it, even a few “conservatives” will get spooked and run. Will the rest of us remain steadfast?
If we do, it will get worse. Big Sis will get involved, so will Justice. I can imagine communications blackouts, curfews, national guard units deployed… Naturally academia will stir the pot. There will be student marches protesting the “far right”. Big Labour will deploy its foot-soldiers. “Special Interest Groups” like La Raza and Code Pink will unfurl their agitprop banners … It could get very ugly. It could make 1968 look like a breeze.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m prepared to go down that path too if its necessary, I just don’t think we’re there yet, despite the terrible ravages Obama has already inflicted. 2012 is still our best bet, provided we unite behind a solid conservative. (For me, the Dem attempt to distract and divide us remains the greatest threat). After we win, all of the risks I’ve outlined above will still exist but we will have the benefit of electoral legitimacy, not to mention direct executive power. De-Demification will still be a long, arduous process, but if we’re lucky we just might avoid civil war.
Gylippus,
PLEASE!!! Remove Rick Perry from that list of the ready to fight!
Lip service ONLY is what you get! He’s not a true reformer! He is conservative, but more the pay to play good ole boy style! He’s a hell of a retail politician, but is nothing when it comes to statesmanship. Texas is a weak Governor state, so he could succeed here.
Sarah Palin comes from a strong Governor state, and wielded the line item veto axe with vigor. Took down powerful pols & put them in prison, and faced down the Seven Sisters! She’s a true reformer and constitutionalist. Not just mouthing the words!!!
You want VDH to come up with solutions? Don’t you have any suggestions?
VDH’s solutions are implied in his listing of Obama’s transgressions: don’t. do. what. Obama. does.
I left a reply post above for someone else begging for proposed solutions. Why not offer up some concrete suggestions yourself?
“Are you really ready to give up your freedom without a fight?”
A specific program of how to fight back would run afoul of the commentary guidelines on this site. Any real, effective opponent of Obama would be reported to law enforcement. Once the self-censorship removes the solution, only the defeatist (that is to say, realist) analysis of the situation remains.
Everyone lamenting the end needs to GET INVOLVED with any and every Republican campaign you can. And help keep the TEA Party alive.
Yeah, right . I tend to agree with what ErisGuy says just above. As proof, just look at: the political theatre we’re witnessing with the so-called default, what TSA does everyday in this country, what (so-called) law enforcement does, what court-rulings are coming down (vis a vis our 4th ammendment rights), etc. It’s too late, you’re the frog in the frying pan; especially if you are putting your hopes in Republicans (or any politician)!
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Dear Dr. Hanson,
I’m no fan of Barack Obama, but does he really deserve so much credit for this god awful mess? You give our President far too much credit. He’s just another liberal ideologue, of which there are multitudes in this great nation, and not a particularly clever one, at that. How different is he from Nancy Pelosi or a raft of other liberal House and Senate members? The only reason Obama’s short presidential tenure has been such a disaster is that the Democrat-controlled Congress was a gleeful accomplice to all this mischief. Without the Congress, and especially without the skillful leadership of Pelosi and Reid, there would be no lasting Obama legacy. By crediting Obama with so much responsibility, you shift the blame away from his Progressive ideology and his legislative accomplices. You should not do that.
We should all be thankful that he is not a clever man or an effective leader – and he certainly is not the Progressive superhero you make him out to be. Barack Obama is a good salesman, and little more. He is the Professor Harold Hill of American politics who made the mistake of sticking around long enough for the citizens to get the true measure of the man. Just imagine how much worse it would be if President Obama possessed Bill Clinton’s intellectual and political skills. Then we’d have real trouble right here in River City.
Yours truly,
ThOR
“Just imagine how much worse it would be if President Obama possessed Bill Clinton’s intellectual and political skills.”
I imagine he would be impeached by the House for perjury, but then found not guilty by every single Dem in the senate, which is exactly what happened to that lusty warrior Cigar Bill.
There are hosts of these librul people, but I think Obama has shown himself to be so inept in his choice of advisers and that he has lied so often that he will do no better than Carter in the History books. As for voters…I do believe there will be more of us than them this time around.
My biggest disappointment in Obama was that I voted for him
(that says it best) ..
because he was going to shut down the embarrassment of Guantanamo and get us out of a pointless war.
But.. But..
Your ‘Obie-One’ killed Sodom bin Lying on his Afghanistan watch..
That ‘Good War’- the war we should have fought post 9-11.
Funny to hear you turn against your hero-
Nobel Peace Prize Winner.
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America got the president 53 percent voted for and deserved..
Now I only hope we can get past this clown and go on to better things..
“Do you know what the contribution of those stupid wars is to the deficit?”
Yeah, practically nothing. We would have spent most of that money on defense whether we were fighting itsy bitsy campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan or not. We’re spending less on defense now (as a % of GDP) then we were in 1990 or any year prior to 1990 going back to WWII.
It’s Democrat created “entitlement” programs that are sending us to the poorhouse, not defense spending.
And, these are the first military campaigns we’ve waged in decades that made a lick of sense. They for sure make more sense than losing hundreds of thousands of guys because the Japanese are dicking around in China or because the Germans are dicking around in Poland.
Dave, I agree with you about our excessive spending on entitlement programs being the primary cause of overspending, but disagree regarding Japan and Germany.
If we had allowed Japan to continue their expansion in the far east, there is no doubt that the US would have to cross swords with them sooner or later. And as far as Germany goes, if not for our entry into WWII, being neutral, with our heads in the sand, there is also no doubt that Hitler would have ended up with the atom bomb before us. Can you imagine Hitler with an atom bomb, or even jet planes while other countries were still flying propeller aircraft?
Isn’t one of the only enumerated responsibilities of the Federal Government to provide for the DEFENSE of this country? Where in hell are welfare, food stamps, WIC, housing subsidies, or any welfare program defined by the Constitution…they ain’t!!
Time for Constitutional governance and screw all the deadbeats that take and take and take. Also the next time we get the opportunity to have a conservative governance in this country hopefully after the next national election in 2012 we will do just that and put this country back to Constitutional ideals and become prosperous and let the deadbeat become believers in religion and GOD again and put this country back as the best country in which to live.
I am currently employed but it is at best iffy as I work for a staffing agency and at age 58 too old to rehire and too old to retire! Every day that I work is still a blessing to me. What do others do they collect unemployment, but when it runs out what do they do. I do make fairly decent money anywhere from 35k to 50k this way depending on overtime, so far I have only had one unplanned 3 day weekend and stay working at least 8 hours for a minimum of 17 dollars and hour, which in my area is alright! I Thank God for my health and the opportunity to still be able to work after 40 years in the construction field!
The key insight here is that Obama believes himself qualified — perhaps entitled — to rule the world. As Mark Steyn noted a while ago, he acts as if the presidency is too small a stage for his talents. That’s entirely consistent with his contemptuous treatment of anyone who dares to disagree with him.
He is not, as has been suggested, “Carter 2.0.” Carter was a well-meaning fool, a typical muddle-minded left-liberal. Granted that he’s continued to besmirch himself in his dotage; nevertheless, it was possible to believe that he meant well by the country and was merely wrong.
It’s no longer possible to believe that about Barack Hussein Obama.
Obama’s contempt reminds me more of Colonel Clink’s suspicious and defensive contempt for Hogan and the other prisoners. I’m just saying, it is past time to whip this charlatan. Next year can’t get here soon enough for me.
A great post I came across aqnd wish to share:
“Fact: Please..Obama has put us in a mess!
In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinborough , had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior:
“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship.”
“The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage.”
The Obituary follows:
Born 1776, Died 2012
It doesn’t hurt to read this several times.
Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul , Minnesota , About some interesting facts concerning the last Presidential election:
Number of States won by: Obama: 19 McCain: 29
Square miles of land won by: Obama: 580,000 McCain: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by: Obama: 127 million McCain: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Obama: 13.2 McCain: 2.1
Professor Olson adds: “In aggregate, the map of the territory McCain won was
mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country.
Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low income
tenements and living off various forms of government welfare…”
Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the “complacency and apathy” phase of Professor Tyler’s definition of democracy,some forty percent of the nation’s population already having reached the “governmental dependency” phase.
If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal
invaders called illegal’s – and they vote – then we can say goodbye to the
USA in fewer than five years.
If you are in favor of this, then by all means, delete this message.
If you are not, then pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.
This is truly scary! Of course we are not a democracy, we are a Constitutional Republic. Someone should point this out to Obama. Of course we know he and too many others pay little attention to The Constitution. There couldn’t be more at stake than on Nov 2012.
How many of us really looked at what has been happening to America over the years? Are you a part of America ‘s growing entitlement attitude or do you want to stop this in the little time we have left? So now that your have this information, what are you planning to do with it?
The vast majority of the people who voted for Obama live in cities. How nice it is to live in the city. Power, water, food, etc. magically show up whenever you need it. All you have to worry about is marginal crap like gays in the military, global warming, and all the other issues that the lame duck congress spent time on at the end of 2010. One day the real world is going to show up and it wont be pretty.
Excellent post! I put it on my Facebook page (which I rarely use) so I could 1) save and re-read; and, 2) get the word out.
terrific post with tons of information not widely distributed.
A major columnist should run with this to publicize it.
Thank you Mr Hanson. An excellent summation of the President’s record. How anybody can support this man escapes the most simple logic. Blind leftist religious fervor can only explain it.
Obama has given the nation several decades’ worth of inoculation against even the remote possibility of someone like him ever being elected president again. In doing this he will have performed a type of service that he was utterly incapable of delivering as president in any other way shape or form.
Amen.
I wish I could agree with you, but give it about 30 years, and voters will make the same kind of mistake again. I’m convinced that there really is a 30-year cycle that governs human affairs as readily as the phases of the Moon or the return of Halley’s Comet do in nature. Remember that for most people there is no past, only the memories contained within an individual’s lifetime.
Well, yes, 30 years is one generation–the time it takes for a new generation of young people to come along. Every new generation of young people thinks it’s so much smarter than their parents that they have nothing to learn from their parents’ mistakes. And so they repeat those same mistakes.
That’s probably also why we get these stock market bubbles every 30-40 years: The Roaring 20′s; the Nifty Fifty of the 1960s; the dot.com mania of the 1990s. Each time it’s a new generation of young suckers. I expect another stock market bubble around the year 2026 or so.
Dr. Hanson:
Just so. We would have had to invent him indeed. Two questions remain: Will we have learned the lessons his advent teaches in time for 2012, or are we still blinded by the promise of making up for past racial injustice by electing the least capable and most Leftist man in the Senate, and will we be able to survive him even if he doesn’t get a second term?
Greek-like riots? Well, no. The riots in Greece are not motivated by racial hatred. Rhetorical question: How do you think African-American will react on election day when their false messiah is ejected from office? You can bet the media will stoke the fires of outrage with charges of racism. And does anyone think that a narcissist like our president will do anything to encourage a peaceful transfer of power? It’s going to get ugly. The damage done to racial relations in this country will take generations to repair. Very, very ugly.
I fear that you may be correct in your prognosis. If actions by union thugs in Wisconsin are any indication, it will be even worse when the blacks decide to riot, encouraged by the media, the ignorant college students, the old hippies, and the hired rabble who pay no taxes, don’t own anything and therefore feel entitled to destroy others’ property.
I recall stories in the media just prior to election day in NOvember 2008 predicting riots by blacks whether Obama won or not. As I recall, the prediction was that if Obama was not elected, blacks would riot in righteous anger due to the apparent racism of failing to elect the brilliant Obama. I don’t recall the motivation that the rioters were supposed to have if Obama was elected; I suspect it may have been a more “celebratory” kind of rioting, such as when a sports team wins its championship and its supporters erupt in “joyous” festivities, which is largely indistinguishable from the kind of rioting that happened after the Rodney King verdict…..
Strangely enough, there were no major riots in the aftermath of the 2008 elections, at least none I ever heard about.
I don’t think Obama is stunned. This is intentional.
‘In fact, a Barack Obama was long overdue. Had he not appeared out of nowhere in 2008, we would have surely had to invent him’
I can’t agree more, Americans should look at the mirror before the next election. And hope they will see the truth and realized that Obama is their worst mistake since the birth of U.S.A
Writing of “strangers”—Truth is stranger than fiction.
Real reality, verses MSM-hyped puppy love Obama reality, is asserting itself, so that the “marriage”— aka the election of BHO by his “betrothed” voters—is kaput—“estrangement” is NOW the truth.
I remember a minor movie about a hippy becoming president, from maybe the 70’s.
More personally memorable is “Devil’s Advocate”, a novel by Taylor Caldwell, a very popular and prolific woman author, from around 1960.
In this book, the American political situation had gotten so corrupt, it seemed too far gone to change—something like NOW. So, there arose a revolutionary spirit in the top leaders, who did their best to ruin things, WANTING the grassroots revolutionaries to succeed in overthrowing them.
Whether Obama is consciously trying this strategy, or not, I find it very hard to imagine how he could do more to destroy America, and so far get away with it.
Perhaps, given that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it, he is merely the cutting edge BEST example of an emperor without clothes, and the majority of people are starting to notice—even some awake Democrats!
Remember cui bono—as the MSM falls out the growing hole in the pocket of Obama’s disappearing pants, the sharpest ones in that true American ruling class will have to start thinking about THEIR legacy.
And, then, expect “mea culpa” to become the Latin phrase, which will be on everyone’s lips.
Hey, I recall when “oxymoron” was the word we all had to look up in the dictionary. So, NOW, it’s about to be “mea culpa”.
Nemesis indeed… “The Gift”, “The One” , etc ….will want something in return….
http://www.uni-konstanz.de/transatlantik/downloads/Muzurovic%20proposal-1.doc
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Thank you, Mr. Hanson. The truth hurts, but it also has a way of making us resolved in our minds and hearts to do something about it. You have equipped me with information that I hope to use in future conversations verbally and via email.
There’s a lot of blame to be shared by Republicans and even Conservatives too.
How about a candidate named John McCain, for starters? It was if we sought out the least capable candidate available to run in 2008. Serendity – that is exactly why Obama is President. The apathy from Iraq, the lies and distortions of the MSM, and Bush fatigue, Obama won and we lost. But I’m convinced Republicans still would have won had we presented a decent candidate.
Look, this charlatan for President has a record of such dismal magnitude, if the repercussions weren’t so tragic, it could pass for parody. VDH just beautifully reviewed and summarized for all of us. Keep this article for ammunition. Obama and his toadies, like that incomparably stupid Nancy Pelosi, can’t hide mouthing platitudes behind inane phrases that pass for profundity this time. Throw all of this in the face of the mass ignorance that makes up the Left every time they start with the Soros talking points and be loud about it.
The Tea Party has provided a measure of hope with a much better message, but I’ll be honest. Though virtually all of these Republican candidates infinitely better than McCain, there’s not a one of them that are anywhere near the best candidates available. We need Rubio, or Christie, Coburn, or Ryan on the ticket. Candidates who can think on their feet with a real plan and leave the repetitious, parroted phrases at home. I’ve read a hundred people on this board alone that could destroy Barack Obama in a debate. That could tie his abject failure around his scrawny neck and leave him bug eyed. You mean to tell me we can’t find one suit sitting in Washington that can not do the same?
And that is a damn shame because this next Presidential race should not even be close.
40% of the people in this country are clueless and vote – they’ll pull a straight Dem lever no matter what. It’s the same goons who voice Obama is doing a great job on the economy, explaining why this epic failure will never drop below a 40% approval rating. Doesn’t have anything to do with “Obama is so likeable.” Baloney – George Bush was likeable. I’m talking about either those benefiting from benevolent Barack with dirty money and amoral gain, or are hopelessly stupid. We all know who they are.
If we lose this election, we have nobody to blame but ourselves, because this election will be a direct referendum on the epic failure called Barack Obama. Get involved. Take a stance and voice your opinions. Make sure that muddled middle knows exactly what is at stake.
This is still the greatest country on earth. Any Democrat worth their salt left the party long ago. Let’s act like we have a set this time and run these thieves making up the Democratic party to the tall weeds for a generation where they belong.
Tex Taylor:
Thank you Tex for your lucid comment. Perhaps it will penentrate the skulls of some of the people who still don’t get it and continue to defend the evil outcomes and false promises of communism everwhere it has been tried throughout history. Maybe another two years of the carnage wrought by our annointed leader will be taken seriously as evidence in this country as well.
Just as an aside but another basic truth, evil corporations do not pay federal income tax, they act as tax collectors for the federal government. What taxes they do pay are simply passed along to those who use or purchase their goods or services. I mention this because ignorance rules in most political matters and truth is hard to come by these days.
CGW,
I may have been lucid, but not lucid enough to realize somehow I left out an entire syllable of serendipity, even with the preview key. That doesn’t even qualify as a typo or misspelling. :sad:
Gad.
Thanks for sharing your perspective. Some of us have awakened to the distance we’ve traveled down the socialist/statist path, away from freedom. Books and internet sites exist today to shed light on that path, including “Dupes”, which used the historical record to explain the Communist Party’s influence on our culture and government over the past 90 years. It appears they have now infested the higher reaches of the media and government, as well as the environmental movement (Several books have documented the environmental movement’s world-socialist-government-goal, including “Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout” and “Watermelons”.
Hayek’s economic history of civilization, “The Fatal Deceit”, is one of the deepest analyses I’ve seen on the role of government in destroying free markets/prosperity. He has defined ‘moral’ as the learned behavior that enabled tribes to cross boundaries and co-operate in trade, the basis of all prosperity. Tradition is the collected morals of civilization, including respect for private property. What usually has happened in history is that once prosperity occurs, statism follows and chokes the freedom upon which prosperity depends. This has always been the case; unfortunately, historians only record the statism part of the past, including the ‘glories’ created by governments after the prosperity has occurred. It seems to me that the 1960′s marked the turning point in our Western Civilization, including the US and Europe. It was the late ’50′s and ’60′s that the media began the massive takedown of our traditions and morals. (‘Moral’ as defined by Hayek is not connected to deism, but many learned ‘rules’ are reflected by many religious teachings.)
How do we regain our lost freedoms? We are not alone, and we can support those who also wish to restore our lost prosperity. (1.) Media coverage that reflects the blueprint for freedom-the Constitution (Fox Business’s Judge Napalitano’s Freedom Watch does this). Big Government is a web-based source of investigative reporting, along with the online Washington Examiner and WSJ. (2.) politicians who speak out for the return to the Constitution. Donate to their campaigns, write emails, go to TEA meetings. (3.) Support black and Latino candidates that espouse conservative principles, mainly a return to constitutional government. The Latino population is the fastest growing, and is largely socially conservative, but votes Democratic. (per Rasmussen polls) I know of one Texas candidate for the Senate, Ted Cruz, who fits this. (4.) Push for free market education, write letters/emails to state governments demanding vouchers without strings attached, as a beginning toward restoring traditional values to our education curriculum. (5.) Support websites like Climate Depot and Wattsupwiththat for publishing the true climate research, which is never published in MSM/government-sponsored journals.
There are other actions as well that will help turn the tide. Never subscribe to a leftist publication, etc.
Don’t subscibe to leftest sites, but do read them! Reading Daily Kos ignites the fire to stop the madness. If we have no idea what they are thinking, how will we ever defeat them? I am always amazed at how positive they are, at being negative. I also watch MSNBC to understand why some of my friends can believe Obama is doing a good job??? There is also a local left wing blog that refuses to acknowledge any Conservative or Christian. I do post on that to drive them crazy. If they never see “the other side”, how will they know?
Along with being supportive of Conservative candidates, we need to be informed.
I’d like to believe we’ll get out of this downward spiral of socialism without a fight, but the mindset that leads to these policies is too entrenched in the minds and little black hearts of those who control academia, the media, entertainment and by many of those working for government.
Winning an election will not make these people, or their wrong headed beliefs, disappear, and they are so close, they feel, to creating their utopia that a major setback now may force their hand. Obama losing in 2012 may be the match to the tinder, as I don’t believe his ego will allow him to surrender the seat before all the social ends of him and his ilk aren’t finished yet and they possess a real fear that it could all be overturned by the next administration.
I read often the words of the left, calling for the death of conservatives and sounding so willing to go to war in the streets to fight for, and finally win their authoritarian utopia where government knows best. I always respond with “Yes, you should go fight in the street. Grab your biggest protest sign and go find some selfish, racist, hateful conservative and tell him why you’ve brought a protest sign to a gunfight. Maybe he’ll laugh too hard to shoot you.” For those who scream so hard for a fight are the ones generally lacking the courage to defend themselves by owning a weapon and will expect the government to do their fighting for them, which means most of our enemies in this fight will never actually step up to fight once the fighting starts. We’ve already won, it’s just a matter of time.
Bill Ayers stated that to have the government they want some people would necessarily have to be eliminated. By the way – Ayers is a Chicago associate of Obama. The left has always been more violent both in actions and rhetoric. How can we today have a government that identifies veterans as potential terrorists? This is disgraceful on the face of it and Napolitano should have been forced to resign but many in our country have lost their moral compass.
Kender may very well be right. On one hand I hope not but a “cleansing” is long over due. The left will rue the day if they decide to take “us” head-on. Right now they are content to corrupt our country through this excess spending and the courts but the left always overplays its hand and that will be the tipping point.
This is the definitive essay on Obama and the most complete analysis I’ve seen term to date. My thinking on this president is one term. The electoral challenge will originate from states considered blue like WI, PA and MN,
also OH, VA and FL will go red. Obama’s economic metrics and foreign policy
misteps will be vote-getting fodder for any candidate.
I couldn’t stop laughing at all of this. Then I realized…not only is the author serious, but there are people who believe it. Absolutely incredible. One commenter asks why this hasn’t been read word for word on the senate floor (or something to that effect) and the reason is simple: It’s half-true, full of misinformation, lacks any sources, and generally does a top-notch job of making things up. Incredible….
jason
if you think this is laughable the jokes on you, fool.
Single first name. Ad-hominum attack. No information. No links. No rebuttal.
Yep, it’s a troll. He made about $5 for his teeny effort.
And what great truths are you citing, Jason? And what are your sources? This is an OPINION column, not a news report. Dr Hanson has presented his deductions based on the truth he is aware of. It is okay for you to have a completely different OPINION, just don’t prattle on about truth. My OPINION is that you are a paid Obama campaign worker, please enlighten me as to the truth of my OPINION.
Interesting. Jason claims that VDH’s post is “half-true, full of misinformation, lacks any sources, and generally does a top-notch job of making things up,” without citing a single specification of any one of his claims. The comment is a shining example of every one of the flaws he claims to deplore.
Is Jason’s comment some sort of post-modern, self-referential exercise in irony? Or was he too busy laughing to live up to his own standards?
So the lesson of the 60s is quite simply “He that troubleth his own house shall inherit wind… and get a ridiculous, disruptive, destructive fool as president.”
“It’s no longer possible to believe that about Barack Hussein Obama.”
As if it ever was. I was convinced Obama had it in for this country before he won the election in 2008.
“Ten trillion dollar man”; Right. The U.S. would buy something like that.
Somewhere, Obama has a tattoo that says “Made in China”.
Everybody knows China counterfeits everything, even incompetent politicians.
I’d be willing to wager he’s got a tattoo on his head the says six six six, and that’s why he never shaves his head or cuts it too close.
News Flash!!
Carney says it’s 999, not 666. They’re right on top of everything!
Soon (enough) we will hear former Gov. Sarah Palin remind us how the “good ole boys” play their games…
Will she, or won’t she then jump into the forthcoming presidential race?
Let the “force” be with you…Frontier Mom!
BHO, has now gotten to the point where he is publicly fantasizing about dictatorship. Twice in the past weeks he has made statements along the lines of; “doing things on my own is very tempting.”
We have a pathological lying narcissist for a President. Now what?
Why is Obama still in office ? Why is congress silent on Obama’s illegal presidency ?
This is most puzzling, as if Obama was exposed, and prosecuted, then we can undo what he has destroyed, and focus on a bright future.
What blows me away are all the democrats, politicians and citizens, who believe Obama is always right. Even one of my local California radio shows — their talk hosts Ron Owens, Gene Burns, Gil Gross, John Rothmann. Supposedly intelligent men. Thouroughly immersed in the democrat beliefs and supporting Obama. Senator Diane Feinstein who believes the freshmen republicans are the obstacle. Rep. Anna Eshoo, along with Senators Feinsten and Barbara Boxer who claim it is the republicans who are destroying medicare, totally ignoring that 2 medicare trustees said in 4 years medicare will have a major crisis and in 13 years, medicare as we know it ends and to survive requires premium increases of about 20%. California where I live now has a totally democrat majority in its government. And they want to raise taxes — at every level of government !!!
It’s time for the nuclear option:
1. Erect border fences with California along the Arizona, Nevada, and Oregon state lines.
2. Give every Californian who wants to leave 6 months to make an unrestricted move.
3. Close the borders to migrants unless they accept the commitment to pass through the California border states on their way to some other state that wants them.
4. When you hear the implosion, duck and cover!
i have experience with someone like obiwon, my x-wife. she knew no check she could not write, no credit card she could not max out, and no one but me to foot the bill. she had 2 maxed out credit cards (unknown to me) when i married her. she finally gave them up, only to have already ordered some more w/o my knowledge. i had an election and she is gone now, thank GOD!
some good news for everyone that will give us more confidence in our unknown quantity in the white house. he has finally agreed to end the birth certificate issue. no more forgeries. scuttlebutt has it that he will soon issue his real b.c., and there will be no doubt that it is the real one. this one is going to have his picture on it.
But, but, the Barack Obama who appeared out of nowhere in 2008 was an invention, although I don’t think I could ever have invented him myself. Even as the candidate we hardly knew–although any number of us were convinced we knew quite enough, thank you–he was just too fantastic (and I don’t mean that in the marvelous kind of way). To be successful, fantasy and science fiction require their own logic. There was no logic to the Obama phenomenon. It was engineered and created out of whole cloth and a very bad design.
He gave a speech at the Dem’s 2004 convention. That was his “debut.” The debutant was then groomed and introduced to society by advisor Axelrod, who specialized in making black candidates presentable to suburban voters. The rest is history.
The only mystery is whether the massive Obama borrowing was a product of incompetence, a poorly thought out gorge the beast way of increasing taxes and redistributing income, or a more cynical effort at creating a permanent constituency of millions of new food stamp recipients and federal workers.
Yes on all three counts.
Consider an even more cynical effort of intentionally destroying the United States economy à la Cloward & Piven and Saul Alinsky.
As he calls for higher taxes, he still has not offered any plan whatsoever that details where the president himself would cut.
He hasn’t offered cuts because he has no desire to cut. Anything.
His focus groups have told him Americans go gaga over the word “balanced”. He uttered it 7 times in last night’s tee vee appearance.
The would-be employer is told to hire, but on what confident supposition, what rationale?
Obama stomps his foot and tells business…”Hire people, damnit.” (’cause, yaknow, I’m looking really bad these daze…)
He calls that governance.
Nemesis Obama is just the warmup act, what comes next is far worse. Obama was allowed to come because the collective “we” stopped loving truth and justice to the point where we cannot even agree what that is enough to satisfy it. Now, has the wakeup call served it’s purpose? Only each individual can say whether or not it has. The test is; will you let your light shine before men and stand up for truth and justice or will you continue to hide in the ever growing darkness that is consuming the rest of the world? If you have not noticed, the darkness is about to consume “we”.
Faith without works is dead.
Is a man with true light going to be as rare as fine gold in the Earth and will the people kill him when they find him? Or will they lift up the light so that others may see. Answer that for yourself and then you can accurately guess the rest.
My son-in-law, who just got a PhD. in Psychology by writing about narcissism, worships Obama. When I pointed out that his sons will have to pay for all of this wretched excess, he commented, “Well, that sucks for them!” Now doesn’t that sum it all up?
I think you need to sit down with your daughter and have a serious discussion with her.
However long that marriage works, its assured that it will be over long before your son-
in-law wakes up.
It seems that every stinking, maggot-infested hippie who didn’t die from an overdose of drugs at Woodstock is now part of O’s administration. They all believe that life will be so easy if only the world were as they imagine it.
Perhaps all those born between 1946 and 1964 (unsure of Baby-Boomer dates here) should relinquish all their government entitlements, it seems that it would be a fitting sacrifice to balance out the irresponsible behavior of others of the generation. It doesn’t rise to the level of losing one’s life in combat, like during WWII, Korea, Vietnam, etc., but it could help to equalize the otherwise disastrously negative legacy.
Started a new website, http://elovehate.com & Obama is the most hated topic by far. Already. I think that alone speaks volumes. People can vote for anything under the sun, they choose to vote hate for our president.
Dr. Hansen:
I am no historian, but I think there are parallels in our current situation to the French Revolution, with Obama cast as Robespierre. His class warfare rhetoric is consistent and, if he truly sees himself as a revolutionary, it is conceivable that he would default on the debt in order to create the conditions for an American reign of terror. But perhaps I’m just in a dark mood today. Keep up the good work.
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