These people have to be pathologically insane, seriously. They don’t even try to hide their corruption anymore. They just spew crap for the sycophantic media to lap up like dogs assured they will turn around dutifully and re-spew it unchecked to the breathless masses drunk on the kool-aid.
If it weren’t so dangerous it would be a fascinating sociological study.
He’s got a really bad memory, our President. Here he is demonizing the use of Executive Orders and the very same abuses of power he has spent the last year marinating in.
I’ve loved this movie from the very first time I ever saw it, especially since when I was coming up in radio in the late ’80′s then through the ’90′s I had a good friend from college who was doing the same in televison and eventually went on to be a personal producer for Peter Jennings, and she told me that “B.N.” was a very accurate portrayal of what it was like (as was “Private Parts” for radio, BTW).
This speech on what the Devil will look like struck me as brilliant the moment I heard it and has stayed with me all these years. Every time I hear Obama speak I think of it. See if it resonates for you, too.
Obama will brush this away like a fly if he ever grows a set and lets Brett Baier interview him again. ”Legislating is ugly work…blah, blah, blah” and his sycophantic idolaters will let him get away with it. If any conservative at any level of government broke half as many promises on tape as this guy…
Next: Minister of Propaganda (aka FCC “Diversity Czar Mark Lloyd) to shut down all dissenting voices on radio/TV/internet in the name of “fairness.” It would solve this whole YouTube problem very neatly.
You know, GWB never claimed to be an intellectual, and heaven knows, there was no word or phrase safe from mangling in his care, but BHO has been so oversold as such a supergenius, that it’s just too much to ask those of us who did not vote for him not to notice when he makes a big screw up sandwich.
Of course, none of the networks or cables covered it, just the usual talk radio/Fox/Drudge/Breitbart “axis of evil,” (my nickname!) but BHO said in Ohio this week that his health care plan would reduce our health insurance bills by “3000 percent” and all the little Obamtons clapped and cheered…
Now, clearly, he meant $3000. So it would be patently unfair to pillory him seriously asserting that he meant that. He didn’t, of course, and that’s the difference between Progressives and Conservatives. Progressives won’t even report it. Conservatives might report it, but they will be reasonable and fair. That’s not to say Conservatives are always reasonable and fair, but at least they report things.
Secondly, in his interview with Brett Baier last night, he said the Louisiana Purchase would help in Hawaii’s earthquake…. Uh-huh. Now, I happen to know, because I have no life, that the language in the “Louisiana Purchase” legislation was such that the allocation was worded in such a way that only a major water type disaster in a certain kind of landscape would eligible for that money – so crafted so that nosey internet bloggers couldn’t run a word search and find it easily. You had to actually read the entire section in order to conclude that that language clearly, and damn near exclusively meant Louisiana. Clearly, inferring Obama’s intimation, there has been some wiggle room found that would cover Hawaii in the event of a similar water type disaster… though Obama seemed so unsure as to what was actually in the current bill that it’s hard to make reasonable conclusions about what he knows and doesn’t know.
I can’t explain the “earthquake” reference. Again, a reasonable and fair reading of what he meant to imply was the tsunami that Hawaii was facing due to the Chilean earthquake. I have since heard it posited that he might have meant Haiti, but Haiti’s not a state, and that was the context of the exchange, so… We’re back to being confused right along with the Leader of the Free World Super Genius Smartest President Ever Elected Obama.
Can you imagine the non-stop ridicule if Sarah Palin had said such a thing? ”I can see Hawaii from the Bayou!”
Finally, in no particular order, in Baier’s interview last night, Obama either wasn’t fully conversant on what was in the bill, or comported himself in such a way that if he were a conservative, they would be killing him on TV today. Killing him. This the supergenius’ signature piece of legislation. One of the most important not only of his presidency but in our history as a nation. I know it’s 2700 pages, but it’s his baby. Brett knew! Brett was clearly more informed about what was in the bill than Obama was. Can you imagine if VP Palin was reduced to having to ask a reporter what he was talking about? (The Connecticut exchange…) OMG.
And finally, finally, what the hell is this recitation of “dead” Republicans ideas’ in the bill? Dole? Daschle? What the… They’re not in office for the love of Pete. Is he comp-is men-tis? Is he having some kind of episode we should be concerned about? It’s not the only baffling thing he said in this interview without the TOTUS (Teleprompter of The United States).
And just as a bonus, Joe Biden said “God rest her soul” about the Irish Prime Minister’s mother. I’m sure she was glad to get such a blessing.
She’s still alive.
Gotta love, Joe, huh?
PPS: Savannah Guthrie was held up as an example of tough journalistic inquiry when she drilled Robert Gibbs in the daily briefing the other day. Glenn Beck even did a segment on her actually committing journalism for once. Less than 48 hours later, MSNBC is going all Emily Post on Brett Baier doing the same thing with the President. I agree that he did interrupt him, and it made me a bit uncomfortable, because the President should be afforded a wider berth than a press secretary to filibuster, but Baier was in impossible spot. As any reporter is when interviewing the Leader of the Free World. One man’s balancing act on the tightrope of propriety is another man’s precipitous fall…
PPPS: Pat Buchanan made a brilliant point this morning that the democrats cared very much about “process” when the Supreme Court “selected not elected” GWB in 2004, but now… not so much… “Deeming” is just dandy.
BRILLIANT piece below by a blogger I’d heretofore not heard of. Wonderful dissertation on the old maxim: ”Be careful what you wish for…”
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American capitalism gone with a whimper
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| 27.04.2009 |  Source: Pravda.Ru |
URL: http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/107459-american_capitalism-0 |
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It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.
True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.
Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.
First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their “right” to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our “democracy”. Pride blind the foolish.
Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different “branches and denominations” were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the “winning” side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the “winning” side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America.
The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America’s short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.
These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?
These men, of course, are not an elected panel but made up of appointees picked from the very financial oligarchs and their henchmen who are now gorging themselves on trillions of American dollars, in one bailout after another. They are also usurping the rights, duties and powers of the American congress (parliament). Again, congress has put up little more then a whimper to their masters.
Then came Barack Obama’s command that GM’s (General Motor) president step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of “pure” free markets, the American president now has the power, the self given power, to fire CEOs and we can assume other employees of private companies, at will. Come hither, go dither, the centurion commands his minions.
So it should be no surprise, that the American president has followed this up with a “bold” move of declaring that he and another group of unelected, chosen stooges will now redesign the entire automotive industry and will even be the guarantee of automobile policies. I am sure that if given the chance, they would happily try and redesign it for the whole of the world, too. Prime Minister Putin, less then two months ago, warned Obama and UK’s Blair, not to follow the path to Marxism, it only leads to disaster. Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, so let our “wise” Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride.
Again, the American public has taken this with barely a whimper…but a “freeman” whimper.
So, should it be any surprise to discover that the Democratically controlled Congress of America is working on passing a new regulation that would give the American Treasury department the power to set “fair” maximum salaries, evaluate performance and control how private companies give out pay raises and bonuses? Senator Barney Franks, a social pervert basking in his homosexuality (of course, amongst the modern, enlightened American societal norm, as well as that of the general West, homosexuality is not only not a looked down upon life choice, but is often praised as a virtue) and his Marxist enlightenment, has led this effort. He stresses that this only affects companies that receive government monies, but it is retroactive and taken to a logical extreme, this would include any company or industry that has ever received a tax break or incentive.
The Russian owners of American companies and industries should look thoughtfully at this and the option of closing their facilities down and fleeing the land of the Red as fast as possible. In other words, divest while there is still value left.
The proud American will go down into his slavery with out a fight, beating his chest and proclaiming to the world, how free he really is. The world will only snicker.
Stanislav Mishin
The article has been reprinted with the kind permission from the author and originally appears on his blog, Mat Rodina
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Do the words glutton for punishment apply here or what??????
It’s not enough that he’s hacked off his loony lefty fringe.
It’s not enough that’s he’s hacked off the independents.
It’s not enough that he’s hacked off vast swaths of people who actually bought his pile of bile and now have buyer’s remorse.
It’s not enough that he hacked off conservatives… well… since he entered politics.
It’s not enough that we have spent the last 13 months in some kind of clinical obsessive compulsive mania over health care when the entire country is screaming JOBS.
Now we have to scratch off the scab of amnesty??????
Are you stinkin’ kidding me?
– By Peter Nicholas Obama took up the issue privately with his staff Monday in a bid to advance a bill through Congress before lawmakers become too distracted by approaching midterm elections. In the session, Obama and members of his Domestic Policy Council outlined ways to resuscitate the effort in a White House meeting with two senators — Democrat Charles E. Schumer of New York and Republican Lindsey Graham of South Carolina — who have spent months trying to craft a bill. According to a person familiar with the meeting, the White House may ask Schumer and Graham to at least produce a blueprint that could be turned into legislative language. The basis of a bill would include a path toward citizenship for the 10.8 million people living in the U.S. illegally. Citizenship would not be granted lightly, the White House said. Undocumented workers would need to register, pay taxes and pay a penalty for violating the law. Failure to comply might result in deportation. Nick Shapiro, a White House spokesman, said the president’s support for an immigration bill, which would also include improved border security, was “unwavering.” Participants in the White House gathering also pointed to an immigration rally set for March 21 in Washington as a way to spotlight the issue and build needed momentum. Though proponents of an immigration overhaul were pleased that the White House wasn’t abandoning the effort, they also wanted Obama to take on a more assertive role, rather than leave it to Congress to work out a compromise. Immigration is a delicate issue for the White House. After promising to revamp in his first year of office what many see as a fractured system, Obama risks angering a growing, politically potent Latino constituency if he defers the goal until 2011. But with the healthcare debate still unresolved, Democrats are wary of plunging into another polarizing issue. “Right now we have a little problem with the ‘Chicken Little’ mentality: The sky is falling and consequently we can’t do anything,” Rep. Raul M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) said in an interview. Republicans are unlikely to cooperate. On Capitol Hill, Republicans said that partisan tensions had only gotten worse since Obama signaled this week that he would push forward with a healthcare bill, whether he could get GOP votes or not. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) said in an interview, “The things you hear from the administration won’t be well received.” Schumer, speaking as he walked quickly through the Capitol, said he was having trouble rounding up Republican supporters apart from Graham. “It’s tough finding someone, but we’re trying,” Schumer said. On Thursday, Schumer met with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who oversees the government’s immigration efforts, to strategize over potential Republican co-sponsors. “We’re very hopeful we can get a bill done. We have all the pieces in place. We just need a second Republican,” Schumer said in a statement. Among proponents, there is a consensus that a proposal must move by April or early May to have a realistic chance of passing this year. If that deadline slips, Congress’ focus is likely to shift to the November elections, making it impossible to take up major legislation. “There’s no question that this is a heavy lift and the window is narrowing,” said Janet Murguia, president and chief executive of the National Council of La Raza, a Latino advocacy group. When it comes to immigration, Obama’s strategy echoes that of healthcare. He has deferred heavily to Congress, leaving it up to Schumer and Graham to reach a breakthrough with the idea that he would put his weight behind the resulting compromise. peter.nicholas@ latimes.com
latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-immigration5-2010mar05,0,1123497.story
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Obama looking to give new life to immigration reform
In an effort to advance a bill through Congress before midterm elections, the president meets with two senators who have spent months trying to craft legislation.
6:18 PM PST, March 4, 2010
Reporting from WashingtonDespite steep odds, the White House has discussed prospects for reviving a major overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws, a commitment that President Obama has postponed once already.
Copyright © 2010, The Los Angeles Times
Is this the quintessential example of ass-backwards liberal thinking, or what? In order to encourage foreign tourism, we’re going to charge foreign visitors an extra $10 to come here! AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! Now, when one is traveling internationally, $10 is not likely to be a deal-breaker, but…
Obama signs bill to entice foreign travelers to US
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama has signed a bill creating a program to promote the U.S. as a premier tourism destination for international travelers.
The U.S. Travel Association calls it a major step in addressing the drop-off in such visits to the U.S. during the past decade. The association says the U.S. welcomed 2.4 million fewer overseas visitors last year than in 2000. And that, the group says, has cost it an estimated $509 billion in total spending and $32 billion indirect tax receipts.
Government and private industry would evenly split the program’s costs, with Washington contributing up to $100 million a year. That money will come from a $10 fee paid by foreigners who do not pay for visas to enter the U.S.
Elevating health care to a right, while laudable morally, is untenable legally, and here’s why: Everything will eligible to be health related. Just one scenario off the top of my head:
Naked, filthy, homeless guy sits on a park bench in the tonier section of Central Park in Manhattan where Katie Couric or Mika Brzezinski is playing frisbee with their kids. They want to sit down and sip some Fiji water. Only place to sit is on a bench just vacated by naked, filthy, homeless guy.
Ewwwww.
Presto. Clothing becomes an inaleanable right guaranteed under the Constitution.
Don’t think for a second that it couldn’t happen. Two years ago everyone was sure Hillary Clinton would be the next president.
Ten years ago it was unthinkable that we could be attacked by Islamic terrorists in the homeland.
One year ago, it was unthinkable that our nations debts/deficits could be “unsustainable,” our unemployment rate would be holding steady at +/- 10%, our President would be presiding over the takeover of banks, insurance companies, and car companies, outlawing privately issued school loans and centralizing them all federally in exchange for politically preferred public service, the criminal prosecution of our intelligence agents for giving a “black eye” to a known Islamic terrorist while providing Constitutional rights to KSM… Need I go on?
The framers, our founders, specified that our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness were endowed by our “Creator” for a reason… Any society that has ever held that the source of those rights was Man had failed, because if Man can give, Man can take away. Those rights endowed by the Creator are inalienable, thus intractable.
Those dead white guys knew what they were doing. Just because they are dead, and white, doesn’t make them wrong.
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