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Wednesday, July 20, 2011
The Foundation
"An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation." --John Marshall
Editorial Exegesis
Hint: The answer isn't higher taxes"[On Friday] the previously press conference-averse president had his third news conference in two weeks to once again make his pitch for a 'big package' to close the federal deficit, to which he has already managed to add $4 trillion. His solution remains what it has always been -- taxes. But then you knew that. Or did you? 'You have 80 percent of the American people who support a balanced approach,' Obama said [Friday]. 'Eighty percent of the American people support an approach that includes revenues and includes cuts. So the notion that somehow the American people aren't sold is not the problem. The problem is members of Congress are dug in ideologically.' ... But if that wasn't working for you, Obama offered Plan B -- the notion that should there actually be a government default because the debt ceiling has not been raised then that would be 'effectively a tax increase for everybody' as interest rates rise. Well, true, but plans are proceeding apace for a real Plan B that would allow incremental increases in the debt ceiling absent a grand bargain. But wait, as they say in those infomercials, there's more. Yes, the president would surely not call a news conference and not bring out -- again -- the doomsday rhetoric. He just can't seem to help himself these days, although this was at least in the context of some faint praise for the so-called McConnell plan. 'It is constructive to say that if Washington operates as usual and can't get something done let's at least avert Armageddon,' the president said. Another day, another Armageddon reference. Perhaps it's time the president reread that fable about the boy who cried 'wolf' too often." --Boston Herald
Essential Liberty
"No one thinks the federal government is spending too little money. The problem is, most of us think the government is spending too much money on programs which benefit someone else. ... I was listening to the all-news station on my way to the office and I was subjected to ad after ad from group after group telling me, in the most heart-wrenching terms, why the government must not cut funds from its program. Cut someone else. Every dollar of the $3.7 trillion dollars that the Federal government is scheduled to spend before September 30, 2011 has got a patron -- someone who believes that dollar is not just a good and necessary expenditure; but better and more crucial than any other of the dollars the government is scheduled to spend. Cut someone else. They all can't be the most important. Some of those dollars have to be less important than some of the other dollars. ... Well, boys and girls, the days of pretending we can have as much we want and for it we can pay as little as we want are over." --political analyst Rich Galen
Upright
"The same politicians who spent $1.7 trillion more than they collected, in just this year alone, say the problem is that private citizens are not paying enough. ... [B]ecause the political class has made the national debt so high, it is able to insist that taking a chance on the power of liberty is an irresponsible gamble. Because the government lives so far beyond its means, it would be irresponsible to provide it with reduced means. This is how we have reached the madness of a moment when the national debt is used as an argument against spending reductions, or growth-oriented tax and regulatory policies. The insane problem becomes a weapon against rational solutions." --columnist John Hayward
"Forget all the numbers being tossed around in Washington -- the millions and billions and trillions of dollars being taxed, borrowed, printed and spent as the country approaches the Aug. 2 debt-ceiling deadline. ... Forget the fact that such 'entitlements' as Social Security and Medicare -- social-insurance programs that the public long thought to be actuarially sound -- have been exposed as little more than legal Ponzi schemes, paying today's benefits out of tomorrow's borrowed receipts. Instead, just ask yourself this simple question: When did it become the primary function of the federal government to send millions of Americans checks? For this, in essence, is what the debt-ceiling fight is all about -- the inexorable and ultimately fatal growth of the welfare state." --columnist Michael Walsh
"Obama objects to the fact that owners of corporate jets can write off the cost of their purchases over five years instead of the seven required for commercial aircraft. ... The whole point of Obama's rants against corporate jets, of course, is to shame Republicans into going along with tax increases by portraying them as fat cats' lapdogs, salivating at the thought of balancing the budget on the backs of uneducated, untreated food-poisoning victims who don't even know whether the sun will come out tomorrow because the government can't afford to pay for meteorologists anymore." --columnist Jacob Sullum
Insight
"The history of the race, and each individual's experience, are thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal." --American author and humorist Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody." --Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), who, ironically, was a socialist
The Demo-gogues
Unbelievable chutzpah: "We don't need a constitutional amendment to do our jobs. The Constitution already tells us to do our jobs -- and to make sure that the government is living within its means and making responsible choices. ... We don't need a balanced budget amendment. We simply need to make these tough choices and be willing to take on our bases. And everybody knows it. ... It turns out that our problem is we cut taxes without paying for them over the last decade; we ended up instituting new programs like a prescription drug program for seniors that was not paid for; we fought two wars, we didn't pay for them; we had a bad recession that required a Recovery Act and stimulus spending and helping states -- and all that accumulated and there's interest on top of that." --Barack Obama, who blames Bush for even Obama's big spending
Leadership: "You'll probably see the House vote on a couple of things just to make political statements." --Barack Obama
Lavish praise: "This president has extended the respect and the courtesy to bipartisan House and Senate to listen, listen, listen, and listen to them talk about what their concerns are, their priorities, what their suggestion might be. Thursday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and now Wednesday -- unprecedented in terms of a president listening that much, bringing to the table complete knowledge of the subject. Nobody can out-debate him or out-statistic him on this information." --House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
They already are doing more than their share: "A budget agreement cannot be considered bold or comprehensive unless it asks millionaires, billionaires, and wealthy corporations to contribute to deficit reduction. They don't have to do the whole thing, but they've gotta do their share." --Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
Dezinformatsia
She forgot racist: "Here's the thing about Obama. He ran as a transformational president. He sees himself as transformational. He always has. What occurred between 2008 and 2010 is the Tea Party. And the Tea Party has stopped that kind of transformation from occurring because it has hijacked the Republican Party and the John Boehners of the world who would have cut a deal with the president of the United States. It has hijacked the Republican Party and it has now become substantially just a no-tax party as opposed to a party that cares about the deficit. I think no tax trumps their caring and concern about the deficit." --CNN's Gloria Borger
Republicans are crazy: "[T]here has been, I have to admit, an element of comic relief -- of the black-humor variety -- in the spectacle of so many people who have been in denial suddenly waking up and smelling the crazy. A number of commentators seem shocked at how unreasonable Republicans are being. 'Has the G.O.P. gone insane?' they ask. Why, yes, it has. But this isn't something that just happened, it's the culmination of a process that has been going on for decades. Anyone surprised by the extremism and irresponsibility now on display either hasn't been paying attention, or has been deliberately turning a blind eye." --New York Times columnist Paul Krugman
Tin foil hat securely in place: "And to say there's no issue with climate? You know, a friend of mine ... lives up in Alaska, [and] she says we're going to be able to -- maybe this is good for shipping -- we're going to start having trade routes across the Arctic Circle! We're going to start having -- you know what I mean? People are going to be going to Norway in boats and we're going to have shipping lanes doing it. Don't tell me we don't have a climate thing going on. There's something strange going on." --MSNBC's Chris Matthews
Newspulper Headlines:
So That's Where the Jobs Are: "Pelosi: Obama Has More Patience Than Biblical Job" --CNSNews.com
Questions Nobody Is Asking: "Is Obama Playing Politics With His Debt-Limit Veto Threat?" --Time.com
A Novel Strategy: "Rudy Giuliani: If I Run Again, 'I'll Try to Win'" --Los Angeles Times
TSA Agent Who Groped Woman's Breast Put in Jail -- Now That Would Be News: "Woman Who Groped TSA Agent's Breast Let Out of Jail" --WNYW-TV website (New York)
Bottom Story of the Day: "Obama, US Viewed Less Favorably in Arab World, Poll Shows" --Boston Globe website
(Thanks to The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto)
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Village Idiots
Belly laugh of the week: "The president doesn't have a vote in this. It's Congress that has to act. The president didn't stand up here yesterday and say, hey, show you a lot of charts and graphs about how previous Congresses under a Republican president accumulated enormous amounts of deficits and debt and that this is what they needed to vote to deal with and it wasn't his problem. He didn't say that because he doesn't believe that. He believes it's his responsibility as the president of the United States to lead, to work with Congress, to resolve these issues together for the American people." --White House Press Secretary Jay Carney
Where to start? "Isn't the Tea Party -- I'm not trying to call them names or anything. I just want to ask a very serious question: Aren't they exactly what the Founding Fathers feared most? Which is people who are ignorant about the way the world works come to power. That is what the Founding Fathers hated the most. They were not for direct democracy" --HBO's Bill Maher (Sam Adams, a Founding Father, participated in the first Tea Party, objecting to high taxes. Furthermore, the current Tea Party certainly isn't "direct democracy.")
World's Smallest Violin and the BIG Lie all in one: "Bottom line, this has gone on far too long, this spreading of lies about me! None of it is true. NONE OF IT! I love my country. I have never done anything to hurt my country or the men and women who have fought and continue to fight for us. I do not understand what the far right stands to gain by continuing with these myths. In this case, they denied a lot of people the chance to hear about a book that can help make life better, easier and more fulfilling." --Hanoi Jane Fonda on QVC's decision to cancel an interview promoting her newest book
Short Cuts
"Jane Fonda, who was set to appear on the QVC home shopping channel to promote her new book, got axed instead. She blamed it on 'well funded and organized political extremist groups.' I guess that's what aging leftists call Vietnam Vets. Yet with her foot only half-way in her mouth, Fonda decided to finish the job with a little historical revisionism. 'I have never done anything to hurt my country or the men and women who have fought and continue to fight for us,' said Hanoi Jane. The title of her book is 'Prime Time.' In a better world, it would be 'What I Learned in Prison Serving Time for Treason.'" --columnist Arnold Ahlert
"Meanwhile, the World's Greatest Orator bemoans the 'intransigence' of Republicans. OK, what's your plan? Give us one actual program you're willing to cut, right now. Oh, don't worry, says Barack Obluffer. To demonstrate how serious he is, he's offered to put on the table for fiscal year 2012 spending cuts of (stand well back now) $2 billion. That would be a lot in, say, Iceland or even Australia. Once upon a time it would have been a lot even in Washington. But today $2 billion is what the Brokest Nation in History borrows every 10 hours. In other words, in less time than he spends sitting across the table negotiating his $2 billion cut, he's already borrowed it all back. A negotiation with Obama is literally not worth the time." --columnist Mark Steyn
"Starting next year, all U.S. savings bonds will be electronic rather than printed. So they'll be paperless, as well as valueless, useless, and worthless." --comedian Jay Leno
"President Obama scheduled a big fundraising party in Chicago on his fiftieth birthday on August third. It's the day after the U.S. runs out of money. Lots of men have a midlife crisis on their fiftieth birthdays, but they don't usually bring the whole country along on the Apocalypse." --comedian Argus Hamilton
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"President Obama scheduled a big fundraising party in Chicago on his fiftieth birthday on August third. It's the day after the U.S. runs out of money. Lots of men have a midlife crisis on their fiftieth birthdays, but they don't usually bring the whole country along on the Apocalypse." --comedian Argus Hamilton
One male-chauvinist joke has it that all women stop counting birthdays at their 29th; well, what say we stop celebrating Obama's at 52?
Posted July 20, 2011 at 11:00:09 AM
joan
WHO IS PAYING FOR HIS BIG BIRTHDAY BASH? BET LOTS OF FATTENING FOOD WILL BE THERE FRIED CHICKEN, RIBS ETC.
JOAN
Posted July 20, 2011 at 11:21:31 AM
MNIce
"Starting next year, all U.S. savings bonds will be electronic rather than printed. So they'll be paperless, as well as valueless, useless, and worthless." --comedian Jay Leno
Sigh... I had thought that, if all else failed, at least the federal government would provide toilet paper from the Treasury. Kimberly - Clark Corp. must have made a strategic campaign donation to ensure there would be no unfair competition from Washington.
Posted July 20, 2011 at 11:23:02 AM
Paul Brockman
I suppose that Ms. Fonda has forgotten all about those notes that American POW's passed to her while she toured that prison camp in North Viet Nam. The very same notes that she handed to a guard right in front of the same POW's that gave her the notes. Funny, they (the POW's) all tell the same story. Well, those that survived the savage beatings they received as a result tell the same story.
"Never did anything to hurt our fighting men" my aunt Fannie.
Posted July 20, 2011 at 11:40:47 AM
Mike
Republicans are willing to raise the debt limit --and raise the debt --in exchange for a Constitutional ban on raising the debt. If they were serious about not increasing the debt, they would simply go home: Existing law will prevent spending in excess of revenue.
And if our President were to default on the debt interest, that would put a giant exclamation point on it; no one would then loan the government money, and it would be forced to live within its means, no matter what Congress did with the debt limit.
Instead of this ridiculous theater, the House should raise the debt limit to cover this year's appropriations and begin work on next year's appropriations. Let them appropriate for next year what they expect in revenue, and not a cent more, and make it clear they will not vote to raise the debt limit again.
Posted July 20, 2011 at 11:52:41 AM
David C.Berry
While Obama (I CANNOT call him president- he really isn't)complains about yachet and corporate jet tax breaks, he's swanning around in the biggest corpoeate jet, one provided by the 48% of people in America who pay taxes. In addition, he'll be using that jet to travel on his birthday bash (no doubt with bis clueless, insensitive wife along) and has been using thew same jet for the nearly 40 DEMOCRATIC fundraisers he's had since he took office. Does he pay tax for this benefit-in-kind, or, like Timothy Thieving Geithner, has he given himself a break from taxes and penalties?
It really angers me to see such total disregard for the plight of the American people - he's just rubbing it in their faces.
Posted July 20, 2011 at 11:56:54 AM
Brian Ehni
Re: the George Bernard Shaw quote:
They are also more than happy to take what YOU have, and divide that up, too.
Posted July 20, 2011 at 12:00:42 PM
Scott
Just for the record, August the 3rd is MY 50th Birthday, Obama's is August the 4th. I would hate to think I had something in common with him. Or, is there a new birth certificate out with that new date?
Posted July 20, 2011 at 12:08:58 PM
Just Askin...
Dear Gloria Borger,
Are you ignorant, uneducated or unintelligent? Those are the only reasons I can come up with for a statement like that!
Posted July 20, 2011 at 12:17:35 PM
millerized
""Nobody can out-debate him or out-statistic him on this information." --House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)""
Doesn't she mean "Nobody can out-DEBT and out-STATIST him on this DISinformation?
Posted July 20, 2011 at 12:18:34 PM
Frank
Could it be that the "something strange going on" quoted by Chris Matthews is the tingle going up his leg?.....
Posted July 20, 2011 at 12:20:30 PM
Dan Ferris
I have not heard anyone comment on Obama's calling a group of lawmakers "The Gang of Six". The only place I have ever heard people called "The Gang of... " is in communist China. It seems very strange for a president to speak in those terms.
Posted July 20, 2011 at 12:20:57 PM
Frank
Could it be that the "something strange going on" quoted by Chris Matthews is the tingle going up his leg?.....
Posted July 20, 2011 at 12:23:20 PM
Mike McGinn
@ Paul Brockman
When Hanoi Jane said "Never did anything to hurt our fighting men" she didn't mean United States Armed Forces Servicemen, so she wasn't technically telling us a lie. We just didn't understand what she meant.
I'm certain that "our fighting men" referred to the Viet Cong, the North Vietnamese Army, and her dope-smoking buddies back home. Her actions did nothing to hurt them, that's for sure.
Posted July 20, 2011 at 12:34:45 PM
Stevo
@ Scott:
Agreed. My 47th is Aug. 3rd and I would hate as well to think I had anything in common with this charlatan.
Posted July 20, 2011 at 12:49:34 PM
56hornet
I don't thnk it is necessaryly the oman that wants us to furnish money for his spending. I think it is the whole bunch in DC, dating back many decades. What has changed.
Posted July 20, 2011 at 12:55:31 PM
Lisa
I agree with David C Berry comment completely. He isn't a president and I too believe that he just loves rubbing the fact "I am president and I can do this" in the American people faces. If American does go broke then maybe he will be on the unemployment line!
Posted July 20, 2011 at 1:13:25 PM
One VA Patriot
What is it about these Tea Partiers that has the liberal Main Stream Media so all riled up? Could it be the "new" republicans recently elected to congress, along with some incumbents, are honoring their mandate to maintain fiscal responsibility while in office?
Pay no attention to the MSM (the man behind the curtain), for their wailing and gnashing harbinges the death rattle of progressivism.
Posted July 20, 2011 at 1:29:42 PM
Eb Snell
Joan, don't think of it like that, fried chicken and food of that sort is "soul food"!! And David C. Berry, I think his wife will probably be taking her own plane and entourage like she normally does.
Posted July 20, 2011 at 1:39:04 PM
Tom Wilson
My thirteen year old daughter, Lauren, and I had the profound pleasure of spending a day at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library last week. After touring the room containing information on the economy, noting the top end tax rates of 70% at the end of the Carter Administration and how President Reagan reduced all tax rates with the end result of Federal tax revenues DOUBLING due to the millions of additional jobs created by his policies, my teenage daughter quipped our current President should be forced to tour the Reagan Library as he may learn something. She also astutely noticed President Reagan earned a degree in Economics, a sharp contrast to our current President.
Posted July 20, 2011 at 1:42:11 PM
Elle
We need to pass a law that takes 95% of the President's income as he has stated he has money he doesn't need. Apparently he needs an experience to understand the meaning of confiscatory taxes.
Posted July 20, 2011 at 1:47:17 PM
Robert Risko
"we fought two wars, we didn't pay for them; we had a bad recession that required a Recovery Act and stimulus spending and helping states -- and all that accumulated and there's interest on top of that." --Barack Obama
Better said: "we had a bad recession that I THOUGHT REQUIRED a...BUT IT REALLY DIDN'T and I didn't pay for...but YOU and OUR GREAT-GREAT-GREAT GRANDCHILDREN will still be paying for it!"
It will never dawn on him that spending money doesn't mean you have to pay for it. Instead, IN ORDER TO SPEND MONEY you have to first PLAN AND SAVE to spend it on what you plan to spend it on! He is most certainly a product of our "buy now, pay later" culture of materialists.
Posted July 20, 2011 at 1:48:49 PM
Fed Up
Let's default, or allow Obama to make it his Marxist decree, that the debt ceiling will be raised. Since he is so quick and oft in using presidential powers against the wishes of the majority of the American people's wishes, this shouldn't be a problem for him.
It is sure to guareentee his loss in 2012; at least I hope so!?
The Socialist, and his followers, needs to go in 2012!
Posted July 20, 2011 at 2:02:17 PM
Kelly Jarboe
I can not help but wonder when the U.S. Population is going to actually wake up to the current situation and realize that the current Occupant of the Oval Office has Ruined the Country, our World Respect, and our Bank Account.
"We the People " have to do two things, take responsibility for the worst choice for President in our History, and remove him from Office in 2012, so we can stop the Hemorrhage of our Wealth, if we have any at all left by then.
Posted July 20, 2011 at 2:11:40 PM
RK Sprau
I am all for a balance budget amendment but I don't understand the symbolic votes. Pick and choose your fights, By doubling down every time you are painting yourself in a corner.
In Wis, they doubling down, the breaking of Laws, (redistricting for one), running fake candidates, does nothing to help the cause, it does act as a template by painting every one an off color. I remember Hannity making a huge splash, they are recalling all 6 DNC's. they could only petition 3, they already got crushed. If the people are behind you then why run fake candidates, take the recall vote and if the people are for you, you are safe, if you the people despise you, then go. To stay in power for an moral/fiscal ideological mindset and to do anything to do so and not vote the will of the people...
This is Germaine for this is what the public sees. The DNC won the debate on the debt. This new debt, Cap and balance, is so radical even Ryan's plan is unconstitutional, Reagan 11 times, Bush 8 times.
All I'm saying is stick by your guns but don't any of you think a strategic withdrawal might be in the offing until you can solidified your position with the American public?
Don't loose the battle and the war over a skirmish.
Win the battle by a mapping out and utilizing a new game plan or loose in 2012 and an incompetent president will still be in place. Back in the day it's called Vietnamzation. Put on a friendlier face, win the hearts and minds of the American people. Change comes slowly. This push, push, push, against those who like how things has gone for the last 60 years will push back. Even the GOP is 2-1 against the hardline stance. (Reutors)
You have them to cut, now concede a little or all will be lost. You can win the battle later.
Posted July 20, 2011 at 2:15:52 PM
Frank E.
07/20/11
JUST READ THE BOOKS HE WROTE ABOUT HIS FATHER &
REST OF HIS BLACK FAMILY.YOU WILL KNOW WHO'S
PAYING DEARLY FOR HIS {BIRTHDAY BASH}.ALSO WHY
HE WANTS TO CHANGE AMERICA TO ANOTHER "KENYA"
Posted July 20, 2011 at 2:28:40 PM
Jeani L. Stark
Quite awhile ago watching Fox News Hannity gave a list of what all the ear marks went to such as a study of wild flowers, extended walking and bike paths which were never used, $$$$$ to Michelle Obama's brothers school and many other unnecessary over the top spending and I would like to request that if you could possibly obtain and publish that list for all your readers to review all the useless Obama spending that our tax dollars paid for.
Also, can you tell me why Obama and wife can take all these vacations and other nongovernmental trips using Airforce I, guards, hotels etc. and we the tax payers have to pay for these trips? Shouldn't it be taken out of his pay even when he travels around the USA promoting Democrates running for office? Why isn't he on a budget and if he goes beyond that then he pays for it?
Posted July 20, 2011 at 2:40:14 PM
Fed Up
Off subject, but important and disturbing nonetheless. Has this simply been kept under the radar, or is it just an issue no one wants to address?
If true, why is the Patriot, and others, so quiet about it?
Obama bypasses Congress and grants blanket amnesty against the will of the American public and elected representatives.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/weeklyupdate/2010/34-obama-amnesty-here
Haven't we all had enough of this marxist dictator?
Posted July 20, 2011 at 3:02:52 PM
Lew15
Sorry,Paul,but as much as I deplore what Hanoi Jane did, the story about the notes and subsequent beatings is not true. If we are to be the examples of truth then we need to examine e-rumors more carefully before we forward to others.
Posted July 20, 2011 at 3:06:46 PM
Inge
I feel sorry for that Fonda woman who obviously can not tell the difference between the truth and a lie. This reminds me of the defacing of the US Capitol in 2007 when Pelosi just became the Speaker of the House. A bunch of liberals, Fonda included, spray painted graffiti and other stuff on the steps and other government buildings. At the time the Capitol Police was instructed not to interfere. This wasn't enough because that night they also went to vandalize the Vietnam Memorial. How low can a person get? Needless to say, tax payers paid for the clean-up. Speaking of Pelosi, she too lied. She flew to Syria, trying to save the world, what a joke, and misrepresented Israel's position to Assad saying that she had a message from Olmert that Israel was ready for peace talks with Syria. Right away Olmer issued a statement denying it. Fonda and Pelosi are 2 peas in a pod and can't be trusted.
Posted July 20, 2011 at 3:50:22 PM
Buzzkill
I do not know why the political cartoons continue to draw Von Dupnikov's press events with The Flag in the background - when we all know he doesn't have it there...
Posted July 20, 2011 at 5:23:22 PM
Jiggs
I am more then fed up with "Mr. Spendthrift." I just don't understand how a Harvard graduate can figure that taxing the rich, the movers and shakers of the economy and job creationists, is going to suck in enough money to bail us out of our financial troubles? It might bail a few Dumocrats out of the drunk tank from an overnight spree, but not the financial disaster looming. He is definitely living in cloud cuckoo land.
Posted July 20, 2011 at 6:22:38 PM
Morning Glory
Totally agree with Rich Galen.......100%!! If the rest of us ran our households like our government, the bank and every finance company in the USA would be breathing down our necks and reposessing every single thing we have. When will the "leaders" in Congress as well as the national-freeloaders- society finally come to the realization that we cannot continue to have the "give-me, give-me" attitude and life style? Time to hold our nose and take our medicine...........or eat our peas (whichever is the least offensive....which reminds me that I'm SICK TO DEATH of all this pretender-in-chief's rhetoric and posturing..........! BLAH~~~)
Posted July 20, 2011 at 6:55:45 PM
Buzzkill
I figured it out! The reason Von Dupnikov keeps getting away with so much that (as in his quote in "The Demo-gogues") he contradicts, is that his actions are done behind closed doors. Those who still support him are stupid enough to dismiss this as "stuff they don't need to know", while at the same time believing everything he says.
Sorry if it took me so long to make the connection...
Posted July 20, 2011 at 8:20:13 PM
Robert E. Johannesen
It is not the President's job to lead and work with the Congress. The President's job is to lead the administrative branch to implement the laws passed by the Congress, i.e., to work for the congress who works for the people(well, they are supposed to).
Posted July 20, 2011 at 9:09:20 PM
Buzzkill
"Obama, US Viewed Less Favorably in Arab World, Poll Shows"
Who cares:
What Polls show? Polls do not "show" anything; they provide data, which is then manipulated to provide statistics - the third and most damning category of lies.
What the Arab world thinks of America? Honestly, considering how much the Arab world thinks about America, I think they think more of America than (so-called) Americans do. The actual Americans - who love her as she has been and as she is, and hope to see her grow (through her own grace and virtue) into something greater than mankind can conceive - are willing to die for her, knowing that: if they win, they live; and, if they die, losing won't matter.
These are the ones whose opinion really matters...
Posted July 20, 2011 at 10:08:53 PM
Buzzkill
"He believes it's his responsibility as the president of the United States to lead..." Jay Carney
This is a problem, because it is NOT the president's job to lead. I do not exactly get where he got this idea, but it is not - and never has been - the president's job to lead.
Check Article II of The Constitution, and tell me what section or clause confers upon him the job of leading.
He is to see that the laws are faithfully executed; he is to be commander-in-chief IN TIME OF WAR (which we ain't; he keeps sayin' it is not a war, but a kinetic something-or-other), which is just another way of saying tie-breaker and lightning rod; he can (but should not necessarily) make treaties with other nations; he can appoint federal government officers that are not already the clearly-outlined purview of Congress.
Aside from a few other duties - like feeding the first mutt and taking out the first trash - this is about the long and short of it.
Not one of those is him being a LEADER.
Posted July 20, 2011 at 10:20:59 PM
Buzzkill
"... people who are ignorant about the way the world works come to power. That is what the Founding Fathers hated the most..." Bill Maher, Marginally Useful Idiot
The Founding Fathers hated two things more than anything else: Tyranny, and apathy - the latter being the basic attitude of any who would simply lay down and let tyrants forcefully micturate on them.
Billy boy is a clear example of what happens when people who do not know the first thing about the Founding Fathers, try to act as though they do.
Posted July 20, 2011 at 10:27:11 PM
Buzzkill
@ oner VA Patriot --
What say we stop it at 49...
Posted July 20, 2011 at 11:10:22 PM
One VA Patriot
@Buzzkill --
I was wrong in my post, short of impeachment we can only constitutionally get rid of this marxist butthole when he's 51. He has one more Happy Birthday to celebrate on the taxpayers dime, and then it gets dropped on him!
Posted July 21, 2011 at 7:57:23 AM
Joel Hatcher
In regards to Jay Leno's remark about treasury binds, he forgot to mention that they will also be taxed on the electricity used to transfer them, so they will actually have a negative value.
Posted July 21, 2011 at 12:34:34 PM
James J. Bilenki Jr. (USN. RET.)
Tell "Hanoi Jane," that ALL the Veterans of the Vietnam Area War are just waiting patiently for her to go "T..s Up" so we can all gather at her grave site and show our appreciation for how we really feel about her dedication to our country back then and now. I say this to all of you, our former Vietnam War, American P.O.W's and every service man/woman who put on a uniform during that time, don't ever forget what this low life B.... did for the North Vietnamese, Viet Cong, China and the Soviet Union. Lets all meet at her grave site and celebrate her LONG OVER DUE passing.
Someones gonna' have one Hell of a nasty time cleaning up that mess!
J.J.B.Jr.(USN.RET.)
Pasadena, Md.
Posted August 21, 2011 at 8:11:25 PM