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Tuesday, August 03, 2010
Simply Genius!
That’s Tim Geithner providing cover for the failed collectivist policies now driving the country:
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner acknowledged that it is still a “tough economy” for most Americans, and warned it’s possible the unemployment rate will go up for a couple of months before it comes down as more people enter the labor force.
“When they see a little hope that there may be jobs out there, they start to come back in again. And that can cause the measured unemployment rate to go up — temporarily,” Geithner told “Good Morning America’s” George Stephanopoulos in an exclusive interview. “But what we expect to see, and I think most forecasters expect this…is an economy that’s gradually healing, gradually strengthening, businesses starting to add people back.”
The economy is not rebounding as quickly as Geithner and the Obama administration would like, he said. Last week’s economic report card showed the Gross Domestic Product grew at a rate of 2.4 percent, slower than it had earlier this year. But amid that bad news, Geithner said, were signs of growth in the private sector.
Talk about your snow job. The economy is not rebounding because collectivist wishful thinking and government funneling trillions to democrat operatives, friends, donors, lobbyists, and causes, while growing fat and large, contrary to all the fantasies, is never going to create any productive jobs. Private sector jobs produce wealth because those jobs provide net revenue to the economy and government. Government jobs destroy or shuffle wealth, and then inefficiently too, as they take private sector cash and reallocate it or simply burn it up. The morons in charge right now have done a ton of burning, and their agenda is set to burn even more, far beyond the capacity of any private sector to keep up with, in the future.
Anyway back to Geithner, and the excuse making for why these collectivists in government think they should get even more of our money, and have no doubt that this is about them feeling entitled to our money and being pissed we don’t want to go along.
“If you extend all these tax cuts just for two years or so, you’re going to leave the vast bulk of Americans…with uncertainty about what the rules of the game are going to be,” Geithner said. “What we’re proposing is to extend those tax cuts for the middle class. Extend those tax cuts for small businesses. Make clear that we’re going to keep dividends and capital gains rates, the taxes that go to business, to capital investment, at a modest rate going forward. That’ll give people more certainty.”
Get that? He is talking about the economic uncertainty Congress’ refusal to take a firm stance on the Bush tax cuts that expire at the end of this year. His take is that letting the tax cuts stay in place for an undetermined term will just keep people uncertain. So instead of saying, lets make them permanent and restart the economy, his genius solution is to just let them expire already, and hammer the people with more taxes. After all, big government needs cash to keep living large & in charge, baby! Want to see some more genius?
Geithner: ‘The Business Community Always Wants Their Taxes Lower’ Before businesses begin to use the estimated $1.8 trillion they have set aside, they want a commitment that their taxes will not increase over the next two years. Geithner did not make that promise, instead saying “the business community always wants
Evil and stupid businesses want to have low taxes! Don’t they know their sole purpose, like that of the serfs, is to feed big government cash so it can farm it out to those it favors? How dare they! Profits are evil! From each according to his ability, and to each according to his needs! And government needs!
OK, enough making fun of these morons and showing the obvious flaws in their ideology. Here is the deal. These losers know they have crashed the economy. This article, for a change, didn’t simply try to blame Bush, and hope the people stayed distracted, but they are still trying to make like the reason we are where we are and heading downwards fast, still isn’t their fault. This whole “we are going to lose more jobs before we get new ones” meme, is a demanded lie. If they keep doing what they are doing we will lose the jobs alright, but they are never coming back either.
Don’t worry though! Big government will cut you a monthly check that will provide you a standard of living at what will be considered right above the new poverty line – it will be far lower than it is now too – and like the majority of people, you won’t have to worry and covet what your neighbor has, since nobody will have anything. And although they got but a short line to show it, in this MSM article, even the Cubans have figured out government can’t create wealth: just steal it. Sad times. Get ready to have more unemployment.
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Now they are gonna get it!
Either Obama was handled by some right wing warmonger or he is showing more of the stupid that is rampant in the liberal ideological system when he said that al Qaeda was a racist organization.
A senior US official suggested Mr Obama was taking a direct swipe at the ideology and motives of al-Qaeda affiliates on the continent, which US intelligence agencies say are the extremist group’s most active branches. “Al-Qaeda is a racist organisation that treats black Africans like cannon fodder and does not value human life,” said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Mr Obama issued the personal warning to the continent of his father’s birth days after suicide bombers killed 76 in Uganda in an attack claimed by the Somali militant group al-Shabaab, which has links to al-Qaeda.
Mr Obama said terrorist organisations “do not regard African life as valuable in and of itself”. “They see it as a potential place where you can carry out ideological battles that kill innocents without regard to long-term consequences for their short-term tactical gains,” he told the South African Broadcasting Corporation.
I say brilliant! I sure as hell hope this was a plant by right wingers to finally get this government of fools, hell bent on making al Qaeda like us, pissed at these bastards. If you look at what Obama is saying it literally comes down to “hey, we finally see al Qaeda, and organization that has a long and distinguished homicide bomber and murder record, is bad because they are killing blacks!”, and it seems to be hitting one of the three pillars of liberal ideological black listing; racism, sexism, and homophobia.
Suddenly, because they are now going of West Africans, they are bad guys. Maybe now Eric Holder will have an interest in going after them? It’s Arabs on black violence, after all. Let’s forget the feeling you get reading Obama’s words that he is almost regretful that al Qaeda is targeting people he feels would be sympathetic to their cause for now, and focus on the fact that the WH suddenly has decided these guys are real bad. Maybe we can go after them for hate crimes now? Heck, Gitmo might suddenly become a good thing too. What’s next? Islamic radicalism might even make its way back into the lexicon? You have to forgive me for seeing a conspiracy here considering the revelations.
Let’s get the WH to see that al Qaeda is also virulently homophobic and sexist, and maybe we actually will get them to have the UN send them an angry letter…
Dirkka dirkka, Mohamed Jihad!
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Wednesday, July 07, 2010
Bold admission that Iran going nuclear is bad..
Israel has had nuclear weapons now for a few decades, and short of the usual nutjob demanding the Jews be pushed into the sea and the land reclaimed, non of its Arab nations have ever felt the need to build nukes to protect themselves. As anyone that hasn’t been living under a rock knows, that sentiment has not been extended to Iran, a fellow traveler and the nation vying for the title of top Jew hater, which has nuclear ambitions. In fact, Iran’s Arab neighbors are all either contemplating nuclear programs of their own - something they never felt compelled to do to keep up with Israel, or flat out pointing out that only idiots think anything short of force will deter Iran at this point.
ASPEN, Colo. | The United Arab Emirates ambassador to the United States said Tuesday that the benefits of bombing Iran’s nuclear program outweigh the short-term costs such an attack would impose. In unusually blunt remarks, Ambassador Yousef al-Otaiba publicly endorsed the use of the military option for countering Iran’s nuclear program, if sanctions fail to stop the country’s quest for nuclear weapons. “I think it’s a cost-benefit analysis,” Mr. al-Otaiba said. “I think despite the large amount of trade we do with Iran, which is close to $12 billion … there will be consequences, there will be a backlash and there will be problems with people protesting and rioting and very unhappy that there is an outside force attacking a Muslim country; that is going to happen no matter what.”
“If you are asking me, ‘Am I willing to live with that versus living with a nuclear Iran?,’ my answer is still the same: ‘We cannot live with a nuclear Iran.’ I am willing to absorb what takes place at the expense of the security of the U.A.E.” Mr. al-Otaiba made his comments in response to a question after a public interview session with the Atlantic magazine at the Aspen Ideas Festival here. They echo those of some Arab diplomats who have said similar things in private to their American counterparts but never this bluntly in public. The remarks surprised many in the audience.
Emphasis mine on that last bit. See, the only people surprised by this are the morons that also still believe talk can make a difference. That the problem here isn’t that Iran is run by destructive madmen, but that we (meaning that aggressive America of the Bush age) are the evil ones. This Ambassador has basically admitted that at least his country, the UAE, knows that nothing short of force will deter Iran at this point, and that Iran’s terror supporting/enabling leadership is pursuing these weapons so it can use the shield it will provide them, to escalate that support. And he has done it in public. He knows Iran will cause mayhem in this region if they go nuclear. Don’t take my word for this:
The ambassador also said that “talk of containment and deterrence really concerns me and makes me very nervous.” He said Iran has not been deterred from supporting terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah now, when it doesn’t have a nuclear arsenal. So why, he asked rhetorically, would Iran be more cautious in its support for terrorism if it did.
Exactly! Why does Iran need nukes if it has gotten away with this stuff already? The only thing that makes any kind of sense is that Iran plans to escalate, not reduce its efforts and the problems that its proxies are causing, and it thinks that nuclear umbrella will protect it from what happened to Saddam in Iraq or the Taliban in Afghanistan when they pushed us too hard. Does anyone doubt we would have handled these situations differently if we had to deal with a nuclear armed enemy? Thank Israel that Saddam didn’t have nukes. We might be thanking them too for Iran not having them sooner than later.
Of course, I am sure the usual leftards will now chime in that a nuclear enemy might have prevented Bush’s cowboy adventurism, and thus justify why we should let Iran go nuclear, but before you actually think these morons have a valid point, consider the following statement by the UAE ambassador:
Mr. al-Otaiba said that his country would be the last Arab country to cut a deal with Iran, if Tehran were to go nuclear. But he predicted other wealthy Arab states in the Gulf would dump their alliances with the U.S. in favor of ties with Tehran if President Obama does not stop the Islamic republic’s quest to become a nuclear power. “There are many countries in the region that if they lack assurance that the U.S. is willing to confront Iran, they will start running for cover with Iran,” he said. “Small, rich, vulnerable countries do not want to stick their finger in the big boy’s eye if they do not have the backing of the United States.”
Anyone thinking that this will result in more stability or lead to a better world is not just a moron, they are delusional. As I have often said, at a minimum you will get this:
Mr. al-Otaiba also said that an Iranian acquisition would set off a nuclear arms race in the region, predicting that Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Turkey would all start nuclear programs if Iran acquired such weapons.
Your average ignorant moron would argue that there is nothing wrong with these countries going nuclear too, I am sure. After all, Pakistan and India did it. And we are even living with the Norks being a nuclear nation. Let me point out what this ambassador had to say about that…
The ambassador in the end stressed that his country would not tolerate a nuclear Iran. “The United States may be able to live with it,” he said. “We can’t.”
I think the US would not be able to live with it either, but then again, the people that think this way are also the ones that believed the USSR should have been the one to win the Cold War, America isn’t fit to be the world’s leader because it is the root of all evil, China would do a better job than the US if it was top dog, and that they are able to use talk to keep a nuclear armed Iran in line. No matter how this plays out, it is going to be ugly. The thing is, as this ambassador has pointed out, that a nuclear armed Iran will be much more costly than whatever crap we get if we prevent it by force.
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When you haven’t got a clue how to actually do anything right….
The democrats are in a world of hurt come the November elections. They won huge in 2008 by having the MSM help them overinflate the fact Bush was a wet noodle and that republicans were somehow fiscally less responsible than them. As if the Carter years and the demcorat controlled congress tripling spending while the Reagan tax cuts doubled revenue, never happened. Of course, as soon as they won they proceeded to make sure everyone knew that demcorats being fiscally responsible or able to actually lead us into any kind of prosperity was a myth, on par with the one about demcorats caring about individual freedoms. They took the low bar the stupid republicans let the demcorats set for them, and plunged it to new lows.
For a while there they were able to blame Bush for everything they did wrong. We passed a nearly trillion dollar stimulus patronage bill that served to only “stimulate” the growth of government, fill our campaign coffers and the wallets of our donors, operatives, lobbyists, and friends, at the expense of those working in the private sector? Bush’s fault! A democrat controlled congress first pushed TARP up to $750 billion, despite objections from the not insane during an election campaign nevertheless – and so they could blame “you know who” – and then when they won, literally made TARP a no limit slush fund for all things collectivist government expansion related. Blame Bush! Cap and Tax was not popular and temporarily had to be put on the back burner. But PB, a top Obama donor and well connected to their WH and green efforts, blows a well out in the Gulf, and the same people that accused Bush of conjuring up Katrina to kill blacks in NO, now have let months go bye without doing anything of significance – can’t piss off the unions or let this crisis go bye without taking advantage of it and all that – because now they can bring this economy killer back again. Blame Bush! Passed the most intrusive and massive government expansion program ever, masquerading as healthcare reform, but really intended to recreate something like the Cuban healthcare system over here, against the will of the American people, nevertheless, guaranteeing that the massive cost of this boondoggle will fiscally bankrupt the nation. Blame Bush! Can’t pass a budget because it would show that demcorats lied about being fiscally responsible and have already broken last years record deficit spending and debt growing budget busting shenanigans? Blame Bush! We are being overrun by an invasion from our “neighbor” to the south? Blame Bush! Ok yeah, Bush was a moron on this one too, so he does deserve some blame. Of course, he didn’t succeed at his amnesty attempt, and the ones trying now aren’t doing it because Bush is making them, for sure. The surge worked in Iraq? Blame Bush! Oh wait. Biden says Obama, whom I should remind people because the MSM won’t, was against the surge, gets credit for that one now.
You get the picture right? Everything bad they do is Bush’s fault. Of course, that has now worn thin, and is falling on deaf ears, as the polls showing a massacre come November make clear. Remember the collectivists telling us that it was the end of the age of American greed – because making money and wanting prosperity for yourself, is you know, evil – was dead and the right was gone for the next 50 years? Took them less than 18 months to squander away the support their well orchestrated campaign of lies garnered them, by actually doing what they believe in! As many of us predicted: once the left showed what they were all about, the American people would turn on them. Yeah, I am rubbing it in. Anyway, back to the point of this post: the demcorats are desperate. So what’s the new tactic they hope will help show the American people that they are better suited to be in charge?
More of the same:
The Democratic Party is moving faster and more aggressively than in previous election years to dig up unflattering details about Republican challengers. In House races from New Jersey to Ohio to California, Democratic operatives are seizing on evidence of GOP candidates’ unpaid income taxes, property tax breaks and ties to financial firms that received taxpayer bailout money.
Sounds solid. When you have zero successes to campaing on, all you are left with is demonizing the opposition, and hoping the people are too stupid to figure out that’s all you have. You aren’t fit to lead anyone, fiscally irresponsible, drowning the country in debt, destroying the economy, healthcare system, and the lives of millions, and looking like you are going to be hammered in the election for it – all because people have wised up and no longer buy the “Blame Bush!” meme, dang it! – so what you do isn’t square this stuff away. Nah, you go dig up dirt on those that are going to have you for breakfast, hoping the American people are stupid enough to leave you in charge. After all, as this WaPO post does, the MSM will repeat the talking points you want to get out there even as it is pretending to tut-tut at you for doing this idiotic stuff.
And if you can’t find enough dirt? Well, go make some up:
Democratic officials are advising campaigns to hire trackers to follow their Republican opponents to public events with video cameras, ready to catch any gaffe or misstatement. And the Democratic National Committee last week issued a call to the public to submit any embarrassing audio or video of Republicans, as well as copies of their direct-mail advertisements.
Party officials would not say how many staffers are working on opposition research. Such work used to be farmed out to campaign consultants, but the DCCC brought research operations in-house in 2008 to be more nimble. “It may appear to be more aggressive this cycle because what we’re finding on Republicans is so rich,” Vogel said.
Good luck you morons. If these bastards put in a fraction of the time they would doing this kind of stuff in actually doing their jobs to benefit the American people instead of themselves, I guarantee you they would not need to do this stuff. Like I said: I can’t wait for November.
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Friday, July 02, 2010
Told you so…
Well, it looks like some more truth about how disastrous and unlikely to really be possible the promises made by the left to push for the new government healthcare takeover will be is trickling out:
The Obama administration has not ruled out turning sick people away from an insurance program created by the new healthcare law to provide coverage for the uninsured. Critics of the $5 billion high-risk pool program insist it will run out of money before Jan. 1, 2014. That’s when the program sunsets and health plans can no longer discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions. Administration officials insist they can make changes to the program to ensure it lasts until 2014, and that it may not have to turn away sick people.
So let me get this straight. First off, these collectivist are admitting that in order to keep the existing programs solvent and viable till 2014 when the big daddy takeover goes into high gear, they will need to likely deny care to “some” sick people? That is unless they can make some changes to the $5 billion high risk pool program to make it viable until 2014? Care to guess what the changes will be? Don’t need to man. It’s right there:
Officials said the administration could also consider reducing benefits under the program, or redistributing funds between state pools. But they acknowledged turning some people away was also a possibility.
So, in order to not have to turn away the expensive sick, the rest will have to do with less, subpar being the more likely case, coverage. Bet you get both. Less coverage, and people turned away. Of course, since government will do it now, it is still better than getting better care and less people turned away from the private insurers! Don’t worry though! The collectivists are coming to the rescue!
Leading health reform advocate Ron Pollack, founding executive director of Families USA, said the pools were a “very imperfect tool that could be implemented quickly” but were the best option available for the interim period before 2014.“The pools are going to be helpful for a significant number of people,” he told The Hill, “but nobody thought they’re the ultimate answer for helping people with pre-existing conditions.” Still, he didn’t rule out that Families USA could press lawmakers to allocate more money in a few years if it looks like the program needs it.
Well DUH! Just demand more cash! So, since there simply isn’t enough money to go around and pay for all of this, no matter what these bozos pretend otherwise, what we will get is this program costing twice, or more, as much as the allocates $5 billion, the coverage being piss poor, AND people still being turned away.
Not bad. Here is the kicker, though. Nobody seems to point out the obvious: that come 2014 when the big government healthcare takeover takes place, we will be left with a lot more of the same – they won’t turn people away, just drag their feet until they die and then save money – we are seeing here. Only then it will cost trice, if not more, as much to the same effect. Ain’t we lucky the collectivists managed to get government to take over healthcare? Fun, fun!
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
The gravy train continues
While the political oligarchy in DC are trying real hard to stick it to Wall Street before July 4th session closes, in a nice Kabuki show intended to distract the dumb peasants from their role in the whole debacle have hit a snag, and the MSM does its best to help the demcorats blame republicans for the failure, the real story about how bad things are still to be is about Freddie & Fannie.
For American taxpayers, now on the hook for some $145 billion in housing losses connected to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans, that amount could be just the tip of the iceberg. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the losses could balloon to $400 billion. And if housing prices fall further, some experts caution, the cost to the taxpayer could hit as much as $1 trillion.
That $1 trillion quote will end up to be a low ball end number, I predict. These two government controlled and wholly DNC owned entities are likely sitting on far more than a measly $1 trillion in bad loans. It’s going to cost us a lot more to prop these monsters up. And I had to laugh at this:
Two things are clear: Taxpayers don’t want to foot the bill, and Fannie and Freddie, taken over by the government in 2008 to stanch the financial bloodletting, need a major overhaul.
Emphasis mine. Taken over? Please! Government has always owned these two, even if they pretended that was not the case, damn it. Stop the dumb propaganda already.
If these morons really wanted to put a halt at the problem they would chop up both Freddie & Fannie, get rid of the laws forcing lending to bad risk people, and let the morons that loan money to risky people go belly up. Just like the “Savings & Loans” crisis of the 80s we would see a slew of failure, and then things would get better. Of course that can’t ever happen when the ideological agenda gets in the way. Hey Franks, how is the health of Freddie and Fannie now? You going to step up and admit you called people racist for daring to say these two were behemoths that would because of the idiotic practices pushed cripple our economy some day, and that you were of course wrong? Nah, the MSM will continue to blame Wall Street and evil republicans for ya, so why bother.
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Friday, June 25, 2010
They are not just burrying us in debt..
They are also actively trying to rig the game in their favor. The “they” in question here is the most ethical ever promised Pelosi/Reed congress, and the stink here is another crooked bill that denies anyone but demcorats and their allies an advantage:
The resulting DISCLOSE Act, according to its backers, will ensure transparency in campaign ad funding. Thursday, the House of Representatives approved the bill 219-206, with 36 Democrats and 170 Republicans in opposition to the measure, which was written by Rep. Chris Van Hollen, the Maryland Democrat who heads the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee this year, and New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, who led the Senate Democrats’ campaign panel in 2008.
The bill is full of draconian restrictions on individual political speech expressed via corporations, but gives privileged status to the Democrats’ union masters. A provision pushed by Pennsylvania Democrat Rep. Bob Brady, for example, allows unions to transfer unlimited funds among affiliated groups to pay for political ads with no disclosure whatever. That makes campaign funding more transparent?
I think the author answered their own question there. While the demcorats are trying to lay low and not let the people find out they are turning America into a third rate banana republic economically, they have certainly not given up on doing so with our freedoms as well.
As usual, DISCLOSE was rammed through the House after being introduced with only a few hours’ notice and too little debate allowed. Because Democrats have abandoned doing a federal budget for the year, couldn’t they find a little more time to allow Congress and the people it is supposed to represent to read and discuss this measure at greater length? Next we will see if Senate Democrats are as determined to throw out the First Amendment as were most of their House colleagues.
Why the hell don’t they cut to the chase and just tell us who can vote and how often they can? Scratch that. Just do away with the whole election charade. I mean that’s the end goal here anyway.
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Sunday, June 13, 2010
Not the least bit surprised…
That’s what I am. Those of us that pointed out that there had to be some dirty and politically motivated directive for the dismissal by Obama DOJ of the Black Panther voter intimidation case that was reported during the 2008 elections at a Philadelphia polling station, seem to be vindicated. My only surprise is that the so many of the incriminating underlying details and facts are coming out so early. Let’s set this up.
The clear and indisputable crime:
The case is straightforward. On Election Day 2008, two members of the New Black Panther party (NBPP) dressed in military garb were captured on videotape at a Philadelphia polling place spouting racial epithets and menacing voters. One, Minister King Samir Shabazz, wielded a nightstick. It was a textbook case of voter intimidation and clearly covered under the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
The follow-up:
A Department of Justice trial team was assigned to investigate. They gathered affidavits from witnesses—one of the poll watchers was called a “white devil” and a “cracker.” A Panther told him he would be “ruled by the black man.” The trial team, all career Justice attorneys and headed by voting section chief Chris Coates, filed a case against the two Panthers caught on tape. Malik Zulu Shabazz, head of the national NBPP, and the party itself were also named based on evidence the party had planned the deployment of 300 members on Election Day and on statements after the incident in which the NBPP endorsed the intimidation at the Philadelphia polling station.
A slam dunk case goes awry, and justice is sqaushed:
The trial team quickly obtained a default judgment—meaning it had won the case because the New Black Panther party failed to defend itself. Yet in May 2009, Obama Justice Department lawyers, appointed temporarily to fill top positions in the civil rights division, ordered the case against the NBPP dismissed. An administration that has pledged itself to stepping-up civil rights enforcement dropped the case and, for over a year, has prevented the trial team lawyers from telling their story.
Insult to injury in typical “social justice” progressive fashion:
The Panthers like to tout their “victory” and parrot the Obama Justice Department’s line that the case was unmeritorious. The party held a national convention in Atlanta over Memorial Day weekend (sponsored and attended by the once mainstream Southern Christian Leadership Conference and a grab bag of socialist and anti-Semitic figures). Its website boasts: “The New Black Panther Party has been embroiled in a battle between Republican Congressmen and the U.S. Department of Justice over a ‘voter intimidation’ scandal for the last 18 months. During these 18 months right wing and Republican Newspaper and Electronic media have gone to exhaustive lengths to discredit and slander the New Black Panther Party and its Chairman and Attorney Malik Zulu Shabazz.”
With me so far? Here’s the recap. After a quick investigation of the allegations of voter intimidation, the DOJ determines there is a clear case of voter intimidation, and basically points out they have a slam dunk. Obama’s appointees take over, and they immediately begin to rail road the process. Eventually they dismiss the case and continue to pretend it is done on the merits and there are no political reasons or any of Obama’s people in the loop forcing tat decision. Then after the clear case is dismissed, and emboldened NBPP starts boasting and crowing about how what they did was just fine and dandy. The usual suspects in the MSM drop the ball and go along. After all, these progressives won’t say so, but they all believe that discrimination can only go one way, anyway. And these scumbags all think they have won and that they got away with the crime.
But then the shit hits the fan:
But on June 4, J. Christian Adams, a veteran lawyer in Justice’s voting section and a key member of the trial team, resigned. His reasons were spelled out in a letter that also noted that the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, which was investigating the dismissal, had subpoenaed him and Coates, but their superiors, in violation of federal law, had ordered them not to testify. He noted that “the defendants in the New Black Panther lawsuit have become increasingly belligerent in their rhetoric toward the attorneys who brought the case. . . . Their grievances toward us generally echo the assertions [by Justice Department officials] that the facts and law did not support the lawsuit against them.” Coates, too, has left the Voting Section, moving to South Carolina to work in the U.S. attorney’s office. Last Friday, the civil rights commission’s general counsel, David Blackwood, announced that he had received an email from Christian Adams’s attorney stating that Adams is now available to provide information to the commission. Commissioner Todd Graziano said they would schedule Adams’s appearance at a public hearing as soon as possible as the commission had been seeking his testimony for many months.
It now looks like the Obama administration member’s roles in squashing this investigation are going to come out if these proceedings are allowed to go on. And while I am afraid that most people might never hear about it considering the complicit media is likely to cover for them in this election year, the facts will emerge, and the clear disregard and outright contempt by these scumbags will get out there. The Weekly Standard article in question does a fascinating and great job of breaking down the sequence of events, but one thing becomes obvious, and that is that the dismissal of this clear cut case smells.
The actions of King and Rosenbaum were unprecedented in the collective experience of the trial team. They were not alone in that assessment. A former associate attorney general for the civil division Greg Katsas testified before the civil rights commission on April 23, 2010, and termed the Panthers’ actions a blatant case of voter intimidation. He said it was a “straightforward and overwhelmingly strong case” and that the Panthers’ conduct was “egregious and intentional.” As for the party itself and its leadership, Katsas said that under “general principles of agency law” they were liable.
We have been told that the people responsible for the dismissal had no ties to Obama, but this article again points out that’s all bunk. Even more damning is the fact that it now comes out that yet another claim of an investigation by the Obama team claiming there was no problems turns out to be peddling falsehoods.
The administration’s internal investigation also appears to have been fraudulent. Under ongoing pressure from Representatives Smith and Wolf, an investigation by the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) was finally ordered to commence in July 2009. Until a few days before Adams’s resignation, however, none of the trial team had been interviewed by OPR investigators.
And they got away with it because nobody could get to the truth until recently. The facts are coming out, and while I expect the usual suspects to try and downplay these Obama administration appointee’s roles in dismissing a clear case of voter intimidations in order to protect yet another one of the democrat machine’s criminal enterprises, they are damning. Even more frightening is this revelation:
While the interference by political appointees in the NBPP case has been egregious, there is a critical issue with implications far beyond this single case: Whether the attorneys who populate the civil rights division of the Justice Department believe that civil rights laws exist only to protect minorities from discrimination and intimidation by whites. In a farewell address to his colleagues before his reassignment to a U.S. attorney’s office, Coates spoke about this widespread sentiment and why it was antithetical to the department’s mission to seek equal enforcement of federal laws.
Literally we have the leftist careerists at DOJ championing discrimination. That should frighten us all. Our government should not be in the business of picking winners and losers. Hopefully, as the article indicates, when Congress and the country finally stops being held hostage by the criminal democrat machine in November, we might get some real light shone on yet another instance of real and undeniable heavy handed government abuse. Bush was accused of being a Hitler like fascist on made up accusations. Demcorats take government abuse to a new level, and nary a peep. No wonder the left feels obligated to brand all others that are not from their own party as evil racists and fascists. They have to give themselves cover.
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Friday, June 11, 2010
This most ethical Congress is hard at work…
Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive. All right, that was bad considering these people are all “Class AAA” liars with decades of experience lying to everyone, including themselves, but I just wanted to give the Ol’ Bard some play time when addressing the demcorats latest gaffes. Seems like these scumbags that promised to be more ethical than the “evil and vile rethuglican machine and the anti-Christ BushChimpyMcHilter” – paraphrasing their words, not mine – are about to fix the ethics committee that have gotten us such oldies but goodies as Rangel walking off with a slap on the wrist, for behavior that would have put anyone of us in jail for a long time, or Dodd & Franks, just to name a couple of big time crooks, getting numerous passes for their criminal activity and roles in the still ongoing economic plunge. And how will they do that you ask?
The Office of Congressional Ethics, a powerful symbol of Democrats’ promise to “drain the swamp” in Washington, is in danger of having its power stripped after the midterm elections. Members of the Congressional Black Caucushave led the charge, airing complaints about the aggressive, independent panel in a private session with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi last month, and they’ve drafted a resolution that, if approved, would severely curtail the panel’s power.
But there’s hot competition between the CBC and the official House ethics committee over who has less regard for the Office of Congressional Ethics, also known as the OCE. And the rest of the House doesn’t appear to be far behind in its disdain. Privately, Democratic and Republican lawmakers, and even some congressional leaders, acknowledge that there’s a strong sentiment to change rules that empower the office to publicize investigations and wreak havoc on lawmakers’ political lives. “We might have to take a fresh look, at some point, at the authority of the OCE,” said North Carolina Democratic Rep. G.K. Butterfield, who is a member of both the CBC and the ethics committee.
Of course, nobody wants to be portrayed as loosening ethics in an election year, and Butterfield was quick to point out that change could come as members “promulgate rules for the 112th Congress” in January 2011. That won’t stop lawmakers from venting.
Emphasis mine. So their answer to the fact that so many demcorats are constantly under the microscope for their scummy behaviors, activities, and genral practices isn’t to stop those, but to loosen the rules & regulations, so they can be even more scummy. NICE! The big complaint?
Yet even Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) acknowledges that the House may have to take a second look at the powers of this outside ethics office, which has the authority to publicize its inquiries, unlike the formal House ethics panel, which is much more secretive.
Got it! The problem is people might actually find out how these bastards let each other off and screw us over. That’s good to know. They want to claim they are going to stomp out corruption, which always seems to be perpetuated by the other party only if you listen to them and the MSM, but hate it when they can’t control the flow of information and it becomes obvious they make the republicans look like pikers. Man, that Blago trial freak show has to be causing them all ulcers. Ethics, heh. November can’t get here fast enough for me.
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Wednesday, June 09, 2010
It’s Bush’s fault that Obama is going to double the deficit!
Well, no, but that’s the surefire argument these morons that still believe this Kenysian stuff actually has a chance in hell of working are going to have to defend their policies with, because as this article points out, we are now looking at close to $20 trillion in U.S debt by 2015.Here is the relevant quote:
June 8 (Reuters) - The U.S. debt will top $13.6 trillion this year and climb to an estimated $19.6 trillion by 2015, according to a Treasury Department report to Congress. The report that was sent to lawmakers Friday night with no fanfare said the ratio of debt to the gross domestic product would rise to 102 percent by 2015 from 93 percent this year.
Yeah, good luck with that last bit. It’s great credit to the resilience of the American economy that the most hostile and destructive administration I have ever witnessed has managed to only drop our GDP to 93% with all their horribly costly and insane job and economy killing “tax & spend” policies. They have flushed $1 trillion down the drain through the stimulus patronage bill. They are presiding over the ever expanding largesse of our tax payer dollars for corporate fat cats – which they then promptly and successfully blamed on Bush and republicans while continuing to dole out the goodies – that have become too big to fail. And then under regulations they rigged to force lenders to give money to high risk entities anyone but people that live in the collectivist la-la land figured out would sooner than later come back to bite us, which they then promptly demanded the right to “fix”, while leaving the fundamental and underlying problem not just in place, but expanding the chance of more of the same. Don’t forget the healthcare takeover by government that is sure to cost us another healthy $1-3 trillion dollars a year as soon as the first 10 years are over. That gimmick of taxing us for a decade to provide 5 years of coverage will only work that once. After that, we are toast. And they are still looking to do more damage to those of us that make a living in the private sector. Be happy we are down to just 93%. It could have been worse.
And that brings me to that deluded 103% projection. Not going to happen with these people and their ideas in charge. In fact, if they do more of the same we are going to be lucky to keep the GDP the same. You can only funnel so much money from the productive to the unproductive sector before things go real bad. Of course they won’t blame their ideological beliefs and policies:
The U.S. debt has grown rapidly with the economic downturn and government spending for the Wall Street bailout, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the economic stimulus. The rising debt is contributing to voter unrest ahead of the November congressional elections in which Republicans hope to regain control of Congress.
Yeah, blame those evil Bush wars! After all, Bush is the one that went looking for them, and we could have avoided them completely, if you believe these morons. Even if they cost a mere pittance compared to the real pricy things, like that healthcare takeover or the massive increase in additional entitlement spending, which if you notice remain unmentioned. And nary a word of the insanity that these policies of addressing the rapidly growing debt by creating even more debt signifies. Go figure. This is what you get when the “progressives” talk about fiscal discipline. It never is about debt or deficits, just that they aren’t the ones robbing us blind.
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Friday, June 04, 2010
Sure the donkeys will pretend otherwise
The MSM will be abuzz with news of how employment is picking up or heading in the right direction. Of course, the devil is in the details, and my guess is they will play those details down big-time, but the irrefutable fact is that in the new age of expands socialism, the ability to earn a living is wholly dependant of government:
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch)—Nonfarm payrolls grew by a seasonally adjusted 431,000 in May, but virtually all the new jobs were temporary jobs at the U.S. Census, leaving private-sector hiring very weak, the Labor Department reported Friday. Excluding 411,000 temporary Census workers, payrolls rose by 20,000 in May. According to the survey of 400,000 business establishments, private-sector payrolls increased by 41,000, the fifth straight monthly gain. “A disappointing private payroll number to be sure,” said John Ryding and Conrad DeQuadros of RDQ Economics.
Oooh! There was a gain in the private sector! Who cares that it was but a measly 10% of what the temporary government jobs that joke of a Census project has created and the near trillion dollar patronage bill has garnered so far. Maybe the donkeys can add another 400K people to the census pay roll every month until the November elections.
Watch them focus on this:
The nation’s unemployment rate fell to a seasonally adjusted 9.7% in May from 9.9% in April, according to a separate survey of 60,000 households.
And, like this CNBC article, try their best to downplay or misreport that this:
An alternative measure of unemployment, which includes discouraged workers and those forced to work part-time because of the weak economy, fell to 16.6% from 17.1%.
Only is happening because government is creating all these fake and totally temporary jobs. They are not fooling the people that know better, and this market drop is happening because the people that actually produce things know this is an unsustainable path we are on that will in the end come back to bite us all in the rear.
I also am noticing that the regulars in the MSM all seem to be currently be engaged in a campaign to pretend to be getting though with the WH and the democrats, for their innumerable and constant screw ups, across the board. I pondered if these collectivists that constantly see victory in the failures of the things they believe in, could really be turning the tide and realizing they are being had, but am starting to think this is all a ruse. Frankly I see a pattern where they now attack Obama and the demcorats for their ineptness at everything only to then reverse course, a month or so previous to the elections, and tell us Obama has saved the country! All just in time to minimize the onslaught and the massive losses I see the donkeys and their leftist beliefs taking but a measly 18 months into the new “progressive” era. Have no doubt that this will happen. If you want to argue, argue whether the MSM is in collusion with the WH and the donkeys on this, or being manipulated by them. In either case, I am willing to bet good money that the current reporting on the ineptness and stupidity of the Obama Admin and the donkeys, is going to take a 180 right before the elections, even as things get worse, because the usual MSM suspects simply can not bare to see their side go down in flames. The answer to everything, including their constant failures, after all, is always a bigger government of the elite.
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Monday, May 24, 2010
Did the WH offer Sestak a job to let Specter win in PA?
If this story pans out, the WH is going to be in big trouble. Of course, I expect the MSM to either ignore the story or cover for them, but the fact is that if Obama and his people tried to buy Sestak off with a job offer, to keep that traitor party switcher career politician Specter from going down in flames like he did anyway, they broke the law that forbids government from trying to influence elections by offering or threatening job loss to sway someone.
The White House was backing incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) in the primary. Sestak acknowledged in an interview in February that he was offered a position by an unnamed White House official - a potential violation of federal law - but has not offered any specifics on conversation. Republicans are trying to use the issue against Sestak in the November Senate race.
“It’s interesting. I was asked a question about something that happened months earlier, and I felt that I should answer it honestly, and that’s all I had to say about it.” Sestak said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “Anybody else has to decide on what they will say upon their role. That’s their responsibility.”
Yet Sestak confirmed to NBC’s David Gregory that the incident did take place.
I say we need an investigation at a minimum. Can you imagine the news cycle if this happened while Bush was in the WH? At a minimum, if it comes out that Sestak was playing fast & loose with the facts, embellishing or misrepresenting what happened, for whatever reason, it should be public knowledge before the election. Like that moron in my state, Blumenthal, they should not get passes for this kind of stuff. If Sestak however is telling the truth, there should be consequences for these most ethical people ever. At a minimum we should get to rub these condescending liberal’s faces in the dog doo as they deserve.
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Saturday, April 17, 2010
Shya, right…
Pollsters Douglas E. Schoen and Patrick H. Caddell have an opinion piece in the WaPo offering demcorats advice on what to do to avoid a bloodbath in November. I had me a great and hard laugh at the advice. But let me set this up.
Media reports suggest that President Obama is turning his attention toward the midterm congressional elections. There are a few things it is imperative he understand if he is to, at the least, minimize Democratic losses in November. We are Democratic pollsters who argued against the health-care legislation ["Democrats’ blind ambition,” Washington Forum, March 12] that the Obama administration chose to pursue. Instead, we advocated incremental health-care reform. With the passage of health reform, some harsh political realities have emerged.
Recent polling shows that despite lofty predictions that a broad-based Democratic constituency would be activated by the bill’s passage, the bill has been an incontrovertible disaster. The most recent Rasmussen Reports poll, released on April 12, shows that 58 percent of the electorate supports a repeal of the health-care reform bill—up from 54 percent two weeks earlier. Fueling this backlash is concern that health-care reform will drive up health costs and expand the role of government, and the belief that passage was achieved by fundamentally anti-democratic means. Already we are seeing the implications play out with the retirement of Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.)—who had effectively become the face of the last-minute, closed-door negotiations that resulted in passage.
Put simply, there has been no bounce, for the president or his party, from passing health care.
The demcorats cravenly gambled that if they rammed through their government takeover of healthcare that the public would perceive this as a victory and side with them. Only problem was that the MSM could not control the information flow and contain the truth about how horrible this thing is. Americans, even many that agree there is need for healthcare reform, know this bill is not the answer.
In fact, only stupid people think this bill isn’t going make healthcare more expensive, quality go down, availability of care be rationed, and eventually, to sooner than later, make government completely in charge of who gets care and who doesn’t. Even worse, it is guaranteed to break our budget because the only way they could make this disastrous healthcare takeover seem fiscally responsible was to demand a CBO report limited to 10 years, collect taxes for those ten years, then provide services for only 5 of those years. Even a dumbass can figure out that this is unsustainable shit. Oh yeah, did I also mention
It also is going to cost jobs? We all know Waxman’s reaction to companies restating their earnings and the obvious economic and job related impact of government stealing yet another massive chunk of capital from the private sector to implement the ever elusive socialist utopia.
Anyway, as these two pollsters point out, there has not only been no bounce, the number of people opposed to this behemoth keeps going up. The latest polls put the number against this bill at 58%, up 4% since the Obama and MSM blitz to sell this disaster. Obama’s approval goes down, the demcorats join him in that downward spiral, and yet, their strategy isn’t to roll back the stupid, but to pile it on. Now they intend to hammer through a “Cap and Tax” bill. Which brings me to my point. The pollsters are recommending that the demcorats actually stop their campaign to demonize the Tea partiers and actually adopt their platform:
Democrats can avoid the electoral bloodbath we predicted before passage of the health-care bill, but in one way: through a bold commitment to fiscal discipline and targeted fiscal stimulus of the private sector and entrepreneurship.
And that’s why I laugh my ass off. Fiscal discipline to demcorats means to use the power of government to buy votes. We all have seen how well their fiscal stimulus plans work too. By some unexplainable twist of faith (that’s sarcasm for you lefty idiots that want miss this on purpose) their campaign coffers are loaded with cash for the November elections, and the real jobless numbers keep climbing towards 20%. These people don’t care about entrepreneurship. They believe government should pick the winners and losers. And we all know how well that works. It’s not a coincidence that when let loose demcorats in power recreate the Carter years.
They might have tons of cash to help them fend of the onslaught in November, but my bet is their stupid is so high that they almost guarantee there will be a landslide against them.
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Saturday, March 20, 2010
The end of “Hope and Change”?
Looks like some in the MSM might be turning on the messiah as this See-BS article by Benjamin Domenech dealing with the anger caused over the current government healthcare takeover by the left shows. My favorite observation by the author was:
Such crumbling popularity would give any politician pause, especially one who has spent most of his political career appearing before cheering crowds who proclaim trust, optimism, and hope for him. Obama’s dedication to passing this spectacularly flawed and unpopular health care bill appears to be based on the assumption that the American people like a winner even if the victory comes at their expense.
Seriously, at this point one has to wonder what is motivating the demcorats. Is it just ego and their idiotic presumption that if they pass this they will be seen as winners, even as the author points out the American people will be screwed over by that, or is it something else? Is it that fundamental change of America that Obama promised? He destroys what made the country exceptional and basically creates a two tiered collectivist shit-hole, with the elite living large and the rest of us being peons at the mercy of the all encompassing state? WTF?
As the dangerous outcomes of this plan become apparent, Obama may well come to regret this moment when he chose political expediency over what’s right for the nation. When historians judge this presidency they may well point to this moment as signaling the end of Obama’s cotton candy storyline of “the people vs. the powerful,” the rhetoric that once drove to his side multitudes of people fed up with the ways of Washington, the lies, kickbacks, shady backroom deals, and lack of transparency.
Obama is hoping to be remembered like FDR. Methinks that if the demcorats pull this off and somehow this costly and unconstitutional power grab by the federal government isn’t reversed in the near future, when the country ends up just another collectivist shithole like the ones falling apart over in Europe right now, he will be remembered more like another enemy of the American people. He will have a legacy, but it will be exactly the opposite of what he was hoping for. He will probably be remembered as one of the worst presidents ever. I am not even going to bother discussing how bad it will look that the first real black American president will be considered amongst the most disastrous ones, if not outright the worst, in our history.
Once, they trusted and hoped in his ability to achieve change. Now the American people know whose side he’s on.
Heh, only idiots trusted or believed anything this guy said based on his actions, experience, education, friends, and those few beliefs he wasn’t careful enough to hide. I was baffled at the comparison with Reagan that was trotted out to explain his popularity. I saw Reagan, and heard him speak. Reagan never doubted the greatness of this country and never felt obligated to either remake it or to spread the wealth. Other than to stop government from robbing the people to fuel it’s incessant growth, and to change our awareness of the Soviet menace, Reagan consentaneously talked about American exceptionally. This country was great. We just needed to get government out of the way of the people to make it greater. Obama stands for the exact opposite of any of that. He believes the same ideological crap the soviets did, he thinks America is unjust and wants to spread the wealth. He may talk a mean talk occasionally, but he gives away his real beliefs and plan in his actions. Case in point this horribly unpopular healthcare takeover by his government that he is pushing for.
No, Obama promised change, and he is delivering that. When he mentioned hope though, I believe he meant he hoped nobody would realize what kind of change he wanted until it was way, way too late to stop him from destroying the country and in its place prop up a two-bit leftists European-like has been. I hope we can yet stop his changes.
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
Obama gets a real interview finally.
Obama has finally been given something other than the usual fluff stuff interview he has been getting away from the MSM for the past 2 years, and it is no surprise it happened to be done by Fox News (video1, video2). He finally sat down with a reporter that was interested in the facts, and Bret Baier grilled his ass. We finally got to see the great orator at work when he wasn’t being handed some softballs by people that get tingles in their legs about him, and Obama, in addition to getting pissed he was not being allowed to just skirt questions with stupid and meaningless talking points, scored, as I expected, a clear F- with his idiotic answers.
President Obama is not worried—and doesn’t think Americans should worry—about the “procedural” debate over whether House Democratic leaders should go ahead with a plan to approve health care reform without a traditional vote, he told Fox News on Wednesday.
After all, he is not worried that the stupid American people are worried that this government healthcare takeover bill is a disastrous thing that will not only bankrupt the country, but also drastically alter healthcare coverage quality and access downward, and costs, directly or indirectly, upwards, for most people that already have healthcare. His concern seems to be with scoring the historical legacy for being the guy that fundamentally changed America from an exceptional nation to a has-been. After all, the American people are too stupid to know what’s best for them according to democrats. Technicalities, and especially rules, should stop the left’s agenda. The rules are not for them.
The president, in an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier, responded for the first time to the controversy over a plan to use a parliamentary maneuver to allow the House to pass the Senate’s health care bill without forcing members to vote for it directly.
The issue isn’t the maneuver, Mr. President: the issue is that the maneuver is being used to clearly obviate a vote on an incredibly unpopular, costly, and destructive bill that would then stand no chance of passing if the vote was held on its own. And that’s because the American people have made it clear to democrats – whom hold clear majorities in both houses, have the executive pen on their side, and if they were so inclined to, could have passed this thing by party line without a glitch at any time if it was popular – that they don’t want this bill. Something, and I am not going to even bother arguing that I find this rule to be constitutionally questionable and that I feel it shouldn’t be used by either party, even when the votes for both bills lumped together is a given, that wasn’t ever done previously when this stupid parliamentarian maneuver was to lump two votes into one.
The esoteric procedure has drawn fierce protest from Republicans, who say Democrats are trying to avoid accountability. But the president said there will be no doubt about where lawmakers stand on health care reform.
The only reason they are doing this is because they know they can’t get the first vote to work, not because the first vote is a given, as was the case when this questionable maneuver was used before.
“I don’t spend a lot of time worrying about what the procedural rules are in the House or Senate,” Obama said. “What I can tell you is that the vote that’s taken in the House will be a vote for health care reform. And if people vote yes, whatever form that takes, that is going to be a vote for health care reform. And I don’t think we should pretend otherwise. And if they don’t, if they vote against it, then they’re going to be voting against health care reform and they’re going to be voting in favor of the status quo.
No Mr. President, if they vote against it, they are doing what their constituents want them to do. Last I remember these bastards were supposed to represent their constituents, not the will of the democratic party and its hard core collectivists block. And that’s what is behind this maneuver in the first place. If there wasn’t such massive opposition to this bill there would be no argument. Your clear majority in both houses would have made this a done deal, no matter what the republicans wanted.
The tactic would allow members to temporarily accept the Senate version while keeping it at arm’s length.
Here is the gist of the problem. The democrats in the House don’t want anything to do with the Senate bill, for whatever reason, and any attempt to vote for it would fail, however, because they then don’t trust their leadership, said leadership is forced to use a trick to give the bill a chance in hell. Nancy Pelosi lives in fantasyland where collectivist idiots are the majority, and her seat is safe, but most of the rank and file democrats don’t, and they are all seeing the writing on the wall come the next election. Their choice is to vote for this and please the radicals and leadership, in the process angering and going against the wishes of their constituents with all that entails, or hope that they can hide behind this maneuver and claim they didn’t really vote for this monstrosity in the end. I have a feeling that this excuse will not hold much water either. Of course, they are damned if they do, and damned if they don’t, anyway. Their choice is to please their constituents and risk losing campaign funding – have no doubt queen Nancy will cut campaign funding for anyone that opposes her, and I guess that’s her prerogative – or go for the campaign funding and hope they get enough cash to buy off the angry mob. Cosmic justice, if you ask me for the way these democrats have behaved for so long.
Asked to respond to a viewer’s e-mail question about why he has to “bribe Congress to pass it,” Obama said, “I’ve got the same exact e-mails that I could show you that talk about why haven’t we done something to make sure that I, a small business person, am getting as good a deal as members of Congress are getting, and don’t have my insurance rates jacked up 40 percent?”
WTF was this? Doesn’t he see how he is undermining his own argument? Congress excluded itself from the effects of this moronic government takeover by exempting themselves from anything in this bill! Then various democrat congress men and women had to be bribed with massive lard to get them on board – wonder if these costs are also factored into the cost of this bill by the CBO – for this disaster, because they understood how damaging this thing was going to be to the country, their states, and to them personally.
People see this and complain about it, as this person asking why he didn’t get a sweet deal like congress, did. And Obama’s defense of the indefensible is that small business people that know they are going to get raped by the taxes government has to institute to help pay for their takeover plans, are asking him why he is allowing this disaster of a bill to go ahead? Why is it so hard for him to figure out that everybody except for democrat politicians and the freeloaders that are hoping to have others pay for their healthcare are against this bill? Or does he know that and simply not care?
Obama later added, “I’ve got to say to you, there are a lot more people who are concerned about the fact that they may be losing their house or going bankrupt because of health care.”
I am sure those people losing their houses because they don’t have a job, and much worse, can’t get one in this age of private sector hostile government, far outnumber those that lose their houses due to healthcare costs. But I don’t see Obama worrying about those people at all. Other than to give them lip service, that is. And I suspect that’s because the economics of creating non-government jobs doesn’t mesh well with his idea of fundamentally changing America into a third world collectivist shithole, which taking over healthcare at such an exorbitant cost that it will bankrupt the nation, does facilitate.
“And yes, I have said that this is an ugly process,” he said. “It was ugly when Republicans were in charge. It was ugly when Democrats were in charge.”
Except I still can’t find republicans pushing for this massive a government expansion that guarantees an economic collapse sooner than later, ever. At least Obama didn’t blame Bush for this too.
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