How would you like to be judge at your own trial? Or how would you like to grade your own exam? That is exactly what the State Department has done.
Here’s something to contemplate. How does that person who wears that, “I’m with stupid” tee-shirt with the finger pointing right get someone to first put on the “I’m stupid” tee-shirt and then get that person to stand at the IWS shirt wearer’s right?
I’m asking this because at this point I’m ready to stand on Bill Maher’s left with my I’m with stupid tee on. Why, because if you can picture the scenario just mentioned my tee-shirt’s finger is point at him right about now because I find myself agreeing with something Maher says repeatedly.
Bill Maher has called the American people stupid several times and in this instance I am incline to agree with him.
You see Barry Hussein Soetoro’s administration has done an investigation on the murders of the U.S. ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens and the three members of his staff; Sean Smith, Glen Doherty and Tyrone S. Woods and what they have concluded only stupid people would accept as true.
The mandatory State Department internal inquiry into the deadly Sept. 11 terror attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, slams bureaucrats for “grossly inadequate” security but says that poor leadership could not be punished under department regulations.—Shaun Waterman
The recently released State Department internal inquiry failed to name who gave the stand down order that prevented armed forces from dispatching to protect Americans and American property. This finding must be quid pro quo for Hillary Clinton’s concussion and inability to testify before the Congressional hearing on Benghazi. (see stories here, here and here)
How would you like to be judge at your own trial? Or how would you like to grade your own exam? That is exactly what the State Department has done.
If Americans weren’t so stupid, we would have seen this coming. How so you ask? This is the same self investigative strategy that Barry Hussein Soetoro used when protecting himself from allegations that he was attempt to sell his vacated Senate seat when he was elected president. (see here, here and here)
In both instances, Mr. Soetoro was perfectly absolved of any relations to the scandal that would have engulfed a White Republican presidential candidate or a White president.
President Soetoro seems to remain hermetically sealed from the fetid stench of corruption that invades every space he goes. Such a feat is a tribute to the Chicago masterminds on which shoulders his lawless presidency stands.
However, what is most striking is the acceptance of such an obviously political partisan report by the media. That instance alone is indicative of media’s complicity in this lawless self-evaluating government as well.
It just occurred to me if you are reading this the world hasn't ended yet. Maybe there is still hope for us yet.
If the plan is to pass a gun law and believe that will fix what is wrong with America, it won’t. If America is going to be fixed, we must look at the right causes for what ails us.
It’s not gun control that is going to fix America. What is going to fix America is regaining American values, love of the Country, the Constitution and the rule of law.
Forgive me if I do not easily fall into lock step with the anti second amendment furor that is besieging the national media and their allies the left wing Democrats of the government.
I just don’t think this is the right time for citizens to be disarming themselves with the most radical president in the history of the United States granting himself new executive powers. He and his personally appointed government agencies, EPA, DOJ, HLS, IRS and others bypass Congress, when he deems it necessary, putting them well on their way to implementing a fundamentally transformed America.
Now they have set their sights on the second amendment. And believe me there will be Gun Control legislation, that is a given. There will be a new gun law passed that is also enviable. What is also true is none of it is going to amount to any less violence and none of this is going to stop mass murder from occurring.
The new legislation will do nothing to save a single life. Fact is we already have more than enough gun control laws and not one of them did anything to save the children and adults of Sandy Hook.
What all the brouhaha about Gun Control is is diversion from America’s real problem.
America’s real problem is that we are rotting slowly. We are unraveling. That putrid smell is the smell of the corpse of American values and morals, which have been tortured to death by forty years of incessant devaluation of Conservative values.
The passage of Marijuana usage laws and the passage of homosexual “pretend marriage” laws signal that this society no longer knows right from wrong.
No amount of gun regulation will teach young men that it is not okay to shoot up schoolchildren. There is something deeper needed than the new morals that are conveyed in music videos, movies and Liberal ideology.
Our society has unfurled. It is tattered at the edges much like the damaged flag, which was recovered from the World trade Center after the attack of 9/11.
As we progress toward the total deconstruction of Conservatism let it be forever known that the cost of such folly was the innocent lives of the children of Sandy Hook, the lives students of Columbine, the lives of movie goers of Aurora Colorado.
I believe the recent acts of mass murders plaguing our country were caused because we have become a valueless country. We have left behind the values that once made this country great.
If the plan is to pass a gun law and believe that will fix what is wrong with America, it won’t. If America is going to be fixed, we must look at the right causes for what ails us.
It’s not gun control that is going to fix America. What is going to fix America is regaining American values, love of the Country, the Constitution and the rule of law.
Regardless of her duties to the United States, Secretary of State Clinton is feeling a little faint and cannot report to work until after the Benghazi hearings are over.
Much after!
After seeing the results of what lying for President Barry Hussein Soetoro did to Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice Secretary of State Hillary Clinton got light headed fainted bumped her head and concussed at the thought that she would have to do the very same thing if she appeared before a Senate committee regarding what happened in Benghazi, Libya. Now she will not appear on a doctor’s excuse. Seems like another in a long secession of missed 3 a.m. calls regarding U.S. deaths in Benghazi for the president and for Ms. Clinton! (see story and here)
Yet, Hillary is no stranger to lying. She lied for Bill Clinton knowing that he was lying about his Oval Office tryst with blue dress clad Monica Lewinsky (related post). She lied about what she know about real estate deals in a matter called White water (related post), she lied about why White house employees were fired in the post office scandal, she lied about being fired upon when her airplane was flying over Bosnia ( related post). Plus she's already lied about Benghazi along with everyone else. She said as well that the attack on the U.S. consulate was caused by the internet Youtube video.
Hillary Clinton has left an Ocean spray of lies in her political wake. What is different this time is her name is being circulated as the 2016 presidential front-runner. Therefore she can ill afford to do a second stand by your man like she did with Bill Clinton by getting involved in president Soetoro’s messy 9/11 murder of four Americans that Benghazi has became.
Hillary has decided to stand on the sidelines this time and let the president stand on this own. Again, Clinton has already told the same lies that Susan Rice told about Benghazi and thus far she's gotten away with it. She sees no need to put those lies on the record.
That would be a foolish thing to do for the 2016 frontrunner for the presidency don’t you think?
Regardless of her duties to the United States, Secretary of State Clinton is feeling a little faint and cannot report to work until after the Benghazi hearings are over.
"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before."—Rahm Emanuel, former President Soetoro chief of staff
Democrats love to do things comprehensively. This means they make a relatively uncomplicated problem, such as addressing the country’s healthcare needs, intricately complex. They create a monstrous and Orwellian 906-page Law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act plus it’s 55-page companion the, “Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010”, into a law that does not protect patients nor is it affordable.
What this combined 961-page behemoth does is complicate Health Care in the United States so much, that you and me will never know everything that is in it. It allows
Democrats to hide tremendous amounts of greed, corruption and malfeasance among its many pages. Nobody actually reads the law and nobody is the wiser.
Another thing that Democrats love to do is create crisis. This is done so they can do things that are not normally permitted. You remember former President Barry Hussein Soetoro’s chief of staff and now mayor of Chicago Rahm Emanuel’s remarks on the subject of Democrat governance by crisis. (see 08sec video)
Crisis governance is standard operational procedure for Democrats. So in a perfect storm of combining comprehension and crisis the Soetoro administration has submitted a $60-billion emergency aid package for victims of superstorm Sandy. (see story)
No one is against giving aid to the victims of hurricane Sandy but why must Democrats use this opportunity to spend money that the American people do not have on things that are unrelated to servicing the immediate needs of the hurricane victims?
Contained within the Comprehensive $60 billion dollar request for emergency aid are non emergency funding such as millions for the Smithsonian, millions for the space center and millions for forest that have nothing to do with emergency aid to Sandy victims (see spending request below)
• $23 million for tree plantings to “help reduce flood effects, protect water sources, decrease soil erosion and improve wildlife habitat” in forested areas touched by Sandy
• $2 million to repair roof damage at Smithsonian buildings in Washington that pre-dates the storm
• $4 million to repair sand berms and dunes at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida
• $41 million for clean-up and repairs at eight military bases along the storm’s path including Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
• $4 million to the FBI to replace “vehicles, laboratory and office equipment and furniture
• $2.4 million to Customs and Border Protection to replace “destroyed or damaged vehicles, including mobile X-Ray machines.”
• $50 million for the Small Business Administration for its post-storm response efforts, including “Small Business Development Centers and Women’s Business Development Centers
• $13 billion for “mitigation projects” to prepare for future storms
Democrats and president Soetoro often blamed president Bush for out of control spending, spending by the way that has been dwarfed by Bush’s successor, yet Democrats always warred against president Bush loading his request to fund the wars, which Democrats approved with extraneous spending sometimes call pork spending. They did this to president Bush each time he attempted to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and then they, especially now president Soetoro, accused Bush of spending recklessly when he pass bills laden with Democrat pork to fund the wars.
In one such instance the government spending watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense combed over a comprehensive 1,500-page war funding bill that was made public late night. Taxpayers for Common Sense said it identified almost 9,000 earmarks worth $7.4 billion. Those earmarks tacked on to requested to fund the wars, $40 billion for the war in Iraq and $30 billion for troops in Afghanistan.
In another separate Bush request for funding the wars the Democrat controlled Senate tacked on the following:
• $96 billion for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and anti-terrorism programs, including $600 million for explosives-detection systems at airports
• $6.7 billion for disaster relief along the Gulf Coast, including $1.3 billion for rebuilding levees
• $4.2 billion for agricultural aid, including $1.6 billion for livestock producers and 74 million for peanut storage
• $1.8 billion for veterans programs, including $454 million for medical services
• $820 million for low-income heating assistance
• $500 million for fighting wildfires
• $425 million for security at rural schools
Source: Senate Appropriations Committee
Though pork barrel spending is nothing new in Washington the practice is so well hidden Democrats never receive the blame that they so rightly deserve for practices that put America on the road to fiscal insolvency.
Democrats are in control of the White house and the Senate and they continue to use crisis and comprehensive measures to hide the fact that they are over spending even in the shadow of the fiscal cliff.
Democrats should stop this abuse of spending. Yes, help the victims of hurricane Sandy but no more. We don’t have the money. Moreover, Democrat Comprehensive spending has put the entire country at risk.
I was thinking we’ve just reelected a president of the United States based primarily on likability and popularity and this weird thought came to mind. I’d like to share it with you now…
Oh my god! Like we just reelected the president because he was popular and stuff. Nobody wanted Romney to win because… just look at him he’s so boring! He reminds me of the boring ASB president we had back in High school when I was the Homecoming King.
And they’re saying that we should vote for Hillary in 2016 because of women’s rights and historical stuff like that. OMG! I could just scream!
This talk about the money drop thing…oh yeah the fiscal cliff is peeving me off cause the president won and stuff, so they should give him what he wants like new king powers or something. Yeah and they should raise the debt roof… or debt ceiling (whatever!) and the president should be able to spend as much as he wants. It’s not like we can’t print more money and stuff!
And oh my god, oh my god I haven’t had a job in four years so they better not let the Republicans cut off welfare or unemployment or kill babies (or whatever they do) or I’m going to go nuts.
President Obama is so cool! Did you see how he just flies around on air force one campaigning for the last two and a half years tellin everyone how mean and out of touch, those Republicans are.
And it really don’t matter who runs for office I’m never going to vote for a Republican because all they want to do is put a buzz kill everything. We should enjoy ourselves in America while we can. Nobody wants to save and cut spending. I know I don’t!
The President is cool he goes on the Late Night show with David Letterman and he hangs out with Jon Stewart on the Daily show and I think that’s cool. Cause that's where I get my news. There and 60 minutes and TMZ! You know Jay-zee and Beyonce threw him party just before election to get out the vote. It was cool!
The president can identify with me cause he used to smoke weed too and he likes to party. After the election, he’s going on a 20-day Hawaiian holiday costing 4 million dollars he ought to have a lotta fun body surfin and eating shaved ice. I’d have fun too if I was president and if I had the money. Right now, I can’t pay all my bills on unemployment.
If I were president I’d build, a skateboarding park right on the White house grounds and invite some buddies over for a day of skating and partying. Woo-who!
Yeah if I were president, I’d have so much fun I wouldn’t have time for that boring stuff like attacks on American whatyamacallits… oh yeah Consulates, American Consulates. I’d let the people who work for me take the blam..do the work.
If I were president, I’d make that Boner guy… oh yeah Boehner guy do whatever I tell him and he’d do it too! And if I’d wanted to, I’d skateboard right off of the fiscal cliff and blame the Republicans cause ain’t no body listening to them anyhow.
Republicans remind me of those stupid teachers I had in high school always trying to tell somebody what to do and what to learn when they didn’t know anything about me or my life.
All that Math, English and History stuff was just a waste of time. Nobody uses that stuff in real life anyways. I know I don’t!
And I really don’t care who runs for president next time as long as they ain’t White, male and Republican cause they suck!
Oh, my god Republicans suck big time and Democrats rule!
It has occurred to me that the president won 50.3% of the popular vote. If what is written above is the way over 50% of our voting countrymen and women are processing now, it may not be out of the question that Snooki could one day be the next president of the United States of America…
This all coming from a man who said September 2008, “I can make a firm pledge under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.”
Not since Marie Antoinette was attributed to have sparked the French Revolution with the words, “Let them eat cake!” has a leader and his Party had such a callous opinion of the people, which they rule.
"Qu'ils mangent de la brioche!" supposedly spoken by the Queen upon learning that the peasants had no bread. Since brioche was enriched with butter and eggs, as opposed to ordinary bread, the quote supposedly would reflect the Queen’s obliviousness to the condition of the people.
This phrase came to be attributed to Marie Antoinette as her unpopularity increased in the final years before the outbreak of the French Revolution. During her marriage to Louis XVI, her perceived frivolousness and her very real extravagance were often cited as factors that only worsened France's dire financial straits.
Democrats and their Leader president Barry Hussein Soetoro came into office in 2009 when America was borrowing heavily to pay it’s debts. It was also a time when America faced grave deficits. The president said as much himself. At the very start of his presidency Mr. Soetoro said America is out of money and American was at that time running deep deficits! (see 2:10min video)
Fiscal insolvency and huge deficits being the case, instead of attempting to reverse America’s economic plight Democrats and the President went on the greatest spending spree in the history of our nation. The president ran up trillion dollars on top of trillions of dollars of borrowed money deficits each year of his presidency thus dwarfing any economic failures that he might have inherited from the previous administration.
In fact the president’s unwillingness to curb spending has created the urgency we now face. Americans are tasked with the impossible as we attempt to figure out just how to pay for Democrats' and the president's trillions upon trillions of dollars of spent on government programs, bureaucracy, foreign money give-aways and entitlements. Those are the facts.
What is also true is had the president kept his 2008 election promises to cut the deficit in half, stopping government spending, there would be no Fiscal Cliff and no looming economic Armageddon. (see Had Obama Kept his Campaign Promises)
So how is all this government spending going to be paid for? It isn’t. First Democrats are going to get John Boehner their Republican colleagues to raise the debt limit, which means more spending. That's right, you read right! More spending! Then Democrats John Boehner and their Republican friends are going to raise taxes on all Americans, not just the Rich, as has been the false meme of the president and his Party. Raising taxes on the “Rich” is just a ploy to get all Americans acclimated to the idea of taxes getting raised. You don’t believe me.
Maybe you’ll believe former DNC Chairman, Democrat Presidential candidate and rabid Democrat Partisan Howard Dean. In a recent MSNBC interview, Dean confessed that the president’s “Tax the Rich” scheme still will not generate enough money in taxes to support Democrats’ unsustainable spending. Therefore everyone's taxes will have to be increased. (see 55sec video)
This is the “Let them eat tax increases” mentality that is prevalent among Democrats. Everyone forced to pay more taxes to support the out of control spending of the last four years that Democrat Progressivism has wrought on America. This not mentioning the projected spending that is to come in the next four years because of a Soetoro 2nd term.
What is coming is an avalanche of taxes headed the way of the American people, middle class Americans included. The tax increases so dubbed the fiscal cliff are as follows:
Since taking office three years ago, President Barack Obama has signed into law twenty-one new or higher taxes on the American people due to come into full play in January2013 and after the 2012 election is completed:
1. A 156 percent increase in the federal excise tax on tobacco: On February 4, 2009, just sixteen days into his Administration, Obama signed into law a 156 percent increase in the federal excise tax on tobacco, a hike of 61 cents per pack. The median income of smokers is just over $36,000 per year.
2. Obamacare Individual Mandate Excise Tax (takes effect in Jan 2014): Starting in 2014, anyone not buying “qualifying” health insurance must pay an income surtax
3. Obamacare Employer Mandate Tax (takes effect Jan. 2014): If an employer does not offer health coverage, and at least one employee qualifies for a health tax credit, the employer must pay an additional non-deductible tax of $2000 for all full-time employees. Applies to all employers with 50 or more employees. If any employee actually receives coverage through the exchange, the penalty on the employer for that employee rises to $3000. If the employer requires a waiting period to enroll in coverage of 30-60 days, there is a $400 tax per employee ($600 if the period is 60 days or longer). Bill: PPACA; Page: 345-346
Combined score of individual and employer mandate tax penalty: $65 billion/10 years
4. Obamacare Surtax on Investment Income (Tax hike of $123 billion/takes effect Jan. 2013): Creation of a new, 3.8 percent surtax on investment income earned in households making at least $250,000 ($200,000 single).
5. Obamacare Excise Tax on Comprehensive Health Insurance Plans (Tax hike of $32 bil/takes effect Jan. 2018): Starting in 2018, new 40 percent excise tax on “Cadillac” health insurance plans ($10,200 single/$27,500 family). Higher threshold ($11,500 single/$29,450 family) for early retirees and high-risk professions. CPI +1 percentage point indexed. Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,941-1,956
6. Obamacare Hike in Medicare Payroll Tax (Tax hike of $86.8 bil/takes effect Jan. 2013)
7. Obamacare Medicine Cabinet Tax (Tax hike of $5 bil/took effect Jan. 2011): Americans are no longer able to use health savings account (HSA), flexible spending account (FSA), or health reimbursement (HRA) pre-tax dollars to purchase non-prescription, over-the-counter medicines (except insulin). Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,957-1,959
8. Obamacare HSA Withdrawal Tax Hike (Tax hike of $1.4 bil/took effect Jan. 2011): Increases additional tax on non-medical early withdrawals from an HSA from 10 to 20 percent, disadvantaging them relative to IRAs and other tax-advantaged accounts, which remain at 10 percent. Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,959
9. Obamacare Flexible Spending Account Cap – aka, “Special Needs Kids Tax” (Tax hike of $13 bil/takes effect Jan. 2013): Imposes cap on FSAs of $2500 (currently unlimited). Indexed to inflation after 2013. There is one group of FSA owners for whom this new cap will be particularly cruel and onerous: parents of special needs children. There are thousands of families with special needs children in the United States, and many of them use FSAs to pay for special needs education. Tuition rates at one leading school that teaches special needs children in Washington, D.C. (National Child Research Center) can easily exceed $14,000 per year. Under tax rules, FSA dollars can be used to pay for this type of special needs education. Bill: PPACA; Page: 2,388-2,389
10. Obamacare Tax on Medical Device Manufacturers (Tax hike of $20 bil/takes effect Jan. 2013): Medical device manufacturers employ 360,000 people in 6000 plants across the country. This law imposes a new 2.3% excise tax. Exempts items retailing for <$100. Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,980-1,986
11. Obamacare "Haircut" for Medical Itemized Deduction from 7.5% to 10% of AGI (Tax hike of $15.2 bil/takes effect Jan. 2013): Currently, those facing high medical expenses are allowed a deduction for medical expenses to the extent that those expenses exceed 7.5 percent of adjusted gross income (AGI). The new provision imposes a threshold of 10 percent of AGI. Waived for 65+ taxpayers in 2013-2016 only. Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,994-1,995
12. Obamacare Tax on Indoor Tanning Services (Tax hike of $2.7 billion/took effect July 2010): New 10 percent excise tax on Americans using indoor tanning salons. Bill: PPACA; Page: 2,397-2,399
13. Obamacare elimination of tax deduction for employer-provided retirement Rx drug coverage in coordination with Medicare Part D (Tax hike of $4.5 bil/takes effect Jan. 2013) Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,994
14. Obamacare Blue Cross/Blue Shield Tax Hike (Tax hike of $0.4 bil/took effect Jan. 1 2010): The special tax deduction in current law for Blue Cross/Blue Shield companies would only be allowed if 85 percent or more of premium revenues are spent on clinical services. Bill: PPACA; Page: 2,004
15. Obamacare Excise Tax on Charitable Hospitals (Min$/took effect immediately): $50,000 per hospital if they fail to meet new "community health assessment needs," "financial assistance," and "billing and collection" rules set by HHS. Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,961-1,971
16. Obamacare Tax on Innovator Drug Companies (Tax hike of $22.2 bil/took effect Jan. 2010): $2.3 billion annual tax on the industry imposed relative to share of sales made that year. Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,971-1,980
17. Obamacare Tax on Health Insurers (Tax hike of $60.1 bil/takes effect Jan. 2014): Annual tax on the industry imposed relative to health insurance premiums collected that year. Phases in gradually until 2018. Fully-imposed on firms with $50 million in profits. Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,986-1,993
18. Obamacare $500,000 Annual Executive Compensation Limit for Health Insurance Executives (Tax hike of $0.6 bil/takes effect Jan 2013). Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,995-2,000
19. Obamacare Employer Reporting of Insurance on W-2 ($min/takes effect Jan. 2012): Preamble to taxing health benefits on individual tax returns. Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,957
20. Obamacare “Black liquor” tax hike (Tax hike of $23.6 billion/took effect immediately). This is a tax increase on a type of bio-fuel. Bill: Reconciliation Act; Page: 105
21. Obamacare Codification of the “economic substance doctrine” (Tax hike of $4.5 billion/took effect immediately). This provision allows the IRS to disallow completely-legal tax deductions and other legal tax-minimizing plans just because the IRS deems that the action lacks “substance” and is merely intended to reduce taxes owed. Bill: Reconciliation Act; Page: 108-113--points excerpted John Kartch and Ryan Ellis
There's no small wonder Justice John Roberts dubbed this monstrosity a tax! Or as I refer to it Obamatax!
The above taxes will be passed on to the middle class as higher medical cost. Moreover, a two-year-old payroll tax break is scheduled to lapse at the end of this year. That would increase Social Security taxes on everyone by 2 percentage points on wage income below $113,700. (The Middle Class)
So restating, the Fiscal Cliff (FC) is the scenario president Obama has set up by first allowing tax cuts starting in 2001 to expire. In addition to cuts expiring tax laws are set to change at midnight on December 31, 2012, which are the end of last year’s temporary payroll tax cuts (resulting in a 2% tax increase for workers). The FC is the end of certain tax breaks for businesses, shifts in the alternative minimum tax that would take a larger bite and the beginning of taxes related to President Obama’s health care law. At the same time, the spending cuts agreed upon as part of the debt ceiling deal of 2011 will begin to go into effect. According to Barron's, over 1,000 government programs - including the defense budget and Medicare are in line for "deep, automatic cuts."
This all coming from a man who said September 2008, “I can make a firm pledge under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.”
That pledge, a lie. A lie on parallel with the Benghazi lies told by the Soetoro administration. The only difference is no one's died. Yet!
In the Orwellian world of Democrats higher taxes is merely more “revenue.” However, contrary to what the president and his surrogates are saying everyone who has a job and everyone who spends money will be paying more taxes not just the Rich. Taxes will be increasing on everyone no matter what a person’s tax rate is and no matter their income level again not just the so-called Rich.
Therefore when a Democrat or Republican says that more revenue is needed, what they are really says is let the American people eat tax increases to pay for the historic and extravagant spending of the Soetoro administration! Maria Antoinette would be so proud of her current Democrat American acolytes.
“If we can come up with something like we did when they created this other furor by refusing to increase the debt when we had the ability to come in here and have a couple of votes to determine whether we were going to increase it. I mean if that’s what they want to do again I’ll be happy to seriously take a look at that and report to the White house and my caucus but until then I object.” —Sen. Harry Reid
There is nothing better than a good soft shoe. A little sand spread on stage then the performer rhythmically glides and shuffles his or her feet in syncopated and non-syncopated movements of sound.
And then there is Senate Leader Democrat Harry Reid. You won’t find a better political Orwellian soft shoe than Sen. Reid.
What Sen. Reid spreads around isn’t sand nevertheless the way he uses newspeak the Orwellian concept of attempting to influence thought by influencing the expressiveness of the English language is simply Blackwhite.
Blackwhite is defined as follows:
...this word has two mutually contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming that black is white, in contradiction of the plain facts. Applied to a Party member, it means a loyal willingness to say that black is white when Party discipline demands this. But it means also the ability to believe that black is white, and more, to know that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary. This demands a continuous alteration of the past, made possible by the system of thought which really embraces all the rest, and which is known in Newspeak as doublethink.—George Orwell, 1984 (see 2:53min video)
Notice how Sen. Reid vilifies Republicans with Reid “soft shoe” Blackwhite Owellianism.
First Sen. Reid falsely claims that Gov. Romney is still lurking in the background. The truth is Gov. Romney has nothing to do with the Fiscal Cliff negotiations. He then states that Republicans can’t decide who is leading them Senator McConnell or Congressman Boehner pointing to the obvious disunity in GOP leadership.
Sen. Reid pronounced that Americans blame George Bush for the debt crisis we now face even after 4 years of Soetoro historic record spending
Reid intimates that Republicans are solely responsible for the fiscal crisis
Anticipating another dismal jobs report Sen. Reid deflects by saying the new jobs report is reflective of a little problem caused not by four years of a Democrat presidency and it’s policies he suggests that hurricane Sandy allowed only the creation of a meager 100,000 new jobs. Which brings the total job creation of the Obama administration overall to 4 million. Realizing that this is a laughable number Reid adds, job creation under Obama doesn’t make up for jobs lost during the Bush years but Democrats are making progress.
Reid then attacks what he terms top down economy during Bush years. He believes through the reelection of Obama Americans rejected that economy. He further believes the Bush economy is the reason Americans rejected Gov. Romney
Even so, Reid says that he would be happy to look at the same top down economic ideas that the Republicans are still attempting to present in the present Fiscal Cliffs debates.
Then Sen. Reid goes totally negative he says, “If we can come up with something like we did when they created this other furor by refusing to increase the debt when we had the ability to come in here and have a couple of votes to determine whether we were going to increase it. I mean if that’s what they want to do again I’ll be happy to seriously take a look at that and report to the White house and my caucus but until then I object.”
Sen. Reid has just given the Republicans the old soft shoe of Blackwhite. Orwellian newspeak that is meant to demonize Republicans by making statements that are in complete contradiction of the facts.
President Bush did not cause the present debt crisis 4 years of Democrat policies under Democrat president Barry Hussein Soetoro caused this present fiscal crisis.
Republicans aren’t solely responsible for the fiscal crisis Democrats share equal if not more fault.
Job loss wasn’t a result of Bush policies Job loss is the result of Business and Government collusion for the benefit of American born international corporations and their attempt to increase profits and reduce overhead.
President Obama is equally at fault for this.
Sen. Reid’s criticism of a Bush so-called top down economy must be taken for what it is worth given that the Senate, which Sen. Reid is the leader has not presented a budget for the last four years. This is irresponsible and reckless. In addition, this disqualifies Reid from criticizing anyone on fiscal matters.
While I am not suggesting that Conservatives resort to the Orwellian tactics of the Democrats I am showing this methodology as a way of explaining what Democrats are doing to manipulate the American people. I do this in hopes that Republicans study these tactics and create viable counters to this very effect propaganda device.
Fundamentally Changing America through language and revisionist history is the root of Orwellian ideology and Soetoro and Pelosi are quintessential newspeak propagandists.
John Boehner is toast. I don’t know if he knows it but Nancy Pelosi has already assumed the role of Speaker of the House.
In Ms. Pelosi’s recent press conference on middle income tax cuts, she unveils just what to expect in the Fiscal Cliff battle. If Boehner continues on his same course, he doesn’t stand a chance.
In a masterful strategic move, Progressives have broken the battle into pieces. Ms. Pelosi is tasked with confusing the issue with talks of helping the middle class via tax cuts. To citizens that voted as if their “lady parts depended upon it” or to the typical Obama phone voter they will only hear “middle income tax cuts” and that Republicans are holding those tax cuts hostage to tax cuts for the rich.
This is a deviously brilliant political meme to introduce into the fiscal cliff battle. What it does is cast Republicans once again as the political villains who only look out for the rich. All the while, the rest of the country will go over the fiscal cliff burdened down by higher taxes. Of course, Democrats are pretending to protect the middle class from such tax increases.
The truth is President Barry Hussein Soetoro extended the so-called Bush tax cuts twice his first term and he did it purely for political advantage. Now that he doesn’t have to worry about reelection he can do what he always wanted to do, let the so-called Bush tax cuts expire. If you remember, President Bush cut taxes for all Americans. President Soetoro plans to increase taxes on everyone however first he must seem like he is actually cutting taxes on the middle class this is where Ms. Pelosi comes in.
She is creating the illusion that the President is cutting taxes for the middle class, while he will be only raising taxes on evil rich Americans. Citizens in the president's opinion who do not pay their fair share. That’s the meme.
However, in reality Democrat legislation such as Obamacare, State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), college student financial aid, terrorism risk insurance, and farm subsidies are going to raise taxes on everyone not just the rich. These increases will be huge.
What Democrats are hoping is that they can keep “Lady part” and “Obama phone” voters distracted with talk of cutting taxes for the middle class, as Pelosi is doing, while Democrats raise the aforementioned taxes on everyone while everyone is completely unaware. It is a classic case of political slight-of-hand. Our attention is on the tax cut hand while the tax increase hand gives the middle class the shaft.
By the way, the Obamacare, SCHIP, college student financial aid, terrorism risk insurance and farm subsidies taxes are all in place and scheduled to quietly begin after the president’s inauguration. Therefore, if Republican cave in to Democrats demands and raise taxes on the rich Democrats will be able to appear that they cut taxes for the middle class and raised taxes on the rich when in fact taxes will be increase on everyone only the so-called rich will take a double hit. (source)
This is diabolical political deception at it’s lowest because this farce is meant to keep the president’s low political I.Q. supporters ignorant that taxes are being increase on them as well as the rich.
Why is it that Republicans don't know how to manipulate language and policy like this? Republicans have not held a press conference during or after the election as Democrats have done to explain why Democrats are scumbags as Democrats do to them as Pelosi is doing to them. (see 1:38min video)
As you know as we have been saying as the president has said he has his pen in hand. He is ready to sign a middle income tax cut. Last July that legislation passed the United States Senate. A similar, an exact same bill was introduced in the House at that time and since then we have been asking Republican leadership to bring the middle income tax cut to the floor.
The clock is ticking the year is ending it’s really important that tax legislation for it to happen now. We are calling upon the Republican leadership in the House to bring this legislation to the floor next week. We believe that not doing that would be holding middle income tax cuts hostage to tax cuts for the rich. Tax cuts for the rich, which do not create jobs just increase the deficit keeping mountains of debt onto future generations.
And so to that end we are, we will be intro…if if the bill if there is no announcement of scheduling the middle income tax cut which by the way has tremendous support in the Republican caucus I think we would get a hundred percent vote on it if it came to the floor. If it is not scheduled then on Tuesday we will be introducing a discharge petition which you know if we could get two hundred and eighteen signature would being the bill automatically to the floor. That would mean that we need some Republicans who support middle income tax cuts to sign on with us. --Nancy Pelosi, Orwellian Speaker of the House
What Republicans must do is respond to Ms. Pelosi in like kind. They must break down this challenge and these false allegations and answer point by point where Pelosi is wrong and deceiving and state their position in language that positions them on the right side of the fiscal cliff vis-Ã -vis middle income tax cut argument.
Fundamentally Changing America through language and revisionist history is the root of Orwellian ideology to which Soetoro and Pelosi are quintessential newspeak propagandists. Republicans would do well to learn what is being done to them if they ever care to win a major election again. Until they do, Nancy Pelosi is defacto Speaker of the House.
Moreover, remember Hillary is an Alinskite also and she is quite able to create worlds from deception and lies remember her claims that her airplane came "under sniper fire" during a 1996 Bonsia trip.
For those of you who’s college degree isn't in American history or if you simply slept through those high school American history classes there is still hope for you.
Steven Spielberg’s motion picture Lincoln, showing this holiday season, gives an account of the political machinations behind freeing America’s slaves.
Simultaneously Mr. Spielberg captures the anguish of the Civil War America fought because of it’s slaves as accounted and based partly on the book, “A Team of Rivals” written by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Spielberg’s depiction is a pungent retelling of Lincoln, a Republican president and HIs Republican Party, a Party that was formed for the abolition of slavery. Moreover, how Lincoln worked against strong Democrat opposition to free Black people in America.
Therefore, I must say I was taken aback when I heard MSNBC’s reporter Chuck Todd’s retelling of a conversation he had with an Obama top aide, by Mr. Todd’s described this person is very smart. However, what Mr. Todd alleged this person to have said was extremely ignorant or deceptively Orwellian.
This very close aide to the president is reported to have said something to the affect, if Lincoln were attempting to free slaves today he would fail because of Republican resistance and political polarization in Washington. (see 28sec video)
Democrats were on the wrong side of the slavery fight in America they fought against Lincoln and Republicans. It is evident that Lincoln was murdered for his efforts to end slavery.
Yes, LBJ signed 1968 Civil Rights Legislation however, Republicans fought to get that legislation before JFK before he was assassinated. Subsequently president Johnson signed it. (Politifact)
Democrats continuously play to an Orwellian pretense, which claims they are the Party of historic anti-slavery as well as being the civil rights Party. However, that view is totally askew of reality. However, it is perfectly in line with Orwellian Worldview.
