I get it. The president is not on a taxpayer funded campaign tour and Vice president Joe Biden didn’t compare the Tea Party to Terrorists. Oh yeah and HLS Secretary Janet Napolitano believes that she’s enacting homegrown terrorists policies to protect against Timothy McVeigh.
Comedian Dick Gregory made this observation when explaining CIA agents who had been captured during the war. His remark was, “How can you tell an “ex-CIA operative from a CIA operative.” Mr. Gregory explained, “You can tell because when a CIA operative is caught he is then an ex-CIA operative.”
Hmm, that’s sort of like when is a Taxpayer funded Bus Campaign swing that violates American election laws, not a Taxpayer funded Bus Campaign swing? Answer, when the White house says that it is not a Taxpayer funded Bus Campaign swing. The White house said that what is really happening is Official White house business. A three state poll so to speak. The president is Busing through Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois to listen to the American people. And to get an idea of what the people are thinking…in this election year.
It’s interesting that the president is fighting against his political rivals on this trip also. He is defending his failed policies and he is attacking the Republican candidates who are running for his office. Sound suspiciously like campaigning to me.
There are election laws prohibiting a candidate from using an office for reelection purposes. Apparently, all of American’s lawyers are busy doing other things to concern themselves. No time to protect the electorate processes of the United States. Anyone? Anyone?
And of course if the White house says that this is not a campaign tour who are we to question authority?
We might as well take advantage of the opportunity and ask the president a few questions. For instance, Mr. president about what Vice president Biden said about the Tea Party. He compared them to terrorists. Are you going to let him get away with that?(see 3:01min video)
I get it. The president is not on a taxpayer funded campaign tour and Vice president Joe Biden didn’t compare the Tea Party to Terrorists. Oh yeah and HLS Secretary Janet Napolitano believes that she’s enacting homegrown terrorists policies to protect against Timothy McVeigh.
And of course, the $2.2 million dollar taxpayer big black buses that the president is using, his big government entourage and his time campaigning through 3 states, none of it is really being used campaigning. It’s all being used doing government business in bitter clinging bible and gun clutching middle America.
"I know you're frustrated. And I'm frustrated too" —president Barry Hussein Soetoro, on bus tour in Minnesota, attempting to separate himself from the chaos he’s created in Washington
The saying goes, “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” Sarah Palin’s idea to tour America by bus apparently captured the fancy of decision makers in the White house. They have instructed their boss to ditch Air Force One and the Limo nicknamed, “the Beast” for a while to follow Palin’s example of connecting with rural America. (Rural Americans, you know those bitter clingers to bibles and guns that Liberal Politicians only need and pay attention to around election time.)
So, for three days this week starting Monday before his Martha Vineyard vacation the president will bus through three states, Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois. He won those states in 2008 but indications are they need shoring up now. (see 5:06min video)
Here’s an Orwellian dilemma, the tricky part is that this excursion is fully funded by taxpayer’s dollars unlike Palin’s. So how does the president keep afoul of campaign violations, not using his official office to campaign, while “connecting with the American people”?
On a trip tinged with campaign-season politics, Obama lambasted what he described as the "brinkmanship" in the capital. He said the country's "broken" politics are exacerbating its economic problems.—foxnews.com
The Orwellian answer is don’t call it campaigning. Just brand your desperately following Sarah Palin bus tour an “official White House three-state tour to talk about jobs and the economy.” All the while, of course, the president partisanly blames Republicans for the state of both the economy and jobs. Hmm, attacking Republicans by thinly veiled rebukes to Congress in general, is that really, official White house business?
But the White House pitched the trip as a purely official visit, and a chance for the president to hear from Americans about the economic climate.-- FoxNews.com
So what if it isn’t official business. What if it really is campaigning what you going to do sue the Soetoro administration? By the time, you’re able to do anything the buses will be pulled into Washington and Soetoro will be on to the next scandal. That is exactly the point with this administration. They take every policy, every law, and every act to the edge of constitutional definition. And there is no controlling legal authority to do anything about it.
This bus tour is a possible violation of campaign laws. No other president in history has been so willing to use so many issues to test the constitutionality of the presidency.
For example, in pronouncing that he would not defend, the constitution in both defending American’s borders and the DOMA law this president has repeatedly shown a propensity to pick and choose which laws he will obey and which he will break. That is living outside the boundaries or above the law.
This act of riding around the country campaigning in taxpayers funded buses is but the latest, “In yo’ Face, wha cha gonna do about it” challenge to the American people by the Soetoro administration.
Our answer should be, ‘we will downgrade you to unemployed in 2012 as you downgraded our economy Mr. president.’
“Many Americans are hurting badly right now. Many have been unemployed for too long. Putting these men and women back to work, and growing wages for everyone, has got to be our top priority.” —president Barry Hussein Soetoro 2011
Special Note: Standard and Poor is under tremendous secret political pressure from the Soetoro administration to reverse the AA+ downgrade back to that of AAA. Look for that reversal in the coming days.
President Barry Hussein Soetoro has looked into the mirror of American politics and can’t distinguish whether that line he sees on this face is a scar or a crack in the mirror.
Impetuously and due to his well-documented narcissism, he concludes that there couldn’t be anything flawed in himself so the mirror must be broken.
Thus, the president’s pronouncement that our politics are broken amid the fact that his political worldview is crumbling all around him yet he lifts his skinny skeletal arm and points his worn and boney finger of blame at yet another American institution, which he supposes, requires his brand of fundamental change, America’s politics. (see article)
This assessment comes from a man who starting from his sudden appearance on the scene in 2004 has pretentiously told us that America is broken and then pronounced that he is here to fix it fundamentally.
Well, Mr. president our system of politics was here before you got here and it will be here long after you leave. The latter, of course, depends on whether the majority of Americans realize by now that what you have been doing is worsening America’s political, social and economic condition. Anyone who is not blinded by partisan politics can see that America is worse under Soetoro than it was under Bush or any other president thus far.
What you misrepresented in 2008 as hope and change Mr. Soetoro was merely partisan politics of the highest order. It was the government takeover of healthcare industry disguised as providing healthcare for every American. It was a homosexual coming out parade in military uniform disguised as the lie to end unfair military treatment. It was historic partisan unsustainable trillion dollars spending to further ensconce liberal programs and policies and embed them deep within the federal government to bring fundamental change to America socially and legally. You managed all of this, by bypassing the electoral system and implementing your reforms by bureaucratic stealth and legal manipulation rather than the conventional way of open political debate.
When the American people begin to realize what you and your Party were up to in 2010 the America people sent their representatives to Congress to stop your corrupting of the American system of government. You reacted with vile and venomous epithets; Racists you called us, Homophobes you called us, Astroturf you called us, Tea Partiers you called us and you told us we were trying to continue the policies of George Bush, therefore in essence labeling us by the name you hate the most, George W. Bush.
Mr. president I don’t know if you’ve noticed but your failed Utopian European Big government dreams aren’t working in Europe. So I’m sure by the reaction in our markets that what you have already done with your unprecedented spending and reforms are not going to work in America either.
If I may be so bold it is not our politics that are broken no they worked very well in spite of your Party’s manipulation of our elections and our election laws. However, what is broken is the Democrat Party and their partisan brand of politics that places Democrats and Party about everything else.
Since Al Gore conceded that Bush won the presidential campaign of 2000, but took his concession back upon advice of his Democrat partisans, Democrats have began an uncivil war in American politics. And because of those actions Democrats have waged political war on America ever since: Chadgate, charges that the Supreme court gave Bush the election, charges that Bush stole the election, charges that Bush waged an illegal war, Democrats voting to go to war and then lied saying they were deceived. Charges that Bush lied people died, Charges that Bush lied about WMDs, Democrats pronouncing that America lost the war, Democrats attempt to sabotage the war efforts to defeat Bush in 2004, Democrats especially this president vilifying Bush in the 2008 elections even though Bush wasn’t running and couldn’t defend himself. And it goes on ad infinitum.
Democrats have shown themselves to be unworthy of a political system based on both honesty and integrity. In addition, Democrat’s repeated general misinterpretations and misrepresentation of Constitution and laws, which govern the United States, tell a much different story than that of the president’s view that America’s politics are broken. What the facts suggest is there is a broken component of American politics but not the system itself.
The president has look in the mirror of American politics and mistaken the scar on this face and that on his Party and projected it upon the mirror as a crack.
No sir our Politics are not broken, at least not in the since which you speak. However, one element in our system is broken beyond repair and that is your Party sir, the one that spawned your dysfunctional presidency sir.
The Democrat Party is Broken! Thank you Mr. president for making that undeniably clear to American before the 2012 elections. I think this revelation will be that best thing for Americans to know regarding the 2012 elections.
Mr. Obama has racked up more than $4 trillion in debt. His massive spending stimulus has failed and made the jobless situation worse. Before his stimulus package was passed in February 2009, the unemployment rate stood at 7.8 percent. Today it is at 9.1 percent - and rising. —Jeffery Kuhner
You remember that cute little girl three and a half years ago who asked then presidential candidate Sen. Barry Hussein Soetoro why he was running for president? In summary Mr. Soetoro lamented that he was running for president because, “America is no longer what it could be, what it once was.” (see 2:48min video)
The false promise that Mr. Soetoro was presenting at that time was that he was going to fix all that was wrong with America. Fast forward to 2011 following the benefit of a Democrat controlled House of Representatives starting in 2006 that combined with Democrats winning control of the Senate in 2008 plus Soetoro’s presidency in 2008 Democrats had total control of the government and could have enacted anything that they wanted without any Republican help.
However, instead of working on the deficit, debt or jobs Democrats instead worked to dismantle Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and then they institutionalized the Orwellian titled, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or as it is better-known Obamacare. (see story)
America’s economy is in free-fall. Growth is anemic. The stock market is collapsing. Real unemployment - combining the high jobless rate with rampant underemployment - is higher than 16 percent. Manufacturing is dead. Deficits, debt and government spending are at record levels. Our credit rating has been downgraded for the first time in history. The trade deficit has exploded to the highest in years. A possible Great Depression haunts the land. Primarily one man is to blame: President Obama.--Jeffrey T. Kuhner
After Democrats ran what the president called an already out of money and functioning in deep deficits economy further into a historical credit downgrade they then had the temerity to blame the America people for their mess. In essences, Democrats blamed Tea Party-Americans for sending Republicans to Congress to end the out of control spending of the President and his Party.
[Obama] has run up three consecutive trillion-dollar-plus budget deficits, an orgy of spending unrivaled in our history. The result: Nearly 2 million private-sector jobs have been wiped out, the U.S. dollar has eroded, investor and business confidence has been shattered, and America is no longer the world’s economic superpower. Washington has become a financial colony of China.—Jeffrey T. Kuhner
The Sen. Soetoro was correct, America is no longer what it could be, what it once was. Only this change to America’s financial fate is at the hand of Democrats and their president Barry Hussein Soetoro.
If this president were a White man named Bush he would be receiving all of the criticism warranted for a political executive that has allowed the greatest economy in known history to be downgrade from it’s AAA rating to that of an AA+.
If this president were a White man named Bush he would be receiving all of the criticism warranted for a political executive that has allowed the greatest economy in known history to be downgrade from it’s AAA rating to that of an AA+.
He would be called incompetent and stupid. He would be the butt of SNL jokes. David Letterman, Jay Leno and Jon Stewart would be serving his ineptitude up on a platter for late night and cable laughs.
Awkwardly, because this president resides in black skin our expectations of him are naturally lowered. Lower even than that of former president Bush. One would think to be roundly criticized, as Bush was there must have been the highest expectations for his presidency. Why else would Bush be held to such a high standard?
As for the first Black president, we must cut him some slack. We must expect less. We most blame his environment, “What he Inherited,” rather than judge his inability to fix the problems that he was hired to fix. Incidentally, he identified these same problems before he was hired. And these are the problems he vowed to have the answers for. He vowed to cut the deficit in half by his first term but the reality is he will have increased the deficit by 4 times if not higher by the end of his only term.
Sadly we let deep political thinkers like Woody Allen, Barbara Streisand and other Hollywood elite shame us into voting for an unqualified Black man for no other qualification other than he is Black.
I want to be one of the first to offer up the slogan for Republicans to use in campaign 2012. “Downgrade Obama 2012.” This slogan is for tee shirts and bumper stickers alike. Every website and blog should wear it proudly.
Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden were correct after all. They both warned that our Affirmative Action president was not ready for the job. But the perfect storm of hate Bush, White guilt and Liberal agenda deception allowed a radical partisan inexperienced community organizer to be elected to what used to be the most powerful elected office in the world.
Sadly we let deep political thinkers like Woody Allen, Barbara Streisand and other Hollywood elite shame us into voting for an unqualified Black man for no other qualification other than he is Black.
Well we did it. We made history America. For the first time in the history of American government a political Party and their president has demolished the credit rating of the United States government. They have had the good faith and credit of the United States downgraded. And for 2012, one downgrade deserves another.
John Gill, 45, of Menomonee Falls, voted for Darling and questioned the opposition's anti-GOP rhetoric, which went far beyond collective bargaining.
"This was all supposed to be about the workers' rights, so to speak. But that has not been brought up one time. It's all been misleading, the attack ads, things like that," Gill said. "The one reason they started this recall, they didn't bring up once." -- SCOTT BAUER
Nowhere is Orwellian and Machiavellianism seen more clearly as what has been transpiring in the State of Wisconsin. Liberals using misleading words and imagery in order to cinch government backed Big Union control over the electoral processes of the state of Wisconsin. Thankfully, those efforts failed.
Liberals billed it as a Democrat backlash against the Conservative sweep of 2010 when Conservatives won both houses of the Legislature and the State Governorship in Wisconsin. What it turned out to be as one Wisconsiner described it, “[A] lot of people didn't get their way, threw a crybaby fit and decided to have a recall.” (see article)
Fueled by millions of dollars from national labor groups, the attempt to remove GOP incumbents served as both a referendum on Walker's conservative revolution and could provide a new gauge of the public mood less than a year after Republicans made sweeping gains in this state and many others.—Scott Bauer
The whole union backed movement was actually Democrat Astroturf funded by the high end of the Democrat Political Party and its political ally Big Democrat Labor Unions. They were attempting to overthrow the fair elections of the people of Wisconsin by employing strong-arm community organizing tactics.
It was also a weather vane for the upcoming 2012 elections and had Democrats managed to win, they would have been touted it as a National repudiation of Conservatives and Republicans.
The Wisconsin Democrat Big Union effort, a coalition of national union groups, caused spending of $31 million dollars in that state attempting to unseat the Republican majority in Wisconsin. They attacked six Republican seats using a nationally organized Democrat effort. Out of six Republicans, Democrats only managed to recall two Republicans this by any measure was an utter failure.
Democrats lost much more than face in this obvious recall rebellion against the voters of Wisconsin. This episode has national implications for the 2012 elections. Although, Liberals are known to act out in this type of riotous behavior when they lose, unfortunately for them it produced next to no results.
Next week two Wisconsin Democrat incumbents face recall. It will be interesting to see if they can weather the recall storm that their National Party has created.
Creating Orwellian worldview requires changes in meaning. In this case Patriots and Conservative citizens became Terrorist by Liberal’s definition. Every so often though political discourse becomes so outrageous that even the purveyors of the outrage most stop to assess the nonsense that they speak. So was the case with the Liberals who spouted the Tea Party Terrorist meme.
Democrats and Progressive media began to march in lockstep to the ridiculous with their attacks against the Tea Party. These attacks where indirectly intended for the enemies of Liberals, anyone and everyone who is a Conservative. The Morning Joe show captures Liberals reconciling themselves to the reality that their concerted efforts to demonize the Tea Party were just a bit over the top. (see 9:17min video)
The Liberal propaganda machine is exposed. This is a typical Liberal method of demonization of their foes. Messaging is what Liberals do best. All fair-minded people recognize that this is but an example of how Liberals message. We all should be aware that Liberal memes are propaganda meant to deceive.
S&P decided to lower the AAA rating, held by the United States for 70 years, to AA+ after a bipartisan debt deal signed into law this week failed to assuage concerns about the nation’s growing spending. -- Zachary A. Goldfarb
Democrats prevented the spending cuts needed to avert the lowering of the U.S. credit rating. Thus, for the first time in America’s history the U.S. good faith and credit is called into question under president Barry Hussein Soetoro and the Democrat controlled Senate. Democrats were wrong and House Republicans were right. (see story)
Typically, the term “on the downlow” is reserved for guys who sneak around, and hide abnormal activities from girlfriends. Therefore, the term, I think, is an appropriate metaphor to explain the story of why the full faith and credit of the United States of America has been downgraded from AAA to AA+ for the first time in the history of the United States of America under president Barry Hussein Soetoro and Democrats. (see 9:30min video)
Lowering the nation’s rating to one notch below AAA, the credit rating company said “political brinkmanship” in the debate over the debt had made the U.S. government’s ability to manage its finances “less stable, less effective and less predictable.” It said the bipartisan agreement reached this week to find at least $2.1 trillion in budget savings “fell short” of what was necessary to tame the nation’s debt over time and predicted that leaders would not be likely to achieve more savings in the future.-- Zachary A. Goldfarb
First, to explain, guys on the downlow lie to their girlfriends or wives. Usually these heels keep up a façade that life within the relationship is complete normal, likewise, the president and his Party have for 2 ½ years been keeping up appearances with the American people. They’ve been pretending to look out for the interests of the American people. Instead, Democrats were looking out for their own Partisan special interest agenda. (S&P Report on Obama Down Grade below)
In other words because Democrats controlled both branches, the Legislative and the Executive, at the beginning of the Barry Soetoro presidency Democrats pushed the greatest Liberal social spending agenda upon Americans in the last 50 years. 1) Repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" policy was approved by both the Democrat controlled House and the Senate,
2) the DREAM Act, a false immigration reform written to make it easier for young Mexicans illegally in this country to go to college, got through the Democrat controlled House and came within a few votes of overcoming a filibuster, gaining sufficient support so that advocates of this unconstitutional and anti-American measure could incredibly argue for including a version of it in any comprehensive immigration reform measure.
3) Trillions of dollars of spending in Obamacare
4) The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, otherwise known as “stimulus II” a 3.27 Trillion dollar hit on taxpayers.
5) $275 Billion Stimulus Package – Homeowners Bailout The Obama Administration handed out a $275 billion mortgage stimulus plan
6) $30 Billion Stimulus Package – AIG Bailout The federal government intervened under Obama once again to help insurance giant AIG
7) $15 Billion Stimulus Package – Small Business Loans The Obama Administration introduced a $15 billion economic stimulus venture
8) $1 Trillion "Toxic Asset" Program – Banks Bailout The Obama Administration launched a public-private economic stimulus venture
9) $22 Billion Stimulus Package – Automakers Bailout The Obama Administration extended another $22 billion in loans to Chrysler and GM Had the president kept his campaign promises to cut in half the deceit in his first term and focus on job creation Americans AAA rating would still be intact.
Instead, the President and Democrats squandered almost 2 years of his presidency passing and signing Obama care. (see previous post)
Jobs and deficit should have been priorities numbers 1 and 2 from the very beginning of the Soetoro presidency, though he gives them lip service they were not. In this election year that talk about jobs will dominate Washington discussion. In addition, instead of halving the deficit, as he promised, the president’s policies and agenda have increased the deficit by four times. To put that in perspective, Bush with all of his spending doubled the deficit in eight years.
Soetoro’s spending in 2 ½ years has remarkably not tripled but quadrupled the deficit. That’s eight years under Bush doubled, to two and a half years under Soetoro quadrupled.
What is so incredible regarding the recent national discussion about the National deficit is that Republicans offered three plans, The Ryan Road map, The Cut Cap and Balance and finally the Boehner Plan all plans that would have addressed Standard and Poor ‘s concern about the U.S. deficit spending.
Democrats in government and media lied and excoriated Republicans saying that Republicans were Tea Party Republicans, terrorists, hostage takers, highjackers, crazes, unreasonable, Wahabees, suicide bombers, holding a gun to the head of the American people. When it was the Republican’s plans that would have prevented the reduction in American’s good faith and credit.
In other words, Democrats were fighting like babies, resisting taking the medicine of spending reductions from Democrat historic spending, which they racked up under president Soetoro. Republicans attempted to cut the credit card of irresponsible spending only to have Big baby Democrats spit the epithet terrorists in the faces of Republicans who were offering the medicine of solutions. Solutions, which would have prevented the historical downgrade from AAA to AA+
That is the low down, downlow of president Soetoro and Democrats. They pretended that raising the debt ceiling was what was going to protect Americans credit rating while lambasting Republicans as villains who were attempting to destroy the good faith and credit of the United States. While now we see that it was Republicans all the time who were the adults, who were attempting to save our credit rating.
Democrats like angry rebelling adolescences were crying, “I hate you,” at Republican parents who were attempting to set parameters for the national family. Democrats in both media and government mischaracterized the whole argument to get what they wanted the raising of the debt ceiling without cutting deficit spending.
To which S&P said enough of the childishness you are grounded America.
Unfortunately, Obama cowered under his seat during the D.C. horror movie and now plans to try to hide behind his Supercommittee. But the Tea Party slashers roaming the corridors of the Capitol have feasted without resistance on delicious victims and will only grow bolder. —Maureen Dowd
Who are Tea Party members if not Americans? Then why do Democrats hate Americans and the Representatives that these Americans send to Congress?
Who could forget the day room scene in the movie, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest? A scene of pajama clad psychiatric patients in various stages of dementia or mental illness. We are witnessing the national expansion of the Cuckoo’s Nest mental institution day room as Progressive Liberals in both media and government lose all sense of reality based mental well-being because of their rabid hate of the Tea Parties or better yet their indirect odium waged at Conservatives as represented by Tea Parties.
Progressive Liberal revulsion of Conservatives is obviously the root from which these full-blown Progressive media and Progressive politicians launch their full-frontal attacks against Americans. These attacks are meant to demonize Liberal’s detested self-made enemies, Tea Party/Conservatives. With time, the over-the-top mischaracterizations of Tea Party-Americans have gone from simply outrageous to seriously delusional to extremely hallucinatory. (see 10:13 min video)
In the beginning, Tea Party-Americans were simply mischaracterized by Progressives as Tea Party crazies à la Christine O’Donnell and Sharron Angle.
More recently, however the mentally unstable Progressive Left has gone insanely mad in their concerted efforts to malign Tea Party-Americans by bombarding them with shock and awe language typically reserved for enemies of the United States not fellow Americans and political rivals.
One of the most extremely hallucinatory attacks on the Tea Party came from Maureen Dowd in a article she posted with the NYT called, “Washington Chainsaw Massacre” in this piece one has to wonder where in the mind of Dowd does fantasy end and reality begin. Obviously, she doesn’t think that Tea Party-Americans are the syfy monsters, which she conjures up from her mind of remembrance or does she?
They were like cannibals, eating their own party and leaders alive. They were like vampires, draining the country’s reputation, credit rating and compassion. They were like zombies, relentlessly and mindlessly coming back again and again to assault their unnerved victims, Boehner and President Obama. They were like the metallic beasts in “Alien” flashing mouths of teeth inside other mouths of teeth, bursting out of Boehner’s stomach every time he came to a bouquet of microphones. (Conjuring that last image on Monday, Vladimir Putin described America as “a parasite.”)—Maureen Dowd
Dowd’s disturbing images suggest someone who is devoid of all rational cognitive processes. Does she really think that Republicans who were sent to Washington in the 112th Congress to stop the multi-trillion dollars spending binge of president Barry Hussein Soetoro and the 110th and 111th Democrat Controlled Congresses are like SyFy monsters or are Dowd’s surreal and crazy imagines met to invoke visceral passions of her fellow Progressives? Does she really intend to push Liberal fanatics further toward delusionary mischaractizations, regarding Tea Party-Americans?
Yet Dowd is not alone. She and the rest of Progressive media have signed what seems to be a blood oath before Satan promising to attack collaboratively Tea-Party Americans as monsters, terrorist and hostage takers. For example:
Thomas Roberts, host of MSNBC’s “The ED Show,” 8/3/11:
“Democrats are very worried their leaders will buckle to political hostage-taking of the Republicans just like they did with the debt ceiling earlier.”
Rev. Al Sharpton, host of “MSNBC Live,” 8/2/11:
“The possibility of a disastrous default was held hostage to the extreme conservative ideology of choking the federal government.”
Dylan Ratigan, host of MSNBC’s “The Dylan Ratigan Show,” 8/2/11:
“We are, in many ways, forced to lead our show with the political, pro-wrestling shenanigans with the threat of a hostage crisis that could bring our country to the brink.”
Eugene Robinson, Washington Post columnist and MSNBC political analyst on MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show,” 8/1/11:
“One of the reasons the president was so set on getting something that at least takes us past the election is that they did see, Aha, gee, they are going to hold us hostage on the debt ceiling again in the next few months.”
“What we saw — what I saw, at least, was one guy with a knife and the other trying to avoid being cut. It was a thug attacking a victim. It was a mugging.”
Lawrence O’Donnell, host of MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” 8/1/11:
“The president’s instincts were good on how to handle the Somali pirates when they took hostages, but here the president knew he was dealing with a hostage-taking, and he never came out and said, ‘Ok, here are the limits.’”
Laura Flanders, host Grit TV on MSNBC’s “The ED Show,” 8/1/11:
“The problem we are facing is not a handful of Tea Party hostage-takers. The problem in the country is the headlock that a few corporate interests and some very wealthy elites have put on our revenues.”
Hilary Rosen, Democratic strategist, on CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight,” 8/3/11:
“They took John Boehner hostage. They forced to do a plan that was unrealistic politically, and then the grown-ups in the Senate — Sen. Mitch McConnell and Sen. Harry Reid — had to kind of takeover and come up with a compromise and force it on the House.”
Michael Lind, policy director of the Economic Growth Program at the New America Foundation writing in Salon magazine, 8/2/11:
“The debt ceiling crisis is the latest case in which the radical right in the South has held America hostage until its demands are met.”
“The deal would avert a catastrophic government default, immediately and probably through the end of 2012. The rest of it is a nearly complete capitulation to the hostage-taking demands of Republican extremists.”
Fareed Zakaria, CNN host, on “Anderson Cooper 360,” 7/29/11:
“So, instead of accepting some compromise that can get through the democratic process, what they’re saying is we’ll blow up the country if you don’t listen to us. We’ll hold hostage the credit of the United States, the good standing of the United States and we’ll blow it up.”
Dana Milbank, columnist for The Washington Post, 8/3/11:
“But the Federalist Papers make no mention of the sort of hostage situation that unfolded in recent weeks. The Founders were silent on the rights of a small group of lawmakers, claiming they received marching orders from God, to bring the nation to the edge of default. The Constitution doesn’t specifically mention negotiating walkouts, Satan sandwiches and deeming budgets into law without votes.”
Ruth Marcus, columnist for The Washington Post, 8/3/11:
“Welcome to the new Washington normal: endless rounds of legislative carjacking … One side wanted the car, had a gun and wasn’t afraid — certainly not afraid enough — to use it. The other had a child in the back seat.”
Even the Progressive-in-Chief uses the violence imagery of Republican’s with guns against the heads of the American people
Not too long ago in the 2004 elections the American people threw Democrats out of power in Congress for the first time in about 50 years prior to that. Subsequent to those events Democrats in the minority held Congress up to the extent that during the years of 2004-2008 Congress was called the, “Do Nothing Congress.”
One might even say the Democratic minority in Congress held a gun to the head of the American people and prevented Congress from doing it’s work. They could have being called jihadists, or hostage takers, or extremists, or terrorist, or Hobbits or for that matter they could have being called any of the violent or demeaning adjectives that Conservative Republicans and Tea Party-Americans are called today.
They weren’t. And maybe that’s because they didn’t have an opposing Progressive media and opposing Progressive Liberal politicians to defend against or libel or slander them.
However what we have today is an extreme form of Projection Psychosis where Liberals and their Media cohorts are looking at their own reflections in a mirror. And they are pointing their collective fingers and are shouting terrorist, terrorist, terrorist. Ironically, to borrow from the late Michael Jackson the terrorist in the mirror is not Tea Party-
Americans, the man in the mirror is Liberals’ own reflected image.
But Progressive Liberal projection psychosis will not allow Liberals to see that. The hostage taking terrorist monsters are really projections of themselves. They are the hostage taking terrorists that they accuse Tea Party-Americans of being.
Finally if Democrats believe, as they say, that Americans who participate in Tea parties are terrorists, the Democrats that harbor such ill-will toward citizens of the United States should voluntarily leave any held political office immediately. If you fail to leave Americans will use the bullet of the ballot to drive you from office in 2012. That’s everyone, including the president, who uses the metaphor of a gun to describe the normal work of dissent in Congress. Remember, every Democrat in 2006 the President, Harry Reid and all other Democrats voted in lockstep against raising the debt ceiling.
The fact is, he's good at dismantling. He's good at critiquing. He's good at not being the last guy, the one you didn't like. But he's not good at building, creating, calling into being. He was good at summoning hope, but he's not good at directing it and turning it into something concrete that answers a broad public desire. —Peggy Noonan
Peggy Noonan made a salient observation about president Barry Hussein Soetoro the other day. No not that he is a loser, although that was an impactful statement within itself. But a more apropos recognition is that Soetoro is a destroyer. That is the point that captured my attention in her opinion piece, “ They’ve Lost that Lovin’ Feeling.” Noonan observation was that the president is good at dismantling and at critiquing or as he would put it, "Fundamentally Changing." In other words, what this president is most adept in is tearing down or destroying. Equally, he excels in negative criticism. Some might call that Ultra-partisanship since his most biting criticisms are always reserved for the other Party.
Now no one has to tell you that, you already know that. You have seen him in action. You have listened to his speeches. You have heard him railing against his enemies, the Conservative Republicans. He has said that he wants to fundamentally change America.
When one thinks about it, Soetoro’s whole hope and change, shtick is about fundamentally changing America. What else could he have possibly meant than to fundamentally or completely destroy the traditional moorings of the country? Soetoro means to push the country away from the Constitutional Republic that America currently is into a totally and radically changed America. But into what?
I believe that president Soetoro wants to destroy the wealth of America and spread that wealth around the third world. It this some warrantless charge?
Obama father in 1965 wrote a very interesting paper in the East Africa Journal about African Socialism. And what he proposed is that to target the rich and the powerful. He said first of all you can confiscate their land. You can use the state to appropriate their land. And second, he said you should tax them. Tax them to what amount? He said to no upper limit, up to 100%.
So here is a guy who was okay with 100% tax rates. Meaning identify the rich and take everything that they’ve got. And while this seems a little bit crazy underneath it is the anti-colonist assumption that if your rich you have gotten rich through greed, through selfishness, through exploitation. So it is as if I came to your house and stole your furniture. Well what is the proper tax rate for me? 100% because it’s not my furniture.
I think by looking at Obama’s father’s paper, which by the way Obama knows all about but is never mentioned in any of his own writings, by looking at his father’s paper you can get an idea of what Obama is doing when he targets the rich.
He keeps saying the rich don’t pay their fair share. Even though rich people in this country today the top 10% are paying about 70% of the income taxes. But evidently, for Obama that’s not enough. Maybe he like his father wants to see a tax rate that goes up to 100%. So Obama’s father is a very interesting guide to what the son is doing in the White house.—Dinesh D’Souza
In Dinesh D’Souza book, “The Roots of Obama’s Rage” Mr. D’Souza describes a man with a hidden agenda. It is an agenda hidden in plain sight. According to Mr. D’Souza president Soetoro writes about his vision for America in the book , “Dreams from My Father”. As Mr. D’Souza describes it, the president is attempting to weaken America by draining America’s wealth and assigning that wealth to the third world. D’Souza explains in the following interview. (see 12:10mins)
Is Barry Hussein Soetoro a destroyer? Will he destroy America with his goal to fundamentally change it?
Did Peggy Noonan have it right? Are the president’s best attributes his abilities to dismantle and criticize?
What America needs the most is a reformer. Someone who can take this broken ship of state and guide it by the principles that once made it a great country. The very last thing America needs is a destroyer, a criticizer a partisan divider.
If Noonan’s critique is correct, Barry Hussein Soetoro is a destroyer. His presence in the White house could indeed be an ominous indication of the end of American greatness because we Americans allowed the dreams of our founding fathers to be replaced by the dreams of Barack Hussein Obama Sr. the father of Barry.
As the folks in the White House begin looking toward President Barack Obama’s presumed re-election campaign in 2012, there is one statistic that might worry them more than any other: Little more than a third of white voters currently think the president is doing a good job. —Peter Brown(source)
Barry Hussein Soetoro is the most singular polarizing President in American history. That is according to several polls one released by the Gallup organization and one issued by the Pew research organization. (see article) and (here)
Soetoro’s embrace of fringe special interest groups and strident “in yo face” political strong arm tactics have left the majority of Americans feeling that he hates White people, Christians, Patriots, Republicans, Conservatives, the Tea Parties (Liberal code word for Conservatives) and the Constitution of the United States. (see 3:32min video)
Homosexuals, Blacks, Illegal Aliens and pimply faced college students are the preferred coalition of the Obama campaign. Like the herky-jerky Michael Jackson dance, the Soetoro campaign efforts are aimed to cobble together special interest zombies from their heretofore balkanized hyphenated sub American designations so that they might dance in the choreographed reelection dance of 2012 for Soetoro.
That data point is hidden in the crosstabs of the myriad polls that show a very polarized nation that gives the president a middling job approval rating overall.
Mr. Obama’s job approval rating remains in the mid-to-high-40s overall only because he gets a thumbs up from more than 90% of blacks and gets majority support from Hispanics.—Peter Brown
However for the majority of Americans the treatment from this president and his Party leaves them standing against a wall of rejection and totally unimpressed with this president’s choices of everything from music to healthcare reform to homosexual marriages and to gays serving openly in the military.
Are the Soetoro disenfranchised xenophobes or racists? And why do they feel hated by the president? No they are not xenophobes or racists Zogby is reporting that people on the left are leaving president. It is also reported that Independents are deserting the president. And finally people that backed him in 2008 are no longer willing to back him.
Polls are showing that Americans realize the mistake that they made in 2008 electing a Progressive Liberal and wish to correct their error in 2012. (see poll here)
One would have to conclude that the problem isn’t the people. Instead, the problem is the radical progressivism of the president and his Party. Now that the American people have seen for themselves what progressivism does to a country they have rejected progressivism.
Liberals, Independents, former Soetoro backers and Conservatives alike have rejected the president’s ideology. A man who would take it upon himself to fundamentally change the United States of America something that no U.S. president is elected to do has lost the confidence of the American people for repeatedly acting outside of his constitutional authority.
Therefore, the president is marshalling a coalition of minority special interest groups with the expressed intentions of fundamentally changing the United States by the use of these groups.
The majority of Americans have good cause to think that the Soetoro administration hates them. Everything that this administration has done suggest that it does. From its refusal to prosecute the New Black Panthers on federal voter intimidation charges because the victims were White. To refusing to protect the United States’ borders from the government sanctioned invasion of Mexican nationals. To the suing of Arizona when the state attempted to enforce legal laws protecting itself from an illegal invasion. All these acts have Americans wondering if this president hates this country.
This president has done more to divide this nation than any other president in the history of America. This president is the anti-Lincoln.
Speaking on the floor of the Senate Saturday, Marco Rubio (R-Fl.) said, "If we had a billion dollars for every time I heard the words 'Tea Party extremist,' we could solve this debt problem."
Proving his point about the vitriolic name-calling of conservatives so prevalent now, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman began his most recent piece, "Watching today's Republicans being led around by an extremist Tea Party": --Noel Sheppard
Everyone who follows Creating Orwellian Worldview already understands the Liberal’s plan to defame Conservatives, the Tea Parties, Fox News and Republicans.
Liberal politicians and liberal pundits in the Progressive media alike use defamation has their principle tactic against all who they perceive to be on the Right as Noel Sheppard reports regarding a Thomas Friedman NYT article. (see article)
It is the strategy of the Progressive Daily Kos Leftists to demonize the Right thereby dehumanizing the people on the Right so that Progressive hatred of the Right and it’s institutions is justified in their minds.
Liberal Progressives are consumed by a 21st century slave master's mentality. One which human beings are looked at as less than human. Slave masters were able to justify all manner of brutal inhuman treatment of their “slaves.” This is how Liberals look at Conservatives and Conservative causes, less than.
Therefore Liberal Progressives attempt to brutally dehumanize the Fox News network, Conservatives, The Tea Parties, Christians, using insults, ridicule, derision, disrespect, slander and Libel.
The President sets himself apart as the only president in recent history that has used these Liberal Progressive tactics so brazenly against the oppose Party. By his own doing he is not the president of the people of the United States of American. He has set himself up as the president of only the Progressive Left of this country. To which he has intimated openly in front of partisan gatherings that Republicans are the enemy.
If the U.S. defaults for the first time in it’s history it will because an Uber-partisan Black president and his ultra-partisan Party burned bridges of bi-partisanship for 2 ½ years forcing through their historic massive Progressive spending agenda and told Republicans to go pound sand as they were doing it.
Even in a time when there is the need for bi-partisan cooperation and collaboration in Washington D.C. in light of the looming Debt crisis Democrats continue to use inflammatory language and unkind references to describe Republicans. (see 5:09min video)
Noel Sheppard refers to Sen. Marco Rubio’s speech regarding the debt ceiling debate that was given on the Senate floor. In that speech Sen. Rubio spoke about the vitriol with which Liberals assault Conservatives. Also in this clip Democrat Sen. Kerry took offense and tried to justify the fact that the president voted against raising the debt limit when he was a Senator about 8mins in video. (see 14:02min video)
What is underlining in this debt debate or any debate in Washington is the continued guerrilla word warfare Liberals have engaged in against Republicans.
Rusty Weiss reports at Big Journalism that the Progressive Media, the president and Democrats march in Lockstep with their current meme that the Tea Parties are terrorists.
Democrats continue to demand compromise of Republicans who are in fact compromising when Democrats themselves are failing to compromise at all.
Liberals asks for compromise before the cameras but are continuously plotting to defeat their Republicans counterparts. Liberals have turn this argument into much more that an argument about the debt ceiling.
To Liberals this is, as everything to them is, this is about defeating Republicans. That is the reason why the Progressive media and Liberal politicians alike have turned this debate upside down to argue that Republicans will not compromise.
The truth is, it is Liberal Democrats who are the insurgent non-compromising ones in this debate, they are ones holding up progress in this crisis that we all face.
If the U.S. defaults for the first time in it’s history it will because an Uber-partisan Black president and his ultra-partisan Party burned bridges of bi-partisanship for 2 ½ years forcing through their historic massive Progressive spending agenda and told Republicans to go pound sand as they were doing it.
If Democrats want compromise they should try it. Try compromising on the excessive gains in spending which increased U.S. debt by four times. Democrats put that spending in place in the last 2 1/2 years. Democrats did this in spite of the president's campaign promise to cut the deficit in half during his first term in office.
If Democrats really want to compromise then start by honoring the president's campaign promise to cut the deficit in half in his first term, that's a start.
The other thing Democrats should do is stop burning bridges of bipartisanship. They can do that by ending the smear jihad that they wage against Conservatives and Conservative causes.
On Sunday July 31, 2011, president Barry Hussein Soetoro announced that Congress has come to terms preventing the United States from defaulting on its debts. Although Congress hasn’t voted on anything yet the president, it seems, couldn’t wait to rush to the podium with the good news. (see 4:13min video)
Following is a Speaker of the House John Boehner’s apparent successful PowerPoint presentation given to his Republican caucus.
Blogger Chris Cillizza sees this agreement as a win for America. (see story)
"Reductions of the magnitude now being proposed, if adopted, would likely lead Moody's to adopt a negative outlook on the AAA rating," the credit rating agency said in a new report. "The chances of a significant improvement in the long-term credit profile of the government coming from deficit reductions of the magnitude proposed in either plan are not high."-- Peter Schroeder
Moody's Investors Service sees the agreement as too little too late. Not enough cuts. $2.2 trillion dollars according to Associated Press over 10years doesn’t realistically keep pace with U.S. spending. (see story)
Remember Democrats want compromise, which means they want business as usual, meaning in this case that Democrats want spending to continue as usual.
According to Moody, this deal may be enough to give the illusion of success for politicians however; the reality is this deal may not be enough to keep the U.S. AAA credit rating.
"We can't allow the American people to become collateral damage to Washington's political warfare.” —president Barry Hussein Soetoro
Not another war! Yes I’m afraid so. The president has the United States involved in up to five (5) count them five wars. Preposterous you say. Well let’s count them. There’s the continuing Iraq war, which the president promised to end and bring the troops home within his first year as president. He didn’t. Then there is the Afghanistan war, which the president escalated for unclear purposes. (Maybe to kill Osama bin Laden though he didn’t say that at the time.)
Then there are the two illegal wars, the U.N. backed war with Libya and the secret Yemen war.
He also has the illegal U.N. backed Libyan war going, and illegal conflicts in Yemen going. That’s four Soetoro wars to Bush’s two wars. In addition, Bush had congressional approval before one bullet was fired or one bomb was drop in either Iraq or Afghanistan. Presently according to Liberal pundit Andrew Sullivan, President Soetoro has two illegal wars going, Libya and Yemen where he has not sought Congressional approval. (see source andsee source)
That’s four wars. In addition, the fifth is the Uncivil War between the Democrats and Republicans. It is the war for our culture, it is the war for control of our government, and it is the war for the hearts, minds and souls of America.
You may not believe it to be a war but our president does. And very much so. He’s said in so many words , he has said that Republicans are the enemy. He blames Republicans for the U.S. ‘s troubles. Plus he demonizes Republicans every opportunity he gets.
"Again they (Republicans) will demand harsh cuts to programs like Medicare. And once again, the economy will be held captive unless they (Republicans) get their way. This is no way to run the greatest country on earth. It is a dangers game that we’ve never played before. And we can’t afford to play it now. Not when the jobs and livelihoods of so many families are at stake.
We can't allow the American people to become collateral damage to Washington's political warfare.
(see 1:03min video)
On July 25, 2011, the president of the United States of America gave a speech to the American people. But it wasn’t a speech about the raising the debt ceiling as one may have supposed. No, it was a speech calculated and aimed at the president’s enemies, the Republicans. This was a speech promised earlier in the debt talks. The president threatened Republicans as talks began to break down. He told Republican Congressman Eric Cantor, not to call his bluff if the Republicans didn’t give him what he wanted then he would go directly to the American people. That is the reason the president give his unusual speech last Monday night. It was an open declaration of war against Republicans over the debt ceiling.
To whit, Republicans should be on guard. Heretofore Republicans have attempted to treat Democrats with the deference that Republicans and Democrats are two American Political Parties attempting to arrive at solutions that are best for the country. And they very well may be. Only it appears from the Democrat perspective, one which the president espouses, what is good for the country is that Republicans be eliminated completely. This may explain the latent and overt hostilities that Republicans face on College campuses, the Progressive media, Hollywood and their colleagues from across the aisle.
Moreover, this president has allowed his hate for Republicans to show on more than a few occasions.
I would like to now share with you just what sparked the need in the mind of the president for last Monday night’s speech. Below is the account from the debt ceiling talks that the president stormed out of while threatening Republicans that he would just go to the public rather than negotiate with the enemy hostage taker Republicans.
At this point, Cantor explained, the president became “very agitated” and said he had “sat here long enough,” that “Ronald Reagan wouldn’t sit here like this” and “something’s got to give.” Obama then told Republicans they either needed to compromise on their insistence on a dollar for dollar ratio of spending cuts to debt increase or agree to a “grand bargain” including massive tax increases. Before walking out of the room, Cantor said, the president told him: “Eric, don’t call my bluff. I’m going to the American people with this.” He then “shoved back” and said, “I’ll see you tomorrow.” (source)
(hear 14:49audio)
Note: very last minutes audio gets extremely grainy
So it seems that war has been declared against Republicans. Listen many of us in the blogosphere always know it. Now that this president has openly declared it—it’s time Republicans, Independents and all fair minded people start acting like they realize that the Progressive Liberal left has declared open war against us.
A process server has delivered a Hawaii court-issued subpoena to Loretta J. Fuddy, Director of the Hawaii Department of Health, commanding her “to produce [Barry Hussein Soetoro’s birth certificate.]” -- Sharon Rondeau
The entire State of Hawaii is embroiled in the Barry Hussein Soetoro birth certificate mess now. You must remember the president’s April 2011 very public celebratory release of his long form birth certificate.
Amid the Democrat leaping chest bumps and one kneed fist pumps, I’d say that it was a very respectful and dignified celebration.
You thought it was over, you thought the “birthers” were defeated and everyone from the Supreme Court to Congress could go on pretending that Barry Hussein Soetoro is a legitimate president. Now who would want to destroy that made for the Progressive media Kodak moment? Maybe a United States District Judge, perhaps?
District Chief Judge Royce Lamberth federal judge in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia has allow discovery to go forward in the case Taitz v. Astrue civil case no. 1:11-cv-00402 RCL in the USDC of Columbia. (see Order partially granting and partially denying below)
Discovery means that Plaintiff, in this case Dr. Orly Taitz, is entitled to certain specified information authorized by subpoena back by court order. No other attorney pursuing the president’s sealed records has gotten this far. (see articles here and here).
The Hawaii Department of Health has refused to comply with a subpoena compelling the state to provide access to the original, filed copy of the President's birth certificate—Jack Miner
A U.S. District Hawaiian court issued the subpoena. (see subpoena below)
According to the subpoena, the Hawaii Department of Health is legally bond to produce the original Soetoro birth certificate (he already publicly released a copy of the long form) on August 8, 2011 at 10am at Health Department, State of HI 1250 Punchbowl str. room 325, Honolulu, HI 96813. Not doing so, would be in contempt of Court order.
The subpoena was served July 5, 2011 on state's attorney general and Loretta Fuddy, the current director of the Hawaii department of health. The document ordered Fuddy to produce the "original 1961 typewritten birth certificate #10641 for Barack Obama … issued 08.08.1961, signed by Dr. David Sinclair, Stanley Ann Dunham Obama and registrar Lee, stored in the Health Department of the State of HI from 08081961 until now."
The Hawaii Department of Health was legally served the subpoena. However, initial indications are they plan to refuse to comply with the subpoena, which grants access to the original, filed copy of the President's birth certificate. In fact, the state of Hawaii responded, saying they would not release the information.
It is extremely curious in my estimation that state employees who are sworn to enforce the law would chose to flaunt a U.S. District Court subpoena. August 8, is days away. We will keep an eye on and be reporting this most interesting development in the ineligibility saga of Barry Hussein Soetoro.
The two wars were taking place under president Bush on a larger level in Iraq. So again, when president Bush left office there was a $500Billion dollar deficit now it’s about $1.5trillion. Under president Obama’s watch, he tripled the deficit of this country; he looked the American people in the eye in March of 2009 after he knew full well about the wars. After he knew full well about the economic collapse, after he know full well about the Medi Care part D subscription drug expansion and he looked the American people in the eye and said, ‘I will reduce the deficit in half in my first term.’ And then he tripled it. That is just one of his many broken promises, one of his many false statements and he needs to be held accountable for it —Presidential Hopeful Tim Pawlenty
In a recent CNN interview presidential hopeful, Tim Pawlenty took on the Obama “inherited” excuses and uncovered the lies that the president told to win election. Pawlenty’s factual stating of the case was done much to the chagrin of a hapless CNN reporter who seemed to be wincing in pain when Pawlenty eviscerated her feeble inherited talking points.
According to Pawlenty, the president knew full well what the country’s condition was while he was campaigning for the job. And in spite of that knowledge, the president knowingly lied saying that he would cut the deficit in half in his first term.
He(the president) looked the American people in the eye in March of 2009 after he knew full well about the wars. After he knew full well about the economic collapse, after he know full well about the Medi Care part D subscription drug expansion and he looked the American people in the eye and said, ‘I will reduce the deficit in half in my first term.’—Tim Pawlenty
(see 1:57min video)
Now the president’s favorite fallback position is that he’s Black and he didn’t know that things were so bad in the economy. The White man fooled him and messed up things so bad because the White man didn’t want a Black man to succeed.
Of course, the above is my interruption of the president’s excuses for not being able to fix the economy with failed Progressive Socialist ideas and policies in tow. However, you must admit with Congress woman Sheila Jackson Lee‘s tirade on the floor of the House regarding, “only this president” Democrats are getting pretty darn close to blaming Barry Hussein Soetoro’s failure on the fact that he is Black. (see 2:07 min video)
Ms. Jackson Lee maybe this president is having difficulty because only this president voted against raising the debt ceiling when he was in the Senate. What is more he openly admitted that he was playing politics against president George W. Bush when he did it. (see 1:13min video)
In any event, Tim Pawlenty has it right. president Soetoro looked the American people in the eye and lied, stating that he would cut the deficit by half in this first term. Instead, the president and his Democrats allies, set about to spend more American taxpayer money than any previous administration in American history.
Broken promises and lies, that about sums up this presidency. Not to mention that Democrats continue to play the Race card when convenient for them to do so. And it is always convenient for them to do so!
Other than Blaming Bush (Democrat’s natural fallback position), what have Democrats actually done to fix the debt crisis? Since gaining control of both houses of Congress in January of 2007 the Democrat Congressional majority promised:
1. Fiscal restraint, adherence to pay-as-you- go (PAYGO) rules, and reform of pork barrel projects. They have broken all of these promises.
2. Congress has voted to raise taxes by $98 billion over the next decade and enacted a budget resolution that would raise taxes by approximately $2.7 trillion.
3. Despite their PAYGO pledge, congressional Democrats have used gimmicks and loopholes to add $179 billion in entitlement spending, offset by only $98 billion in new taxes. Discretionary spending is set to exceed President Bush’s budget request by $275 billion over 10 years.
4. Despite pledging to halve the number of earmarks to 6,746, Congress has included 11,351 in the spending bills.
The Blue Dog Democrats pledged to work for deficit reduction but have voted almost unanimously to raise taxes, increase spending, and expand the budget deficit. (source)
Since gaining the presidency in 2009 Democrat president Barry Hussein Soetoro promised to end the wasteful spending in Washington called “earmarks” signaling an attempt to rein in spending and avert the inevitable fiscal crisis government spending was creating. (see 2:18min video)
In 2009, millions in tax-payer dollars went to tattoo removal programs, peanut research and water taxi services on Pleasure Beach.
So who got millions in 2010?
Early in his presidency, President Obama publicly urged Congress to cut wasteful spending. However, by March 2009, Congress had presented him with a $410 billion stimulus bill that included $7.7 billion in pork -- and he signed it.
So what qualifies as pork spending? Also called earmarks, this type of spending is inserted into generally non-related bills as either an award or incentive for political support from constituents and cohorts. The Oxford English Dictionary distinguishes pork barrel spending from normal appropriation spending as "projects designed to please... and win votes." The term predates the Civil War, when barrels of salt pork were given as rewards for good behavior-- Casey Scudder (source)
So called fiscal responsibility by Democrats was offset by massive Democrat spending on a Democrat partisan social agenda. A social agenda Democrats wanted for over 50 years.
Moreover, one, which Democrats felt if not put in place immediately they might never have the opportunity of a Democrat, controlled Congress combined with a Democrat Presidency to implement their Progressive socialist agenda. Thus, Democrats passed by Party line vote, and the Democrat President signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)or Obamacare
Obamacare is a trillion-dollar budget buster and debt increaser. (source)
The outrage of millions of taxpayers following the $700 billion bank bailout and the $787 billion stimulus bill did not stop Congress from passing and President Obama from signing a bloated $410 billion Omnibus Appropriations Act in March. With the subsequent approval of the President’s budget, the national debt will triple over the next 10 years.—Citizens Against Government Waste (source)
(see 1:26min video)
Despite relative silence with respect to taxes on the campaign trail, the Democratic congressional majority quickly enacted a budget resolution calling for one of the largest tax increases in history. Under current tax rates, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects $14.107 trillion in tax [increases] between 2008 and 2012. Yet the congressional budget resolution calls for collecting $14.828 trillion -- an increase of $721 billion.-- Published on October 30, 2007 by Brian Riedl (source)
DEMOCRAT SPENDING
Adopting the President’s Budget. In his first 100 days in office, the President has
signed a $74-billion increase in the government’s already unsustainable rate of
entitlement spending; a $787-billion “stimulus” bill; and a $406.7-billion omnibus, which
increased nondefense appropriations by 10 percent just for this year, and included nearly9,000 earmarks the administration dismissed as “last year’s business.” On the first day of spring, the Congressional Budget Office [CBO] released an updated projection indicating the deficit for the current year (fiscal year 2009) had increased by more than $500 billion– to $1.7 trillion. Now comes the Democrats’ budget, with its huge increases in spending,taxes, deficits, and debt.
• Total Spending. Outlays total $3.555 trillion in fiscal year 2010. As a share of the
economy, spending never falls below 22 percent of gross domestic product [GDP]. Even
with the full costs of the war, Katrina, and Medicare prescription drug coverage,
spending during the Bush administration averaged 19.9 percent of GDP – and never
exceeded 21 percent of GDP.
• Tax Increases. Taxes increase by $1.5 trillion over 10 years. These include higher taxes
on families, small businesses, and workers.
• Deficits. Red ink totals $1.233 trillion in 2010. The budget proposes record budget
deficits in nominal dollars. Deficits never fall below $500 billion.
• Debt. Debt held by the public increases by nearly $2 trillion this year, and rises to more than two-thirds as a share of the economy by 2014. The European Union requires its
member countries to keep debt below 60 percent of GDP.-- THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON S. CON. RES. 13 THE OBAMA PLAN FOR SPENDING, TAXES, AND DEBT
28 April 2009 (source)
What have Democrats done to fix the U.S. debt situation? Nothing! In fact, they’ve made our situation worse by their puerile behavior, uncontrolled spending and finger pointing at Republicans when in fact had the President kept his campaign promises we would not be facing this fiscal crisis right now. (see previous post)
We are not facing consequences from irresponsible governments of the past, as the president would have us to believe. Everyone who should be held responsible for the current fiscal crisis is currently in office. They are Democrats and they can be voted out in November of 2012.
The president, his agenda, his policies and his Party has made the financial crisis worse, Democrats have made everything worse, far worse!
I agree with columnist Mark Steyn’s statement that the entire Western world is operating on an unsustainable business model. Apparently, everyone realizes this, except the president of the United States, his Democrat allies and the Progressive media that supports Democrats. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his Democrat controlled Senate defeated the Congressional House’s, “Cut, Cap and Balance” measure last week. It was the only plan on paper, a Republican initiated bill, offered to avert this financial crisis.
However because it was a Republican bill Reid fist pumped in the air in celebration of the defeated Republican fix of the economy à la Tiger Woods and then promptly sent the Senate home for a weekend recess.
Apparently, Reid and president Barry Hussein Soetoro prefer their favorite approach to solving the country’s debt problems the, “Tax, Spend and Pretend” approach. That approach simply stated is to keep on taxing the American people, keep on spending their hard earned money and keep on pretending that the policies and programs that Democrats have spent trillions of dollars on in the last 2 ½ years have and are working. They are not.
We’ve been told repeatedly that President Barry Hussein Soetoro inherited the fiscal crisis that America faces. But did he? Would it surprise you to find out that Soetoro did not inherit this fiscal crisis, as he would have you and me to believe? He and his fellow Democrat Senators and Congress members were at the center of the making of this fiscal crisis. You don’t have to believe me, I have Sen. Soetoro himself arguing for the first bailout stimulus that George Bush gave to foreign banks, foreign interest, Wall Street, and Corporations. You see as much as Democrats want to blame Bush they had equal share in creating this crisis. No one not president Soetoro or any Democrat is innocent in this matter.
In 2008, Senator Barry Hussein Soetoro argued for the bail out of big banks and Corporations to the tune of $700billion dollars. Therefore the lie that he inherited the fiscal mess we find ourselves in is just that a lie. He was in the Senate, he argued for the $700billion dollar bailout and he voted for it.
Therefore, Senator Soetoro and all Democrats were a part of the government that is to blame for this crisis. Bush’s failed policies that drove the country’s economic car into the ditch are Democrats’ and president Soetoro’s failed policies that drive America’s car into the ditch.
So it is a lie for Democrats to characterize the fiscal meltdown as happening because of “Bush failed policies.” Sen. Soetoro himself argued for these polices. Those policies are just as much Soetoro’s “failed policies” as anyone else’s. (see 13:33min video)
What is interesting is Soetoro was also arguing for the failed policies that he eventually put in place upon his election, policies that caused the current debt-ceiling crisis because of his and Democrats’ massive trillions of dollars spending agenda. An agenda, which Democrats put in place Soetoro’s first year in office and continue up to today. These are the agenda’s and policies that Democrats refuse to cut.
The president simply isn’t credible when he says that he inherited the US’s fiscal problems. He and his Party, those whose constitutional duty is the economic welfare of this country, created by legislation the fiscal crisis we now face. The president is not an innocent by-stander in this matter. He was one of the drive-by shooters of the congress.
In truth, reckless Democrat Congressional policies drove the American car into the ditch and now a Democrat president will push that car over a cliff if he is allowed to claim innocence in this debt crisis debate.
Republicans in the House of Representatives are the only ones that were responsible enough to come up with a plan to fix the debt crisis placing the proverbial ball in the president’s and Senate’s court. Senate leader Harry Reid and the Democrat controlled Senate stopped the only plan in Washington D.C. to help avert the pending fiscal crisis then took the ball and went home. Proving for one and all that the August 2, deadline is not real and proving that the only responsible adults in D.C. are the Republicans in the House.
The Democrats in the Senate and the White house are puerile little spendthrifts that want to raise yours and my taxes by “tax, spend and pretend” or they are not going to make a deal.
Here’s a suggestion, if Democrats really want to increase taxes on Americans then at least have the decency and the guts to call tax increases by their name, “tax increases” instead of calling them by the code word “revenues.”
I have an idea, every politician who wants to raise taxes on the American people and call those tax increases “revenues” must be voted out of office in 2012 and 2014.
So let’s do a national tally. Start counting how many politicians use the cloaking term for tax increases, “revenues” and we’ll compile a list. Come 2012 and 2014 all who use the term revenues because they think Americans are too stupid to know that they are actually speaking of raising our taxes we’ll fire. And we will align ourselves with representatives who won’t insult our intelligence in 2012 and 2014.
In other words if you are speaking about raising taxes on the American people and you call it raising revenues the American people will create an environment which you will inherit unemployment. We will fire you!
How that is for straight talk Mr. president and Senators?
Dear friends and Readers for the first time since 2006 I will be taking some extended time off. I plan to return July 22nd, 2011. Thank you for your continued loyalty I hope to serve you again soon. --Alaphiah
The President wants the debt ceiling raised so that Democrats can do what they do best, spend money.
It's not like Democrats didn’t have the opportunity to attack the fiscal crisis that they “inherited.” The president entered office knowing that the U.S. was broke. In fact, the prudent thing would have been to add as little government and fiscal commitments as possible and work on deficit reduction.
However, Democrats didn’t do that. What the Democrats did instead was irresponsibly push through the most costliest and unprecedented trillion dollar spending spree in the history of the United States on their Progressive social agenda.
Republicans, in the beginning of 2008, where numerically unable to stop the Democrat majority from forcing the policies of Obamacare, the Automobile takeover and the bank bailouts through Congress. As a result, in 2010 the American people elected Republicans to put a finger in the dike of Democrat spending an apparent effort to ward off the collapse of America’s finances and the consequences of uncontrolled Democrat spending.
In a fact check of the president’s tantrum, which he threw because Republicans are doing what the American people elected them to do, Glenn Kessler rates the President’s statement that Republicans are attempting to protect millionaires and billionaire from tax increases. Mr. Kessler said that statement is two "Pinocchios" false!
We realize the symbolic value of things like corporate jets, particularly when Republicans appear to be refusing to accept even a single dollar of additional revenue, but Obama is misleading when he suggests that closing this loophole would make much of a dent in the federal budget. He also should made clear that he would like to raise taxes on people making more than $250,000, rather than just “millionaires and billionaires.”—Glenn Kessler
Kessler also warns that when the president says millionaires and billionaires he is really speaking about raising taxes on people making $250,000 a year, which is not exactly a millionaire or billionaire. (see article)
What is important to remember is that when the president blames Republicans for the crisis, which he now finds himself. He is the one who when asked in 2009 at the beginning of his presidency where America was going to get money to pay for his social agenda and he said, “We’re out of money now!” (see 2:10min video)
When the president excoriates Republicans for not being willing to raise taxes on millionaire and billionaire just remember that the president is actually speaking of raising taxes on those who make $250,000 a year. In addition, had Democrats not push through their trillion dollars social agenda and instead worked on cutting spending and reducing the deficit there would be a mutual willingness to work on America’s fiscal problems instead of the poison well of partisanship that the president and leaders in the Democrat Party has created.
Republicans are right in this case. Democrats need to reverse all of the social spending and Corporate entitlements that they have put in place for their friends before there is any talk about increasing taxes or raising the debt ceiling.
