Archive for 5 Feb 2009

Analysis from Victor Davis Hanson

Posted: 5 Feb 2009 in Comarade Obama, Neo-Marxists, Politics
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Great analysis by Victor Davis Hanson, as usual.

Hope He Can Change

An Obamaplosion

I get loads of quasi-hate mail about questioning Obama’s candidacy and governance. But I am worried, not about Obama, or the politics of governance, but about the nation itself. The media has forsaken us. But after only two weeks we are in a crisis stage of confidence, and the story is spiraling by the hour out of control. I write here not to score points, but to warn readers that this is all very serious. Obama is our President, and we must hope he does something fast to save his administration from general ridicule that will incur real dangers for all of us abroad.

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More of Obamoron’s Bullshit

Posted: 5 Feb 2009 in Axis of Idiots, Comarade Obama, Economics, Neo-Marxists, Politics, Socialism, Stupid People
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The empty Obama editorial

Has Barack Obama realized that he won the election? I know he told Republicans in the House that “I won” as a means to shut down actual negotiations over the stimulus package and try to get them to vote on a bill in which they had zero input. But in reading Obama’s column in today’s Washington Post, all I see is empty sloganeering and cheap fear-mongering instead of substantive cases for the myriad of spending projects in his stimulus bill:

This plan is more than a prescription for short-term spending — it’s a strategy for America’s long-term growth and opportunity in areas such as renewable energy, health care and education. And it’s a strategy that will be implemented with unprecedented transparency and accountability, so Americans know where their tax dollars are going and how they are being spent.

In recent days, there have been misguided criticisms of this plan that echo the failed theories that helped lead us into this crisis — the notion that tax cuts alone will solve all our problems; that we can meet our enormous tests with half-steps and piecemeal measures; that we can ignore fundamental challenges such as energy independence and the high cost of health care and still expect our economy and our country to thrive.

I reject these theories, and so did the American people when they went to the polls in November and voted resoundingly for change. They know that we have tried it those ways for too long. And because we have, our health-care costs still rise faster than inflation. Our dependence on foreign oil still threatens our economy and our security. Our children still study in schools that put them at a disadvantage. We’ve seen the tragic consequences when our bridges crumble and our levees fail.

The last two examples refer to the 2007 St. Anthony Bridge collapse in Minneapolis and the New Orleans disaster with Hurricane Katrina, but they’re odd examples to use for government intervention. Both were public projects when built, and both had serious flaws from the beginning. The bridge collapsed not from a lack of maintenance, but because its original design seriously underestimated the thickness of supporting plates in the structure and a decision by designers (and approved by Minnesota) not to build redundant support. The levees weren’t built to their original specifications, a problem at which the government kept throwing money for decades to no great effect.

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Obama said what?

Jim Geraghty reports on Barack Obama’s statement on the sanctity of human life during today’s National Prayer Breakfast:

“We know there is no God who condones the killing of an innocent human being.”

Well, great! Perhaps then President Obama would also agree that we know no God who condones the negligent killing of innocent human beings who survive abortions. Of course, Obama would have to acknowledge now that his position has changed since his days in the Illinois state legislature, when he helped protect abortionists by blocking legislation that would have required a second doctor to act on behalf of infants born alive after an abortion. God knows that those children were and are innocents, alive at birth, and left to die in abortion mills.

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KILL THE BILL!!!!

Posted: 5 Feb 2009 in Axis of Idiots, Comarade Obama, Economics, Neo-Marxists, Politics, Socialism, Stupid People
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Obama has got to be the dumbest fucker on the planet. Spending bills don’t do shit for an economy other than burying it further into recession.

Tax cuts for businesses and individuals does two things.

1. It gives businesses the incentive to invest in new ideas and create jobs.

2. Individuals are more apt to spend their money if they know it isn’t going to come out of their pay checks in huge swaths because of moronic spending policies.

Too fucking easy. Democrats are morons.

Now, The One, is getting all uppity about it. Tough shit asshole. The change most Americans were clamoring for was not socialism. They didn’t want Bush’s ass, or Bush III, in there anymore.

This “stimulus” needs to be renamed. The only stimulating that is happening is the Democrats stroking The One.

There is only 37% of the American population, the stupid ones, that agree with this bill.

KILL THE BILL!!!!

Obama now in combat mode

By Joseph Curl

President Obama, fresh off his first Washington apology tour, grew combative Wednesday, asserting that America voted for him, not the other guy, and demanding that lawmakers “put aside politics” — well, Republican lawmakers, anyway.

A day before he headed to a luxury resort to meet behind closed doors with Democrats, the Harvard graduate lectured the less economically astute, ridiculing the Reaganomics Doctrine held dear by Republicans, who prefer tax cuts to new spending to bounce America out of its financial mess.

“Now, in the past few days I’ve heard criticisms of this plan that echo the very same failed theories that helped lead us into this crisis — the notion that tax cuts alone will solve all our problems,” the president said at the White House. “I reject that theory, and so did the American people when they went to the polls in November and voted resoundingly for change.”

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And some links for more Obama gaffs.

Obama may become a disaster

By their actions ye shall know them. By now we are seeing an ominous pattern of actions by the O administration. We know that President Obama is a very slick liar indeed, but then so was Bill Clinton. But Clinton had a smaller majority in Congress, and was forced to compromise after the Gingrich Congress was elected in 1994. It is still possible that Obama may turn toward the mainstream. But the early omens look dark.

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Inside Obama’s sausage factory

In the end, Tom Daschle had to go, not because of his tax problems, but because he had allowed a glimpse inside the Obama sausage factory. And what folks saw could have made even a certain peanut plant look pristine by comparison.

It can be argued that Daschle’s tax avoidance was less egregious than Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s, even though the amount was substantially more: $140k compared to ‘just’ $34,000. Geithner’s taxes were owed on regular compensation which his then-employer, the International Monetary Fund, had not withheld — even though the IMF had offered repeated instructions on paying these taxes owed.

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Obama’s First Fumble

Last week America blew a raspberry at the House “stimulus” bill. The Wall Street Journal edit page reckoned it out at about 12 percent stimulus. What about the other 88 percent? It was mostly the usual liberal special-interest spending, 40 years of pent-up pet projects. Things looked so bad that the Journal’s other edit page, the liberal news side, decided to put out a calming analysis piece. Obama aides “say this is a baseball game in its early innings, or a football game at halftime,” Gerald F. Seib assured us.

You’d think the Democrats would do a better job of camouflaging their real agenda, given the effort they have put, starting with the 2006 mid-term elections, into wooing the middle class. According to pollster Alex Lundry, “middle class” is the number one positive thing that people associate with Democrats. But the stimulus bill proves that it’s not about the middle class. It’s about the Democratic patronage state. Always was, always will be.

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Barry, honey, can we talk about money?

“Mr. President” seems way too stiff and stilted for you, our most populist-appealing president ever. So, I certainly hope you won’t mind if I chat with you here just as though we were in a humble diner down South. Just try to think of me, dear Sir, as another Joe in the neighborhood, with an awful lot on my mind.

Now, Barry Honey, can we talk about money?

Times are tough, I’m sure you’ve heard. Certainly, you recall your oft-repeated, campaign ditty: “We are in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.” You said that line so often people were putting it to music as they stood around waiting for your election and the inevitable return of those happy, happy, happy days.

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