a well-scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste
Did you see Obama’s renomination of Ben Bernanke as Chairman of the Federal Reserve today?
Bernanke’s slightly better on the TelePrompTer.
What a creepy bit of historical B-roll.
Again: how does Obama manage to convince people he’s that smart?
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To permit this ridiculous fraud of a President and his useful idiots in Congress to expand our country’s debt way into the trillions is morally insane. Our civilization cannot survive with that kind of debt and the concomitant taxation.
We have been warned. Now we should act.
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Did you hear this ridiculous liar of a President we’re stuck with say this [yester]day? (emphasis mine)
President Obama made what his advisers believe were his first public comments on the U.S. Postal Service on Tuesday, basically knocking its performance during his health-care-themed town hall in New Hampshire.
He said an audience member raised a “legitimate concern” about how a government-run health-care program might affect private insurers.
“My answer is that if the private insurance companies are providing a good bargain, and if the public option has to be self-sustaining — meaning taxpayers aren’t subsidizing it, but it has to run on charging premiums and providing good services and a good network of doctors, just like any other private insurer would do — then I think private insurers should be able to compete. They do it all the time.”
Then he invoked the Postal Service:
“I mean, if you think about it, UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? No, they are. It’s the post office that’s always having problems.”
That comment provoked laughter from the audience.
“That comment” makes absolute nonsense of his socialism. In fact, it very succinctly implies that Government entities are prone to acceptable levels of inefficiency and waste because it is typically assumed that they will be subsidized indefinitely, thereby making “competition” an open fiction.
It does not matter that Obama says the public option “has to be self-sustaining” because that’s a lie and he knows it’s a lie as he tells it.
The best thing that could possibly happen to this guy right now is some disaster or crisis to make him “look” Presidential. Otherwise, and day by day, the recklessness and arrogance of this Lying Narcissist on the subject of health care will erode his position with the moderates and other kinds of polite straddlers who are still too stubborn to admit that they got took when they voted for him.
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The stock markets are doing well because it is becoming apparent that the President’s and the Democratic Party’s plans for socializing medicine are doing so poorly.
How’s this? The recovery of economic health in this society will depend on the continuing failure of its own government’s economic policies. Assholes —and, by that, I mean Democrats— need to reconsider the wisdom of sinking this economy further into the mire by raising and adding taxes that will obviously impact the middle class. OBVIOUSLY. Then again, a lot of these very people are the ones who put the Lying Narcissist in power to begin with. These are the ones who were practicing class warfare right along with him, so maybe they can find the time to be good citizens and quit uncritically pretending that Socialism is okay or is some sort of fad that we’ll just slough off if need be. WRONG.
The veto is a natural power available to all men. Free will be done in America as it is on Capitol Hill.
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It’s pretty obvious that Obama and the Democrats are doing a controlled demolition on our economy so that they can come back later in the year (and the next, which is an election year) and paper over all the bad news that they themselves are causing with all of the stimulus money that they’re sitting on now.
This is a huge Socialist power grab. It’s a confiscatory reallocation strategy intended to break down the maker class in this country and shower largesse on the taker class closer to election time to remind them who’s more likely to butter their bread: Obamachrist or Stingy Old White Christianists.
Look! Over there! Cheney’s torturing something. Let’s talk about it.
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Just think about all the eerie similarities between the Religion of Global Warming and certain monotheisms we know:
There’s certainly prophecy.
As well as eschatology.
And a seemingly inexhaustible measure of zealotry.
Did I mention disputes over doctrine and the constant striving for orthodoxy, generally?
Could also mention tithing and rituals and martyrdom and all the lying.
Lying? You bet. There’s a lot of nonsense that one is obligated to believe. Credo quia absurdum. But the hippies don’t see it my way. Instead, they believe themselves to be heroic saviors of the Earth because of where they come down on the “issue” of carbon dioxide.
This carbon tax that Henry Waxman and other discredited Californios are trying to implement is a giant fucking Socialist power grab. Wherever you live, tell your Congressman that you don’t want to fork over a mortgage payment’s worth of taxes every year to some United Nations-managed treasury of carbon-meritoriousness. This is a scam, dude. A post-American economy-destroying scam intended to enrich the Democratic Party and its collaborators.
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If you’ve got some money to invest —and who doesn’t?!— I would recommend following and supporting any company that’s got a plan to launch a space trash removal service. They don’t have that already, do they? Oh. Launch platforms and interorbital rockets and guidance systems, even? But with camera systems for ID’ing all that junk and laser systems for destroying it, there’s got to be a great many markets out there.
In other news, I love the Hubble Space Telescope and I wish everybody up there this week great success and safety.
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I just heard that Obama’s heading to Egypt in the next few weeks to apologize for America again. WTF?! Doesn’t he have enough to do here with wrecking the economy and everything?
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I was fascinated by Larry Summers’ remarks on Meet the Press this morning. Well, more accurately, I was fascinated by how he managed to not only keep his ass in the air for that long, but also by how he kept a coat and tie around it without any discernible slippage. David Gregory, quoting Dick Armey on the issue of the Tea Parties thrown this past week, had the following exchange with Summers:
“Armey said the real target of the protestors’ ire is not the current tax rate but the much higher one that will be needed to pay for trillions of dollars in financial-sector bailouts; the stimulus package…and Obama’s ambitious health-care and education initiatives, which are projected to raise the debt by trillions of dollars more. `There’s no way he can do the spending he does and cut taxes for most people.’” Does he have that wrong?
DR. SUMMERS: I think he does. I think he does, David, and, you know, I think the record speaks for itself. What the president’s proposed is a tax cut for 95 percent of all Americans. You know, I don’t know that much about politics, but I’ve been surprised by these TEA parties a bit. The president is the one who’s proposing cutting taxes on virtually all Americans, so I’m not sure who these TEA parties see as being King George.
Summers, like any of the other hacks who are working with Obama to institute socialism in America, is simply being obtuse. It doesn’t matter what the marginal tax rate is today or what our payroll taxes are today or what the tax burdens on a gallon of gasoline are today. Rather, it matters what they will be in a year or two years’ time when all of this madhouse spending that the Democrats are doing today will require major tax hikes. What these fucking criminals are doing is promising so much stuff now that there will be no choice but to increase taxes later —with them hiding behind more and more bullshit about what must be done to deliver us from the Great Recession, even if it’s their own policies and programs that are prolonging or worsening the economic problems.
These elitist hacks are not in any doubt about what the Tea Party movement means, but they’d rather pretend otherwise.
Let them pretend to the last.
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What the hell was Hillary Rodham Clinton laughing about the other day when responding to the all-important “scourge of piracy” question? Was she startled by deja vu, tripping over some memory of herself presenting a book report on the Barbary pirates to her 7th grade history class? Because channelling that shit is what’s required of a Secretary of State when she has absolutely nothing to say about pirates.
I mean —pirates?! WTF?! I hear that even the none-too-swiftboater John Kerry is now calling for Congressional hearings on piracy. Is that a joke? No, it’s not.
I don’t know how the pirate problem came to be, but it seems to be a fast favorite with the ridiculous shithooks who choose what stories Americans will be seeing on their TVs. It’s like a baby crisis with training wheels that Obama can get into and show what a suave goddamned guy he is. He’ll grab them Somali terrorists pirates up and give them a stern talking to, I’m sure. Don’t they know that he’s their President, too, and that we’re very sorry about them hating us and how about a bailout, fellas? Is this way easier than the other ways to redistribute the wealth? Maybe, uh, we can work out some deal, y’know…Maybe steer some of that action ACORN’s way?
Community organizing on the high seas, me hearties! The pirates —they’re in love!
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