Thanks (for nothing) Obama!

It takes a massive screw up by a Democratic President, in order to be criticized by news hack and liberal cheerleader Paul Krugman at the NYT.  For 18 months, he and the rest of the liberal MSM have told the public what they SHOULD be seeing and thinking.  To the Times, people outside of ‘the city’ are simpletons who must be led, and who better but the liberal editors at the NYT to do the leading?  After all, they KNOW better.  You may THINK that the expiration of the Bush tax cuts will increase taxes on the middle class, and yes, you will pay more to government when that happens at the end of this year.  But the NYT exists to explain to you that you are thinking all wrong.  Since you paid a higher amount a number of years ago, this shouldn’t really ‘count’ as an increase.  You’re just going ‘back’ to something.  No tax increase here!  By their logic, since the top tax rate was in the 90 percent range before Reagan, an increase ‘back’ to that level wouldn’t really be a tax ‘increase’– it is just a return to the NYT idea of ‘normal!’

Incompetence is hard to ignore

But where was I….  oh yes, Krugman…  he wrote a piece about our idiot leader’s failure to help on the job front.  I have always had my own theory about why an occasional politician will perform so horribly; you would think that the forces of self-protection would prevent a person from being in a position to fail so visibly as obama has over the past year.  I think that the reason is a combination of hubris and hatred.  The hubris is easy to see in obama.  The hatred, though, allowed obama to assume that the job of President must be easy, if Bush can handle it.  Obama bought into the lies by the press, that Bush was ‘dumb’, that he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, etc.  In reality Bush graduated from the best business school– arguably in the world– and he also ran a few companies in his life.  Obama on the other hand ran a storefront.  Filed a few motions for ACORN that were probably actually filed by interns. And collected lots of applause.  Devoid of substance.   And it shows.

Look around at what is going on–  the oil is pumping into the Gulf with minimal response from the Feds.  We finally got a big skimmer down there thanks to Taiwan;  should we be grateful that obama made it happen… after over two months?  Of course he turned away similar help from a number of other countries.  Thanks obama!

We have the war in Afghanistan, where the commanding General was fired after talking to a reporter about what a jerk the president is.  It should be news that a respected General has no respect for his Commander in Chief… but you won’t read THAT anywhere.  The media tried to find something to make the General appear nuts, but in the end all we had was a brave man who had the nerve to call it as it was– and get fired.  But instead of being cowed by the humiliation, the MSM fell over themselves clamoring about the ‘brilliance’ of obama, for deciding to fire the guy.  Yet– THAT sure was a tough call!

Look at the Mexican border–  we have the US suing one of our own states, while our president cozies up to the President of Mexico.  Yesterday bullets from Mexico hit the El Paso city hall.  The day before, 21 people were killed in a shootout in Mexico just over the border from Arizona.  Unregistered illegal immigrants, many smuggling drugs or gang members, flood into our country every night.  But they will vote for a Democrat some day, so obama has nothing to say.  The American people are bitterly divided.  Thanks obama.

Obama just failed to win any converts to his failed economic policies at the G-20 Summit in Toronto.  He got some applause from Chavez.  Way to go, obama!

We learned that obama lied about what scientists had said about a six-month moratorium on off-shore drilling.  The end justifies the means, eh?  Is that it?  When obama lies again in the near future (and of course he will), and he NYT doesn’t report it, did it still happen?

The economy needs help.  Obama wasted a trillion dollars on non-stimulus, so that now when we NEED the money, it is not available.  I’m no rocket scientist, but this is exactly what I said would happen.  Look back at my earlier posts!  Yes, even a blind pig…    but for those who don’t understand, I’ll explain gain.  Obama spent a trillion dollars in his massive ‘stimulus program’ a year ago.  He insisted that it was necessary– that it was ‘targeted’ to make sure that unemployment didn’t rise about 6%.  He told us that his stimulus would rapidly turn things around.  But instead we have only biden the clown, jumping up and down and telling us the sky is not falling.  Thanks biden.  and thanks– for nothing– obama.

I check in at Rasmussen Reports now and then, as doing so gives me some measure of faith that you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.  Today obama comes in at minus 14– not sure if that is a new record low on that poll, but if it isn’t it is close.  He has hovered around the negative 10 region for the past couple months, and I figured it was just a matter of time until some of the people in the ‘approve’ column pick up a paper or better yet, decide to do some critical thinking.  Obama just returned from another ‘blame America first’ tour, this time across Asia;  you can find pictures of him bowing so low to the Japanese President that it looks like Asian porn from the right angle.  Obama continued to apologize for that meanie, Bush– who instead of defending himself or his policies was visiting Fort Hood, trying to restore the morale that visits by obama typically deplete.

Obama polls show that Americans are learning the truth about a weak President

I find myself wondering how things will end with obama. He has already done enough damage to our economy that he is assured a legacy, as his deficit spending makes any of Reagan’s deficits puny in comparison–  and while Reagan’s deficits were the result of Congressional spending during Reagan’s tax cuts, the obama deficits will all be the result of obama’s spending and obama’s tax INCREASES– which have maintained, and will maintain, our slow economic growth–  perhaps for decades.  It is amazing how much damage one president can do!  Like is often said, you cannot give a president credit for a good economy (althouthegh the press sure has tried to credit Clinton!!), but you can sometimes blame a president for a bad one!  And every person with a college degree– and many without one– realize that the current problems started out as a global recession because of mortgage derivatives– not because of anything Bush did or didn’t do.  Simpletons will say ‘inherited from Bush’, but doing so is a purely reactive, non-thinking statement;  just ask such a person ‘how did Bush do this to the entire world?’ and wait for the answer that does not exist.  On the other hand, obama DID make things much worse– and you will be able to see that quite clearly going forward, as every other country recovers save the United States.

As for the ending, will he get it?  Will he realize that all of the apologizing does NOT build respect?  He is coming back from Asia totally empty-handed;  the press won’t report on it, but HE knows– obama knows that he wanted to accomplish some things, and he was ignored.  He knows he failed at the Olympic bid.  He knows that the dollar is falling like a stone.  He will see China stop investing in our debt– despite bowing lower and lower for them.  He will see the terrorists keep attacking, and he might even care that Americans will die (don’t hold your breath on that one!!).  Will he ‘get it’?  Will he recognize that he was a fool president?  Will he see, as US healthcare expenditures grow massively from the bureaucracy he creates,  just how wrong he was?  I would like to say ‘yes!’.  But we had the failed welfare system of the 1960′s and 1970′s, and he didn’t apparently learn from them.  So will he see?  When he sees the country mired in Carter-esque stagflation for decades, will he see what he did?  Again, it will be so obvious!  But then again, it already is– watch as the rest of the world explodes with growth, and we do a double-dip recession.  Watch as our unemployment worsens.  And he does not apparently see it… so the smart bet would be that he is one of those ‘lifelong’ Democrats who are blinded by partisanship.

Let's at least learn, and throw the bums out next year

In case you don’t read the details of stimulus plans and other failed obama initiatives, the reason we will not recover like other countries will is because obama spent us into bankruptcy during a recession– but not to do the thing that presidents usually do to reverse recessions, i.e. stimulate the growth of business, which creates jobs.  The blunder was so large that I have to think that obama assumed it would be easy to be president;  that he could just skim money off the economy for his pals, and that the economy would bounce back on it’s own without any help, and despite the harm he would do.  Maybe that would have occurred in some other era, but we really needed help this time.  And instead of providing help, obama made it much worse– he dumped billions upon billions into places and projects that do NOTHING to create jobs or spur economic growth.  In fact, he used billions of dollars to increase the size of government, even developing entirely new agencies.  Anyone in a position to expand a business saw that these new areas of spending were not temporary;  they were the start of projects that will forever cost taxpayers.  So the businessman says, ‘why expand if my taxes are going to go up to 80% in a few years?  Why risk my company if the return is essentially going to the government?’  So businesses did NOT expand.  And now the money is spent.  There is talk of spending ANOTHER 200 billion dollars– let’s see if it is spent wisely, or is instead wasted on paying for new Union-room coffee machines.

One final note-  I had the thought as I was reading about the billions upon billions that were being wasted on the new suddenly-endangered species that those people have quite a racket.  There were reports yesterday and today that environmental agencies had moseyed up to the spending hog-trough and were raking in huge increases in funding.  It occurred to me– who would question that?!  Can you see the press (outside of Fox news) going after agencies that protect spotted owls?  Michael Crichton had the guts to take on those agencies and was immediately dropped from all of the Hollywood guest lists;  with him gone (RIP) there is nobody, save John Stossel (who is already being pilloried) who will say a word about the issue.  And me, of course– but only two or three people get to hear my ranting!!

Unfortunately there is no giving him back!

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