Thanks (for nothing) Obama!

It has become difficult to write this blog for a couple reasons.  First, it is painful to see our great country in the hands of such an asshole as Obama.  But a greater problem is that there are just so many things to write about that I feel overwhelmed.  Today, for example, I would like to mention the huge increase in domestic terror attempts over the past year– attempts that in the past were thwarted much earlier in the planning process, instead of relying on fuses to malfunction, for example.  I could write about the idiocy and naivete of our idiot president for thinking that bowing to thugs would ‘make them like us’.  How’s that working, by the way?  I would write about the double standard of our ‘press corps’ for barely leaking how obama sat on the leaking rig for a couple days, while the person responsible for the government’s response was on a rafting trip in Colorado.  And of course I would write about how amazed I am that the press has NOTHING to say about our massive, obama-fueled deficit and debt, even as Greece gives a preview of life in the US in a decade or so.  Look at the video from Greece and say to yourself, Thanks, Obama!!  

I would mention how silent the press was when the REAL numbers came out on obama-care, after it was passed, that showed the LIES from obama– his own administration admitting that our deficit will BALLOON from his health fiasco, that people will LOSE coverage, that government will GROW…    and the press said…  ‘huh?’

Obama uses the term 'tea-baggers.' What a pig.

But what irks me more than all of those things is my disgust for the lack of dignity at the supposed ‘top levels’ of our government.  I have been disgusted by the class warfare used by the obama administration (by the way, remember how the press used to call President Bush ‘divisive’?  If he was divisive, what the heck is obama?!!) for the sake of covering up his own ineptness.  NO CLASS!   And after the healthcare ‘victory’ that will eventually destroy us, obama just had to go out and taunt the right– NO CLASS.  And now, obama joins his liberal pals at MSNBC in calling the TEA party members (TEA stands for Taxed Enough Already, by the way) a disgusting sexual term… NO CLASS!

Really– is this who you want as president of the United States?  He calls members of the TEA party movement ‘Tea Baggers’–  president obama is referring to an image of a man letting his testicles hang down, toward the mouth of another person– whether he is thinking of a man or woman, you would have to ask obama!  THAT is what obama jokes about, as he uses the term to describe Americans of all ages and cultures who come together to protest our lurch toward insolvency. 

NO CLASS.

as in Liar…

We all accept the fact that politicians are not the most sincere bunch of humans on the planet. But every now and then a politician comes along who raises lying to an art form– who can simply spew our words that have no connection to the truth, and then look you in the face and say “I never said such a thing!” I forget which Dem it was who called Clinton ‘a particularly good liar;’ I really thought that Clinton would be the best liar of my generation. But our current embarassing pig in the White House just keeps on fighting for the prize as ‘best liar’– even after he has clearly won the award several times over.

The following video is truly a classic, and has entertained viewers around the world.  The sad thing is that obama will still have his loyal idiots;  the folks who think Dems are the ‘good guys’, no matter how many times they are caught red-handed abusing interns and insisting ‘I did not have sexual relations with that woman’ (depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is), no matter how many times the Charlie Rangels write tax policy for the rest of us and are then caught ‘forgetting’ about millions of dollars of real estate, and no matter how many Chris Dodds get sweetheart deals from bank execs as they write favorable regulations, and then blame the other party for the fallout.

The one good bit of news is that the bloom may be coming off the rose.  Even the obama fan club, also known as the mainstream media, is having a hard time ignoring obama’s lies.  The problem is that there really is nothing truthful to write about anymore!  Throw in the facts of what is going on out there– terrorists being moved from a military base in Cuba to the middle of Illinois where they can breed their terror among America’s lowest;  repeated attacks against American targets despite obama’s apologies to every country that would have him for a visit;  the trillions of dollars of deficit spending reaching as far as the eye can see;  the lack of job production in the private sector, largely thanks to obama’s reckless spending that leaves private businesses afraid to expand– which is no surprise, given the promise of higher taxes, higher inflation, and a weak dollar.

Only a fool can pretend that obama’s policies hold water.  The Dems with experience are lining up for retirement, hoping to get out before being labelled as a member of the party that destroyed the country in 2009 before being thrown out in 2010.  Good riddance– I just hope we can recover from the doubling of the country’s debt under two years of obama– not even counting the damage yet to come from the destruction of our health care system.

Enjoy the video.  If you still respect the guy, leave a comment and tell me what you’re smoking- I’d like to check it out myself!

This commentary is an interesting look at historical politics–   and how everything old is new again.  How interesting that the motivations of Democrats 150 years ago still ring true today–  only the details have changed.  Back then the Democrats wanted to free up rich white people to own black men and women as slaves (your public education has probably prevented you from learning that the Republicans were the party behind establishing the Civil Rights of African Americans– NOT Democrats).  Today, Democrats still want to own black men and women–  by keeping them from finding success through Capitalism, by promoting out of wedlock births by black teens, by increasing their dependence on government, and by making certain they feel like ‘victims.’  Have you ever thought about the fact that people who wallow in victimization are not the type of people who would vote Republican?  Just out of curiosity, where do YOU fit on the ‘victimization scale?’

In every election the Dems can count on the vote of people who they lead around by the nose, telling them that they are victims, and telling them that the Dems will save them if they get their vote.  Jesse Jackson keeps getting ‘his’;  Rev. Al keeps getting ‘his’;  obama grabbed his own piece a year ago.  Obama used the same old crap used by Sharpton, the black victim crowd, and the rich white folk who make their livings off the black victim business like Huffington, Soros, and generations of Kennedys.  They keep pulling on the rope in the nose, saying ‘we’ll save you, brother!’  But you know what worries them the most?  How ironic!  If Black Americans would get their act together– buy into the idea of personal responsibility instead of personal victimhood– they would start moving up the wealth ladder.  Dems shudder at the thought!  Because if Black Americans start making it on their own, WITHOUT the Government, why would they vote for Democrats?

That is why the healthcare bill is so important;  it promises huge levels of government dependency.  The bill will increase premiums, leading to the dropping of coverage by employers (or firing workers– either way will cut costs, and either will benefit the Democrats).  Then the Dems got their story back… you NEED us!  Can you imagine if taxes went down and Black Americans became more employed as businesses looked for people to hire– what would THAT do for the re-election of Dems?  Nope– they need to keep minorities jobless, poor, and without insurance, depending on the Government to come to their rescue.

The commentary:

When Legerdemain Is Used to Pass an Unpopular Bill

A Commentary By Michael Barone

It’s time to blow the whistle on two erroneous statements that opponents and proponents of the health care legislation being jammed through Congress have been making. Republicans have been saying that never before has Congress passed such an unpopular bill with such important ramifications by such a narrow majority. Barack Obama has been saying that passage of the bill will mean that the health care issue will be settled once and for all.

The Republicans and Obama are both wrong. But perhaps they can be forgiven because the precedent for Congress passing an unpopular bill is an old one, and the issue it addressed has long been settled, though not by the legislation in question.

That legislation was the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. Its lead sponsor was Stephen A. Douglas, at 41 in his eighth year as senator from Illinois, the most dynamic leader of a Democratic Party that had won the previous presidential election by 254 electoral votes to 42.

Douglas’ legislative prowess far exceeded that of current Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. To hold together his 60 Senate Democrats, Reid simply dispensed favors — eternal Medicaid financing for Ben Nelson’s Nebraska, a hospital grant for Chris Dodd’s Connecticut, more rural health money for Byron Dorgan’s North Dakota and Montana’s Max Baucus.

Douglas did something far more difficult. He got the Senate to pass a bill some of whose provisions were supported by half of the Senate plus Douglas and some of which were supported by the other half plus Douglas. After passage, Douglas spent a day getting drunk — a consolation unavailable to the teetotaling Reid.

The issue that Douglas said the Kansas-Nebraska Act would settle forever was slavery in the territories. His bill repealed the 34-year-old Missouri Compromise prohibiting slavery in territories north of Arkansas and substituted popular sovereignty — territory residents could vote slavery up or down.

We cannot say with assurance that the Kansas-Nebraska Act was unpopular — Dr. Gallup didn’t start polling until 81 years later. But the results of the next election were pretty convincing. The Republican Party was suddenly created to oppose the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the 1854-55 elections transformed the Democrats’ 159-71 majority to a 108-83 Republican margin. Democrats didn’t win a majority of House seats for the next 20 years.

On the health care bill, there can be little doubt about public opinion. Quinnipiac, polling just after the Senate voted cloture, found Americans opposed by a 53 percent to 36 percent margin. Polls suggest that Democrats may suffer as much carnage in the 2010 elections as they did in 1854.

Nor did the Kansas-Nebraska Act settle the issue it addressed. Pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers fought it out in “bleeding Kansas,” and Douglas felt obliged to break with the Democratic administration and disown election-stealing by the pro-slavery side. The issue roused a former congressman named Abraham Lincoln to re-enter politics, and he beat Douglas in the popular vote (but not in the legislature) in 1858 and then was elected president in 1860.

A health care bill like the Senate’s is unlikely to settle all health care issues, either, though the ensuing political struggles will stop somewhere short of civil war. “We aren’t done talking about health care,” writes Atlantic blogger (and Obama voter) Megan McArdle. “We haven’t even really started. Our budget problems are as big as ever, and we just used up both political capital, and some of our stock of tax increases and spending cuts, to pay for something else.”

The Senate bill contains provisions that are likely to be revisited. Its language channeling federal and consumer dollars to abortion coverage is opposed, according to Quinnipiac, by a 72 percent to 23 percent margin. Its provision establishing an Independent Medicare Advisory Board and stating that it cannot be abolished except by a two-thirds vote of the Senate is of dubious constitutionality, and even if upheld in a court of law may not pass muster in the court of public opinion. Since when has Congress passed laws that cannot be repealed?

Kansas-Nebraska was an attempt to settle a fundamental issue by legislative legerdemain and political trickery. The Democrats’ health care bills are an attempt to settle a fundamental issue by partisan maneuver and cash-for-cloture. As Stephen Douglas learned, such tactics can work for a while, but the country — and the Democratic Party — can end up paying a heavy price.

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