State senator: It doesn’t matter if Maryland’s broke as long as Obama’s president
posted at 3:45 pm on January 17, 2009 by Allahpundit
The most touchingly pure expression of Obama cultist devotion since Peggy Joseph declared her mortgage troubles over. Besides, she’s right, isn’t she? Maryland may be behind California in the bailout line, but pretty soon everyone will get theirs. Our permanent state of emergency guarantees it.
Think of it this way: If the risen Christ descended from the sky tomorrow, your interest in the federal deficit would wane pretty quickly. That’s what we’re looking at here. Click the image to watch.
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And all the oceans will rise on Tuesday. All wars shall cease. And everybody will drink Pepsi.
kingsjester on January 17, 2009 at 3:49 PM
What? the Koolaid pitcher empty?
Sanjoboy on January 17, 2009 at 3:51 PM
I am afraid this is the mindset in the USA at the moment. No one is allowed to lose. The unicorn rides indeed.
Meanwhile economists form theories on our survivability.
FireBlogger on January 17, 2009 at 3:53 PM
Fixed it for you.
grapeknutz on January 17, 2009 at 3:53 PM
Mind-bogglingly stupid.
johnsteele on January 17, 2009 at 3:54 PM
Children have dominion over us.
Stupid children.
notagool on January 17, 2009 at 3:54 PM
God help the people of Maryland! What’s worse than a socialist Congress and a socialist President? A majority of people in the state who want it that way!
Christian Conservative on January 17, 2009 at 3:54 PM
They’re in love, you know.
Disturb the Universe on January 17, 2009 at 3:54 PM
Having gone to college in that strange state, this comes as no surprise. Let’s just say they’re not the brightest bulbs…
JetBoy on January 17, 2009 at 3:56 PM
Frank in the house is already pushing Tarp for municipalities, and Feinstein is pushing it in the senate. In the senate its s-116 and its calling for 10 billion of tarp money for local governments alone. Understand that is not even state government.
rob verdi on January 17, 2009 at 3:56 PM
grapeknutz on January 17, 2009 at 3:53 PM
Yeah, but it’s Pepsi’s Marketing Campaign.
kingsjester on January 17, 2009 at 3:56 PM
What’s absolutely frightening is how true this is.
apollyonbob on January 17, 2009 at 3:57 PM
It’s basically how we’d feel with Zombie Reagan taking over…right?
ApartforHaShem on January 17, 2009 at 3:57 PM
There are a lot of people in for a huge letdown when they see what Obama is really like as president.
It ain’t gonna be pretty when they finally see what this guy is really all about.
JenWestin on January 17, 2009 at 3:59 PM
Can’t criticize.
She is a loveable woman with hope in her chest. But The One? Oh, no.
This attitude is so dependent, so needy, so beaten, so blind that I can’t attack her. I swear that my dog relieved himself half an hour ago. I did not beat him.
IlikedAUH2O on January 17, 2009 at 3:59 PM
Obama is the modern Jim Jones!
grapeknutz on January 17, 2009 at 3:59 PM
Three cheers for universal suffrage without any requirements for competency and/or ownership/tax-paying.
progressoverpeace on January 17, 2009 at 4:01 PM
Pepsi is the new kool-aid.
Really AP, Ed? Headbanging smiley… want it… need it…
Skywise on January 17, 2009 at 4:01 PM
Was President Reagan a zombie? Wow. He sure accomplished a lot…where can we get more?
IlikedAUH2O on January 17, 2009 at 4:01 PM
Well put, add what is left of the compliant main stream media and you get a president that spent less than 2 full years as a US Senator.
The kids saw nothing wrong with his Chicago friends and they saw nothing wrong with their new leader flipping off war hero McCain during a Florida campaign stop.
FireBlogger on January 17, 2009 at 4:02 PM
Rent the film Idiocracy.
IlikedAUH2O on January 17, 2009 at 4:05 PM
“It doesn’t matter if Maryland’s broke as long as Obama’s president.”
No it should be:
“It doesn’t matter if Obama is president everyone will still be broke.”
izoneguy on January 17, 2009 at 4:06 PM
Hey, it’s been a fun ride for 234 years.
gmoonster on January 17, 2009 at 4:06 PM
Better than watching the inaugural.
IlikedAUH2O on January 17, 2009 at 4:07 PM
Yeah, it’s good to be on the Titanic as long as room service is still available.
savvydude on January 17, 2009 at 4:07 PM
We are represented by morons, whom we fully deserve, because we freely vote for them.
“Prostitution free zone“, now in Washington D.C. – the irony of all ironies, with our national Congress there – should be a required sign at the state houses too.
Entelechy on January 17, 2009 at 4:07 PM
Yep. My first thought was, “I’m perpetually disturbed by the fact that those in power aren’t any more intelligent than we are. And usually less.”
kc8ukw on January 17, 2009 at 4:07 PM
So what’s the latest on Baltimore Mayor “fur coats for favors” Dixon?
ericdondero on January 17, 2009 at 4:08 PM
Does this mean all of the elected officials will have to miss the event?
thomasaur on January 17, 2009 at 4:09 PM
Bill O. showed Chrissy Matthews knocking President Bush for driving his dad’s car and insinuating that he did nothing on his own.
Partially true. BTW where are The One’s test scores and transcripts? I would much rather have Affirmative Action than Dad money. Dad money doesn’t buy all the profs.
IlikedAUH2O on January 17, 2009 at 4:10 PM
Democrats: the party of Alfred E. Newman.
Over30 on January 17, 2009 at 4:12 PM
Our governments are only as good as we are. We are the trough-suckling-pigs, eventually to morph into the freely-marching-to-the-slaughter-block-lambs, once we’re all stuffed, fat, and happy. We deserve our government and no one else is to blame.
Entelechy on January 17, 2009 at 4:12 PM
Save your money, just walk outside and look around.
fogw on January 17, 2009 at 4:13 PM
Looks like we’re in for 24 hour Barry programming until
after Tuesday. And then it will be 18 hours a day. Somebody get Chrissie and Olby some Depends.
kingsjester on January 17, 2009 at 4:17 PM
Mark Ndesandjo, the intensely private half-brother of President-elect Barack Obama, plays the piano to raise money for orphans during a charity concert in Shenzhen, southern China, Friday, Jan. 16, 2009.
Saw this on Yahoo News. How many Obama siblings are there?
Disturb the Universe on January 17, 2009 at 4:17 PM
These people freak me out. I know that Obama’s made history, blah, blah, blah. But the cult of personality for a politician is just so beyond creepy.
I was training this woman at work who started talking about how Obama was going to change the way our jobs were done for the better (we work for a health insurance company) and we just don’t know his official policies yet. My response: “Who needs actual policies when you’ve got Hope and Change?” Her response: Dead silence.
mjk on January 17, 2009 at 4:19 PM
I’m not sure myself, but considering Obama Daddy was a polygamist, I’m thinking quite a few.
mjk on January 17, 2009 at 4:20 PM
LOLOL
Have said several times on these boards that Allah is good with words in general. But ya know, for an atheist, he’s also pretty good at picking analogies that work for Christians.
**Allah’s heart sinks again: a Christian on Hot Air doesn’t hate all atheists!! Good lord!!! [I think that's his preferred if rawtha odd exclamation]**
inviolet on January 17, 2009 at 4:21 PM
I can relax now – the world will achieve perfection by Jan. 21, 2009.
All will be at peace, safe , sound, healthy. and blissful.
Kumbaya.
/sarc. /barf
rockbend on January 17, 2009 at 4:22 PM
I should be an interesting four years as they all make their appearances. I wonder if Obama even knows who all of them are.
Disturb the Universe on January 17, 2009 at 4:23 PM
I often wonder if what I feel is what the Romans felt as their empire crumbled.
SouthernGent on January 17, 2009 at 4:23 PM
Doesn’t matter. Father Barack has millions of children awaiting his healing powers.
Maaaaaan, reality is going to be a b***h someday.
ddrintn on January 17, 2009 at 4:24 PM
Oh, and I heard on the radio yesterday that step grandma in Kenya is not at all happy that Michelle Obama’s mother is going to be staying in the Lincoln bedroom.
Disturb the Universe on January 17, 2009 at 4:24 PM
Wadda maroon….
Hog Wild on January 17, 2009 at 4:25 PM
How do these people get elected?
d1carter on January 17, 2009 at 4:27 PM
ACORN?
Disturb the Universe on January 17, 2009 at 4:29 PM
I remember a phenomenon back in the seventies similar to the Obama phenomenon. It was the Pet Rock.
MB4 on January 17, 2009 at 4:30 PM
Universal suffrage with no requirements of competency nor contribution to the operation of the government, along with a lot of lying and cheating.
progressoverpeace on January 17, 2009 at 4:32 PM
Obama can’t let me down
DarkCurrent on January 17, 2009 at 4:33 PM
Exactly!
progressoverpeace on January 17, 2009 at 4:33 PM
Can we please have another plane crash into the Hudson River? Anything to get rid of this Obama is God crap that’s permeating through the media.
Percy_Peabody on January 17, 2009 at 4:34 PM
And I’m sure that mirrors the sentiments of millions of other parasites in this country.
rplat on January 17, 2009 at 4:35 PM
How long ago did they start that sh*t that nobody loses in kids sports? Wasn’t that in the eighties? And aren’t those kids voting age?
amynorw on January 17, 2009 at 4:38 PM
Where can I find an Obama free zone? My TV is staying off until Wednesday (except for Keeping Up Appearances later today). I can’t take the Obamagasm going on around me.
bopbottle on January 17, 2009 at 4:39 PM
LOL!!
Texas Gal on January 17, 2009 at 4:42 PM
66 million
progressoverpeace on January 17, 2009 at 4:43 PM
I know. Can’t Blago recite a poem or something?
Disturb the Universe on January 17, 2009 at 4:43 PM
bopbottle on January 17, 2009 at 4:39 PM
Comedy Central has the 3rd Redneck Comedy Tour Movie on right now. The Scorpion King is on USA.
kingsjester on January 17, 2009 at 4:44 PM
I’m quickly tiring of this false god and his worshippers.
Kapitan on January 17, 2009 at 4:46 PM
Affirmative Action
UnEasyRider on January 17, 2009 at 4:47 PM
Barrett-Jackson on Speed.
R D on January 17, 2009 at 4:50 PM
“Sunshine” is on Max. Excellent movie.
progressoverpeace on January 17, 2009 at 4:52 PM
You say the truth, and explain why the US will fail, and it just goes over like you said nothing. Nobody comments.
Hellooooooo!!!! Representative democracy with universal suffrage in a heterogeneous population doesn’t work.
The question remains, is it still the best available option, with the understanding that it produces a society with a limited life-span? Bet you didn’t think you’d be alive at the end of ours. Funny part is, hardly anyone knows.
JiangxiDad on January 17, 2009 at 4:53 PM
The Whitehouse will become the Flophouse with all those relatives coming out of the woodwork.
R D on January 17, 2009 at 4:53 PM
And the Founders warned about this:
Democracy… while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
– John Adams
Democracy is the most vile form of government… democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention: have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property: and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
–James Madison
No. There are better much better systems available (or close to available).
On this point, there is no escape. All systems have finite life-spans. The question is how the life runs and what happens at the end.
Yep. I find the turn of events to be beyond shocking and disappointing. And all this is happening right before we go into space and really start expanding and creating wealth. What a shame.
progressoverpeace on January 17, 2009 at 5:00 PM
Brain hurts.
Yakko77 on January 17, 2009 at 5:01 PM
Maybe I should write two books about myself.
Mojave Mark on January 17, 2009 at 5:07 PM
She HAS to be related to Peggy Joseph. The Koolade hasn’t
even been spiked yet and they’re already floppin like
hooked tuna.
Texyank on January 17, 2009 at 5:08 PM
It’s a good thing we are a Republic and not a Democracy.
R D on January 17, 2009 at 5:13 PM
We were. That’s the point. At this point we’ve moved past Democracy to Ochlocracy (mob rule), the evidence of which is seen in our SCOTUS’ fear of even reviewing the Constitutional eligibility of BHO, which is clearly open to question.
progressoverpeace on January 17, 2009 at 5:17 PM
I sit corrected. carry on….
R D on January 17, 2009 at 5:20 PM
Good call.
Kapitan on January 17, 2009 at 5:21 PM
My truck is on its last legs, the tires are worn down, the brakes are shot, the shocks pretty much gone, the windshield cracked; it’s rusty and fading and clunking strangely under the hood.
But look at the new Bose system I just got for it!
Bishop on January 17, 2009 at 5:23 PM
But I wish someone had tried to explain the difference between those systems to George Bush. His bleating on about Democracy did no one any good and only fed the left’s erroneous, and dangerous, ideas.
P.S. The party names are quite appropriate; Republicans want a Republic and Democrats want a Democracy. If only people, in general, understood the difference.
progressoverpeace on January 17, 2009 at 5:27 PM
The problem is we’ve allowed the Republic to become a democracy.
DarkCurrent on January 17, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Sometimes I think it’s the Tower of Babel story all over–being punished for our hubris. Other times I think nothing could have possibly been any different. Surely you can see the seeds in all this evident ever since the end of the second world war.
India has done very well in some ways–at least in terms of longevity. It has withstood wave after wave of invasion, and co-opted everyone. Hinduism is so vastly elastic–it serves as a fine glue for them, even dealing with the issue of what to do with their people of lesser abilities.
China too passes the time test with flying colors.
We’re going through the beginnings of the same process. We will disappear. Who knows what will remain here.
Don’t you think we should have been smart enough to have known this a little more in advance? As you say, it’s the element of surprise that shocks, not the events. You could probably make a whole list of similar societal rot in other places at other times. This really might help explain how the dumbest and least able among us are now our leaders. We never really stood a chance, as long as we’d die for our ideals and the preservation of civilization–and die for them you will.
I do wonder about something. When the fiat currencies break down, why wouldn’t some country SELL part of it’s land for gold. Perhaps there’s a possibility some people can start the whole process over here, or elsewhere. Ah,there’s that Hinduism again. It really draws me. Maybe Spengler meant India.
JiangxiDad on January 17, 2009 at 5:31 PM
I see what you’re saying. Can’t say as I disagree.
R D on January 17, 2009 at 5:34 PM
Can’t. Watch.
paustin110 on January 17, 2009 at 5:40 PM
Aside from the sound quality being crap, it makes perfect sense: Gum drops n moon beams n butterflys. It’s hopey-changey-licious!
locomotivebreath1901 on January 17, 2009 at 5:41 PM
He wasn’t talking to left, he was talking about the middle east. The fact that left can’t distinguish that fact should tell you something. Democracy is the best thing for the middle east since toilet paper. (beats the hell out of a rock)
R D on January 17, 2009 at 5:41 PM
Face it. You gotta get past the denial stage.
She is Nero, fiddling with her shiny Obama watch as her society tumbles around her.
How long do we have left?
What’s the safest place to view the carnage from?
Is there any way out?
JiangxiDad on January 17, 2009 at 5:42 PM
Ahem, I Just Saw a Criticism of The One.
Charles Krauthammer on Fox thought it was a bit arrogant for The One to imitate Lincoln on his “historic” train trip before the inauguration. Naturally, he was immediately set upon by Juan Williams who reminded the racist pig that both were from Illinois. Some commented that so was Blago, but Charles was already sorry. The fact that President Lincoln did it after a civil war and most trying presidency, was lost on Juan.
And you wonder where the poor lady above gets it?
And so it goes..
IlikedAUH2O on January 17, 2009 at 5:46 PM
Charles was planning on eating some arugula salad with walnut dressing this evening after the show, a leftover from his dinner with Barry. Perhaps that little guilty secret was the reason for the mea culpa you witnessed.
JiangxiDad on January 17, 2009 at 5:50 PM
JiangxiDad on January 17, 2009 at 5:50 PM
I was afraid after meeting Barry, Krauthammer would become even a bigger “Beltway Elitist” than he already was. It’s a shame. He’s a good writer.
kingsjester on January 17, 2009 at 5:55 PM
I like him, a lot. I don’t think it was too difficult to say “no” to the terms. I still would love to know who did say “no.”
JiangxiDad on January 17, 2009 at 5:57 PM
I mean to say this honestly
She wasnt completly WRONG..
1. Liberals forced all banks to allow anything breathing borrow for home loans they couldnt afford
2. Liberals opened the doors wide to every one
EXCEPT Citizens of the USA. (were all rich racists)
3. Liberals ran the companies out of their own states
4. Now their broke (and i mean completly)
and they are WHOLEY dependant upon
The gag Messia to somehow
Get the money and hand it to the states
so they can continue the same failed policies.
This shows you the complete idiocy of the liberals , the congressional black caucass and democrats.
Oh yea a lot of republicans also shared blame
but because they didnt want to actually do their own jobs
like WATCHING the Banks and Wallstreet.
So this MORON called a congressman (gag) is bowing down
to the messia (gag osama err obama) to
Borrow the money
From communist china (the communist party in china is rolling down the isles in laughter).
From the saudis islamists (just allow us to wipe out all the infidels and jews) and we will also give you the money
Who also are Roling down their red carpets in their mosques
I am just waiting for the next group
the columbian drug cartel
Dont laugh
A few years ago
The Drug dealers offered (liek the mafia)
to pay OFF columbias foreign debt
In exchange for ohh 1/2 of the country..
So i am not surprised by this moronic womans actions
oh now i now come toi expect it
This is why i am now getting ready
For the COMPLETE COLLAPSE of
The FORMER
United States of America
Destroyed by
Democrats – looting the treasury
Republicans – looting WALL street
Communists (suppporting the demorats)
Rich perverts (supporting both sides)
I for one have had enought of the VILE
DISGUSTING CONGRESS , SENATE, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SO CALLED MESSIA (osama hussein obama)
And ALL of them
I really believe that our country will not last
4 years (it is mathematically impossible)
I dont believe we will last 12 months with these
morons running the government
It used to be
One government (by the people and for the people)
Now its
Their government
To loot and rob at will
And make the rest of us PAY FOR IT..
How do i explain this travesty
to my sons???
I cant..
No wonder they dont want to vote anymore
Both sides are Completly EVIL
the republicans just havent caught up to the democrats
in the amount of evil (but they are getting close)..
I say get the pitch forks ready,..
jcila on January 17, 2009 at 6:01 PM
Wow, a lot of poets here today.
m064404 on January 17, 2009 at 6:04 PM
We could have elected the first former POW.
Imagine the sense of history. Imagine the excitment. The whole nation would buzz with excitment. And toast the honor of a hero! Just like The One.
Did I mess part of that up? It is for MSNBC.
IlikedAUH2O on January 17, 2009 at 6:05 PM
I disagree with the idea of electing mccain..
I like him personally
But the simeple fact is
mccain isnt a conservative at all.
He is more like a closet liberal..
the fact the republican party choose mccain
shows they wanted to throw the election
maybe hoping for a ronald regan revolt #2
but they severly miscalculated on three things
1. the economy (they let it run wild)
2. the price of oil (that finished it)
3, immigration (they woudlnt take a tought stand)
and now america is electing
a complete idiot (obama) followed by a moron (binden)
a witch (pelozi) and the rest of them are either drug addicts , homer sexuals, or other trash..
And they are so shocked how they lost..
Easy you idiots..
Why dont you find a person with a brain and some actual BALLS..
the only one who has some BALLS in the republican part now
is the honorable mrs. Palin..
And she knows better than to trust the republican IDIOTS..
Morons..
jcila on January 17, 2009 at 6:18 PM
China and India are very interesting examples. Part of their longevity arises from, IMHO, the fact that they are stability-oriented rather than progress-oriented. The Eastern philosophies, in general, seem to have this bent. At least, this is the conclusion I’ve come to in trying to understand how many in the East have had phase-changing inventions long before the West but never exploited them to their fullest extent (e.g. the Chinese, having invented moveable type first, should have been immediately catapulted to world domination, much moreso than the Mongols achieved). Personally, I prefer progress, along with all the risk it entails (hence my screenname). The big problem in the West, though, is when we abandoned progress as our primary motivation and moved to peace as the ultimate desire.
I think that many, myself included, underestimated the strength of emotions in ruling people’s decisions. After all, we are based on the premise of rationality. The guilt that the West laid on itself after WWII, as you mention (which was super-charged in the 60′s and came to true fruition with the fall of the USSR and the ability for us to float off into a utopian world view totally divorced from reality) is so deply embedded in our society that there seems no escape from it. We had a slight possibility, after 9/11, but Bush chose to just reinforce the old guilt (the whole “islam is a religion of peace” cr#p) and then it went ballistic. At least that’s how I’ve seen it. Another large hit somewhere could snap everyone out of their delusional worlds, but … I think that most are banking on the destruction of Israel to do this – even that would only perpetuate the current situation.
I don’t know what is going to happen with the fall of the currencies. I’ve tried to game out some scenarios, but they all end with totalitarianism or just chaos and disintegration. I hope that people are working on contingency plans for the fall of the currencies, but I’m afraid they aren’t. I’m not a big gold bug, myself, but there must either be some sort of hard backing to a new currency, or some restrictions on its creation. I do have a feeling that a good deal of land/national assets will be swapped for debts, as the system comes down, but then we come to the question of the continued validity of contracts.
Though, I am, a bit, the optimist in this area, in that I believe there is a genius solution available. I just don’t think we have any geniuses working on it. We need someone like a Von Neumann, now. I’m not holding my breath. The current crop are anything but awe-inspiring, just like our government. (As an aside, taking the gulf oil fields would solve two of the world’s biggest problems, right now. It would totally defang the arab/persian/muslim enemies, taking that threat off the table, and it would reinject value into our currency. I just wanted to note that even though it’s a non-starter.)
I still have faith that the West (America, specifically) will eventually pick up our own dropped baton, but there is going to be a lot of chaos, ugliness and death in the interim. If the arab/persian/muslim world ends up with the upper hand, though … game over, I think.
progressoverpeace on January 17, 2009 at 6:18 PM
“We do not have to destroy America with missiles; America will destroy itself from within.” – Nikita Khrushchev 1961
Knucklehead on January 17, 2009 at 6:23 PM
“You first.”
- Ronald Reagan
Spirit of 1776 on January 17, 2009 at 6:24 PM
The link above shows the American flag being desicrated in Obama’s likeness. Has the whole country gone nuts? That is illegal!!!!!!!
Kevin in Southern Illinois on January 17, 2009 at 6:33 PM
This is sick.We have got people in this country who can vote that beleave that Obama is Christ come back to earth.People we in this country have just put a demmie god in office and i beleave there is NO coming back for our country.I don,t know what this country will look like in 4 or 5 years but the days of personal freedom and libetry i beleave are over.I also just saw a women on fox news say that watching Obama today is like seeing Christ on palm sunday. GOD help us!!!
thmcbb on January 17, 2009 at 6:40 PM
Well, it’s not “illegal”…you can even burn the flag if you want to.
But alas, they’re Obama supporters. They don’t have to feign ignorance…they are the epitome of it.
JetBoy on January 17, 2009 at 6:50 PM
There should be a good boost to the economy if all these people would run out and buy the uniform of devotion – purple robes and Nike shoes. There is always a silver lining.
sherry on January 17, 2009 at 7:08 PM
Her mouthpiece was flapping his gums on the news claiming Sheila will be vindicated because she did nothing wrong and is a VICTIM of an overzealous Republican prosecutor. (That has to be a lie because there are only 6 republicans in the whole state: Michelle, Ehrilich, Steele, my parents, and me; and none of us works as a state prosecutor.)
Given the political climate and the utter stupidity of her constituents, she’ll get off and get reelected.
By the by, can anyone sell me some cheap land so I can get the #&%$ out of this commie state;)
Laura in Maryland on January 17, 2009 at 7:11 PM
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