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posted at 10:00 pm on February 14, 2009 by Allahpundit
Yet Obama held no illusions about the scale of the challenges he faces, both economic and political. One of those challenges was the overwhelming Republican resistance to his plan, which frustrated his campaign hopes of quickly bridging Washington’s ideological and partisan divides. Obama seemed to split that opposition into several categories. Some of it was ideological: “I think that there were some senators and House members who have a sincere philosophical difference with the idea of any government role in boosting demand in the economy. They don’t believe in [economist John Maynard] Keynes and they are still fighting FDR.” Some was tactical: “I also think that there was a decision made… where [Republican leaders] said… ‘If we can enforce conformity among our ranks, then it will invigorate our base and will potentially give us some political advantage either short-term or long-term.” He paused. “Whether that’s a smart strategy, I think you should ask them.”
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Republicans should not have taken voters for granted. They are paying the price now, a minority party in the wilderness. Similarly, husbands should not take wives for granted.
Happy Valentine’s Day Honey
There is a price to be paid.
And my guess is Obama, despite all his charm, is about to learn that lesson. And the Democratic Party will re-learn the lesson.
Mr. Joe on February 14, 2009 at 10:03 PM
Uhhh….Me thinks he had no such hopes…..
Tim Zank on February 14, 2009 at 10:04 PM
He wouldn’t know a smart strategy if it bit him in the ass.
All he is doing is walking in the direction that Emanuel and Axelrod point him every day, and reading the words on the TelePrompTer that they wrote for him.
rockmom on February 14, 2009 at 10:04 PM
Osama Obama had no “illusions” about his inability to be a uniter. He simply fails to comprehend anything beyond his pitifully narrow sphere of education and experience.
We are dealing with someone who has had it all his own way since babyhood, replete with people patting him on the head and telling him how superior he is. He has never had to work, never had to justify his actions or ideas.
He is a spoiled little creep, and no doubt tunes out anything critical said to him, after childishly lashing out at the bearers of bad news.
Electing him to a small-town city council would be the height of stupidity. Electing him president was a shocking act of folly.
MrScribbler on February 14, 2009 at 10:06 PM
Any possibility that those who voted no thought this bill was an enormous load of crap? What was the strategy of the 7 House Dems?
DrStock on February 14, 2009 at 10:06 PM
I got as far as:
Another Obama cheerleader.
There has to be a reason why all of his fanboys go to great lengths to portray him as being so calm and “cool” all the time.
He stammers through a series of rambling, vague answers in a press conference, and they all say how wonderful and composed he was.
He never sweats.
He’s so calm, blah, blah…
I don’t get it.
Obama is going to get away with a ton of crap.
reaganaut on February 14, 2009 at 10:10 PM
We acheived party unity along with 7 intelligent democrats!!! Oxymoronic as it is.
Sphincter and the two skanks in Maine should be expelled immediately.
The more obscene bills these tools ramrod through the sooner they’ll get thrown out of office.
dthorny on February 14, 2009 at 10:11 PM
That should read: How does the government get out of the way to allow the American people to access the opportunities to work, make income limited only by their willingness to work, raise their kids as they see fit, and allow the economy to grow by staying out of the way.
Oslime-a is a F***ING commie rat bastard!
csdeven on February 14, 2009 at 10:11 PM
Obama I won, and everyone else loses.
http://youhavetobethistalltogoonthisride.blogspot.com/2009/02/diane-sawyer-2020-hidden-america.html
Dr Evil on February 14, 2009 at 10:12 PM
You’re right. He has the basic Left approach to government.
There are numerous lies both within the presentation of the material and the quotes from Obama. We’d have to go through it phrase by phrase to fisk the entire thing.
The bottom line is ignore the words, look at what actually happened because that reveals gives the lie to everything he says.
INC on February 14, 2009 at 10:15 PM
EmanuelBergen and ObaMcCarthy. Edgar should sue them both for copyright infringement.
csdeven on February 14, 2009 at 10:17 PM
Saturday, February 14, 2009
SINCLAIR WARNS: IT’S OFFICIALLY ‘OUT OF CONTROL’…HAVE YOUR AFFAIRS IN ORDER NOW OR SUFFER GREATLY
Officially “Out Of Control”
Posted: Feb 14 2009 By: Jim Sinclair
Dear Extended Family,
I sent you a certain few emails that I consider to be the most important communications issued in my career that started in 1958.
I am the son of what I know to have been the greatest Lone Wolf trader in Wall Street history ever, Bertram J. Seligman. He was a past master at his business and believed to be a market sensitive. I apprenticed to him, learned from him and inherited some of his ability, not all however.
From this background of experience understanding and sensitivity the following flows.
The emails of note:
1. Said, “This is it.”
2. Said, “It is now.”
This communication is to inform you as of 2/13/09,
“It is totally out of control.”
There is no longer any means of reversal of the beginning of the final phase of the downward spiral now solidly set in motion.
For your sake, protect yourselves immediately.
Be prepared for disruptions in distribution common to hyperinflation.
1. You should have already distanced yourself from your financial agents. If you haven’t you are headed for significant displeasure and strain.
2. Make sure you stay three months ahead on necessary items that could experience distribution delays such as prescribed medicine and preferred foods.
3. Even though real estate is far from a buy, if you can afford a second home outside of major cities it would serve a good purpose.
4. Own gold.
5. Consider that good gold shares of non-US companies incorporated in a non-US country operating in third country, traded on multiple exchanges are a means of money expatriation legally and in broad daylight if required.
6. For currencies, all you can do is own a spread held by a true custodial ship wherever that might be.
Simply said, as of Friday February 13th, 2009 the situation is in confirmed “Out of Control” mode as this well engineered downward spiral enters into a terminal phase.
The motive was profit and degree of the disintegration caused in the pursuit of this goal was not anticipated.
The key event was when Lehman was flushed – all hell broke loose. The hell cannot be contained in any practical manner.
I seek nothing of you, but the protection of yourselves.
Respectfully yours,
Jim
MB4 on February 14, 2009 at 10:17 PM
So did every Republican congressman.
jgapinoy on February 14, 2009 at 10:19 PM
MY TWO WORDS FOR YOU MR. AZZHAT f*CK YOU!
GlocknRoll on February 14, 2009 at 10:20 PM
Am I the only one who found the phrase preternaturally calm and unruffled to be creepy?
INC on February 14, 2009 at 10:20 PM
his arrogance will be his undoing. if not that, his wife will be.
you get people around you telling you how great, fantastic, all-knowing and perfect you are, you soon start to believe it. poor guy. he’s like a kid just graduated from college pretending to be president.
that was the most pitiful press conference i had ever seen. what was even more pitiful, were all of the kiss ass media slobbering all over themselves about how “commanding” and “intellectual” he was.
sandlin71 on February 14, 2009 at 10:22 PM
How the f**k does one bridge divides by shutting the GOP out of any discussion of legislation that is going to bankrupt our greatgrandkids? The filthy liar needs to take Pelosi and Reid to task if he really wants to end partisanship (he doesn’t). The GOP was right to show overwhelming resistance. That’s going to become more and more clear as the details of the filthy liar’s plan are finally released.
highhopes on February 14, 2009 at 10:26 PM
“By any means necessary.”
jgapinoy on February 14, 2009 at 10:26 PM
Am I the only one who found the phrase preternaturally calm and unruffled to be creepy?
preternatural
1. out of the ordinary course of nature; exceptional or abnormal: preternatural powers.
2. outside of nature; supernatural.
INC on February 14, 2009 at 10:20 PM
please…I just ate…
SoxNation on February 14, 2009 at 10:29 PM
Yeah, you can say that again…………
Seven Percent Solution on February 14, 2009 at 10:29 PM
S&P heads to first quarter ever of negative earnings
MB4 on February 14, 2009 at 10:31 PM
Personally I think it will be his inability to multi-task. Sure, his arrogance is a factor but the filthy liar cannot concentrate on more than one issue at a time. He’s in perpetual campaign mode.
That trainwreck of a press conference for bankrupting our kids future is a taste. He was asked specific questions about the bank bailout plan and he said that his tax cheat Secretary of the Treasury would give full details the next day. First thing Geithner said was that he wouldn’t go into details. A POTUS cannot stay this “focused.” Too many issues going on all the time.
highhopes on February 14, 2009 at 10:31 PM
The guy with all that ‘executive experience and leadership’ wants to be “bipartisan”, so gives Nancy Pelosi the job of creating “bipartisan” legislation that all can support.
Yeah, Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, who wouldn’t know “bipartisanship” if it walked up and bit her on the ass.
GarandFan on February 14, 2009 at 10:31 PM
Hardly a surprise with the incompetent filthy liar in charge of the nation.
highhopes on February 14, 2009 at 10:32 PM
Bipartisanship has higher standards. Not even with beer goggles would it deal with that partisan whore.
highhopes on February 14, 2009 at 10:33 PM
The only reason Obama and crew are crowing is because of three Repub Senators who defied every other elected Repub and voted for the largest earmark in US history.
Our rage should be directed towards the Senators. The Dems were just being Dems. Had these Senators voted along party lines this bill would have lost and any future bill would have to include Repubs in its formulation. That historic opportunity is lost and not a word is being heard from the Repub leadership.
These Senators should be thrown out of the party and disgraced in the public square for having prevented a less damaging bill to emerge. They knew that and purposely voted for the bill instead.
Dems are not the problem. Repubs are and until that is acknowledged we are all pissing in the wind.
patrick neid on February 14, 2009 at 10:34 PM
Like all hyenas and jackals Obama and the Democrats will end up fighting amongst themselves for the best pieces from the pork they just rammed through, and I for one hope they choke on it.
Dreadnought223 on February 14, 2009 at 10:39 PM
By his own admission the only thing Obama had ever run was his campaign for POTUS. Now that the campaign is over (see:”I won” ) he is running scared.
BHO Jonestown on February 14, 2009 at 10:40 PM
With due respect, the real rage should be focused at Congress and the filthy liar in the White House. This society-changing legislation was passed without due dilligence, the minimum of debate, and complete partisanship on the part of the filthy liar’s party.
Americans should be outraged that Congress didn’t take the time to do this thing right. They should be outraged that the filthy liar, who got a bare majority at the polls, is acting like he won by a landslide. Most importantly at this point, it must be understood that this is the Democrat Party solution. That filthy party led by an unfit idiot will be responsible for the subsequent bad things that are going to happen as a result of this rush forward.
highhopes on February 14, 2009 at 10:41 PM
Who the hell is Jim Sinclair?
Bishop on February 14, 2009 at 10:47 PM
And Ol’ Jim is right, find a country bolt hole. I have a nice chunk up in the lake country, though it is nearer to a main road than I would like. Still, it’s out of the metro and on a fish-heavy lake.
Bishop on February 14, 2009 at 10:48 PM
It’s a good time to recall some of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin’s greatest hits:
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
Destroy the family, you destroy the country.
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
Fascism is capitalism in decay.
Buy Danish on February 14, 2009 at 10:49 PM
“We’re going to… work with anybody who wants to work with us constructively,” he said at one point — and open to adjusting his own course to bring others along or simply to respond to evidence that his ideas aren’t working. But repeatedly he declared that no one should interpret that to mean he lacks any clarity about his goals: “My consistent bottom line is: How do we make sure that the American people can work, have a decent income, look after their kids and we can grow the economy.” Any compromises or course corrections, he argued, must serve those overriding priorities. (Credit to the article cited above.)
Chatter like this merits such a glowing article? These clowns are certifiable! My goodness, they really might blame President George W. Bush for everything! Forever and ever.
I am soooo glad that Mr. Brownstein got around to mentioning Presidents Lincoln and Roosevelt in citing consistency in governance theories with The One by the end. The writer would lose points with the left wing conformance checkers if he missed that. Note the avoidance of discussing actual accomplishments by The One or indeed anything to support or augment the foot kissing by ignorant examples of hacks like the author.
I am waiting for some type of approval for a Lincoln-style suspension of Habeas Corpus or President Roosevelt’s attempt of federal control of all commerce and Executive Order 9066. That was the infamous but forgotten “concentration camp” authorization. And yes, dear liberals, even he called them concentration camps.
IlikedAUH2O on February 14, 2009 at 10:51 PM
It only passed because of three Repub Senators. Never, never forget that.
Obama and the Dems got elected. It was three Senators that empowered this bill. What part of that don’t you understand. There will be more bills just like this and they will now pass because of Repubs.
These three need to be kicked out of the party immediately. They sabotaged every principle of fiscal responsibility and relegated the repubs to irrelevancy for the next four years. Based on the comments I have read since the bill passed the Repubs deserve it. Every person is blaming it on Pelosi, Reid and Obama. They had nothing to do with the success of this bill. Snowe, Collins and Specter are the folks who championed this bill across the finish line and you don’t seem to have a problem with that.
Welcome to the minority where your voice is never heard. Thank you Snowe, Collins and Specter. Obama was counting on you. You delivered like true Repubs.
patrick neid on February 14, 2009 at 10:54 PM
MrScribbler You have summarized everything I have been saying about the formative experience of The One with 2/3 less verbiage.
IlikedAUH2O on February 14, 2009 at 10:58 PM
Ok, it’s torch & pitchfork time against the three turncoat senators. I mean don’t let up. Make their lives the living hell they have inflicted on this nation and perhaps the world.
wepeople on February 14, 2009 at 10:59 PM
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About 2 years ago I was looking to buy land in N Central Pa. During my long weekends of riding around in the mountains of a pretty depressed county there, I met a good number of locals, people who were 1st, 2nd generation or more of that area.
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All were very nice. I really got an eye opener when I had a front drive shaft start to fail on my Jeep. You cannot drive with that once it lets go, but I could limp along for a few miles to get to service… If I could find it. I called Jeep… Maybe Monday we can look at it.
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I got a hold of the realtor that I was working with (1st generation), he called a garage in a town of about 50 buildings and 20 miles away. That guy said if I could make it he would be there, even though it was Saturday closing time when we called. He said to take it slow so I didn’t breakdown on the way… He’d wait and come looking for me if I took too long to show.
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When I got there, he put the Jeep up on the lift, and him and a helper removed the shaft and made sure it was safe for me to drive the 250 mile back to Jersey without it.
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They worked on the problem for an hour… Then he had the nerve to try to charge me $30… I started laughing and told him he was breaking my heart. Trust me the tip was way more than $30.
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It was so amazing because I totally expected to be charge $200 or more… That town, that guy… That’s middle America. That should be all of America. Not that folks shouldn’t make a fair wage, but my guess is he charges $30 an hour… Even when the job he does is priceless.
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My family all came from that kind of area, just a 100 miles south of there. Same thing still exists there too, when you can find it.
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A week later Jeep charged $300 labor + $600 for parts to put a new one on… Welcome back to civilization.
RalphyBoy on February 14, 2009 at 10:59 PM
patrick neid on February 14, 2009 at 10:54 PM
WTF are you smoking?
Every single demorat in the senate voted for it, and all but seven rats in the house. Sure the Three GOP Clods helped push it over the edge, but the crapulous bill is OWNED by the left; the authored it, they created, they designed it, they filled it, they passed it.
What part of that don’t you understand?
Three GOP assclowns went along for the ride and now it’s the GOP’s fault? Get stuffed, seminar poster.
Bishop on February 14, 2009 at 11:02 PM
I don’t believe in Keynes either, the whole philosophy is moronic. Recent history is chock full of failures attributed to that socialist philosophy. Only an ignorant asshat sock puppet fool like Obama, Reid, and Pelosi would think THEY could do it better than say…the soviets, castro, chavez, the U.K. right before Margret Thatcher tossed that crap, the list goes on and on.
Yet this pussbag defends it, and a large number of idiotic freaks in this country defend HIM.
Ridiculous. Ignorant.
Spiritk9 on February 14, 2009 at 11:05 PM
Exactly. These three people undermined the entire Repub electorate. Think what the headlines would say had the bill failed. A entire new bill would have to be written and written it would have been given the times. Obama and the Dems would now be in disarray.
Now all leverage has been lost and a near trillion–a trillion f’king dollars—will be spread like fairy dust over the Dem party these next three years further bankrupting us.
They need to be thrown out of the party immediately.
patrick neid on February 14, 2009 at 11:10 PM
Don’t forget……….
“THIS IS AN EMERGENCY (that we caused) WE NEED TO PASS THIS NOW BEFORE WE ALL GO ON VACATION……….. DON’T READ IT, JUST VOTE ON IT, MY FLIGHT TO ITALY LEAVES IN AN HOUR. “THE ONE” PROMISED TRANSPARANCY AND VOTER FEEDBACK, SO WHAT EVER YOU DO, DON’T DO THAT!!!”
Seven Percent Solution on February 14, 2009 at 11:11 PM
Every time I’m in a conversation with someone who voted for the 0ne, and his name comes up, they always say, ‘well, he’s got so many good advisors surrounding him, they won’t let him do anything wrong…’ I just shake my head in disbelief.
4shoes on February 14, 2009 at 11:16 PM
You are the one with the crack pipe lit.
Every one knew that every Dem would vote for the bill with a new Dem president. The miracle was seven house dems voting against.
Snowe, Collins and Specter knew and relished the fact that they could undermine the entire Repub party and leadership and give Obama the most important fiscal victory in over 70 years. The Dems are laughing at you and you deserve it. You are blaming dems for being dems while excusing traitorous behavior by Repubs. Until the Repubs can clean up their own act they deserve nothing—and nothing they will get as Reid, Pelosi and Obama mock you.
As I said prior, had these three voted against the bill, the Dem party would be in complete disarray at the moment. Instead they are jetting around the world on your dime.
patrick neid on February 14, 2009 at 11:19 PM
Right idea, wrong target. The turncoat three are the enemy but torches and pitchforks need to be aimed at the filty bastards of the Democrat party. Make them accountable every step of the way for this bill that was forced through in a partisan manner.
This is a bad piece of legislation and the smart tactic is to nail it to the filthy liar in the White House every step of the way. Three GOP votes in total means this is utterly a Democrat initiative. ALL the ways this bill falls short of the hype needs to stapled to the whores of the left (don’t worry Pelosi has had so much botox, it won’t hurt).
Here’s the important part. The GOP needs to come out in opposition to this legislation and start communicating their alternate version. It isn’t enough to defy the filty liar, they need to provide another idea.
highhopes on February 14, 2009 at 11:22 PM
We have to start with these three first. They have to be kicked out of the party for the travesty they have created. The Dems would have been in failure mode with Obama in hiding. That opportunity is now lost. As the near trillion dollars in welfare start flowing, with the MSM in tow, the Dem base will expand.
Snowe, Collins and Specter have empowered this complete chain reaction and they knew it. They voted twice if you recall to move this horror forward. If you can’t even educate your party members forget about the public.
It is this kind of stupidity that had the repubs on the back bench for over fifty years.
patrick neid on February 14, 2009 at 11:29 PM
OT: SNL is taking overt shots at Hannity and Rush
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on February 14, 2009 at 11:32 PM
Good lord, did Al Franken write the cold open for SNL this week?
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on February 14, 2009 at 11:36 PM
WELL: now it can now be said this is the first “accomplishment” he has. passing the largest spending bill in history, with no bi-partisan support and an arrogant slant at that. can it be called an accomplishment if it creates more problems than all this started with?
thedude on February 14, 2009 at 11:36 PM
I understand — and share — your anger with the “Republican” traitors.
But there is a kernel of truth in what Bishop said, and it must never be forgotten: Osama Obama and his gang of pork-spewing, criminal goons are responsible for what is happening.
When the time comes for trials — and it will come — Specter and the two witches will deserve to be pilloried. But they did not do this alone; they couldn’t.
Obama is the Pontifex Maximus. He had a chance to act like a patriotic American, and has not yet come close to doing so. The death of our nation can and should be hung squarely around his neck. He had the best chance to say “no.”
MrScribbler on February 14, 2009 at 11:39 PM
Show of hands, who really believes that such condition was The One’s hopes? [thought not]
OK, second show of hands, who really believes that such condition was a fabrication of the media and promoted as propaganda to get him elected? [yep, thought so, you can put all your hands down now]
If he really wanted to do what the [expletive deleted] MSM writer said, he’d have done an equivalent of Bush’s letting Kennedy write his education bill. Yeah, that’ll happen, [expletive] dems won’t even let the Republicans see what legislation they are writing, much less help craft it.
Look, on the positive, side, this crap Democrat payoff to its patrons will probably not totally devastate the economy. If you look across a population of 300 million (before Rahm Emmanuel manipulates the census), it $780 Billion comes to $2600 per man, woman, and child in the US. While we could all have spent that money better, it is not enough to totally bankrupt the US. It isn’t going to solve any problems, the stuff being done is going to make things worse, and we will still have other stuff going on. However, the best way of looking at this is to take your family size, multiply it by $2600, then double it (to account for the 50% who aren’t paying taxes) and attribute that as your share of a donation to the Democrat National Committee. Now, I realize that most of us never came close to donating that much to our own party, but then our own party never conceived of a way of making campaign contributions mandatory and taxpayer funded.
AZfederalist on February 14, 2009 at 11:40 PM
This is only the beginning…..
patrick neid on February 14, 2009 at 11:41 PM
And the campaign continues….
d1carter on February 14, 2009 at 11:41 PM
Uh…there are 178 Republicans in the House and 41 in the Senate. Of the 219 total GOP members, three liberal Senators were the only ones who supported your socialist suicide bill, in any of the various revisions.
Three. In the House, seven Democrats joined them.
So any Obama spin/analysis of the opposition to this bill that starts off talking about “some” can be flushed with the rest of the crap. There was no some. There was only a solid wall of opposition. Liar.
Jaibones on February 14, 2009 at 11:41 PM
Pretty old news there, Doc. Like 20 years old.
Jaibones on February 14, 2009 at 11:42 PM
patrick neid on February 14, 2009 at 11:19 PM
The miracle of seven dems? There were ten in the house during the first go round.
Hate to break it to you but it wasn’t conservatives/Republicans who made this evil trifecta possible, it was the moron liberals who elected Ogabe to the White House.
You want to blame an entire party and who they represent because three fools jumped ship while the rest stood the line, that’s bullshat of the highest order. No one here, NO ONE, is excusing SpeCollSnowe, we all know they are next to useless.
The truth is, they are blue-state Republicans that only got elected BECAUSE they occasionally act like demorats; if they hadn’t, there would be rock-ribbed liberals holding their seats and even the merest chance of keeping them from voting for this bill wouldn’t have been there.
Bishop on February 14, 2009 at 11:43 PM
Did you see it? It was awful.
The bit had this hackish, non-funny, stilted, arrogant, liberal rose-colored glasses Franken feel to it.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on February 14, 2009 at 11:43 PM
Nice false dichotomy there. If you can’t swallow a hideously bloated trillion-dollar payout to Democrat pets, you feel the government has no role. I thought the Democrats were supposed to be smarter than us dumb hicks.
ddrintn on February 14, 2009 at 11:44 PM
We’ve known how liberal the writers on the show are, but they have never called out Sean and Rush by name. For good measure, they threw in Michael Savage’s name, too.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on February 14, 2009 at 11:45 PM
Maybe he’s getting bad vibes about the challenge to his election theft and is trying to get his old job back.
AZfederalist on February 14, 2009 at 11:47 PM
Well, they certainly think they are. The MSM is doing it’s level best to reinforce that notion.
AZfederalist on February 14, 2009 at 11:49 PM
I’m sure Hannity and Rush are quaking in their boots. How long has Limbaugh been demonized?
ddrintn on February 14, 2009 at 11:50 PM
While you are talking big picture I am talking how it is being empowered. These three Senators have enabled the scenario that you and others have mentioned. While we all may dislike Obama, Obama is just being Obama. We knew this before he got elected.
At the most critical time in his Presidency, at a time it could be seriously derailed for the betterment of Americans, three Repubs saved and empowered him and his party with a near trillion dollars. I really don’t think the average commentator has really gotten their heads around what these three Senators have done. His presidency could have been seriously wounded preventing untold damage in the future.
As a party I think this needs to be discussed. These three have possibly mortally wounded the Repubs instead yet the current leadership has said nothing. NOTHING!!!!! One can only think that Specter was telling the truth that lots of Repubs supported the bill. If he is right then they still have not learned the lessons from the last few elections.
They just don’t care about fiscal restraint and they are only whoring for votes.
patrick neid on February 14, 2009 at 11:54 PM
Obama is the Pontifex Maximus. He had a chance to act like a patriotic American, and has not yet come close to doing so. The death of our nation can and should be hung squarely around his neck. He had the best chance to say “no.”
MrScribbler on February 14, 2009 at 11:39 PM
There is nothing about BO that embodies American values. He may have US citizenship, but he isn’t an American. We all know that.
Call me a “birther” or call me a “truther”. I don’t care. Obama is not really an American. He has no qualifications or experience to lead this country, especially one in which he has “no skin”(a phrase he seems to love). He doesn’t. He has nothing invested in this country other than what he’s been given. He has nothing invested in this country…. nothing.
His presidency is a travesty, an insult to this country.
/I still want to see his original form BC
Cody1991 on February 14, 2009 at 11:57 PM
Damned if they do, damned if they don’t. If they want to whore on the side of fiscal restraint, fine by me.
ddrintn on February 14, 2009 at 11:58 PM
Short term win for Obama.
Long term loss. Stimulus will not work.
blatantblue on February 15, 2009 at 12:17 AM
Yes. Just after Soros infused Lehman with cash. Who woulda thunk?
Connie on February 15, 2009 at 12:18 AM
Exactly right. Front man with a pretty voice and face (for some).
Connie on February 15, 2009 at 12:20 AM
Just desserts.
The Republicans ran the party from the 19th hole and couldn’t be bothered with representing the people that elected them. The people that elected them couldn’t be bothered with checking up on their representatives.
We got what we paid for……skunk meat.
Limerick on February 15, 2009 at 12:23 AM
boy when that fall happens..and it will happen..its gonna be BIG.
Handel on February 15, 2009 at 12:46 AM
I have pondered the genesis of the “Chimpy” label that was bestowed on Bush by the left. Obviously, Bush was a chimp along the lines of Bonzo. An ignorant buffoon who is a simple minded moron.
In the spirit of turnabout is fair play, I think it is apropos to hang the “chimpy” label around Oslime-a’s neck also. So I considered what chimp reminded me most of Oslime-a. It didn’t take more than about a second or so and I realized this is the chimp who best personifies what Oslime-a really is.
So, from this time henceforth, I hereby dub Oslime-a…..
“ChimpyOThadius”
csdeven on February 15, 2009 at 1:04 AM
The fog is clearing. Several of you know it too. Stay smart.
G’nite all. Time to go soak my broken foot in beer.
Limerick on February 15, 2009 at 1:43 AM
Obama’s Rhetoric Is the Real ‘Catastrophe’
President Barack Obama has turned fearmongering into an art form. He has repeatedly raised the specter of another Great Depression. First, he did so to win votes in the November election. He has done so again recently to sway congressional votes for his stimulus package.
In his remarks, every gloomy statistic on the economy becomes a harbinger of doom. As he tells it, today’s economy is the worst since the Great Depression. Without his Recovery and Reinvestment Act, he says, the economy will fall back into that abyss and may never recover.
This fearmongering may be good politics, but it is bad history and bad economics. It is bad history because our current economic woes don’t come close to those of the 1930s. At worst, a comparison to the 1981-82 recession might be appropriate.
Mr. Obama’s analogies to the Great Depression are not only historically inaccurate, they’re also dangerous. Repeated warnings from the White House about a coming economic apocalypse aren’t likely to raise consumer and investor expectations for the future. In fact, they have contributed to the continuing decline in consumer confidence that is restraining a spending pickup. Beyond that, fearmongering can trigger a political stampede to embrace a “recovery” package that delivers a lot less than it promises. A more cool-headed assessment of the economy’s woes might produce better policies.
MB4 on February 15, 2009 at 2:00 AM
Well,Obama wants to
refill potholes,
hire teachers,
rebuild roads and bridges(To nowhere),
and that will stimulate the economy!
Outstanding!
Where is all the cash going to come from,
‘Unicorn Jone’s Saddlebags’,or the ‘Stimulus
pot o’gold at the end of the Rainbow’!
There’s no companys,or employee’s,so that means
no payroll,no taxes,but hey,don’t let the details
get in the way!
So again,at Obama’s exceptance speech at the stadium,
the ‘Roman Temple Pillers of NeverEnding Change and
Perpetual Hope’,he boasted,’1 Million jobs’,and now
it magically has adjusted to 4~5 Million jobs!
When all the Liberal Socialist Party’s voter drive,
and expanding the base scam runs out of potholes,and
teachers,
then,whats going to happen in the long run,when the
1~5 Million short-term job creation workers no longer
have a jobs?
Then,its ‘Stimulus Bailout Bill #3′ to bailout,the
bailout!
The Republican Party plans long term!
The Liberal Socialist Party conives,scams,and calculates
short term to only benefit their party!
As the line from ‘Young Frankenstein’,
“It…. CAN’T…. WORK!!!!!!!!!!!
canopfor on February 15, 2009 at 2:05 AM
President Barack Obama…..
MB4 on Feb 15,2009 at 2:00AM.
MB4: MB,your post is excellent,with clarity!:)
canopfor on February 15, 2009 at 2:09 AM
Thank you, Snowecterollins.
SouthernGent on February 15, 2009 at 2:18 AM
China, Europe and Japan are all spending hundreds of billions of dollars they don’t have in hopes of speeding up their economies, too. That means the very countries we have relied on to buy our bonds, notably China and Japan, are now putting their own bonds on the global credit markets.
- Paul D. Ryan (Republican representative from Wisconsin)
MB4 on February 15, 2009 at 2:19 AM
It’s nothing but a House of Cards!
Cheshire Cat on February 15, 2009 at 2:23 AM
Mr. Obomba is a petrified turd. He makes me sick. Yea, our Economy was in deep trouble. Why was sales up last month Mr. Dummy? This bill is a huge mistake.
sheebe on February 15, 2009 at 2:23 AM
patrick:
Like it or not, the people of Maine and PA. put those three Senators in office and only they can remove them. If the Republicans in those states want to run other people against them in the primaries they can, but I really do not think that the Republican party can just kick them out. Look at Lieberman, he made it plain that he was not happy with the Democratic leadership, but he is still there as an Independent and will be there until the voters say otherwise.
So blame the Republican rank and file in Maine and PA for these people. Chances are they were voting the way they thought their constituents wanted them to.
I myself blame the people who sat home in 2006 and 2008 and let Democrats win because they thought the Republicans were not conservative enough or pure enough or whatever. Even here in Indiana the conservative libertarians voting for Barr made it possible for Obama to be the first Democrat in 40 years to carry the state.
Terrye on February 15, 2009 at 3:50 AM
The truth is a few more Senators like McCain would have been enough to kill this bill and there are damn few hardliners out there willing to admit it.
Terrye on February 15, 2009 at 3:59 AM
One thing must be clear to the RNC and the Republican Senate Campaign Committee: so long as you intend to support Specter, Snowe, and Collins in any way, you will get NOT A BRASS FARTHING from us.
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Period, end of transmission. And stick to it. Give directly to those candidates you support on their merits, and let the Party find their own funds to succor the traitors.
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I’ve generally been a Big Tent guy and, while I oppose using Party money to fight primary challenges, understand that the guarantee of financial support is often what entices candidates to stand for election or reelection. There must be a line in the sand, however. This bill is a monstrosity which offers little “stimulus” to the economy, although a healthy portion to Democratic interest groups. It is simply not possible to support it and remain a “Republican” in any meaningful sense.
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If these three turncoats intend to vote with the Democrats – and there is hardly any more significant measure than the vote just cast – we gain nothing by retaining them as “Republican” Senators. Declare them persona non grata and strip them of every benefit bestowed by the Party. If the Democrats wish to embrace and finance them, let them have the feckless popinjays.
Adjoran on February 15, 2009 at 4:47 AM
Three Sentences:
Sorry, but I wrote 4,000 words above since I had to disenfect my head from the leavings of the stupid article.
Whether we like it or not, there is a possibility that our economy will recover just enough to make The One a hero (and you just watch the drive-bys try to do just that).
A liberal actor from one of those brain trash cop shows took a chair on Hannity last week and brilliantly stated that President Reagan “spent $400 billion to defeat a falling empire” and “unemployment went down when interest rates fell’.
And you wonder how they will spin The One into Godhood?
IlikedAUH2O on February 15, 2009 at 5:07 AM
OT. The newest tech gadget for The Big A at Gizmodo. Too bad Christmas is over. Maybe he’ll like it so much that he’ll buy it for himself. I already have a couple of these. NSFW!
jaime on February 15, 2009 at 5:25 AM
I wish Allah would identify the newssource and author with these quotes. It would save me a click.
Ron Brownstein? I have better things to do with my time than read anything that Obama cheerleader writes. As far as I’m concerned, he’s tied at the hip to Chris Matthews.
BuckeyeSam on February 15, 2009 at 5:39 AM
I Won!!!!!
Inflation……Raising taxes……Inflation…..Raising taxes…….Inflation……Raising taxes……Inflation…..Raising taxes.
Baxter Greene on February 15, 2009 at 7:14 AM
Thank you for taking the time to say it better than I have. They have to pay a price. We certainly are.
patrick neid on February 15, 2009 at 7:17 AM
MB4 — The One uses scare tactics to:
Pass bills with stockyard pork at record speed.
Make things look so bad that any improvement earns him certain Godhood while demonizing President Bush.
It gives him one subject to be familiar with so noboby notices the air sailing between his ears.
It continues the comparison to past liberal heroes so he walks tall now. It also gives the media something to talk/write about so that they have bilge to turn in and can easily ignore his ignorance in needing a Clinton cabinet, his appointees, his lies about transparency, his goofy handling of Gitmo….
IlikedAUH2O on February 15, 2009 at 7:36 AM
Terrye,
We know that the voting is done by the folks in those states, but we can help effect a change by donating money their primary opponents.
There is another viewpoint…….I believe it was the idiots in Indiana who voted for a RINO that gave the state to Oslime-a. Had they ALL voted for Barr, Oslime-a would have been denied the electoral votes from that state.
csdeven on February 15, 2009 at 8:03 AM
WTFAYTA?
Three Senators, Snowe, Collins and Specter, out of the entire elected Repub party, passed this bill. They in fact voted for it twice and yet not a peep out of the party leadership. Everything in this bill and its damaging consequences was caused by these three and none else. As for the Dems voting for it, of course they should, they are Dems. It is once again a small group of Repubs who have facilitated the raping of the treasury. These three could have prevented the bill from passing. They did not. They should be stripped of their party membership.
Don’t feed me any of the claptrap about the only people that can remove them are their constituents. They can be removed from the party by the party. But they won’t be because Specter is right.
patrick neid on February 15, 2009 at 8:13 AM
dhunter on February 15, 2009 at 8:43 AM
That’s what affirmative action does. (Obama got on Harvard Law Review not on grades but as part of an affirmative action writing-on program started in the 1970s to make up for lack of minorities on the Review.)
AA distorts one’s views of one’s abilities and accomplishments. I’ve seen a few young minority lawyers fumble and fail who were unable to see that they weren’t up to the job, at least up to the job that they’d taken. They usually ascribed their firing (or polite suggestion to “find another job”) to racism. What other reason could there be?
And this is what Geraldine Ferraro tried to point out. But the Emperor’s cult followers didn’t like the politically incorrect truth that the Emperor had no clothes.
Obama is in over his head. He has never had a difficult challenge in his life, and he now he has the one job in the world with the worst challenges. He didn’t have the clout to get Nancy to cut the ridiculous pork from the stimulus.
Just relying on advisors won’t necessarily help, as he has to choose the advisors. And so far, his picks have not gone well. He has found out the hard way not to trust the Congressional Dems, as they have their own agenda, and plan to be around after he’s gone.
Wethal on February 15, 2009 at 8:45 AM
Hey! At least they got to the big game, even if they blew it in the last two minutes.
jgapinoy on February 15, 2009 at 8:48 AM
So the opposition to the bill was more bipartisan than support for it (7 dems opposed versus 3 repubs for net four dem against). Again Obama is setting up a straw man (maybe he looks in the mirror and only sees a man of straw) that repubs are ideologically opposed to gov’t intervention, when they are ideologically opposed to crap sandwiches that will bankrupt the country and which they had no input in drafting and were not allowed to fix. Just saying.
eaglewingz08 on February 15, 2009 at 8:59 AM
Obama, with his Obama-Ophrah Show townhall meets is just trying to recapture the shuck and jive which worked so well during the campaign.
What the last election proved, is what so many communists had known for the last 100 years, it’s real easy to make idiot voters from ignorant people by promising them lots of free stuff. Hugo Chavez is the latest example of that shuck and jive act.
Obama comes to a screeching halt when he confronts reality and people do remember what he said yesterday, and it’s not what he is saying today. That’s when his shuck and jive act goes all wrong. That’s also why he now takes a teleprompter to the Obama-Oprah Shows.
tarpon on February 15, 2009 at 9:08 AM
I don’t know, but Axelrod is the evil, stupid version of Groucho Marx.
progressoverpeace on February 15, 2009 at 9:10 AM
Mr. Malleable to Conquer the world (starting with you) by any means (annihilate “the disappearing middle class”).
Socialism is the self proclaimed elitists’ means to re-establish global feudalism placing themselves as the new royal aristocracy that eschews liberty, a concept they deny ever having existed.
Convolute words and definitions to seduce the greedy.
Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus.
False in one thing, false in all.
Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.
The world wants to be deceived, so let it be deceived!
Therein lies Socialism’s Achilles Heel.
WE DON’T WANT TO BE DECEIVED!!!
Like it or not, Obama, those who voted against you (Soros) REFUSE to be deceived.
maverick muse on February 15, 2009 at 9:13 AM
have a decent income
We will all learn what decent incomes are – and like it? Where will the decent incomes come from and who will be footing the bill?
ericdijon on February 15, 2009 at 9:18 AM
setting the course of the boat no farther than they can see.
Everytime Obama or Geithner speak the market responds by tanking further. Is that the plan? What foresight does this show? I can’t get the tune of Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries out of my head adding the lyrics “kill the markets, kill the markets, kill the markets!” I fear they would love to nationalize anything that moves (or doesn’t.)
ericdijon on February 15, 2009 at 9:18 AM
Obama has inherited problems
How is this statement accurate? He came from the senate – he is/was a shaper of the problems.
ericdijon on February 15, 2009 at 9:19 AM
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