Ramirez picks up the Nero theme
posted at 8:57 am on March 6, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
On Wednesday, I wrote that the main theme of the first six weeks of the new administration was this: Obama fiddled with Rush Limbaugh while Wall Street burned. It turns out that Investors Business Daily editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez was on the same wavelength. Today’s entry by the two-time Pulitzer winner captures this perfectly, extending it to the entire Democratic political leadership (via Power Line):
Ramirez has a terrific collection of his works: Everyone Has the Right to My Opinion, which covers the entire breadth of Ramirez’ career, and it gives a fascinating look at political history. Read my review here, and watch my interviews with Ramirez here and here. And don’t forget to check out the entire IBD site, while individual investors still exist.
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artist on March 6, 2009 at 9:01 AM
The problem with the Nero analogy is that the Precedent isn’t fiddling, he’s busy lighting the fires as fast as he can. I think the idiot messiah and his lunatic Congress just passed another bill spending $476,883,339,874 for green salamanders in Chicago within the time I was writing this comment.
The Precedent isn’t wasting time fiddling. He’s working hard to burn this nation to the ground as quickly as possible.
progressoverpeace on March 6, 2009 at 9:02 AM
Don’t worry, Ed. A friend of mine at work likened the continuing Wall Street meltdown to when you gain and lose weight. And something, something, magic. Then it will all work out in the end. I’m not so optimistic.
Is it awesome that they are continuously playing “Cabaret” on one of my TV channels? Fairly appropriate for this time…
mjk on March 6, 2009 at 9:02 AM
According to a book called “Eyewitness to History”, the fire that occurred during Nero’s reign happened during a party when Nero staged a mock wedding between himself and one of his generals. They were about to consummate the marriage on an altar when the fire broke out.
Either story line fits.
AubieJon on March 6, 2009 at 9:04 AM
I also like Mark Levin’s analogy of Obama as Sherman marching through Georgia burning and killing everything in his path.
carbon_footprint on March 6, 2009 at 9:06 AM
+1, good point. Perhaps doing nothing would be preferable to what he is doing.
LastRick on March 6, 2009 at 9:07 AM
Good analogy…he is like the “firebug” who starts a fire, then comes and helps put the fire out…
right2bright on March 6, 2009 at 9:07 AM
I don’t understand it. Conservatives have complained since day one that Obama is doing too much – too much government intervention in the markets, health care, Porkulus, etc.
Now, you are complaining he’s not doing enough.
Which is it?
cornfedbubba on March 6, 2009 at 9:08 AM
FITS AND STARTS, gotta go to K-mart and buy some FITS AND STARTS……
Ris4victory on March 6, 2009 at 9:09 AM
Hey you guys, don’t you know that Brad Pitt was in D.C. yesterday? And that Michelle O. (Mo to some of us) is a fashion icon?
Get a life, already.
BigD on March 6, 2009 at 9:09 AM
http://moneynews.newsmax.com/headlines/obama_selloff_dow_crash/2009/03/05/188936.html?s=al&promo_code=7B9D-1
Rush Limbaugh is not the only one getting it right…
Keemo on March 6, 2009 at 9:10 AM
The funny little detail is the music he is playing…Opus to Rush Limbaugh…
right2bright on March 6, 2009 at 9:10 AM
it’s Rush Limbaugh’s fault for not clapping….
sven10077 on March 6, 2009 at 9:10 AM
you are right you don’t understand it comrade….
Paying off ACORN is not applying motion to needed task it is picking the sheet music to play while letting your friends light the pitch and pine tar at the barricades….
Barry could have eased all this by giving some good prompter…instead he decided to tell me to buy stock now because the Profit Earnings Ratio was good….
sven10077 on March 6, 2009 at 9:12 AM
Until the omnibus bill, I was chalking it all up to a large measure of incompetence mixed with ideology. But I am now leaning toward your view – that the more damaged the fundamentals of the capitalism are, the more easily he can usher in a ‘new era’. And it ain’t gonna look anything like capitalism. Before 2012, there isn’t going to be anything left for Republicans (or anyone else) to fix.
ProfessorMiao on March 6, 2009 at 9:13 AM
Obviously you are a little slow, so I will type real slow…
He…isn’t…doing…enough…right…and…he…is…doing…too…much…wrong…
right2bright on March 6, 2009 at 9:13 AM
cornfedbubba on March 6, 2009 at 9:08 AM
Stick around here for awhile; information will eventually sink in unless you have already passed through the final stage.
Keemo on March 6, 2009 at 9:13 AM
I think that’s exactly the point that’s being made here. The Nero analogy doesn’t work (and that’s fine). This is the first The One the world has ever seen, so the analogies weren’t just handily nearby for us to grab.
LastRick on March 6, 2009 at 9:14 AM
Did he copy you, Ed?
jgapinoy on March 6, 2009 at 9:14 AM
Actually, there were rumors at the time that Nero had the fires started so he could clear the city for his great building projects…
So the analogy still holds up well.
LibraryGryffon on March 6, 2009 at 9:14 AM
Now you’ve done it. That better not be a cartoon of Obama you have made.
woodman on March 6, 2009 at 9:14 AM
I don’t understand it. Conservatives have complained since day one that Obama is doing too much – too much government intervention in the markets, health care, Porkulus, etc.
Now, you are complaining he’s not doing enough.
Which is it?
cornfedbubba on March 6, 2009 at 9:08 AM
Difficult for you, I understand. It’s WHAT and HOW Ogabe is doing, not how much or how little he’s doing it.
Jeebus…do I have to do everything around this joint?
Bishop on March 6, 2009 at 9:14 AM
Not sure where you came up with that. The only thing he is not doing enough of is acting presidential and vetting his staff members.
loudmouth883 on March 6, 2009 at 9:15 AM
How about:
The Messiah never learned,
While watching as our economy burned
DL13 on March 6, 2009 at 9:15 AM
Thirteen minutes to the opening bell…..
Limerick on March 6, 2009 at 9:16 AM
instead he decided to tell me to buy stock now because the Profit Earnings Ratio was good….
sven10077 on March 6, 2009 at 9:12 AM
Ogabe called it the profits AND earnings ratio.
Bishop on March 6, 2009 at 9:16 AM
I am still amazed that the most powerful leader in the world, during a severe crisis…spent his time in strategy meetings about a talk show host. And set up a “commission” to deal with the talk show host.
This is “third world” type thinking.
right2bright on March 6, 2009 at 9:18 AM
Here is a question for you Roman history buffs: What were the legions doing at this time, not just the Garrison of Rome but the peninsular army? I’d be interested to know how their military reacted.
Bishop on March 6, 2009 at 9:18 AM
WSJ SLAMS Obama:
Obama’s Radicalism Is Killing the Dow
A financial crisis is the worst time to change the foundations of American capitalism.
artist on March 6, 2009 at 9:19 AM
OT: Ed, I sent the tip to you yesterday about the absurd indoctrinating, Nickelodeon cartoon on Obama. I will just post the direct link here for those who want to become nauseous this morning.
Laura Ingraham spent time on this yesterday and Mike Gallagher is doing it now.
carbon_footprint on March 6, 2009 at 9:19 AM
In a better day, instead of a donkey, a monkey at the end of an organ grinders leash…but that would be RACIST!!
right2bright on March 6, 2009 at 9:20 AM
I would compare Obama to Chavez instead of Nero. Chavez has been using his popularity with the poor to keep him in power while destroying the economy of Venezuela. Both are incompetent buffoons.
Our media is gushingly adoring of Obama and oblivious to the policies he is enacting.
Rode Werk on March 6, 2009 at 9:20 AM
sorry that’s correct….and worse….
sven10077 on March 6, 2009 at 9:21 AM
Nero had the legions in his pocket. The Praetorians had long before shown their teeth. He ruled, IIRC, another nine years. After him it was a hundred years of which legion was marching on Rome now.
Limerick on March 6, 2009 at 9:21 AM
OT: We’ve seen this cartoon at the house here with our two kids; we turn the TV off. I guess you could complain to Nick about it but I’m sure that gets you on a “list”.
LastRick on March 6, 2009 at 9:21 AM
It’s also noted that he often lit the garden pathways at his party with flaming human torches made from Christians (or those he thought MIGHT be Christians). They were crucified, then wrapped in leather and coated with tar, then set alight.
I understand the comparison to Nero, but I think that the “won” is better compared to Lenin.
AW1 Tim on March 6, 2009 at 9:21 AM
right2bright on March 6, 2009 at 9:22 AM
Lost a sentence: Damn teleprompter doesn’t work so well with questions.
right2bright on March 6, 2009 at 9:23 AM
I know, I guess I missed the George W. Bush celebratory cartoon at Nick.
carbon_footprint on March 6, 2009 at 9:23 AM
He is too good.
nickj116 on March 6, 2009 at 9:24 AM
Correction 5 years.
Limerick on March 6, 2009 at 9:24 AM
cornfedbubba on March 6, 2009 at 9:08 AM
More information for you…
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123629969453946717.html
Keemo on March 6, 2009 at 9:26 AM
This is a ridiculous cartoon… first of all, it breaks a cardinal rule by directly telling the audience what they should be thinking.
Second, people are criticizing Obama and the Dems for trying to do TOO MUCH. They aren’t “fiddling why Washington burns” but, in fact, doing a lot to try and fix the economy. Now, some people think they’re doing the wrong thing, but to try and suggest they are engaging in trivial matters while ignoring a catastrophe is just incorrect and is a blatant error in concept.
Second, another aspect of this is that responding to criticisms by Limbaugh is trivial. I find this angle funny, considering Republicans in Congress can’t kiss his ass fast enough. If it’s trivial to engage Rush, what is it to grovel to him?
Tom_Shipley on March 6, 2009 at 9:31 AM
Are we complaining that he’s not doing enough?
We’re saying he should stop doing what he’s doing.
Not to nitpick or anything, mind you.
jeff_from_mpls on March 6, 2009 at 9:32 AM
No, Obama is not helping to put the fires out. He sets them, he stands in the crowd watching, and he may discuss with others in the crowd about how to put the fires out. But, mainly, he instills fear and panic into the crowd.
He never does anything useful – he just starts more fires.
Completely destructive.
I don’t think the man is so incompetent that he doesn’t know what he is doing – he knows _exactly_ what he is doing. To build a new Amerika in his socialist image, he needs to destroy the old America first…
Timothy S. Carlson on March 6, 2009 at 9:34 AM
In 2004 on Allahpundit, back when he was really funny and not quite as depressed (or depressing), Allah had a Photoshop caption of John Kerry at the top of the World Trade Center building just as a plane was flying into the building directly below him, very earnestly saying:
“Let’s talk about healthcare.”
Sound familiar?
TexasJew on March 6, 2009 at 9:34 AM
And every single one of those Reps are trying to figure out which exit door is the one they will be thrown out of. The liberals just don’t get it. This fire is moving up-hill. It started down here in little-people land.
Limerick on March 6, 2009 at 9:34 AM
If you are looking for a comparison between the legions and our military, you won’t find many. The legions then were sworn to initially defend the Republic, but by Nero’s time had long been sworn to the Emperor instead. Our military swears an oath to defend the Constitution, and although the President is considered the Commander in Chief, he also swears to defend the Constitution. The real question has been whether or not POTUS is also considered to be bound by the UCMJ, the Universal Code of Military Justice, as are all members of the military.
WE have a professional military with incredibly high standards and dedicated people. There has never been a successful mutiny in any of our military units. Ever. However, given the right set of circumstances, they would be obligated to remove a President, or other members of the government or to take such actions as deemed necessary to ensure the safety of the Constitution, and the Nation as a whole.
It is worth remembering that, although the elected officials are responsible for the running of the government, the military is responsible for the safety of the nation from ALL threats, both from without and from within.
AW1 Tim on March 6, 2009 at 9:34 AM
I wish Ramirez’ cartoon indicted the entire Democratic party. Instead, he chose to focus on donkey face Pelosi. Still works, though.
EMD on March 6, 2009 at 9:35 AM
Well the idea that hes fiddling while wall st. burns IS kind of silly, the guys been a whirlwind of economically directed activity since he got in. much to the dismay of the readership here, surely, but acting as if hes sitting around twiddling his thumbs is a bit disingenuous
ernesto on March 6, 2009 at 9:35 AM
Mr. Obama took to the microphone two days ago and said he did not care about the “gyrations” of the stock market.
Maybe that passes as genuine concern for someone like you, but to an American, it’s a pretty shocking admission of apathy.
The stock market is not “gyrating” Shipley. It’s careening off the runway, and your child-President refuses to acknowledge it. You are carrying water for a very bad man.
Shame on you, Shipley.
jeff_from_mpls on March 6, 2009 at 9:35 AM
Not sure I’ve ever heard any Republicans “groveling” to Rush.
But then again you are an all knowing liberal, so if you say it, it must be so.
loudmouth883 on March 6, 2009 at 9:35 AM
Nero had the legions in his pocket. The Praetorians had long before shown their teeth. He ruled, IIRC, another nine years. After him it was a hundred years of which legion was marching on Rome now.
Limerick on March 6, 2009 at 9:21 AM
Hmmmm…since Ogabe would literally burn the White House down before admitting he was wrong about the economy and his plans, how far does this analogy play out?
Bishop on March 6, 2009 at 9:38 AM
Bishop on March 6, 2009 at 9:38 AM
Maybe we need to ask Larry King about the Nero situation. I heard he did an interview with him.
We need a poster with Michell ma belle dressed as Marie Antoinette. The caption: “Let Them Eat Arugula.”
Photoshop anyone?
kingsjester on March 6, 2009 at 9:41 AM
Please tell me how this idiot got elected to the most powerful office in the world and WHY ARE HIS APPROVAL RATINGS OVER 60%?!!! Over 60% of the country are not Kool-aid drinking liberals. Who are these morons?
ExcessivelyDiverted on March 6, 2009 at 9:41 AM
The Dims and the White House Unicorns seem to spend a lot of time attacking several private American citizens while they busily destroy the futures of the rest of us and carve up the nation’s carcass to hand out to their scumbag friends.
Yeah, that was the biggest 52% “Mandate” in history.
TexasJew on March 6, 2009 at 9:42 AM
Last night at the QuikTrip the clerk was telling all customers about Monday and the new FEDERAL tax on smokes ($6.40 a carton). Before I left with my twelve pack I heard a lot of Ramirez type commentary about the democraps.
Limerick on March 6, 2009 at 9:42 AM
Please tell me how this idiot got elected to the most powerful office in the world and WHY ARE HIS APPROVAL RATINGS OVER 60%?!!! Over 60% of the country are not Kool-aid drinking liberals. Who are these morons?
ExcessivelyDiverted on March 6, 2009 at 9:41 AM
They are the government school-educated idiots who think that they are going to get a $600 “tax break” by having the government pick their employers’ pockets.
Of course, their jobs will go away (perhaps to China, forever), but they don’t seem to have enough brains to understand that fact.
Hunger, however, is a good learning tool.
TexasJew on March 6, 2009 at 9:45 AM
If I lowered my self expectations and my love for the USA, and considered becoming a liberal, an assinine comment from a buttboy like you would be the slap in the face to wake me up.
AubieJon on March 6, 2009 at 9:46 AM
Because, re the first part, he ran on a message that people wanted to believe, that he would change things. Did they know he would be effective, no, but they wanted him to be effective, so they went out on a limb. Or, one could say for the DKos types, they knew he would enact these kind of programs in spite of his bipartisan baloney.
As for ratings over 60%, have you never bought something that turned out to be less than advertised? You were probably the last to admit it as well.
LastRick on March 6, 2009 at 9:47 AM
PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN!!
I posted this before but I think it applies here also.
Democrats don’t want anybody to see the corrupt policies and
failures that they will bring,so make up an enemy and get your friends in the press to push it for you.
Apparently Rush is more important than the promises and policies of Obama.
Is this what Obama meant as “Change”:
Obama’s words do not translate into actions:
Good news: Congress ready to vote on 1,000-page stimulus bill it hasn’t read yet
When CNSNews.com asked members of both parties on Capitol Hill on Thursday whether they had read the full, final bill, not one member could say, “Yes.”…
Obama to Pledge to Slash Wasteful Spending
A day after the Senate approved his $410 billion spending bill rife with earmarks, President Obama planned to outline Wednesday his proposal for cutting wasteful spending.
How noble.
Promises during the campaign to eliminate Pork spending,then
gets elected and signs billions in pork spending,then afterwards says he is going to get strong on…..you guessed it….wasteful pork spending.
“Yes We Can”!!!!
How’s that transparency going….uh….not so good.
L.A. Times: Obama’s First Major Bill Not Transparent
Filed under: Dog Trainer, Obama — Patterico @ 10:08 pm
JUST WORDS? CHANGE.GOV PROMISES:
(via Instapundit)
LOOK,OVER THERE,IT’S RUSH LIMBAUGH!!!!
How about those EEEEEEEEEEEEEvil lobbyist:
Inoperative: Obama’s Pledge: “When I Am President, [Lobbyists] Won’t Find a Job in My White House”
Filed under: General, Obama — Patterico @ 6:56 am
November 3, 2007:
You tell them Obama!!!,no more lobbyist!!!!
Uh…wait a minute….what’s going on behind the scenes here Mr. Change:
The world has noticed the Obama hypocrisy on lobbyists
posted at 1:15 pm on February 2, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/02/02/the-world-has-noticed-the-obama-hypocrisy-on-lobbyists/
THIS IS CLEARLY BUSH’S FAULT!!!!!!!
How Dumb Does He Think We Are?
February 28, 2009 Posted by John at 4:44 PM
The priorities of Democrats, exposed
posted at 5:25 pm on February 12, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/02/12/the-priorities-of-democrats-exposed/
Yea,that’s believable if you are one of the Washington Press core that can’t get off it’s knees or one of Obama’s apologist followers who excuse every broken promise and lie this guy tells.
I’m thinking of that Rahm Emanuel line :
Hillary agrees:
Corrupt democrats in the news every day,Obama implementing
the same tools in the War on Terror that Bush was accused o f being a war criminal for using combined with Obama breaking promise after promise after promise.
The “Salesman and Chief” with his corrupt Circus he calls an administration are flopping around like idiots while our economy burns and our international nemesis gain strength.
BUT DON’T PAY ATTENTION TO ANY OF THIS,RUSH AND FORMER PRESIDENT BUSH IS WHO WE SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT.
ENOUGH WITH ALL THESE DISTRACTIONS!!!!!
Baxter Greene on March 6, 2009 at 9:47 AM
These morons are the end product of a policy whereby kids are pulled out of private schools where they are taught how to think and forced back into public schools where they are taught what to think.
I think it was an act of savagery for Obama to rip the school vouchers out of the hands of those little children in Washington D.C. He just took away whatever hope those kids had of making it.
This Obama fellow is not a good man. No sir, not a good man.
jeff_from_mpls on March 6, 2009 at 9:48 AM
And Soros holding the leash!
javamartini on March 6, 2009 at 9:50 AM
The fires were started by the Clintonistas, Frank, and Dodd. Oslime-a is pouring gasoline laced with nuclear fuel on the fires.
csdeven on March 6, 2009 at 9:53 AM
If we had leadership in the RNC, which we don’t, we might consider a communication urging people to find out what has happened to their investments.
Open your monthly IRA performance reports.
Go to your union boss and ask for documentation about the value of your pension plan.
Oh what was I thinking, we’re just Nazis. That’s all you need to know about Republicans.
Thanks, RNC!
jeff_from_mpls on March 6, 2009 at 9:54 AM
60% of the Country, those who voted for Obama, don’t understand and can’t figure out what the point of the cartoon is.
PappaMac on March 6, 2009 at 9:54 AM
53%
mchristian on March 6, 2009 at 9:56 AM
You got that right. I mentioned something about those pesky gas lines to someone the other day. It was ‘ancient’ history.
Limerick on March 6, 2009 at 9:57 AM
By the way…where are the conservatives in Congress with their “complaints” about Obama’s policies? Crickets chirping…. Where are the conservatives in Congress with an alternative to President Obama’s plans for the nation? Crickets chirping…
Oh yea…there are no conservatives left in Congress! Just big government RINO Republicans who are sitting back hoping that this stuff works! They are secretly cheering on Obama because if this does work, they can go back to their districts when the next election rolls around and tell their voters…”look at all the jing I brought to our state from the Federal dole!” Sigh…
sabbott on March 6, 2009 at 9:57 AM
Thanks, that is some comforting information…in a way.
javamartini on March 6, 2009 at 9:59 AM
Please tell me how this idiot got elected to the most powerful office in the world and WHY ARE HIS APPROVAL
Yeah, the DKos types knew what they were getting, and all the other voters were duped. But DKos followers don’t account for the 60% approval ratings. For that I blame the media who are doing what could best be described as an absolutely dismal job of reporting on these massive spending bills and analyzing what their consequences are likely to be. At worst its active participation in seeing Obama’s revolution to fruition. And I’m not using the world revolution in a figurative sense. He’s going to bring capitalism to its knees so he can replace it.
ProfessorMiao on March 6, 2009 at 9:59 AM
You mean they own poorly rendered manuscripts of Tacitus or Suetonius? Or just a bad translation from the Latin?
jeff_from_mpls on March 6, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Mugabe did the same thing in Zimbabwe.Need to have someone to point the finger at to deflect the anger of the masses away from him.
nineveh on March 6, 2009 at 10:00 AM
By all means,lets talk about Rush so liberals don’t have to address this:
Obama Bear Market’ Punishes Investors as Dow Slumps (Update1)
By Eric Martin
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/redirect.php?r=503d6378b0e7bbf4f5488ec58d1fd50d&url=http%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F
March 6 (Bloomberg) —
Democrats won’t be happy until the whole United States looks like the democratic led and dead broke state of Michigan.
Baxter Greene on March 6, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Obama’s rape of the treasury and the nation makes Sherman’s march to the sea seem almost benevolent.
rplat on March 6, 2009 at 10:04 AM
a monkey at the end of an organ grinders leash…but that would be RACIST!!
right2bright on March 6, 2009 at 9:20 AM
Comparing monkeys to Obama would be racist to monkeys.
TexasJew on March 6, 2009 at 10:05 AM
“Well the idea that hes fiddling while wall st. burns IS kind of silly, the guys been a whirlwind of economically directed activity since he got in. much to the dismay of the readership here, surely, but acting as if hes sitting around twiddling his thumbs is a bit disingenuous
ernesto on March 6, 2009 at 9:35 AM”
Most of us would have the audacity of hope if we thought Obama was just incompetent in addressing the economy. For me and many others, our concern is that he knows exactly what he is doing.
Star20 on March 6, 2009 at 10:05 AM
Which is it? How about WAY TOO MUCH for what you listed
and WAY TOO LITTLE of what you left off which would be across the board permanent tax cuts for businesses and all taxpayers. How about drilling our own oil and building nuke power plants? The latter options create jobs, helps ween us off the foreign oil teet and helps create tax revenue. Wow what concepts.
VikingGoneWild on March 6, 2009 at 10:06 AM
I’m encouraged at how flat his rhetoric is falling.
Folks who know what he’s doing hear the code words, talk about a crisis so bad that we just might not ever recover from it, talk about bold, unprecedented action. Even Biden’s talk of girding our loins, and preparing ourselves for actions that we might find shocking or disconcerting.
It’s not working. People want capitalism, they understand it. Obama’s rhetoric isn’t swaying them, they have no idea what the hell he’s talking about.
jeff_from_mpls on March 6, 2009 at 10:06 AM
Looks like the bargain hunters are active this morning. Buyers remorse will set in over the weekend and Monday ought to be a hoot.
BTW I have airbags on special: $89 + shipping and handling.
They are knockoffs but what-the-hell.
Limerick on March 6, 2009 at 10:07 AM
Even Biden’s talk of girding our loins
You mean I shouldn’t have girded my loins?
Great, just great, I’m not sure if I can get this thing off, ya see I’ve put on a few pounds in the last year and…well…
Bishop on March 6, 2009 at 10:09 AM
You can pry it off with one of those blue pills.
Limerick on March 6, 2009 at 10:10 AM
It is worth remembering that, although the elected officials are responsible for the running of the government, the military is responsible for the safety of the nation from ALL threats, both from without and from within.
AW1 Tim on March 6, 2009 at 9:34 AM
Well then let’s hope the veterans stay true to the active duty military too. My last ship was sent to the USNR, so there won’t be any gathering of the people I served with, maybe I can be a partisan, working a skiff across Lake Superior and conducting raids against government forces. :-)
Bishop on March 6, 2009 at 10:15 AM
I believe that everything he is doing (or not doing) is with the specific intention of destroying the country as we know i so he can rebuild it in a communist/fascist state. There is no other answer considering his parents, mentors and everyone else he has associated with hates/hated the US and wants to end democracy/capitalism. And I hate to say that because it makes me sound like nutjob, but really, what other answer is there?
delaney on March 6, 2009 at 10:16 AM
You can pry it off with one of those blue pills.
Limerick on March 6, 2009 at 10:10 AM
I’m not sure you want to awaken the Great Serpent; the ladies have been known to swoon in its presence.
Bishop on March 6, 2009 at 10:18 AM
They will, at least 99% of them. There’s the a55clowns of VVAW & IVAW, etc, but other than those scum, you can count on the rest.
Check out “Gathering of Eagles”, “Patriot Guard Riders” “Eagles Up” etc. Lots of veterans groups are getting involved these days. We’ve all had enough of the leftists.
AW1 Tim on March 6, 2009 at 10:19 AM
It’s a much higher number than that.
http://www.financialweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090206/REG/902069980/-1/FWDailyAlert01
True_King on March 6, 2009 at 10:19 AM
Study: Dow’s Decline Is Fastest for a New President in Nearly a Century
The Dow Jones Industrial Average has fallen 20 percent since President Obama took the oath of office.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/03/06/study-dow-decline-marks-fastest-new-president-nearly-century/
Of course when Bush was President, everything that happened on his watch was his fault according to liberals.
Now that Obama is President,well according to liberals,everything is still Bush’s fault.
How progressive!!!!!
By liberal logic, we can now blame 9/11/01 on Clinton right?
Bush had only been in office a few months(Florida recount put him even further behind being able to get a staff together).
I mean Clinton totally failed against al-qaeda/Saddam and passed this failure right on over to Bush along
with the dot-com bubble deficit.
You can’t have it both ways if you are dealing in reality.
Baxter Greene on March 6, 2009 at 10:20 AM
Yeah, this bush depression sux.
The cartoonists loved the rush fiasco and Letterman was really funny last night with Stewert.
Then Colbert trumps Beck:
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/colbert-outguns-beck-welcome-doom-bu
The gop are comedy gold.
getalife on March 6, 2009 at 10:27 AM
Check out “Gathering of Eagles”, “Patriot Guard Riders” “Eagles Up” etc. Lots of veterans groups are getting involved these days. We’ve all had enough of the leftists.
AW1 Tim on March 6, 2009 at 10:19 AM
My local legion has a small group of vets who have discussed various things, actions they might like to get involved in. We had tried to get out to D.C. for the last GoE but couldn’t find enough participants to make the cost worthwhile from Minnesota.
Still, it’s gratifying to find vets groups online to coordinate with, I’ve even managed to find a handful of people I served with back in the day who are as vociferously faithful to the military and the country as they were back then.
Bishop on March 6, 2009 at 10:28 AM
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- William Tecumseh Sherman
If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
- William Tecumseh Sherman
MB4 on March 6, 2009 at 10:30 AM
It collapsed under Bush and will be called a bush depression.
getalife on March 6, 2009 at 10:30 AM
In the words of your buddy Biden:
“I’ve got two words for you…”
You’re a tool.
loudmouth883 on March 6, 2009 at 10:31 AM
Even that wasn’t right since it’s price/earnings ratio. He admitted that he knows nothing about the stock market, so let me tell him about the 50% hit that my children’s college funds and my husband and my 401Ks have taken. But according to The One, most of us aren’t in the stock market, so I guess we have nothing to worry about since we have all this money to spend on buying stocks that are heading south faster than snow birds in December. Sheesh!
College Prof on March 6, 2009 at 10:32 AM
Tell that to your bill collectors! Good luck finding the end of that rainbow.
Limerick on March 6, 2009 at 10:32 AM
Nope. Wishful Thinking. Fortunately, people aren’t as black and white, or dumb shall we say, as that and will connect the dots. They already are.
RepubChica on March 6, 2009 at 10:34 AM
loudmouth883 on March 6, 2009 at 10:31 AM
A famous quote of the bush depression is:
“Wall Street got drunk.” Then the Paulson meeting telling the President the shit has hit the fan to socialize the banks.
It will be in the history books but go ahead and spin so you do not have to deal with reality.
getalife on March 6, 2009 at 10:35 AM
Also, in effect, you are saying that Barry, despite his well thought out practical approach to revitalizing the economy, will FAIL. Hope Dkos doesn’t find your treasonous post.
Limerick on March 6, 2009 at 10:35 AM
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