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posted at 9:30 pm on April 25, 2009 by Allahpundit
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“Of course, the lack of bipartisanship isn’t limited to Capitol Hill. Obama has taken gratuitous swipes at the Republicans who recently decamped Washington, blaming President Bush for everything from the economy and the war to the lack of sufficient puppies and rainbows. And who could forget the Rush Limbaugh flap — in which Obama’s top advisers, including chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, orchestrated a public relations campaign meant to undermine the Republican National Committee chairman, Michael Steele, by framing talk-radio personality Limbaugh as the real head of the Republican Party.
For now, Obama’s back-pedal on the bipartisanship promise just makes him look insincere. But the real consequences of the mistake will be felt soon enough. As Presidents Bush and Clinton could tell him, congressional majorities do change — and at some point, Obama will need Republicans on his side. He’d be smart to spend his second 100 days making up for the serious snubs of his first.”
Update: Contrary to what the Post originally claimed, Palin didn’t say this. See here.
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I am tired and it is late, but it seems to me that Roberts was signed in before Miers came along.
But that is not my point, she never had a chance and even though conservatives knew that Bush was up against with the war and everything else, they just could not let the woman go through the process.
As for Gonzales, he was a smart man in terms of academics and I think he got a bad rap in some ways, he took the heat for a lot of things not of his doing. Once again, conservatives were more than willing to help Democrats take him out.
Terrye on April 26, 2009 at 2:18 AM
When it is all said and done I think a lot of radical thinkers in the 60’s sat around a table one Saturday evening and concluded if we are able to revolutionalize society and install a radical Marxist government, above all we have to do one thing well-that is convince young Americans of the futility of individual initiative and one’s faith in a higher power and substitute that for the moral legitimacy of government redressing perceived grievances and inequality and the right of the victims to seek and exact revenge on the perpetrators of historical wrongs and their descendants.
If conservatives want to oust Obama I firmly believe they have to convince Americans that Obama and his ilk have no moral legitimacy to govern America or if they ever had it they long ago abandoned it.
technopeasant on April 26, 2009 at 2:20 AM
This is bigotry, plain and simple. it should not be tolerated at all, but is too frequently the current standard operating procedure.
Imagine if academic grades, hirings, retentions, promotions were based on such views? In making such decisions, imagine them saying, “The only bad thing I can think of is that he’s”… black, homosexual, Jewish, etc.
This is why I think conservative college students need support groups. So you don’t end up screaming, banging your head against the wall, or challenging such bigoted authority without a plan, support and good back-up.
I wish I’d been with you. I would have told them off without getting into trouble. And I would have used the shame technique.
Loxodonta on April 26, 2009 at 2:21 AM
To that, you are correct. Bush didn’t do enough to defend his administration.
Kini on April 26, 2009 at 2:22 AM
Loxodonta on April 26, 2009 at 2:11 AM
I consider Atlas Shrugged one of the most romantic books that I have ever read.
technopeasant on April 26, 2009 at 2:23 AM
Then why do you trolls attack her?
Your fear is deafening.
Sapwolf on April 26, 2009 at 2:23 AM
Kini:
Bush should not have been forced to defend his administration against members of his own party, not when these people were being attacked by the opposition party. Bush resisted efforts to let Gonzales go, but when the Republicans joined ranks with the Democrats Gonzales had had enough.
Terrye on April 26, 2009 at 2:26 AM
I am really sorry you had to experience this. I hope you’ve “recovered.”
I could not disguise myself when working in the field. So, I simply became adept at not having any opinions, and being very, very quiet.
Loxodonta on April 26, 2009 at 2:27 AM
Wow, 500 comments.
Nerve strike
Libs lost
Projectile hurl
Del Dolemonte on April 26, 2009 at 2:28 AM
They did the same with Reagen. He was demonized severely before being elected.
The fear is real for the same reason.
Kini on April 26, 2009 at 2:29 AM
The people who claim that GWB was not a conservative are correct. Appointing Gonzales as AG and proposing Miers for the Supreme Court was a joke.
I think what we are seeing now is the true Dick Cheney, the conservative, rather than Dick Cheney who had to tow the line of the Bush administration, especially on the wisdom of increasing the deficit.
technopeasant on April 26, 2009 at 2:30 AM
I’m from the government and I’m here to help you.
RUN AWAY!!!!
The real heroes are not the photogenic stars, the teleprompter orators, they are the average people, the common people, who choose to be good, work hard, and make sacrifices.
Loxodonta on April 26, 2009 at 2:30 AM
I believe Bush could have defended his administration more vigorously, not just Gonzales, but Libby and others.
Bush always kept above the fray, which I think was a tactical error. He could have kept the party in tow, but he chose not to. At the end of the Bush admin there was too much BDS to go around and those repub’s that jumped on the bandwagon with the libs were just worried about their reelection chances.
Even now, Steele is not assertive enough to pull the party in line with traditional conservative values. No, everyone is listening to Meg McCain.
I want so much for Palin to come out throwing punches.
Kini on April 26, 2009 at 2:36 AM
One of the measures of how popular conservatism is by the sales of Mark Levin’s book Liberty and Tyranny. I think it proves if conservatism can be articulated in a clear, concise manner that it can be cultivated and embraced.
In sales you have to demonstrate to the potential buyers how the purchase of your product will enhance their lives or allay their fears and conservatism is no different: conservatism must meet the needs of an individual and it must show that its embrace will lead one to minimize one’s fears.
technopeasant on April 26, 2009 at 2:36 AM
Ah, I needed a good Monty Python reference tonight!
Kini on April 26, 2009 at 2:38 AM
kini on April 26, 2009 at 2:36 AM
Other than Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin more Americans appear to be listening to Meghan McCain than any other Republican. That thought just drives me up the wall.
technopeasant on April 26, 2009 at 2:39 AM
To all a good night.
Loxodonta on April 26, 2009 at 2:39 AM
Atlas Shrugs also increased in sales and interest.
Maybe people will read, learn, and reprogram themselves back to traditional American values.
Kini on April 26, 2009 at 2:41 AM
People respond when they’re in the minority and they see the government run a direction that contradicts everything they believe.
That is why Mark Levin’s sales are high, that is why ratings for Fox are high, that is why Rush’s ratings are high. People wake up. All we need now are leaders… Sarah et al, are you listening?
El_Terrible on April 26, 2009 at 2:42 AM
Actually we can blame Horace Mann and his idea of the “common school” back in the 1800s. Then the Liberalization of education took a huge leap in the 1930s with Dewey’s Progressive Education. It was all downhill from there. Educators who create these programs aren’t really educators, they are social specultaors, ready to promote their own ideas. Unfortunately we tend to jump on every bandwagon that comes along, hoping it will be the answer. Good examples are the New Math, Open Classrooms, Student Demand Controlled Curriculums, Ebonics, Social Based Curriculums, etc. Teachers are taught, not by other teachers, but by academics who have little knowledge of results based curriculums. So why don’t Conservatives enter the teaching field? Possibly because we want to see results and not some pie-in-the-sky feelgood theories. Or maybe some do try but are put off by the Liberal based training and education programs they have to go through. Look at a college program in middle school education, it’s an eye opener.
Deanna on April 26, 2009 at 2:47 AM
I’m confident that what the average American is hearing from McCain is helping them make up their minds. And as an average American, I find her very much like her father, a boob.
Also, the MSM is helping to push her message. They know, and think, they can can decide our candidate for us. Just like they did for her father.
Kini on April 26, 2009 at 2:47 AM
LOL
She’s the only elected official I’ve heard from the Republican Party criticize The One and the other Commiecrats forcefully and consistently…and some Conservatives out there still have a problem with her?
Still waiting for Ronald Reagan to rise from the grave or something? I don’t get it.
Dr. ZhivBlago on April 26, 2009 at 2:48 AM
People really crave leadership. That is why the supporters of Sarah Palin must commit themselves to defending Sarah to the death, ensuring that she has every opportunity to express her conservative viewpoints in the most cogent manner, and rallying to her side whenever she appears to be the most vulnerable.
technopeasant on April 26, 2009 at 2:49 AM
Absolutely! I think our best chance is with Palin. Her message rings louder than any of the others, like Romney, Huckabee, et al. Not that there’s anything worn with their message, but they just do not put the fire in me as Palin does.
So, on July 4th, the next protest, I take that message to the streets.
Kini on April 26, 2009 at 2:58 AM
Interesting.
What would happen if you spoke to this woman before anything political happened in her life?
How about when she first started the political stepping?
I doubt the trolls would say anything other then she was hip and very socialble as well as pleasant to be around. Some women may be jealous but overall, that wouldn’t be the main problem.
Now concider the trolls talking. Why? Because the ideas she has aren’t their norm and they do not understand the dynamics it will have on their lives so they lash out.
To bad you can’t bring a horse to water. If they only knew….
upinak on April 26, 2009 at 2:59 AM
Yeah, but if you scare a moose, it’ll fall down.
Kini on April 26, 2009 at 3:05 AM
Kini on April 26, 2009 at 2:58 AM
Imagine like the theme of It’s a Wonderful Life that Sarah was never born or if John McCain decided to go with Tim Pawlenty how much different the future of America would be?
As far as I’m concerned there is little difference between Hitler and Obama. What are however the main differences are the circumstances under which they govern.
Unlike Hitler, Obama cannot abolish elections and the opposition. Truly if Obama could arrest Sarah Palin and incarcerate her without trial he would do it. I have no doubt about that whatsover. Obama is truly a monster.
I hope and pray that he is not allowed to undermine or abolish the Constitution because then America will really find out how evil and diabolical Obama really is.
technopeasant on April 26, 2009 at 3:07 AM
Funny you mention that. When I was at the Evansville event to see Sarah, I walked by a sherrif’s dept. officer. He was at one of the entrances to the building. I told him to “Watch out for that dangerous pro-life crowd, officer.” He chuckled at that one.
Sapwolf on April 26, 2009 at 3:15 AM
But it didn’t happen and the Sarah Genie is out of the bottle. You can tell just by vile comments the left makes against Palin. She is a threat to their dominion.
I really hope he tries. That would be so magically delicious.
Kini on April 26, 2009 at 3:17 AM
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The dearth of conservatives in academia is similar to the shortage in the bureaucracy. These are just careers which attract liberals and repel those with conservative values.
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Even if the general culture shifts to the right, those occupations will still be dominated by leftists. This problem persists and provides a natural roadblock to conservative governance.
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Adjoran on April 26, 2009 at 3:38 AM
“…Obama has taken gratuitous swipes at the Republicans who recently decamped Washington, blaming President Bush for everything from the economy and the war to the lack of sufficient puppies and rainbows.”
That line is priceless! LOL!!
Newsflash: ‘Cuda lays major smackdown on The One.
Ouch! That’s gonna’ leave a mark. :D
sarahpalinfan99 on April 26, 2009 at 4:39 AM
FIFY
sarahpalinfan99 on April 26, 2009 at 4:46 AM
First of all, sorry I ducked out rather quickly a little bit ago… (Lox, Terry, Kini, &c)
I don’t think that academia is an exclusively progressive attraction. The problem is the system.
First state schools are numerous (there are some conservatives that wouldn’t want to be part of a public school).
Secondly, many of the “research” areas are starting to shift far to the right, because there are no conservatives to stop them and the government keeps funding these areas.
I would say that the general Ph.D level student come from a family background that was progressive in its own rights… There is something to be said about good, honest hard work. Many conservative leaning families may encourage their children to go into non-academic jobs; whereas, progressive leaning families see academia as the ultimate place in society.
Finally, it would seem that the modern conservative movement may encourage (intentionally or not) their base to stay away from the “liberal havens.” Conservatives that do go into academics risk being labeled “elitists.” There is a difference between David Frum and the Buckleys of the world – both elitists in their own rights…
Upstater85 on April 26, 2009 at 4:52 AM
No, we don’t “keep giving” Sarah a platform because she blazes her own trails.
You are aware that The New York Post is “… the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and generally acknowledged as the oldest to have been published continually as a daily…It is the 6th-largest newspaper in the U.S. by circulation.” according to Wikipedia and other sources.
As to letting “go of the past,” Obama is the one chasing the ghosts of Lincoln, FDR, Kennedy, and Carter because he has no new ideas. In fact, his “gimmicks and contradictions” include trying to mimic FDR’s Old New Deal; Lincoln’s Cabinet of Rivals; and Carter’s Domestic and Foreign Policies.
Increases in the military budget are required because we are fighting wars on multiple fronts (wait and see what happens with the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan and other hot spots soon – those costs will most likely dwarf what Bush spent in 8 years). Most Conservatives are for limited government but Bush and company were big government conservatives.
What you and the MSM are calling “torture” is no worse than what occurs during fraternity and sorority hazing rituals or S&M parties. I know people who have gone through hazing for different organizations and it is brutal. If you want to know what real torture is then check out how the Russian Army treats captured terrorists in the Times Online (UK) article: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6168959.ece.
I hope more blogs will post that Times Online article to put things into real world perspective.
sarahpalinfan99 on April 26, 2009 at 5:32 AM
Loxodonta:
Wow, can I move to your planet? That’s the norm where I live.
Not kidding, I’ve dropped classes because the teacher found out I was “one of them” and started dinging my grades for no reason. I’ve had unfairly low grades that I appealed and found there was no recourse. I’ve also excelled where ideology wasn’t the determining factor.
I never did “just shut up and pretend” in school, but to an extent I have at work. It works, even if I have to hold my tongue when someone says something really offensive, because what offends ME doesn’t make the list for harassment, but what offends the left does.
Sucks.
Merovign on April 26, 2009 at 5:38 AM
To re-coin a phrase, “Fight the Good Fight”
You will always find that, as I have and others, that the left will chastise you, belittle you and bristle at your stand for what is logical and correct.
It is to them an ambiguity with one interpretation that is indelicate, a double meaning, a conundrum that is to be condemned. Because it doesn’t fit the mold of the majority campus thinking, or group think.
As a free thinker, you have found your way.
Kini on April 26, 2009 at 6:12 AM
On the average college campus, you will find some conservative profs in the business and engineering schools. The libs are all over in the liberal arts curriculums, very aptly named.
Regarding back to the Obama “I Won” comment and how the Republicans supposedly were too partisan to give him a chance. They were appealing to HIM to intervene with that witch Pelosi who was completely shutting them out of ANY input to ANY bill so far this Congressional term. Remember, she undid all of the Contract for America House rules that allowed the minority party in congress to offer bills, amendments, etc. She is swatting all of the Republicans down like flies. And she is getting away with it. This lady is breathtaking in how braxen she is.
So I don’t want to hear from the trolls here that the Republicans are the NO party. They aren’t even given the chance to say, “boo”, let alone offer alternatives that get seriously considered by the “NO” majority party that says NO everytime the Republican wants to offer any input.
Also, remember, Bush entered office with Gore’s sore loser destruction of America’s antics, that severely hampered Bush’s ability to govern. Then “Jumping Jim Jeffords” jumped over to the Dem party, which kept that horrible Daschle in charge of the Senate. So Bush had to reach across the aisle to get stuff done until 2002 when we were able to jettison a bunch of libs from the Senate. However, our guys abused their time as a governing majority by losing their way. So now we have to claw our way back and get the gavel back from Pelosi and Reid to save this country in 2010. However, I am hearing the Cornyn is saying he can’t find good recruits to run. We have to find some people at the state level in every state that has a Senate race next year and try to find a good candidate from the grass roots level and not wait for the RINOs in Congress to shove their picks down our throats.
karenhasfreedom on April 26, 2009 at 7:20 AM
“Mommy, Sarah Palin is making fun of me!”–President Obama
jimmy2shoes on April 26, 2009 at 8:20 AM
whether sarah palin is the “future” of the Republican party or not, i do not know.
what i do know is that she can be a commonsense critic of this administration where our elected Republican congressmen remain mute.
kelley in virginia on April 26, 2009 at 8:31 AM
It is better to have a person in office with values and minimum experience than one with experience and minimum values. Hitler had worlds of experience but seemed somewhat lacking in the values department, wouldn’t you say? Besides, Palin is a sitting Governor. It’s been said before, but it bears repeating again, Governor Palin still has more executive experience right now than President Obama.
jimmy2shoes on April 26, 2009 at 8:34 AM
Screwed up and copied the wrong quote. Sue me! :)
jimmy2shoes on April 26, 2009 at 8:35 AM
Not to mention torturing of puppies and kittens, pouring barrels of oil into drinking water, and cutting down trees for sport.
jimmy2shoes on April 26, 2009 at 8:45 AM
I agree. And for that matter, rather than seeking to annoint someone as a new GOP or new conservative leader, I’d like to see some of these solid GOP governors taking turns whacking at Obama for how his policies are working out in the heartland. Stop and think about some of the governors that we do have: Palin, Jindal, the Indiana governor, Sanford, Barbour. I guess you can add Pawlenty, though I think he’s a pantywaist. The governor from Texas seems capable–if he’d shut up about secession. And, here in Ohio, I’m really excited about John Kasich making a run in 2010.
The point is to highlight the destructiveness of Obama’s policies where it matters–in the country–rather than in DC cocktail circles.
BuckeyeSam on April 26, 2009 at 8:47 AM
Hey, shitdick, doesn’t the lib troll union have anyone with a brain to send over? You’re as stupid as benny and getadick. FWIW:
- Of course we support military spending; national defense is one of the few legitimate jobs of the Federal government. I know you think it’s meals-on-wheels, but they have an actual consitutional duty.
- Waterboarding (yawn) isn’t torture, so you can take down your little straw man and put him back in the suitcase for your next carnival. And yes, aggressive interrogation of terrorists and people who shoot at our soldiers is a “value”.
- You libs keep thinking that spending is an issue on which you have an advantage, and with a compliant/subversive media, it was a factor in two election cycles. But it wasn’t a factor among serious people, and it will never be your advantage, obviously.
The GOP congress spent a lot of money. They also cut a lot of programs. In every program, existing or new, the Democrats wanted to spend more than the GOP, and now that we have another tax and spend liberal in the Oval Office, you’re going to be on the outside of this issue for decades, as he has been the most hilarious extreme example of tax and spend liberalism that we could ever have dreamed of. He makes Jimmy Carter look like a fiscal conservative.
Can’t wait for the midterms. Every race will be about Obama’$ Trillion$.
Jaibones on April 26, 2009 at 9:12 AM
I saw that the cost of Obama’s inauguration – $49 million- was listed as one of the mistakes.
Surely the same people criticizing him for the cost of the inauguration will praise Obama for cutting $100 million- more than DOUBLE that- out of the budget.
What? That didn’t happen? Weird.
Proud Rino on April 26, 2009 at 9:33 AM
Proud Rino on April 26, 2009 at 9:33 AM
Obama cut the Federal Budget by 0.0029 % ($100 million). Woo Hoo! Hardly worthy of praise.
kingsjester on April 26, 2009 at 9:52 AM
That was my whole point. (Perhaps I didn’t word it clearly, as it was part of a longer exchange on the subject and was nearing my nap time.)
I have an advanced degree and worked in academia, so I’ve lived in that liberal planet for many years. The leftist culture is stifling and intolerant. To survive, I kept my mouth shut.
But, how will this academic culture end if conservatives don’t seek careers in education? There aren’t enough of us to support one another or conservative students being discriminated against and silenced.
Loxodonta on April 26, 2009 at 9:55 AM
How stupid are you? Straining at gnats, swallowing camels much?
the_nile on April 26, 2009 at 9:59 AM
Or to the disadvantage of his country…
strangelet on April 26, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Uhm … 100 million won’t buy you an F-22.
100 million … when you’re talking about TRILLIONS … isn’t anything. It’s like leaving a penny tip for the waitress – it’s an insult to people’s intelligence.
You Fail Again.
HondaV65 on April 26, 2009 at 10:09 AM
Bush v Gore–
The electoral vote was won by Bush-Cheney by 5 votes.
The popular vote was won by Gore-Lieberman by 543,816 votes.
Bush v Kerry–
The electoral vote was won by Bush-Cheney by 34 votes.
The popular vote was won by Bush-Cheney by 3,012,407 votes.
Obama v MacCain–
The electoral vote was won by Obama-Biden by 192 votes.
The popular vote was won by Obama-Biden by 9.5 million votes.
Obama has a popular mandate.
Bush didn’t.
strangelet on April 26, 2009 at 10:14 AM
I saw that the cost of Obama’s inauguration – $49 million- was listed as one of the mistakes.
Surely the same people criticizing him for the cost of the inauguration will praise Obama for cutting $100 million- more than DOUBLE that- out of the budget.
What? That didn’t happen? Weird.
Proud Rino on April 26, 2009 at 9:33 AM
bw222 on April 26, 2009 at 10:15 AM
I am the A-team.
;)
Obama proposed cutting private lenders out of the student loan loop yesterday at a projected savings of 94 billion.
strangelet on April 26, 2009 at 10:18 AM
Man-date , Olberman or Matthews , or the King of Saudi Arabia ?
the_nile on April 26, 2009 at 10:21 AM
bw222 on April 26, 2009 at 10:26 AM
But a word of warning to all the Sarahbots out there…she is involved with the Law of The Sea Treaty which gives our waters to the UN.
If she then joins the Council on Foreign Relations, she’s no more a private global bank puppet than Obama, McCain, both Bushes, etc. and nearly every member of Congress.
BobAnthony on April 26, 2009 at 10:27 AM
I’ll give you that he pushed the black vote out to historic levels and the cum-filled college kidz…but those two groups a “mandate” does not make…that’s idolatry, not political savvy…
RepubChica on April 26, 2009 at 10:27 AM
lol…yeah…that’s more like it. hee hee
RepubChica on April 26, 2009 at 10:29 AM
All you party ideology purists need to look at this again.
The electoral vote was won by Obama-Biden by 192 votes.
That is a huge gap. A blowout.
That is why your party leadership is saying you need to reach out to urban dwellers, youth demographic, hispanics, and teh college-educated.
You won the rural…but the urban and suburban voted for Obama.
Do the math.
There just aren’t enough electoral college votes available for you to win with Sarah Palin’s “Real America”.
btw, a lot of us [young people that wound up voting for Obama] found that highly offensive.
Not a particularily succcessful meme.
strangelet on April 26, 2009 at 10:29 AM
See? there you go again.
Not exactly going to win friends and influence people.
strangelet on April 26, 2009 at 10:31 AM
And your point is?
He WON, and he won big.
192 electoral college votes.
You should stop whining about how stupid you think we are for voting for him and do something to change our minds before the next election.
strangelet on April 26, 2009 at 10:34 AM
Obama garnered just under 53% of the vote in an election that should’ve been a Reagan-Mondale-like stomp for him. That’s no mandate. It’s just another indication of a polarized electorate, like the two Bush victories.
I realize though that moonbats have to cling to the illusion that their views are “mainstream”.
ddrintn on April 26, 2009 at 10:35 AM
It’s not whining, tart…it’s a factual statement in response to your “mandate” theory. As for the electoral college..I trust the suburban “white” vote will come back around in 3.5 years…
RepubChica on April 26, 2009 at 10:37 AM
If you believe that number you are truly smoking some excellent crack.
HondaV65 on April 26, 2009 at 10:38 AM
Don’t need to…it’s happening every day this admin is in the WH…
RepubChica on April 26, 2009 at 10:39 AM
So? He won. So did George Bush. Big whoop. Like that is instant validation of whatever goofy marginal views you cherish.
Obama’s going to do yeoman’s work in convincing people not to vote for him next time around. We don’t have to expend energy in trying to woo your particular fringe, though. Waste of time.
ddrintn on April 26, 2009 at 10:39 AM
Obama reminds me of a training officer. Throw out a “program,” give a speech, check it off the list.
I saw this over and over in a failed corporation. They never cared if the program achieved the goal set. Just pretend.
That was all that was required. Then, when the “program” did nothing, they made excuses.
AnninCA on April 26, 2009 at 10:41 AM
Obama has no “mandate” … and any “mandate” he had expired when his campaign rhetoric of “Hope and Change” and “Uniting” expired.
You can not run on a platform … receive a “mandate” … then govern completely different from your campaign rhetoric and expect to keep the mandate.
If my Volkswagon dealer tells me the car gets 30 mpg … and I buy it – I think I have a right to return it if I find out it only gets 10 mpg.
You LIE … You LOSE.
Obama said he would seek a dollar of cuts for every dollar of spending he created … he lied. The best he’ll promise now is a 50 cent cut – and he won’t achieve that.
Guy is the biggest partisan we’ve ever had – he’s the most polarized president ever. He’s so bad – he managed to anger the silent majority enough to get off their arses and take to the streets in the Tea Parties – that’s historic – because they’ve never, ever done that.
No – if he ha a mandate – he lost it when he started lying.
Worst President Evah.
HondaV65 on April 26, 2009 at 10:42 AM
I agree that he’s extremely divisive Honda. I think that’s obvious from the tea parties. It was a real mixed crowd.
AnninCA on April 26, 2009 at 10:47 AM
Yes it was … I was out there and I saw many young kids who voted for Obama who wanted their votes back. Mandate? Pfft! That evaporated on like day 10.
HondaV65 on April 26, 2009 at 10:48 AM
Mandate.
You guyz are just flailing around throwing random stuff at Obama, hoping something, anything, will stick.
Nothing is sticking so far.
And you don’t even have a candidate for 2012.
You are leading a horse with an empty saddle to another Donnybrook as far as i can see.
strangelet on April 26, 2009 at 10:55 AM
Poll results are unreliable when they sample more than twice as many Democrats as Republicans, and sample fewer Republicans than independents. These are not representative surveys. They are propaganda screeds.
Loxodonta on April 26, 2009 at 11:01 AM
Rasmussen isn’t quite such good news for Obama.
But we’re not throwing anything at Obama. We’re just taking what he’s given: an inability to form a Cabinet that isn’t collectively a tax-dodging joke or (like Napolitano) just generally clueless; the Great American Apology Tour; taking on tough opponents like radio talk-show hosts, thereby probably doubling the audience of that host; mountains of debt as far as the eye can see, including the eyes of our great-grandkids; and on and on.
ddrintn on April 26, 2009 at 11:04 AM
Right…that’s what your words say, but I pay more attention to your actions…and by my estimation, you’ve been spamming this Palin post with your “words of wisdom” for nearly 18 hours straight now…get some sleep girl…you may be hallucinating at the keyboard…
RepubChica on April 26, 2009 at 11:05 AM
The backlash is going to sting. You all are going to be sitting flat on your a$$es holding your bloody noses and saying WTF happened. And Conservatives won’t make the mistake again about fearing a vigorous pursuit of a Conservative agenda over worries about being too partisan. And I will be enjoying every minute of it knowing you all will be looking for anyone to blame but yourselves because you pushed it too hard and too far left.
hawkdriver on April 26, 2009 at 11:05 AM
I think the real problems Obama is going to face are quite big. He’s rolled out quite a few “programs,” but there’s no real meat on the bones. That mean he’s following the idea that the right person will make it happen.
Except that’s not how successful programs work.
Right now, he looks like a very mediocre thinker to me, anyway. Nothing has been exciting or creative. It’s just throw money out there and hope some of it helps. All of the programs seem contrived around public opinion mostly. A lot of the programs are so ancient that I think I’m back in the 60’s.
He seems particularly unaware of how his arrogance has created a kind of silent but growing indignation. People can be labeled racist only so much before it just will not be tolerable.
What’s really going to nail him, though, may be the utter failure of the financial program. It would appear that nothing he’s doing is helping. Some of it is actively hurting.
AnninCA on April 26, 2009 at 11:23 AM
In your dreams!
192 electoral college votes.
strangelet on April 26, 2009 at 11:29 AM
She’s still my girl …
… Palin /Bachmann 2012
or …
… Palin / Liz Cheney 2012
Finally some Repubs with some onions.
ex-Democrat on April 26, 2009 at 11:31 AM
I think the GOP is splitting in two.
??
I went out to dinner, heard my friends band at herman’s hideway, and just got up. you craazzee.
;)
strangelet on April 26, 2009 at 11:36 AM
ooooo
Palin/Bachman!!
That’s sure to
losewin!strangelet on April 26, 2009 at 11:37 AM
heh…..the Angry Loozer Party.
strangelet on April 26, 2009 at 11:38 AM
More poll data via AllahP.
Are you guyz sure he’s on your side?
strangelet on April 26, 2009 at 11:45 AM
Missouri GOP have a plan to give $1 Billion of the stimulus money back (rebates) to the people. They call for using part of the stimulus for infastructure, set aside some monies for future use and giving the rest as REBATE rather than spending it on pork projects across the state!
Missouri Democrats do not support this idea, of course.
People are angry that their tax dollars are spent on pet projects. If this GOP plan takes off nationwide and Democrats block it, they’ll be a turnover on the Hill….
TN Mom on April 26, 2009 at 12:11 PM
By the way, the NY Post has now denied Sarah the authorship of this piece and is now attributing it to Meghan Clyne, a DC based writer.
This potentially is controversial. Did the NY Post originally misattribute the piece to Sarah Palin (clerical or management error) or did it change the name of the author to deny Sarah Palin any more favorable publicity?
technopeasant on April 26, 2009 at 12:12 PM
they’ll = there will
TN Mom on April 26, 2009 at 12:13 PM
There’s no doubt he’s popular, but it’s just like the training programs.
They are expecting these programs to actually work.
Will they? I don’t see any solid foundation for them. They are just like what he did in Chicago with education grants. Write a proposal and then pretend you’re doing something.
You can outrun results. Except, he won’t be able to do so.
Volunteer program…..sounds great. It’s smoke and mirrors time. We had that back in the 60’s, too, until it became nothing more than a source of funding for hacks who never really did much for people.
That’s just one example.
AnninCA on April 26, 2009 at 12:16 PM
Interesting about the Palin attribute. I couldn’t tell from the piece if she’d written it. It honestly didn’t sound like her.
I was wondering if the writing was so garbled that people thought she wrote it.
AnninCA on April 26, 2009 at 12:17 PM
Strange…
the_nile on April 26, 2009 at 12:18 PM
I just noticed that myself, I went back to the article after visiting it last night and found that the name had changed. Interesting.
conservnut on April 26, 2009 at 12:25 PM
Why wasn’t Obama’s win even bigger? Hell, if Reagan had had everything going for him the way Obama did (including an embarrassingly sycophantic media), he would’ve gotten at least 85% of the vote in both elections.
Oh, please. Enough with that stupid “Stupid Sarah” crap.
ddrintn on April 26, 2009 at 12:38 PM
Actually, my sentence was so garbled that you couldn’t tell what I meant.
I meant…..the post article was garbled in that section.
AnninCA on April 26, 2009 at 12:53 PM
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