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Cold Cock

By Eastan McNeal on May 9, 2009 at 9:00 PM in Current Affairs

-To hit someone upside the head when they are not looking.

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The Obama folks knew that even their most loving lap dogs in the media could not turn a blind eye to a 3.5 trillion dollar budget. So, what do they do? While everyone is watching Obama the machine activates congressmen, senators and governors (the minions) as unwitting cold cockers. This was such a simple diversion it almost worked.

.. the lap dogs are sniffing the skinny one’s pant legs like they actually may be considering taking a leak on the old boy.

Axelrod: “Let’s look at all the stupid things that Bush tried to cut that congress yelled about and defeated. Reintroduce those same stupid cuts, like taking money away from law enforcement. The minions will start cold calling the press to scream about how crazy this stupid cost cutting president is. The press will run countless headlines about how Barry is tilting over established windmills like a white-horse-riding budget cutter. The budget will pass and people will forget about the waste in it because press sec. Goober will be tossing the White House Press Corps another crisis for them to blow out of proportion and, ergo that, we continue the art of distraction. Sweet!”

Almost worked. Some of the lap dogs are sniffing the skinny one’s pant legs like they actually may be considering taking a leak on the old boy. Late Friday night headlines might suggest that the O-team may need another crisis sooner than they anticipated. I would not get too excited, though. This is probably just a blip. But when you offer cuts that amount to just one half penny for every dollar you spend the hype can’t be expected to boil – maybe simmer – but not bubble over.   Take a look:

The Half-Penny Solution – Wall Street Journal
Significant Cuts, or Just a Little off the Top? – Washington Post
Obama’s budget cuts called puny, vast – Baltimore Sun
Obama budget cuts have little deficit impact – Reuters

coldcock2I don’t know. I have hatefully admired Axelrod’s ability to snowball the press during the more than twenty years I have watched him in politics. A campaign can be filled with overlapping promise, scandal, denial, promise, etc. Before the press can catch up it’s the first Wednesday that follows a Tuesday after the first Monday in November. But running a government has real consequences, some of which can be evaluated in real time. Eventually you run out of ideas for distracting the lap dogs and you start throwing cold, worn bones. Tossing around the same outrageous budget cuts that Bush used to distract the press in the past might not work as well as planned. Who knows? Maybe this cock simply showed up too cold for the dogs to chew on for long. (Hey. If MSLSD is allowed continuous mixed metaphors and word play I should be forgiven for just this one. – EMc.)

 

Last week the press was touting Obama as the brave budget cutter. Did you buy it?

  • arran

    It’s all about weaving in the political response as we prepare for the 2010 midterm, such as, I (Obama) tried to cut the budget back, but Congress added back, passed on, items like rejecting subsidy cuts to wealthy farmers. He’s now preparing to throw Congress under the bus.

    O, great! They are planning to seriously work on Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security reform in 2011, after the midterm election.

    (I found the Reuters link to be the most informative.)

    • Eastan McNeal

      You may notice I had to reach for that one. It is from the UK Reuters feed. Hope they are brave enough to feed it to the US press as well.

  • AX10

    Strange how Rove…..I mean, Axelrod is not talking about the 12+ trillion loan promises that Mr. Geithner and Mr. Obama made to those financial firms that caused this disaster. Those loans could make the US insolvent.

    • Eastan McNeal

      AX10. I dunno.

      New York City went bankrupt in the 1970s. New Orleans did so a decade ago. No state has. No country has. What happens when a country files chapter 11? Do the creditor countries force it to chapter 7, liquidation? If so, what happens to us? Are we the assets or the debts?

      Oh, my. Please, Goober, give me another swine flu update to distract me from such questions.

      • getfitnow

        State to go bankrupt–keep eyes on CA. It may happen yet.

  • candymarl

    When GWB was spending/borrowing us into the ground there was justifiable outrage.

    Obama has only been in office a few months and he has already nearly outspent GWB’s 8 year fiasco.

    Obama wanted to cut veterans benefits and is looking at the idea of cutting Social Security.

    Where are the so called progressives/liberals on any of this?

    Where’s the outrage? Not even crickets.

  • Tess

    The post is worthy, but the turkey illustration is distracting. Why is it there?

  • NomNomNom

    Take your moronic anti-southern prejudice and stick it up your ass you stupid fucking POS. And stay out of North Carolina.

    You like to talk about people being stupid? Stupid is insulting people who are reading your article.

    • Eastan McNeal

      I am at a bit of a loss. I do not understand your comment. Who is anti-southern here?

      • NomNomNom

        “Goober”?? “Barney Fife?”

        • Eastan

          One. I was raised in southern Virginia. Two. The producers of Mayberry RFD, I am sure, were not painting all of rural America with the same brush when they created the Goober character as a kind, yet simple man who is treated affectionately by his friends. I do not think Gibbs is a mean person. The way he gets tickled at himself sometimes and the off-direction answers he gives remind me of the Goober character. Three. That entire section is in quotes. It is a one-paragraph play starring David Axelrod, who has been known to say things that insult entire segments of our population. He actually said the reason Obama did not campaign in WV, KY or TN is because Appalachians are “not his demographic.”

          • NomNomNom

            NC mountains here. My ancestors on both sides have been in the Appalachians for 300+ years.
            I’m not talking about Axelrod’s defamatory language: I’m talking about your use of the word Goober which is a slur applied to southerners characterizing them as stupid.
            Somehow I’m finding it real hard to believe that Gibbs’ Alabama- North Carolina accent didn’t have a factor in the naming beyond alliteration.
            As for your 1 paragraph play in quotes: You might have been able to make a case for yourself that this was how you think Axelrod looks at Gibbs, except that 1. There was a thread the other day where several people, you included, referred to him derisively as Goober, Goobs, and Goober Gibbs where it was plain from the remarks that y’all meant he was stupid. and 2. You just said you see him as Goober, but gee golly you meant it in a nice way.

            As for what Axelrod did actually say, that the Appalachians are not BHO’s demographic, that happens to be true, regardless of Axelrod’s obnoxious attempt to falsely convey that mountain people are all racists; and I’m damned proud he and Axelrod both aren’t our demographic. In my mother’s home county BHO lost 11% to 84% Clinton, in my father’s he lost 22% to 75% Clinton. (I was born out of state: we moved back to NC when I was a child).
            It’s one thing to call someone a goober in a thread and another to use it in an article.
            I have heard this insulting term used all my life; had it applied to me: I don’t care to read it in print; when I see it I will challenge it. Every. Fucking. Time.

  • http://noquarter foxyladi14

    the mighty media might be turning on bo..

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