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More Americans Sober Up, and More and More Americans Have Their Priorities Right [Update]

By Bronwyn's Harbor on August 8, 2009 at 6:40 AM in Current Affairs

(bumped up from early Thursday morning)

One of the latest to express regrets is Chris Ann Cleland who fears her vote for Obama was a “mistake.” State Democratic candidates dance around questions about Obama’s programs, fearing voters will be turned off if they vocalize any support for Obama’s expensive health care reform and cap-and-trade bills. UPDATE: Obama and his ‘bots can no longer blame the previous administration, as explained in this CBS News article, “$1 Trillion More in Debt Since Obama Took Office“ (see more at end of post).

On Wednesday, along with the frightening report that federal tax revenues will drop by 18% — the largest drop in federal tax revenues since 1932 — Rasmussen Reports released this poll that takes the pulse of ALL Americans: “71% Say Obama’s Policies Have Driven Up Deficit,“:

Seventy-one percent (71%) of U.S. voters say President Obama’s policies have increased the size of the federal deficit. [...]

Eighty percent (80%) of investors say Obama’s policies have driven up the deficit. … [...]

A plurality of voters (37%) say cutting the federal deficit in half in the next four years is number one among the four priorities the president listed … but 66% view it as the goal he is least likely to achieve.

Eighty-one percent (81%) of voters now say the bigger problem for the United States today is not voters’ unwillingness to pay enough in taxes but is instead the unwillingness of politicians to control government spending. …

One doesn’t need to be a Nobel Prize-winning economist to figure out that if unemployment is high, income tax revenues will drop and the national deficit will jump.

The average American may not have all of the following numbers at their fingertips, but they are sufficiently aware to know that our country is in financial peril.

“[T]he federal deficit is projected to reach a record $1.8 trillion this year, as the national debt tops $11 trillion.” (The Examiner)
“The U.S. Treasury plans to sell a record $75 billion in its quarterly auctions of debt next week and indicated plans to expand inflation-indexed securities next year as it finances unprecedented budget deficits. …” (Bloomberg)
“Individual income tax revenue is down 22 percent and corporate income tax receipts have fallen 57 percent compared with 2008, according to the Associated Press. … The federal government’s tax revenue is expected fall 18 percent this year, the biggest annual decline since the depths of the Great Depression, according to an analysis by the Associated Press.” (The Examiner)

These are but a few of the numbers that tell the story. Please add MORE in your comments.

So, it’s a no-brainer to think that adding to the deficit by spending over a trillion dollars on health care “reform” and cap & trade program that will cost more jobs should all take a back seat until the nation’s and world’s economies are back on track.

As Linda pointed out below, we need jobs, jobs, jobs FIRST before the President and Congress embark on any new programs that will increase our national debt. I will add that these jobs must pay a decent wage and be full-time to have a beneficial effect on the economy.

Jobs create tax revenue which create etc., etc., etc., … it’s all quite elementary, isn’t it.

But Barack Obama doesn’t want to wait for the economy to improve. He just wants to spend money that the nation doesn’t have and will have to borrow or create.

And, Barack, one small $2 billion program announced in Elkhart, Indiana doesn’t begin to touch the economy’s woes. I guess you realized you needed to stop talking about your health care program 24/7, but you need to do a hell of a lot more than yesterday’s speech and TOKEN program that will take a long time to set up before it can begin to infuse Elkhart with more jobs and revenues.

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UPDATE CONTINUED: Here are details on the UPDATE in the first paragraph, from this CBS News article, “$1 Trillion More in Debt Since Obama Took Office“:

So rapid is the pace of deficit spending by the federal government, that the National Debt has increased over a trillion dollars since President Obama took office.

On Inauguration Day, the Debt stood at $10.626 trillion. The latest posting from the Treasury Department shows that as of July 31st, the debt hit $11.669 trillion.

During the last administration, it took over 2 ½ years for the National Debt to increase a trillion dollars. [Bronwyn's Note: OBAMA has managed to exceed a trillion-dollar increase in six months, not 2 1/2 years.] But by the time former president George W. Bush left office, he had run up the deficit by a record amount: $4.9-trillion over eight years.

[...]

He said the administration doesn’t think it can get the deficit under better control until it gets the economy moving again – and Mr. Obama believes health care reform is an indispensable part of that strategy.

[Bronwyn's questions:BUT HOW WILL HEALTH CARE REFORM REDUCE THE DEFICIT? HAVE ANY OF YOU READ AN ADEQUATE EXPLANATION FOR THIS THEORY? AND CAN ANYONE -- INCLUDING PRESIDENT OBAMA -- POINT TO A SINGLE NEW FEDERAL PROGRAM THAT REDUCED THE DEFICIT?]

The budget numbers issued by the Administration in May project the deficit in the current fiscal year will top $1.8-trillion dollars. But an updated report is due this month, and an even larger deficit is expected to be announced for the current fiscal year, which began October 1st – 3 ½ months before Mr. Obama was sworn in.

[...]

“We’re not going to make progress on the deficit without dealing with health care,” said spokesman Robert Gibbs today.

He said the administration doesn’t think it can get the deficit under better control until it gets the economy moving again – and Mr. Obama believes health care reform is an indispensable part of that strategy.

[Bronwyn's question, again!: I HAVE TO ASK: HOW IN THE HELL IS THE DEFICIT GOING TO BE REDUCED BY OBAMA's HEALTH CARE PLAN? HOW???]

Read more of CBS White House Correspondent Mark Knoller’s report.

Doc99

The President IS creating jobs … unfortunately, most of these are in Government.

Hg

Mostly in the Brown Shirt category

barry bums a ciggie

As in the Mis-information czar?

Wonder how much she gets paid? Pretty soon, citizens who report other citizens anti-health care emails will be enticed to get money for every email they forward to the WH I’m sure.
yazi

Really? Brown shirts, eh? You really think this government is akin to the Nazis?

tzada

Pelosi: Town Hall Protesters Are “Carrying Swastikas”

She should recognize them.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/08/05/pelosi_town_hall_protesters_are_carrying_swastikas.html

yazi

Okay, so the people protesting Obama and the Democrats are carrying Swastikas, so that is proof, to you, that Pelosi (et al., presumably) are the Nazis in this scenario?

Howsabout we move past the “who’s a Nazi game” and engage each other directly?

Mandelay

That would be lovely but the time has passed for that. After being labeled a “racist,” “tea bagger,” and now a member of the “mob,” I think it’s time the gloves come off, don’t you?

Patrick Henry

YES…Its time..

Lets get on all those ACORN Bus’s parked in Obama’s backyard..(left over from ..busing little Corns to those caucaus meetings)…then sit back and absorb some of that LEFT over “ATTITUDE”..still lingering in the Air…and go to some of these Rallys and take OUR Gloves off like Obamas People did..

The people MUST get in the Back in the new political arena ..you know the WTF One..
Politicians Vs. The People..

PUNCH OUT…People Win..

Rocky Cheers..

Cue Rocky Theme song…
HC123

Yep, gloves off.

I think my personal tipping point was todays drivel in the WaPo in which the joker posters are racist when directed at Obama, but fine when directed at Bush.

Please, just give me the short list of things that are not racist. Because the list is pretty darn short these days.

Also, Pelosi is just making crap up like the rest of this administration – they are running amok. I hope Americans vote them off the island, and soon. Or wait, was that racist?

Donna Brazile

Yes! Come back JZ-yazi! My gloves are off and I’m ready to spar.

Stop the lovefest!

Lisa

tzada, I don’t believe that people are carrying swastikas. If they were, the media would have jumped on it big time. Pelosi is a lyar.

tzada

I agree. But if they think about it they will plant some who say they are Republicans.

Lisa

tazda, That is true, I never thought about it.Wow!!
Onofre’s arm

That’s exactly what they did at Obama campaign rallies. Their own people shouted foul things at Obama within range of media mics, and the media dutifully reported them as radical racist McCain supporters. It’s an old tactic, very similar to planting people in the crowd that will faint on cue.

Pennsylvania Caucasian (but not exactly White-Y)

Let’s not go off on a tangent – instead focus on the very important gist of BH’s article:

For Cleland, it was another example — one of many this day — of the broken promises of a president who she thought would be different. Obama pledged to change a Washington culture that favored corporations and the connected and instead lift families such as the one sitting next to Cleland out of their economic funk. Rather, she said, Obama has backed billions of dollars to banks that continue to “act like they’re broke” and started the country down a path that Cleland said she thinks will lead to more grief for the middle class.

“He’s just not as advertised,” she said. “Nothing’s changed for the common guy. I feel like I’ve been punked.”

Onofre’s arm

“I feel like I’ve been punked.” More accurately she has been O-boned, along with the rest of us.

And thanks PC for specifically warning me to stay ridgidly on topic. After reviewing the whole thread, I’m embarrassed to find that I’m the only one that drifted. My apologies!

Pennsylvania Caucasian (but not exactly White-Y)

oh heck no -

the trollz like to jump in at the top, we’ve all gotten drawn in at some point.

Chris Ann Cleland in the article doesn’t give a rat’s patoot about (alleged) symbols on protestors – all she knows is that 0-bone is not what was advertised. She is the voice of the white independent voter who swept the 0ne into office. The latte voter giveth, and the latte voter taketh away…
trixta

Come on, Pennsylvania! This is not about whiteness or white voters. This is about voters of all stripes and colors who are now feeling duped. We PUMAS had The One all figured out long ago. The rest of the country is just catching up.

yazi

well, you all will think these were planted, but here is a story about the swastika and other nazi symbols.

obviously they are using the symbols to accuse the democrats of being the nazis. so it doesn’t prove ANYone actually IS a nazi. but it is another sad example of throwing the accusation around with absolutely no basis.

seriously, what’s the point?

barry bums a ciggie

And the DNC ad saying that protesters and tea party attendees are a bunch of hires from insurance companies and GOP isn’t about throwing accusations? What ever happened to the change we all can believe in? I’m so done with the pols in Washington. At the end of the day, say anything to get elected and then screw the people.

The whole “report any fish anti-healh care” emails to the WH smells of China’s Red Guards. If that doesn’t scare the hell out of Americans, it should. Since when does the WH have the right to ask Americans to spy on each other. Friggin’ BS!

yazi

sure it’s an accusation. it’s a substantive accusation about the relative value/meaning of the protests. i never said one shouldn’t criticize/accuse their opponents. but nazis? based on what? it’s so lazy and stupid.

HC123

Ms. Pelosi is crafty and hard working, so whats her excuse for dropping the “n”(azi) bomb? Just an off day?

beebop

No one held her feet to the fire for asking for proof about the CIA lying to her so what the hell …. one more piece of crap allegation …

Got an email from the New Agenda about an article appearing in Huffing Poo about the Maladministration paying their Female workers less …. were they not paying attention during the campaign? sheesh.

barry bums a ciggie

substantive accusation? Where’s the proof that these people are hires? perhaps Pelosi is quick to throw out this accusation because she of the Dems affiliation with ACORN. I was a Dem, left them the minute they started this divisive bs. Like I said, where’s the hope and change?
barry bums a ciggie

substantive accusation? Where’s the proof that these people are hires? perhaps Pelosi is quick to throw out this accusation because of the Dems affiliation with ACORN. I was a Dem, left them the minute they started this divisive bs. Like I said, where’s the hope and change?

yazi

maybe you don’t understand what substantive means. it doesn’t mean she’s right, just that it is substantively related to the nature of the protests. calling someone a nazi is kind of a non-sequitur.

huh

The Dems are trying to bloster their failing Jewish pol #’s by flinging mud at the Right.

tead off

Jewish American Seniors should understand the kind of language this Govt is using against its people is very scary. I would like to contact my liberal Jewish friends to see how they feel about Obama now. But I would be too depressed if they still didn’t get it.

WMCB

There were swastikas on a few signs. One in particular showed Hitler, then Bush, then Obama.

So no, they were not, as Pelosi subtly implied, approvingly carrying nazi symbols like good little neo-nazis. They were trying to point out the fascist tendencies of the last 2 presidents. The signs were ANTI-nazi, not pro-nazi.
allseeingi82

What else is new. She’s a pathological liar. If the head is a liar so is the body.
Country First

Check out how they croppped the photo of the young man carrying a sign:

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/

Diana

I would like for Nancy to show me one person carrying a swastika. I’ve watched every tea party video on YouTube, as well as every Health Care protest on YouTube I can find. The only thing I’ve seen anyone carry is a CROSS. I thought she was Catholic? She doesn’t know the difference between a swastika and a cross?

She really should quit with the Botox, it’s apparently affecting her brain. I can’t believe I stood behind her going YEAH! when she said it would take a woman to clean up the mess. We had one that would have done just that…in fact we were offered two, instead with her help we jumped from the frying pan into the fire.

Karma

Well in their DNC video that inspired the RNC to route those calls back to the DNC.

There was one poster that had SS in it. So her comment only reminded me of that DNC video and the impression they want to inspire about Republicans, etc.

The scene is at :30 seconds.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2009/08/05/rnc_routes_angry_phone_calls_to_dnc.html

I remember all the hub bub about the Rep Admin smearing Dems as unpatriotic and now they are doing their own version.

Sorry Pelosi, you are no better for using the same tactic.

Karma

And just to add, I have never seen a swastika at these rallies either.

I do remember all kinds of Nazi smears with Bush though.

So I guess she is remembering the good ole days when Dems protested Bush with Nazi emblems and mustaches.
Diana

Those looked like dollar signs to me, but I see they’re S’s. Stop Spending. If the woman was making a point that they’re behaving as the Nazi’s. Obama’s personal army…I think I must agree. Plus, I’ve read the health care bill. I can understand the anger. However, I don’t think I would have done it like that or carried a sign with those symbols. I would have written it out, this is not Nazi Germany quit behaving as it is. Or is Obama a reincarnation of Hitler? I have so much tact.

NomNomNom

http://stevenmnielson.blogspot.com/2009/04/are-we-intelligent-enough-to-understand.html
There is a tripart Hope-Change-Obey poster with first Hitler and a swastika, then Lenin and a hammer and sickle, and then BHO and his campaign emblem: obviously intent of poster is opposite to what Pelosi implies.

tead off

Pelagosi thinks protestors carry swastikas to the town hall meetings. From what I understand you can carry a Nazi Flag, wear a Nazi Shirt/Armband but carrying a swastika– sounds as ridiculous as she is.

trixta

yeah, brownshirts

Pennsylvania Caucasian (but not exactly White-Y)

HopiChangey world deserves a shirt color all its own.

I nominate Lavender.

http://noquarter foxyladi14

lol for sure

oowawa

It seems every time you blink, plans for expensive new programs appear, staffed by more Czars and staff–all to be paid for with a credit card that should have been maxed out long ago. There seems to be no real sense of fiscal responsibility or urgency, beyond the usual empty promises about cutting spending and getting the deficit under control. Meanwhile, unemployment and dwindling tax receipts exacerbate the problem. I can’t find anything to joke about in this story. This article addresses the crux of our dilemma. Good job, Bronwyn’s Harbor.

trixta

According to Joe Scarborough, Congress has ordered 3 private jets (at tax-payer’s expense) to shuttle members around.

tead off

trixta — Its 5 jets now and the Pentagon is not amused.

avwrobel

check out http://www.upyoursobama.com fun stuff!

J.J. (The P.U.M.A.)

Thanks. My favorite was:

OBAMA
A New Chapter in American History
Chapter 13

Tammy

And it looks like our “stimulus” taxes just bought the wonks in Washington three new, shiny jets!

This isn’t the Government of “Hope and Change”.
It’s the Government of “Let Them Eat Cake”.

betty

And they think they will be around forever to enjoy their new toys – not if I can help it. Course maybe they know something I only suspect – Acorn?

tzada

Yes they have to “ferry” them around someway.
Or maybe to “ferry” congress to some undisclosed location, when their brown shirts or UN hits our streets?

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/08/05/rnc_ad_attacks_obamas_experiment.html

Cahil

Good article.

Let’s not forget Obumble math. He’s quadrupled the national debt with all his spending so, even if he cuts it in half, IT’S STILL DOUBLED.

We don’t need health care reform or cap and trade.

WE NEED GOVERNMENT REFORM. We need everyone to vote ALL of these people out of office and send a real message. We need wholesale change to shake up our representatives and remind them that they work for the American people and not the other way around.

And where in the constitution does it say that the American people should be footing the bill for all these trumped up czar positions?

Flood your congress people with phone calls, e-mails, letters and go to town hall meetings. Exercise your right to protest loud and long.

Surfered

When W was elected to office, the national debt was $5.7 trillion. When he left office, the national debt was $10.6 trillion. Go to Treasurydirect.gov and look at the numbers yourself.

Bronwyn’s Harbor

But Obama and his dwindling number of supporters can NO LONGER BLAME BUSH. Check this out:

“$1 Trillion More in Debt Since Obama Took Office”

I’m adding an update with more from this article.
bho boo

I read it was $460 Billion when Bush left

tzada

This man running for office will send 3 emails out for you free. He also asks but does not require a donation. Found his ad at the top of the Drudge Report

http://taxfax.us/taxfax/index.asp?ad=drudge4
Lisabona

You get it right. I wish to see the day, when America will stand-up for their future. Most of all, for the generation who are in debt before they even be born.

Surfered

Look, by the time the choice got to me in Texas, it was either McCain, who I supported in 2000; or Obama.

I’m writing letters to the editor in 2007 about the growing national debt due to the brilliant idea of cutting taxes and increasing spending.

Then in March of 2008, McCain appeared on Meet the Press and I watched him live when he said “the invasion of Iraq was not a mistake and he would have still invaded Iraq even knowing they did not have weapons of mass destruction.”

To top it off, he nominated a person for Vice President who answers every question in beauty contestant speak and clearly was not ready for prime time.

I ask you, what was a sane person supposed to do, vote for Whacky and Daffy or the President of the Harvard Law Review?

oowawa

I ask you, what was a sane person supposed to do, vote for Whacky and Daffy or the President of the Harvard Law Review?

What’s a person to do–vote for an experienced Senator, a decorated combat veteran who has paid his dues and was tortured by the enemy, running with the successful Governor of Alaska; or for an inexperienced new Senator, a community organizer from Chicago, who never served, and who blah blah blah and etc.

Sounds a little different that way.

Surfered

Right, which is why I supported him against W in 2000; however, I repeat: Sen McCain said in 3/08 that the invasion of Iraq was not a mistake and he would have still done it even knowing they did not have WMD. That is just nuts.

John

Im afraid you do not understand warfare

Surfered

You’re sure right about that, proven by the fact that, while with the Army in Germany, I volunteered for Vietnam on July 20, 1971.

The only thing that I have learned is that the Commander-in-Chief should not send young men off to die, or worse, unless it’s for a damn good reason.

John

There are many reasons we are in IRAQ.

Start with the Federal Reserve – That is where I would START…

tzada

Great reply, I was thinking along those lines and you put it so much better.
Diana

Great comments from both you and Cahill.
Brendy

Comment by Surfered | 2009-08-06 11:50:47

Look, by the time the choice got to me in Texas, it was either McCain, who I supported in 2000; or Obama.

I’m writing letters to the editor in 2007 about the growing national debt due to the brilliant idea of cutting taxes and increasing spending.

Then in March of 2008, McCain appeared on Meet the Press and I watched him live when he said “the invasion of Iraq was not a mistake and he would have still invaded Iraq even knowing they did not have weapons of mass destruction.”

To top it off, he nominated a person for Vice President who answers every question in beauty contestant speak and clearly was not ready for prime time.

I ask you, what was a sane person supposed to do, vote for Whacky and Daffy or the President of the Harvard Law Review?

**

I DESPISED McCain (I was a Romney supporter but voted for Hillary in my primary because McCain had already been ‘selected’ by the time it got to my state); but when it became between McCain/Obama – the answer was easy – even as much as I despised McCain. Palin might not have been ‘experienced’ but neither was Obummer; I liked what Palin stood for (God, Country, morals, Constitution) and SHE is the reason I voted for McCain (she made me feel better about voting for McCain). Always look to what YOU believe in to be ‘right’ and ‘good’ and vote accordingly.

~~JustMe~~

Well maybe the beauty contestent would of been better…..

Keep digging and also don’t forget to
“Drill baby Drill”

Alaska did well with the Beauty Contestant.

The country not so well with a community organizer!!

Pennsylvania Caucasian (but not exactly White-Y)

The Beauty Contestant who by the way came up from the people, and spent most of her life far away from the East Coast elites.

How much more of Harvard/Yale “governing” can this country stand?

Acaha

The President of the Harvard Law Review who never published one single article you can get your hands on. The mystery man who released nothing of eight years of his schedule in the State Senate in IL. The man who ducked out on all risky votes in the Senate. The man whose campaign promises were so elastic you can’t pin him down to anything.

The man whose VP just admitted they got the economy wrong. He is all hype. His titles and words mean nothing to me. His actions do and his actions thus far ain’t great nor were they out on the campaign trail. I am happy I did not vote for him.

I knew damned well he didn’t know what he was doing.

Lisa

Acaha, I totally agree. I din’t trust him from day one. I didn’t believe his campaign speeches, he changed his postion all the time, depending on where he was. He was also a terrible debater.
NoBamaNoWay

correct; he only became prez of the law review through affirmative action (it was not based on merit as it was in the past), and he has become POTUS through affirmative action, media whores and misogyny.
inconsiderable wretch

Yes, Acaha, I agree completely, but alas the people who picked and groomed him and gave millions to set him up as president know exactly what they’re doing and it’s paid off big time for them with billions in bailout funds, etc., and the extension of their power and privilege.

Karma

Well I guess you must have missed all of Obama’s pro war votes. Votes that supported those who lied to get us into war, to fund the war, and the war-profiteers. Scroll down to that ‘A Pro War Record’ section and tell me where he is against the war.

http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/15558

Or this quote from Obama long after his 2002 speech no less.

“There’s not much of a difference between my position on Iraq and George Bush’s position at this stage.”

And what about Padilla and the Supreme Court stating he must go to trial despite Bush. But here we have Obama trying to implement his own brand of Gitmo detainees on US soil anyway?

Please! Obama is Bush 3.

You ignored his genuine record and his speech caveats large enough to drive a bus through.

And riddle me this. If the media sold Bush and the Iraq war with lame evidence. Why did you believe them again when selling Obama? It is the same media.

NoBamaNoWay

spot on, Karma.

huh

Too bad Mr. Harvard Law Review was wrong on both the Heller case and Gatesgate. He’s anti-2nd Amd and anti-police. If that is what Harvard wants nowadays, for shame.

sowsear

How about Sotomayor’s view of the 2nd amendment?
What with the Republican support, minor as it is?

Brendy

Comment by sowsear | 2009-08-06 14:45:45

How about Sotomayor’s view of the 2nd amendment?
What with the Republican support, minor as it is?

**

These ‘republicans’ are what you call “RINO’s” – VERY GOOD description of them. I find it amusing that Martinez (whatever his name is), the Florida REPUBLICAN is retiring NOW (AFTER he voted for Sotomayor) – he is a Puerto Rican just as she is….

No comment on sissy Graham (the illegal alien lover)…

tzada

Any people intersted in Florida’s choice for Martinez seat may like to read this.

Marco Solo
U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio won’t abandon his conservative principles.

Almost every politician who aspires to statewide office brings along a staffer when meeting a group of reporters. Usually it’s the communications director or press secretary, or perhaps the chief of staff. Usually the staffer is there to drive the candidate around, keep him on schedule, monitor how he is doing, and perhaps kick him under the table if, while answering questions on the record, he starts straying off-message in a Bidenesque manner.

When U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio dropped by National Review’s Washington office to meet the editors in late July, he arrived alone — in fact, he traveled alone for his entire trip from Florida to the capital. You could take that as a sign of a shoestring campaign; but the more apt conclusion is that Rubio knows who he is and what he wants to say — there’s never a need to kick him under the table.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MzJkOGVhNGQzYTYyNDk4ZDliMWRhZDkyOWZkZTY4MDc=&w=MQ==

My votes for Rubio.

jbjd

Reminds me of HRC, during the primary, when she met with Richard Mellon Scaife at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

He was the guy who, Mrs. Clinton wrote in her memoir, helped bankroll “the vast right-wing conspiracy” that was bent on destroying the Clinton presidency.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/21/scaife-paper-endorses-clinton/

Scaife ended up endorsing her for POTUS.

mark

I find it disturbing that the Republican party doesnt do as the democratic party tried with joe the thug liebermam “Whom I believe sold out Mccain” Im sure he was paid off by the Obagamba camp anyhow the republicans that denounced the United states constitution are in no way law abiding as anyone that lets foriegn goverment policies dictate Us law and procedures. These are all criminals according to constitutional law. I know they wont agree cause they are GUILTY GUILTY AND GUILTY we as US citizens are required by law to take action and bring them to justace. I need help anyone else want to help email me mazzpatriot@yahoo.com and together we can make a difference We need to act before the summer vacation and start action when they attempt to return to rogue power. if they wont listen to us it is time we remove them according to law and lets keep guitanamo bay open to house these criminals and show Abama that the Constitution is more important than his claims of racial tension. My eyes ave seen the glory of the coming of the day, when we hold the thugs accountable for the crimes they commit everyday. I will march on washington to declare my soveriegn justace. The Us will is where I was Born. Glory Glory hallalujah,, glory glory hallaujah glory glory hallaujah. My truth is spreading on.

JRD

Wacky and Daffy is the correct answer. The pres. of Harvard Law Review only got the title because of Affirmative Action, NOT BECAUSE HE EARNED IT, duh. A person capable of deductive reasoning would have been aware of that fact. At least you knew with Wacky and Daffy what you were getting. With Harvard Law review all you got was BIG EARS DUMB-0. With nothing but freakin space between those big ears. You can tell us all you want about how smart Dumb-0 is. We know Dumb-0 is stupid. No body who is smart tries to give anyone BS that health care reform will fix the economy. It is stupid! It is ignorant. And how does it feel to be stupid? The creep Dumb-0 isn`t even a good snake oil salesman. If he was he wouldn`t need TOTUS. I am taking a lesson out of the progressive playbook. Just keep saying something over and over again and it is fact. The fact is 0bama is freakin STUPID! 0bama is freakin STUPID! 0bama is freakin STUPID!

tzada

Just how smart is Obama?

Just how smart is the President? Famous presidential historian Michael Beschloss, a regular on PBS’s Newshour show, says his IQ is “off the charts” and that he is “probably the smartest guy ever to become president,” while admitting he doesn’t know what his IQ is. I say: let’s look at the evidence.

Obama’s books

Jack Cashill has expended a great deal of effort at American Thinker to blast holes in the “foundational myth” that President Obama is a “literary genius”.

Comparing books attributed to Obama with known undisputed samples of his writings, Cashill has shown that, in fact, Obama is a crappy writer, who, despite a Harvard-educated father, a mother with a PhD, attendance at the best private prep school in Hawaii and degrees from Columbia University and Harvard Law School, never mastered such elemental matters of grammar as the necessary agreement of verbs and nouns in a sentence.

I think Cashill’s rather convincingly demonstrated his thesis that Obama never authored the two books which are cited as proof that he is some kind of literary genius.

But the “literary genius” foundational myth is not the only one in need of serious examination. The very notion that he merited admission let alone degrees from these rigorous and competitive institutions is called into question every time Obama makes an extemporaneous remark. He knows little or nothing about history, economics, law, geography and the grammar rules of his native tongue.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/07/just_how_smart_is_obama.html

Onofre’s arm

His IQ is “off the charts.”? Perhaps the charts don’t go low enough.

jangles

Have you noticed that like his days at Harvard Law Review president, O’s days as POTUS have not produced any known ideas or policy papers specifically known to be written by him. Notice that in some of his more irate public addresses where he goes into full angry lecture mode that the rhetoric goes ghetto and wright.

Onofre’s arm

Yes, absolutely I’ve noticed. The hyped-up but phony facade is cracking!

HC123

McCain would have been your better choice. So glad you could stop by to confirm your error. Have a nice day.
NomNomNom

It was a dilemma. I opted for none of the above and voted Green. I certainly would not have supported an illegitimate delegate and vote stealing liar and thought he would balk at serving the interests of the fascists who installed him.

dan in michigan

You can’t point to Bush’s deficits as justification for Obama’s deficits. Bush was WRONG to spend all that money. Let’s not compound the mistake at warp speed. We are in big trouble financially.

yazi

So long as by “we” you mean, we, the people, not the federal government. The federal government isn’t in financial trouble–it can handle a LOT of debt and deficit.

The debt Obama is taking on is *supposed* to be for the benefit of the economy and everyday Americans. You can take issue with that policy, of course, but that is different from saying that b/c of the economic problems (which are, primarily, *our* problems, not the government’s), the government shouldn’t take on debt, which I think is wrong-headed.

There is a respectable argument that taking on debt (in the right way) is exactly what the government should be doing to help us through the economic problems.

Obamastolemycountry

Wow! You definitely need some kool aid detox. They won’t be available until 2013 when the obamastolemyhealthcareplan goes into effect.

Boy, the bots have been summoned again, huh? Must have been sent here after no quarter got flagged by the misinformation sinister.

yazi

right. that’s a specific disagreement about Obama’s policies. fine. i was only taking issue with the original poster who seemed to be saying that a time of economic trouble is NO time for the government to take on debt (and, by extension, continue Bush’s mistakes). i disagree, i think Bush’s mistake wasn’t simply taking on debt, it was taking debt for unhelpful/unprogressive programs. obama is proposing something to take on debt in an entirely different economic environment. the merits of which we can cleary disagree on.

jbjd

i disagree, i think Bush’s mistake wasn’t simply taking on debt, it was taking debt for unhelpful/unprogressive programs. obama is proposing something to take on debt in an entirely different economic environment. the merits of which we can cleary disagree on.

Oh, okay, now I see the problem. You distinguish between bad choices for what you are implying are good causes. We here tend to recognize BO is making good choices for what we consider to be bad causes. (Hint: When it comes to anything BO, reality lies in the deed and not in the word.)
to77

these are the kinda statements that that just ignore facts to prop up ideology. What do you think Bush spent on?

From 2001-2008 non interest spending increased by 1.1 trillion dollars. Of that spending increase 730 billion was in the area of domestic spending with social security/pension spending increasing $250 billion (55%), health increasing $270 billion (60%), welfare increasing $120 billion (66%), education $40 billion (60%) and transportation $20 billion (50%). In fact he increased spending on these domestic social programs at TWICE the rate as Clinton over his 8 years.

Social security, health care, welfare, education and transportation. What categories should we be spending the borrowed money on that is more “progressive” and will usher in economic prosperity?

Obamastolemycountry

There is a respectable argument that taking on debt (in the right way) is exactly what the government should be doing to help us through the economic problems.

All right kool aid karl, I’ll play a little. Help you earn your nickels.

I will say that there is truth in that statement. The thing is that the Government would actually have to show some concern about the country and not their own stealing from the cookie jar. If the Government went into debt to create jobs and had a plan to repay the debt, that would be one thing. Obama has no plans, other than a hostile takeover/handover of America. Just because you’re in the brown shirts kiddo, doesn’t mean they won’t kick you in the butt after you have served your purpose! Obama’s history, had the MSM cared to report it was to use people and throw them away when he had what he wanted. He also used to throw around a lot of money for very little or no gains, Annenberg challenge, anyone?

yazi

1. calling me a brown shirt is unnecessarily offensive. really, do you think that the people who disagree with you are fucking Nazis?

2. i can’t disagree with what you said; it doesn’t run counter to what i said. you are arguing that obama’s plan is a bad one (in part because it has all these nefarious kickbacks etc., about which i don’t agree, but no matter). fine. but you say: “If the Government went into debt to create jobs and had a plan to repay the debt, that would be one thing.”

right, that’s a respectable argument about creating debt to help the economy. i agree with you.

now, why does that make me a NAZI?

Obama: Dubya 2 Electric Boogaloo

Hey, if you’re stupid enough to believe the Obamessiah then you deserved to be mocked…just sayin’…..

yazi

ohhhhkay. if you could read you could see that i’m making an argument about policy that’s disconnected from obama’s actual ideas.

and even if you DO think i’ve demonstrated some stupidity worthy of mocking, i *still* don’t see how that makes me a NAZI. do you even know what it means to call someone a nazi, or are you (collectively) just throwing around words that sound bad?

HC123

We aren’t actually a (collective) here.

I know, its weird.

Putting down the kool aid is your first step to independent thought.

Patrick Henry

Its Not “Kool~Aid” any more..

That was a Neo ~con Drink..

Obama’s Drink is “FOOL~AID ”

“Whats My Name, FOOL..”

Muhammud Ali..who HATED His christian Name Cassius Clay..

Obama adopted another Ali tactic..

“Rope a Dope” and

“FOOL~AID”
yazi

ha. well, i’ll give you that one. i walked right into it.

what i meant by “collectively” was to acknowledge that the poster i was directly responding to (“Obama: Dubya 2 Electric Boogaloo”) hadn’t actually said anything about Nazis so i didn’t want to paint him with the same brush as the original poster that i responded to regarding Nazis. i should have said “some of you” rather than “you (collectively).”

trust me, i make every attempt to have independent thought. because i disagree with you (or others here) isn’t proof otherwise.

huh

Glug glug glug mmmmm Kool-aide gooood… burp!

yazi

can you even read? i disagreed with the original poster’s point but i never actually made any argument in support of Obama’s policies, freely acknowledging there could be a difference of opinion regarding policy. so, you could respond, or you could just type an imbecilic response about kool-aid.

Katmoon

Exactly: And soon there is another auction of Debt to Foreign Holders of U.S. Treasury Securities. Right now China owns almost 25%.

Checkout the following sites which provide some good background information about this fat mess from this administration. LEt us not forget,

The ceiling has been raised by passage of new laws by the United States Congress every two years or so. On February 13, 2009, it was raised to $12.104 trillion, by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (H.R.1).

Sources:http://www.treas.gov/tic/mfh.txt

http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/

oowawa

Right Katmoon. Let’s just carve up the pie that is America’s future and dish it out to foreign nations, most particularly China. I’m sure they’ll be benevolent creditors and will only have our best interests at heart.

Diana

I saw a documentary on seers. Their predictions. Nostradamus, the sleeping man, people who’ve had stigmata, etc. Several predicted that Russia would hit us on accident, it wasn’t intentional with a nuclear weapon off the east coast. That both they and China would rush in to try and help with the devastation. One of them also predicted that by 2025 the United States would not be the United States anymore, we would be part of China. Reading your post reminded me of seeing that. It’s kind of eerie when you ponder on it and all that’s going on in the world.

Tammy

Well, the White House is calling out the Goons.
This is truly getting scary and creepy.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gpfmp7

Katmoon

Yes, and I just heard Senator Cardin say people needed to R.S.V.P. for his town hall meetings; nothing like getting your hands on the names of the people protesting. Gee, now was it just a month and a half ago our msm was going Gaa-Gaa over the rights of the Iranians to protest? I guess we don’t rate, after all we are just fakes and plants. Heaven knows, Americans couldn’t possibly have any upset with their government, particularly this administration. Why, that would be insurection! They won’t stand for that! They will take names, create a database, or add to whatever they already have, and spend time figuring out how to ridicule, and minimilizew those who appose the great and wondererful OZ-bama.

huh

Do they need to provide birth cert’s too?! Ohhh below the belt. Sorry could not help.

NoBamaNoWay

heh heh.
Brendy

Comment by huh | 2009-08-06 15:01:46

Do they need to provide birth cert’s too?! Ohhh below the belt. Sorry could not help.

**
Or, social security numbers (illegal aliens – future democrat voters for Obama)?

Katmoon

Yes, and I just heard Senator Cardin say people needed to R.S.V.P. for his town hall meetings; nothing like getting your hands on the names of the people protesting. Gee, now was it just a month and a half ago our msm was going Gaa-Gaa over the rights of the Iranians to protest? I guess we don’t rate, after all we are just fakes and plants. Heaven knows, Americans couldn’t possibly have any upset with their government, particularly this administration. Why, that would be insurection! They won’t stand for that! They will take names, create a database, or add to whatever they already have, and spend time figuring out how to ridicule, and minimilize those who appose the great and wondererful OZ-bama.
oowawa

Calling out the goons? Well, it worked at the caucuses, why not at the Town Halls?

Katmoon

oOps on that double post!

Hiya Oowawa,

I actually think they(goons) believe this will work, I have a different feeling about it all this time. Maybe because I need to believe that people won’t sit and take it anymore. Today, I am preparing for my son to visit, first time since his return from Iraq; I know you can see my toothy grin all the way to where you are.
There are times when I want to just throw in the towel, and not care anymore, this constant fight with our own government does make me weary, and often. Yet, this is my country, and I would rather die from a broken heart knowing I at least tried to make my voice heard and tried to make a difference. I don’t know this country anymore. I guess I truly am old!

Thankfully I can come here and express and engage; for which I am so very grateful to Larry, and truly enjoy the bright and thoughful people who comment here.

oowawa

Yes, Katmoon. I am also grateful for the unyielding and thoughtful voices on NQ. Best wishes to you and Ferd, and my thanks to your son for his service. Nothing could be better than a safe homecoming!

Katmoon

Thanks; I know I have slept much better since he hit U.S. soil. Ferd will be playing Grandpa tonight; Can you imagine it?(he is an old softy for the “cookie faced” grandson).

Meanwhile, doing some research while the floor is drying. I was surprised to find out the intergovernmental debt is not included in the numbers nor the Freddie and Fannie mess; it makes you wonder what else isn’t known as part of this insane debt.

Diana

Give your son a big hug and tell him Thank you!

Katmoon

Thanks Diana, I sure will.

Brendy

Katmoon, PLEASE don’t give up; I know it’s hard sometimes, that you think the forces of evil are against you/us – but don’t EVER give up for what you believe in! Your son is the REASON we have our freedoms that we have today; GOD BLESS him and you. Remember that WE – the real Americans, who love our country, our freedom, our constitution and our religions are behind you 100%. Thank your son for us.

Onofre’s arm

“Organizing for America”? Good grief! More like “Goose Stepping Toward Obamica”.

Tammy, I went to your link, you should warn people that it’s an Obama site. When it popped up I felt an instant need to wash my eyes in clorox. Also, when I tried to back up to this site my connection was killed, and I had to get back here from a different route. Is this a concern?

Tammy

Are you serious?
I went right to the “White House” site and linked it.
Maybe No Quarter is now being spied on.
That’s freaky.

Welcome to Obama World!
Sorry, man, I had no idea something weird would happen.
yazi

what was your first clue? the address is: my.barackobama.com….

Onofre’s arm

Lots of adresses have Obama’s name in them, and it is often not clear whether they are pro or con. The address http://www.faithfreedom.org/obama.html
might sound like it’s a site that discusses Obama’s deep and sincere faith (HA!), so why don’t you link to it to find out? Regardless of how it came up, I highly recomend that EVERYONE read the article there. It was written some time ago, so it is interesting to see how prophetic the author is proving to be.

Diana

That was an excellent article, thank you for sharing it.

Diana L. C.

Please don’t do that to me again. Tammy. I was reading too fast and didn’t realize that I would get on an O site when I took your link. I still have the heebie jeebies.

Tammy

Just wipe your whole body down with Windex and you’ll be fine

helenk

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1914842,00.html?xid=rss-business

the local governments will be hurt due to lost real estate taxes as homes are lost. The federal government does not have the money to give back to the states.

WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE
b mathews

while everyone is busy opposing 0bamas deathcare plan, he is busy pushing thru funding for his private security army and no one is paying attention. (another of obamas “distractions?”) once he gets his way on this we are all doomed. private army? this is the scariest thing i have heard thus far . those of us who have had thier eyes and ears open all along , know exactly what this “private army” means and americans need to be vigil and alert and not let them sneak this one passed us.

sowsear

That’s part of the plan: keep everyone distracted with all kinds of nefarious Obama plans to fight at once. Someone said that Obama thought that Clinton’s health plan didn’t go through because there was only one thing going on at that time and the opposition was able to “zero” in on defeating it. This time it’s a swarm!
eleana

The National Guard has advertised on Monster.com for an Internment/Resettlement Specialist. According to the job description one of the duties include:•Provide command and control, staff planning, administration/logistical services, and custody/control for the operation of an Enemy Prisoner of War/Civilian Internee
(The army defines a Civilian Internee as:A civilian who is interned during armed conflict or occupation for security reasons or for protection or because he has committed an offense against the detaining power.)

SEC. 2.ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY CENTERS.

(a) In General- In accordance with the requirements of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall establish not fewer than 6 national emergency centers on military installations.

(b) Purpose of National Emergency Centers- The purpose of a national emergency center shall be to use existing infrastructure–

(1) to provide temporary housing, medical, and humanitarian assistance to individuals and families dislocated due to an emergency or major disaster;

(2) to provide centralized locations for the purposes of training and ensuring the coordination of Federal, State, and local first responders;

(3) to provide centralized locations to improve the coordination of preparedness, response, and recovery efforts of government, private, and not-for-profit entities and faith-based organizations; and

(4) to meet other appropriate needs, as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security.

helenk

Backtrack has more plans for a government with no money than any one I have ever seen.

http://www.slate.com/id/2224405/?from=rss

The part about freddie and fannie makes no sense to me

WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

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Doc99

IN the Ozero era … symbolism is everything.

oowawa

Yikes! It makes me want to give the secret “O” salute:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3216/2743157500_3db9b7e6a0.jpg?v=0

Obama: Dubya 2 Electric Boogaloo

That’s actually going to be the size our our assholes once Obamacus gives us the tax proctoscopy for all of his programs…

oowawa

HaHa! Yes–the “O” symbol is really rich with associations . . . I’m so glad he didn’t stick with Soetoro!

Katmoon

And dress properly:

http://janeqrepublican.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/marieantoinetteobama.jpg

oowawa

Eeewwwww . . . One more vision for my worst nightmare . . . Cake? Let’s have a tea party!

helenk

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=334364822239829

Got this in an e-mail today.

WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS, AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE

Patience

Good op-ed. Thanks for the link helenk.

tzada

Call For Informants: If You Oppose Obamacare, Even in ‘Casual Conversation,’ the White House Wants to Know About It

As Erick, one of RedState’s resident lawyers, points out here, this program may go beyond sinister and actually be a violation of current U.S. law.

Further, flag@whitehouse.gov is not currently subject to Freedom of Information Act requests — something a freedom-loving legislator (Jim DeMint? Tom Coburn? Paul Ryan? Eric Cantor?) should seek to correct at his or her earliest convenience.

http://www.redstate.com/jeff_emanuel/2009/08/04/call-for-informants-if-you-oppose-obamacare-the-white-house-wants-to-know-about-it/

Katmoon

I officially oppose O-Care! Just wanted to make sure it shows up in public way.

Bronwyn’s Harbor

Bush can no longer be blamed for the rapidly increasing national debt. See the UPDATE I’m adding to the story.

Surfered

Why not? His Iraq War continues, his unfunded Prescription Drug Coverage for Seniors continues, his TARP program continues, and his tax cuts continue until they sunset in 2011.

We’re in a heck of a mess.

jangles

Obama and the Dems won the election. If they wanted to stop the US military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, they have majorities in both houses and the WH to accomplish that end and have had such power since Jan. 20. 2009. Everything after that date is their responsibility.

huh

A plurality of voters (37%) say cutting the federal deficit in half in the next four years is number one among the four priorities the president listed … but 66% view it as the goal he is least likely to achieve.
——–

No he’ll achieve it. ON OUR BACKS!
tzada

Union Take On Conservative Groups Health Care Town Halls

The nation’s largest federation of labor organizations has promised to directly engage with boisterous conservative protesters at Democratic town halls during the August recess.

In a memo sent out on Thursday, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney outlined the blueprint for how the union conglomerate would step up recess activities on health care reform and other topics pertinent to the labor community. The document makes clear that Obama allies view the town hall forums as ground zero of the health care debate. It also uses the specter of the infamous 2000 recount “Brooks Brothers” protest to rally its members to the administration’s side.

“The principal battleground in the campaign will be town hall meetings and other gatherings with members of Congress in their home districts,” reads the memo. “We want your help to organize major union participation to counter the right-wing “Tea-Party Patriots” who will try to disrupt those meetings, as they’ve been trying to do to meetings for the last month. …

(Remember the hooligans – many of them Republican Congressional staff – who harassed Florida vote counters in 2000? We can’t let that happen again!).”

A showdown between unions and grassroots conservative organizations could make for an August full of fireworks, with even more dysfunctional town hall meetings. The AFL-CIO is planning to target 50 “high priority districts,” in addition to organizing telephone town hall gatherings.

But while the union conglomerate seems poised to flex its political muscle on Obama’s behalf, it may find some friction on the policy front. Detailed in Sweeney’s memo are certain legislative priorities that are clearly at odds with what seems likely to be produced in the Senate Finance Committee’s compromise bill.

Sweeney describes it as a “requirement that ALL employers ‘pay or play,’” that the final bill have “a robust public health insurance plan to compete with private insurers and drive down health costs,” and that the legislation contain “relief for company/union funds providing pre-Medicare retiree coverage, and no taxation of health benefits!”

The AFL-CIO also promises to “Redouble our efforts on Capitol Hill against taxation of benefits OF ANY KIND, for including ALL businesses in the requirement to provide coverage, and for a robust public health insurance plan option.”

According to reports on Thursday, the Senate Finance Committee is considering compromise legislation that will contain no public option for insurance and would tax health-care benefits of the most generous plans.

UPDATE: AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer Richard Trumka sends out a scathing statement about the town halls, hitting on Sweeney’s themes and calling the events corporate funded.

Every American has the inalienable right to participate in our democratic process. Our politics is passionate, heartfelt and often loud — as was the founding of our nation. But that is not what the corporate-funded mobs are engaging in when they show up to disrupt town halls held by members of Congress.

Major health care reform is closer than ever to passage and it is no secret that special interests want to weaken or block it. These mobs are not there to participate. As their own strategy memo states, they have been sent by their corporate and lobbyist bankrollers to disrupt, heckle and block meaningful debate. This is a desperation move, meant to slow the momentum for change.

Mob rule is not democracy. People have a democratic right to express themselves and our elected leaders have a right to hear from their constituents — not organized thugs whose sole purpose is to shut down the conversation and attempt to scare our leaders into inaction

We call on the insurance companies, the lobbyists and the Republican leaders who are cheering them on to halt these ‘Brooks Brothers Riot’ tactics. Health care is a crucial issue and everyone – on all sides of the issue – deserves to be heard.

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Hate to post this link
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/06/unions-to-take-on-conserv_n_252720.html

AARP gets outed and routed

http://www.redstate.com/

Pennsylvania Caucasian (but not exactly White-Y)

This is a desperation move, meant to slow the momentum for change.

The sots have it all ass-backwards.

mountainaires

34 Million Americans are on Food Stamps Now.

That’s one in every nine people. More people on Food Stamps than ever in our history.

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/reuters/2009/08/06/2009-08-06T152646Z_01_N06328040_RTRIDST_0_FOODSTAMPS-USA.html
Tammy

I’m a member of the AFL-CIO.

Am I supposed to protest myself?

Pennsylvania Caucasian (but not exactly White-Y)

How many of your fellow union members take Richard Trumka and the leadership seriously?

helenk

http://www.puma08.com/2009/08/05/is-the-obama-brand-becoming-a-political-liability/

This was very interesting.
just how many dems running for office has he hurt. He threatens to withhold money for reelection for any dem that votes against any of his policies. But they have to answer to voters in their districts.

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Tammy

Obama doesn’t care about the voters in ANYone’s District.
He only cares about himself.

If he does this to the other Democrats, he’s going to destroy his own party, without the help of the Republicans.

Man, that guy is an idiot.
I would have taken Hillary ANY day over this loser.
jangles

why did i get a “visiting this site may harm your computer message” when I clicked on the link you provided?

tzada

Obama ratings may be aiding GOP in Virginia

Former Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell (R) has opened up a statistical lead over his Democratic rival in the race for governor, according to new polls out of the Old Dominion, and some political observers say a public souring on President Obama could be the cause.

The latest poll, conducted for the liberal DailyKos website by the independent polling firm Research 2000, shows McDonnell with a 51 percent to 43 percent lead over state Sen. Creigh Deeds (D). That’s up from a statistically insignificant one-point margin between the two in a mid-June poll.

http://thehill.com/campaign-2008/obama-ratings-may-be-aiding-gop-in-virginia-2009-08-06.html

tead off

tzada — The Dems should wait to vote on Hell Care until results of the New Jersey and Virginia elections are known. Both of which show the Republican candidate leading. It might be a portent of things to come and they might change their minds about following Obama over a cliff on this Obama Kill My Mamma Bill.

http://noquarter foxyladi14

not getting better.we need jobs,
Elle

They should have sobered up before election day .

Diana L. C.

EXACTLY!!!

I knew people like Chris Ann Cleland would start coming out of the woodwork, and somehow she doesn’t seem to feel too guilty about her mindless decision to vote for a slogan, and a superficial, vacuous one at that.

It’s good she came to her senses; it makes me angry that she didn’t take her vote more seriously to begin with and really do some thinking.

Doc99

Judicial Watch files suit to obtain Fannie and Freddie bailout docs.
Obama: Dubya 2 Electric Boogaloo

HAha, I just got registration confirmation on one of my local townhall meetings with Jackie Speier. Hopefully I’ll be able to tell her my dissatisfaction with being called a racist GOPer paid insurance company shill.
Peggy Sue

A “jobless recovery” was always a crock. Nothing works when unemployment rates keep rising. The Obama folks know this and that’s why, as God awful as the numbers are, we end up getting massaged totals–no count of those falling off the unemployment rolls because benefits have ended and the massive underemployed. People without money cannot spend money [and the economy is 70% consumer spending driven]. People without jobs will ultimately default on their mortgages, loans, etc. People without jobs will not be paying taxes, nor will the businesses that are forced into bankruptcy because no one is buying.

The worst of the ARMs start resetting in September and will haunt us well into 2011. Commercial real estate is toppling. The stock market is a rigged game.

And the Dems response? Keep spending. Nationally, we’re in the hole for 11 trillion and exposed to 23.7 trillion risk.

A jobless recovery. And then they wonder why the happy juice is wearing off. People are getting very afraid and very angry. Not a good mix and not something that needs to be “organized or orchestrated.”

Because most folks do not like nor appreciate being lied to. Or being robbed.

NoBamaNoWay

national unemployment just hit a 26 year high, apparently. you are correct; people are getting angry and afraid, and no one is government is talking about making the kind of MAJOR changes in the structure of our economy that is going to need to happen to turn this country around.

tzada

To answer the person* about watching out for Obeyme National Civilian Army here is what he said and when he said it. They can scrub all the want but they won’t ever catch it all. Kinda like DNA and such found at a crime scene. Patriotic American’s have become our own CSI.

Barack Obama’s campaign statement he made July 2 in Colorado Springs
In talking about his plans to double the size of the Peace Corps and nearly quadruple the size of AmeriCorps and the size of the nation’s military services, he made this rather shocking (and chilling) pledge:

“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=69601

video where he says it around 16 min mark

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69784

* Sorry for not posting directly to your post but I have lost track of where it was. But you brought up a very valid point.

Regina

To tzada: Obama is talking about ACORN! Do you want these thugs or shall I call them Nazi Stormtroopers protect us? I am sure you know what their role was in the mortgage debacle. Destroy ACORN! Billions of dollars are being funded to this dispicable group of chicago style thugs.

tzada

No I absolutly don’t. I am confused here, did I say something to the contrary? Of course it may have been “buried” in one of the cut and paste from an article?
tzada

I find it now in the post above this. I was responding and giving information to someone somewhere on here. Obeyme has scrubbed that part of the video at about 16 min. Someone had d/l it and was able to circulate it. So I was responding with information showing that indeed he had said it.

Yesterday someone said that he would bring it up this coming 9/11. There is a Tea Party Express going to Washington. I hope as many as can go, to Washington 9/12. If not Washington check the route for towns closer to you.

http://www.teapartyexpress.org/

http://www.UpYoursObama.com UpYoursObama

Thanks for the UpYoursObama.com link. They got some great stuff. Here’s a good video running on their site. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrQKLMIhaxg
QUEENIE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCMDur9CDZ4

Am I the only one who remembers this?????????

Obama- “…I want you to argue with them and get in their face,…”

Thinker

YES Queenie, I remember.

And the door got slammed in their faces when they were trying to get me onboard with Obama/Soetoro right after he got the Dem nomination.

It’s okay for Obama to tell his fans to get in other voters faces. How confrontational is THAT???

wtf??

But when concerned voters at townhall meetings contront the people they put into office? well, that’s astroturfing.

bho boo

and his latest language “punch back twice as hard” was violent!

lorac

“I want you to argue with them and get in their face,…”

There are different kinds of community organizing. The original kind, which BO was trained in, is called “conflict organizing”. The name kind of gives it away…. (there is also a newer form called “consensus organizing” which involves working WITH the other side, peaceful mediation – but that’s NOT what BO is into).

So while what BO is doing isn’t new, what IS new is the “direction”. Traditionally, it’s done by “the masses”, people without power, as a way to deal with someone (person, organization, city) which HAS power. It’s used to get the attention of the powerful.

Now, it’s the people IN power who are using these conflict tactics against the “little people” – it’s not gonna be pretty. Matter of fact, I find it rather scary. With the direction changed, it’s not a way to get the attention of the powerful, instead now it’s a way to oppress the people.

Thinker

And don’t forget:

That one is the same man that spent $1,000,000 to accept the Dem nomination inside of a stadium. He hired the same people that worked on the Britney Spears tour!!

He was careless with money then, and he is reckless with money now, and this is the clown that people voted into office to fix our economic mess?

His clueless wife wears $600 pairs of gymshoes to a foodbank??

They have been out of touch for a very long time and I’m soooo glad that many Americans are “waking up”. (a statement made popular by Meshelle when she was upset that so many Black voters initially supported Hillary Clinton)

tead off

Thinker — I saw the sneakers and they look like something you would wear to a homeless shelter. After all the Homeless cut holes in their sneakers too. More comfortable that way.

Regina

Pay Attention! ACORN ACORN ACORN……The three most important words in selling and buying real estate are: location, location, location. Likewise the three most important words to acknowledge for this administration are:
ACORN! ACORN! ACORN!
It doesn’t matter what you do until you stop the funding for this corrupt mob and destroy it. You can see them operating at town hall meetings in small numbers. Obama will call out his storm troopers as he needs them. Don’t be fooled by the sound of his voice and how he looks in a suit. This guy is dangerous. Destroy ACORN and you will stop Obama from destroying our country. Does Reparation sound familiar to you? It’s Professor Gates’ middle name.

Betty

If you can’t destroy ACORN – join and take it over. That is what the big corporations did to our MSM.

jbjd

This points to my dilemma about party registration. If I cannot attend the state convention, how can I change the party? Nevertheless, I registered “Unenrolled.” That way, I can at least vote in the primary.
Docelder

This is an interesting idea… because ACORN isn’t going to want certain people involved. So, try to join and when they don’t let certain types of people in… class action lawsuit them for discrimination. Use discovery to unearth every dirty detail about them and the methods of how they operate. Go ACORN on ACORN.

tzada

Treason Against the Planet or Treason Against the Economy?

“And as I watched the deniers make their arguments, I couldn’t help thinking that I was watching a form of treason — treason against the planet.” Paul Krugman an avid supporter of global warming legislation

Another economist, Don Boudreaux:
“Paul Krugman asserts that those of us who oppose government regulation to deal with climate change are committing “treason against the planet” (”Betraying the Planet,” June 29).
It’s more accurate to say that Mr. Krugman is committing treason against reasoned debate. One of the most compelling arguments against climate-change regulation is not that global warming isn’t occurring but, rather, that the dangers of further regulation far outweigh its likely benefits. Government regulation inevitably is a political animal; it’s never guided purely, or even largely, by disinterested science.

Is it treasonous to worry about the influence of interest-groups on regulation? Is it treasonous to fear that centralizing more power in Washington will result in unforeseen negative consequences? Is it treasonous to believe that the threat to our well-being posed by further constraints upon markets is worse than is the threat posed by higher temperatures?”

The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis modeled the economic effects of the Waxman-Markey climate legislation and found:
* Reduce aggregate gross domestic product (GDP) by $9.4 trillion;
* Destroy 1,145,000 jobs on average, with peak years seeing unemployment rise by over 2,479,000 jobs;
* Raise electricity rates 90 percent after adjusting for inflation;
* Raise inflation-adjusted gasoline prices by 58 percent;
* Raise residential natural gas prices by 55 percent;
* Raise an average family’s annual energy bill by $1,241; and
* Result in an increase of $28,728 in additional federal debt per person, again after adjusting for inflation.
And the benefits? Climatologist Chip Knappenberger modeled the climate effects of the Waxman-Markey climate legislation and found the regulations would only lower temperatures by only hundredths of a degree Celsius in 2050 and no more than two-tenths of a degree Celsius at the end of the century.

http://blog.heritage.org/2009/07/01/treason-against-the-planet-or-treason-against-the-economy/
tzada

Tale of a Texas Town Hall

This is a 100% true accounting of my experience at the Lloyd Doggett Town Hall meeting at Veterans Building, Austin, Texas, 8/6/09
– Susan Prince

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/town_hall_in_texas.html
HARP

Nancy and the Astroturfers

Great story and lots of pictures.

http://www.lookingattheleft.com/2009/08/pelosi-astroturf-healthcare/
tead off

You know how the Govt Program Cash for Clunkers has been so successful. What if there was a program called Gold for Geezers. Oops I have scared myself.
tzada

Stop the Madness

Many Democrats, including many editors and reporters, have come to believe that hundreds of middle-aged and older people — people with incomes and lives, and plenty else to do — have taken part-time jobs as rent-a-mobs to shill for insurance companies, or the RNC, or somebody. They think this because that is how Democrats create similar events: they pay college students or homeless people to show up at a certain place at a certain time to wave signs and put on a display for their fellow Democrats in the media, who dutifully report that the citizenry is outraged at whatever the Democrats paid them to be outraged about.

Causing the same sort of outcome among conservatives is more like herding cats. Few conservatives need your money, at least not the sort of pittance that would motivate a student or a street person. Most of them would be insulted if you offered. Having tried to organize many of these things myself, I can tell you that if conservatives care about a cause, they will show up in their own car with their own sign ready to give ‘em Hell. If they don’t care about the cause, nothing is going to get them away from their quite rewarding lives.

For Democrats to imagine that the people showing up at Town Hall meetings to oppose the Democratic agenda on health care are paid shills is a shockingly stupid blunder. And for the media to echo it back to them, giving Democrats in power the idea that they can send union thugs to beat up paid shills, is going to get someone hurt. I know the sort of conservatives who go to things like this. These are the old ladies who chase armed burglars from their homes with broomsticks. They are WWII and Vietnam veterans who do not take lip from anyone. They cannot be intimidated, and they will defend themselves. In 38 states they can “carry,” and some of them do. A 70-year-old woman threatened or manhandled by some 250-pound ‘muscle’ can reasonably believe that her life is in danger. I shudder every time I think where these videos of union thugs “breaking knees for Obama” are going to take us.
We are at a fine pass in this country when one of our political parties believes that the next correct move for them is to send goons to rough up citizens who disagree with them. To all Democrats, I plead: this is a very bad idea. I mean a really bad idea. If you can’t get ordinary voters to show up at your events, go hire some students, or some homeless people to represent you. Leave the thugs at home.

http://www.redstate.com/robert_a_hahn/2009/08/08/stop-the-madness/
USAPROUD

SPREAD THE WORD…NEW CAMPAIGN………………………..”YES WE CAN…..VOTE THOSE OUT WHO VOTE FOR OBAMA..”CARE”
Chicago

Here’s a video on Peter Schiff explaining the current economic crisis and its causes and the possible effects of what Obama’s doing now. Schiff is the only economist who accurately predicted the financial meltdown starting in 2003.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgMclXX5msc&feature=player_embedded

you will have a lot of “aha moments” while Schiff is delivering his speech.
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