State of DisUnion and Delusion

he seems flat to me.  in a strange way, sounds old style instead of new and exciting befitting a young man, who is supposed to be the brightest man in the room (only because newt isn’t there, of course). 

bill clinton is going around the country hawking his new book, “back to work” with much more interesting and forward looking ideas for creating jobs.

9:35 pm

I broke my promise to myself and just turned on the wun…

I’ve been watching for less than 5 minutes…

and I’ll be damned, he is actually getting ready to fulfill his campaign promise to keep the oceans from rising!

I’m going back to watch Cher in Burlesque…

Sorry I can1t watch . It`s like listening to chalk on a blackboard and the trained seals clapping.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJs4OU3bKjY&feature=related

cute seal

And smarter than the average Democrat.

Well Jrterrier a Rhodes Scholar, like Bill Clinton,  is clearly more stupid than that Harvard Law guy, Obama. Bill actually said that it was about the economy.  He was smart  enough to understand Americans will back military adventures when they are doing well. Obama, ain’t that smart.  There’s a shocker.

I tried to listen over the radio but switched off when he started in with the car companies.

It’s hopeless.  As long as con artists keep being elected, as a people, we’ll have a hard way to go.

I was going to guzzle a shot every time he said “I” or “me’ until a friend reminded me it was a good way to kill myself…

Haven’t listened to a single lie he’s spoken. I’ll catch up on the blogs or read some of his quotes. This is nothing more than a campaign speech. And I can say that without listening to a word. 

Blah blah blah hope blah blah change even more blah ain’t I great blah blah Republicans are evil blah

And the crowd went wild.

I do imagine Gingrich is getting stage envy.

Got to work tomorrow so praying to the procelain god because I listened to Obama was not something I felt would be good for me tonight.  Plus the fact I didnt feel like a restless night of nighmares.

So guys did I miss anyting good???

Are we going to war yet?  Barky MUST be held to account for scenes like these….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n118IwMQQPc

I managed to force myself to read his address as posted at the NYT.. Much too tired to get into any great analysis but there is one thing I noticed. Much of what Obama is proposing should have been proposed and enacted 3 years ago when it had a chance to turn things around a little. I’m sure the Dims will buy into it and the ‘what are you going to give me’ folks. This Independent wasn’t bamboozled before and isn’t about to get hoodwinked now.

Oh yeah, Obama admitted he wasn’t paying his fair share of taxes. A shame he didn’t offer to do so tonight.

They should have renamed his speech tonight: The State of My Campaign

Scotty those tanks are for the American people and for patrolling American cities.  They are green and certainly not desert tan. 

Soros said just the other day that riots are coming….he seemed giddy about it.  And why do you think they had to pass the NDAA and now are pushing SOPA AND PIPA?  They know its about to get bad……REALLY BAD!!  They want to keep the average sheeple man and woman with their heads buried in American Idol and Football games.  Then they will have time to put everything in place before the riots break out. 

And!!!  Do you ever wonder why a United States  veteran commits suicide every 80 minutes in this country?  Take a look at this video and it might shed some light.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiNmerP32xk&feature=player_embedded

And this will also show you why more active duty soldiers support Ron Paul.

My god.  Will we be saved….will we at least survive this?

State of the Union: 1/25/84

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdMTTlpfNP4

killing me….

OT   Jan. 24th: Marco Rubio: “Mitt Romney is no Charlie Crist. Romney is a conservative, and he was one of the first national Republican leaders to endorse me. He came to Florida, campaigned hard for me, and made a real difference in my race.”

If you think yo have heard it all before……..YOU ARE RIGHT.

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

As usual, he would be making making promises to the working Americans and then breaking them once his sponsors expressed their disapproval. The only promise he made which he has not broken is his promise for us to hope that everything will be allright in the future. And he has consisitently upheld that promise and will consistently uphold it..

i listened to part of mitch daniels response and while he’s very smart, republicans who think he could be the standard bearer in the post-kennedy tv era are crazy. 

the thing that struck me tonight was that it’s the same old.  talk is cheap; promises, promises. which brought me back to why the country is in so much trouble.  lots of talk but clearly no intent to do the hard work that is needed to confront problems. 

compare and contrast firefighters and police and EMS on 9/11.   

it all brought me back to newt and why we are in so much trouble as a country.  here’s a man, who claims to be a conservative and i’ll take him at his word that he believes all the populist fire and brimstone that comes out of his mouth.  yet as soon as he left congress, he became part of the corrupting revolving door that populates K-Street, 
getting paid millions by companies and agencies with business before congress.  politicians on both sides — newt, santorum, dodd, daschle — serve in congress and two weeks later cash out.

Julie, I watched the video. I hope you didn’t watch it more than once. You say, “My god. Will we be saved…will we at least survive this?”
 
Man’s inhumanity to man is as old as our species & yet as a species we survive. Amazing, isn’t it?
 
 

I stopped listening to anything the “Wun” says some time ago. If you know someone is a liar, why listen? Do people like being lied to? Because I don’t. It angers and annoys me.

People, with the help of the media cynics have come to expect that a politician will lie, cheat and steal and thus it’s nothing to get excited about. Once in a while one gets too blatant about his/her thievery and they get tossed in jail. Hell in Illinois they have to former governors in the clink. One Republican and one Democrat. How’s that for bi-partisanship?

Campaign promises? Only important if the opposition doesn’t keep them. Candidates making grandiose promises they have no intention, or ability to keep? No problem, that’s just a pol being a pol.

We get the scumbags in office we deserve. If we vote based on partisanship and acceptance of dishonorable people then we get what we deserve, a shoddy government of which we should be ashamed.

Not surprising we have a bunch of thuggish creatures hurling insults and calumnies at each other, voters treat each other the same way.

Knowing I couldn’t stomach watching or listening to the production, I didn’t watch last night.  The only part I’m sorry I missed was Gabby Giffords triumphant return, which I plan to catch on a clip. 
 
Yesterday, Nancy de Parle, Obama’s deputy Chief of Staff was speaking to a reporter about his plans and the speech.  She was questioned as to whether this was his plan for the country or a campaign kick off.  Pardon my French, but this lying sack of shit actually said ‘this isn’t about getting re-elected but about getting our country back on track’. 
 
They believe we’re all gullible and naive and they can pull multiple okey-dokes on the public then do whatever they want.  Sorry to say, the Republicans aren’t providing a strong candidate to counter these actions and we’re going to have to listen to this admministration another 4 years.

Yes, Pat Riot.  Three years too late.  We had these problems, some would say even moreso, three years ago but he’s late to the dance.  Why does no one call him on this?

Even for Oblahblah this was sub-par. Typical boiler plate.

So why is it being reported that some Republicans are saying their chances of winning are now more diminished because of the speech he delivered?  They’ve diminished their own chances because of the candidates running and because of the blindspots of many voters.  They’re convinced that rock ‘em, sock ‘em vitriol will win the day instead of smarts, good ideas and reason.  They’re going to be proven wrong.

THAT IS PRECIOUS!!!  No wonder hollywood loves him; he is dedicated to practicing his lines… over and over.

SOTU Take 4… and CUT!  (And that’s a wrap we hope.)

New levels of Obama Delusion Syndrome from Mr. Johnson. Now he will not even give Obama credit for taking out Bin Laden.

I will let the Republican Secretary of Defense Robert Gates comment speak for itself:

“I worked for a lot of these guys. And this is one of the most courageous calls – decisions — that I think I’ve ever seen a president make,” Gates told CBS in a wide-ranging interview aired on “60 Minutes.”

Same old same old glass half empty on the U.S. economy from Mr. Johnson while the facts keep telling us the U.S. economy has done nothing but strengthen since Obama took office. However, the Bush ditch was pretty deep.

Mr. Johnson sets up the strawman argument that Obama is ignoring the challenges in the economy when nothing could be further from the truth. The only ones that have done absolutely nothing on the economy, despite controlling 1/3 of government is Boehner and his House Republicans. In fact, the GOP has done everything it can to torpedo this economic recovery.

By the way what exactly does domestic oil production (which is at record levels) have to do with the Keystone pipeline that will take Canadian oil to the Gulf for export to Europe and South America?

It’s interesting that Obama has now climbed on board, apparently, the Republican train.  He is now, 3 years later, proposing programs the Repubs have been pushing all along.  Nothing like an election year conversion, is there?
I am glad that Larry mentioned the real scenario behidn bin Laden’s capture.  It really needs to be out there and each time Obama tried to take credit, he needs to be reminded publicly of the true facts.  This man is definitely no hero. 
I didn’t hear all of Mitch Daniels’ speech, but have heard that it was, in the words of Krauthammer, one of the best he has ever heard as a rebuttal to the SOU speech.  I hope it’s play extensively today.

Drudge posted that Mitt paid 15%, Obama paid 1% and Biden paid $369.00 to charity!  Swell!

Fair Share–If I use more public goods or services I should pay more–the wealthy should not susidize the rest of us.  We should bust our butts to become like them. (at least like Romney–hard worker honest man)

You might also want to kow that Obummers buddy Buffet is making a mint of the Keystome Pipeline decision–he owns the trains that transport the oil at a higher cost–and according to DPA less environmentally safe than pipelines.  just saying

My dismay with Giffords return is that it is being used for political gain. Especially since Debbie W. Schultz has already associated what happened to Giffords with the Tea Party. A shame Oblahblah didn’t use the opportunity to call for civil discourse regardless of party. Especially since Pelosi backed Occupiers recently threw bricks and bibles at police. Missed opportunity, as it’s something I would have cheered on.

crony capitalism & revolving door of congress/strategic advisors/lobbyists adds to the disastrous economy 

where do you get these political cartoons.  they are fabulous.

I`m not surprised he likes to sing.
He`s been giving us a song and dance for 4 years.

How many budgets have the Democrat Senate passed?

Nancy Pelosi signed one certificate of nomination which was sent to 49
states and another – saying that Obama is Constitutionally eligible – to
Hawaii. People have asked why she didn’t send the
eligibility-certifying one to all the states, but the more pressing
question is, “Why did the Hawaii Democratic Party refuse to certify
Obama’s eligibility?”

I guess his speech writers are as lazy as he.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDDRiGIUYQo

Because Republicans are idiots… too. Look, Obama steered right for political purposes. Is that any surprise?

Great cartoon.

BIN LADEN “HIT” A FAIRY TALE?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D1-jq7oQDA&feature=related 

Yesterday marked 1000 days — no budget.

Frankly and sadly the aftermath of the “massacre” was used for political purposes too. That was disgusting.

The proper thing to do. Palin endorsed McCain last time.

II think many people have doubts about how it went down.
I for one wonder what truths and lies we were told about the assassination of Laden.
After the fact there seems to be a lot of holes in the story told to us.

I hope the re-runs don`t last as long as The Waltons.

“Scotty those tanks are for the American people and for patrolling American cities…”

Don’t get me started!  Can we trust a government that stockpiles coffins?  Can we trust a government that merges our National Guardsmen and others with peace officers at roadside checkpoints in our own nation?

“Soros said just the other day that riots are coming….he seemed giddy about it…”

Well, that’s why I’ve made preparations for a “long family vacation”, if that comes to pass (I love where I live, but, the fact is, it has the potential to become a warzone, because of location).

OWS is definitely co-opted and the copkiller-mentality evilians and militants have supplanted political dissidents, which is why I no longer support it (I actually believe they should dismantle the movement now, because the overriding issues are actually being debated, even among presidential candidates, and they should move on and reform, under issue-specific
activism that can work freely under peaceful conditions, without harassment or political opportunism.)

They’re being set up as patsies for the inevitable chaos and it’s apparent to me Soros is an enthusiastic madman who, with others, is eager and willing to bankroll the whole, useless bloodshed.

“And!!! Do you ever wonder why a United States veteran commits suicide every 80 minutes in this country? Take a look at this video and it might shed some light…”

Three cops killed themselves last week in NYC alone, and those are only the ones who come to light.

Our experienced peace officers have put their papers in, in record numbers, because they see they will be asked not to serve the Constitution, but an emerging tyranny.  Our returning troops are being hired to replace them, which seems fair and equitable on the face of it.  The problem is, one or maybe two tours could be seen as valuable experience in the field.  But, returning vets with as many as nine tours are coming in, and they’re conditioned to kill and break things, not maintain peace.

A fired-up public, weary of savage criminality, sees this as positive, the departments are caught between a rock and a hard place, because there’s no route of appeal or even a discussion about these policies (many of the brass actually welcome this).

They keep them in training situations doing “stop and frisk”, or in “impact” neighborhoods, but for YEARS.

And, I believe they’ve been training foreign nationals from former Eastern Bloc nations and the former Soviet Union, following globalist protocols and under international “peacekeeping” law, to serve as a second line of offense, knowing they’ll be less likely to take up arms against Americans, not having any allegiance to this nation.
To me, all of these initiatives stem, first and foremost, from straying from the Constitution.  And our own government will preside over it all, citing “our safety” as the imperative, using real and manufactured violence as the backdrop, in an election year.

Thank you for posting that video, which is a good reminder and well worth watching, of the disgraceful, failed policies, and how they really are coming home to roost.

Even in peaceful times, it’s important for us to take responsibility for ensuring our families’ personal safety, as well as our property rights.

NDAA should be a catalyst, not for panic, but calm, clear assessments about what new risks to our freedom mean for our families and our futures.

It’s a time to make contingency plans, stand up for what is right and not just expedient, and make the wisest political choices that reflect these new realities.

Thank
you Mr. President, for bringing up the issue of fairness.  I’m sure
that’s important to many people.  One curious thing, though, with regard
to the application of “fairness” it seems that all the recommendations
you have, are decided by the government.  Who decides what is fair? 

Here’s some suggestions:
 The
average Federal employee can be paid no more than the average American
employee, currently $42K a yr.  Wouldn’t that be fair?  And the highest
amount paid to any retired Federal employee should be no more than the
highest Social Security monthly amount. Wouldn’t that be fair?

The First Lady shouldn’t use any tax dollars for personal items such as clothes, 30 personal assistants.
She should be  limited to two assistants. Any more, they come out of
the First Family’s paycheck.  If she buys clothes or receives them as
gifts, those items count, at full retail value, as income.  She must pay
income tax on that just as all other Americans do.  The First Family
must stop taking vacations and living lavishly on the taxes of people
who lost their jobs and homes. That’s only fair.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/01/youre_right_mr_president_we_need_more_fairness.html#ixzz1kTjVhXGI

I “liked” your post, Larry.  I’d like to add:
Given the tedious length of the speech (1 hr., 15 minutes), I’d say he strung all the major points from his presidental campaign into one speech, complete with ending on louder and louder notes.

Something about being more “stirring” that way.

Mitch Daneils rebuttal was wonderful, IF you read it.  In person, he didn’t do the “showman” thing and, lets face it, the camera is not his friend.  Nevertheless, as an Indiana native, he made me proud.

Yes, Larry, I agree with you, esp. on this:  the Pollyanish way Obama kept painting how great things are in America, and getting so much better all the time.  He’s been  spending too much time with Paul McCartney.

I agree.  I heard more excerpts this morning.

Barky is absolutely nothing more than a parrot.

He actually regurgitates the same old platitudes from all the other speeches, as if repeating them over and over again would make them more plausible.

And only the GOP could find a way, through their own unresponsiveness and incompetence, to wrest defeat out of victory, before they’ve even begun.

Maybe it would be cheaper to maintain an ACTUAL parrot as president.

We’d hang his cage over the podium, lift the curtain whenever he was needed to address the nation, and he could literally parrot all of the self-aggrandizing statements and talking points Barky has made, and vastly reduce the “carbon footprint”.

Pathetic.

Nope.  It’s like listening to just another con artist, just another game of three-card monte.

Depressing.

The
average Federal employee can be paid no more than the average American employee, currently $42K a yr.  Wouldn’t that be fair?  And the highest amount paid to any retired Federal employee should be no more than the highest Social Security monthly amount. Wouldn’t that be fair?

Absolutely! It’s always seemed odd to me that the folks that are supposed to represent us give themselves perks that the vast majority of us do without and could never expect to afford. And they do so with OUR money.

OMG… don’t place that image of Obama “dancing” in my head. Yikes!

Lol………Polly wanna…….?

o/t — can anyone tell me why Mitt would go after Newt in front of a foreclosed home? facepalm!

He really is getting bad advice.

“Yesterday marked 1000 days — no budget.

More BS from you and your GOP buddies.

“In listening to some of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle — both in speeches here and in press statements they have made — I repeatedly hear them saying we have not had a budget for 1,000 days. That is just wrong. That is absolutely wrong.
Sometimes I wonder if our colleagues are paying attention to what goes on here on the floor of the Senate. Have they already forgotten the Budget Control Act? Here it is. On August 2nd of last year, the Budget Control Act passed this body 74 to 26. More than half of our Republican colleagues voted for it. Didn’t they know what they were voting on? The Budget Control Act contains the budget for this year and for next year. Weren’t they paying attention? Don’t they know what they voted on?
In many ways, the Budget Control Act is stronger than a typical budget resolution, and it is stronger in these ways: No. 1, it is more extensive than a traditional budget resolution. No. 2, it has the force of law. Unlike a budget resolution that is not signed by the President, the Budget Control Act that we passed last August, that provides the budget for this year and for next year, is a law passed by the House of Representatives, passed by the Senate, signed by the President of the United States — the Budget Control Act. It also set discretionary caps on spending for 10 years instead of the 1 year normally set in a budget resolution.     
So when our colleagues come out here and say we have not had a budget in 1,000 days, wow, can they really have missed the vote, the debate, the consideration of the Budget Control Act? Did they really miss all that or — or — are they saying something they know to be untrue, because really those are the only choices you are left with. Either they do not know what they did or they are misrepresenting what we all did.
Not only does the Budget Control Act set discretionary caps for 10 years, it also provided enforcement mechanisms, including a 2-year “deeming” resolution, allowing budget points of order to be enforced. That is what a budget does. It sets the spending levels, it creates spending caps, and it provides enforcement mechanisms. All of that is in the Budget Control Act we passed on August 2nd of last year with a vote of 74 to 26. Not only did we pass it, but the Republican-controlled House passed it, and the President signed it. It is the law of the land. It sets the budget for this year. It sets the budget for next year. It provides enforcement mechanisms. It sets 10 years of spending caps. And it created a reconciliation-like supercommittee to address entitlement and tax reforms.
That supercommittee did not come up with a result, but they were established in the Budget Control Act, and they were given the authority — just like a reconciliation provision would — to come back with a package that could not be filibustered and could not be altered and could pass with a simple majority. That is the fact.
So if we hear colleagues come out and say one more time that we have not had a budget for 1,000 days, I hope somebody will have the sense to stand up and say: Really? What was the Budget Control Act about? What was this legislation that passed not only the Senate on a vote of 74 to 26 but passed the House of Representatives, which is controlled by the other party, and was signed by the President of the United States?”

Kent Conrad, Senate Chairman Budget Committee 

I doubt very much that it went down in the way we were told. Perhaps that is justified for some reasons I don’t understand. Perhaps that isn’t justified and is the “storyline” given us to make Oblahblah out to be the biggest, baddest Osama-killer around. Cause Seal Team Six had nothing to do with it.

And shouldn’t those Federal Employees be paying their taxes? Wouldn’t that be fair?

Hundreds of Capital Hill Staffers didn’t pay taxes in 2010Internal Revenue Service data show that 3 percent of Senate staffers and more than 4 percent of House staffers owed taxes in 2010, adding up to about $10.6 million in unpaid taxes. More than 98,000 civilian federal employees were delinquent on their taxes in 2010, adding up to more than $1 billion in taxes owed, according to the IRS.Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, last year introduced a bill to require federal employees to be fired if they are “seriously delinquent” on their taxes. Seriously delinquent is defined as outstanding federal tax debt for which a public lien has been filed. The bill was passed by committee in June but is still waiting for a vote from the full House.“If you work for the federal government and you don’t pay your taxes, you should be fired,” Chaffetz said in a statement provided to FoxNews.com. “It is totally unacceptable to live on the federal payroll and not pay your taxes. The Obama administration has totally ignored this cheating. Congress should pass my bill and hold federal workers accountable.” 

link: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/01/…./#ixzz1kOzmj48R
Internal Revenue Service data show that 3 percent of Senate staffers and more than 4 percent of House staffers owed taxes in 2010, adding up to about $10.6 million in unpaid taxes. More than 98,000 civilian federal employees were delinquent on their taxes in 2010, adding up to more than $1 billion in taxes owed, according to the IRS.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, last year introduced a bill to require federal employees to be fired if they are “seriously delinquent” on their taxes. Seriously delinquent is defined as outstanding federal tax debt for which a public lien has been filed. The bill was passed by committee in June but is still waiting for a vote from the full House.

“If you work for the federal government and you don’t pay your taxes, you should be fired,” Chaffetz said in a statement provided to FoxNews.com. “It is totally unacceptable to live on the federal payroll and not pay your taxes. The Obama administration has totally ignored this cheating. Congress should pass my bill and hold federal workers accountable.”
 
link: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/01/…./#ixzz1kOzmj48R
 

I thought it was great. But what does content matter if Daniels doesn’t have “charisma” or isn’t “exciting?”

I wanted Daniels to run but now I’m glad he didn’t. The obamamedia and nasty Newt would have torn his family to shreds.

However I would have liked to see him debate Newt. Cause I suspect that the smartest man in the room wouldn’t have been the Newt.

Townhall.com and the Orange County Register. I also haunt the Henry Payne blog. He’s got a couple of doozies on the Newt thing today.

oooo snap!

Yet Gingrich is pushing the meme that Romney is tied to Crist. Rubio needs to make sure this informaiton gets to the Florida voters that the Newt thing is busy telling lies.

Hiding Behind the Budget Act

The Budget Control Act of 2011, which President Obama signed on Tuesday
after Congress passed it by wide margins, is as contrived as the
artificial crisis that spawned it. The bill, like a tired opera
production, is full of clumsy staging and failed gimmicks left over from
previous decades. It is not only bad policy in its goals of cutting
spending too much, but it is bad procedure. It allows members of
Congress to avoid responsibility for their actions through a cutout
committee, a spending limit and the pretense that this Congress can tell
the next one what to do.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/03/opinion/hiding-behind-the-budget-act.html

I imagine Oblahblah had been feeling ignored since all the attention had been going to Newt. Two giant egos locked in mortal combat of lies, spin and just plain bullshit. American Politics as usual. And ain’t that a shame?

Diminished Obama State of the Union strikes a tepid tone
 link: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/01/24/diminished-obama-state-of-the-union-tepid-tone/

I continue to remain baffled about the cognitive dissonance required in order to get through an Obama speech. Does he lull people to sleep? Can people not understand his actual words? I don’t know, maybe nobody even tries to listen to him anymore. I know Hillary was dutifully nodding her head while looking like all she heard was blah, blah, blah….

Anyway, his approach is to take credit for things that we already have and to act as if he has solved some great problem by executive decree. Praise Be to Me! I will make sure that everybody who finds a job and gets hired….has a job! I will make sure that everybody who can afford to purchase health insurance….is able to purchase health insurance. I will make sure that everybody who is able and qualified to refinance their home….can refinance their home……on and on he goes, baffling people with complete bullshit. I’m going to make sure that every child has access to public education. I’m going to make sure that people have social security deducted from their paychecks. I’m going to make April 15th the day taxes are due. I’m going to declare the sky remain blue and the grass green. Praise Be to Me!

Ummmm…passing a “budget” 8 months after the fact isn’t really “budgeting”. In fact, in the private sector, that’s called incompetent management.

Over in the HouseJohn Boehner is giddy: He’s drunk as a louse!He couldn’t stop shouting,”We’ve accomplished our goal!”
We protected the rich, and big business too, while dragging our feet on the payroll tax, too! 
I served master Grover just like the others, We sold out the people, including our mothers.
The economy’s crippled,and jobs are not coming. When Obama is gone,we’ll get things really humming!
 And a middle class tax cut? Ha! No friggin’ way! We’ve crippled those peasants:It’s the GOP way!
As he walked from the chamber,a tear ran down his face. He kicked a poor beggar then sprayed him with mace.
Then he turned toward the White House and shouted with glee: “Screw you, Obama! Love, the GOP”

[...] speech reader. In fact everyone has. Watch at your own peril the following video. H/T to HARP2 over at No Quarter for bringing it to the [...]

It seems that the link has already been disappeared. But GREAT info. I suppose that’s why it suddenly vanished.

Thanks for the heads up. I borrowed it to write a commentary.

Am I the only one that was disturbed by OBlahBlah’s plan for getting out of this mess? He cited the military. No dissent, no personal ambition. Aren’t these the cornerstones of our democracy?

Here is one for you Larry:

“Recession fears fade for Germany”

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hKML6TFzXjIBJv0vh5VYNinTI-5g?docId=CNG.3cf20c483e87bef1b304784589d26ccb.801

or

” “The German economy is starting the new year with vigor,” said ifo president Hans-Werner Sinn as he presented the latest survey.”

” “There are no signs whatsoever that Germany is sliding into a deep recession,” Unicredit economist Andreas Rees told Reuters news agency. ”

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15689354,00.html

I think you need to understand how the budget process works in the U.S. The budget is almost always passed at the last minute because of all the negotiation required. The budget year begins in October. So 2012 budget year began in October 2011.

“Congress should pass my bill and hold federal workers accountable.”

When the hell is congress going to be held accountable?

Again you continue to reference irrelevant articles to the discussion.

What does an article about whether the Budget Control Act is a good Act have to do about the timing of passing the budget?

I think the article you quote makes the point that your buddies in the GOP have trashed the budget process and have forced through some very stupid fiscal decisions.

You do have a limited mental capacity.  Per the Financial Times,

“Earlier this month Mario Draghi, European Central Bank president,
hailed “tentative signs of a stabilisation in activity at low levels”,
while central bank governors of France and Germany have forecast that
growth will resume in their economies later this year.

However, the indices – regarded as good indicators of overall growth
trends – showed that eurozone companies cut employment in January for
the first time since April 2010. Austerity measures across Europe,
weaker global growth and uncertainty over the eurozone’s debt crisis are expected to act as additional brakes on growth this year.”

TO REPEAT, “THEIR GROWTH WILL RESUME …LATER THIS YEAR.”

Keep chugging the kool aid moron.

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Obama’s SOTU addresses have the lowest average Flesch-Kincaid
score of any modern president; Obama owns three of the six
lowest-scoring addresses since FDR
For the third consecutive State of the Union Address, Barack Obama spoke in clear, plain terms.

And for the third straight Address, the President’s speech was written at an eighth-grade level.

In Obama’s own words: “My message is simple.”

But was it too simplistic?

A Smart Politics study of the 70 orally delivered State
of the Union Addresses since 1934 finds the text of Obama’s 2012 speech
to have tallied the third lowest score on the Flesch-Kincaid readability
test, at an 8.4 grade level.

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/smartpolitics/2012/01/my_message_is_simple_obamas_so.php

Nice to see you agree that the NY Times is irrelevant.

Guess he considers his audience, the American voter, to be incapable of understanding big words.  That’s why he thinks he can bamboozle us at every turn. 

AP Fact Check Blasts Obama’s Do-Nothing State of Union ‘Wish List’
OBAMA: “We have subsidized oil companies for a century. That’s long
enough. It’s time to end the taxpayer giveaways to an industry that’s
rarely been more profitable, and double-down on a clean energy industry
that’s never been more promising.”THE FACTS: This is at least
Obama’s third run at stripping subsidies from the oil industry. Back
when fellow Democrats formed the House and Senate majorities, he sought
$36.5 billion in tax increases on oil and gas companies over the next
decade, but Congress largely ignored the request. He called again to end
such tax breaks in last year’s State of the Union speech. And he’s now
doing it again, despite facing a wall of opposition from Republicans who
want to spur domestic oil and gas production and oppose tax increases
generally.___OBAMA: “Our health care law relies on a reformed private market, not a government program.”THE
FACTS: That’s only half true. About half of the more than 30 million
uninsured Americans expected to gain coverage through the health care
law will be enrolled in a government program. Medicaid, the
federal-state program for low-income people, will be expanded starting
in 2014 to cover childless adults living near the poverty line.The
other half will be enrolled in private health plans through new
state-based insurance markets. But many of them will be receiving
federal subsidies to make their premiums more affordable. And that’s a
government program, too.Starting in 2014 most Americans will be
required to carry health coverage, either through an employer, by buying
their own plan, or through a government program.___OBAMA,
asking Congress to pay for construction projects: “Take the money we’re
no longer spending at war, use half of it to pay down our debt, and use
the rest to do some nation-building right here at home.”THE
FACTS: The idea of taking war “savings” to pay for other programs is
budgetary sleight of hand. For one thing, the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan have been largely financed through borrowing, so stopping
the wars doesn’t create a pool of ready cash, just less debt. And the
savings appear to be based at least in part on inflated war spending
estimates for future years.

Read more: http://nation.foxnews.com/president-obama/2012/01/25/ap-fact-check-blasts-obamas-do-nothing-state-union-wish-list#ixzz1kUW373v1

And one more for you colostomy bag. More from the Financial Times:

UK fourth-quarter growth falls by 0.2%

Britain’s economy contracted slightly in the last quarter of 2011, official data on Wednesday showed, raising fears of a double dip recession.

The data underscore the message on Tuesday from Mervyn King, central bank governor, that the path to recovery will be “arduous”.

The Office for National Statistics said that in the last three months of 2011, GDP slipped by 0.2 per cent, slightly more than the 0.1 per cent decline forecasted by economists surveyed by Thomson Reuters.

I take no delight in this.  I genuinely wish the economy would turn around now.  I’m ready to give Obama legit credit.  But enough with the delusional bullshit.  The fundamentals ain’t there yet and it is a consequence of Obama’s pandering to unions and state governments rather than pursuing a genuine growth strategy.

“[Barack Obama] didn’t get it right,” says Harry V.
Jaffa, professor emeritus of Claremont McKenna College, senior fellow at
the Claremont Institute, and author of two influential books on
Lincoln.
“I’m a Democrat. But I believe what Republican Abraham
Lincoln believed: That Government should do for people only what they
cannot do better by themselves, and no more.”
Professor Jaffa noted that this quotation leaves out a great deal.
The 93-year-old Jaffa recited the full statement from Lincoln’s speech,
“The Nature and Objects of Government, with Special Reference to
Slavery” (July 1, 1854) by memory:
“The legitimate object of government is to do for a
community of people whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at
all, or cannot so well do, for themselves in their separate and
individual capacities.”
Notice the difference? The emphasis is on the need to have done, not
on government doing the action. “That distinction was missing from his
quotation,” Jaffa explains.

I’m posting this in the late morning of the night after.  I was so darned angry that in my viewing area far too many chanels carried that speech last night that it left very little to watch on t.v.  I was pretty sure, however, that my mental and emotional state would be better off NOT watching him or hearing him.  Your comments assure me that I was correct in that assumption. 

Our local paper’s editorial was that all it did was provide us another campaign speech, that all we could be assured of was long months of campaigning and little in the way of progress toward a productive national government.

When of when will this obamanation of a nightmare end?

Larry, actually, I kind of like PA’s comments as they are pretty good at  revealing Obama/Democrat positions, reasoning and logic.  I use PA’s points to do further research, then formulate my own positions and beliefs.  So far, researching PA’s comments made on NQ have considerably strengthened my conviction that we need a new President and some changes in Congress, as well.  Thanks, PA.

Yeah… we know the UK has been in new economic downturn for a while now, given Cameron’s misguided austerity program (which he has now mostly backtracked on). What is more important is whether Germany falls into a major recession and recent data suggests things are not all that bad in Germany. Your entire thesis for the U.S. economy falling into a double dip seems to depend on a big European recession, at least based on your previous comments.

The reality is that even a mild recession in the U.K. will have little to no impact on the U.S. economy.

The two levels of argument that you want to dispute are:

1) You think Europe is going into a big recession and this will pull down the U.S. economy. However, there are currently no signs yet of any major new deep recession in Europe. 

2) That the U.S.’s economy will be impacted by the EU economy. The U.S. economy is not all that connected to Europe, so even if there is a sizeable recession in Europe it may not impact the U.S. that much and certainly not in itself capable of pushing the U.S. into a new recession. The U.S. economy is primarily a domestic economy.

As one commentator has said it is more likely that strength in the U.S. economy will keep Europe out of a recession, instead of the other way around.

That is one way to look at.

I welcome that you challenge any of my facts, thoughts and analysis as you do your “research” on my comments.

By the way where are you doing your research? Washington Times, Red State, Daily Caller, etc. and other objective sources of information.

I like a mix of resources.   I am unfamiliar with Red State and Daily Caller.  I know of the Washington Times, of course, because I used to live in Washington, DC, but I’m not a regular reader.  I generally start my morning with the New York Times because, living on the west coast, it’s the first thing in my inbox.  The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and LA Times are daily scans for me, as is Bloomberg.  I’ve found The Week to be a pretty good review of articles and opinions, and The Economist is pretty good, as well, if you discount the occasional Brit tendancy toward superiority towards the Colonies (this can also come out in the Financial Times, as well).  And then, of course, there are the European and Asian dailies which have some interesting insights. Do you have any recommendations that you’d like to suggest?

l text of his speech if you are interested.
I,m not.

l text of his speech if you are interested.
I,m not.

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love it.lol

more questions??

more questions??

lol

NO!!!!

LOL

Whatever the real story, the chances of Ventura having access to it are pretty slim.  His television series on conspiracies is so pathetically egotistical and misinformed that I want to find and donate to some charity that can work on curing that disease.

Rand Paul’s Response to Obama’s State of the Union

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oGsGspc72k&feature=player_embedded#!

here’s more on gingrich from someone who knew him:

How long have I been saying it? At least for 15 years, but in private, I have been aware of it longer. Newt Gingrich is conservatism’s Bill Clinton, but without the charm. He has acquired wit, but he has all the charm of barbed wire.

Newt and Bill are, of course, 1960s-generation narcissists, and they share the same problems: waywardness and deviancy. Newt, like Bill, has a proclivity for girl-hopping. It’s not as egregious as Bill’s, but then Newt is not as drop-dead beautiful. His public record is already besmeared with tawdry divorces, and there are private encounters with the fair sex that doubtless will come out. If I have heard of some, you can be sure the Democrats have heard of more.

…

After Newt’s and Bill’s disastrous experiences in government, both went on to create empires — Bill in philanthropy and cheap thought, Newt in public policy and cheap thought. As an ex-president, Bill has wrung up an unprecedented $75.6 million since absconding from the White House with White House loot and shameless pardons. I do not know how much Newt has amassed, but he got between $1.6 million to $1.8 million from Freddie Mac, and he lobbied for Medicare Part B while receiving, according to the Washington Examiner’s Tim Carney, “Big Bucks Pushing Corporate Welfare.” Now, after a lifetime in Washington, he is promoting himself as an outsider.

Contending with Newt for the Republican nomination are Ron Paul, Rick Santorum, and Mitt Romney. All three are truer conservatives than Newt. I like them all. But John Bolton, former ambassador to the United Nations, and John Lehman, Ronald Reagan’s secretary of the Navy, are for Mitt, and they are solid conservatives. Governor Chris Christie and the economic pundit Larry Kudlow laud Mitt on taxes, on spending, and on attacking crony capitalism. Kudlow calls Romney “Reaganesque.” Ann Coulter seems to loathe Newt. That is good enough for me.

here’s more: http://www.creators.com/opinion/r-emmett-tyrrell.html

 the military are neglecting the Post traumatic stress these soldiers are coming home with and they continue on into the police force.  It’s is just asking for abuse from police and the ability to transform into a police state situation.

what a mess.   we have our retreat planned too as we live near a riot prone area.

more on the true newt:
 
But not Newt Gingrich. He voted with the caucus, but his words should be remembered, for at the height of the bitter struggle with the Democratic leadership Gingrich chose to attack . . . Reagan.
 
The best examples come from a famous floor statement Gingrich made on March 21, 1986. This was right in the middle of the fight over funding for the Nicaraguan contras; the money had been cut off by Congress in 1985, though Reagan got $100 million for this cause in 1986. Here is Gingrich: “Measured against the scale and momentum of the Soviet empire’s challenge, the Reagan administration has failed, is failing, and without a dramatic change in strategy will continue to fail. . . . President Reagan is clearly failing.” Why? This was due partly to “his administration’s weak policies, which are inadequate and will ultimately fail”; partly to CIA, State, and Defense, which “have no strategies to defeat the empire.” But of course “the burden of this failure frankly must be placed first on President Reagan.” Our efforts against the Communists in the Third World were “pathetically incompetent,” so those anti-Communist members of Congress who questioned the $100 million Reagan sought for the Nicaraguan “contra” rebels “are fundamentally right.” Such was Gingrich’s faith in President Reagan that in 1985, he called Reagan’s meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev “the most dangerous summit for the West since Adolf Hitler met with Neville Chamberlain in 1938 in Munich.”
 
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/289159/gingrich-and-reagan-elliott-abrams

Most people are in total agreement with your article.   The press has been gagged and shackled during the outbreak of OWS in the US and now is low on the Freedom list, but Congress???????   They were laughing at his terrible jokes, clapping at his supposed achievements and his pompous list of ideas that should be put into practice were greeted with cheers, the mind boggles.    Secretary Clinton looked down in the dumps but she was seen enthusiastically congratulating and greeting him after the speech.   What gives?  I even saw Eric Cantor clapping.   Are they scared that Valerie Jarrett will comb through the film of the event and see them looking like they loved it and remove them from the “Off with his head” list.   That’s the only explanation I can come up with……………………………..It was the ideal opportunity for a process server to come with an Impeachment Document, he would have had to pretend that it  was something else but if this wasn’t an “et tu Brute” moment  then what was it……………..
Jan Brewer is pretty outspoken, all power to her, she should run for President, that would be interesting.

“The European debt crisis is the single biggest threat to the U.S.
recovery and the global recovery,” said IHS Global Insight chief
economist Nariman Behravesh. “The situation in Europe could spin out of
control, as we’ve certainly seen in the last couple of days. And that
could take the U.S. down with it.”
Nearly two years after the it
began,the crisis is already forcing Europe’s economy back into
recession, according to European Central Bank President Mario Draghi.
“What
we are observing now is slow growth, heading towards a mild recession
by year end,” he told reporters in Frankfurt Thursday, on the first day
of his new job.

The U.S. economic relationship with the EU is the largest and most
complex in the world, generating trade flows of about $3.6 billion a day
[2010] and transatlantic investment is directly responsible for roughly
7.1 million jobs [2008 estimate].  This enormous volume of
transatlantic trade and investment promotes economic prosperity on both
sides of the Atlantic and in the dozens of other countries that trade
with the transatlantic partners.  The United States and the EU continue
to pursue initiatives to create new opportunities for transatlantic
commerce.

http://www.ustr.gov/countries-regions/europe-middle-east/europe/european-union

What is your point?

How old is your first quote? Recent news out of Europe suggests the likelihood of a recession in Germany is actually receeding (see my comments above). Sure the Southern European countries may experience a recession and there is likely a minor one in the U.K., but so far no sign of a major recession for the EU. Only speculation of one, like in the article you quote.

As for your second reference to the U.S. government trade representative site I think you need to study the numbers a little closer.

I have gone through them once before and I will go through them again for you.

Europe only makes up 20% of all U.S. exports. It is a decline in exports from the U.S. to Europe that would have the biggest negative impact on the U.S. economy. Total U.S. exports to all countries around the world only make up 13% of the U.S.’s GDP. The U.S. economy is largely a domestic economy, it is not reliant on exports. With Europe making up only 20% of total U.S. exports then at most European exports represent 2.6% (13% x 20%) of U.S. GDP. Exports to Europe would have to fall almost to zero for it to push the U.S. into a recession and even at zero exports to Europe we still would not likely be in a recession.

Mr. Johnson has been saying the U.S. is heading for a double dip recession for two years (it is his many argument against Obama) and the U.S. economy has done nothing but strengthen over the last two years. We will see how close the U.S. is to a 3% growth rate in the fourth quarter later this week. Now since things are actually improving in the U.S., Mr. Johnson switches his argument that Europe will push the U.S. into recession. I am saying that is not likely.

I appreciate the effort. I appreciate you are at least attempting a rational discussion rather than constant meaningless personal attacks that NQ is know for with any decenting view. Happy to discuss the facts and interpretations of the facts any time. That is generally what discussion boards are for.

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NE.EXP.GNFS.ZS
 
 

You seem to have a nice balance of reading. Very different then NQ, which almost always quotes or cuts and pastes from far-right sources of information.

I think you have got most of the news sources covered. I read most of those myself.

Please feel free to point out anything that is factually incorrect in my arguments. Or argue a different interpretation of the facts.

I am very interested in hear your point of view, which is quite the opposite to what all others on NQ will say about my comments. It is quite a bubble of Obama hate.

You refuse to see the obvious so you will have to wait for the European concern to take effect.

Whatever the real story, the chances of Ventura having access to it are pretty slim.  His television series on conspiracies is so pathetically egotistical and misinformed that I want to find and donate to some charity that can work on curing that disease.