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How Our Government Deals with Its Messes: The Perfect Analogy (& open thread)

By Pat Racimora on May 19, 2012 at 11:25 AM in Current Affairs

So, how am I feeling about our government’s leadership today? Well, I finally found a video clip that portrays it perfectly. We elect people who say they will clean up our problems. And they are huge, stinking problems. But what do they do instead? Well…see for yourself.

Your turn …

  • HELENK2

    good video and does seem like our government today

  • HELENK2
    • KenoshaMarge

      Yes they can. They will simply call everyone racists, birthers, or out-of-touch and their press agents in the media will second the notion. Rational people believe in facts and the truth. Obots believe in Obama.

  • HELENK2
    • HELENK2

       discussion on the NDAA ruling

    • DianaLC

      As usual, I recommend that no one pass by the chance to take one of Helenk2′s links.  Always worthwhile.

  • HELENK2
    • Flop_Flipper

      There will be a complete distancing of these would be terrorists and OWS. The MSM will do it’s best to make the distinction and drill the fact into our heads.

      The nice thing about a decentralized, so-called grassroots movement is plausible deniability. If there are no officially stated aims and no declared leaders, no one can be held accountable. Isn’t that special.

  • HELENK2

    http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Boehner-Issa-furious-letter/2012/05/18/id/439572?s=al&promo_code=EF40-1

    about time the republicans got some backbone and started working with Issa on holding holder accountable for fast and furious and the stalling that has been going on

  • Popsmoke

    What is even more amazing is how folk believe that voting for either Obama or Romney will actually change anything?

    Lets see the House Armed Services Committee this week passed an amendment by Mike Turner (R) Ohio to squander another $160 million in taxpayer money on nuclear boondoggle, the troubled multi-billion dollar Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement-Nuclear Facility (CMRR-NF). (We need this like we need a hole in our heads.)

    Let’s see the House is cutting social programs left and right and bending over to defense contractors…. 

    So does any reasonable person think that either of these two numskulls running for office can actually make a difference that is going to be meaningful with how our current government (bureaucracy)  does business? 

    It does not matter if either if either of these guys was born on Mars…. The fact is they pilot a tall ship that’s rudder is controlled by 200,000 other people…..

    • stodghie

      always have to get the romney dig in! lol

      • Popsmoke

         Yes and as you know I add Obama as well. Yes I do not support either Obama nor Romney. So get over it !

        • stodghie

          in your dreams pop does anything you say or do go over my head! and popsmoke, i don’t see you addressing obama’s mistakes, lies, and fraud. i see you trying to change the subject. yawn! and so boring too!

          • Popsmoke

            Amazing! Simply amazing. Yes Obama has much to be blamed for. But so do the republicans. Both sides put this country into severe economic troubles not just one side or one person.

            The real problem is that people like you only see things in a one dimensional setting.

            And then you really screw things up by going to the polls to vote….

          • stodghie

            in rely to popsmoke. your problem is you see folks who don’t like obama as a problem. that is very clear. then you resort to clueless insults which takes away from any point you wished to make.

            $12,984–Increase in Debt Per Household Since First 2011
            Bipartisan Spending Deal

            report out most florida student can’t read enough to pass a standard test

            on here no one gives the repubs a pass which you ignore and blindly assume and demand that we take shots at romney or whowever while the subject is on obama or other very important issues of the day. that says to me we are supposed to ignore these things and blindly adhere to your agenda and views and not that you join in and debate others with courtesy. that is not now any site or the world works popsmoke. welcome to reality.

            what i pointed out in those two news leads of which there are many many more that speak to the dire circumstances of our country is the fact that debate and knowledge are critical. obama is the worst nightmare this country has ever had. take the blinders off and you will see it. what i see you do is just argue for your one sided views. there are many views on here with which i don’t agree. but hey that’s life. you might enjoy the site more if you relaxed a bit. i could load this comment down with a ton of information on the mess that obama and his gang of thugs have done to wreck this country economically, security wise, race wise, emotionally and spiritually. but it is up to you to look at what is out there.

  • LindaAnselmi

    Hysterical!!  And perfect analogy of the way our government functions!!!  Thanks for sharing this Pat!

    • KenoshaMarge

      Exactly. They don’t clean up the shit, they just spread it around.

      • LindaAnselmi

        Yes.  And the object seems to be — the farther the better!

        • Popsmoke

          And the sad part is that we keep sending the same one (dems and reps)  back to re-fertilize the fodder…..

      • Flop_Flipper

        Spreading the wealth.

  • HARP2

     Pic: G8 Summit at Camp David, Look at the Four Pics in the Top-Left Corner

    http://weaselzippers.us/2012/05/19/pic-g8-summit-at-camp-david-look-at-the-four-pics-in-the-top-left-corner/

    • POdVet

       In my home, the only photo’s with me in them are with my family. In Obama’s residence, the only photo’s of his family are centered around HIM!

  • KenoshaMarge

    Perfect! Absolutely perfect!

  • binky354

    H/T Pam:  Ah, poor Jesse Jackson seems to have stepped in it again.     “Tamara Holder, a Fox News contributor, is accused of having an affair with Jesse Jackson, Sr. in a lawsuit that alleges the illegal use of a gay Jackson employee to facilitate the relationship.”

    http://www.conservativecommune.com/2012/05/tamara-holder-named-in-gay-jesse-jackson-ex-aides-workplace-harassment-lawsuit/

    • HARP2

       It`s getting harder and harder to figure out who is after Big Jim and the twins these days.

  • DianaLC

    Pat, I received that video in one of the many emails I get daily from my uncle.  I just went YUCK!  when I saw it the first time.  Now I am really sick since you pointed it out as a good analogy of he way our government operates nowadays.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_A3SFO36RUVWTD43Z2X4SKVFKFQ donspiegel

    Good analogy.  Congress just sends the s**t down the road for all of us to clean up later!

  • binky354

    When Campbell Brown was anchor at CNN, her bias in favor of Barack Obama was shining through.  There was nothing fair and balanced about her that I could tell.  I quit watching her.  Then along comes this opinion piece.  My how the worm has turned:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/20/opinion/sunday/obama-condescending-to-women.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all 

    • binky354

      Well, maybe not turned, but she did do a decent piece about women here.

  • HARP2

    In Dreams from My Father,
    Obama inflated his stint at Business International even more and
    transformed it into a faux moment of racial awareness, one of at least a
    half-dozen concocted racial melodramas in the book.  As Obama tells the
    story, a “consulting house to multinational corporations” hired him and
    promptly promoted him to the position of “financial writer.”I had my own office, my own secretary, money in the bank. Sometimes, coming out of an interview
    with Japanese financiers or German bond traders, I would catch my
    reflection in the elevator doors-see myself in a suit and tie, a
    briefcase in my hand-and for a split second I would imagine myself as a
    captain of industry, barking out orders, closing the deal, before I
    remembered who it was that I had told myself I wanted to be and felt
    pangs of guilt for my lack of resolve.

    As
    early as July 2005, however, former co-worker and Obama fan Dan
    Armstrong revealed Obama’s whole account to be a “serious
    exaggeration.”  Obama worked at not a multinational corporation, but a
    “small company that published newsletters.”  He was not the only black person who worked there.  He did not, as claimed, have his own office, wear a jacket and tie, interview
    international businessmen, or write articles.  He mostly just
    copy-edited business items and slipped them into a three-ring binder for
    the company’s customers.

    Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/05/why_kenyan_birth_claim_was_no_fact_checking_error.html#ixzz1vNemTzm4

    • KenoshaMarge

      Perhaps this exaggeration, among so many other exaggerations, in lesser mortals known as lies, is the reason his “business” experience isn’t being touted by his campaign.

    • Flop_Flipper

      I’m beginning to wonder if Obama just took LOTS of acid.

    • getfitnow

       I first read about this here, at NQ during the campaign. I recall one commenter provided a link to a site with a page where employees/former employers of this company checked in. And during the campaign, a number of ex-employees that worked with That One verified his job description.

  • KenoshaMarge

    Interesting questions asked in this article.

    Who Is Barack Obama?
    http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2012/05/19/who-is-barack-obama/?singlepage=true

    • Flop_Flipper

      The author believes that even the New York Times and the Washington Post will begin to investigate Obama. The only way either of them would begin any serious investigation is when Romney is so far ahead this fall that running interference for their guy makes little strategic sense.

      Perhaps I’ve become a pessimist. While I find all this information entertaining, I’m of the opinion that the few scraps of revealing information left about Obama were left intentionally, because the trail they lead to is a diversion. Whoever planned Obama’s presidency thought this stuff out well in advance.

      • KenoshaMarge

        I am a pessimist too. And I don’t even “trust”, I just do my best to verify.

        But there comes a time when the lies are so many that even a POS editor like Bill Keller has to actually do some “reporting”.

        They have all ready lost so much credibility, and their latest fiasco, 3 days of front page reporting on a Romney attack on Obama that never was, has only made things worse.

        They are becoming their own worst nightmare, a joke.

        I believe that given time bias is it’s own worst enemy. The NYT may learn that lesson too late. I hope so. Bias and corruption should have to pay a price. A big one.

        • FormerLiberal9

          I don’t think that either you or FF are natural pessimists or you wouldn’t be as involved as you both are in this election. You are only pessimistic when it comes to seeing any change in the liberal dominated press.

          • KenoshaMarge

            I am not a natural pessimist. I learned over the course of my life to be one.

            I am optimistic about a change in the liberal dominated press only because I foresee a time, in the not too distant future, when they will have to be “less” biased out of sheer self-protection.

            They know that we are a center right country and not a liberal one. They have been trying to change that for some time and they can see, or should be able to see, that all their biased reporting, and I use the word reporting lightly, hasn’t changed that.

            People generally have little respect or trust for the media any more. If the media wants to survive as a viable entity they need to get some of that trust and respect back.

            They should know all about that because they hypocritically chastise politicians about it all the time.

            We have a corrupt media AND a corrupt government. If we lay down and give up we deserve it.

            My children and grandchildren deserve better from me than apathy and acceptance. And my self-respect does too.

          • Flop_Flipper

            As a rule, I am an optimistic person. When I see reruns of 2008 playing themselves out I tend to get pessimistic at the state of social and political affairs. The general tendency to repeat diversions of the past that were proven not to work does dishearten me.

  • MG6

    If this is true…

    http://frontporchpolitics.com/2012/04/barack-obamas-lawyer-admits-birth-certificate-is-forged/

    Than we have to remedy this by prosecuting all of the congressmen and woman who knew and did nothing.

    We have to put into law all those running for president must produce valid verification of birth and reveal all academia records.  
    Oh Hell!   Lets include everyone that runs for political office.

    • Flop_Flipper

      Impeaching Obama would be a huge mistake. We don’t need distractions or martyrs.

      • FormerLiberal9

        BTW it would take to long to impeach Obama his term will run out long before any impeachment trial could take place.

    • foxyladi14

       AMEN.We want real Americans running our country.

  • Flop_Flipper

    A perfect analogy for blind, pre-programmed bureaucratic response. The dog needs to piss on it for good measure.

  • HARP2

     Reuters: Brother says Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi has died

  • FormerLiberal9

    I ran into this quote  on wikipedia while looking up something:

    20th-century American social critic and humorist H. L. Mencken, defined a demagogue as “one who will preach doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.”

    • MG6

      love it and will push it forward.

  • KenoshaMarge

    This is a big surprise. A welcome one to those of us here in Wisconsin who support Governor Walker. Confess I didn’t see this coming. I doubt Barrett did either.

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel endorses Scott Walker
    http://townhall.com/tipsheet/danieldoherty/2012/05/19/milwaukee_journal_sentinel_endorses_scott_walker

    • foxyladi14

       Great news GO SCOTT!!!!1

      • KenoshaMarge

        Big surprise. Now the problem is that this will be very close and I am worried about fraud. A Judge stopped voter I.D. so now we have to be concerned about the election being as corrupt as the recall petitions. (Paying the homeless to sign by giving them cigarettes was only one of the methods the scumbags used.)

        Oh and the Judge that stopped the Voter I.D.? He signed the recall petition against Scott Walker. Not biased or anything.

  • Popsmoke

     Prime example of Bi-Partisan … I SAID BI-PARTISAN … stupidity!

    Congressmen Seek To Lift Propaganda Ban
    http://www.buzzfeed.com/mhastings/congressmen-seek-to-lift-propaganda-ban

    It will not change until, “We The People” grow the heck up and stop our own illogical political behavior.

  • HELENK2

    http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/05/obama-on-verge-of-his-grand-iranian-bargain/

    backtrack on verge of grand iranian bargain.

    maybe it is a good thing that backtrack never handled a court case. His client would have lost the case before it started. He would have helped the other side.

  • HELENK2

    American military instructors in Yehman

    http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_05_08/74165323/

    I did not know we had any of our military there.

    • HELENK2

       American military instructor wounded in attack in western Yemen, Yemeni security sources say – @Reuters

  • HELENK2

    http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/20/11776735-report-taliban-afghan-troops-forge-agreements-as-nato-prepares-draw-down?lite&preview=true

    talivan and afghan troops forge agreements as NATO prepares draw down
    Yeah this really makes me feel good about the safety of the our troops and just where the money backtrack promised Karzai will go

    • HELENK2

       should read
      taliban and afghan troops

  • HELENK2

    oh meeeschele is going to be upset

    http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/laura-bush-afghanistan-women/2012/05/19/id/439623

    Laura Bush talks about Afghanistan and women.
     

  • HELENK2

    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/19/a_racial_revolution_114209.html

    Thomas Sowell.

    all I can say is WOW what an article, where are we headed????

  • HELENK2
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  • HELENK2

    American soldiers forced to wear logo of the  UN ????????
    Wouldn’t this be considered being out of uniform??????

    http://www.wnd.com/2012/05/u-s-soliders-forced-to-wear-u-n-logo/

  • HELENK2
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  • HELENK2

    http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/21/as-obama-preaches-patience-mattis-prepares-for-war-with-iran.html

    to the military people here. what is your take on this dispute between backtrack and the general????

     

  • HELENK2

    http://pjmedia.com/blog/purple-hearts-for-fort-hood-victims-listed-as-a-reason-for-obama-veto-threat/

    backtrack threatened to veto bill because of part that gives purple hearts to the victims of a muslim terrorist at Fort Hood

    well he can go to hell