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| DMom | Jul 23 2011, 04:14 PM Post #181 |
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(an email I received today, no source quoted) humorous, but maybe not so A VERY INTELLIGENT BOSS Lay Off Letter Little wonder why this guy is boss. He is sharp! You can't be any fairer than this leader. Dear Employees: As the CEO of this organization, I have resigned myself to the fact that Barrack Obama is our President and that our taxes and government fees will increase in a BIG way. To compensate for these increases, our prices would have to increase by about 10%. But since we cannot increase our prices right now due to the dismal state of the economy, we will have to lay off some of our employees instead. This has really been bothering me because I believe we are family here, and I didn't know how to choose who would have to go. So, this is what I did: I walked through our parking lots and found sixty 'Obama' bumper stickers on our employees' vehicles, and I have decided these folks will be the ones to let go. I can't think of a more fair way to approach this problem. They voted for change ... I gave it to them. I will see the rest of you at the annual company picnic. |
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| Deleted User | Jul 23 2011, 08:03 PM Post #182 |
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Boehner: Dealing With the White House 'Has Been Like Dealing With Jell-o' Mr. Speaker, you really should stop trying to deal with Michelle's hind parts. |
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| Baldo | Jul 28 2011, 09:10 AM Post #183 |
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Two articles today First from the NY Times President on Sidelines in Critical Battle Over Debt Ceiling WASHINGTON — For an hour on Wednesday the White House press secretary, Jay Carney, fielded questions about what, if anything, President Obama was doing to help end the impasse in Congress over the imminent need to raise the nation’s borrowing limit. He spoke repeatedly but without specifics of private conversations and nonstop meetings involving administration officials “up to the highest levels” — White House shorthand for the president. Finally, exasperated, he asked whether reporters expected “a President Bartlet moment” — say, a march up Capitol Hill to whip Congress in line, à la fictional president in “The West Wing” television series. “Yes,” one reporter replied. Reality is not so simple. The two parties remain seemingly further apart than just days before the Treasury Department’s Aug. 2 deadline for raising the $14.3 trillion debt limit, threatening a financial crisis that could ripple through the economy. But with the collapse last week of Mr. Obama’s back-channel talks with House Speaker John A. Boehner, the action has shifted to Congress. Having already deployed the heavy weapons from the presidential arsenal, including a national address on Monday night and a veto threat, Mr. Obama is in danger of seeming a spectator at one of the most critical moments of his presidency. Having been unable to get the grand bargain he wanted — a debt limit increase and up to $4 trillion in debt-reduction through spending cuts and taxes — Mr. Obama’s challenge now is to reassert himself in a way that produces the next-best outcome, or at least one that does no harm to his re-election hopes. Behind the scenes, administration officials led by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., the White House chief of staff, William M. Daley, and Mr. Obama’s budget director, Jacob J. Lew, are scrambling via telephone, e-mails and trips to the Capitol to try to shape the emerging legislation as Mr. Obama and Congressional Democrats want. Their goal is a $2.4 trillion increase in the debt limit that would extend the government’s borrowing authority past the 2012 election campaign, not the shorter increase the Republicans now want, and also provide a similar amount in deficit reduction over the decade. On a parallel track the Treasury secretary, Timothy F. Geithner, is “omnipresent” at the White House, by one official’s description, leading the effort with Mr. Lew to plan for emergency actions by the government and the financial system should Congress and Mr. Obama fail to reach an agreement. No measure can pass without the president’s signature, so Mr. Obama is far from irrelevant. But his limited ability in a divided government to affect the legislation and his inability before now to shape a compromise with House Republicans, many of them dedicated to never compromising with him, is proving the most significant test to date of his campaign promise to bridge the two parties and make Washington work. Worse, with the health of a still-fragile recovery resting on the outcome, a bad ending could leave Mr. Obama more vulnerable politically than he is now, with 9 percent unemployment, on the issue that is likely to define the 2012 elections — his handling of the economy....snipped http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/28/us/politics/28obama.html?_r=1 Then from the CNBC Cheerleaders Obama 'Unpresidential,' 'Petulant' 'Dividing Us': Langone President Barack Obama's conduct during the debate over the debt ceiling has divided the country and will inflict damage that will last well after the battle is over, former New York Stock Exchange director and Wall Street stalwart Ken Langone said. While he believes a debt deal will get done and in fact favors a plan closer to what the Democrats are proposing, Langone told CNBC that Obama's behavior has been "unpresidential." "He is dividing us as a nation," Langone said. "He's not bringing us together. He's willfully dividing us. He's petulant." The co-founder of Home Depot [HD 35.7892 0.1642 (+0.46%) ]sharply criticized the president for promoting class warfare through his repeated attacks against "fat cat" business executives and his targeting of tax loopholes. In sum, the behavior is symptomatic of Obama's disrespect for the office he holds, Langone said. "Ronald Reagan would never go into the Oval Office without his jacket on—that's how much he revered the presidency," he said. "This guy worked like hell to be president...Behave like a president. Let me look at you as a model to how we should behave. What does he say? Fat cats, jet airplanes. What is the purpose? Us versus them. "The thing I fear the most about the future of America is...divide us, we all lose. This has got to stop." Langone said people with his wealth should pay more taxes, but the debate shouldn't be framed as rich against poor. "He is not acting presidential. He is behaving in a way designed in my opinion to divide us, to make us look at each other with skepticism, with suspicion. That is the end of America as we know it," he said. "The destruction he is inflicting by his behavior will carry on long after we settle the debt limit."...snipped http://www.cnbc.com/id/43924372 It isn't good news for Obama when his MSM starts to turn against him. Edited by Baldo, Jul 28 2011, 09:11 AM.
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| kbp | Aug 2 2011, 08:37 PM Post #184 |
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(1) earthquake in Japan, That would be something we did not pay for, was only a concern for those living there and all that held debt in that country deeply in debt. (2) the economic head winds coming from Europe, They're blowing so hard that they've landed on the East coast abck in early 2009, the West coast a decade or two ago. (3) the Arab Spring Another of his many failures. (4) the rise in oil prices, all of which have been very challenging for the recovery. A result of the devaluation in the dollar, just as all consumer price increases are in an economy that is NOT growing. Quite a list of lame excuses for the impediment(s) to the full recovery. I suspect this was merely a practice shot at his campaigns speeches, to feel out what may help somehow, knowing he missed multiple campaign fundraising engagements in the last week when he had to sit through all the "crisis" ...occassionally even having to participate a little! |
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| Baldo | Aug 2 2011, 08:51 PM Post #185 |
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I used to think Jimmy Carter was our worse President, but Obama is the undisputed Flop. We are headed into a dangerous time for our economy and we are without a Leader. The warning signs of a slowing economy are all over the place. Leaders don't blame others for their failure and they achieve their position by actually producing results. His Presidency has been one disaster after another.. We couldn't be in worse hands. |
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| Baldo | Aug 2 2011, 09:49 PM Post #186 |
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Michael Savage: America has been 'hoodwinked' Talk host warns of 'Leninist' president's doomed path, offers 'better idea' As the U.S. Congress came to an agreement on a budget that purportedly would avoid the nation's first-ever default, talk-radio host Michael Savage warned his audience not to listen to voices on the left declaring it a victory for the tea party. "If the left is telling you it's a victory for the tea party, then you know it's a lie," he said to his "Savage Nation" listeners. Freshman Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who was elected by the tea party movement, has pointed out that while the congressional deal touts a "cut" of $2.1 trillion, the best-case scenario would result in an additional $7 trillion in debt over the next 10 years. "You're being hoodwinked again," Savage said. Liberalism is a Mental Disorder: Get the Savage Solutions He said today's politicians need to learn lessons from history to understand what Obama is doing, asserting that the term "Leninist" better describes the president and his policies than "Marxist." "Lenin thought that a nation could only grow more prosperous when a nation is controlled by a vanguard and elite – a people who know better than you what to do with your property," he explained. "The Leninist elite would lead people to a world free of pain and poverty. There would be no more haves and have-nots or private property. Just boundless prosperity. All a nation had to do was transfer its entire wealth to Lenin's vanguard." But the Leninist vision had consequences, Savage noted, aside from the well-documented horrors of Soviet tyranny. "America's rich will be poorer, America's poor will be poorer, America's middle class will be wiped out," Savage said. "But America's government will be more powerful than ever, as will the elected officials and their corrupt bureaucrats."...snipped http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=329089 Sure sounds like Obama |
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| Joan Foster | Aug 3 2011, 07:27 AM Post #187 |
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Remember when liberals claimed Barack Obama was “probably the smartest guy ever to become president” and was “a sort of god”? Today they say “we are watching him turn into Jimmy Carter right before our eyes,” and the center point of his presidency is “a disaster.” So what changed exactly? snip The only thing worse than the abject failure of a liberal president, at least in the eyes of the liberal, is the undeniable failure of liberalism itself. To claim Mr. Obama has been a good president no longer even remotely passes the laugh test. Consider the results thus far of the Obama presidency: Two million-private sector jobs have been lost. Unemployment jumped from 7.8 to 9.2 percent with a simply terrible 2011 first-quarter economic growth rate of just 0.4 percent. A record 1 in 7 Americans is on food stamps. Gasoline prices more than doubled, from $1.83 to $3.74 per gallon. National debt increased 35 percent, to $14.5 trillion, or $137,000 for each taxpayer. National unfunded liabilities increased 47 percent, to $114.9 trillion, or a cool $1 million for each taxpayer (and this does not yet include Obamacare). America is on the verge of losing its AAA credit rating. What’s worse, and was as easily predictable, is the systematic dishonesty Team Obama unleashed to persuade Americans to tolerate its big-government, collectivist agenda. America is, after all, a center-right nation with nearly 3-to-1 self-described conservatives compared to liberals. How else besides trickery could Mr. Obama further an agenda so unpopular with voters? Witness the dishonesty: The stimulus would keep unemployment below 8 percent. Stimulus funds would go to “shovel-ready” jobs. Obamacare would create 4 million new jobs - 400,000 almost immediately. You could keep your own doctor. The president’s mother was denied health insurance. Obamanomics would mean a “net spending cut.” So, as the liberal presidency of Mr. Obama becomes increasingly indefensible, the liberal is faced with an unthinkable dilemma: acknowledge the fundamental failure of his collectivist liberal philosophy, which tends toward socialism, or blame its failures on a single man whom, until just recently, the liberal deified. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/2/liberals-unmaking-of-barack-obama/ |
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| kbp | Aug 4 2011, 11:30 AM Post #188 |
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Obama: "We're Not Even Halfway There Yet" It's not even half as bad as it's going to be?
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| Baldo | Aug 4 2011, 11:40 AM Post #189 |
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Prehaps we need a New Obama Campaign Talking Point! "Just think of the mess we would be in if he was less smart?" The Liberals are engaged in what the French call "Mental Masturbation." Our economy is about to go into another double dip recession as our Growth is not 3.5% as Obama Budgetary projections were, but less than .4% in Q1. That means a recession is coming if it isn't already here. 6-7 Trillion Dollars and what do we get? Worse! Marxists doing what Marxists always do! Edited by Baldo, Aug 4 2011, 11:40 AM.
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| Baldo | Aug 4 2011, 11:58 AM Post #190 |
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A titanic fiscal mistake Staying the borrow-and-spend course will sink U.S. economy When the captain of the Titanic was warned repeatedly of icebergs ahead, he nonetheless made the decision not to slow down or stop the ship for the night. He was, after all, the captain of a ship that “God himself could not sink.” With the passage of the debt-raising agreement, it makes a guy wonder if the Fedzillacrats in Washington believe they are in charge of a country and an economy that even their boneheaded economic policies cannot sink. They are wrong. The dollars allocated toward reducing the debt are “a drop in the bucket, or even a spit in the ocean,” said Maya Mac-Guineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, in an interview with Fox News. The winner in this anti-common-sense “agreement” was President Obama. He got what he wanted and played House Speaker John A. Boehner and other Republicans like cheap fiddles. This wasn’t an agreement as much as it was bait, leading the Boehner gang to a political slaughter. It is a deceitful, ugly lie to call a $2.5 trillion reduction in spending a step in the right direction when we will be borrowing $10 trillion to $11 trillion over the same period. According to my math, that’s putting us $8 trillion more in the hole. Only bureaucrats allergic to accountability could buy into such soulless, lying denial. Once again, we have been ripped off, scammed and fleeced by those Bernie Madoff wannabes in Washington. You would have had to have been deaf, dumb and blind not to see this scam coming - heavy on the dumb. But the real fleecing is yet to come. There will be no spending reduction of $2.5 trillion, no real savings, no downsizing of government. If you believe there will be, I would like to sell you the Washington Monument or the U.S. Capitol. The Fedzillacrats will find a way to skirt around the spending reductions. They have learned to operate with impunity. What will happen is that our debt will continue to skyrocket, putting our future as a nation on a titanic collision course with icebergs of financial insolvency...snipped http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/3/a-titanic-fiscal-mistake/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS Captain Obama "What Icebergs?" |
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| Joan Foster | Aug 5 2011, 08:06 AM Post #191 |
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http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:vRyJ9rRDnsUJ:online.wsj.com/article/declarations.html+The+Power+of+Bad+Ideas+-+Peggy+Noonan,+Wall+Street+Journal&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com It was late Wednesday afternoon, July 13, in the Cabinet Room in the White House. Budget negotiations between Democrats and Republicans had been going on for months. The president, the vice president and congressional leaders on both sides were meeting again. Late in the meeting, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor asked the president a question. As Mr. Cantor told it this week, he was thinking about how the White House and the Republicans were still far apart on the size of budget cuts. He felt the president and his party were hung up on an insistence on raising taxes. Mr. Cantor asked Mr. Obama if he would drop his stand that the debt ceiling should be raised without dollar-for-dollar cuts. At that point, said Mr. Cantor, the president "turned to me and said, 'Eric, don't call my bluff.' He said, 'I'm going to take this to the American people.'" Then he got up and left. The president was confident he could go over the heads of the opposition and win the day with his powers of persuasion. On July 25 he made his move, with a prime-time national address. Boy, did it not work. snip The July 25 speech was of a piece with most of the president's rhetorical leadership through the debt ceiling crisis. Some of his statements were patronizing: We have to "eat our peas." He was boring in the way that people who are essentially ideological are always boring. They bleed any realness out of their arguments. They are immersed in abstractions that get reduced to platitudes, and so they never seem to be telling it straight. And he was a joy-free zone. No matter how much the president tries to smile, and he has a lovely smile, one is always aware of his grim task: income equality, redistribution, taxes. Come, let us suffer together *** But the president is supposed to be great at speeches. Why isn't it working anymore? One answer is that it never "worked." The power of the president's oratory was always exaggerated. It is true that a good speech put him on the map in 2004 and made his rise possible, and true he gave some good speeches in 2008. But people didn't really vote for him because he said did things like: "This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal." They voted for him in spite of that. They voted for him for other reasons. The president has been obsessing on Ronald Reagan the past few months, referring to him in private and attempting to use him to buttress his position in public. They say Republicans can't get over Reagan, but really it's Democrats who aren't over him, and who draw the wrong lessons from his success. Reagan himself never bragged about his ability to convince the American people. He'd never point a finger and say: "I'll go to the people and grind you to dust." He thought speaking was a big part of leadership, but only part, and in his farewell address he went out of his way to say he never thought of himself as a great communicator. He thought he simply communicated great things—essentially, the vision of the founders as applied to current circumstances. Democrats were sure Reagan was wrong, so they explained his success to themselves by believing that it all came down to some kind of magical formula involving his inexplicably powerful speeches. They misdefined his powers and saddled themselves with an unrealistic faith in the power of speaking. But speeches aren't magic. A speech is only as good as the ideas it advances. Reagan had good ideas. Obama does not. The debt ceiling crisis revealed Mr. Obama's speeches as rhetorical kryptonite. It is the substance that repels the listener. |
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| cks | Aug 5 2011, 08:20 AM Post #192 |
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Many years from now, when the dust has settled, Obama will be compared to the bumbling carney man who in Dorothy's dream became the wizard in The Wizard of Oz. On examination, his oratory is found lacking, his sincerity is suspect, and his lectures are grounded in the "do as I say not do as I do" mentality. One can pull from the shelf Baum's classic and find that in many ways how relevant his story is to what is happening today. |
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| Joan Foster | Aug 5 2011, 08:27 AM Post #193 |
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Great post! |
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| kbp | Aug 6 2011, 02:38 PM Post #194 |
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This interview is Obama again and again! It appears his master plan for the economy is limited to chatting with the senior advisors, those which haven't already jumped ship to get back to teaching; calling "Congress" occassionally to remind them what he wants to have them pass; and bragging about some "fuel-efficiency" measure that probably can't happen and would cost us and arm & leg if it does ...as if that last measure addressing burning fossil fuels is part of his new green market he's building ...part of the clean energy industry. Anyone reading what is actually said should see it's an admission that the goal of bragging on MPG for fossil fuels, reaching to the sky for that imaginary fuel-efficiency to produce "a fleet-wide average of 54.5 mpg by 2025 - doubling current requirements" - makes the green market an obvious pipe dream they don't even believe in ...well, not by 2025 anyway ...so I think a question they missed there is how he hopes to help our economy in the way of ENERGY, self-reliance for that ENERGY which includes oil drilling. |
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| Baldo | Aug 8 2011, 07:14 PM Post #195 |
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Obama main attraction at fundraisers Monday night Washington (CNN) – President Barack Obama turns his attention to campaign politics Monday night, as he headlines two events for the Democratic National Committee and his re-election campaign. According to the White House schedule, the president first attends a gathering of approximately 140 guests at a private residence in the nation's capital. A DNC official says proceeds from the $15,000 per family gathering will go to the Obama Victory Fund, with the money raised shared by the president's re-election campaign and DNC. A source with knowledge of the event says it's being held at the home of Don and Katrina Peebles. Don Peebles is a real estate entrepreneur and sits on the Obama campaign's national finance committee. The president then heads to the St. Regis Hotel to meet with approximately 60 guests. While not a fundraiser, a source says the gathering is a donor outreach event. Last week Obama was the main attraction at two birthday-themed fundraisers in Chicago. The events were held on the eve of the president's 50th birthday. The fundraisers were Obama's first since the start of the third quarter of fundraising on July 1. His last event prior to the Chicago fundraisers on June 30th was in Philadelphia. Obama's reelection campaign and the DNC raised a combined $86 million between April and June, blowing past the combined $60 million goal set by both groups at the start of the second quarter. Of the $86 million raised, the campaign said over $47 million went into the coffers of Obama for America and more than $38 million went to the DNC. http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/08/obama-main-attraction-at-fundraisers-monday-night/ Of course no one comments about how Obama caters to the Extremely Wealthy, that criticism is only for Republicans. As for the timing of this on a day when the economic news was horrible, at least he is consistent. IMHO He really doesn't care. A Narcissist! |
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Our economy didn't need Washington to come along with a manufactured crisis to make things worse.

2:34 PM Jul 11