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| kbp | Sep 16 2011, 12:16 AM Post #316 |
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Okay, Barry! Just stick to the highlights of your accomplishments ...I appreciate it! Look at his math. We have the 14 million they admit are unemployed in the 9.1% they push. Then we have $450 billion in his 'pay later' (aka; borrow & spend) plan in which the "unemployment rate could go down by as much as a percentage point". That's only a little over $321,000.00 per job. Just pay them to stay home, Barry, it's cheaper. Edited by kbp, Sep 16 2011, 12:17 AM.
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| kbp | Sep 16 2011, 12:23 AM Post #317 |
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Maybe I am just plain stupid! Doesn't it seem like the certainty we lack and the incentives it would create might benefit him more if he just took the corporate tax rates and knocked off $450 billion over 10 years? Wouldn't that build up revenues and cost the same? This BS tweaking of this & that just leaves me stumped sometimes. Edited by kbp, Sep 16 2011, 12:26 AM.
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| Baldo | Sep 16 2011, 06:46 AM Post #318 |
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Anyone with half a brain can see the stimulus was a huge failure in that it didn't bring about the desired result of much lower unemployment and the economy expanding. But instead of just acknowledging what we call can see they try to spin it. They care about having power more that the condition of the country. "An Army leader is anyone who by virtue of assumed role or assigned responsibility inspires and influences people to accomplish organizational goals. Army leaders motivate people both inside and outside the chain of command to pursue actions, focus thinking, and shape decisions for the greater good of the organization." Army Leadership Manual - FM 6-22 (FM 22-100) ...decisions for the greater good of the organization Our Government is now concerned more about the Government than the people. |
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| longstop | Sep 16 2011, 09:15 AM Post #319 |
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Brilliant BO's DOJ http://spectator.org/archives/2011/09/15/deep-corruption-at-the-obama-j Deep Corruption at the Obama Justice Department By Quin Hillyer on 9.15.11 @ 6:08AM Americans should get furious, and fast, about the abuses. Start rattling the chains. Start ratcheting up the hue and cry. Fire up the masses. It's long past time to force mass resignations at, and possible prosecutions of members of, the Obama Justice Department -- and, more broadly, of the West Wing itself. Forgive all the links, but the scope of the corruption is so large as to defy adequate descriptions, in a single column, of each abomination. The reality is that these Obama/Holder minions at DoJ are dangerous to the very heart of constitutional, republican (small 'r') government. Last fall in the Spectator's print edition I did a broad overview of the problems. In the September issue of The New Criterion, Andy McCarthy does a wonderful job outlining the problems with the Holder department and with other examples of Obamite executive overreach. **snip** |
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| Baldo | Sep 16 2011, 10:56 AM Post #320 |
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Politico piece about White House Chief of Staff and what has been happening in the White House Trouble on Daley's watch Bill Daley is off to a very rocky start. The 63-year-old scion of Chicago political royalty was brought in as President Barack Obama’s chief of staff to provide fresh blood, corporate-world experience and adult supervision to a young, free-wheeling White House staff. But critics inside and outside the West Wing are questioning whether he is the tough, competent manager needed to shake up the operation and propel Obama into the 2012 election year. To some extent, Daley has been a victim of the increasingly difficult political circumstances Obama has had to confront this year. But he’s also been hampered, paradoxically, by his own inexperience, and particularly by the fact that he lacks the deep Capitol Hill connections of his predecessor, Rahm Emanuel. As a banker and former secretary of commerce, Daley’s ability to soothe relations with Republicans was a major justification for bringing him from Chicago — much to the disgust of many Democrats who wanted Obama to take a more combative approach after the 2010 elections. But Daley’s failure to achieve any negotiating successes has only intensified the chorus of criticism from Democrats that Obama is too willing to compromise. Interviews with two dozen current and former White House staffers and congressional aides paint the picture of Daley as a steady, seasoned political operative struggling to find his footing in one of the most hostile environments anyone in his job has ever had to face. “Is there a level of unhappiness with Bill around the White House? Yeah,” said a person close to Obama who spoke on condition of anonymity, like almost all other insiders interviewed for this story...snipped http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=29E0B967-2906-485A-9DCC-0FAC860DA0A2 Add in the new book "Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington and the Education of a President" which is the title of an upcoming book by author Ron Suskind and you get a portrait of a man(Obama) who was unqualified to be President. He can't lead. He has been over his head the moment he was elected. Edited by Baldo, Sep 16 2011, 10:58 AM.
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| Baldo | Sep 16 2011, 03:24 PM Post #321 |
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Ron Suskind is a Pulitzer Prize winning American journalist and best-selling author. His latest book is Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President Book Details Dissension in Obama Economic Team WASHINGTON — A new book claims that President Obama’s response to the economic crisis was hampered by a White House economic staff plagued by internal rivalries, a domineering chief adviser and a Treasury secretary who dragged his feet on enforcing decisions with which he disagreed. The book, by Ron Suskind, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, quotes White House documents that say Mr. Obama’s decisions were routinely “re-litigated” by the chairman of the National Economic Council, Lawrence H. Summers. Some decisions, including one to overhaul the debt-ridden Citibank, were carried out sluggishly or not at all by a resistant Treasury secretary, Timothy F. Geithner, according to the book. Mr. Suskind quotes from two memos for the president in which Pete Rouse, a senior White House aide, wrote, “There is deep dissatisfaction within the economic team with what is perceived as Larry’s imperious and heavy-handed direction of the economic policy process.” A copy of the book, “Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President,” published by HarperCollins, was obtained by The New York Times before it officially goes on sale on Tuesday. The White House declined to comment on Mr. Suskind’s account, which he said was based on interviews with more than 200 people, including the president. The book offers a portrait of a White House operating under intense pressure as it dealt with a cascade of crises, from insolvent banks to collapsing carmakers. And it details the rivalries among figures around the president, including Mr. Summers; Mr. Geithner; the former chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel; and the budget director, Peter R. Orszag. In this rough-and-tumble environment, the book reports, female staff members often felt bruised. At a dinner with Mr. Obama in November 2009, several top female aides — including Anita Dunn, who was the communications director, and Christina Romer, the chairwoman of the Council of Economic Advisers — told the president about being talked over in meetings by male colleagues or cut out altogether. Ms. Romer, the book says, once passed a note to Mr. Summers threatening to walk out of a dinner with Mr. Obama and outside economists after the president polled his guests for their recommendations but failed to recognize her. ...snipped http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/us/politics/suskinds-confidence-men-details-recession-dissension.html?_r=2&ref=politics |
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| Baldo | Sep 16 2011, 03:25 PM Post #322 |
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This is Suskind's web site description of the book Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President The hidden history of Wall Street and the White House comes down to a single, powerful, quintessentially American concept: confidence. Both centers of power, tapping brazen innovations over the past three decades, learned how to manufacture it. Until August 2007, when that confidence finally began to crumble. In this gripping and brilliantly reported book, Ron Suskind tells the story of what happened next, as Wall Street struggled to save itself while a man with little experience and soaring rhetoric emerged from obscurity to usher in "a new era of responsibility." It is a story that follows the journey of Barack Obama, who rose as the country fell, and offers the first full portrait of his tumultuous presidency. Wall Street found that straying from long-standing principles of transparency, accountability, and fair dealing opened a path to stunning profits. Obama's determination to reverse that trend was essential to his ascendance, especially when Wall Street collapsed during the fall of an election year and the two candidates could audition for the presidency by responding to a national crisis. But as he stood on the stage in Grant Park, a shudder went through Barack Obama. He would now have to command Washington, tame New York, and rescue the economy in the first real management job of his life. The new president surrounded himself with a team of seasoned players-like Rahm Emanuel, Larry Summers, and Tim Geithner - who had served a different president in a different time. As the nation's crises deepened, Obama's deputies often ignored the president's decisions - "to protect him from himself"- while they fought to seize control of a rudderless White House. Bitter disputes - between men and women, policy and politics - ruled the day. The result was an administration that found itself overtaken by events as, year to year, Obama struggled to grow into the world's toughest job and, in desperation, take control of his own administration. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind introduces readers to an ensemble cast, from the titans of high finance to a new generation of reformers, from petulant congressmen and acerbic lobbyists to a tight circle of White House advisers-and, ultimately, to the president himself, as you've never before seen him. Based on hundreds of interviews and filled with piercing insights and startling disclosures, Confidence Men brings into focus the collusion and conflict between the nation's two capitals - New York and Washington, one of private gain, the other of public purpose-in defining confidence and, thereby, charting America's future. http://www.ronsuskind.com/confidencemen/ |
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| longstop | Sep 18 2011, 09:00 AM Post #323 |
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From American Thinker Misogynist-in-Chief http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/09/misogynist-in-chief.html According to high level women at the White House, President Obama fits the definition of a male chauvinist pig. Who would have believed it? Too bad liberal feminist voters looked the other way when candidate Obama told a female reporter "hold on sweetie" or when a watchdog group revealed the Senator paid his male staffers more than female employees working in comparable positions. What about when he objectified Sarah Palin in campaign ads? Now according to his book, Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and The Education of A President, scheduled for release on September 20 journalist, Ron Suskind tells what it's like for women in the Obama White House. I guess electing the most pro-abortion President doesn't make up for being treated like Palin and Clinton in 2008. One of Suskind's unnamed sources, a "top female official" stated the discrimination was everywhere even in the Oval Office. "The president has a real woman problem. The idea of the boys' club being just Larry and Rahm isn't fair," she told Suskind, referring to former Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Larry Summers, former chairman of the National Economic Council. Obama "was just as responsible himself."................................................. snip |
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| Baldo | Sep 21 2011, 11:39 AM Post #324 |
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Very Interesting interview with Ron Suskind on Morning Joe. I highly recommend it. Author of "Confidence Men" Ron Suskind says: "The president got slow-walked, he got gamed by his advisers." http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/09/20/suskind_obama_got_gamed_by_his_advisers.html |
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| chatham | Sep 21 2011, 05:18 PM Post #325 |
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Pic Of The Day: POTUS, FLOTUS And TOTUS… Ménage à trois. ![]() credit: weaselzippers |
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| foxglove | Sep 21 2011, 05:49 PM Post #326 |
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On Morning Joe, Suskind said that the subject of poor treatment of women showed Obama's leadership as he met with the women and sought to correct the problem within his administration. Edited by foxglove, Sep 22 2011, 07:06 AM.
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| genny6348 | Sep 21 2011, 09:46 PM Post #327 |
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Did you see the photos of that doofus waving during the formal UN photo today? He's like a 5 year old. Obama's Hand-gaffe |
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| kbp | Sep 22 2011, 12:15 AM Post #328 |
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Who was that female reporter? She was stuck on putting her foot in her mouth, with a major finish by asking if he had talked to Michelle's cheif of staff. When he said "no", she huffed like she'd finally won one on him, but the book is about a crappy job running the nation, not vacation planning. Towards the end, he talks like Barry has the right ideas, just had problems with on-the-job-training, all should be fine now ...while the reality is most are wishing we could fire him before the 4 year contract runs out. |
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| Baldo | Sep 22 2011, 12:51 AM Post #329 |
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That's co-host Mika Brzezinski , daughter of Zbigniew Brzezinski. A liberal who plays off Joe Scarborough. One of the meta-narratives I see developing is it is not Obama's fault but rather that of poor advisers. Obama quickly running out of time Dan K. Thomasson The one indispensible ingredient for a successful presidency, particularly when the holder of the job is more than a little inexperienced, is a good staff. More and more it looks like President Barack Obama has been missing that from the start. There have been increasing reports of presidential aides divided over what to do and increasingly frustrated by the president's efforts to court Republicans on the one hand and to abandon some of his more liberal principles on the other. The only other plausible explanation for the president's failure in avoiding the obvious pitfalls that longtime White House observers believe might have prevented his deteriorating stature and possible electability for a second term, is that he received good advice but didn't take it. While there may be a mixture of both problems, one is inclined to believe that his reliance on his former Chicago machine cohorts was a major mistake....snipped http://detnews.com/article/20110921/OPINION01/109210317/1008/opinion01/Obama-quickly-running-out-of-time It seems few want to blame the holy one. It was Bush's fault, it was the Japanese fault, it was Greece's fault, it was the Tea Party fault, it was his adviser's fault. Bottom line Obama chose those advisers and if he was so inexperienced, so lacking in leadership ability, he should have never run for the Presidency Edited by Baldo, Sep 22 2011, 09:36 AM.
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| cks | Sep 22 2011, 05:25 AM Post #330 |
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If his advisors ill serve him then he should replace them. Unfortuantely, those that he has replaced serve him no better. When that occurs, the problem lies with the perso in charge - obviously, Obama. Therefore the American people should fire him at the first opportunity - November 2012. |
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