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02-25-2009
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Did you notice Pelosi last night? She acted like she had a pogo stick up her ass. Honestly, if Obamasan had farted she would have applauded.
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02-25-2009
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like someone just came in her mouth when he promised he would'nt. |
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#3
02-25-2009
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Currently I am reading "So Damn Much Money" by Robert Kaiser. It is a fascinating book about the expansion of the lobby industry in recent years. Kaiser documents how lobbyists rule Washington. Democrats and Republicans alike should read this book. A wake up call for saving whats left of our democracy.
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#4
02-25-2009
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Bobby Jindal
LEHRER: How well did he do?
David Brooks on Bobby Jindal. BROOKS: Not so well. You know, I think Bobby Jindal is a very promising politician, and I opposed the stimulus package - I thought it was poorly drafted - but to come up at this moment in history with a stale, "government is the problem...we can't trust the government"...it's just a disaster for the Republican Party. The country is in a panic, now. They may not like the way the Congress passed the stimulus bill. The idea that government is going to have no role in this...in a moment where only the Federal government is big enough to do stuff...to just ignore all that and say government's the problem...corruption, earmarks, wasteful spending - it's just a form of nihilism. It's just not where the country is, it's not where the future of the country is. There's an intra-Republican debate: some people say the Republican party lost its way because it got too moderate, some people say they got too weird or too conservative. He thinks they got too moderate, and he's making that case. I think it's insane. I think it's a disaster for the party. I just think it's unfortunate right now.
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#5
02-25-2009
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Considering his job performance rating is slowly sliding towards only 50%... Considering that 2/3 of the American people feel Obama's economic plan is for shit... And considering that every time Obama opens his mouth about how he's going to fix the economy, Wall Street tanks even more (And yes, it was down again today. So much for the great "inspirational" speech last night)... ...It's pretty clear that Brooks (who, by the way, is a dope most of the time anyway) STILL doesn't get it. It's not a "stale" message -- it's what the average person really DOES still believe. The Reagan years produced one of the longest stretches of sustained economic growth in America's history by doing things completely opposite from what Obama is doing now. The problem is Obama started down that path, but now he's veered wildly off the road and gone utterly spend crazy. It's like he's in race between how fast he can print money and turn right around and spend it. The Obama glow has begun to wear thin and the irony here is that he dropped a phrase saying "I get it", not realizing it's the American people who "get it" -- and what they get is that spending is totally out of control and needs to be MASSIVELY reigned in. Brooks needs a reality check and a bucket of cold water to the face. The problem is, given his political leanings, Brooks refuses to acknowledge that the average American STILL believes in Reagan's classic line "Government isn't the solution to the problem. Government IS the problem." Quote:
What was that about nihilism again? |
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#6
02-25-2009
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The Democratic Reagan
Obama's speech was his best rhetorical moment since Grant Park on Election Night. This guy is really good and reminds me of Reagan: Tremendous stage presence, great smile, easy to like, knows how to hit the big theme and avoid the minutia (thus making his speech about 20 minutes shorter than a typical Bill Clinton address to Congress). Like Reagan, his numbers might not pencil out, but he's not going to talk about many of those numbers. He has the strategic advantage of being more popular than any single one of his policies. He can thus tug a policy along behind him, as if it were a distracted puppy. The opposition party may feel virtuous in sticking to what it claims are its principles, but in a chamber dominated by a young, charismatic leader, the Republicans simply look like old, crotchety sticks-in-the-mud. The Yesterday Party, still defending the gold standard, and wondering if it was a good idea to give women the vote. Every Republican in the chamber probably had the same nagging thought: This is likely going to be the first of eight of these things. Obama showed no rookie moves. The only real hope for the GOP is to rely on that old historic standby, dominant party overreach. Moral hazard could create enough moral outrage to give the GOP at least a semblance of a foundation for a 2012 challenge. Obama knows that, which is why he said so directly, "I get it." 
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02-26-2009
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I'm losing count. What is our deficit at now? About 3 or 4 Trillion? At what point does the rest of the world realize all these IOUs we're giving them is worthless? What value do they get out of it? We're not producing nearly enough to ever pay it back. Not before, and certainly not now. They're basically donating all kinds of products to us. Someone tell me why?
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#8
02-26-2009
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The lead paragraph tells you all you need to now about how economically fucked we are... OBAMA SENDING FIRST BUDGET TO CONGRESS February 26, 2009 WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is sending Congress a $3 trillion-plus budget, a spending blueprint that will project astronomical deficits that reflect the cost of getting the country out of a deep recession and a severe financial crisis. Oh, and Tracy -- to answer your point about worthless IOU's, I saw someone on TV the other day who had actually run the numbers -- and you'd better brace yourself. To pay for all of Obama's plans to date, in other words to cover all of the money he's already committed us to, right now the income tax rate on every single person working in America...regardless of their income level...would have to be raised to 95%. Oh yeah, and you'd have to do that till at least 2013. These morons in Washington have crossed a line of spending insanity in ways that it's nearly impossible to tabulate anymore. Seriously, think about that -- the only way to pay for Obama's plan and to actually dig ourselves back out of this bigger deficit hole would be for every single one of us to give the government NINETY FIVE PERCENT of our income. For the next SEVERAL YEARS. I'm sure you could live on only 5% of your salary, right? But hey, look on the bright side. At least there will be a high speed train connecting Disneyland and Las Vegas. Not that you'll have any money to visit either place or even be able to buy a ticket to ride the train -- but at least it will be built! |
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