So, apparently it only costs $3.00 to have dinner with Obama.
I don’t think it’s worth it. I mean, sure it’s cheaper than a gallon of gas, really, I don’t even think I could be paid to break bread with Obama.
Of course maybe it be worth it for the chance to heckle him. But I’d think of something better than calling Obama the Antichrist, that might inflate his ego even more.
Nah, I’ll use the money for gas.
Michele Bachmann today was reported as praising American achievements, such as the Intercontinental Railroad.
Of course, last time anyone checked in American history, there has never been, nor is there ever likely to be, an inter-continental railroad.
Unless they decide to build a trestle between New York City and London, England.
Of course, the media is likely to have a veritable field day with this latest Bachmann gaffe, and use it once again to showcase how utterly uncouth and ill-informed she is.
No wait. My bad. It wasn’t Bachmann who said that.
It was Barack Hussein Obama (hmm-hmm-hmm-pbuh).
Never mind.
Move along.
Nothing to see here.
From Hot Air:
Susan B. Anthony list, a pro-life advocacy group that last week released an ad dramatizing the obscene partnership between President Barack Obama and Planned Parenthood, aims to raise enough money to run the ad in key battleground states. To that end, they’re in the midst of a 72-hour campaign to come up with just $21,000 — so small a sum in comparison to the price of an Obama fundraiser.
As the ad depicts, the president’s support for Planned Parenthood runs deep. Even when states have legitimately — and through the proper legislative avenues — sought to defund the abortion provider, the administration has stepped in to override states’ decisions. Earlier this month, for example, after the Executive Council of New Jersey decided not to renew a $1.8 million contract with PP, the administration stepped in and awarded Planned Parenthood of New England more than $1 million in federal funding. Just days ago, the First Lady hosted a fundraiser with Planned Parenthood Federation of America president Cecile Richards and EMILY’s List President Stephanie Schriock…
Click on the link if you can donate – one thing we do know for certain is that the Obama Administration has been lock-step in favor of the Culture of Death. If there has been a way to advance abortion, Obama has been right there. And Obama is counting on a lot of pro-abortion money to help fund his 2012 campaign. This is the best way to fight that – especially in pro-life States like Pennsylvania which Obama must win to be re-elected.
Just another day on the road to victory:
What is really good is that this is after a week or ten days of Obama relentlessly speaking out on behalf of his “save my job” program…keep it up, Barry!
From Investors.com:
The 48-year-old Brent Spence Bridge spanning the Ohio River near Cincinnati isn’t much to look at. But for President Obama, it’s become a rallying cry for his $477 billion jobs plan.
He referred to it in his Sept. 8 speech to Congress, saying “there’s a bridge that needs repair between Ohio and Kentucky that’s on one of the busiest trucking routes in North America.” …
…Although some press accounts have described Brent Spence as “crumbling,” and the White House says it’s an example of “urgently needed” repairs, the bridge isn’t falling apart. In fact, it’s designed to last for decades more…
The bridge does have a problem – its too small for the amount of traffic crossing it. So, the plan is to build an additional bridge next to it…but that isn’t scheduled to start for three for four years, putting it outside the Obama timetable of two years for the projects in his jobs bill. In other words, the bridge doesn’t in any way relate to the things Obama wants to do…only a bonehead would go there as an example of “crumbling infrastructure” that you want to repair right away. This is right up there with using a company that is outsourcing jobs as a backdrop for your bill to create more jobs.
Its like the Obama people just don’t care – they just want their photo ops and sound bites and are expecting that the MSM, as it did in 2008, will keep a lid on any criticism. Trouble is, the New Media has grown exponentially since then and Obama no longer has the ability to be a “stealth candidate”. We know all about him – and we’re tired of him.
2012 can’t get here fast enough…and I’m really looking forward to it.
From the Miami Herald:
…After trailing Obama by more than 20 percentage points in polls all year, the new national survey, taken Sept. 13-14, found Palin trailing the president by just 5 points, 49-44 percent. The key reason: She now leads Obama among independents, a sharp turnaround.
Overall, the gains among Republicans “speak to Obama’s decline among independents generally, and how the middle is not his right now,” said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, which conducted the national survey…
She is not even an announced candidate and she’s been the victim of a three year long slander campaign which did not even spare her children from the muck…and she’s only five points back of The One! This is the kind of poll which is going to make Democrats reach for the antacid.
From the Daily Beast:
LightSquared, a wireless network backed by billionaire Democratic donor Philip Falcone, could beam broadband Internet everywhere—but some military officials fear it could interfere with critical GPS signals. Now, as The Daily Beast’s Eli Lake exclusively reports, two U.S. officials allege the White House tried to influence their testimony to rush key testing, to LightSquare’s benefit..
…On Monday, a second witness, Anthony Russo, director of the National Coordination Office for Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing, told The Daily Beast that he too was asked by the OMB to insert the 90-day timeframe into his testimony before the House Science Committee, but he refused. The hearing originally was scheduled for Aug. 3, then rescheduled for Sept. 8.
“They gave that to me and presumably the other witnesses,” he said. “There is one sentence I disagreed with, which said that I thought the testing could be resolved in 90 days. So I took it out.”…
Are you grasping all that, liberals? In service of a billionaire who is a Democrat and a donor to the party, the Obama Administration tried to smooth things along even though the US military and other agencies had grave questions about the risks of the new wireless project. Do you begin to understand? Does it start to dawn on you that all your liberalism is merely a cover for the Ruling Class to gain power and wealth? They’ll throw you a bone of “gay rights” or affirmative action, but the real program is just power and wealth…
I doubt you’ll get it. For ages you have been propagandized that it is we Republicans who do that…and, to be sure, you can find the odd Republican here and there willing to sell out to corporate interests. But not like this – not in a systemic fashion where everything is for sale. And the base of the GOP is firmly against this “crony capitalism” and wishes for a restored, genuine free market in which well-connected corporate bosses aren’t able to suppress competitors and gain government privileges.
More and more it looks as though the Obama Administration – in pure, Chicago-style politics – as put a “for sale” sign on the United States. While Pelosi and Reid ran Congress, there was no oversight at all…and that is why it is only now, 8 months after the GOP took the House, that it is all coming to light. We all expected Obama’s liberalism and we feared the Chicago Way…but even I didn’t suspect that Obama and his cohorts would be so crude and grasping in these matters…that they would act no better than a Chicago ward boss.
Now more than ever it is vital that Obama be defeated next year…this is already bad enough, but imagine what it will be like if Obama is re-elected and never has to fear the voters again? It will become a corrupt free-for-all and our national inheritance will go to the highest bidder.
UPDATE: Rep. Issa to hold hearings on these screwball loans and the general Obama Administration practice of trying to pick free market winners.
We actually are fortunate to have him as our President – he has made liberalism toxic. Victor Davis Hanson runs down the ways and then concludes:
…Had McCain been elected, or had Obama proved a canny Clinton triangulator, we would never have gotten out of the bipartisan rut of massive borrowing, growing government, higher taxes, and unionized public employee regulators. But with Obama as the great liberal deliverer and with the masses scared to death of Him, the next president will inherit an America in catharsis. The future is uncertain, but at least now, after our cauterizing, we have some sort of chance to return to the old principles that might save us.
Carter made liberalism a dirty word. It wasn’t until 2008, with Obama, that liberalism was rehabilitated and people could actually call themselves that and not be laughed off…we had forgotten. We had, that is, forgotten Carter…just how lousy he was and just how destructive liberalism is. But now we’ve had Obama applying it to America and we’re falling apart…and people are noticing.
Revolution is coming – just as Carter’s liberalism allowed us to usher in the Reagan Revolution, so will Obama’s liberalism herald the Second American Revolution. And this time I think we’re going to win so big that the liberals won’t be able to stop us, at all…always remember that Reagan was stymied by Democrat control of the House. He couldn’t ever go all out…in 2013, the next Republican President might have such a large Congressional majority that we can steam roller through whatever we please…and after the Obama dose of liberalism, the people will be eager to back any plan for radical reform.
Everyone does have a purpose – and perhaps Obama’s was to destroy liberalism? Time will tell…
From the Washington Times:
President Obama’s smooth path to the Democratic nomination may have gotten rockier Monday, after a group of liberal leaders, including former presidential candidate Ralph Nader, announced plans to challenge the incumbent in primaries next year.
The group said the goal is to offer up a handful of candidates from various fields and areas where the president either has failed to stake out a “progressive” position or where he has “drifted toward the corporatist right.”
“Without debates by challengers inside the Democratic Party’s presidential primaries, the liberal/majoritarian agenda will be muted and ignored,” Mr. Nader said in a news release. “The one-man Democratic primaries will be dull, repetitive, and draining of both voter enthusiasm and real bright lines between the two parties that excite voters.”…
For some, this is just a chance to be extra-pure liberals…Obama hasn’t toed an entirely socialist line (ie, he hasn’t instituted a dictatorship and simply enforced socialism, law and constitution be hanged), and so they are going to prove to themselves that they are true blue. On the other hand, there are cynics who know that if there is a kook left challenger to Obama it will allow Obama to shift right and still hold the base.
Unless someone like Hillary breaks ranks, none of this will amount to much. The Democrat machine will ensure overwhelming Obama victories in the primaries and caucuses but the fact of kookism on the march will allow Obama to position himself in what he (and his MSM sycophants) will call the center…able to point right and left and say, “I’m the one who has a reasonable, balanced approach”.
It won’t work, of course…the kook left won’t be able to gain traction and neither will Obama ever appear reasonable. People have tuned him out – no one is terribly interested in what he has to say. We’ve got a long, miserable road to travel to get rid of Obama…all through it will seem as though Obama is doing this, that or the other thing. But, in the end, the race will resolve itself upon the Reagan Question: are you better off than you were four years ago? If the answer is “no” for a majority, then Obama will be beaten. Kook left challenges and attempts to appear centrist won’t matter at all, in the end.
From the AP:
…The president on Monday will announce a proposal that includes repeal of Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest taxpayers, nearly $250 billion in reductions in Medicare spending, $330 billion in cuts in other mandatory benefit programs, and savings of $1 trillion from the withdrawal of troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, the officials said…
…Key features of the proposal:
–$1.5 trillion in new revenue, which would include about $800 billion realized over 10 years from repealing the Bush-era tax rates for couples making more than $250,000. It also would place limits on deductions for wealthy filers and end certain corporate loopholes and subsidies for oil and gas companies.
–$580 billion in cuts in mandatory benefit programs, including $248 billion in Medicare and $72 billion in Medicaid and other health programs. Other mandatory benefit programs include farm subsidies.
–$430 billion in savings from lower interest payment on the national debt…
According to the linked article, 90% of the Medicare cuts will be in the form of reduced payments to providers – and while beneficiaries are expected to pay more, they won’t pay until 2017…in other words, not until after Obama finishes his putative 2nd term. How much you want to bet that once the providers scream – and/or start refusing Medicare cases – that the cuts never materialize?
A trillion dollars of the “cuts” are from not fighting in Afghanistan…in other words, not money already appropriated and now cut, but a mythical figure placed on the table bearing no relation to what might actually happen in Afghanistan.
Lower interest payments on the national debt? Fine – that’ll work until we hit 16 or 17 trillion in debt and our bond prices go “Greek” on us.
This proposal is nothing but a crock of political horse manure. For cynicism it is hard to beat. We’re on the brink of economic and fiscal disaster and Obama comes up with a plan which doesn’t fix the budget and doesn’t help the economy. All it does is provide him with some MSM/DNC talking points in his effort to make the 2012 campaign about Congress rather than himself (the tax hikes won’t fly and the spending cuts will be resisted by his own party…so when the plan fails to pass, Obama can say, “I tried to do it, but those dratted Republicans stopped me!”). The United States can go drop off a cliff…Obama has more important things to do, like getting re-elected!
2012 really can’t get here fast enough…and it won’t work, Barry. We’re all on to the scam. Twist things as much as you like – go ahead and go through your motions. We’re still going to crush you and liberalism next year. We’ve all had enough of this garbage.
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