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Obama in Rude Denial

By on 3.29.10 @ 6:09AM

And he’s happy to blow off the Europeans — could they be missing Bush?

IT’S ALL A GOP PLOT
The White House political and legislative operations were said to be livid with the announcement by several large U.S. companies that they were taking multi-million or as much as a billion dollar charges because of the new health-care law, the issue was front-and-center with key lawmakers. By last Friday, AT&T, Caterpillar, Deere & Co., and AK Steel Holding Corp. had all announced that they were taking the one-time charges on their first-quarter balance sheets. More companies were expected to make similar announcements this week.

“These are Republican CEOs who are trying to embarrass the President and Democrats in general,” says a White House legislative affairs staffer. “Where do you hear about this stuff? The Wall Street Journal editorial page and conservative websites. No one else picked up on this but you guys. It’s BS.”

On Friday White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and Obama senior advisor Valerie Jarrett were calling the CEOs and Washington office heads of the companies that took the financial hits and attacked them for doing so. One Washington office head said that the White House calls were accusatory and “downright rude.”

The companies are taking the charges because in 2013 they will lose a tax deduction on tax-free government subsidies they have had when they give retirees a Medicare Part D prescription-drug reimbursement. Many of these companies have more than 100,000 retirees each. AT&T may have more than three-quarters of a million retirees to cover. 

“Most of these people [in the Administration] have never had a real job in their lives. They don’t understand a thing about business, and that includes the President,” says a senior lobbyist for one of the companies that announced the charge. “My CEO sat with the President over lunch with two other CEOs, and each of them tried to explain to the President what this bill would do to our companies and the economy in general. First the President didn’t understand what they were talking about. Then he basically told my boss he was lying. Frankly my boss was embarrassed for him; he clearly had not been briefed and didn’t know what was in the bill.”

It isn’t just the President who didn’t understand his own proposal.  Late Friday, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman and Rep. Bart Stupak, chairman of the Oversight and Investigations panel, announced that they would hold hearings in late April to investigate “claims by Caterpillar, Verizon, and Deere that provisions in the new health care reform law could adversely affect their company’s ability to provide health insurance to their employees.”

Neither Waxman or Stupak — who betrayed the pro-life community by negotiating for more than a week with the White House to ensure his vote on the health care bill — had anything more than a cursory understanding of how the many sections of the bill would impact business or even individual citizens before they voted on the bill, says House Energy Democrat staff. “We had memos on these issues, but none of our people, we think, looked at them,” says  a staffer. “When they saw the stories last week about the charges some of the companies were taking, they were genuinely surprised and assumed that the companies were just doing this to embarrass them.  They really believed this bill would immediately lower costs. They just didn’t understand what they were voting on.”

NOT WHAT THEY EXPECTED
So much for President Obama’s promises to build better relations with America’s friends and allies overseas. Just 15 months into his administration, Obama has managed to alienate most of the major European allies, this time having a State Department functionary announcing in Brussels that U.S.-EU summits will no longer be held annually, and only when there are particular issues to be decided.

State Department officials, some of whom were holdovers from the Bush Administration, say the reasoning for the U.S. to end the annual summits, which had been held since 1991, was in part due to Obama and his team’s feeling ” slighted” by European leaders and their staffs, such as French president Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, both of whom have come away less than impressed with Obama’s style and substance.

During Obama’s much heralded European visits last year, he and his team were met with lukewarm enthusiasm by his fellow leaders. Obama responded by, as host last November, meeting with his counterparts for only three hours and sending Vice President Joe Biden to spend the rest of the time in the summit, including the official lunch. Other than a 15-minute meeting in the morning with Merkel (which on the schedule was supposed to be a half-hour), the summit meeting, Obama had an almost open schedule on that day, with only a late-afternoon meeting with Sen. Blanche Lincoln on the agenda.

Then in February Obama announced that he would not attend a U.S.-EU Summit in Madrid, Spain, scheduled to take place in May, thus ensuring the meeting would be canceled.

The Obama Administration got off to a rocky start diplomatically when it embarrassed British Prime Minister Gordon Brown by giving him official White House presents — U.S. formatted DVDs that could not played in Great Britain due to different formatting, for example — that created the impression Obama didn’t seem to care much for Brown.  He later, in meeting Queen Elizabeth II gave her an iPod, loaded with podcasts of his major speeches.

“People may not have liked some of the Bush Administration’s style, but at least President Bush came to meetings and was gracious,” says a current State Department staffer. ” I won’t say that the Europeans are missing Bush, but they feel that President Obama just doesn’t care about the ‘special relationship’ that has existed between American and Europe. He’s made it worse, not better.”

Letter to the Editor View all comments (268) |

applepicker | 3.29.10 @ 6:50AM

Prowler identifies the administration is livid as the fallout from Obamacare Law and gives a reasonable explanation why: Obama and his ilk are inadquately qualified to lead let alone legislate. Yet the major press is afraid to query these shortcomings. Thanks Prowler.

SC Mike| 3.29.10 @ 6:54AM

Okay, the administration is populated with folks who’ve run nothing bigger than a tenement building, but one would think that members of Congress would be aware of little things like Sarbanes-Oxley and other “suggestions” that corporate officials have a fiduciary responsibility to make public adverse information ASAP, no? Waxman has called on the companies’ execs not only to testify, but to provide all sorts of private financial information.

What a bunch of rookies…

Son Of Sam| 3.29.10 @ 11:23AM

I agree Mike, these no talent ass clowns could fuck up a wet dream. But what do you expect when they have a "leader" who's never done anything except be a "community organizer",a scumbag lawyer for Acorn,and run for office and live off the taxpayers? Yet he STILL believes that he's an expert on everything from healthcare to beer summits.

Good GOD, how DO they put their bra and panties on in the morning?

stand strong until freedom dawns
Son Of Sam

Sean| 3.29.10 @ 3:47PM

You learn this in your first day of business school, by reading the WSJ or just remembering the laws you have enacted. These people really are stupid. God help us.

William Rau| 4.1.10 @ 2:33PM

If you think this is stupid, how about Hank Johnson's concern that transferring 8,000 Marines to Guam would cause the island to capsize and sink. I kid you not.

Patrick M.| 4.1.10 @ 10:55PM

What a bunch of rookies… "

I disagree. They are not rookies, they are THUGS.

They know well enough that private-sector health provisions will be destroyed by this bill - THAT'S THE PLAN.

Their thuggish attempt to bully CEOs and companies is nothing more than dissent-suppression operation. This bill is an utter disaster that will bankrupt the country and the Democrats are counting on the LIE that once in place, it cannot be rolled back, even if there is a better way (and there is). Only thugs and liars operate by such rules.

Robert| 4.2.10 @ 2:56AM

I hope the company leaders stuff it back in Waxman's face by pointing out how it's the job of their companies' teams of lawyers and accountants to know how legislation will affect the business of the companies they work for, and the company lawyers and accountants clearly know far more about what the bill will REALLY do than any of the congressmen who voted to pass it. I hope they turn this congressional inquisition around on the Democrats and publicly humiliate them big time. It would be well-deserved.

Comrade Mao| 3.29.10 @ 7:00AM

Please don't be critical of Dear Leader or you may need to be sent to reeducation camp.

Ret. Marine| 3.29.10 @ 7:31AM

Yeah I've got his reeducation camp right here.

Grzmlyk| 3.29.10 @ 11:34AM

Those who refuse to be re-educated will be eliminated.

The State is All!
Obama Is the State!
Long Live Obama!
May He Lead Us with beneficence for 1,000 years!

Think we're far from that? We are THERE.

What we have here, folks, is a coup d'tat. A third-world, banana republic-style strong man usurping power, abetted by his power-drunk cronies.

Tick tick tick.

Grzmlyk| 3.29.10 @ 11:37AM

Oops. I meant "coup d'etat."

Marc Jeric| 3.29.10 @ 7:13PM

You are right, Sir, more than you think. Abu Hussein from Kenya is our Community Organizer-in-Chief; that is his only "qualification" for the job. He has his system of local soviets in place (ACORN brownshirts and SEIU and teacher union thugs) and could not care less for what we think.

RetAF| 4.6.10 @ 9:23PM

Only ACORN has become a PR embarrassment so its being dissolved and folded into other organizations. Much like the SA was...

Robert| 4.2.10 @ 3:01AM

In which case, maybe it's time for the army to do what it must to defend the Constitution, this time from domestic enemies. The example set by Honduras would seem to be the appropriate model.

vern| 4.5.10 @ 5:35PM

you Robert hit the nail on the head....3 cheers..

Janet | 9.12.10 @ 1:18AM

Yes, but didn't we (the U.S.) support the wrong side when it came to Honduras? I was so embarrassed!

John B| 3.29.10 @ 11:43PM

Unlike a real "reeducation camp" in this one detainees would die laughing.

Darin| 3.29.10 @ 7:06AM

Well, Obama DID promise "change." Sadly, the majority of the American population failed to ask the obvious question: change from what to what?

MoxNix| 3.29.10 @ 12:33PM

Darin, you misheard Dear Leader: he promised chains.

vern| 4.5.10 @ 5:37PM

not "Hope & Change"" he said "Hoax & Chains"!!

Carter Burger| 3.30.10 @ 9:31AM

Actually, there were people asking what this "change" he promised was. However they were attacked, mocked and called racists for questioning the motives of a black man. They are still being attacked, mocked and called racists because they dare question the motives of a black man.

GA_MAN| 3.30.10 @ 12:24PM

I thought it was: "Change you can bereave in."

JP| 3.29.10 @ 7:14AM

It is interesting how this administration views itself in relation to the people it governs. So what if the President was livid. These corporations are under no obligation to make the Anointed One happy anymore than the GOP is. And the idea of Congress investigating how these corporations are taking a loss? Congress authored the bill. Perhaps Waxman and Stupak should make a phone call to the office of Max Baccus. Or better yet, query thier own staffers who were suppose to be experts on this bill. Funny, how these Forture 500 corporations were on top of the tax subsidy. I cannot imagine thier lobbyiests weren't.

But, the bottom line is: The Anointed One isn't happy! And his court is paralyzed with fear. It would be very funny if it wasn't so scary.

Tom in Michigan| 3.29.10 @ 4:34PM

I would LOVE to go before Waxman's committee with all my financials if I was one of these CEOs. This could be an opportunity; banished from the discussion before Obamacare was passed to present hard-and-fast data based upon established principles of accounting. Like our Detroit Congressman John Conyers (husband of admitted felon, Monica Conyers) has openly admitted for himself though, most of them, lacking any formal business training probably wouldn’t have the slightest idea what they were seeing.

Stoop Davy Dave| 3.29.10 @ 8:51PM

heh heh heh heh heh so, wait now, wait, let me see if I follow this ...
These Dimbulbs are upset because the release of these financial figures are An Embarrassment to their ridiculous administration and its toxic policies ... okay, got that ... and they expect they're going to be LESS EMBARRASSED by making a federal case out of it? With television cameras, and knowledgeable witnesses whom they COMPEL to come to town and debunk their nonsense?
Tell ya what, we've got geeeeeeeeeeeeniuses packing our parachutes here!

Forever Marine| 3.30.10 @ 6:02PM

This would be funny if it weren't so sad and scary. The ba______ds are being done in by their own stupid Sarbanes-Oxley law (complying with which has cost U.S. companies billions). And they STILL don't get it. They won't get it. They never will because it's business.

Rolly| 3.29.10 @ 7:18AM

Maybe we all have made a mistake maybe just maybe this guy really did sit in Rev. Wrights church for all those years and really did hear nothing.

George F| 3.29.10 @ 1:04PM

Obama is behaving right in line with Rev. Wright's statements; appologizing for America, kissing the butts of those who consider themselves our enemies. He absolutely knows what Rev. Wright said and is acting on it. Can't believe that he is a clueless bully. Another thing I have a hard time believing, that Dem Party members can't see that he's a bully.

vern| 4.5.10 @ 5:40PM

we need to stay unided..our best shot is these tea parties around the nation...especially april 15th @ washington monument.. & B.O. Smells...

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 3.29.10 @ 7:21AM

As the weeks unfold, the true destruction to the economy will take effect. The Obama administration, staffed with tax cheats, lobbyists and terrorist huggy bears, will all continue to lash out, never understanding that their efforts are counter productive.

Unemployment will be up significantly by the end of the summer. Obama will continue his childish behavior of blaming everyone but himself.

MTF| 3.29.10 @ 12:07PM

My feeling on this situation is that Obama knows exactly what he's doing in the area of wrecking this nation's economic and political structure as we know it...just look at who he's made political friends with overseas.

csd| 4.1.10 @ 5:30PM

MFT, I agree with your full heartedly. This president knows exactly what he is doing. His agenda is to make our nation into a welfare nation tha has to depend on government for all their needs. Why did he take over educational loans by slipping it into a health care bill? All part of the agenda that his czars have put together for him.

vmc| 4.3.10 @ 4:29AM

Agreed!

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 3.29.10 @ 7:21AM

As the weeks unfold, the true destruction to the economy will take effect. The Obama administration, staffed with tax cheats, lobbyists and terrorist huggy bears, will all continue to lash out, never understanding that their efforts are counter productive.

Unemployment will be up significantly by the end of the summer. Obama will continue his childish behavior of blaming everyone but himself.

SJC48| 3.29.10 @ 12:49PM

Obutthead's goal is to turn the US into a Western European social welfare state - that's his model - that's all he know.

Marc Jeric| 3.29.10 @ 7:21PM

I see, Sir, that you are a great optimist. Socialism? No - it is a communist heaven we are seeing being built. We already have 50% of population on the dole; with the health care "reform" we will climb to 60%; and with the illegal aliens amnesty we will pass the no-return point of 66%. Card check is in the pocket already; destruction of the conservative radio will be accomplished by horrific taxation in favor of commie stations. Cap & trade will lead to nationalization of oil & gas companies, coal mines, and electricity companies. I should know - I escaped from acommunist hell many years ago but still remember it well.

CW Gilgenast| 4.1.10 @ 2:32PM

Marc: I could not agree with you more. I only hope that enough true Americans will go to the polls in November and vote these Socialists-Communists out of office.

flfshrmn| 3.29.10 @ 10:00PM

They do understand that their efforts are counterproductive.......Does the Cloward Piven Strategy or the rules for radicals reflect the efforts and direction of this administration? It is becoming more believable by the week.

Martine22| 3.29.10 @ 7:25AM

Business leaders knew what was in the bill because they probably had read it, unlike our leader and his buddies in Congress. More surprises on the way!

Old Soldier | 3.29.10 @ 11:38AM

Of course they read it. The IRS and SEC are breathing down our necks!

Corporations, unlike Congress, are expected to be capable of basic math.

drudge ette obama| 3.29.10 @ 7:37AM

I wouldn't take a call from Rahm Emmanuel or Valerie Jarrett without my lawyer present.

The details of the CEO lunch with Obama should be fully disclosed.

The medical and insurance industries sat by idly while Obama prepared them for slaughter. Who is really the unprepared one?

Margie| 3.29.10 @ 3:17PM

And those phone calls should be recorded! The strong arming of our American companies is nothing short of Mafia type tactics, or Communist KGB thuggery.
Reading this article just piles outrage upon outrage.
May God save our republic, because that is what it will take!

Stoop Davy Dave| 3.29.10 @ 8:54PM

"And those phone calls should be recorded!"

YouTube does serve a purpose after all.

Jeremiah| 3.30.10 @ 2:42PM

The medical and insurance companies did NOT sit idly by--they were bought off.

Screw the traitorous bastards, too.

Melvin| 3.29.10 @ 7:58AM

Well...my friends I received my hope and change Saturday. My son and daughter-in-law just lost both their jobs as the State North Carolina is deleting their jobs in the mental health field.
They were told by the State that they had until June and their jobs were no longer be funded because NC is laying the groundwork for Jackass Care and their field was not included in the funding.
Excuse me if I'm a tad bid angry at that Jug eared SOB who is presently on another joyride on Air-force One.
The scary part of this is, NC em pitied all their mental health facilities and dumped these people to the streets and this is what my son and daughter in law did was basicaly baby sit these people making sure they picked up their meds, made it to their appointments and this was a 24 hour on call job.
And now who will keep an eye on these mental health patients??.... Absolutely no one, they are going to be left to their own devices.
For you Obama supporters. You can take your hope and change and shove it up where the sun doesn't shine.

Ticked in Wisconsin| 3.29.10 @ 11:03AM

Well said. I am in the Mental Health field also and have seen what the state mandates have done. I have seen mental healthcare go downhill in our state. This is leaving the most vunerable population without any support system. We must all fight this in the polls this November and at any rally, townhall meeting, or forum available.

s graham| 3.29.10 @ 3:26PM

I am so sorry for their job losses,the unintended consequences of being lead by a know-nothing Senator who never worked a day in his life.I am livid along with you.

hunter10| 3.29.10 @ 7:57PM

Does anyone know who voted for this idiot? I have talked with many people on my daily rout and not a single one will admit voting for him.

Utah Teabagger| 3.31.10 @ 1:49AM

I know a few Idiots who voted for him, but they make them selves Scarce now. Back to the question about what will the mentally Ill do without care, maybe this is an expantion of their End of Life Counceling, Making mentally handicapped people disappear was part of Hitlers 'Final Solution'. He doesn't know he comitting Politically Assisted Suicide.

Robert| 4.2.10 @ 3:15AM

And another part was using the government-run and controlled "health care" system to kill hospital patients to unburden the state. Anyone else remember the comments one of the Democrats made about making care decisions based on financial considerations?

Maggie| 3.29.10 @ 3:44PM

Okay--you're mad! NOW, will you VOTE THEM ALL OUT IN NOVEMBER???? We all need to put our votes where our mouths are. Obama doesn't care what we think and neither do Pelosi, Biden or Reid. Get 'em out and let's vote for people with some sense.

csd| 4.1.10 @ 5:40PM

Maggie, every voter needs to get out and vote them out BUT we need to be certain that whom ever is voted in is a proud, true, patriotic representative that will listen and fight for the rights of We the People. Not just another liar that will say anything to get elected. Before they can run, I think they should have to answer some basic questions, including what our Constitution means to them. Right now we have some hard working people here in Oklahoma fighting to make it mandantory for high school students to know our Constitution before they can graduate.

Tom in Michigan| 3.29.10 @ 4:45PM

Sorry about that, Melvin but, forgive me for playing "one-up" but, my wife and BOTH my sons have lost their jobs. I'm the only one in my family who still has a job - for one reason only - I speak Japanese. Really. Otherwise, I'd be out too. How's that for a comment on this sorry state of affairs?
Also, I have a friend - ex-Army who is now a therapist. I'm calling his right now to see if he got cut as well.
Also, get ready for costs to go up on medical devices. I just received a note from the President of one of the engineering societies to which I belong in which he told me, "medical device manufacturers must now contend with a new excise tax on the sale of many of their products" meaning of course, costs for stents, syringes and even IV's will go up. And, it gets worse; my sister-in-law who has worked in health care for many years told me their HR director, when told of the new costs said, "But, I thought this was 'free'." Their HR DIRECTOR, no less. Good luck.

UpChuck.Liberals| 3.29.10 @ 6:13PM

"And now who will keep an eye on these mental health patients??.... " Aren't they already in Washington DC?

My daughter in law, the sole income source of their family got laid off from an Insurance agency a month ago. Sadly she's a Lib.

Ron| 3.29.10 @ 11:56PM

Well said, Melvin. It is sad when we see our children s lives being changed because of the incompetence in Washington. I pray your son and daughter-in-law will experience a very short period of unemployment.

GA_MAN| 3.30.10 @ 12:45PM

I'm assuming that some of that has to do with the state's partial reliance on Medicare subsidy. If so, it would make sense as an "intended consequence":
2010 (This year)
Medicare cuts to inpatient psych hospitals (7/1/10)
Medicare cuts to home health begin

and next year, in 2011
New Medicare cuts to long-term care hospitals begin (7/1/11)
Additional Medicare cuts to hospitals and cuts to nursing homes and inpatient
rehab facilities begin (FY12)

But hey, as of now:
FDA authorized to approve "follow-on" biologics
(If this means what i think it means, God please help us.)

Tim| 3.29.10 @ 8:02AM

The Obama Administration And The Pelosi/Reid Controlled Congress is Reaping The Rebellion that they provoked.
Watch and Learn .

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Obama in Rude Denial links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…are missing Bush, but they feel that President Obama just doesn't care about the 'special relationship' that has existed between American and Europe. He's made it worse, not better." The American Spectator : Obama in Rude Denial Reply With Quote   + Reply to Thread Quick Navigation Politics Top Site Areas Settings Private Messages Subscriptions Who's Online Search Forums Forums Home Forums Conservative…

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‘(TMN) Has Never Had A Real Job’ | The Magic Negro links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

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Business losses and the Health Care Bill (and a President and Congress confused about links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

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Howard| 3.29.10 @ 8:16AM

I would think the Europeans would love Obama. He is remaking us into their image. An entitlement state with high taxes and permanent high unemployment. And eventually a emasculated Defense Department due to sky high, ever increasing entitlements. Add in plenty of illegal immigrants, and the Obama Nation is a copy of France or Belgium.

cheeflo| 3.29.10 @ 10:20AM

Who's going to defend their sorry a$$es if the U.S. defense is underfunded and emasculated? They've already demonstrated that they won't. That ought to be giving them the vapors.

Howard| 3.29.10 @ 10:30AM

The Europeans live in denial. As long as the cheese is fresh, and the bread chewy, they are content. And, true, if the US defends them, all is good.

Maggie| 3.29.10 @ 3:48PM

Honey!! They don't need our military--they're in cahoots with B.O. and BO is in cahoots with Islam--which is out to destroy us. Read your Bible!! It is all there in the books of Daniel, Revelation etc.

Jeffrey| 3.30.10 @ 9:46AM

It's in the Bible??? bwaahahahaha

bullwhacker| 3.29.10 @ 10:57AM

The Europeans are upset because they will no longer have a capitalist American economy to hedge their investments. Neither will they have a reliable health care destination when it really counts.

Margie| 3.29.10 @ 3:22PM

The Thirld World country is his model. Communists (don't pardon the shorthand) like him believe that we should all be as equally poor, as equally bankrupt and as equally decrepit.

Terry| 3.29.10 @ 10:26PM

They're upset for the same reason the moocher class in the US will soon be whining louder than ever; their provider class (the U.S.) has just announced that they're moving to the moocher section. That leaves NO ONE to actually PRODUCE anything!

Let's see how well things work when everyone is on welfare! Somebody has to pay the bills!

Curly Smith| 3.29.10 @ 8:23AM

I don't understand why the EuroWeenies are upset. They hate the United States, Obama hates the United States. They hate their respective EuroWeenie nations, Obama hates their respective EuroWeenie nations. He and they are identical and interchangeable. Or do they just not like seeing their raw, naked hatred displayed on Obama's face?

Pete| 3.29.10 @ 9:56AM

Their socialist way of life is predicated on leaving their protection to the US. If they had to maintain the strength to defend themselves, they wouldn't have enough money left over to spread around. This is what they should be worried about, but instead, I suspect they just feel disrespected. After all, when you think you are the elite, you wish to be treated as such by other members of the elite, lest you find yourself part of the unwashed masses.

SC Mike| 3.29.10 @ 8:23AM

BTW, this is just one provision that was inserted to improve the CBO score.

Payback...

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Twitter Tweets about Obama as of 29. marts 2010 « Obame and Copenhagen links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

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William Z| 3.29.10 @ 8:48AM

Ha, ha, ha... These kids in Washington. (Shake of head and sigh.)

alert1201| 3.29.10 @ 8:52AM

I would love to see a 2012 Republican campaign summarizing 0bama’s foreign policy where they describe with a dignified British accent the gifts given to the US upon Gordon Browns first visit – the ornamental pen holder made from the timbers of the anti-slave ship HMS Gannet given to match the desk made from the oak beams of the Gannet’s sister ship, the HMS Resolute; the framed commission of the same ship and the first edition of Sir Gilbert’s famed 7 volume bio of Mr. Churchill. After a great buildup of the historical significance of such gifts have the stately Brit ask, “And whot did President Oooooobama give in return for these gifts? A basket if DVDs purchased on Amazon.com that will not even play on a European player.

I have little knowledge of advertising and film making but I’m sure someone who does to could make it very funny and affective.

alert1201| 3.29.10 @ 8:58AM

In the above post I meant a 2010 Republican campaign "add" summarizing.....

Louis Jenkins| 3.29.10 @ 9:01AM

Let's be honest here. Does anyone really think that any of the members of the District of Crimminals read the Pretender n Chief health care bill, authored by some of the most incompetent leaders (to be read the Brightest and the Best) ever to occupy space in the Capitol? When a mass of blithering idiots all add their favorite ingredient to a soup the product becomes a mess of conflicting tastes. No one is sure what the other cook added, and the suprises will keep on coming during the taste test. A lot of Gastro-Intestinal ailments will follow. This blitzkreg form of legislation manuvering will continue and the consequences will be abruptly discovered on a daily basis. As for Melvin and his state- Gov. Beverly is just another blonde dittzihead so common among the politistas that we have to tolerate, kind of like an in-grown toenail. Many years ago NC was said to be a valley of humility between to great mountains of conceit. Now NC is just a valley ran by a bunch of morons. (Sorry VA and SC Mike, its just a saying.)

Fielding Melish| 3.29.10 @ 9:09AM

I hope the next wave of job losses will be overwhelmingly in states Obama won with large margins, so I'll still have a job in Texas. Yee-ha.

Chuck| 3.29.10 @ 11:48AM

Yes, but then all those who lost their job will move to Texas and bring their contagion here.

ken (Old Texican)| 3.29.10 @ 12:23PM

Chuck,
We Texans can handle it. If they want to come and work and raise their families..."WELCOME YA'LL"

Here they will work...or starve....or leave pretty quickly.
If not...well...there are still the Texas Rangers.

Tom in Michigan| 3.29.10 @ 4:58PM

That won't change a thing. The highest unemployment rate in the nation is right here in the beautiful state of Michigan yet, I will bet you a week’s pay that if the election were held today; the serfs in this state would still march back to the polls and re-elect Obama. I will bet you a month's, no-a year's pay they go back and re-elect Carl Levin, Debbie Stabenow, John Conyers (whose wife is an admitted felon), Sander Levin, Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (mother of convicted felon, former Detroit Mayor Kwame Malik Kilpatrick) and all the rest of their ilk who have ruined this state along another Democrat Governor to replace Jennifer Granholm when she leaves at the end of her term to join the Obamaviks in Washington (not sure about Bart Stupak, though). Stop anybody on the streets of Detroit and ask them who is to blame for Detroit’s and Michigan’s woes and, they will tell you, “It’s Bush’s fault.” We get the government we deserve.

fuddy| 3.29.10 @ 6:18PM

I'm guessing that Obama would lose in a landslide if they removed all the fraudulent registrations from the voter rolls.

truther| 3.29.10 @ 7:02PM

Obamazombies (sleepingwalking over a cliff while chanting): "It's Bush's fault... It's Bush's fault...it's Bush's fault." Sadly, I can empathize with Tom and all of our fellow state residents who are free-thinking non-liberals. Unfortunately, I live in another state of "We the sheeple". Our state of Fla. has over 12% unemployment and I live in the overwhelmingly liberal area of South Fla., where all the liberals are now crying about state budget cuts and no jobs. They will undoubtedly continue to vote for advocates of BIG FED to grow bigger to provide more handouts and take away more liberties. We must stop the Obamazombies! VOTE the progressives out!!

Forever Marine| 3.30.10 @ 8:00PM

Tom, you're right. They will vote for them again. Sadly, we can see it coming like a train wreck. Once you cross the line and wait for somebody else to take care of you, you vote those people back in. It's tough to vote for individual freedom. What a risk.

coal carrier| 3.29.10 @ 9:12AM

When he had his rock-star campaign tour in Europe, his remark was “I’m the one you have been waiting for.” What a joke.

Maggie| 3.29.10 @ 4:01PM

Obama said, "I am the one you have been waiting for" Now --read in Revelation 13:1---"And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea--" 13:4 "and they worshipped the beast saying, who is like the beast? who can wage war against him?" You are witnessing prophecy being fulfilled and you sit by and gripe about it but are doing nothing. The beast (Obama--Muslim through and through and bent on our destruction) has hoodwinked America and now stands giving us his proud and arrogant sneer while everything crumbles around us. Seek God while He may be found and watch, I say watch, because the return of Jesus in His Glory is not far off. He is our only hope.

Margie| 3.29.10 @ 4:57PM

Uh, not sure if you're a troll trying to sound weird or not but most Christians don't go around trying to actually say Obama is the Anti Christ. So let me just expose you right here and now.

What also gives you away is your phony hammering of the person you just excoriated. How do you know he is "doing nothing?"

You're pegged.

Richard| 3.29.10 @ 7:46PM

Margie, you're a trouble-maker, so let me expose you right here and now. You're pegged.

Margie| 3.29.10 @ 8:03PM

Phoney baloney.

Richard| 3.29.10 @ 7:43PM

I'll support your view, Maggie. But I disagree that the Obammunist is the Anti-Christ. On the other hand, no mention is made of the United States in Scripture. I'm not surprised. Put on your life jackets, folks; this ship is taking on a lot of water. I also agree with all the rest of hour posting; just not the Obama=Anti Christ part.

David| 3.30.10 @ 1:29PM

I wouldn't say that Obama is the anti-Christ. Surely he is AN anti-Christ, just as anyone who sins at points in their life, in so doing, goes against Christ.

I will say however that in Revelations it does mention the timeframes and mentions the "great kingdoms" and how they come and go.

At the end of those great kingdoms there is one final world power mentioned that "must rule for a short time"-and this is separate from the 1,000 years of Satan's freedom over the earth.

It would not surprise me at all to have the United States be that last power that "rules for a short time".

Jeffrey| 3.30.10 @ 9:52AM

Maggie, you might have a good grasp of the situation in that you understand that Obama has hoodwinked America, but your twist on biblical prophecy will ensure that you and people who support you are never taken seriously. It's sad, really....because if you leave out all the biblical crap, you'd find that you'd be taken more seriously.

ncatty| 3.29.10 @ 9:15AM

Waxman likes to call in CEOs to "testify" in what is a show trial. He may have jumped the gun this time if the CEOs come armed with facts supporting the accounting charges. I would love to see them throw it back in his face. It takes guts however.

fredric montfort| 3.29.10 @ 9:25AM

To paraphrase from "A concise history of the Russian Revolution", The theorists and architects of Obama/Pelosi/Reid Care have only a nodding aquaintance with the dicipline of economics and none whatever with business management. Their knowledge of the subject derived exclusively from the reading of socialist literature. Not one of them had run an enterprise or earned a dollar from manufacture or trade. This inexperience gave their imagination unlimited scope. That such rank amateurs would undertake to turn upside down the economy of tens of millions, subjecting it to innovations never attempted anywhere even on a small scale, says something of the judgment of the people who seized power in January 2009.

Julianne Wiley| 3.29.10 @ 9:37AM

What I don't understand:

The real costs of the New Rube Goldberg Health Care Machine are now coming out. Corporations are required to disclose liabilities, right? So everybody from heavy manufacturers (Caterpillar) to telephone/digital providers (AT&T) are announcing write-downs of $100 million, a billion, vaporized by exploding insurance costs.

It didn’t take them by surprise. They all knew this was going to happen long ago, when the bill was first proposed.

When it's all accounted for, it adds up to many bajillions or even gadzillions of dollars, or, turning to the precise terms used by economists, a whole schmitt-load of money. All this will have huge negative impacts on investments and credit, choking off business expansion and new-job creation for a long time to come.

Is that about right so far?

So why weren't they educating the public and fighting like hell before the Dem bill was passed?

Why are we NOW hearing about the huge cost to our private sector, when we should have been hearing about it 13 months ago? --- when they could have helped mobilize people to stop the Dem bill?

Is American business refusing to fight for its own survival – and ours?

That's my question.

Bill| 3.29.10 @ 10:10AM

The Medical Industry has become the new Military Industrial Complex that President Eisenhower warned about in his farewell speech. Very curious how everyone in big business just rolled over and let this happen - much of the talk was about surgeries and the like - very few mentioned that the biggest expense in any medical plan is for prescription meds - add 30 million more people to the mix and if you think costs will go down your a moron...Insurance companies, Drug Manufactures, and the CVS's of the world just got much bigger and gained much more power - when Obama and his minions were making them out to be the bad guys - they were feeding them steroids with the other hand.

Ken (Old Texican)| 3.29.10 @ 10:37AM

Julianne,
A splendid question. I think I can help. As a corporate CEO of a public company, there are many things, I must disclose as you will read here.

On the other hand, there are many things I CANNOT disclose until the proper time. In this case, had any of these companies "disclosed" the actual costs involved BEFORE the bill was signed into law, then any little scumbag communist, (pardon the shorthand), could have merely changed a jot or tiddle, and then prosecuted the company for "fear mongering"...(yelling "fire" in a crowded theatre.)

rreactor| 3.29.10 @ 11:55AM

How right you are! I just love that Julianne wonders why the #*$* capitalists didn't warn the people that the >

Uphill14| 3.29.10 @ 11:49AM

Because if you speak out against this administration, you will be attacked. We have seen it time and time again and those who have much to lose are being silenced as much as possible. Obama will use his power to cripple or destroy anyone who challenges him and his agenda.

truther| 3.29.10 @ 7:28PM

He's following a tactic of the progressive manifesto, Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals (demonize your opposition and "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it.") See: www.vcn.bc.ca/citizens-handbook/rules.html. This is just a tactical means of effecting the Cloward-Piven Strategy to use crisis to effect change -- change toward collapsing the system -- our economic system. (See www.cloward-piven.com). We were forewarned. Many listened and heeded the warning; most did not. Spread the word and take a page from the progressives' tactics: Join in a "get out the vote" effort for conservatives/tea partiers this fall. Sign them up and bring them to the polls in November!

greg| 4.1.10 @ 2:28PM

What is encouraging to see, is that the Tea Party movement is, though perhaps not consciously, using many of the Rules for Radicals tactics themselves -- even more effectively. Think about how many times ridicule and grass-roots protest have been used to goad Obama into reacting, changing course and being pushed into a defensive mode. Liberty-loving Americans of all backgrounds need to ramp it up and keep it up.

Diane| 3.29.10 @ 4:42PM

Are you kidding me?? Have you had your head in the sand? There were many objections to the cost of this scheme but the administration and the main stream media brushed the complaints off as disgruntled conservatives whining with no "real" alternatives.

Stoop Davy Dave| 3.29.10 @ 9:04PM

"So why weren't they educating the public and fighting like hell before the Dem bill was passed? "

You mean, like, spend large volumes of corporate money to make an essentially political p0int about a disastrous government policy?
Until just a few months ago, that was actually illegal. They may not have had time to catch up, to develop that capability, to hire those copywriters and make those media deals. I'm just guessing.
I also guess they'll learn this stuff pretty quickly NOW.

Houston Rao| 3.29.10 @ 9:51AM

The utter ignorance and stupidity of the Obama administration and the Dems is astounding.

These companies have a regulation from the SEC that requires them to publicly disclose any material changes in costs and risks in their business resulting from changed conditions including new laws. If they don't disclose it, they can be accused for fraud. If they do disclose it, then they get the Obama thugs descending on them.

When they appear in front of that committee, I hope they have the halls to simply state that they are following government SEC regulations and their estimates are in good faith to provide the disclosure required by SEC regulations. If they have had their auditors review the estimate, they can point to that. They are simply following the law and disclosing the information they are required to by law. They should not get into a discussion about how they arrived at this information; after all Congress does not interrogate them on all other disclosures they make.

davelnaf| 3.29.10 @ 9:54AM

Americans were conned by Obama and company in November ’08 and that is something you get away with just once on a scale of this magnitude. And having gotten away with that con they hope that people now buy into their healthcare con. If these people weren’t so destructive they would be entertaining.

Moe Bellini| 3.29.10 @ 10:15AM

The white house is livid ? They call CEO's rude for taking this one time charge and they're rude to say they may lay people off. When are people going to understand that delusional kool-aid drinking Obama nut jobs put this moron in office. Not one of them has held a real job or know what it takes to run a business. This is what business's have been trying to tell democrats all along. Now that its reality the companies are wrong ? This is only the beginning. Let them be livid, if they called me before a senate committee I'd make them look like the fools they really are. Obama and his crew are the parasites who have been sucking the blood out of government for years. Without the government Obama would be on food stamps. Its sickening how they refuse to take responsibility for their disasters.

Tim| 3.29.10 @ 10:19AM

"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

RAMIII| 3.29.10 @ 1:38PM

We once were a representative Republic based on our Constitution. I fear that is now gone, but we shall see in November 2010 and 2012.

Where are/were the Republicans with courage? In many great conflicts of history the minority was not necessarily made powerless. I wonder if they are just as oblivious as the present administration.

Can we all say "Group Think"?
Wink, Wink, Nod, Nod, Hush, Hush!

Learning Quick| 3.30.10 @ 6:11PM

Chesty is a great one to quote.

jomo2009| 3.29.10 @ 10:19AM

Confucius say, "Be careful what you wish for; you may get it."

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Must Know Headlines 3.29.2010 — ExposeTheMedia.com links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…Obama Makes 15 Sneak Appointments Welcome Extremist Pro Union Lawyer Craig Becker To NLRB Obama Shows The Love To Union Bosses White House Livid With The Announcement By Several Large U.S. Companies That They Were Taking Multi-Million, Billion Dollar Charges Because Of New Health-Care Law Despite Record Levels Of Islamic Terror In U.S., FBI Raids Christian Groups “Fierce Debate On Israel Underway Inside Obama…

roger | 3.29.10 @ 10:49AM

ObamaCare got you down? This podcast will cheer you up! www.cashbeechcroft.podomatic.com

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Weblog » Politicians Totally Surprised by Honest Accounting links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

Switcher Home > Uncategorized > Politicians Totally Surprised by Honest Accounting Politicians Totally Surprised by Honest Accounting March 29th, 2010 Goto comments Leave a comment The American Spectator : Obama in Rude Denial The White House political and legislative operations were said to be livid with the announcement by several large U.S. companies that they were taking multi-million or as much as a…

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And The Bullying Begins - Page 2 - US Message Board - Political Discussion Forum links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…they were talking about. Then he basically told my boss he was lying. Frankly my boss was embarrassed for him; he clearly had not been briefed and didn't know what was in the bill." The American Spectator : Obama in Rude Denial It's going to get much uglier. __________________ Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.…

Paul from SA| 3.29.10 @ 11:20AM

Unreported is also a huge internal backlash occurring in Japan against Obama and the U.S. I have some family in Japan, and they report enormous resentment brewing. They believe Obama is hostile to industry, especially Japanese industries located in the U.S., like Toyota. It is not their culture to speak openly about this, but it will reveal itself. There's talk about 'seceding' from America and rebuilding their military.

This is not good for our and their security, not good for our economies, and not good for future relations.

Mattled| 3.29.10 @ 12:40PM

Melvin-----it's called eugenics. Margaret Sanger and "planned Parenthood" never wanted these mental health patients to even be born.

Paul,
My brother does a lot of overseas business and he met with Jintao's nephew last spring. He thought Odingo was a joke and that the Chinese were laughing at him. Fast forward a few months (this past December) and now they just outright can't stand the guy. The term my brother used is: They hate him more than you do.

For the record, I don't hate Odoogie. He's just a joke--- a cruel one and I laugh every time I see him. Can't help it, I get a chuckle every time.
I'll leave the hating for the left---they are really, really good at it.

Hey, where's Rezko? Someone get him a book deal for a tell-all.

james wilson| 3.29.10 @ 11:33AM

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophesies come true, but can also lie and make their lies come true--
Eric Hoffer

Bill Blu| 3.29.10 @ 11:36AM

The left-wing liberal socialist scum are in the
process of overthrowing our government! Why
aren't they charged with treason?

Petronius| 3.29.10 @ 11:50AM

Oh well, we just "don't get it". The Obamaciles do not understand the words "cost", "business", and "balance sheet", nor do they want to. They see a business as either a "racket", or "a support group". Their objective is the elimination of "profit", which they equate as "theft from the customer". So it's all our fault because we graduated from the sandbox. To them life is the sandbox where everybody should have a level pailful and not a grain more.

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Obama in Rude Denial « Joepf's Blog links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

Politics Science Weather Stuff Obama in Rude Denial Posted March 29, 2010 Filed under: Politics | Tags: conservative, economics, Economy, freedom, government control, Healthcare, Obamacare | Obama in Rude Denial By The Prowler on 3.29.10 @ 6:09AM IT’S ALL A GOP PLOT The White House political and legislative operations were said to be livid with the announcement by several large U.S. companies that they…

Ed| 3.29.10 @ 12:11PM

Because of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, CEO's and CFO's of public corporations have to report the financial status of their corporations in a timely and accurate fashion. So, Mr. Pharaoh, Obama I, He-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, what are CEO's supposed to do? They are dammed if they do and dammed if they don't.

So let it be written, so let it be done.

Oldefarte| 3.29.10 @ 12:35PM

Whether it be CEO's of major corporations, Israeli PM's, Europeon heads of state, or whatever; it's NOW obvious [or at least should be to non-morons] as to what/who this group of CHICAGO/MAFIOSO THUGS are [and what are the three legal names of the President] !!!!!

Ammo Guy| 3.29.10 @ 12:51PM

And "Bob" wishes Obama had a little more experience...I'm not sure it would make any difference, but my prediction is that Bob will never admit he made a mistake voting for the One.

Jeremiah| 3.30.10 @ 3:18PM

Bob's a liberal--why would he admit voting for Obummer was a mistake?

RapierDiva| 3.29.10 @ 1:06PM

Obama has what I call "the reverse Midas touch," which is to say, everything he touches turns to shite. Even an inexperienced leader can be a good one with good people around him. Obama, however, is so stuffed with pride and self-importance that he believes in his own brilliance and infallability - the only thing he can do is surround himself with bigger idiots than himself so he will seem brighter by comparison. The good news is that, finally, most of America seems to have caught on to what an empty suit they're stuck with. I can't wait till November!

Northern Rebel| 3.29.10 @ 1:12PM

Could these Bush holdovers from the State Department be Clinton holdovers from Bush's administration?

The "new tone" approach by GW included keeping many of Bill's lifer lackeys, so they should fit right into the present madministration.

taw99 | 3.29.10 @ 1:55PM

Could this administration be any more anti-business? Oops they probably can be... I better shut up.

Richard_Iowa | 3.29.10 @ 2:10PM

Sponge Bob in charge!

John3| 3.29.10 @ 2:17PM

Sponge Bob is President Obama's favorite cartoon, I remember him saying that while he was campaigning. Now, I can't even bear to watch Sponge Bob. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder I guess. And it just keeps on getting worse. The President should just drive through the main streets of most cities---especially Florida. Everything is "for sale" or "for lease". The only one who could afford to buy a building was Planned Parenthood in Naples!

John3| 3.29.10 @ 2:14PM

I just met my tax man and he said, simply, more taxes, less business. Less business, goodbye the American Dream. But.......you got Obama!

JAMES HARVEY| 3.29.10 @ 2:23PM

Obama couldn't find his ass if he had both hands in his back pockets. Unfortunately we are stuck with this joker until re-election time. Americans WAKE UP. this government is selling us down the river. Get off our butts and vote the entire Washington crowd out of office. Aformer combat Marine 100 disabled from Korean war.

Martina Stevenson| 3.29.10 @ 8:23PM

This country is being primed for the coming one-world government. We will look like Europe. It is difficult to see us going down the toilet, perhaps the Lord will help us if we humble ourselves and VOTE ALL DEMOCRATS OUT in November.

toad| 3.29.10 @ 2:31PM

Nobody on the far left reads the Wall Street Journal.
Remember when Bill Clinton ran afoul of the short term bond market and it had to be explained to him he couldn't finance through that market. In effect bond traders had more power than he did.
The old Joke: The people who run the US read the Wall Street Journal, the people who think the run the US read the Washington Post, those who think they should run the country read the New York Times, those who don't care as long there is a good sex scandal in the story read the NY Post.

Petronius| 3.29.10 @ 6:16PM

toad
The people who ran the US read the Wall Street Journal. The people who think they run the US read Rolling Stone. The people who claim they run the US write the Washington Post, Huffington Post, and The Nation. Those who don't care read the local sports page and watch ET.
The people who really run the US are the congressional staffers writing the laws nobody read after they voted for in the House and Senate. And their orders came from the Emanuel bros.

JanevonMises| 3.29.10 @ 2:37PM

Just so I have this straight:

CEOs are complying with the law to report any potential liabilities with the healthcare plans they provide for employees and retirees.

And Congress (Henry Waxman) and the Administration are complaining that the CEOs are "lying".

Hmm. Sounds to me like Waxman and Obama are encouraging the CEOs to violate the law by not reporting these liabilities.

Isn't that misprision of a felony?

All you legal/accounting eagles help me out here.

RandolphKid| 3.29.10 @ 2:37PM

Their shock and awe in corporate America's price tag for the HCR equates to American's shock and awe at how things REALLY get done in Washington.

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Pogue-in-Chief Pep Talk « Politicaljunkie Mom links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…rolls into view, “open season” for employee health benefits will appear for major employers across the country, and then … who knows? Speaking of which, the CEOs of companies who dared humiliate the Democrats Socialists in charge by doing what they’re legally bound to do have been summoned to the Hill to be grilled by the Thugocratic Leaders of the  Democrat Socialist Party.    In case …

Notgonna Work Ashardnextyear| 3.29.10 @ 3:19PM

This is total crap. It's time to WAKE UP, PEOPLE! I already got nailed on my taxes this year. The way the current administration is trying to restructure, I have little to no incentive to work as hard next year as I did this year. I will not continue to work hard just so Obama and his cronies can take my hard earned dollars and redistribute the wealth.

As for this Obamacare garbage, if we (the American people) do not wake up from this terrible dream soon, then the American Dream will cease to exist. It will, instead, be replaced by the European Nightmare of high taxes and unemployment in a never ending, vicious cycle. I've always voted and I didn't vote for this crap; I voted against it. I just hope that the vast majority of people who strongly oppose what is being done to our country will stand up and VOTE!!!

David| 3.29.10 @ 3:20PM

Our president is a racist and a communist. We knew that when we learned about the so-called "Christian church" that he attended for almost years; with the anti-white, anti-Jewish, Black Liberation Theology/Marxism preaching of Jeremiah Wright. BLT has it origins in Marxism not socialism.

The prez confirms for us every day that he believes what Jermiah Wright preaches. Every country that he has slighted has been predominantly white and free (not sure if we can put Israel in the white group, but it is free): Britain, Germany, France, The Czeck Republic, Poland, Australia, Canada, Georgia, and Ukraine.

VancouverAndy| 3.29.10 @ 3:26PM

Obligatory....It's Bush's fault.

Louis Jenkins| 3.29.10 @ 3:35PM

How are they gonna blame Pretender n Chief Health Care on GW?

Jeffrey| 3.30.10 @ 10:04AM

Ask not how, only believe that they will.

Chuck D.| 3.29.10 @ 3:31PM

Regarding AT&T and others...what does Obama expect from a for-profit corporation? Are all major companies expected to absorb all cost incurred by this Healthcare abomination? Being a Socialist as he is, Obama doesn’t understand capitalism! Obama and his folks are no disciples of John Jay, John Adams, or Ben Franklin when it comes to diplomacy. Our nation was able to survive after our Declaration because of people like Franklin and Jay who made peace with Great Britain after our Independence. For Obama-nuts, Europe is the other place to visit along with Disney World. I Hope we do Change in 2012…starting with 2010! Our country needs a new beginning, and without the likes of Obamar!

Margie| 3.29.10 @ 3:36PM

Repeal the Democrats!
Repeal the Strong Arm Man!
Vote Republican!

Jeffrey| 3.30.10 @ 10:08AM

Who...like McCain? *insert rolling eyes here*

The Republicans haven't put forward a GOOD candidate for years. Frankly, the Dems and Repubs feed off each other (they are being directed from the same puppet master afterall). Neither party is looking to this Nation's best interests. Time to look elsewhere in a third party. Now, if only a third party can get thier sh!t together.....

Nobama| 3.30.10 @ 2:51PM

No third party! A third party will take away from republicans and ensure democrats' victory.

We must return to our conservative roots or the country is doomed.

Marcus| 4.1.10 @ 3:57PM

Third Party talk will assure our communists stay in power. Elected winners will be from Party A or Party B. It makes sense to vote for Party C? Party A and Party B have failed us. We must work within and vote for the Party that will most closely follow the strictures of the Constitution and begin to restore States Power while curtailing Judicial Power. I, therefore, will vote Republican: in the primaries - against every Republican incumbent; in the general elections - for every Republican. Those "Party C" voters joined the piqued stay-at-home Republicans and put the Community Organizer in office.

Maggie| 3.29.10 @ 4:09PM

If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves, confess their sins and turn from their wicked ways, THEN will I hear from Heaven and forgive their sins and HEAL THEIR LAND. People we have only ourselves to blame. We have kicked God out of our country and voted the devil into office. What do you expect--that the devil will be charitable, honest, upstanding and a prince amoung men? He is the prince of lies and a deceiver and he is acting out his part.

Steve| 3.29.10 @ 6:16PM

Maggie, You are correct in all the things you have written today, except one.....the actual anti-christ comes out of Turkey. This president is just a huge dumbass, unfortunately for us.

Margie| 3.29.10 @ 9:03PM

The Anti Christ will come out of Turkey? Wow. And do tell us how you know this!

Jeffrey| 3.30.10 @ 10:10AM

Yea, this is all about your god....

NEWS FLASH
America was founded primarily by Diests, not Christians.
Do you have any idea what that means?

Nobama| 3.30.10 @ 2:52PM

Prove it, big mouth.

Odin| 3.30.10 @ 10:39PM

Are there any Repubs here bright enough to be worth talking to? Or are they all religious nutjobs?

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Truth And Common Sense − Obama and his boys are getting a dose of reality, and they d links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

of reality, and they do not like it all! Truth And Common Sense Obama and his boys are getting a dose of reality, and they do not like it all! Posted March 29th, 2010 by admin http://spectator.org/archives/2010/03/29/obama-in-rude-denial Obama’s people are upset that their actions have consequences!!  Doesn’t everyone know by now in a liberal world run by sunshine and lollypop power nothing bad happens…

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CEO's summoned to testify about Obama Care - Politics and Other Controversies -Democr links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…and assumed that the companies were just doing this to embarrass them. They really believed this bill would immediately lower costs. They just didn't understand what they were voting on." Obama in Rude Denial Page 2 of 2 < 1 2 City-Data Forum Message   Cancel Changes Quick Reply The following errors occurred with your submission Okay Message:  Posting Quick Reply - Please Wait « White…

Mattled| 3.29.10 @ 4:37PM

Why do I get this feeling that Social Security "Reform" is next.

Not the Bush (or Republican/Conservative) variety, but a seize the IRA's and 401k's and put them into Social Security fund (now broke) and call it ---Reform variety! Hey you Conservatives wanted "reform"---now you're screaming?

Enter media applauding said "reform" and calling everyone racist who just had their money confiscated.

The money will then go to its "rightful" owners and we will be told to shut up. Then when we retire we will get what they think we should get. Which won't be much. Probably nothing because the "rightful" owners will have squandered everything on big screen TV's, cars, and fillet Mignon.
Then when the money has run out, start rioting.

We've seen this before and it ends the same way. If you have no passion in life, you can't live life. I'd like to know how many people on welfare have "passion"?

I grew up around welfare (not me, neighbors). I can answer that. Zero point Zero.

Jeffrey| 3.30.10 @ 10:12AM

No, SS reform will come, but next up is immigration (read amnesty). Now that Obamacare is "free", there is no reason not to cover those who are coming here illegally, right?

Please note the sarcasm...

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CEO's summoned to testify about Obama Care - Politics and Other Controversies -Democr links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…and assumed that the companies were just doing this to embarrass them. They really believed this bill would immediately lower costs. They just didn't understand what they were voting on." Obama in Rude Denial   Today, 02:32 PM OhioIstheBest Senior Member   Join Date: Jan 2010 438 posts, read 42,471 times Reputation: 87 Quote: Originally Posted by whatyousay Question, what would be the motive for…

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Obama in Rude Denial, Rahm angered by Corporate Health Care Cost Announcements - ING links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…heading off to become politicians because without any actual work experience they do not grasp the realities of economics. Quote: Obama in Rude Denial By The Prowler on 3.29.10 @ 6:09AM The American Spectator : Obama in Rude Denial IT'S ALL A GOP PLOT The White House political and legislative operations were said to be livid with the announcement by several large U.S. companies that they were taking multi-million or…

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CEO's summoned to testify about Obama Care - Politics and Other Controversies -Democr links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…and assumed that the companies were just doing this to embarrass them. They really believed this bill would immediately lower costs. They just didn't understand what they were voting on." Obama in Rude Denial   Today, 02:32 PM OhioIstheBest Senior Member   Join Date: Jan 2010 438 posts, read 42,471 times Reputation: 87 Quote: Originally Posted by whatyousay Question, what would be the motive for…

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CEO's summoned to testify about Obama Care - Politics and Other Controversies -Democr links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…and assumed that the companies were just doing this to embarrass them. They really believed this bill would immediately lower costs. They just didn't understand what they were voting on." Obama in Rude Denial   Today, 02:32 PM OhioIstheBest Senior Member   Join Date: Jan 2010 438 posts, read 42,471 times Reputation: 87 Quote: Originally Posted by whatyousay Question, what would be the motive for…

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Obama in Rude Denial (CEOs: He's Clueless!!!) links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode Today  04:23 PM #1 bripat Machiavelli Incarnate Join Date Nov 2008 Posts 12,995 Obama in Rude Denial (CEOs: He's Clueless!!!) http://spectator.org/archives/2010/0...in-rude-denial Obama in Rude Denial By The Prowler on 3.29.10 @ 6:09AM IT'S ALL A GOP PLOT The White House political and legislative operations were said to be livid with the announcement by several…

JJ| 3.29.10 @ 5:37PM

Euros don't like us? The media told me I had to vote for Obama so the Euros would like us again. Now he's giving them the cocky attitude and they think he's a fraud. Not in America. I watch NBC and they say Obama is Sooooperman!! Hooray!!

Ertdfg| 3.29.10 @ 5:56PM

Sorry Obama, it's a crime to lie on an SEC filing; even if telling the truth shows you in a bad light.

Feel free to change the law and encourage lying on SEC filings when a lie will make the Democrats look better if you want; but under the existing laws they either tell the truth or face some pretty serious penalties.

Maybe you should have passed the "Corporations Should Lie to Make Obama Look Better Act" first...

gene chavis| 3.29.10 @ 6:42PM

I tried to tell you people about this slick talking lawyer from chicago...Now,do you believe me when i say..HE'S A SNAKE OIL SALESMAN

Jeremiah| 3.30.10 @ 2:54PM

You were preaching to the choir, doofus! Did you try to warn any democrats?

We already knew Obama was a skunk.

Pingback| 3.29.10 @ 7:40PM

Official Democrat Compliment\Complaint Form links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…  Today  04:40 PM #28 DanC Is it 2012 yet? Join Date Jan 2006 Location In reality, but in a remote corner. Posts 4,834 Thanked 78 My Mood If only the 'Healthcare Bill" were about healthcare Killing Businesses Increasing Costs Not covering as advertised That which does not kill me has made a tactical error. Who is John Galt? Obama's worst nightmare. Reply With Quote   + Reply to Thread Page 2 of 2…

Chaca| 3.29.10 @ 8:56PM

What else would anybody expect from this stinking POS that calls itself barack obama???

Susanne | 3.29.10 @ 9:04PM

The biggest mistake Americans will make is to wait until November to get rid of the Democrats
in Congress.

Jeremiah| 3.30.10 @ 3:20PM

I agree.

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Reality bites ObamaCare…. « Time for Thorns links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…It isn’t as if no one tried to warn Obama what would happen,  but the smartest man in the universe and his merry band of Chicago crooks don’t know anything about legitimate business,  as  this post by The Prowler makes sickeningly clear. As Doug Patton  says,  if you’re not angry or frightened,  you’re not paying attention.    Everyone with a Democratic Congress critter should call or…

Pingback| 3.29.10 @ 9:24PM

Maybe if you turds read the bill… « justbarkingmad.com links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

you turds read the bill… Democrats are kicking up a fuss because Companies are reflecting the new tax laws brought about by ObamaCare. ANd the Thief-in-Chief is being shown to be a buffoon when it comes to the economy: “Most of these people [in the Administration] have never had a real job in their lives. They don’t understand a thing about business, and that includes the President,” says a…

ghd| 3.29.10 @ 9:37PM

Feel free to change the law and encourage lying on SEC filings when a lie will make the Democrats look better if you want; but under the existing laws they either tell the truth or face some pretty serious penalties.

Maybe you should have passed the "Corporations Should Lie to Make Obama Look Better Act" first...
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Obama Is “Clueless” on ObamaCare’s Effect on Business « Just Americans Making Ethical links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…about. Then he basically told my boss he was lying. Frankly my boss was embarrassed for him; he clearly had not been briefed and didn’t know what was in the bill.” http://spectator.org/archives/2010/03/29/obama-in-rude-denial Recent Posts Obama Is “Clueless” on ObamaCare’s Effect on Business ObamaCare ACO: Accountable Care Organization Maxine Puts ObamaCare…

Kitty| 3.29.10 @ 9:54PM

We could argue all day over whether or not the monster in the White House is the anti-christ. I don't think he is THE anti-christ (not of jewish decent) but most of us can see that he is AN anti-christ. Anyone who opposes the Lord as does this fool is an anti-christ.

Margie| 3.29.10 @ 10:13PM

Agreed. Small a anti-Christ, no question as he is obviously opposed to Him and His followers.

Believers know what the Bible says as far as the Anti-Christ though and it says God is going to reveal who it is to us so for an individual to go on a blog proclaiming Obama is the Anti-Christ begs the question, really? How come you're the only one who knows this?
It's not for real to say the least.

Jeffrey| 3.30.10 @ 10:16AM

I guess that I'm an "anti-christ" as well...LMAO

Christianity does not have sole rights to being moral...or even good...

RAMIII| 3.30.10 @ 12:51PM

Actually Jeffrey, Jesus Himself made that claim by saying: I am the Way, the Truth and the Life, NO ONE comes to the Father (God) except through Me.

Before you reject this outright, please carefully research the resurrection of Jesus. I understand your cynicism, but after all something must be absolutely true and the foundation of morality. If not Jesus Christ, then who or what?

Jeremiah| 3.30.10 @ 2:55PM

Jeffrey, what's the point? Your immature rants are a bore--please leave.

Odin| 3.30.10 @ 10:36PM

People who believe in the existence of "the Lord" without any credible evidence probably shouldn't call anyone else a "fool."

Did I mention that Heather Locklear loves me? Like you, I don't have any credible evidence for my belief, but my assertion is less ludicrous than yours cuz at least I've got credible evidence Heather exists.

The Bible says you should shut up now.

JIMMYSAN| 3.29.10 @ 10:19PM

SAUL ALINSKY WOULD BE SO PROUD OF HIS BOY. HE IS DOING HIS MASTER"S WORK AS HE WAS TAUGHT!

bluecollarbytes| 3.29.10 @ 10:23PM

Obama still thinks it's all about him. His brain must be fogged up to imagine that large corporations are making major decisions for the purpose of embarrassing Dear Leader. Obama has the paranoia and thin skin of a Hugo Chavez.

Pingback| 3.29.10 @ 10:33PM

Who knows more about economics? Obama or people who run businesses? « Wintery Knight links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…Admin Commentary Events Humor Mentoring News Personal Podcasts Polemics Videos Older » 03/29/2010 • 10:00 PM Who knows more about economics? Obama or people who run businesses? Consider this article from The American Spectator, which talks about the Obammunist response to companies losing massive amounts of money because of Obamacare. (H/T ECM) Excerpt: By last Friday, AT&T, Caterpillar, Deere…

Odin| 3.30.10 @ 12:09AM

Use unnamed sources much? Medicare Part D . . . wasn't that the multi-trillion dollar liability passed by the Republican-controlled Congress and signed into law by W?

Not much funnier than Republican chickenhawks but Republican deficit chickens come close.

Nobama| 3.30.10 @ 3:27PM

You dumbsh!t liberals will say and do anything to rationalize the treasonous BS coming out of the White House. You don't give a damn about the negative effects of democrats on your country, as long as you can blame it on the evil BOOOOSH!

Useless idiot.

Trackback| 3.30.10 @ 1:53AM

UnderBriefed, on Wizblog, links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

Corporations are scrambling to deal with, and advise shareholders of adjustments to their long term health insurance liabilities for retirees owing to the passage of ObamaCare. The Obama people, stung by the bad press in the middle of their self-celebration,...

Yosemeti Sam| 3.30.10 @ 2:39AM

Taxes?

Taxes?

Did someone mention - taxes?

See pages 92 and 95 from the IRS 2009 Publication 17 " Your Federal Income Tax"
for individuals:

Under declaring 'other' income:

" Bribes. If you receive a bribe, include it in your
income."

" Stolen property. If you steal property, you must
report its' fair market value in your income in the
year you steal it unless in the same year, your
return it to its' rightful owner."

I do not make this stuff up!

Me head hurts.

Pingback| 3.30.10 @ 9:34AM

Age of Obama vs. Age of Reagan. « PoliticallyEmpowered.com links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…So you weren’t exactly told the truth about all this. So what? What’s the big deal? Question: What was the liberal response to this news? As The Prowler right here at the American Spectator has reported: On Friday White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and Obama senior advisor Valerie Jarrett were calling the CEOs and Washington office heads of the companies that took the financial hits and attacked them…

RKBA1963| 3.30.10 @ 9:43AM

What I would really like to see is a few more Fortune 500 compaines, contact Waxman and volunteer to be at his little hearing and tell them how it's going to impact their company in the same way. Get so many involved, they have to take a number to get in there and really show them how a business is ran.

Pingback| 3.30.10 @ 9:49AM

Quote Of The Day | The Hayride links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…The Wall Street Journal editorial page and conservative websites. No one else picked up on this but you guys. It’s BS.” - An unnamed White House legislative affairs staffer, quoted by the American Spectator, when asked about the announcements of writedowns by AT&T, John Deere, Verizon and other firms last week. Sign up for our Email Newsletter Filed under: Quote Of The Day « Jindal Speech…

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Dinocrat » Blog Archive » Legally required disclosure is now “BS”? links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…tax impacts are already reflected in Caterpillar’s financial statements, the change will result in a charge to Caterpillar’s earnings in the first quarter of 2010 of approximately $100 million after tax. The reaction to this required disclosure by a publicly traded company, which, if true, is even more alarming than usual from this crew: “These are Republican CEOs who are trying to embarrass the President and…

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Obama vs. Reality « Stuck In The World, Making The Most Of It! links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…Eventually it’s not all just daydreams and good speeches. Eventually you may (if you want to try to see it) see the consequences of your idiocy in the real world. Or even worse, you might sit in a lunch meeting with intelligent people who understand the ramifications of said idiocy. They might try and explain it. One option is to listen. Obama apparently prefers to just ignore reality and substitute his…

Pingback| 3.30.10 @ 11:28AM

Children in Charge - BabbleFest links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…boss he was lying. Frankly my boss was embarrassed for him; he clearly had not been briefed and didn’t know what was in the bill.”   Read the whole article here: http://spectator.org/archives/2010/03/29/obama-in-rude-denial  Oh yes, there’s more, and none of it is pretty. Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website RSS feed for this…

clark hotard| 3.30.10 @ 11:45AM

Last night on O'Reilly, our favorite Nigger Al, smoke em if you got em, Sharpton, said he had seen the tape in Washington where the Tea Party called the black members Niggers. Well my friend if the shoe fits wear it.
All this b.s. about race. I am 72 today, never went to school with a black, grew up in Louisiana and chased down plantation niggers for money for a finace company when I started working......They would lie to you then as now. Then to top it off, they call each other Nigga all the time. But if we
do it we are race mongers..... Well, call me a race
manger, because I will call them Niggers till I die.
Now listen up, the way to get the government to listen to the people and stop spending is to close the faucet. Get together and stop paying federal taxes, I say they will stop when the money runs out. As for Osama Obama, expose him for what he is a lying Nigger. Call Nose Waxman and tell him to start impeachment proceedings against him like he did to Bush on a weekly basis.....
Counterfit Bastards run this country and I for one am sick of it.
Down with all the politicians in Washington. Start fresh with no one with a Law Degree......

John C. Randolph| 3.30.10 @ 12:29PM

Clark, shut the fuck up. You're only embarrassing yourself.

-jcr

NO TROLLS!| 3.30.10 @ 2:58PM

Clark, nice post, astroturf troll. Crawl back under the slimy HuffPo rock you call home. Moron.

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Health Care Bill Has Passed! - Politics and Other Controversies -Democrats, Republica links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…and assumed that the companies were just doing this to embarrass them. They really believed this bill would immediately lower costs. They just didn't understand what they were voting on." Obama in Rude Denial Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com . Page…

John C. Randolph| 3.30.10 @ 12:27PM

One thing that the health care bill shows is that we should require a passing grade in an introductory accounting course as a prerequisite for anyone seeking elected office.

The simple truth is that Reid, Pelosi, Obama, Frank, and the rest of the clowns who pushed this bill down our throats can't do the math.

-jcr

DarPot| 4.2.10 @ 4:28PM

Oh they can do math just fine. They know very well what they are doing is fiscally irresponsible.

Pelosi, Obama, & Reid (and the rest of the violators of the Constitution) crammed this bill through to buy votes come 2010 & 2012 elections. Once they pass Amnesty for 12 Million Illegals, they will get another 6 Million voters.

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OOPS! - Scots Honor links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

OOPS! - Scots Honor Skip to posts About Scots Honor What is obviously true, is obviously true Home Headlines OOPS! March 30, 2010 admin No comments http://spectator.org/archives/2010/03/29/obama-in-rude-denial Shortly after World War II my father saw an ad in the paper for an official U.S. Army training rifle for $10.  Since my dad was an avid hunter, he sent in a check for $10 and…

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Health Care Bill Has Passed! - Politics and Other Controversies -Democrats, Republica links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…and assumed that the companies were just doing this to embarrass them. They really believed this bill would immediately lower costs. They just didn't understand what they were voting on." Obama in Rude Denial Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com . Page…

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Health Care Bill Has Passed! - Politics and Other Controversies -Democrats, Republica links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…and assumed that the companies were just doing this to embarrass them. They really believed this bill would immediately lower costs. They just didn't understand what they were voting on." Obama in Rude Denial   Today, 11:52 AM doctorhugo Senior Member   Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: New York (liberal cesspool) 629 posts, read 65,044 times Reputation: 155 InformedConsent Quote: Originally Posted…

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» Links To Visit – 03/30/10 NoisyRoom.net: There are two ways to conquer and enslave links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…ABC News – Iowa Town Renames Good Friday to ‘Spring Holiday’ (Hat Tip: The Anchoress ) WND – The real anti-Americans (Hat Tip: Brian B.) The American Spectator – Obama in Rude Denial (Hat Tip: Brian B.) NRO – A Long Post: The Complete List of Obama Statement Expiration Dates (Hat Tip: Brian B.) The Anchoress – Podcast: Mass Readings of the Day Atlas Shrugs –…

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Big Business out to get Obama? - Political Forum links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…Tea Party that's out to ruin him... no wait, it's the Republicans! Truth is, nobody could do a better of job of making the president look bad than Barack Obama is doing to himself. How embarrassing... Obama in Rude Denial By The Prowler on 3.29.10 @ 6:09AM IT'S ALL A GOP PLOT The White House political and legislative operations were said to be livid with the announcement by several large U.S. companies that they were…

David| 3.30.10 @ 3:55PM

This is not the same David who posted earlier concerning Biblical prophecy and the Book of Revelation.

This is the David who posts on Amercian Spectator on a fairly regular basis and has done so for some time.

So how about it David above, do you mind changing up your name a bit so the readers don't ever confuse us? Add a last initial or whatever. Let me know.

doug H Sr| 3.30.10 @ 5:48PM

Yes Jeffery, (who has never read the Bible), ACTUALLY "IS" IN THE BIBLE. AND, THE BIBLE PROPHESIES AS TO THESE DAYS WE ARE LIVING IN AND FOR THE PAST 6,000 YEARS HAVE, WITHOUT FAIL BEEN 100% ACCURATE IN EVERY ONE OF THEM. I REPEAT,--- EVERY ONE OF THEM!!
GOODDAY'
DOUG H. SR.

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Obama in Rude Denial - Stealth Fusion - World Breaking News links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…nation. We need a massive voter revolt in November if we wish to save families, jobs and the economy. President: Rude AND Ignorant CA Political News | show via spectator entire article: The American Spectator : Obama in Rude Denial __________________ Look, I've got to go and call the central station and let them know my mother has the memory span of a fruit fly Bookmarks Digg del.icio.us StumbleUpon Google «…

The Clintidote| 3.30.10 @ 11:19PM

F Obama.

F democRats.

Time for these jokers to be ridiculed and tossed out on their useless, parasitic, Marxist asses.

Pingback| 3.31.10 @ 5:21PM

Major Corporations lining up at the door - Truck Driving Message Board - ClassADrive links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…suddenly. Boeing, Lockheed Expect Health-Care Charges - WSJ.com Add this onto the WH calling up the above companies and ripping into them for supposedly making false announcements: The American Spectator : Obama in Rude Denial Quote: "My CEO sat with the President over lunch with two other CEOs, and each of them tried to explain to the President what this bill would do to our companies and the economy in…

Pingback| 3.31.10 @ 6:10PM

The Biz Insider News Expertise » Blog Archive » Obamacare Write-Downs Are a GOP Plot? links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…Conservative Books? Try National Review Book Service! — By: NR Staff Obamacare Write-Downs Are a GOP Plot? — By: Stephen Spruiell On the subject of the Obamacare write-downs, a White House aide told The American Spectator, “These are Republican CEOs who are trying to embarrass the President and Democrats in general. Where do you hear about this stuff? The Wall Street Journal editorial page and…

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The Biz Insider News Expertise » Blog Archive » Obamacare Write-Downs Are a GOP Plot? links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…Lopez   Transformers: O-bots in Disguise? — By: Kathryn Jean Lopez Obamacare Write-Downs Are a GOP Plot? — By: Stephen Spruiell On the subject of the Obamacare write-downs, a White House aide told The American Spectator, “These are Republican CEOs who are trying to embarrass the President and Democrats in general. Where do you hear about this stuff? The Wall Street Journal editorial page and…

Pingback| 3.31.10 @ 11:21PM

Boeing: $150 Million Kick In The Shorts From Obamacare | The Hayride links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…in the wake of Obamacare’s passage indicated donations to both parties, McNerney fits the meme of “Republican CEO’s looking to embarrass the president” the American Spectator reported on earlier this week. He hasn’t donated to a political candidate since 2005, but prior to that he was fairly active and outside of $1,000 donations to Ben Nelson and Tom Daschle (McNerney gave Daschle…

Pingback| 4.1.10 @ 2:07AM

Mr. Conservative » ObamaCare Dissent Will Not Be Tolerated links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…the consequences of ObamaCare.  Other major companies including Boeing, Prudential, and A K Steel also reported their corporate incomes would be adversely affected by the impact of ObamaCare.  The Obama White House was not pleased. The White House political and legislative operations were said to be livid with the announcement by several large U.S. companies that they were taking multi-million or as much as a…

Parella| 4.1.10 @ 1:47PM

Hearings about companies taking writedowns due to Obamacare? Are they kidding? Wait until the layoffs...Obama and his minions will be squealing like porkers!

Freeranger| 4.1.10 @ 2:15PM

a White House legislative affairs staffer.
One Washington office head
a senior lobbyist
House Energy Democrat staff
a current State Department staffer
State Department officials

What happened to journalist integrity, like naming your sources and cross-checking? The Prowler just makes stuff up and calls it reporting!

chris in VA| 4.1.10 @ 4:46PM

All true, but neither Obama nor George Bush are qualified to run a fortune 1000 company. The Americans who are fed up with government are not only reacting (yes, we're reactionaries) to Obama, but to ten years of bipartisan big government.

I don't know how we're going to sort it out, with both parties pretty deep into the Washington trough, and third parties a pipe dream, but, as they say in the Midwest, that's where we're at.

The Europeans were not fond of Bush either. And I'm saying that politely because it's Holy Week.

Vito| 4.1.10 @ 5:04PM

Is anyone really surprised that Sheik Obama a socialmarxist narcissist would have a clue on how to run a country much less a business? He doesn't care about Business or Freedom or Liberty or the U.S. Constitution. Now will people believe his indoctrination by Frank Marshall Davis into Marxism is guiding his fiscal policies, dismantling Capitalism and the Free Enterprise System.
I hope AT&T, Catepillar, Verizon and Deere tell Waxman, Bought Stupak and Sheik Obama to go to hell, you've done enough damage in year!

DG in Big Orange Country | 4.1.10 @ 5:05PM

Obama is a Marxist Muslim Meglomaniac who has disdain for the Constitution and is determined to destroy the Freeedom of the American People.

Hoosier| 4.1.10 @ 8:22PM

Instead of Hope and Change, we should all have hear Ropes an Chains. I did! I knew who this yokel was from his Marxist associations. He's not smart, won't prove he is. There's more than enough evidence he is a muslim (won't be photographed in front of Christian images, won't take his wife to the mideast, hasn't chosen a church in over a year), and he's never run a business in his life. He is the pretender to the throne!

mary| 4.2.10 @ 12:03AM

Have these CEO's broken some law? How is it they can be "summoned" before Congress. I think the Constitution protects us from such things.

Isn't that what Monarch's used to do when they did not like the actions of Dukes and Lords? You have been summoned to answer to the King?

Freelancelot | 4.2.10 @ 6:07AM

Obama is STUPID, as are most Democrats. He is stupid, hateful, immature, and utterly incompetent. It is a negative testimony about the average American that he even got elected. He should have been laughed right off the campaigning stage, his incompetency was always so obvious. Now, perhaps those of you who chose not to use your brains when you voted in November of 2008 are paying a high enough price that you understand the error of your ways.

Jeanne Scypinski| 4.2.10 @ 6:31AM

Sean, and all of the rest of my countrymen and women, if you are serious about wanting God to help us he will. Perhaps it's time to look to him for direction like our founding fathers did. Our country has been blessed because of the faith in God that they LIVED out. May each of us truly desire to live out the motto that was once on all US paper money, IN GOD WE TRUST.

Conservative4US| 4.2.10 @ 7:20AM

AMATURE HOUR hosted by the dear leader. Our concerns should be focused on the lack of business or lack of simple job experience! You can't be taught those lessons at Harvard, Yale or Princeton. You just can't run the U.S. by sitting in some classroom thinking big thoughts. It's like we're caught in a bad episode of 'The Twilight Zone'.

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Dissent Will Not be Tolerated | www.statehousecall.org links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…that ObamaCare was impacting their financial bottom lines in a big way.  They indicated they were being subjected to large additional costs as a result of the consequences of ObamaCare. The Obama White House was not pleased. Apparently peace, harmony, and good will from the Obama White House are reserved for those who fully support Obama.  The White House and the Progressive Left leadership in Congress…

jay n| 4.2.10 @ 1:33PM

Obam stated what he was after before he was elected. He said, "America is the greatest country in the world, it is time for a change...".

It is sad that most of the idiot voters will vote their representatives and congressmen back into office just as they have in the past. Kennedy, Pelosi, Byrd, etc, etc, have been brought back time after time over the years. Massachusetts only voted for someone new because Kennedy died.

History has shown that each state's voters expects the other states to bite the bullet and bring in an unknown... after all, my politician brings in all sorts of goodies, a new guy may not be able to....

It is going to take a whole lot of courage to clean these clowns out of office, I hope the population can muster that courage en-mass, at least this time...

Pingback| 4.6.10 @ 11:03AM

Rahm, Jarrett bully businesses | Obama Watch News links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…million in the first year alone. AT&T put its cost at $1 billion. With polls showing a solid majority of Americans think passage of ObamaCare was a bad thing, the White House can’t take this  lying down. “These are Republican CEOs who are trying to embarrass the President and Democrats in general,” says a White House legislative affairs staffer. “Where do you hear about this stuff? The…

Karen| 4.7.10 @ 2:48PM

I wish the Republicans would do a better job of educating - and come up with some outstanding candidates. I know we have some - Michele Bachman from Minnesota and Mike Rogers from Michigan, among others. (I hope neither one is a lawyer - we desperately need business people!)

Karen| 4.7.10 @ 9:26PM

Oops - sorry! Bachmann has 2 n's.

Truthfairy| 4.8.10 @ 12:41AM

Great! It will make up for the trillions the 25% largest US companies (like Exxon, GM) have NOT paid in corporate taxes over the last decade, leaving the little middle-class taxpayer to carry their burden.

Karen| 4.8.10 @ 10:44AM

Aw, come on - nobody's perfect. You're talking about a few really big companies - out of the thousands of companies who do things the way they're supposed to. But okay, who then? Farmers would be good. Teachers, too, I suppose, as long as they were history or economics professors . . .

No Vote For BO| 4.10.10 @ 10:24AM

Above, someone asked if anyone knew someone who voted for BO. I do! He' s crack smoking, lazy, irresponsible, ignorant, iPod listening, young, hypocritical, uninformed, apathetic, moronic, oblivious, self-absorbed, foolish, MSNBC hooked, inane Chris Matthews-like, insane, drug addicted, welfare receiving, useless, arrogant, insipid, self-centered, tunnel visioned, deadhead, idiotic, Marxist, mooching, genetic mutant, lowlife.

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Vin Suprynowicz » Blog Archive » How dare you actually read our law (And then use a c links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…“The White House political and legislative operations were said to be livid” over the corporate announcements, reports the Washington Prowler, a feature of the American Spectator ( http://spectator.org/archives/2010/03/29/obama-in-rude-denial.) “But fear not, America,” Rep. Price continues. “House Democrats are preparing to punish and intimidate the Unbelievers with a public flogging next month.” Rep. Henry Waxman,…

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