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Like a Dime Store Cowboy

Our president can count to ten.

SEA ISLE, N.J. — We’re sitting here on our beach chairs looking for tar balls. So far, everything’s pristine. The gulls are still white, not yet looking like crows.

Longer run, things don’t look so good. Renters are already calling and asking our local real estate offices if they can get their money back if the damage from British Petroleum’s gushing well in the Gulf turns around Florida and comes up the east coast.

President Obama, reacting to charges that he’s been ineffectual in the crisis, took a lawyerly approach and announced that BP would be required to make us whole. “We will demand they pay every dime they owe for the damage and painful losses they’ve caused,” he said.

That sounds good. It’s the same solitary dime that Obama brings out whenever criticism becomes too overpowering.

With the public not buying his claim that the Democrats’ health reforms will simultaneously cover everyone, increase quality, cut costs and reduce deficits, Obama inserted the dime in his health-care speech to Congress in September 2009. “I will not sign a plan,” he declared, “that adds one dime to our deficits, either now or in the future.”

With the public not believing Obama’s claim that their taxes won’t go up to pay for his spending increases and record deficits, the same dime popped up in his address to Congress in February 2009. “If your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime,” he pledged. “I repeat: not one single dime.”

The “not one single dime” applied to all taxes, not just income taxes. “Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase,” Obama repeatedly bellowed in campaign speechifying. “Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.”

In fact, that pledge to raid only the wallets of “the rich” went up in smoke when Obama signed the new cigarette taxes into law, a levy that disproportionately hits the poor (Gallup reported last year that 34 percent of people earning $6,000 to $12,000 were smokers, while only 13 percent of people earning $90,000 or more were smokers), producing the exact opposite in income distribution of what Obama promised.

The new federal tax of 62 cents per pack, to $1.01, is the largest jump since cigarette taxes were implemented in 1951. For a couple smoking a pack a day each, that’s a tax hike of $452.60 a year. If they’re overly anxious about their economic situation and puffing two packs a day each, that’s $905.20 in additional taxes per year.

Obama’s pledge that his health reforms wouldn’t add a dime to the deficit has similarly come undone with the director of the Congressional Budget Office now reporting that the Democrats’ health law can be expected to raise costs and put the budget on an unsustainable path without “a significant reduction in the growth of federal spending on health care relative to the amounts projected under current law.”

What’s coming, in short, are higher costs and more cuts in care, exactly the opposite of Obama’s sales pitch.

And Obama’s promise that BP will “pay every dime” to make us whole? Not much of a chance. The company’s declining assets currently total $236 billion. Florida’s tourism industry alone is $57 billion a year, most of it beach-related, and that’s not counting the value of Louisiana’s crabs, oysters and shrimp.

About the Author

Ralph R. Reiland is the B. Kenneth Simon professor of free enterprise and an associate professor of economics at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh.

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Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 6.8.10 @ 6:52AM

In essence, he's just a ten penny liar.

Alan Brooks| 6.8.10 @ 9:39AM

Obama can count to ten because elementary schools in the '60s were better than those of today.

loulou| 6.8.10 @ 10:29AM

Are you referring to elementary schools in Indonesia?

Christopher Holland| 6.9.10 @ 1:31AM

He could count to twenty as long as he takes his shoes off. You don't need to go to Harvard to do that.

pmedi| 6.9.10 @ 10:07AM

The constant reference to dimes is because Obama fancies himself the second coming of FDR, who was a big supporter of the March of Dimes and now in fact appears on te dime. Obama displays the same economic ignorance and incompetence as FDR and an even greater commitment to draging us down the shining path of socialism. Obama fully expects to replace FDR on the dime after his glorious reign is completed. Too bad Obama doesn't have any of FDR's wartime resolve. Obama probably views this resolve as a flaw in FDR which underscores in his own mind his vast superiority to FDR.

Richard Baker| 6.8.10 @ 7:24AM

Such massive incompetence on the public stage is a wonder to behold. Notice how you don't see many Obama bumper stickers anymore?

erp| 6.8.10 @ 9:01AM

We noticed the lack of bumper stickers a couple of months ago. Walking back to our car in a large parking lot, we saw nary a one where previously they were everywhere.

Pete| 6.8.10 @ 10:37AM

Still too many where I live, but I suppose that is to be expected in Boulder, CO. What I did see the other day was two new ones on the other side, which is new. I saw: LOL with the Osama O, and "He's NO Messiah" with the Osama O.

jeff| 6.8.10 @ 12:40PM

It seems the most common sticker I see now is:

Your Obama sticker might as well say "I'm Stupid"

Of course there are always a few old volkswagons around with McGovern stickers.

Tim G| 6.8.10 @ 12:49PM

My next door neighbors peeled the Obama bumper stickers off their cars months ago.

Christopher Holland| 6.9.10 @ 1:37AM

The thing to watch is when your neighbours next peel off Obama himself, and not just his bumper stickers. Hopefully, happening in November.

Grzmlyk| 6.9.10 @ 9:08AM

I live in Vermont. Unfortunately, there are still plenty of Subaru bumpers proudly proclaiming their undying allegiance to our adolescent piece of shit in chief.

I guess some Titanic passengers were half way to the floor of the North Atlantic before it occurred to them that they might want to breathe.

One argument against evolution: Liberals are too damned stupid to survive - and yet, they not only survive, they flourish like a deadly virus. And like a virus, they're about to kill off their otherwise healthy host (that would be this country, Alan).

All they need for nutrition is the reflected light of the mainstream media continuing to flatter their moral vanity and/or their ersatz intellectual foppery.

So what if the country disintegrates around them? The important thing is YOU, good liberal. You are good. You CARE about the victims. You are SOOOO much smarter, SOOOO much more evolved than those evil, gun-toting, God-fearing, hard-working, reality-anchored redneck right-wingers.

Why, in your infinite goodness, you are saving the planet - one recycled toilet paper tube at a time.

If there were evolutionary justice, liberals would have long since gone the way of the dodo bird.

Gr0w1er| 6.8.10 @ 11:19AM

No bumper stickers but a lot scratched-up bumper covers where razor blades (and in more extreme cases, keys!) have all left their mark.

William Wallace| 6.8.10 @ 12:03PM

From the get go, I've always looked on King Zero bumper stickers as a self-imposed label of a low IQ and propensity towards gullibility. Unfortunately, deep in the heart of Dixie, there are still quite a few to be seen. I always look at the drivers as I pass. I want to see what "stupid is as stupid does" looks like.

Stephanie| 6.8.10 @ 11:58AM

Oh, I see pleanty of them where I live and they are mostly on that cool car, the Prius~
I call it the Mao car :-)

REDNG10| 6.8.10 @ 1:48PM

Richard,Not so!I just stuck on my Obama Impeach Him bumper sticker and proud of it.

Flee| 6.8.10 @ 4:50PM

Out here they ask us on the freeway to call 911 to report drunk drivers. I feel like calling in only the cars with Obumma stickers to get them all pulled over especially when they are attached to a Land Rover or some such gas guzzler. Just for kicks.

Trina| 6.8.10 @ 4:58PM

Q: What was the most positive result of the "Cash for clunkers" program?
A: It took 95% of the Obama bumper stickers off the road.
--- David Letterman

Christopher Holland| 6.9.10 @ 1:35AM

Maybe it is part of the new low carbon economy. People with Obama bumper stickers want to buy electric cars and windmills, not the vehicles that ordinary people park in parking lots.

Michael L. Hauschild| 6.8.10 @ 7:28AM

Obama has made the record books for fabrications; he has actually surpassed Tommy Flanagan status (Jon Lovitz) of Saturday Night live fame. His landmark lying is only exceeded in magnitude by the gullibly of his base telling themselves that, ”They weren’t mistaken casting their vote for the Magic Negro standing under the Styrofoam Greek (how fitting Greek) columns. I fully expect him to announce (angrily) that BP will now pay for the Health Care bill. The twenty five electoral votes of the Florida may be cast absentee in 2012 because they are all down on the beach picking up a sufficient number of tar balls to make sure the feathers from the dead pelicans will adhere to all the democratic candidates.

Chalkdust| 6.8.10 @ 7:42AM

In keeping with the tidal wave of inflation that's coming....I say Obama and his word is not worth a plug-nickle.

txn4ever| 6.8.10 @ 12:05PM

His dime ain't worth two wooden nickles

Christopher Holland| 6.9.10 @ 1:41AM

Inflation is much worse than I thought. Wooden nickels are now legal tender.

LeChat| 6.8.10 @ 7:51AM

The President informed us of his damage potential before he was elected. The problem was that nobody was paying attention. Maybe people will more carefully examine the candidates next time. Meanwhile, the Democrat Party needs to be punished for its misdeeds. Remember in November.

Dan Hirsch| 6.8.10 @ 8:08AM

Ever notice that Prez Obama always talks about the dimes, but never the dollars? He really is only interested in the "change" not the substance!

Louis Jenkins| 6.8.10 @ 8:26AM

A favorite saying of his, obviously.

"I will not sign a plan," he declared, "that adds one dime to our deficits, either now or in the future."

The Pretender n Chief lied, and will continue to lie.

Andy_Krow| 6.8.10 @ 8:43AM

I just sent in my order for a custom bumper sticker...

"Joe Wilson was right!"

Brian Mc| 6.8.10 @ 9:12AM

$1.01/pack?

Sounds like taxatian without representation to me. Easy to tax something that does not affect one, personally. Last I heard, cigarette companies make .08 cents per pack. If the feds truly cared, why not 10 dollars/pack?

I wonder if I google "black market cigs" what might pop up...or tobacco seed.

Second hand smoke has as much credence as global warming and Darwinian theory. No smoking campgrounds and put out that campfire...the campers two pads down are complaining.

I have been smoking for over forty years. If I quit now, I could live...until I die. Don't try and tell me the quality of your life is better than mine. I'll turn my back, light up and enjoy while you go run another 5K. Difference is, I can't tax you as you pound away at your body on its torturous way to its inevitable demise.

Ken (Old Texican)| 6.8.10 @ 11:20AM

Brian,
Truly funny! .....and reflects my thoughts.

Heh, I have often said..."I was addicted to nicotine by the time I was 2 years old from "sidestream smoke."
If my dad wasn't eating, or sleeping, or presumably during sex with my mom.....he was smoking unfiltered Herbert Tarrytons. (Very strong).

Some thirty years ago now I changed over to a pipe. I was fortunate in that my "pipe-mentor" taught me to tip the pipe downward to avoid blistering my tongue, introduced me to Dr. Graybow filter pipes.....and perhaps most important...turned me on to Sir Walter AROMATIC pipe tobacco. (It is unique, even among Walter Raleigh blends...trust me.)

Stephanie| 6.8.10 @ 12:01PM

I love the smell of a pipe.

PolishKnight| 6.8.10 @ 11:35AM

Brain, I have nothing against non-smokers individually. Puff away on your own time and without paying taxes. The problem is precisely that most smokers such as yourself are addicts and insist we put up with the vile pollution from your habit.

Would you insist that someone provide proof that "second hand noise kills" before asking someone "two pads down" to turn down their boom box blasting away at 2AM? Pipe smoke isn't that bad (hello Ken) but cigarette fumes are nasty since they have meth-like chemicals added to increase the hit.

Here's the good news about cigarette smoking affordability: When my wife and I went to look at condos, we always checked to see if there were signs of a smoker living nearby. Ashtrays are obvious but there are also cigarette burns on tables. Or sometimes you can just smell it. Easy fix. We moved on.

Months later, these units were still up for sale or rent while the non-smoking areas moved quickly. So there you go: smokers drive down the value of their neighborhoods making them more affordable. So it all balances out.

scotchieguy| 6.8.10 @ 5:04PM

BrianMc, I smoked for 33 years and quit over two years ago. Bought a book called "the easy way to stop smoking." Literally have not had the slightest urge to smoke since (w/ the exception of the first two weeks or so). Have two friends that did the same thing. Success rate--100%. The guy (Kaplan) who wrote the book smoked five packs per day, and said the key is you won't miss it, and you really don't enjoy smoking, really just like scratching an itch...if you didn't have the itch, there would be no need to scratch. Easiest thing I ever did. The reason I did it would surprise you. Obviously, I quit for my health, but the main reason was the constant tax hikes--and those were state taxes. I just felt like an outcast to boot...so go for it!

O'Riley| 6.8.10 @ 5:16PM

Health nuts are going to feel stupid one day, lying in a hospital beds, dying of nothing.

JJ| 6.8.10 @ 9:21AM

the great distractor. the great destructor.

would someone please tell barak obama, it's the clean-up stupid !

what are they doing to soak up, suck up, sponge up, contain or prevent the oil in the ocean from reaching the shoreline. NOTHING.

where is the federal mobilization? where is that sense of urgency that if we don't act now (like with stimulus) we face a disaster ... bla, bla, bla ...

hello media--------cnn-----its the clean-up stupid!

new regulations? WE HAD REGULATIONS. the interior department ignored them and gave BP the go-ahead to drill a mile down without any safety precautions. but you will never hear that in the media which is drowning us in their own liberal slick.

scotcguyhie| 6.8.10 @ 5:45PM

JJ, there is no urgency, because the longer this festers, the worse BP looks, and the sooner they pass cap and trade. It's the "crisis," stupid,

hardcard| 6.8.10 @ 9:30AM

don't forget "WE" pay for obamasoros's 3 pack a day newport jones. he's more a two-bit pompus jerk than a dime store cowboy.

Dustoff| 6.8.10 @ 10:05AM

Well, people wanted change. What do you think now?

Surprise!

Tim| 6.8.10 @ 10:58AM

Apparently that fooking dime is the change we can believe in...

transmitter| 6.8.10 @ 10:40AM

Rule #1 of Mr. Obama's Administration: "Never let a good crisis go to waste." Mr. Obama and his fellow-travelers live by the rules of their own ideological economy. In that economy, EVERYTHING is expendable for "the cause." I DO NOT believe Mr. Obama cares that the Gulf of Mexico and The Redneck Riviera are becoming dead-zones. I DO believe Mr. Obama and his fellow-travelers are using the disaster as cover for the even greater man-made disaster of illegal immigration. Without those 30 million illegal votes Mr. Obama is political toast and he knows it. Mr. Obama's apparent lack of leadership is part of a tactic to keep this oil-disaster on the front burner while keeping the public's attention diverted from the illegal immigration monster.

crob 644| 6.8.10 @ 12:38PM

If it's possible for illegal immigrants to vote, WE are toast! Is it possible?!

Dixie Pixie| 6.8.10 @ 1:06PM

Crob644 ---- The answer is yes.
Why do you think the Democrats have been pushing “proof of residency” as the sole criteria for voting.

scotchieguy| 6.8.10 @ 5:39PM

Transmitter, I agree 100%. Never let a crisis go to waste, esp one they created. I am now totally convinced the "kick-ass" prez and his Chicago hacks deliberately sabotaged that rig. Why? To sell cap and trade. What a perfect Alynsky tactic...get the media to show that spewing oil everyday, and get the masses to hate the oil cos. They will take the bait. As one writer on this sight put it: "environmentalism thrives on exaggeration...the media thrive on sensationalism." This is working to perfection. Soon all offshore drilling will be banned, and gas will cost $6/gal. Meanwhile, as you say, the public's attention has been diverted from AZ, and the illegals. Like Rush said, once they pass healthcare, they'll completely drop the issue for later consideration, and focus on Amnesty. Now, everyone is focused on the Gulf. Obama is a true radical, but mighty clumsy ( His luck will soon run out). The masses see the oil soaked pelicans, say damn those greedy, evil oil cos., and then go back to American Idol and Mafia Wars on Facebook. Obama will get even w/ those bastards at BP--kick ass, indeed, tough guy.

Northern Rebel| 6.8.10 @ 11:50AM

More than his constant dime references, I get a kick out of "President" Anti-Christ constantly threatening to kick someone's ass.

I'm sure when he was a scrawny little boy, before he became a scrawny manchild, he got his share of ass kicking's, and now he revels in his position of power.

I'll bet he fights like he throws a baseball!

Northern Rebel| 6.8.10 @ 11:55AM

I took up cigars 5 years ago, when my first grandchild was born.

During the 35 years I didn't smoke, I was never a tobacco nazi, like so many are these days. As long as it wasn't funneling direcly up my nose, I didn't give a damn what you did, or didn't do.

The idea that the government can tell me I can't allow my customers to smoke on my private property, irritates the hell out of me, and is unconstitutional.

There is no such thing as private property anymore, except that which is protected by force.

Where's my Country?

Pete| 6.8.10 @ 12:08PM

Can you imagine how much worse this sort of thing will get as that harpie Sebelius starts to put her stamp on things? It will be a miracle if you are allowed to even have possession of tobacco or the keys to a car built before 2010.

Margie| 6.8.10 @ 12:25PM

Sea Isle, NJ. Oh, I can just smell the sea! Used to go to Avalon beaches in my youth with my family and relatives. My Grandpa who used to smoke a pipe and was just like Ronald Reagan was still around in those days. How I miss the ocean and my Grandpa. And how I miss Ronald Reagan. They will both live on in my own heart and in my inherited love of freedom.

I am determined to vote the Marxist-in-Chief out of office, along with his America hating pals come November, by voting Republican. There are no Marxists or Communists in the party of Lincoln.

God bless America!

Rahleigh| 6.8.10 @ 12:39PM

When I see someone putting a cigarette up to his Trache Hole I say,"There is committment."

KT| 6.8.10 @ 1:07PM

"not one dime", but 10 or 15 dimes

ralph| 6.8.10 @ 1:40PM

Smoking is a choice. If you want it, you'll have to pay for it just like any other luxury.
It's the other taxes that are infuriating.

Ken (Old Texican)| 6.8.10 @ 1:42PM

TODAY…IS THE ANIVERSARY OF D-DAY 1944

Many of you will be reading this on the Monday or Tuesday after June 6, but this quiet Sunday morning my spirit reaches out to all of those young men who stormed Omaha beach.

On NRO, this morning, I listened to President Roosevelt’s prayer. Then I read Ronald Reagan’s speech some 40 years later…standing on the cliff above that beach. Our current dictator wannabe chose to ignore both Memorial day…and June 6. It is truly all we need to know about him and his enablers isn’t it?

Our current “President” broke his Presidential oath to protect and defend the constitution….. in the same breath that he took to utter it, didn’t he? I am convinced that he hates our constitution; that he sees it as only an “obstacle” to getting “things done”.
I have a problem with that. See…..I don’t like the things he wants to see “get done”. (He might “do” me.) I am content if that is the case. (I hope each of you will copy/paste this post in a document file.) Perhaps you could label the file, “Old Texican…Stupid”.

I estimate that there is only a fifty-fifty chance that the November elections will reflect the will of the majority of productive American voters. Some will be scared. Some will be bought. Many will be confused.

I honestly believe that many here will be stupid…and sit at home. Conversely, I believe that November is the very LAST chance to turn all the crud around…at the ballot box…unless the ballot box is raped.
Well…if God fearing Americans sit it out…your blood…and the blood of your children and our grandchildren… is on your own heads. If the communists, (pardon the shorthand), do manage to rape the ballot-box, then it seems to me that we are only one step removed from…bloody revolution.

That “one step” is of course a national sit-down strike by we folks in the “private sector”.

Seriously….. we just sit down and don’t earn ANY taxable income for the suckers to re-distribute…… My question is simply this… How long can you sit-down …and SURVIVE it?

Perhaps better stated, how long can you … sit down… and DEFER… earning and paying? As thin a margin as our dictators are operating on these days… what would a single month of our taxes stopped… would it crater all their schemes? How about THREE months?
That is the only way I know to show them that bloody revolution comes next… without a bloody revolution.
I simply do not see another option to stop all of this communist, (pardon the shorthand), bull-corn if the election fails. I don’t.

Our dictators think we are already whipped. They seem to think…honestly…that we don’t have the courage to say… screw you…and hunker down.

I know…personally… a bunch of pipeline guys who could shut down the fuel pipelines to the whole country. I know a bunch of rig-drivers who could park their rigs for a week…or two…or four….and let millions of Americans get hungry! Screw food-stamps! The food simply would not get delivered to the stores! I know a bunch of medical doctors, who might not do anything…unless it is a life threatening situation.

Ladies and gentlemen,
It is time to draw a “line in the sand”. Or…we can watch freedom and liberty DIE on the face of the earth.

(All you quibblers out there in “conservative land”, do keep in mind that even most of the so-called RINOS held strong and voted NO to the communist, (pardon the shorthand), bills that came across the floors of congress this last 18 months or so. )
OK,

For all of you communist, (pardon the shorthand), “plants”… I am NOT calling for bloody revolution!
I am reminding “we the people” that we can take a deep breath, delay or perhaps even “give up” our American dreams…in order to secure the AMERICAN DREAM, for our kids and grandkids, but it might very well cost us…big-time. Gruel for breakfast, lunch, and dinner anyone?

I wrote the “inaugural” articles on www.myteamusa.org and our “gateway” site is
http://judgeroy.wordpress.com
Can we do…a little… less than the fine men on Omaha beach on D-Day?
God bless you men and women of good will!

Margie| 6.8.10 @ 1:55PM

Amen and Amen!

I can forgive all you numbnuts (like my Daddy says), because you refuse to pull the lever for the Republican candidate, because they're not conservative enough.. hey, it's going to be YOUR problem, not mine, when you help re-elect Obama, then.

But will you be able to forgive yourselves?

Convet| 6.10.10 @ 3:40PM

Who is John Galt?

My Girl Friday| 6.8.10 @ 2:43PM

Two bits, four bits, six bits a dollar, all for the TWO-BIT HUSTLER stand up and holler!

Louis Jenkins| 6.8.10 @ 4:43PM

Good post Ken.

Iam Overhim | 6.8.10 @ 4:58PM

I just have to give my 2 dollars worth... O is as phony as a two dollar bill! :)

Hoppy| 6.10.10 @ 7:38PM

Uh, I think that's a three dollar bill. I have a two dollar bill locked up in a safe deposit box.

password| 6.9.10 @ 1:28AM

Until 2012, do something to lighten your spirits.
This is what I am doing - -Someone sent me a funny cartoon. I took the message, printed it out on a thousand sticky labels. I slap one on the wall in every restroom that has one of those hot air hand driers - right over the button. It says:
FOR A MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT OBAMA, PRESS HERE

When Clinton was president, I had astack of $3 bills I got from a outfit in San Diego called SLICK TIMES, that sold Slick Willie jokes. The looked real except for the picture of the Lech- in-Chief, black eye from Hillary and cigar left over from Monica tryst. I would put one on an ATM counter, go sit in my car, wait for some liberal (they aren't hard to find hereabouts) to marvel at his good fortune until he saw what he had.

Surely we can all have a laugh watching Michelle, looking like she is smuggling watermelons under that flowered dress, doing back bends with Harry Reid! That ougha turn out extra votes for Harry.!

Notice how the Sestak fever is lowering? We may a swell amuse ourselves. Obama is going to let the oil flow as long as it makes more news than Sestak and Romanoff.

Marc Jeric| 6.9.10 @ 1:54AM

As for cigarettes - I found the Payute Indian reservation here in Las Vegas where I can buy a carton for $23 - no federal tax. As for Obama, whom I prefer to call Abu Hussein al-Nairobi (or whichever Kenyan hellhole this Muslim was born in), I think he is much more dangerous than most of us think. He is a revolutionary marxist bent on nationalizing all private enterprise; so far his program took up automobile industry, banks, insurance and mortgage companies, hospitals coming up shortly, as well as oil & gas companies, coal mines, electricity companies...

rudyardkipling| 6.9.10 @ 11:30AM

Hey, when will all you guys finally catch on? I'm Barry, and I'm here to do a Lenin 1917. Wait'll ya see my Stalin act, it's a lot more scary.

Sarbo| 6.9.10 @ 12:41PM

I am not an American so I am not qualified on what Americans think about Obama's domestic performance. But I have to say this ... as an avid believer of America, I never bought into Obama's campaign. I thought then that he was in the business of selling the Brooklyn Bridge to unsuspecting Americans, long tired of Bush.

I understand that young, white college graduates, who voted in droves for Obama, are disappointed. I understand that Blacks are too. So is the Left. But the Media, now turning against the man they once glorified, should know better. They must know, as the Greeks and the Brits and all the Europeans now concede, politicians are not merely incompetent but are impotent. This planet, though a tiny speck in the firmament, is still too large for all of us. We should all look into our mirrors. This is not to cut Obama any slack, the man's presidency is doomed. It is not to cut any slack for ourselves, as if we could do any better.

Ken Roberts | 6.10.10 @ 2:59PM

I bet you Obama can't count to ten with lying!

Ken Roberts| 6.10.10 @ 3:04PM

Sarbo : you are right we all could do better and we will this November , we have a chance to salvage some of what has been lost in the last year and a half. I hope you are right about Obama being doomed , but we have a much larger fish to fry; it is the core of the house that needs to be removed and replaced with character and honesty. Just maybe we can have a large fish fry this November .

RWT| 6.10.10 @ 6:00PM

You're exactly right, scotchieguy. At the least, they're not in any hurry to solve the oil leak problem. Better to fuel the public hatred of the oil monsters so Cap & Trade will be more likely to pass. But a more sinister possibility is a mole on the rig caused the disaster and either died or retired on a remote island with millions of coconuts as a reward. The mole could have been from Iran, N Korea, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Kenya or even Chicago! Obama's announcement of opening up offshore exploration just 3 weeks before the rig explosion makes the disaster convenient and too coincidental. Let Holder (HA!) look into the background of all the rig crew and anyone else with access.

fdsjk| 7.1.10 @ 5:00AM

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