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The Nation's Pulse
Good News
Happy days are here again — or haven’t you heard?
(Page 2 of 2)
Does Washington really think that nobody will notice how hard it is to get a job or sell a house?
Possibly. And, if true, it is proof that the governing class believes that the rest of are to be treated like children. If we should ask what happened to the dog, you explain that it went to live at a “nice home in the country.”
That those in charge should feel this way about those they govern is unsurprising. It is one of the satisfactions of belonging to the ruling class — you get to look down on people. Before she began bullying insurance companies, Ms. Sebelius took it upon herself to instruct people in the proper way to cover a sneeze.
But what if the political class is peddling the hollow, good-news narrative not to fool the people in the provinces but to reassure itself? Washington has spent all the money it could get its hands on and borrowed a lot more and the economy is still stalled in its tracks. It has tried schemes so clever that only Washington could come up with them. Cash-for-clunkers, for example. It has bailed out everything in sight, to include the car companies, profligate state governments, and Wall Street banks but still …
When the truth is unbearable, you console yourself with lies.
“Don’t worry. It’s all okay. The war is over. The recession ended last year. We’re on top of it and everything is just fine.”
The sad part is … they may even believe it.
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Brian Mc| 9.24.10 @ 7:10AM
Ms. Sebelius...in reference to re-education, where is my camp located so that I can run and sign up? "Red Dawn" comes to mind.
And an afterthought: since the 'government' is "We the People", might be that I can expect a check in the mail from GM?
Didn't think so...the alien can explain it all since he has nailed down the 'tax break' debate so succinctly.
Texas mom 2010| 9.24.10 @ 12:43PM
Even worse, GM hasn't paid back the bailout $ but it is donating campaign $ to democrats. This is a travesty and should be illegal. Vicious circle where dems give $ to GM and GM gives back campaign cash. Sounds like a version of money laundering to me.
Asd5150@aol.com| 9.24.10 @ 10:00PM
Yes, one feels this should be illegal. I just read that the government has a 60% stake in GM (not verified, I'm takin' their word), and it's reported that the majority of GM's contributions are going to those who have traditionally supported the industry's legislative agenda--sounds reasonable, no?--so not technically only Democrats, it's just that the Democrats are the ones in power. (One Republican was named.)
Yet still, it's bailout money. Should be used strictly for business but I bet you could justify this as part of doing business. Guess our laws need to do some catching up. It's a new world folks.
RCV| 9.26.10 @ 5:11PM
ALL corporate money should be used strictly for business and not politics. Corporations are legal fictions, creations of the law that allow investors to escape personal liability for business operations, in order to promote commerce. We ought not to allow their misuse in then political arena. The same goes for labor unions.
The Clintidote| 9.24.10 @ 11:28PM
F these clowns like Sebelius and Odinga. F'em. Why is it that people who can only get government jobs seem to think the rest of us need to be treated like retarded 3-year-olds?
We're done with this crowd; sooner or later, we stop voting and start burning .
RCV| 9.26.10 @ 5:13PM
And the minute you start burning instead of voting, we'll start locking you up.
Mark MacInnis| 9.24.10 @ 8:10AM
It isn't enough that the Obama administration and the statist liberals think they know better than we do how we should live our lives....they want us to Love Big Brother, too.
Maddox| 9.24.10 @ 1:40PM
Obama: "They ought to be thanking me."
Ken (Old Texican)| 9.24.10 @ 8:58AM
I will begin to believe these communists, (pardon the shorthand), when pigs learn to sing in three part harmony.
Louis Jenkins| 9.24.10 @ 9:02AM
In the Detroit plant of GMX some of the workers decided to celebrate the repaying of their government debt by twisting up some numbers and swilling a few beers, while on lunch break. It sure is great to be living in the USA under the protection of the union. All that money floating around, no need to work sober, and no need to have any personal responsibility. I sure like the USA! How do I get in on some of the action?
Mike Slater| 9.24.10 @ 10:35AM
The recession ended - YAY!!!
The feds are laying the groundwork for the "double dip" that is coming. That way it will not be a part of the current recession.
It will be a brand new one!!
Lucky us.
And this might make us feel better how???
Nunya| 9.24.10 @ 10:52AM
Up is down, left is right, right is wrong, wrong is right.
Work makes you free.
Peter McGrath| 9.24.10 @ 11:37AM
Sebelius is a true villain. As governor of Kansas, she presided over the murders of tens of thousands of children in the last trimester of their mothers' pregnancies. Most of these children (babies) were capable of living outside the womb.
Sebelius never actually murdered any of these children, but her active support of so-called "Doctor" George Tiller's gruesome practices puts her on a level with Kurt Franz (Oberfuhrer of Trebinka) or Rudolph Hoess (of Auschwitz) who, themselves, never murdered anyone.
In April 2008, she vetoed a bill passed by the Kansas legislature and thereby protected Tiller and other late-term abortionists from private lawsuits. A year earlier, Sebelius vetoed another bill requiring explicit medical reasons for late term abortions, just as she vetoed all legislation restricting abortion as governor.
Naturally, Tiller contributed millions in blood money to Sebelius and her Democrat partners in crime. Sebelius even threw a party for this ghoul - at the governor's mansion! Only she, Tiller and his staff attended. I'm sure they raised their glasses for many a fond toast at this lovely soiree.
Here's a concise summary of Sebelius' contribution to the cause of late term abortion. Just imagine how she'd manage your healthcare, if given the chance.
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/mar/09031605.html
Ghastlyone| 9.24.10 @ 11:53AM
Really, I have no problem with these abortions. Seeing as how the majority of them are done from leftist woman anyways.
I say let them have as many abortions as they want, because that's one less worthless liberal taking up space, we'll have to support.
megapotamus| 9.24.10 @ 2:22PM
Ghast, there IS a moral pro-choice position, this ain't it. Liberals' babies are babies still. If, say, Oprah's book club was driven mad by a Selection of the Month and started slaughtering their pups of whatever age, would you cheer that? Would you chuckle? I bet not and I bet also that you don't really hold the malice in your soul that comment suggests. And I say this as a secular Choicer, though fiscally I probably make most posters here look like Walter Mondale.
Peter McGrath| 9.24.10 @ 3:57PM
Ghastlyone - greater so-called "Christian" societies in Germany, Poland, the Baltic States, etc., expressed these same sentiments toward Jews and Gypsies, among other repressed minorities sent to the labor camps and gas chambers during WW II.
Did it occur to you that a baby 7, 8, or 9 months in the womb has yet to decide their political affiliation? You - apparently - would prefer to have their skulls punctured, brains suctioned, and lifeless bodies thrown in the trash on the assumption that the woman terminating the pregnancy is "leftist."
Try to be mindful before emitting such ill-conceived, poltroonish, and offensively stupid statements.
Loki| 9.27.10 @ 2:01AM
Peter,
Always remember that your name is a nickname for "dick" or "cock". I am surprised that you use the term poltroon in a sentence. I suggest you leave the 19th century and join us in the 21st.
I can't help but think that when you die, you won't realize that all the Jesus fairy stories are just nonsense. You're just dead ;)
So glad I'm an independent and not some rightwing bible thumper. Go back to your cave, and wait for the flood...or even better the moronic 2nd coming of a figment of your imaginary friend.
Peter McGrath| 9.27.10 @ 1:29PM
Loki, or Lokilō'kē, Norse giant (or deity) who personified evil. He hated the gods of Asgard and continually sought to overthrow them. His worst exploit was the murder of Balder, for which he was punished by Thor. It was prophesied that when Ragnarok (the doom of the gods) occurs, Loki, with the aid of his monstrous children—the Fenris wolf, the Midgard serpent, and the goddess Hel—would lead the enemies of heaven
The Columbia Encyclopedia. Copyright © 2001-10 Columbia University Press.
Nice handle, you picked there, Loki. Ironic, eh? ;)
For your edification:
Poltroon
–noun
1. a wretched coward; craven.
–adjective
2. marked by utter cowardice.
Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2010
Still a good word. Let it roll off the tongue. I'll bet you'll use it this week.
Ned| 9.27.10 @ 12:36PM
Interesting how none of the race-baiters on the left seem to notice the huge disportionality of black infants being aborted. And that's much more troubling when one considers the views on eugenics of Margret Sanger. Refreshing that she was up-front about her intentions, extremely troubling that nobody on the left seems to care.
Doctor Right| 9.24.10 @ 11:58AM
Can we please put to rest the idea that Obama is somehow smart...Or clever?
He's neither.
These propaganda tactics - the Government simply telling people that "all is well!" - are straight from the Marxist playbook.
Back when there was no cable TV, and no internet, and no talk radio - think "the Soviet Union" - these kinds of tactics worked fine. The people, lacking any additional information source to either verify the Government's claims or debunk them - either accepted them at face value or kept their mouths shut.
But of course, the "para-diggem" has shifted, nowadays, and the people not only sense they're being lied to, they know it - and they can verify it, AND disseminate it!
Obama seems blissfully unaware of this simple fact as he and his supporters in the media willfully spin his lies.
And yet, we were told so often in 2008 of his "mastery" of the new media!
Seriously, peeps...This guy is a grade-A dope. He's using Kruschev-era tactics in a Microsoft world. His "strategery" is so stale and unimaginative it's staggering!
So again...Can we please jettison the idea that he's smart?
He's a Marxist goon. And a bore, at that.
Albert| 9.24.10 @ 12:11PM
I refuse to even call him by name. I refer to the President exclusively as "President Bozo." President Bozo is the stupidest person I have ever seen in politics, and that is saying quite a bit when one considers that I have been "represented" by Barbara Boxer in the House and Senate for 20+ years. Bozo is a poor speaker (he is lost without a teleprompter, as we found out when he needed one to speak to 15 or 20 Elementary School teachers in a small room), he has no experience in anything, no knowledge of anything, ESPECIALLY economics, and he is arrogant and condescending. President Bozo is a puppet for international Socialists and he is nothing more. "Empty suit" does not begin to adequately describe the utter vacuousness of this boob.
Ned| 9.27.10 @ 12:38PM
... and those are the *good* things about the joke we call "President"....
JCfromDC| 9.24.10 @ 2:09PM
Why do you think they want that "Internet Kill Switch" Law? Give DHS any excuse/emergency/"crisis" at all and some or all of it (the un-PC part) can be shut down for 4 months. Until Congressional investigation finds the culprits, saboteurs, conservatives and libertarians and hunts them down. Gettin' more like China and Soviet Russia every day. We all just need to "be re-educated", to coin a phrase.
megapotamus| 9.24.10 @ 2:29PM
Indeed, Obama is a doofus of truly biblical proportions and one of the saddest elements of his (late) appeal is how much of it was based on a bullying assertion that he is SMRT! Sadly folks of middling or lower intellect are mau-maued in droves to his banner with nothing more than a Stewart-esque eyebrow arch that threatens them with ostracism for any critical examination of the obvious genius on display. Certainly this is much in play in the bizarre psychology O demonstrates whenever off-prompter and often even with it. He has never fired a neuron in any serious pursuit in his life. He is a malign narcisist on his best day. He knows nothing of anything, defends this ignorance with great exertions and seeks only to bring more bleating harts to his side. It is a disgusting spectacle but also hilarious and highly instructive. This less-than-man is the most dangerous brand of idiot: The idiocy that believes itself to be genius. But in his defense, this IS his first ever brush with reality. I believe thoroughly in the didactic property of reality despite the often weighty evidence against same.
Ned| 9.27.10 @ 12:41PM
like I said, "... and those are the *good* things about the joke we call "President"....
Impeach Don't Wait| 9.24.10 @ 10:15PM
"So again...Can we please jettison the idea that he's smart? He's a Marxist goon. And a bore, at that."
It's not his smarts I'm worried about. It's his chutzpa, success at what he does, and the support of millions. Would that conservatives had these "smarts!"
Albert| 9.24.10 @ 12:02PM
Election day will be none too soon. But I fear two things. 1. No matter how bad the Democrats are defeated in November, it will not be enough. If Americans really understood what the Democrats were doing and why, and they understood this in sufficient numbers, the Democrats Party would simply evaporate. Unfortunately, this is not the case and Democrats will be around for probably as long as death and taxes, since Democrats work tirelessly to facilitate both. 2. Whether the Democrats lose in November, or REALLY lose in November, they will still be in control until January. That duck may be lame, but it can still screw things up aplenty in two months, and don't doubt that it will do just that. As for Komrade Kathleen Sebelius, Kommissar of Bozo-Kare, the English language is inadequate to describe this person. Her Maoist reference to "re-education" alone should be enough to send this Orwellian "pig" packing. [I use the word "pig" here as reference to the assertion that "...pigs are MORE equal." I do not mean denegrate real pigs by comparing them to Kommissar Sebelius.]
TR| 9.24.10 @ 12:06PM
Government to the proletariat:
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
Senor Mick| 9.24.10 @ 12:46PM
I love Big Brother.
Nah. The problem with big bureaucratic totalitarian systems is precisely that they can't be changed from the inside or outside. They only can collpase.
JCfromDC| 9.24.10 @ 2:01PM
It's not the SAD part that they actually believe it... look at the good side. As long as they DO believe it and the rest of us hayseeds DON'T, it means the sooner we will be rid of them. Then they'll have to get a real job like the rest of us
Tony in Central PA| 9.24.10 @ 3:15PM
I believe the biggest threat to our liberties would be to give government control of our individual health care decisions. That's where Obamacare will inevitably take us.
There are Americans who apparently believe in some sort of utopian society where the government provides our rights and watches over our lives to the point of numbering our alloted days. The assumption is that this will always be a benign lordship, even though many of these same people were opponents of the same government just a few years before. That many of these people are educated, middle - aged adults proves the old adage that true stupidity actually requires a certain level of intelligence.
Lord Acton said that all power corrupts, but absolute power corrupts absolutely. This is a lesson that the utopianists apparently never learn. Their disbelief of evil makes its appearance all the more assured and its proportions all the more monstrous.
Nunya| 9.24.10 @ 7:45PM
The fact is, every leftist program inevitably ends up with extreme results (as in re-education camps, gulags, mass murder--either through bullets, or government controlled healthcare), with VERY FEW exceptions. Every leftist program is BASED on the same thing--government control, yet those who support them don't seem to connect the dots. It's amazing. I hear arguments of "It's not fair that ...(fill in the blank)..", like we're all in 3rd grade. The FEELING is that some of us are better off because we've become successful by taking away from others. In other words, the size of the pie is fixed, so it's a zero-sum gain--if you have a winner, you must have a loser. It's always about "feeling", not about rational thought. Now it's come to the point that if you don't agree with them you're a "hater", or a "racist" or whatever else they spew. It's back to grade school and name calling. I'm waiting for the Democraps to start calling people "Doo doo head".
Once government grows to the point that they control everything, it goes to what Thomas Jefferson said: "The government that can give you everything you need is big enough to take away everything you have."
That would include your life.
Petronius| 9.24.10 @ 7:53PM
No need to pay attention right now. The big story hasn't hit the fan yet. Come 2014 when the big Obamacare policies are unveiled, fee for service medicine will be outlawed and that means an end to malpractice lawsuits against physicians. The tort bar will never stand for that. And watching the clash between the collectivists and the Democrat party's largest contributors will please me no end. Stay tuned.
cats1cowboy| 9.25.10 @ 1:55AM
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
Tenn Slim| 9.25.10 @ 7:48AM
Folks
REMEMBER, the Leftist in control almost always believe thier internal propaganda. That belieft system has always been their undoing. Reality, the Land Lord's rental knock on Leftist Hdqtrs always catches them by surprise.
History is replete with the failures of these folks, because they believe thier own rhetoric.
The bailouts of the Grunts, as the tides rise, is usualy the first indication to them that something is amiss.
We need to flood thier thinking, flood thier bankaccounts, flood thier foolishness with truth. Then and only then will the grunts leave a sinking ship.
Fred| 9.27.10 @ 12:45PM
Geez, Slim! "Spellcheck"!
e. cowan| 9.25.10 @ 2:15PM
'Ms. Sebelius is grimly purposeful about making sure you get the good news and learn to appreciate it and, presumably, to love Washington for its generosity, compassion, and etc. etc.'
Why does this remind me of "1984"?
We are all going to learn to 'love Big Brother' - OR ELSE!
CharlieEcho| 9.26.10 @ 5:10PM
I have good news to share. My health insurance company, the one I pay to be a member of not the one I own, has now advised me they are upping my premiums because I will turn 60 next month. This is a new policy of theirs. Up your premiums every five year period, in addition to the yearly adjustment in January. I'm tickled to health by their new policy. Thank you, thank you Mr. President.
I'm researching retirement communities. How are the prisons where you folks live?
Joanna | 6.6.11 @ 6:14AM
The time is definitely right for change.
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