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The Obama Watch
The Downward Spiral
Obama’s America is coming unglued. Chaos in the streets isn’t far off.
Accelerating downward spiral. That is what I have been predicting for the Obama Administration for over two years. And now it’s happening. Events are spinning out of control.
Rising inflation is restricting the Fed’s options for keeping the economy high on monetary stimulus crack. The result? Fast developing market chaos.
On account of President Obama’s economic policies, the economy never recovered from the last recession. Now it may go back into full scale recession before any recovery occurs. We may soon be living through a reenactment of the 1930s, not the 1970s. If we do not change course, there will be a double dip recession by 2013, directly caused by the economic policies Obama already has in place under current law.
And now we have riots in Obama’s Amerika, kept quiet by the media, echoing the violence in London.
Inflation and the Fed
Rapidly increasing producer price inflation is now spilling over into the consumer price index. The CPI soared in July at an eight percent annual rate, up close to four percent over the past year. The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that these price pressures “could constrain the Federal Reserve from taking more action soon to spur economic growth and hiring.” Or, as the Journal quoted J.P. Morgan Chase chief economist Michael Feroli, the budding inflation “could slow the degree to which the Fed provides further monetary stimulus.”
Why is that? Because continuing to pump up the money supply could push inflation into double digits. And stopping it then will be even worse, throwing the economy into a bigger recession, just like in the 1970s.
But Rick Perry has it pegged right. The Fed is committed to pumping up the money supply right through the election, to prevent any downturn from darkening Obama’s magical Dupe America reelection tour. That is why the Fed is so committed to keeping interest rates near zero until 2013. So to accomplish this, they’re running the printing presses. Inflation may well climb into double digits next year.
That inflation will force the Fed to turn off the spigot right after the election, with the contractionary effect coming in 2013, just when all the tax rate increases from Obamacare and the expiration of the Bush tax cuts will become effective. There will be a whopping recession then unless the voters remove Obama from office next year and quickly replace Obamanomics with Reaganomics, which solved a very similar problem in the early 1980s.
Obama’s Strategy: Shut Down Debate
What else is contributing to national events spinning out of control? How about President Obama’s abusive, deceptive rhetoric? It was evidenced in his disgraceful speech at Johnson’s Controls, Inc. in Michigan on August 11, where he said:
We know there are things we have to do to erase a legacy of debt that hangs over the economy. But time and again, we’ve seen partisan brinkmanship get in the way — as if winning the next election is more important than fulfilling our responsibilities to you and to our country. This downgrade you’ve been reading about could have been entirely avoided if there had been a willingness to compromise in Congress. See, it didn’t happen because we don’t have the capacity to pay our bills — it happened because Washington doesn’t have the capacity to come together and get things done.
This echoed what Obama said at a press conference soon after America’s historic credit rating downgrade:
On Friday, we learned that the United States received a downgrade by one of the credit rating agencies — not so much because they doubt our ability to pay our debt if we make good decisions, but because after witnessing a month of wrangling over raising the debt ceiling, they doubted our political system’s ability to act.
Obama is saying that the downgrade resulted because the Tea Party had the temerity to debate and question his policies. See, it was a Tea Party downgrade, according to the Democrats’ silly rhetoric. It wasn’t Obama’s record smashing national debt and first-time-ever trillion dollar plus deficits every year in office that caused the debt downgrade. No. It was the Tea Party-forced debt limit debate, that “month of wrangling over raising the debt ceiling,” that supposedly indicated to the markets that “Washington doesn’t have the capacity to come together and get things done.”
About the Author
Peter Ferrara is Director of Entitlement and Budget Policy at the Heartland Institute, General Counsel of the American Civil Rights Union, Senior Fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, and Senior Policy Advisor on Entitlements and Budget Policy at the National Tax Limitation Foundation. He served in the White House Office of Policy Development under President Reagan, and as Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States under President George H.W. Bush.
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Carol| 8.24.11 @ 6:27AM
IMPEACH!
Dick Nome| 8.24.11 @ 9:33AM
Won't happen. Un-elect in 2012.
Boar Hunter| 8.24.11 @ 12:14PM
IMPEACH!
Al Adab| 8.24.11 @ 1:27PM
The Senate would never convict. Besides, think President Biden?
9thID| 8.24.11 @ 2:13PM
Impeach both of them and let Boehner take over, well on second thought...
Boar Hunter| 8.24.11 @ 5:35PM
I agree, they would never convict. They will never find the political will to throw the first black president out of office, his guilt on any matter would be irrelevant.
Boar Hunter| 8.24.11 @ 5:36PM
It's still fun to mindlessly yell like a liberal, IMPEACH!
Pete| 8.24.11 @ 5:47PM
HALLIBURTON!
Sorry, it looked fun to mindlessly yell like a liberal.
NJMomOf4| 8.25.11 @ 8:27AM
IT'S BUSH'S FAULT!
Nah, doesn't do anything for me. I must not be a liberal.
Ret. Marine| 8.24.11 @ 6:29AM
I won't even claim to feel any sorrow for you, if you are one of those people who did not see this coming as far back as three years ago, no not one bit. If you haven't already stacked and packed your cellar with the necessary foods required to beat off inflation, placed tools of survival, barter items away, and prepared to defend your person, families, property, and lives against the hordes of those who were just too stupid to see the writing on the wall, when by a majority of my so called citizens, put this idiot, a know nothing, done nothing, not even so much as made a payroll, or understands what it takes to keep people employeed, well I can only say one thing to you, its going to sucks to be you in the near future . Now before you go and get froggy and think you are going to come by the numbers and leap into the fire pan, go ahead, I have the necessary tools layed aside to help in the culling of you, along with your buddies. I can and will only pray, if this Country last til the next election, that you have come to what good sense the Almighty has impowered you with, to vote this fraud kenyan usurper-n-theif, obamas bin ly'n, out of your lives, but if not, go ahead and vote for this treasonist liar and theif, but good luck in your future, you are going to need it. Semper Fi Patriots. Keep the flames of freedom forever lit in your bellies, the democracy bunch, mod rulers, as itching for a fight they are surely going to lose, big time.
Mike D.| 8.24.11 @ 7:22AM
When this comes and it will, the MusloMarxist can play the martial law card he's just itching to throw down on the table. Just keep away from large cities and prepare.
bull-gator| 8.24.11 @ 8:07AM
and the traitor-in-chief will then suspend the elections.
JimH| 8.24.11 @ 9:21AM
The hired goons at TSA and such and most police may go along. I wonder if the military will. The One has done a better job of hiding his contempt for them than the Clintons did.
Mike D.| 8.24.11 @ 9:32AM
And the Media will drum up the racism rhetoric, already have Al Sharpton with his own show to get things going. MarxSNBC has its left wing peanut gallery's marching orders in hand.
Al Adab| 8.24.11 @ 11:19AM
There in fact is the clear and present danger. Events like Greece and London on our streets give them every excuse. The media cheerleaders will go along and the race thing will be loudly spoken. The military is the question mark. Some will no doubt follow orders and enforce a martial law decree. Whether some of the senior officers will take a differnt stance is the issue, but beware as that road leads to Rome.
No man on a white horse can "restore the republic" so it comes to the voters to end, once for all, this insidious leftist statism and limit government to it's proper role of defending the Liberty of the people, not providing there substance.
Al Adab| 8.24.11 @ 12:47PM
oops. their substance
ESL
Tiddly| 8.24.11 @ 10:05PM
Also its, not it's (which means it is).
Al Adab| 8.24.11 @ 11:05PM
Merci.
Dan Hirsch| 8.24.11 @ 9:32AM
Will we see federal troops facing state national guard troops? That is a particularly difficult obstacle to work around, except in maybe in some liberal enclaves like CA, NY, IL...
In a way, it gives me hope. Even the federal government cannot just order state national guard troops around without the concurrence of the governor. Whose your governor? We know what Rick Perry would do...
I'm just saying...don't tread on me...
Mike D.| 8.24.11 @ 9:35AM
I said this along time ago. The situation will arise where a Governor will openly defy the Federal Government, surround himself with his states National Guard and dare the Feds to do something about it. Its a done deal, rhetorically its almost already happened.
russel| 8.24.11 @ 10:10AM
Agree , the states are our best hope of defending our Republic . We can see Zero pushing the states to see how far he can go . He's done it with his office and justice dept . He's defied court rulings , testing the waters . The likes of Governor Brewer and our own here in Wyo . are not going to take crap from DC lying down , and the residents have their back . If he wants to start another civil war , go ahead and fire the first shot - we'll happily return it .
A.Men| 8.24.11 @ 11:41AM
well said.
Al Adab| 8.24.11 @ 12:46PM
This scenario is already playing out. The several states that are being sued by the fed over illegal migration issues and the many states suing over the health insurance mandate will be forced to take sides whether courts rule in their favor or not. What actions those governors may take will set the stage many years into the future.
Nina| 8.24.11 @ 3:10PM
Help! I live in MA and I know what my governor would do! I'm really considering a move.....advice on a new state anyone?
answer4everything| 8.24.11 @ 3:27PM
Nina, if you can take the hot weather go for TX. If you prefer a climate with 4 seasons as in MA, I would suggest either of the Dakotas or Montana.
irish19| 8.24.11 @ 9:15PM
I hear their four seasons are: almost winter, winter, still winter, road construction.
Russ| 8.25.11 @ 4:37PM
Nina - Just do what half the population of MA has already done, move to Maine!! From Portland south, you wouldn't even recognize that you're not in Mass anymore. Problem is, that most of them brought their far-left politics with along for the ride. I never could understand that - leave a liberal state because of what it has become, but then do everything in your power to turn your new state into your old one!!
Citizen-Comrade| 8.28.11 @ 9:31PM
North Korea, where a free man can breate free air (teasing). Wyoming or northern Arizona, preferably where the mountains meet the plains. Bring lawyers, guns and money.
old white guy| 8.25.11 @ 5:50PM
blacks represent about 12 percent of the population. someone should let them know that 's loosing odds.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 8.24.11 @ 6:41AM
Obama is just the latest Joker in a house of cards which is crumbling.
Decades of packing the bureaucracies inside the beltway with ever more simple minded rule givers whose rules are issued with little thought to long term consequences has ensured an imploding economy.
As far as the flash mobs they should be shot down in the streets but that won't happen under Obama. White citizens were threatened with bats at polling places in Philadelphia by known racists associated with the Black Panthers. The U.S. Justice Department ignored the incident.
I think you are on to something though with the race angle. It's only a question of time before whites arm themselves for the express purpose of defending themselves against the uneducated class.
The uneducated class went to school but they were taught that they were entitled. Further, their churches are full of white haters who hear and learn the sermons of outright racists like Jeremiah Wright.
Look no further then the White House to see a perfect example of a racist individual or perhaps two of them based on Michelle Obama's comment, "This is the first time in my adult life I've been proud of America."
What she meant was that she was happy racism was finding the path of least resistance to the top.
While racial politics and not economic reality continue to define the future all the glory of the past is ignored or shredded starting with the Constitution.
Obama referred to it as a negative document but what he meant was it was negative because it stops his type from becoming a complete dictator.
Obama is the consummate con artist and deceiver but he is one of many inside the beltway. One day the right card will leave the deck and the house of cards will crumple.
ENOUGH ROPE| 8.24.11 @ 11:03AM
If all the conservative reader of TAS and all the other readers, listeners and viewers of other conservative media peruaded their family and friends not to patronize the MSM in any way, then that will sharply reduce their ratings, profits, and power. At the same time drum up support to end ALL public schools and replace them with private secular and religious schools. Read today's TAS article "Give This Tax Credit Its Due." That would end the left's perversion of public education.
old white guy| 8.25.11 @ 5:55PM
pravda didn't have to worry about readers or revenue from ads, etc. the current media structure in the u.s. would allow the government to just go on funding them.
Paul Nelson| 8.24.11 @ 2:40PM
The black panthers were intimidating black voters, who MIGHT have had the temerity of voting the wrong way.
vladdy| 8.25.11 @ 6:53PM
Anyone who's ever spent time teaching in an inner-city school will verify that there is a restless mob filled with hatred slapping every hand reaching out to them and on the verge of boiling over. (kind of mixed my metaphors there, but it gets the point across.)
Shamus| 8.24.11 @ 7:01AM
Obama's policies are a drag on the economy, yet it's still possible that they will simply slow the economy rather than tip it into recession. The real danger is posed by the risk that Obama gets a second term.
Darin| 8.24.11 @ 7:25AM
If you don't think Obama could get a second term, remember how Democrats use vote fraud to steal elections. To liberals, the ends justifies the means as long as the ends are what THEY want.
SpiralArchitect| 8.24.11 @ 1:40PM
ACORN never forgets to "bring out yer dead" for any election.
TrueBlue| 8.24.11 @ 4:56PM
Happens in Washington state all the time. Heck, now the state is 100% mail-in ballot, anyone who doesn't see the fraud coming with that system is blind.
Dan Hirsch| 8.24.11 @ 9:36AM
Shamus,
Did you hear all the talk about how it was a good thing the recent earthquake in Virginia wasn't more serious because it might have crushed the economy?
Is that our little President muttering, "...damn, wish it was a 9.0 instead of a 5.9... coulda used the cover...damn..." You betcha!
One well aimed sneeze could knock down this alleged, growthless, jobless, hopeless 'recovery.'
Sheesh.
Al Adab| 8.24.11 @ 12:48PM
It's now known as "Bush's Fault"
JimH| 8.24.11 @ 4:25PM
You might as well stop now because you will never top that comment. It cracked me up.
Maddox| 8.24.11 @ 10:56AM
There has been no real recovery, we are still in recession. The fake data, along with the billions pumped into the left's favored unions and banks give the illusion the economy has recovered slightly. It is all smoke and mirrors and the situation is more dire because of it.
sommers| 8.24.11 @ 7:13AM
Journalists, writers, pundits have to start calling things for what they are. This is a Marxist, decidedly racist, dictatorial regime.
To listen to the main stream media dancing around words and policies of Obama is quickly becoming insufferable. I now mute the TV whenever Obama pops up. I can't stand to hear the lies and deceit.
He's surrounded himself with these 60's, 70's radical academics that still dream of taking down free enterprise. They don't like it, they can't stand it. Things don't come out equal...or something.
Call the man out for what he does, his policies, not for what he says. His rhetoric means nothing.
Renard| 8.24.11 @ 8:18PM
I've been changing channels, using the mute button, and going on bathroom breaks every time Zero comes on for 3 years now!!!
vladdy| 8.25.11 @ 6:56PM
Raise your hand if you allow neither TV nor newspapers/magazines into your home.
Citizen-Comrade| 8.28.11 @ 9:39PM
Both hands raised. And no cable though we do watch Cops with rabbit ears.
"There is no Pravda in Iszestia and there is no Isvestia in Pravda." (My friend Dmitri from Vinitsa)
Jocon307 | 8.24.11 @ 7:36AM
I just wanted to post and say "Josh Earnest" has to be the greatest name for a press spokesman, or any kind of spokesman, EVER.
Biff| 8.24.11 @ 1:16PM
middle initial N.
martin j smith| 8.24.11 @ 7:37AM
The main reason we have to disucss this mockery of a President i because of the MSM and Crony Capitalists willing to make deals and risk their existence and our nation as a whole. They were willing to throw away the country for their personal gains. They have enough money to go anywhere they want--Switzerland for example ? These are the same people that support illegal immigration for cheap labor at our expense. !!!!!!!
TruthSpeaker| 8.25.11 @ 9:45PM
and Satan. We must not forget the Father of Lies -Lies have built the house of cards that now begins to fall..............................
Timothy L. Pennell| 8.24.11 @ 7:45AM
Yes, yes. We're in a Downward Spiral. (More like, a Free-fall, if you ask me) The FED is this, and the FED is that. People know that the FED is Printing Money. What they DON'T KNOW, is where that Money has ended up. They think it's going for "American Jobs". They think it's going for the purpose of "Freeing Up Credit". They have no idea how they're being played for SUCKERS, by the Self Proclaimed Defender of the Middle Class against the onslaught of Millionaires and Billionaires, and their Private Jets: Barack Hussein Obama.
I wonder how the American People would react, if they knew that The Royal Bank Of Scotland was a recipient of BILLIONS of American Dollars, printed by the FED? Or that UBS - a Switzerland Bank - received even more than that?
Banks and Lending Agencies, all over Europe, received the Lion's Share of the $1.2 TRILLION that the FED printed, so as to help you and me. Providing that YOU and ME, are one of THEM.
This FED is a Star Chamber, filled with all those Millionaires and Billionaires, that Hussein tells us he hates so much, before he goes off on a Golf Outing, with these very same Millionaires and Billionaires. (Did I mention that they get there on their Private Jets?)
This Money went to them. To their friends, and fellow "Masters of the Universe". They keep printing money to SAVE THEMSELVES.
The only "EASING" that's going on, is on their Spread Sheets. They are using our money to make all of the losses that their Sugar High, What Me Worry?, Crack Addict, I'm Invincible, ways of doing business, have racked up, go away.
This Story needs to be told.
I'm just a guy who writes on the Computer.
This needs to be done by YOU.
We need a Paul Revere, right now!
axbucxdu| 8.24.11 @ 11:36PM
Hmm. So the Fed bailed out the Uro-peons instead of the long suffering U.S. taxpayer. I suppose this was the least the Skanke could do after being embarrassed by the antics of his two largest members: the Vampire Squid and the Smartest Guys in the Room. After all, it was the criminal enterprises of GS and JPM that sold those very same Europeans all that junk.
Petronius| 8.24.11 @ 7:45AM
The gods of the copybook headings
with terror and slaughter return...
irish19| 8.24.11 @ 9:17PM
Wonderful stuff, Kipling. He had it right so often.
Mr ED| 8.24.11 @ 7:49AM
"See, it was a Tea Party downgrade, according to the Democrats' silly rhetoric."
That rhetoric is deadly serious and is just one part of the continued campaigns of Liberal deception Libs rely on to sow confusion and doubt. Just wait until the goons of the head community organizer begin the coming campaign of physical intimidation and violence - all lovingly approved of and carefully covered by the Libfilth in the media - against the actual citizens of this country who make the country work.
Just remember one thing: When the armies of the Libfilth begin this campaign of violence, do not seek out those engaging in acts of violence, seek out rather their enablers and paymasters, the Libfilth themselves. THEY are source and you have to go to the source to actually deal with the problem effectively. The Libfilth are already well aware that they will be held to account and so are engaging in premature wails of "domestic terrorism" against anyone who would dare to hold them personally axxountable for their actions.
Game on.
martin j smith| 8.24.11 @ 7:57AM
I think that while I will vote for anyone ( well with a few exceptions ) against Obama ( AGAINST is the word ) my prefrence*** would be a candidate who is willing to spill the beans and tell the truth about who Obama and the SOCIALISTS really are. And, instead of whining about the lack of civility including Obama his very self, that candidate should confront Obama about how HE
is causing divisiveness and igniting the flames of violence for political gain. His lecturing ANYONE on CIVILITY is so outrageous that it can become its own space program.
martin j smith| 8.24.11 @ 7:58AM
***=I would hold my nose hard if it is Romney. I would NOT vote for Huntsman or his ilk or Ron Paul.
Drunken Sailor| 8.24.11 @ 9:37AM
I understand your choices but at this point I would even vote for Bill Clinton over Obama. This country simply can not afford 4 more years of his economic ideology.
richard ryan| 8.24.11 @ 9:46AM
Seriously?? You would rather have Obama in a second term than Ron Paul. Interesting. Ron Paul parts with fellow republicans in a big way, especially regarding foreign policy. His philosophy is pretty close to Thomas Jefferson's, like it or not. But 4 more years of BHO?? you must be kidding, right? That would be the end of our way of life, safety, and security.
Al Adab| 8.24.11 @ 12:54PM
It is of importance historicly that if this is the collapse of America and Freedom, the blame lies in the proper court. Should the GOP nominate and elect an accomodationist President who fails or is unwilling to rewind the mandated spending of this administration and who compromises on spending cuts and taxes, the result will be the same as re-electing BHO. The blame would then devolve on the GOP to the detriment of future generations. We must stand or fall dedicated to limited government and Liberty, not solely winning for its own sake. Are we, like Cato of old, willing to die rather than live under the tyranny of Ceasar? I fear we are about to find out.
The Big E| 8.24.11 @ 2:29PM
Exactly. Replacing Obama with someone who lacks the backbone or ability to undo what Obama has done will be a useless gesture. It will take a strong and courageous conservative to right this ship - a namby-pamby, limp-wristed, I-just-wanna-be-liked-by-everyone moderate (Mitt Romney) will not get the job done, and replacing Obama with someone who would only add to the damage - i.e. - Ron Paul - would be even worse.
9thID| 8.24.11 @ 2:22PM
Ron Paul doesn't hold to the Founders' vision of our Constitution. Instead, he and his zombie followers would have us return the near anarchy of the Articles of Confederation that led to the Constitution. Stop and ask yourself why Liber-als and Liber-tarians share those frist 5 letters...
The Big E| 8.24.11 @ 11:44AM
Having a choice between Barack Obama and Ron Paul in 2012 would be like having to choose between death by hanging or death by firing squad. The end result is the same either way.
9thID| 8.24.11 @ 2:23PM
Right. Obama would take us to totalitarianism and Ron Paul to anarchy...
Margie| 8.24.11 @ 5:12PM
Two sides of the same coin.
Mimi| 8.24.11 @ 8:08AM
What it looks like now, e ven if we win the 2012 election we will be left with a stacked pile of circumstances to make the Economy worse , as all these things put off until 2013 take place.
The Republicians should be prepared to act quickly before taking power and immediately after inauguration of the new President.
What a shame, for us to have to endure Race problems, as Peter notes they are beginning now.
With Maxine Waters recent comments..."Go to Hell" and her friend saying..." Know ..WHO the real enemy is" referring to the Tea Party ! Leave it to Maxine if there is a POT of MANURE around
she will "STIR" it! The writing is on the WALL !
Late in 2012 as the polls reveal that Obama will lose.... God Help Us! Peter is giving us a warning, we are living in a nightmare....and NORMAL it is NOT!
The present oficce holders should speak out NOW , from both party's...Obama cannot be depended upon to tell the TRUTH! Also he by virtue of his past, will throw the DEM'S (ALL) under the BUS!!
Pigletrios| 8.24.11 @ 2:03PM
We are a society of violence, no morals, no respect for authority, inability to really distinguish between right and wrong, a "me mentality, a significant portion of our young population is uneducated and unintrested, our poor remain poor after 60 years of social engineering and welfare policies constructed to keep them at the bottom of the pile, we have stripped them of their dignity, drive, determination to succeed. This is the 21st century and we need 21st century ideas. ANYONE who throws down the race card, scares the wits out of me because they cannot think beyond the 3 x 5 card they are handed. I am tired of talking points, tired of blame. I dont care what the color is of my president, or who started this downward sprial - IT DOES NOT MATTER!!!!!. Who cares at this point who made it worse, they are all like children on the playground! I just want someone with guts to stand up and present a plan to get this country back on the right track.
Grzmlyk| 8.24.11 @ 2:53PM
The ballgame is over.
It's too late and there's too little political will to change course in any way that would change the trajectory of our fall. Too many of our political systems have failed - Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, Fannie and Freddie, the Department of anti-Energy, Education, Labor, Commerce, the Fed, Justice. Our courts are teeming with lawless liberal activists and the Supreme Court is one Judge away from looking like the ACLU. Even our armed forces are being overstretched, underfunded and indoctrinated with fatal political correctness. What the hell is left of this country, anyway?
The organs have begun to shut down; the cancer of greed, disguised as altruism, has claimed another nation-state and we have begun our inexorable slide into history.
Hell, look at the debt ceiling debate alone; the body politic - that combination of the mainstream media and a critical mass of the electorate - was whining like stuck pigs simply because we wanted to - horror - slow the rate of growth of government - not even shrink it. They bitched about Bush's $400 billion deficit as being the "worst economy since Hoover," with only 4% unemployment, but now the deficit is over $1.4 trillion, the debt is 10 times that, we're at 10% unemployment officially - and more like 16% in actuality - and, well, that's called a "recovery."
Just as human beings first go into denial when they are told they have a terminal illness, we have entered a period of collective delusion, as if we are healthy. We are not healthy; we are in our death throes.
Meanwhile, we have detestable morons like Ben Stein posting maudlin homages to his own goodness on this site every other day as he joins Warren Buffett and the liberal class in saying we don't have a spending problem, we just don't tax the rich enough! The drunken orgy of spending can - nay, must - go on! Free lunch for everybody!
Folks, there is no desire whatsoever among our popular culture to face the reality that is about to face us. And that includes many Republican leaders. After all, who wants to be the one to take away the punch bowl while the party rages on?
We are now Wile E. Coyote - we are already over the cliff and standing on nothing but air. The second we look down (that'll be when interests have to rise), we will crash to earth. This will happen, I'm guessing, in 2013.
And what really galls me is that, when the whole rotten edifice of our progressive state comes tumbling down, the leftist survivors will emerge from their government-funded bunkers and STILL have no clue as to what happened.
Al Adab| 8.24.11 @ 3:23PM
Good analysis and an enjoyable analogy with Wile E. You set out our condition pretty well.
The Big E| 8.24.11 @ 5:08PM
Grz, as usual, you are spot on.
Margie| 8.24.11 @ 5:27PM
True, and the Left will always be clueless.
But some will hit rock bottom and with the pain will realize the need to become self sufficient and responsible themselves.
The type of pain that sets you free if you let it.
chuck| 8.24.11 @ 9:34PM
Truer words have never been written.
Boar Hunter| 8.24.11 @ 5:49PM
Well said my friend. Excellent analysis. Unfortunately, I believe your prediction is all to accurate.
dw| 8.24.11 @ 5:57PM
It is not too late but time is running out. First of all any one who sits on the side line just to watch the one get re elected will deserve their fate. His socialism will ruin our country much like it has ruined every country that has forced it upon its citizenry. Through the election of the right conservative who has guts to implement supply side economics and pull back the EPA and all useless regulations that are dragging down our small bussinesses we can pull out of this obama mess. We need to take a 60 member control of the senate as well and in doing so it would be possible to turn around this economy relatively quickly.
Remember Wily Coyote never stopped trying no matter what. And the socialist are not road runners, there more like single celled parasitic amoebas.
dw| 8.24.11 @ 6:04PM
[They're] more like single celled parasitic amoebas.
fool me once....
ABF| 8.24.11 @ 10:30PM
I believe you are correct as well. Because far to many on the right simply think we just nee to tweak what has been done then it will work. Look there were 60 Tea party members in the house, less than 1/2 voted against the bogus deal. I'm sure more of their number will be added in the next election but not enough and by then it will be too late.
Melvin| 8.24.11 @ 8:27AM
We may be able to get rid of the man, but getting rid of his philosophy is a bit harder. Everyone is so focused on getting rid of Barry we have a much larger problem of getting rid of his disciples.
Don't forget we have Maxine Waters, James Clyburn, Nancy Pelosi, Wasserman Schultz, Barny Frank, Harry Reid, John Kerry, John McCain, Olympia Snow, and Susan Collins to name a few. And I am not even counting the unelected government bureaucrats that invest our way of life like Bedbugs.
The Czars, King Julius over at the FCC, even with a Republican President the EPA will still be churning out job killing edicts.
Unfortunately it is going to take a lot more than an election and earthquake to drive out the vermin in Washington D.C. and the first place I would send the fumigators is Congresswoman Maxine Water's Office, too bad her district doesn't see her the same way the rest of us who want reform of do.
MacDaddy| 8.24.11 @ 8:40AM
"Don't forget we have Maxine Waters, James Clyburn, Nancy Pelosi, Wasserman Schultz, Barny Frank, Harry Reid, John Kerry, John McCain, Olympia Snow, and Susan Collins to name a few."
Traitors all, IMHO, and should be dealt with thusly.
Melvin| 8.24.11 @ 9:03AM
It would be a comforting thought wouldn't it?
Al Adab| 8.24.11 @ 12:56PM
But those and others will retain their office under a new GOP adnministration and will do everything in their power to block attempts to cut spending, eliminate regulatory agencies and end social programs. The fight will be ugly and perhaps very destructive.
Pigletrios| 8.24.11 @ 2:08PM
The President is a very smart, articulate person. The problem is that even after almost 3 years on the job, he does not have the leadership and intelligence qualities required to do the job he was hired to do. He has surrounded himself with like minded people who also do not have the qualities required to do the job they were hired to do for the American people. The Federal Government is rapidly approaching the point where it will move on its own, no matter who is in charge, they will be incapable of stopping the machine from destroying this country. We have got to stop this madness. Maxine Water's is well aware that her days are numbered. They all laughed before the mid term elections and it got many kicked out of office. This will continue - the American people have woken up and politics as usual will really come to an end - politics as usual require the silent majority to remain uninterested and uninvolved. Well that is not going to happen any more, we are in a mess and I guess at the end of the day it is up to us to fix it. VOTE!
idalily| 8.24.11 @ 4:37PM
Smart? Articulate? You give Obama way too much credit. A smart president would never go on vacation at Martha's Vineyard in the midst of the worst economic downturn since the 1930's, and an articulate president wouldn't have to say, "Let me be clear" all the freakin' time. As for leadership, Obama couldn't lead baby ducks with popcorn.
RJ| 8.24.11 @ 8:29AM
I don't think I will ever get over the fact that American voters elected this petulant, condescending, hypocritical empty-suit as President of the United States. Despite the mass media's best efforts, he will probably be broomed out of office next year, but that doesn't mean that everything is OK with the voting public. We have had some lousy choices over the last few decades and unfortunately, that trend may continue after Obama.
kurt| 8.24.11 @ 11:53AM
Would John McCain have been any better, we had NO choice in the 2008 election, none what so ever...PERIOD!!!
9thID| 8.24.11 @ 2:25PM
Obama and Obama Lite. The end result is the same, just a slower death...
The Big E| 8.24.11 @ 2:32PM
Agreed.
idalily| 8.24.11 @ 4:37PM
Yes, McCain would have been better. Marginally.
TrueBlue| 8.24.11 @ 5:08PM
To a point. If Obama hadn't been elected I doubt a lot of people would even be paying attention to politics right now sadly. All those disenfranchised young people voting in their first election, promised a great future, who got nothing would still be blaming the GOP for all their ills. Instead, a good portion of them have seen what those policies bring so they'll either vote the other way, or not vote at all. Either way Obama has lost a good number of those that got him elected last time.
Margie| 8.24.11 @ 9:38PM
We would've had a Republican administration, and Sarah Palin would have been part of that.
That can't even be compared to what we have now!
RJ| 8.24.11 @ 5:34PM
I think McCain would have been much better, but that does not mean that he was good enough. Obama is a historically dreadful "leader." We have had lousy choices for many years. The last Presidential candidate that I was excited to vote for was Steve Forbes in 1996. Since then it has been a search for the least worst candidate. As an American I am ashamed that Gore, Bush II, Kerry and Obama were nominated by their parties for President. McCain wasn't good either.
We needed to suffer through a President Carter to get Ronald Reagan. Perhaps we needed to let the liberals run wild with Obama to make enough people realize that the liberal dream leads to a dark reality, so that we can get America back on track again.
Jim G.| 8.25.11 @ 2:04PM
Wow - I wonder that someone so ill-educated actually knows how to write. Frankly, McCain is NO conservative's first choice, or even second or third, but no better than Obama? Think before you post!
Likely_Suspect| 8.25.11 @ 9:13AM
Elections used to be about picking the best (wo)man for the job; then it digressed to choosing the lesser of two evils; modernly it's about opting for the evil of two lessers.
Louis Jenkins| 8.24.11 @ 8:32AM
Obama and Maxine Waters have to blame someone, so why not the Tea Party? When the kids are turned out they will make havoc out of the neighborhood. So get ready folks. This will be one down for the history books, provided we win.
Ray V| 8.24.11 @ 8:42AM
Peter, why do you continue to say the recession "may" start in 2013 when current economic data show a contraction likely started this past May? It's not a double dip, either because GDP has never reached its '07 peak so the most accurate portrayal is a continued recession.
Granny Jan | 8.24.11 @ 9:03AM
Obama affects the local accent where ever he is. You've all heard his faux black accent that ends up sounding weirdly southern. (It's hard when you were raised in a white environment until your 20s)
In the big, black scary bus tour he started to sound like Gomer Pyle. The farm "folks" must have loved his condescending tone. He's the worst politician only propped up by the msm.
I could even get up and do his shtick.
I make video satires about him. Click on my name for some funny "stuff" (stuff being one of his favorite words)
JP| 8.24.11 @ 9:10AM
Just a few points. The Fed doesn't print money. But, it does hold debt -huge new amounts since the enactment of QE1 and QE2. The Fed also is the holder of hundreds of billions in toxic mortgage securities. Its balance sheets now have some $1.7 trillion of government bonds. Add in the increase M2 money supply since 2009 (according to the St Louis Fed, Europeans are selling Euro Bonds and depositing the converted Euro-Dollar holdings into FDIC protected savings and checking accounts), and we have trillions of new cash and credit floating through our system. Ergo, inflation.
In almost 100 years we've come full circle. The Progressives of yesteryear (JP Morgan, Teddy Roosevelt, and many European bankers) pressured Congress for an independent central bank. They got what they wished for. Since the 1913 Federal Reserve Act, the dollar has lost 92% of its value; there has been a major Depression, 2 major recessions, and several minor ones. There was also a half dozen boom-bust cycles (something the Federal Reserve bureaucrats promised they could prevent). And the Anointed One displays for all that wish to see the politicization of our monetary policy. Greenspan at least hid his politics behind a wall of techno-speak. Bernecke is up front. Both men engineered monetary policies to benefit short-term election politics (Clinton in Greenspan's case, Obama's in Bernecke's case).
As far as urban unrest. Perhaps we should go out on a limb here. Chicago, Philly, and DC are all Democratic strongholds with connections to unsavory quasi-criminal political organizations (ACORN, Big Labor, and various neo-fascist political organizations). Maybe these flash-mobs are a run-up to something bigger. The Nazis sure used urban unrest to thier benefit. Fear has always been a motivating factor.
But, of course the US isn't Weimar. Once the balloon goes up it is difficult to know where it will end. Alinsky, for all of his rabble-rousing, never really understood this. In Berlin Germany (where the majority of the riots occured, The Left consistently won 60% of the vote). The Law of Unintended Consequences rule the game. The Far Left's nationwide riots of 1967-1968 didn't usher in the Age of Mao and Che. But they did help elect the most despised politican of the late 20th Century -Richard Nixon. Who knows, if things get out of hand, Sarha Palin could end up President (the Left despises her more than Bush/Cheney). Serves them right.
Denise| 8.25.11 @ 1:05AM
Would you vote for her or give obomber four more years? I think i'd trust her over him any day, but secretly would want to see him lose to Palin or Perry, but not Mittens, he walks with his legs together, you know small steps.
David| 8.24.11 @ 9:16AM
WE probably will not have to worry about the likes of Maxine Waters and those like her after the next election cycle. Black Americans are wise to whats going on and will quietly start voting for those who represent them for what they are, and not what color they are.
If that fails, then God help black Americans if they choose to pursue a mob mentality in the streets. I would rather see us all come together as one people, American.
PJ| 8.24.11 @ 10:12AM
"Black Americans are wise to whats going on and will quietly start voting for those who represent them for what they are, ..."
Are you kidding! They're tribal just like Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, Jewish-Americans, etc... They vote for their own kind, w/exceptions of course.
Lawrence Boccardi| 8.24.11 @ 10:40AM
You might want to rethink that, David. You forget Colin Powell supporting the traitor, Then the oft-talked about VP candidate, Condelezza Rice, exiting the WH after an Obama visit, telling us "he's doing a fine job"! One criterion; color.
Tiddly| 8.24.11 @ 10:18PM
And Allen West voting in favor of Pigford, and consorting with the Black Caucus.
Boar Hunter| 8.24.11 @ 12:35PM
David, stop for a minute and think about how many "Black" politicians have been caught in proven corruption scandals only to be returned to office by their constituents. Sorry, but race trumps all. Liberal policies have turned the majority of the Black community into a permanent underclass, and they still vote Black first.
glenny44| 8.24.11 @ 3:02PM
David,
crimes committed, scandals, corruption, drugs, payoffs, etc = RESUME ENHANCERS for democrats! C'mon dude !
glenny
POST American| 8.24.11 @ 9:26AM
--'90's Show' Tavistock Institute FAKE political
spectrum FAKE OP --ALERT!--
As BOTH Britain and Fukishima burn in
proper Agenda 21 fashion --even as the U.S.
is now experiencing a HAARP-esque event of its
own ----is there anyone out there who is still
unaware that Bush/Cinton/Bush/Obama are,
one and all, CFR/Rock--F --L --O fronts?
Remember kiddies, with the capstone --
EUGENICS --Social Darwinism and
'order out of K-OZ' is the incremental
name of the game------ALWAYS.
"--And David counted the tribes"
-Scripture
SO, indeed he did----and does.
More recently:
"We are using MASSIVE third world
immigration to DESTROY British culture,
beyond repair, once and for all--FOREVER."
-TONY BLAIR
Fmr PM/ Globalist/ Cultural EUGENIST/--future
EU President
(Daily Mail interview)
----------------DO YOU STILL DOUBT IT?!
Cutting to the chase --Globalism is, was and
archetypally always will be, not only EUGENICS,
----but TREASON.
REALLY
TRULY
ETERNALLY
WL| 8.24.11 @ 9:32AM
RIGHT ON RIGHT ON RIGHT ON!!!!!!
Great Article Mr. Ferrara...
Your analysis is ALWAYS SPOT ON!!!!
Keep up the good work.
Stefan Stackhouse| 8.24.11 @ 10:08AM
Some days I feel like I'm in a boat in the middle of the ocean, and most of my fellow passengers are busy drilling holes in the bottom of the boat. You plead with them to stop, but they tell you: "Shut up! How dare you tell us what to do! What do YOU know?!"
Unfortunately, there is no other boat to which one can flee. We are stuck in it together, and it looks like it is on its way to a very bad end.
idalily| 8.24.11 @ 4:39PM
This analogy is, sadly, spot on.
Boar Hunter| 8.24.11 @ 5:12PM
Depressingly, that was one of the most original and poignant analogies I have heard in a long while.
Curtis Rasmussen| 8.24.11 @ 7:08PM
I read a couple of paperbacks that used Dante's inferno as a basis. They are replete with stories like this, the damned compulsively doing things against their best interest. Democrats have not gone to hell, they are already there.
Redstateboy| 8.24.11 @ 10:43AM
I'm glad someone has pointed out that unlike the UK - We have our 2nd Amendment rights and what Peter Ferrara IS going to happen... Some mad Black IS going to run in to a White person who will Kill them in self-defense and then Blacks will go Ape in the Streets.. As for me.. I've already ordered my Tactical Shotgun to go along with my Bersa 380
irish19| 8.24.11 @ 11:35AM
Get a bigger handgun. .380 is nothing but a shortened version of the 9mm. The 9 is considered iffy by many authorities, but is adequate. The .380 won't cut it.
Drunken Sailor| 8.24.11 @ 12:54PM
9MM iffy? It's all in the ammo and the placement of your shots my Irish lad. Double tap works wonders and I can shoot it all day. Then again, it is my backup as my primary close defense weapon of choice is a combat rigged shotgun Magnum shells and OO or OOO buckshot.
Mike D.| 8.24.11 @ 1:16PM
If you hit somebody with a 3.5" magnum load of OO buck or a slug in the torso they are NOT getting up.
Boar Hunter| 8.24.11 @ 1:29PM
I am sad to say that for the first time, this post of yours finds me in disagreement with you. The situation does dictate tactics, but the "zipper effect" has been found a superior method for bringing down aggressive opponents. Start at the pelvic girdle and move up to the head, it overloads the central nervous system very quickly (especially when you get to the head). With that said, the reason I replied to your post wasn't to disagree, I just love talking about guns and shooting cause it completely freaks the libs out.
Drunken Sailor| 8.24.11 @ 1:57PM
I agree with your zipper effect with a pistol. My concern was with penatration power. My 9mm will puch through walls (9MM Penatrator rounds) and may hit unintended targts. My shotgun will knock down the wall so I can see who I am shooting. LOL
Boar Hunter| 8.24.11 @ 3:40PM
Well said my friend! I am also a great fan of the 12 gauge shotgun. With the variety of rounds available, it is one of the most underrated and devastating weapons anyone can own. The Libs freak out over full auto. Wait till they see what either the 9, 32 cal. pellets in OO or the sheer brute force of a slug does to one of their beloved flash mobs.
irish19| 8.24.11 @ 9:27PM
I didn't say I thought it was iffy-just that some people do. I load mine with 124 gr. FMJ-RN over 5.1 gr. of Unique. I can also shoot it all day in my P-85 and find it's pretty damn accurate.
Pump action 12 ga. loaded with buck are also great for those unexpected intimate social occasions. The sound of the shell being racked in can make some goblins think about a career change right there on the spot.
Redstateboy| 8.24.11 @ 5:00PM
gentlemen... I realize a Bersa 380 Thunder is not some Mega-weapon but isn't that what they make hollow-points for? As for this Mossberger 500 Persuader 20 Ga. I'm purchasing.. between that, my buddies Shotgun and his 9Mil and all that Ammo. we have... just let Hussein try and take em'.
SkippingDog| 8.24.11 @ 11:04PM
When your local federally funded law enforcement agency knocks on the door, you'd probably better have some earplugs ready. It's going to get very noisy in your house, for at least a few seconds.
Jim G.| 8.25.11 @ 2:13PM
Nonsense. If you know how to shoot, you can take down any human with a .22. If you don't know how to shoot, a 44 mag won't be enough. I've gone shooting with colleagues from work, one with a Desert Eagle .50 auto pistol, and Heaven help him if he needs to defend himself / his family with it. The police will find them all dead, and will also find a number of huge holes in the drywall near where the killer was standing. The only gun control that is good is where you know how to put the bullet exactly.
Curtis Rasmussen| 8.24.11 @ 7:01PM
Looters of all denominations tend to rob and pillage in areas that they haunt. Unless you live there I would be less concerned.
Don't let the OBAMA class warfare gin up hostility for what I believe is a straw mob.
Mattled| 8.24.11 @ 11:01AM
Mr. Groseclose of UCLA has a book on media bias and how it affects election.
IF there was no media bias, McCain would have won by a larger margin over Obama than what actually transpired according to Groseclose.
Currently our strategy against the media has been:
Defense
Defense
Defense
They air/print/blog something that is a bald faced lie and we react.
How about this:
Offense
Offense
Offense
Let's call out George Stepphie, Matt Liar, Diane Socialist, Scott Pelley etc. out in ads, in public, challenging them on their bias.
Use examples and their own words. There is so much to use, it wouldn't be hard to do one billboard, one ad. It would go viral in an hour and reach millions.
COME ON MR. FERRARA----Start it!
I'm in for $100 for such a campaign!!
A.Men| 8.24.11 @ 11:51AM
I haven't seen Colon Powell trotted out to praise his leader, Obama. Where is his fawning praise of the Anointed One with the fading, black skin?!
Who Knows?| 8.24.11 @ 12:35PM
While mostly in agreement with this take on today’s rising market in Obama bashing, and also quite certain that inflation is coming, still, I must say that it’s too easy to blame the Fed for a lot of our problems.
The Fed is an independent agency, with a dual mandate, as you know. And, I’d be willing to bet that Bernanke et al are personally NOT Obama fans. That is, even though there may be SOME politics involved, it beggars belief to claim that the Fed is consciously acting to keep real bad inflation from happening until AFTER the November 2012 election, so that “their” man, Obama, can be safely elected.
Obama seems to me to be in the pose of the “man behind the curtain” in the “Wizard of Oz”, right after it has been pulled back. Dorothy and her pals are in the moment of realizing what a wimp the man with the electronic megaphone REALLY is, and just so, the American public (not people like you and me and Thomas Sowell, who knew all along the truth about BHO!) are ONCE AND FOR ALL seeing clearly what a cipher our lead-from-the-behind president is, and always has been.
Yes---he’s a HAS BEEN!
Beware the still dominant left wing pundocracy, as it tries to use all the tricks of its trade to convince us that Obama can make a come back.
We like to laugh at people who believe that “this time it’s different”, because usually they are fooling themselves, given that human nature is pretty much the same over time.
However, what is the ongoing, permeating individual-transcending truth, in our high tech world? The Information Revolution continues to accelerate at exponential speed!
Besides, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, and no one likes to be made a fool of---thus, the swing voters/independents, who are responsible for Obama becoming the leader of our sorry behinds, despite being mostly apolitical and heretofore easily swayed, are receiving many “drips” of TRUTH “water”, via the ubiquitous forms of media, which are steadily boring a hole in their stoned foolish belief in the One, Obama.
Remember, one of the core aspects of the unfolding of time-space is---PRECEDENT!
Humans ever use what has been PREVIOUSLY used, once it becomes know. Gotta keep up with the Jones’!
So, thank Slick Willie for his duplicitous use of the insight, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.”
The voters who were fooled by BHO are legion! And, one by one, as they realize THIS, and he keeps on trying to fool them AGAIN---well: being ashamed and embarrassed to have voted for Obama will be the weakest reaction, for sure!
The human-comedy dimension, seen from an above-it-all point of view, at least for me, is to wonder about the ongoing resistance of those who still believe in Obama—for such “flat-earth-believers”, there’s no HOPE they’ll CHANGE.
Finally, for today, a pair of chestnuts rises up for exposition---
“There’s a sucker born every minute” and “Never give a sucker an even break”.
Yes---suckers are Obama’s constituency!
Suckees rise up, and clean house!
conservative Bob| 8.24.11 @ 12:59PM
I am alarmed at the increase in confrontational language used in our discussions. I have seen it increasing in news and comments everywhere regardless of political leaning.
I worry for the fabric of our society. People, seem increasingly willing to draw a line in the sand some sound almost as if they welcome some sort of confrontation. I pray that we are able to avoid such a desperate and destructive calamity.
I fear too many mistakenly assume that somehow once we cross that line we will soon return to a more polite society. Like others have posted, we too have laid in a supply of food and the tools necessary to provide for the protection and sustenance of our family for either a short or long term disruption of civil order. If conditions should so decline, we will not hesitate to protect our family.
Make no mistake if circumstances deteriorate and we are forced to actually engage in armed conflict there will be no quick return to ‘normal’. We will be lucky to see anything approaching our normal of the past, within our lifetimes if ever. Pray that we are able to fully restore sanity at the ballot box without ever getting near actual conflict. A wide scale breakdown of our civil order is much more likely to devolve into anarchy followed some form of authoritarian governance than a restoration of the liberty which we have enjoyed since our founding.
Boar Hunter| 8.24.11 @ 1:52PM
Confrontational language? Have you heard of "Flash Mobs?" At least you have the good sense to prepare for armed conflict. Think of this; A significant terrorist attack (Probably a bunch of old white ladies from the Tea Party) disrupts electricity, food or water for three days in a major city. How long do you think it will take for the flea and locust class perceive another opportunity to loot, burn and pillage?
It is this polite society that has resulted in the problem. The reason we used to have manners was because people debating the issues of the day in a tavern populated by men wearing tomahawks and handguns were respectful to each other. Beyond that, they shared a communal bond and were striving to make the world a better place for their children. Now we have sissies and cowards who have the ability to say anything that springs into their demented minds without fear of confronting a grown man, because they can do so from behind a computer in their dorm room which you and I fund.
conservative Bob| 8.24.11 @ 4:18PM
Sorry BH I may not have made my point very well. I had started a post that included reference to the 'flash mob' the serious dangers they represent and other points from the article but it was way too long.
I take seriously the overt and thinly veiled threats made by this administration and its minions.
I too see and hear serious real threats to my family and our way of life on the horizon and am taking the necessary steps to prepare as best I can.
My caution isn't that I do not think the threats plausible or real but refers to the illusion that if we cross that line we will easily be able to return to the society we had before. My concern is that if we light that fuse the explosion may carry us into the abyss.
My point is that to be goaded into a confrontation by some nimrod in his underwear behind a computer screen in his mother's basement is to be played as a fool. Or to allow ourselves to be agitated to the point of responding to perceived rather than actual threats or over reacting to actual threats plays in to their hands or damages the interests of all.
I will respond vigorously to protect my family and our way of life should it become necessary.
I am watching as is everyone else a ratcheting up of rhetoric, threats and responses and am cautioning that we not let the basement underwear gangsters carry us over the edge. I say this not out of fear of a fight but out of recognition that if we are ever so unfortunate as to cross that line, we all stand to lose everything. If a conflict must come so be it, all the while understanding the risks and simply caution that we make sure our response is based on actual danger and not over blown rhetoric.
Boar Hunter| 8.24.11 @ 4:48PM
Wow Bob, that was well said! I can feel, and I share the sorrow projected by your views on this issue. It is a sad state of affairs we find ourselves in, but it is not one of our own making. We, the God fearing, conservatives who actually love America have been begging for someone to stand up to the liberal intelligencia for years. We try and elect responsible people to represent our views, what do we get?...more liberal appeasement from the likes of John McCain, John Boehner.
I am in no way suggesting or supporting a reactionary rush into the type of conflict your alluding to, but you read what these willfully ignorant liars and lovers of lies write on these blogs the same as I do. You can not change their mind with reason. What is left? I am fed up with political correctness. Sorry, but I for one have lost my tolerance for these people! We share no common ground! They are pillaging America into oblivion and they must be defeated. If someone does not act to right things soon I fear the worst.
Boar Hunter| 8.24.11 @ 5:09PM
Whatever the future may bring, in defense of America; I pledge my life, my fortune and my sacred honor.
skip| 8.25.11 @ 9:55PM
Dibs on 'basement underwear gangsters'
Mike D.| 8.24.11 @ 1:55PM
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. This election is the most critical since possibly the Civil War IMHO. Nobody wants violence, but when I have elected members of Congress AND(when addressing a Mexican group a President of the US) calling me the "enemy" I take that as them meaning it. I have every right and obiligation to defend myself and my family if violence comes my way. The matter will be settled by vote in 2012 and if he's reelected then this financial collapse is certain and what will be born out of it is anybodies guess.
Paul from SA| 8.24.11 @ 1:00PM
Since Rick Perry's statement about Bernanke being treasonous if he prints money for political purposes thru 2012 to help Obama's reelection, I've noticed the Democrat media trying to elevate Bernanke's stature and reputation.
Unfortunately for them, many conservatives understand The Fed's role in the mortgage/banking meltdown recession and how their manipulations of the supply and demand for money is causing our frequently recurring boom and bust cycles.
What if Bernanke printed counterfit money instead of real money? Is there any difference?
Buck Ofama| 8.24.11 @ 1:35PM
Way past time to ROPE the DOPE.
Buck Ofama| 8.24.11 @ 1:37PM
>If the flash mob riots don't stop, sooner or later a legally armed citizen is going to shoot someone in self-defense.
LOVE TO SEE IT.
Oldefarte| 8.24.11 @ 2:09PM
Once again, [until they take this mouse from my cold, dead hands.....IT'S THE DEMOCRATS, STUPIDS. Additionally, from the current book 365 Ways to Argue With a Liberal:
'.... No. 236 of 365
Tell a liberal how much you appreciate that the Obama economy is a system of checks and balances.
He writes the checks, you pay the balance....'
Glenn Koonse | 8.24.11 @ 2:16PM
Can you imagine if Perry wins and defeats Obama what the economy could be?? We would be using our own energy resources: gas, oil, coal, oil. We would be changing, if voters are smart and give America both Houses of Congress to Pubs, regs in EPA-OSHA. That would immediately help jobs, investments, hiring.We would see taxes,spending cuts. We should see some border solutions. We should see our CIC stop apologizing for America. We might even see some self respect coming back to America. I ask Indies, Pubs,Libertarians, Reagan Dems, TEAS to unite to stop the Obama-type socialist tripe that keeps us from our American heritage,history and values.
Purple Lips| 8.24.11 @ 4:35PM
Don't count on it. Perry is just a chip off the old Bush (or is it the old Ford, or Dole). He speaks a mean game, but if pushed he will cut deals with his former Democratic allies.
Boar Hunter| 8.24.11 @ 5:03PM
From what I have read about Perry so far, I am inclined to think you're one of those weak willed moderate/independent types who believes we need someone like Romney who can get along with the Democrats. I call BS. If Perry is nominated I will vote for him. Romney, not so much. If we nominate another wishy washy weasel like McCain, Obama will win the election and calamity will ensue.
Nite| 8.24.11 @ 10:28PM
Obviously you don't know Perry. He has been a conservative Republican for over 20 years, and is more conservative than President Bush. He is a fiscal and social conservative, believes in a strong defense, and obtaining our own energy in the US. He can beat Obama and his teleprompter. Guess that may be your fear.
Strudwick Wickerwire| 8.24.11 @ 2:22PM
Hypocrite isn't a strong enough or descriptive enough a word to describe Obonehead!!!
Boar Hunter| 8.24.11 @ 5:04PM
There are no words, so we use the ones we have.
Fly| 8.24.11 @ 2:24PM
Keep the flames of freedom forever lit in your bellies, the democracy bunch, mod rulers, as itching for a fight they are surely going to lose, big time.
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fmm| 8.24.11 @ 2:30PM
It is so obvious when Obama makes these comments that he is speaking of himself and his political bed fellows. Why not bring this out?
Bill S| 8.24.11 @ 2:44PM
We're already in a recession. 400,000 job losses every week for months. Very few jobs created. Economic growth slowing. When GDP numbers are adjusted for the real rate of inflation they show that the economy is shrinking.
cuban pete| 8.24.11 @ 3:04PM
The Chicago/Cook County Democrats delivered Illinois for JFK in 1960. They have honed their skills over the years. In 2012 Illinois is a lock for BHO. I'm depending on other flyover states,etc. to pick up the slack.
At this point I like Perry and/or Bachmann but anybody but Obama in '12.
And please no Perot third party nonsense. The stakes are too high this time around.
Rick| 8.24.11 @ 5:14PM
Your a bigget and a rasist!
Denise| 8.25.11 @ 12:40AM
If your goingvto call people these names Learn to spell them.....its bigot and racist, with a c.
Ken (Old Texican)| 8.25.11 @ 6:02AM
Denise,
Rick was making a joke.
B. Samuel Davis| 8.24.11 @ 5:17PM
Interesting - the Democrat party's control over the national media remains its #1 source of strength - that fact allows it to set the agenda, to set what i call the fashion morality, and allowed Democrats to transform out country into something other than a WASP nation.
Media control is the issue, everything else is secondary - and it is no surprise that the introduction of color TV and the '60's revolution went hand in hand. It is also something that needs far more research.
Obama and the Democrat minions have NBC through GE, ABC through Disney, CBS through long experience. Republicans, conservatives need a television outlet - FOX is not nearly enough. Fox did show that selling to conservatives was good business - shouldn't someone step in with conservative entertainment, and news biased toward conservatives? There's a golf channel, a travel channel, a gay channel, why not a conservative channel?
Yes, it needs money, but is anyone even working on it? Come to think of it, why is the national media Democrat? i'd like to know - care to research it?
B. Samuel Davis| 8.24.11 @ 5:17PM
Interesting - the Democrat party's control over the national media remains its #1 source of strength - that fact allows it to set the agenda, to set what i call the fashion morality, and allowed Democrats to transform out country into something other than a WASP nation.
Media control is the issue, everything else is secondary - and it is no surprise that the introduction of color TV and the '60's revolution went hand in hand. It is also something that needs far more research.
Obama and the Democrat minions have NBC through GE, ABC through Disney, CBS through long experience. Republicans, conservatives need a television outlet - FOX is not nearly enough. Fox did show that selling to conservatives was good business - shouldn't someone step in with conservative entertainment, and news biased toward conservatives? There's a golf channel, a travel channel, a gay channel, why not a conservative channel?
Yes, it needs money, but is anyone even working on it? Come to think of it, why is the national media Democrat? i'd like to know - care to research it?
Paul from SA| 8.24.11 @ 5:43PM
And it probably gives them a 15-20 pt advantage.
larry | 8.24.11 @ 6:02PM
WHAT A BUNCH OF RIGHT WING RUPUBLICAN TALKING POINTS PIECE OF GARBAGE. NOTHING ORIGINAL OR NEW HERE. CONCLUSIONS NOT BASED ON REALITY
datameister| 8.24.11 @ 6:06PM
All things stated among you, I agree. And to it all, I add this:
To more perfectly understand what is happening, how and why, just look up anything 'Cloward & Piven Strategy of Manufactured Crisis' on google or any other search tool.
Suddenly, all the dots will become easier to connect.
Since the mainstream media have been complicit in Obama's election in 2008 (they knew of his associations to Bill Ayers, etc. but chose to overlook it) , they will not incriminate themselves by bringing any of this up now. And certainly not during the ensuing elections in 2012 - assuming we will have them (I am). But a 'Crisis' is just the thing he may be expecting, hence his net aloofness.
Only a foreign press would break that story at this point.
I hope someone does.
It's time for the Silent Majority to be silent no more, else possibly silent forever.
Al Adab| 8.24.11 @ 7:42PM
It's an old Hegelian method. Create a crisis, promise to solve it, then use it to centralize control. The Left has used it for a long, long time.
SkippingDog| 8.24.11 @ 11:01PM
It seems to work.
Al Adab| 8.24.11 @ 11:08PM
Sadly so.
David| 8.24.11 @ 6:31PM
This is the David who usually posts here, not the one above.
To David above, do you really think blacks are going to vote out Obama, or Maxine Waters, or any other black??? They do not reason as most people do. Black is black and that is all that matters. As others have pointed out, how could repubs Condi and Colin, and I know J.C. Watts even toyed with the idea of voting for Bam Bam even consider voting for this Marxist? Black politicians NEVER pay for what they do or say, even when it is illegal or completely out of bounds. Tawana Brawley, the girl from the Duke rape case, the Panthers in Philly at the last election..................blacks do not pay a price for what they do to whites. Sure, there are a bunch of blacks in prison, but that is usually for black on black crime. What is happening to all of the black who are targeting whites in cities all across America right now? Nothing.
I predict now, if Bam Bam loses, keep your guns close and your powder dry because they are really going to riot. They will be convinced that the election was stolen from him.
Denise| 8.25.11 @ 12:34AM
100%Agreement
John II| 8.24.11 @ 7:24PM
There seems to be a downward spiral in the works, starting some decades ago, but accelerated of late by the election of a silly lightweight poseur as President.
Silver lining: If America survives this rash of moral and cultural and economic and political imbecility, she will be immeasurably stronger than ever before.
Big "If."
And now back to "The Caine Mutiny" (1954), in which Fred MacMurray plays Lt. Tom Keefer, a big-mouth know-it-all liberal with snappy lines ("The Navy, gentlemen, is an institution organized by geniuses so it can be run by idiots") that reveal a capacity for the quick word, a shallow pose that disintegrates under fire, after which the know-it-all liberal betrays a fellow officer in order to save his sorry ass. And to think that it was still seven years before the birth of the Professor.
Denise| 8.25.11 @ 12:30AM
Lecturer.........the man doesn't stay in one place long enough to be anything but a aggravator, the organizator in chief, the acorn king,Obomber.
John II| 8.25.11 @ 1:53PM
True. But I can't help thinking of him as "the Professor." I work with many people who DO have that title, and almost all of them, in their smugness and slipperiness and shallowness, remind me of . . . "the Professor."
And now back to "Animal Crackers" (1930), in which a different sort of Marxian--Harpo Marx--plays "the Professor." And to much better effect, inasmuch as he's deliberately rather than inadvertently hilarious.
There's also an important line in that flick, written by the great Morrie Ryskind and delivered by the incomparable Groucho Marx in the role of the African explorer Captain Spaulding: "One day I shot an elephant in my pajamas; how he got in my pajamas I'll never know."
Rod Hug| 8.24.11 @ 8:03PM
"And if they're listening hard enough, maybe they'll come back to Washington ready to compromise"
How does one "compromise" with a socialist/marxist agenda that brought Obamacare and massive national debt, and that seeks to bring even more debt that threatens US economic stability? No, we cannot compromise. We must defeat it.
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SkippingDog| 8.24.11 @ 10:59PM
As long as you include the Koch and Walton foundations, we can probably find some agreement.
SkippingDog| 8.24.11 @ 10:58PM
Some inflation will actually be helpful in at least two respects: It will be far easier to pay down our national debt with inflation cheapened dollars and retirees who rely on investment returns to support themselves should have a much easier time getting a 5 or 6% return.
It does have some downside, but we'll deal with those the same way we've done before - with a future recession/depression.
Denise| 8.25.11 @ 12:06AM
If we take everything he said in his Michigan speech and apply it to him, it would be absolutely correct. He and the democrats are doing everything they are accusing the republicans of doing. Just take an honest look at every state or city that has had a democrat in control and all you will see is waste, with thr exception of Governor Mansion.
Denise| 8.25.11 @ 12:20AM
I think that the press and the media gave up their protections under the first amendment when they went over to the other side,violating the purpose for their existence,which was to keeep the people informed with facts,which some networks like MSNBC completely fabricate nightly. Remeber any mention of black clouds makes you a racist now.
Mary| 8.25.11 @ 10:48AM
You sir, have done a brilliant analysis of this man's total incompetency to serve. The general electorate of this country could have used someone like you to point out his shortcomings prior to election. They say we deserve what we elect but the uneducated masses blindly went along with the liberal media bias and the result was one of the greatest disasters our country has ever seen.
William L. Gensert| 8.25.11 @ 10:50AM
When you practice the politics of bitterness and envy, in the end, you just look bitter and envious. People tend to shun the bitterly envious, something the world will see on Election Day 2012.
Ian| 8.25.11 @ 3:24PM
Ladies and Gentlemen of America.
It saddens me to say you are completely screwed. If O doesn't win the next election, it will be far too late to pull the country back from the brink. And whoever is at the helm will take the blame.
As a citizen of a S. American country, I cordially invite all hard-working and libertarian minded citizens to vote with their feet before the oncoming storm takes that choice out of your hands. Come to S. America and make a difference where one can still be made. Democrats and progressives for God's sake stay right where you are. You are going to get what you so richly deserve. In spades. Hope you like it.
Ian| 8.25.11 @ 3:36PM
Errata: I meant to say, "EVEN if O doesn't win the next election..." Apologies.
Joe Six-Pack | 8.25.11 @ 5:55PM
"There will be a whopping recession then unless the voters remove Obama from office next year and quickly replace Obamanomics with Reaganomics, which solved a very similar problem in the early 1980s.":
A major problem here is that the base economic position of the United States is far weaker than it was in the early 1980's.
Paul Mortenson| 8.25.11 @ 10:15PM
"But Rick Perry has it pegged right."
You mean Ron Paul had it right for years, and only NOW, Rick Perry is piggybacking off of Ron's long fight with the Fed.
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Remeber any mention of black clouds makes you a racist now.
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joe| 8.26.11 @ 3:14AM
Journalists, writers, pundits have to start calling things for what they are. This is a Marxist, dictatorial regime. really i dont understand, estimating construction software
jgo| 8.26.11 @ 3:53PM
Meanwhile, that federal debt keeps on climbin'... faster and faster and faster.
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