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A Frivolously Destructive Presidency

By George Neumayr on 9.22.11 @ 6:10AM

Toying with ideological larks defines it.

Obama’s presidency lurches from fad to fad — from gays in the military to “green jobs” to the “Buffett rule.” Hyped as a profound presidency, it has turned out to be an embarrassingly frivolous one. Sober historians of the future, not cowed by political correctness, will no doubt look back and say that Obama fiddled while America burned, indulging his sophomoric socialism, environmentalism, and social engineering at a time of terrorism and economic crisis.

The weighty and thoughtful orator of Democratic mythology looks more like a glib used car salesman, and in his case most of the used cars are electric. It is fitting that his hawking of cheap environmentalist propaganda would lead him into the first major scandal of his presidency. The Solyndra debacle is exactly what one would expect from an administration determined to push the politics of environmentalist conjecture at the expense of the American taxpayer and economy.

Out of Obama’s implausible ideological insistence that “green jobs” would bolster the economy, and the political need to prove that claim, came a hasty loan to a dubious solar panel maker that promised to create them. Obama leaves the American taxpayer with a bill of over half a billion dollars for this environmental lark, and it is only the most recent bill. His “green jobs” loan guarantee program has been a bust, costing taxpayers tens of billions for the creation of a pitifully small number of jobs.

The Solyndra scandal stands as a symbol of the administration’s reckless and unserious approach to the economy, undermining job creators while propping up job destroyers. Needing to divert people’s attention from the greed and irresponsibility on display in the scandal, Obama now turns back to raw class warfare, hoping to egg the poor and middle class into an idle hatred of the rich. The great unifier seeks to set secretary against boss.

Obama says his gimmicky “Buffett rule” is not class warfare but simple math. Maybe he means the “new math” taught in public schools. Senator Charles Schumer of New York must not have received the “simple math” talking point; he admits openly that Obama’s proposal is timed to capitalize on potential class resentments in a bad economy. “When everybody went up, it was a lot harder to make this argument,” he told the press. “I think the time is ripe again. And I think the president sensed that.”

Obama’s half-baked Marxist musings with Joe the Plumber remain his deepest thoughts on the purpose of taxation. He still feels entitled to seize wealth and “spread” it around. When he says that the rich aren’t paying their “fair share,” all he is saying is that their money belongs to the government automatically for redistribution. But that’s just theft masquerading as taxation. The true principle of taxation is not the redistribution of wealth but the financing of legitimate government activity, and under that principle the rich are paying more than their fair share, as they carry a disproportionate amount of those costs. Republicans should resist the Buffett rule not just because it will inhibit job creation and consumption but because it is a bald act of theft.

America’s “jobs president” is more like a crooked Robin Hood. Economic decline is not so much a crisis for him as a policy and a pretext for ideological opportunism. Given the choice between liberal ideology and the creation of jobs, he consistently selects the former. He chooses unions over jobs, environmental regulations over jobs, and trivial tax-hike gimmicks over jobs.

Obama’s blasé attitude about Solyndra, shrugging off an enormous loss to taxpayers as no big deal, is part of this ideological blindness and complacency. No failure ever prompts any reflection on the wisdom of a liberal scheme; he just moves forward, trying out new ways to present failed ideas as a boon to the common good.

A popular slur among liberal pundits is to say that Republicans oppose Barack Obama’s economic ideas because they want the economy to stay sluggish before the election. The slur makes no sense. If that were the Republicans’ crass calculation, they would be supporting his ideas, as they are sure to make a bad economy worse.

But it is not enough for Obama to damage the economy. He’s also proud of shaking up the military. Just as he is making life harder on businessmen through new taxes and regulations, so he now makes life harder on generals through social engineering. The media’s coverage of the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell has been laughably propagandistic, designed to leave the impression that everyone is thrilled with the change. The reality is that it creates new headaches for generals who already have too many of them. And there is no end in sight to the politicized struggles to come. According to the Washington Post, gay activists have a new cause to press upon a hidebound military — the “unknown number of transgender troops serving in uniform without formal recognition.” Perhaps this cause will dovetail with Obama’s next likely innovation for the military, a full-blown women in combat policy.

After all, he owes feminists a favor, having allowed, according to author Ron Suskind, a “hostile workplace” for women to fester in the White House. One would have thought Bill Clinton’s presidency might have triggered that complaint. Instead, “I feel like a piece of meat”-style complaints comes from Obama’s. Life in the workplace has grown difficult everywhere under Obama, including in his.

About the Author

George Neumayr, a contributing editor to The American Spectator, is co-author, with Phyllis Schlafly, of the new book, No Higher Power: Obama’s War on Religious Freedom.

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Teaghan| 9.22.11 @ 6:28AM

While that beast of a wife of his wears $40,000. dollars in diamonds on her wrists. These people are obvilious to what is happening around them. Or perhaps they just don't give a damn.

chuck| 9.22.11 @ 6:50AM

It's the "I won the lottery" mentality. Moochele thinks she's won the lottery, and guess who gets to foot the bill.
The absolute worst president this country has ever had. This should be the end of the Democrat Party. To have nominated this idiot, then held him up to be the Savior is almost an act of treason. No one should ever again vote for a Democrat!

Michael Tomlinson| 9.22.11 @ 7:07AM

Teaghan and chuck you nailed them. It is all about "Me" for Obama and Michelle and let the American people eat their peas and shut up.

Redstateboy| 9.22.11 @ 3:45PM

shut up, eat your Peas and sit in traffic... did ya hear Hussein backed up traffic for miles on the Ohio River bridge today doing his Dog and Pony show?!?? As Bugs Bunny would've stated.. "what a Maroone"

Gretchen| 9.22.11 @ 4:28PM

Don't you mean "ME-chelle"?

Mike D.| 9.22.11 @ 8:26AM

Hell, at least she feels better about the country she's living in now!!! LOL

Byron| 9.22.11 @ 11:04AM

Yup. When she was married to a millionaire U.S. senator she couldn't bring herself to be proud of her country. He had to be president!

USSAlabama| 9.22.11 @ 8:29AM

It IS a profound presidency though . . . profoundly the worst in history.

Mike Hawk| 9.22.11 @ 8:35AM

Years ago there was a now non-PC term for their behavior. It was (N-word)-rich, now translated as Afro-affluent. It meant newly acquired wealth and 'status' ostentaciously displayed and flaunted. (usually pissed away shortly thereafter.)

Bill| 9.22.11 @ 8:57AM

I worked in a job that had a predominantly black work force a while back. We also used the "n****r rich" term. Among my black fellow workers and I, it meant the guy who had a roll of $1.00-dollar bills with one $20.00 bill on the top. On payday, he was NEVER the guy who volunteered to buy a round at the tavern.

Ampleforth| 9.22.11 @ 9:07AM

I remember listening to an interview with Sen. Wendell Ford (D-KY) on WHAS radio in Louisville. I think Jane Norris was the hostess. He used the term "n-rich." Norris about flipped. There was little fallout from his use of the term. If Mitch McConnell had used that expression, I doubt he'd be the Senate Minority Leader or even still in the Senate. I hate the double-standard.

York Hawk| 9.22.11 @ 9:11AM

Oy Bill,you are referring to what is known as the "Oklahoma Bankroll",a wad of singles topped by the larger denomination. I find that a c-note on the outside is most impressive.

Timothy L. Pennell| 9.22.11 @ 9:23AM

Oy. Actually, that's a Jewish Bankroll.

Moe Blotz| 9.22.11 @ 9:47AM

Aye,in New Yawk and the east, probably predating the Oklahoma Bankroll. Are the Jews just as loath as Bill's co-workers to spring for the first round?

Occam's Tool| 9.22.11 @ 2:57PM

Moe, my dear boy, come up to Northern Minnesota (communicate through Ken on this) and I'll buy the first 3 rounds for you at either of the two fine Irish Taverns in my home town, says this Jew (hell, Ken, accompany him and your first 4 are on me, sir).

That is a base canard, as my nurses will tell you, here and overseas.

Bo Blotz| 9.22.11 @ 5:49PM

I think Moe is talking about the Schmucky Schumer/ Anthony Weiner types who like to spend other peoples's money.

Anthony| 9.22.11 @ 10:54AM

While I dislike this vulgar phrase, nonetheless, if this $40,000 bangle was paid for with taxpayer money, this bitch and her destructive husband need to be sent packing.
And unlike the white trash Clinton's, when they leave the W.H., this bangle had damn well be left on the bureau, so we can recoup our hard earned money.

Tiddly| 9.22.11 @ 12:40PM

Another common phrase back then, to indicate a problem, was paraphrased by W.C. Fields in one of his movies, when he became suspicious that things were not going right: "There's an Ethiopian in the fuel supply," he said.

I think America has an Ethiopian in its fuel supply right now.

al bundhii| 9.22.11 @ 9:24PM

W. C. said that in "My Little Chickadee." I noticed the quote one night when I had rented the movie.

Mike Hawk| 9.22.11 @ 5:45PM

I think she "borrowed" that bracelet. She may end up "owning it" after they leave the WH. No quid pro quo here, right??

Kishego| 9.23.11 @ 3:10PM

I believe you are correct on that one Mike. The girl that makes the jewelery loaned it to moochelle for the free PR. That is the best free commercial any one could get right now. And according to the article on Drudge, she is reaping a windfall.

Bill| 9.22.11 @ 5:52PM

Did you read the story today reporting that somebody found a moon rock among Bill Clinton's effects?

I can just picture it: "How did THAT get there?"

Timothy L. Pennell| 9.23.11 @ 3:41PM

Wow. Where do ya start?
He's a Community Organizer. His last gig was Stapling Protest Announcements on Telephone Poles, for ACORN. Other than that, he's never had a job IN HIS LIFE.
He has no written record, aside from his Autobiographies. Everything else, he keeps locked away, far from any prying eyes.
You think that he cares about GREEN JOBS. He does not. He's a Watermelon. They all are. Green on the outside. RED on the inside. Everybody knows that the Environmental movement is where the Communists all ran to, when their Great Show, in the Soviet Union, was closed down.
One need only look at this EPA. It has ABSOLUTE POWER to CONTROL.
You speak of his Oratory skills. I would suggest that he's a better READER, than he is, a Talker. Take away his Teleprompter and you've got Popeye.
He's a BOY, in a MAN'S Job. All he knows is to repeat the mistakes of everyone who came before him that thought that THEY were THE ONE. That, Marxism and Socialism has failed, every time it's been tried, because HE wasn't running the show. If you leave out the fact that he is DESTROYING THIS COUNTRY, he's really no different than any of your run of the mill Narcissists.
As far as JOBS go. He doesn't want any.
You might say: "That's not true. He wants Union Jobs."
Yes........and No.
If he really wanted Jobs. He would Drill, EVERYWHERE. He would be freaking FRACKING, everywhere. Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs would be created. LOTS of them, Union Jobs. But, they're in the Private Sector, and he can't control them. And, what Pharaoh can't control, he destroys.
Solyndra is just a Money Laundering Deal. The same goes for Light Squared. The People and our National Security, be DAMNED!
Clinton did the same thing, when he gave a WAIVER to Bernard Schwartz' LORAL SPACE, who sold the Red Chinese the Navigational and Targeting Systems that China is using, as we speak, to point their ICBMs at our Families.
The Democrats have a penchant for SELLING US OUT for a few Pieces of Silver.
Gays in the Military. Green Job boondoggles, at the expense of REAL Jobs. French fries. Electric Cars.
What you call: Frivolous. I call: METHODICAL. He seeks to wear us down. Giving us Straw Dogs to look at, while his EPA and NLRB and DOJ, systematically dismantle our Economic, Military, and Social Structures.
He's like an Illusionist, keeping our gaze focused over here, while what he really wants to do, he does over there.
In fact. He's Sawing us in half, right now.

Buck Ofama| 9.22.11 @ 2:02PM

Beast, boon... all correct.

Grzmlyk| 9.22.11 @ 2:36PM

Of course they are oblivious to what is happening around them - that is the sina qua non of liberalism. In other words, they are like every other liberal out there - and, sadly, liberals, and their toxic politics of nihilism, have long since reached critical mass. The cancer has metastasized.

Neumayr is wrong; future historians will make Obama a saint. Because our ignorant brat in chief perfectly embodies the utter moral, intellectual, fiscal and spiritual bankruptcy that is liberalism; as such, he will be much beloved for generations to come, particularly when he fades into the past and the burnishing of his image becomes the main task of our education/indoctrination institutions.

We have lost the war between freedom and tyranny, love and hate, creativity and destruction, capitalism and socialism. We just don't know it yet.

Oh, I have no doubt that Obama - the flesh-and-blood politician - is finished. I believe we may even elect a Republican in 2012. Doesn't matter. He or she won't be able - or inclined - to stanch the hemorrhaging of America's blood, and will therefore be blamed for America's demise even as Leninism becomes even more deeply entrenched in the American psyche, and ever-increasing numbers of useless citizens - and non-citizens - will feel "entitled" to live like sultans off of the backs of the producers simply because they did us the supreme favor of being born. Then, just as sure as night follows day, our fickle, feckless independents will ensure that a Democrat is brought back to finish America off in 2016.

Our culture is such that, en masse, we have made the collective decision to cast cause-and-effect reality out of our little world; even the GOP,even now, is acting more like an abbetor than a voice of sanity. The budget cuts they are proposing aren't even cuts. They accept the leviathan nanny state every bit as much as Democrats - they just think they can do it a little more cheaply.

With our embrace of Keynesian fairy tales and our growing penchant for self-gratification, we have decided that, if we all just hold hands and believe, real hard, that we can kick the can down the road ad infinitum, we really will be able to do so. And we've long since succumbed to the lie that all we have to do is pay lip service to liberal bromides like fairness, "shared sacrifice," tolerance and diversity, and we can be as bigoted, greedy, intolerant and unfair as we want to be.

Just preach love and you are free to hate. Just preach frugality and you can spend like a drunken sailor. Just preach responsbility and you can screw anybody you like, any time you like, with no consequences. Just preach putting others first and you can be as gluttonously selfish as you want.

Just look at the odious Obamas. They are living in the cocoon spun by all of our lies. We have elevated these two little, larcenous, hateful, selfish, foolish, idiotic, inconsequential non-entitites to the status of gods. That is the new American dream, and our president and first lady epitomize the disparity between what we tell ourselves and what is. It matters not that Obama is, in reality, a worthless piece of shit; David Brooks liked the crease of his pantleg, and, surely, that's all that matters.

William F. Buckley once decribed his newborn publication, the National Review, as his attempt to "stand athwart history yelling,'Stop!'" What he wanted to stop was the inexorable tide of liberalism.

Well, the juggernaut that is liberalism has NOT stopped. It has barreled on, picking up momentum with virtually no brakes applied to its runaway acceleration in the last 50 yars.

It has now run down everything in its path. America is road kill. The light has been extinguished.

Congratulations, liberals. You've done it again.

Ken (Old Texican)| 9.22.11 @ 4:46PM

Grz,
GET A GRIP!
They haven't beaten me.
As Robert Heinlein wrote "You can't enslave a free man. You can only kill him."
Well,
I'm pretty tough to kill. Been there and got the Tee-shirt.
Do you recall the story about Hitler threatening Switzerland's President with an invasion. He told him he could invade with 8 hundred thousand men with one order.
Having four hundred thousand armed men total...the Swiss President told Hitler he would simply have each one shoot...twice.

If we have to go "there" we have to go "there".

I shall not bow.
I don't know where you live, but I know several million Texan men and women who won't bow. Come on down....and remember...timing is everything.
"Congratulations, communists. You may sign your own death warrants at the gate.

Margie| 9.22.11 @ 4:54PM

Quit throwing your bogus weight around here, liar.
Grz tells it like it is.
Papist punk.

Kishego | 9.23.11 @ 3:14PM

I'll stand with you Ken. I will not go quietly.

Bill| 9.22.11 @ 5:53PM

Or as Jesse Stone tells the city board in Paradise, "You can fire me, but you can't tell me what to do."

skip| 9.23.11 @ 11:09PM

Is it just me or does that dog of his stare right through you to the core - into your very soul.

Grzmlyk| 9.22.11 @ 6:34PM

Ken, look at our culture. Look which direction it's been moving for the last 50 years. Yes, there are pockets of resistance, like the Tea Parties, that have cropped up - but the extent to which the mainstream media successfully demonizes them tells you a lot about where our culture is. And yes, Fox News is a touchstone for many conservatives. As are some conservative Web sites. But they remain the cultural outliers and, in any case, they, too, are moving leftward (I mean, have you read Ben Stein on this site?). Rupert Murdoch has increased the liberalism at the Wall Street Journal, and, as soon as ad revenue drops at Fox News, he'll adjust the mix to accommodate the zeitgeist. Look at O'Reilly, by far Fox's biggest star - if he's a reliable conservative, I'm Mother Goose. Shepard Smith is a classic liberal, as is Carl Cameron. And Dana Perino is a classic RINO. I could go on and on.

Our popular culture continues to move leftward. Standards continue to become more and more lenient. The institutionalization of phony concepts like "diversity" and "tolerance" and "shared sacrifice" continues to gobble up more and more mindshare among our people. Our educational institutions continue to indoctrinate our kids that capitalism is bad, America is bad, white people are bad and that Islam is good.

Deny it if you feel you have to, but the march leftward is only picking up steam. Why do you think Perry had to assuage illegal aliens? He's against Arizona's recent draconian crackdown, he's against e-verify, he's against building a fence and he supported the Texas bill that gives illegal immigrant students the same access to in-state college tuition subsidies as their native-born counterparts. Is this what conservatism winning the day looks like?

Because, culturally, most people think it's "mean" of us to crack down on illegal immigation. In any case, the invasion of America is a fait accompli, and Texas just has to accept it, because that's what our culture demands. How many cities in America proudly declare themselves sanctuary cities in defiance of the law? Think this would have happened 20 years ago? They're out in the open about it because America has leapt to the left.

Don't forget another Texan, George Bush, who also cozied up to illegal immigrants . Why? Because we have long since LOST THAT BATTLE. And I might point out that the midwife of all of this socialist destruction, Lyndon Johnson, was a Texan.

The critical mass of culture in America believes that we should no longer be a sovereign nation, empowered to decide who comes here and who doesn't. That is a move toward the left.

Watch any TV show that's airing today. It is going to be more risque, raunchier and more liberal than any show that aired last year, and any show that aired last year was more risque, raunchier and more liberal than any show that aired the year before that - and on and on all the way back to the 1960s.

Look at the news - the American flag, patriotism and Christianity not only continue to be pummelled by the courts and the culture, but the persecution becomes worse every single day. They will not rest until every last recognizable aspect of American culture is obliterated, eradicated, and made morally odious. They are relentless, and they have already won.

Look at Wal-Mart - Wal-Mart used to be a bastion of conservatism. It is now a model liberal organization - it has no choice, because that's what the culture demands.

There are a lot of reasons for this - I believe that we are victims of our own success and tolerance. Every generation wants to consider itself far more advanced than the previous one - both technologically and culturally. This drives the inevitable pushing of limits, boundaries, values and morals.

Also, as we've grown wealthier and grown our standard of living, we've moved further and further away from the earth - from subsistence-level living and relationships that are bound by limitations. We have become gods in our own minds, able to gratify our most exotic whims pretty easily and cheaply. This has created a distorted perspective that allows us to delude ourselves that changing human nature is simply a matter of our elites and intellectuals engineering the common people; our elites have made theoretical abstractions of humanity, such that human individuality has been reduced to mere chess pieces they move about on the chess board of their own minds, and for nothing other than their own amusement.

Look at Paul Krugman. I can't tell you how many people I know think he's brilliant - yet his entire existence is an abstract theory without a shred of empirical verification from the real world. It doesn't matter. What he says sounds good to the NPR crowd - who think they can be as narcissistic and acquisitive as they want as long as they spout the right platitudes. And pretty much everyone I know who went to college is part of the NPR crowd.

But it's also entropy - the inevitable march away from order and toward chaos that affects every system in the universe. It happened to Rome. It happened to Christendom. It happened to Great Britain. And its happening to us.

If you can show me a single institution that has moved in a meaningful way from left to right over a period of, say, 10 years, please, let me know. Because, as I see it, there is only one way we're going to stop this march leftward, and that's when we are over the cliff. Which, as you know, I think we already are.

Our only hope lies beyond the collapse.

bluecollarbytes| 9.22.11 @ 10:53PM

I agree with your sentiments.

Moving leftward is not measured by whether an R or a D wins the election. The overall movement has been consistently left since I can remember.

generations one after the other have now been raised in the progressive march to a govt which rules it over the citizens. The endless growth in govt leads to one place- a people by, of, and for the govt.

With R-party royalty continuously pushing the idea that 'elections are won or lost in the middle....among the moderates' , it's safe to assume a continued leftward ho. Moderates want the 'best of all worlds', meaning they can be lied to and they'll believe it with greater ease. But if someone presents the stark truth, backed by recent 'trends', moderates can pick the right candidate on occasion. The truth is what Republicans should be pushing here, and the dire consequences of failing to transform our expectations of govt. It couldn't be clearer on what Needs to be done, at this crossroad. Of course the easiest laziest thing would be for our candidate (whoever) to start splitting hairs with Obamagenda. The election seems to be in the bag, regardless of who runs. So why bother doing more than needed to win? An R-win is an R-win, right? right.

KennesawJack| 9.22.11 @ 8:46PM

Ken, We may be relics of a type of American that no longer exists, but I'm (along with Dylan Thomas) with you. We will not go gently into that good night. The rest of you need to consider the validity of your own defeatism in the face of an as yet uncrowned enemy. Gryz, I've long admired your posts and your obvious intellect but in this case, your views are dystopian to the point of sounding like abject dispair. It ain't over 'til it's over and it ain't over yet.

Grzmlyk| 9.22.11 @ 9:16PM

Thank you, KennesawJack.

I'm not saying we have to roll over, and I'm not saying we should give up our values, or even give up the fight. As Ken might say, remember what happened at the Alamo.

But we're dealing with human nature and the tendency of systems to move toward chaos.

I'd be more encouraged if Republicans in Congress weren't quietly allowing a lot of this spending to just continue unchecked. They do that because they want to be reelected, which means that their constituents, despite all the talk about fiscal responsibility, would really rather keep their freebies and, at most, shrug their shoulders at the ongoing degradation of humanity and the corruption of our institutions.

What convinced me about our fate is the Tea Parties. I remember when Rick Santelli, during that impromptu interview, essentially set the ball in motion for this movement, calling for sane Americans to hold tea parties to protest taxes across the country. And the tea parties took off - a legitimate grass roots, spontaneous, peaceful uprising.

I thought, yeah, finally, American citizens are waking up; the sleeping giant that is the old "moral majority" is awakened, and our numbers will grow as ordinary Americans become emboldened to speak out and as go-along-to-get-along liberals find their voices and join our ranks - the ranks of the common sensical who believe in the values that made America great.

But that's not what happened; the tea party participants became objects of ridicule and hate and all sorts of accusations - racism, nazism, fascism. And, despite plenty of media coverage showing just average Americans standing up peacefully and even good-naturedly in civil protest for the old America, the pop culture tarred them with the contemptuous epithet "tea baggers," and it stuck. And now, ordinary Americans who are decent and responsible, but are tired of having to pay tribute to Washington DC every time they turn around, are considered whack jobs, evil assholes, selfish, and on and on and on.

In other words, the very Americans who used to form the backbone of the greatest economic engine in history have been marginalized in favor of central planning and punitive, tyrannical government. And our culture, which reflects our national character, has given this tyranny its blessing and kicked the tea partiers to the curb.

There are plenty of other examples that I cited above that show where this country is moving. It is not to the right. But once I saw how our culture treated the tea parties, I finally realized that we have passed the tipping point.

I look at it this way: Suppose you film a person dropping a raw egg onto a concrete slab fr0m a height of 50 feet. You play the film for an observer. Just before the egg hits the ground, you stop the film and ask the observer: What do you think is going to happen next?

If the observer says the egg will shatter when it hits the concrete, is he despairing? Is he a defeatest? Is he a pessimist?

No - he's a realist. He knows enough about eggs and gravity and concrete to make a pretty informed assumption as to what will happen next.

And, as Alexander Tytler said way back in the 18th century, once a populace figures out it can vote itself goodies from the public treasury, it's over for a country. We've become cruder, more pornified, more selfish, more self-entitled, dumber, more hypocritical, more ignorant and more hateful in this country. Look at the racial anger that's seething all over - and this is black-on-white violence. Look at the riots in Greece - those will happen here.

The dollar's collapse is inevitable. And once that bubble pops, the egg is going to go "splat" against the concrete.

KennesawJack| 9.22.11 @ 10:30PM

All you say is correct but enough of us will temporarily retreat to a place of disengagement, a kind of Galt's Gulch as it were, and eventually emerge to reclaim the true sovereignty that, as Rousseau so accurately states, ultimately must reside in, and be manifested by, the consent of the governed. Put another way, if Stalin and the KGB couldn't pull it off dealing with a bunch of former serfs, for damn sure our brand of effete communists can't when dealing with a people born to liberty.

SGT Baker (Native Coloradean)| 9.22.11 @ 11:55PM

Not all who think that way live in Texas good Sir.
As Patrick Henry said, "The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. "

KennesawJack| 9.23.11 @ 12:02AM

Sarge, so very, very well said.

Kishego| 9.23.11 @ 3:16PM

Amen, Sarge, Amen !!!

Alan Brooks| 9.22.11 @ 4:35PM

Remember the '80s when the GOP elected America a decent president? he won 49 states in 1984, so one could say he was broadly popular.
Since then the GOP has consistently messed it up; one visionless candidate, one visionless presidency after another.
Yet though such is history, a nagging worry exists that the GOP will keep messing it up.

Alan Brooks| 9.22.11 @ 4:40PM

... that is, it isn't to hold Obama's predecessor culpable, or the candidate you ran in '08;
it is to be 'concerned' (worried) you will continue on the same lost path.

Alan Brooks| 9.22.11 @ 5:52PM

"Papist punk."

Marge,
Martin Luther was infinitely more evil than any Pope has been or ever will be.

Martin Luther is burning in Hell this very moment.

Margie| 9.22.11 @ 6:01PM

So?

Alan Brooks| 9.22.11 @ 6:20PM

Protestants are more satanic than Catholics.

Margie| 9.22.11 @ 6:21PM

You are saying they are both Satanic.

Alan Brooks| 9.22.11 @ 6:23PM

... notice, Marge, I wrote 'satanic' with a small-case 's'-- satanic in a minor sense.
Example:
"David Duke is positively satanic in outlook."
Just for instance, David Duke does not actually worship Satan, yet he is slightly satanic in his words and deeds.

Margie| 9.22.11 @ 7:21PM

You know, Alan, I never thought of it that way before.
LOL!!

David Duke| 9.22.11 @ 7:28PM

Margie
See you at the next meeting. Call Adolph and Heinrich and Martin and the rest of the boys. Ya.

Margie| 9.22.11 @ 7:55PM

Sorry, but your Catholic church has more in common with Hitler et al than Hitler had with himself. Or Stalin, for that matter.

Best study your history, Troll.

The Papacy tortured and killed millions of Bible believing Christians, entire families at once, men women and children together, sometimes torturing their children while the parents watched.

Why?

Because they rejected the false teachings of Catholicism! Yep.

And worse than Hitler, they did it in THE NAME OF GOD.

Go learn your history, child. Then get back to me.

Oh, they also did the same thing to Jews as well. Hated them just as much as the Christians.

Catholicism is NOT Christianity. Is not that proof enough for you?

Catholicism still teachings the same false doctrines to this day, and they still HATE Bible believing Christians who take their stand on the Words of God as written plainly in the Bible.

You are witnessing this very same hatred toward me here, and any other Christian who dares to speak God's Own Words as written in the Bible.

No, your Religion is not Christianity~ it is still Satanism. And obviously, it's trained you well.

"Everyone transgressing and not abiding
in the doctrine of Christ does not have God.
The one abiding in the doctrine of Christ,
this one has the Father and the Son.
If anyone comes to you and does not
bear this doctrine, do not receive him into
the house, and do not speak a greeting to
him.
For the one speaking a greeting shares
in his evil works." 2 Jn. 1:9-11.

Alan Brooks| 9.22.11 @ 8:54PM

The most sinister:
http://rightgrrl.com/carolyn/teletubbies.html

Margie| 9.22.11 @ 11:14PM

Well actually, the Vatican has more in common with Tinkly Winkly, wouldn't you say?

DAM| 9.22.11 @ 6:12PM

Beast? Don't you mean beard?

Alan Brooks| 9.22.11 @ 6:31PM

Neumayr's oxymoron, 'frivolously destructive' is clever-- as if destruction could be frivolous.

Teaghan| 9.22.11 @ 6:31AM

Oh, I forgot. Great pithy article this morning George. Thanks for getting my blood moving.

Timothy L. Pennell| 9.22.11 @ 9:26AM

Mimi| 9.22.11 @ 10:52AM

Tim...How is it that what we think and see and just can't quite frame it, YOU can say it so creatively, funny and have us in wonder at your GOD-GIVEN talent ....keep it up!

hummer| 9.22.11 @ 11:04AM

Brother, you hit the nail on the head! My question is, "Why has noone in Congress brought up the fact that he has not proven to even be where he is POTUS? Why doesn't anyone have any backbone and guts anymore?" What are they scared of? He's trying to bankrupt this country and everyone just sits on their hands and does nothing?

Wayne| 9.22.11 @ 6:43AM

Its a big assumption to think it has anything to do with ideology. It has much more to do with criminality. Its the Chicago Crime Syndicate taking over the country.

Brian Mc| 9.22.11 @ 7:10AM

Don't mean to split hairs, Wayne. But Nazism was an ideology. Every criminal act it perpetrated was towards that end and the common good. They demeaned those who opposed them. Then, thumped a few heads which naturally led to imprisonment that metamorphosed to internment followed closely by murder until there was hardly anyone left internally to oppose them. Which, in their way of thinking proved they were in the right. Right to the very end.

Dan Hirsch| 9.22.11 @ 8:50AM

Brian Mc,

Yours was a very gentile, soft-focus description of the Nazi ideology. But Wayne did talk about Nazis, George Neumayr didn't. I don't see where anybody did.

What in the Sam Hill are you talking about?

DTOM

Brian Mc| 9.22.11 @ 9:14AM

Sorry you missed the point. Wayne mentioned ideology vs. criminology; I elaborated, (as I'm sometimes prone to do), that the one can sometimes lead toward the other as in the case of Nazism.

Wayne| 9.22.11 @ 4:48PM

Except that it is the other way around. Obama's criminality lead him to an ideology that helps him and his gang steal more money and more power. Obama care's little about what he is talking about, except in view of how it helps him keep his power and reward his friends and punish his enemies.

oldfart| 9.22.11 @ 7:17AM

The Pretender in Chief continues to display a total lack of any intelligence. They seem to make it up as they go along and the 'best minds of the current American education system' continue to go 'oh ah' 'oh ah'. Pardon me while I loose my breakfast.

R Martin| 9.22.11 @ 7:53AM

I would take an even money bet that a serious probe into Solyndra will find ex Green Jobs Czar Van Jones's fingerprints all over the deal.

Harry the Horrible| 9.22.11 @ 8:40AM

I bet that if you could follow the Solyndra money, you'd find that a substantial portion of it ended up in DNC coffers or with Democrat candidates.

Nunya| 9.22.11 @ 8:43AM

I'd give you 2-to-1 that you're absolutely right.

Doctor_X| 9.22.11 @ 7:55AM

" To have nominated this idiot, then held him up to be the Savior is almost an act of treason."

Well I didn't like either of the choices in the last election. If McCain / Palin is the best the Republicans can do and Obama / Biden is the best the Democrats can do then we’re screwed either way! None of them are intellectual giants.

We need to do better than this! It’s been all downhill (on both sides) since Reagen!

Ted| 9.22.11 @ 9:09AM

We don't necessarily need an intellectual giant. Sure we need someone with brains, but that alone won't suffice (look at Bill Clinton).

I didn't vote for McCain because I thought he was the best man for the job. I voted for him because, after conducting an analysis of his positions and Obama's, that he would be the least destructive between the two. Nothing in the last three years has changed my analysis, except that I didn't think things would be as bad as they are now.

Ken (Old Texican)| 9.22.11 @ 7:57AM

I honestly believe Obamas DO give a darn. They sense they are toast in 2012 and want to do as much damage as they can while they have the power.
I thank God daily that we at least got the House back to slow the spiral.

Mike D.| 9.22.11 @ 8:28AM

If this abortion is voted out in 2012, the last two months of him being Pharoah will be one for the record books. The next president will have to spend his first week in the office undoing the Pharoah's last executive orders.

R Martin| 9.22.11 @ 9:15AM

I've been thinking about who Obama might pardon in those last two months. That Philadelphia cop killer who the left seems to love tops the list.

Margie| 9.22.11 @ 2:44PM

Ken thanks God?
Yet he bears false witness here against one of God's children.
He is purposefully engaged in lying in order to turn others against me.
He sends me threatening e mails "warning" me to keep my mouth shut, filled with lies about my person.
Ken is a liar.
God isn't pleased with him.
He is a FRAUD!

Which version of the Bible is good enough for you Ken?
The Word of God testifies against you, liar:

"There are six things which the LORD hates, seven which are an abomination to him:

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and a man who sows discord among brothers." Prov. 6:16-19.

Do you see that, Ken?

God HATES what you are doing:

KJV
A false witness [that] speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

NKJV
A false witness who speaks lies, And one who sows discord among brethren.

NLT
a false witness who pours out lies, a person who sows discord in a family.

NIV
a false witness who pours out lies and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers.

ESV
a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.

RVR
El testigo falso que habla mentiras, Y el que siembra discordia entre hermanos.

NASB
A false witness who utters lies, And one who *spreads strife among brothers.

RSV
a false witness who breathes out lies, and a man who sows discord among brothers.

ASV
A false witness that uttereth lies, And he that soweth discord among brethren.

YLT
A false witness [who] doth breathe out lies -- And one sending forth contentions between brethren.

DBY
a false witness that uttereth lies, and he that soweth discords among brethren.

WEB
A false witness [that] speaketh lies, and him that soweth discord among brethren.

HNV
A false witness who utters lies, And he who sows discord among brothers.

VUL
proferentem mendacia testem fallacem et eum qui seminat inter fratres discordias

WLC
יָפִיחַ כְּזָבִים עֵד שָׁקֶר וּמְשַׁלֵּחַ מְדָנִים בֵּין אַחִֽים׃ פ

LXX
ἐκκαίει ψεύδη μάρτυς ἄδικος καὶ ἐπιπέμπει κρίσεις ἀνὰ μέσον ἀδελφῶν

jd| 9.22.11 @ 3:13PM

Psycho lady, take her meds and get the hell off this site. The hate you spew is more in line with the Huffington Post.

Margie| 9.22.11 @ 4:32PM

Screw you, jd.
You get off this site,

Trinacria| 9.22.11 @ 6:08PM

Screw you? Lovely! Which chapter of your cherished book did that one come from?

Margie| 9.22.11 @ 6:22PM

Ask Ken. He's the model of Christendom for spewing this kind of language, punk.

Trinacria| 9.22.11 @ 4:45PM

Margie,

I'm not going to tell you again - nobody here gives a shit about your petty personal grievances. If you want to bitch and moan about the terrible injustice that's been done to you, call Dr. Phil or Oprah; they're always on the look out for some carnival side show train wreck dingbat to trot out for everyone's entertainment. We rather like to think of this site as a refuge from such nonsense and a place to engage in a discussion regarding relevant issues of the day (hint: despite your apparent belief of the contrary, your grievances are neither relevant nor of the slightest interest to ANY of us).

Now, go feed your cats and birds and leave these nice folks alone. And let me save you the trouble - I know, I know; I'm papist punk liar (and that's Mr. Papist punk liar to you...).

Margie| 9.22.11 @ 4:53PM

You're a piece of trash, Trinacria, as your posts always prove.

I'm a Christian saved by Grace, and YOU nor anybody else can force me to shut my mouth, punk.

Nancy in NC| 9.22.11 @ 5:26PM

Wow...you do a disservice to Christians everywhere. I don't know who peed in your cornflakes this morning, but take a pill.

Your vitriol is most un-Christian-like. In fact, it's shameful.

Margaret| 9.22.11 @ 5:34PM

Nancy,
You must be new here. Read some of her postings. She is tame today.

Margie| 9.22.11 @ 6:13PM

Well, Nancy~ you are no doubt another Catholic like jd.
A catty hater of Bible believing Christians who worships the walking fraud on Earth~ the "Pope."
You care not that a man is trying to destroy a Bible believing Christian~ and will clack with him because he is a fellow Papist, and deal with my emotional (in part) reaction to his slandering of me instead.

This is exactly why Catholicism is not of God.
Your Religion cult comes first, before the Truth.
You care NOTHING about the Truth, do you, Nancy Troll?

YOU are therefore a DISGRACE.

Trinacria| 9.22.11 @ 5:37PM

Why yes, Margie, we can all tell you're a Christian; the love and kindness just spring forth from your posts. You represent them with characteristic grace and good form.

Well done, Christian soldier; well done.

By the way, that's MR. Punk to you, sister.

W| 9.22.11 @ 5:43PM

Trinacria,
Come sta, fellow Papist?

Trinacria| 9.22.11 @ 6:06PM

Sto bene, graze. E tu?

W| 9.22.11 @ 7:02PM

Bene, bene. Ma quella e propia una cafone, mal'educati.

Trinacria| 9.23.11 @ 1:29AM

Si, hai ragione. Peccato...

Ken (Old Texican)| 9.22.11 @ 5:16PM

Ah Trinacria,
Margie has reduced herself to a "scroll troll" like Clint.
So keep on digging, Margie. Just exactly what have I lied about? I have teased you a bit about having a crush on translators of scripture, but I have never called you an evil person. I may have called you stupid however, so spew some more and prove it.

Margie| 9.22.11 @ 5:54PM

What have you lied about?
You sound like Satan himself you hypocritical punk.
You know EXACTLY what you've lied about~ and continue to lie each day.
YOU are the one who is digging his grave in Sheol for so doing.
Keep on bearing false witness about me and calling it teasing, what a disgrace.
Are you still confiding in people that you have "a deal" to use the Lord's Name in vain?
Do you still have Catholic Clergy to your house and drink with them in the Name of God?
Have you ever yet said you are sorry and repent for lying about me, concerning "sending me ove a million bucks" worth of things to sell, when you did NO SUCH thing?
Comparing me to an Islamist and Satan for standing on the Word of God?
Saying I am like Clint the other scumbag Papist here?

Ken~ do you agree that Catholicism is not Christianity?
That those who are following the doctrine of Catholicism do not have Christ, as the Scripture says?
Are you warning them of this evil?

No! You are one yourself, and that's why you HATE me. Because I speak the truth, according to God's Word.

You lie when you say I condemn "half of Christendom to Hell."
I have and never could do that.
You know (you are a reprobate Christian) but you KNOW that Catholicism is NOT Christianity~ and yet you've sold your soul to the Devil, and now are an enemy of the Cross of Christi in that you seek to destroy my character along with the rest of the Catholics here.
And for what? Because I speak from Scripture.
You mock and deride me for which Bible I read from in order to try and discredit me.
YOU ARE SLIME.

Nick| 9.23.11 @ 2:34AM

Margie,

"YOU are the one who is digging his grave in Sheol for so doing."

She'ol is not the same as Hell, i.e., the place of damnation. She'ol is Hebrew for the grave, pit, abyss, i.e., the abode of the dead. It is rendered as Hades in Greek.

Gehenna is the place of eternal damnation. It refers to the Valley of the son of Hinnom, where the kings of Judah sacrificed children to Moloch.

Both She'ol and Gehenna get translated as "Hell" in English, for some reason.
God Bless!

Margie| 9.23.11 @ 3:20PM

Nick,

"But nothing unclean shall enter it, nor any one who practices abomination or falsehood, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of Life." Rev. 21:7.

You wanna argue about words here?

Nick| 9.24.11 @ 2:31AM

Margie,

I'm not sure what you are trying to say here.
I was just pointing out a fact.
God Bless!

Margie| 9.23.11 @ 8:52PM

I still don't hear any repenting, Ken.

Margie| 9.22.11 @ 6:07PM

And look at what scum Ken clacks with.
He is a brother to him who destroys. Prov. 18:9.
You all have seen Trinacria's vile posts to me, and concerning Christianity in general.
He also despises Bile believing Christians.
This is who Ken is a brother to.
And Clint, He is a brother to Clint!

KennesawJack| 9.22.11 @ 8:51PM

Ken, Gandhi was once asked what he thought of Jesus Christ. He answered "I like your Christ very much but I do not like Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." He must have met Margie.

victor| 9.22.11 @ 10:00PM

Perhaps the Pope would be more suitable for you, idiot.

KennesawJack| 9.22.11 @ 10:38PM

Would you care to expand on your reply? If you were replying to my post, I'm afraid I don't get it.

Margie| 9.22.11 @ 11:16PM

Catholics always feign confusion.

KennesawJack| 9.23.11 @ 12:05AM

Nice try, Margie. I'm not Catholic. Devout (very) Lutheran.

Margie| 9.23.11 @ 3:21PM

Devout won't save you.
Seeking, speaking and serving the Truth will.
Get real and repent.

Margaret| 9.22.11 @ 5:33PM

Margie honey,
Nobody likes you.
Get a life. Go away.

Margie| 9.22.11 @ 6:04PM

After you, Troll.
And who are YOU, anyway?

Margaret| 9.22.11 @ 7:32PM

Margie honey,
Don't you remember me? Think...
Nobody likes you, can't you see that, and you're making yourself miserble. They're all laughing at you. Get a grip, get a life, go out have fun... remember now...

Margie| 9.22.11 @ 7:57PM

I'm still waiting for you to leave first, so that I can.

Margaret| 9.22.11 @ 9:05PM

Margie honey,
OK I'm leaving but I will check up to see if you left, bye bye.

victor| 9.22.11 @ 10:01PM

Toodles.

Margaret| 9.22.11 @ 11:25PM

Margie honey,
I left at 9:05 and believed you when you said you would leave if I did. Now you are still around and using a clever name like Victor.
Why did you lie again to me, Margie honey.

Margie| 9.23.11 @ 3:21PM

Aha! I see you're still here.

Margaret| 9.23.11 @ 7:56PM

Margie honey

You lied again. You were supposed to leave with me at 9:05 last night but I see you're still here. Why do you lie and lie and lie.

Margie| 9.23.11 @ 8:51PM

We have to stop meeting like this.

tsd| 9.22.11 @ 7:57AM

Why is it he only does things that makes us weaker as a country. When he has the chance to do something that could help us he goes golfing. After 2-1/2 years guess what, it is not Bush's fault, no, it is not about race either...it is about the guy and his cronies who are tearing down our country!!!

Nunya| 9.22.11 @ 8:44AM

Personally, I think he's doing it on purpose. Nobody is this stupid.

Old Joe| 9.22.11 @ 9:20AM

Since most rich people and job creators are white, and since these are the people most in Obama’s crosshairs, how do you know this isn’t about screwing whitey? After all for 20 years he and his wife worshiped in a church that preached hatred of whites and particularly Jews.

skip| 9.22.11 @ 11:20AM

Nunya,

On the one hand, I understand your sentiment.

On the other, virtually every liberal is, in fact, precisely this stupid. Even after 32 months of this ridiculous nonsense.

Our own resident liberal geniuses will weigh in shortly defending all this, yet again, and from the political and social aspects and not just the economic aspects of the consequences of these policies for the nation and world. These guys are not outliers.

The one generally considered to possess the most wisdom of the bunch, just last month, stated:

"I supported Obama from the beginning."

How is that even conceivable, considering the facts known about him at the time, and equally, the facts not known about him at the time, if he was analyzed in a truly intelligent and a truly honest process using critical thought through reason and experience?

And you know which lever he will pull next November, no matter what happens in the meantime. That all the liberals will, no matter what, all based on nothing more than emotional prattle, completely disregarding reality. Again.

skip| 9.22.11 @ 3:03PM

Per the dithering idiot liar in chief of downgrade and really pathetic and despicable speeches:

"It is wrong that in the United States of America, a teacher or a nurse or a construction worker who earns $50,000 should pay higher tax rates than somebody pulling in $50 million."

"This is not class warfare - it's math."

Per Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center (taxpolicycenter.org/numbers/),
average effective federal tax rates under current law (by cash income percentile, 2009):

lowest quintile: (-) 0.9%

second quintile: (+) 6.6%

middle quintile: (+) 13.4%

fourth quintile: (+) 17.2%

top quintile: (+) 22.9%

skip| 9.22.11 @ 4:10PM

The dithering idiot liar in chief of downgrade and really pathetic and despicable speeches is maybe not so good at math. Or truth. At least the liberals control the senate, lead by majority leader Harry Reid. The one who stated, about the same day that president zero is quoted in the previous post:

"More than anyone else, these millionaires and billionaires benefitted from Bush tax cuts and contributed $3 trillion to our deficit, to help plunge this nation into a financial hole."

Per Office of Management and Budget (whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/), summary of receipts:

federal revenue for 2003: $1,782,314,000,000

federal revenue for 2007: $2,567,985,000,000

The '$3 trillion increase' to the deficit 'from Bush tax cuts' that saw an increase in federal revenue of over $785 billion - an increase of over three quarters of a trillion in federal revenue - which is an increase in revenue of almost half - at over 44%.

Mr ED| 9.22.11 @ 8:04AM

"Obama's presidency lurches from fad to fad -- from gays in the military to "green jobs" to the "Buffett rule." Hyped as a profound presidency, it has turned out to be an embarrassingly frivolous one. "

I think that sums up the Obamesiah and his presidency pretty well. How do we get to this point is the question, and I think the answer is the ruling elites/politicians.

The willing self-deception by stupid, venal ruling elites and politicans to believe that it is within their (noble and corageous!) authority to control the markets and whole economies - all in the interest of a magical notion of "fairness" that they imagine is within their perview to dispense and control - is what lies at the heart of the economic catastrophe unfolding at this very moment. It is the world economy put through the ringer of "social justice" and what comes out at the other end is understandably mangled and devoid of most of its worth. But it makes the politicans feel good about themselves, and that is worth all of the suffering the population of the world will have to endure in this economic catastrophe. At least to the venal politican. Remember, its not just about them, its ONLY about them.

hardcard| 9.22.11 @ 8:13AM

In So. Florida the obama bumper stickers are starting to appear, it isn't over yet.

Paul| 9.22.11 @ 8:30AM

Retail politics has become nauseating, I'd rather read a two year cell phone contract than listen to the retail politics BS.

Lawrence Boccardi| 9.22.11 @ 8:49AM

You're probably right. However, I cannot believe that anyone other than Marxists and Negros still support this embarassment.

Mike D.| 9.22.11 @ 9:30AM

There was recently an article by the congressional un-american black circus that openly stated that if this guy(the Pharoah) wasn't black they would be marching on Washington. That tells you all you need to know about most blacks and their voting habits. In Detroit we called it the Young-Kilpatrick syndrome. If he's black and anti-white thats all he needs to be. Doesn't matter if he's raping his own constituents, looting the place, and running RICO style rackets stuffing his bank account at their own expense while they live in crime and squalor, he's the man! They live on the Leftist Plantation and thats where they want to be.

Drunken Sailor| 9.22.11 @ 12:56PM

Seems even some of them are slowly catching on.
" Five months ago, 83 percent of African Americans held “strongly favorable” views of Obama, but in a new Washington Post-ABC news poll that number has dropped to 58 percent. That drop is similar to slipping support for Obama among all groups."

tsd| 9.22.11 @ 8:49AM

If indeed the bumper stickers tell us anything, it is we have a few who still drink the kool aide. There will always be a few, just go to Washington or LA... hell some people still think Marin Sheen is the president!!

Intelligent Design| 9.22.11 @ 8:55AM

Their average IQ must be 75.

Betina| 9.22.11 @ 8:16AM

Nero fiddled as Rome burned.
Negro fiddled as America burned.

Harry the Horrible| 9.22.11 @ 8:42AM

Wrong.
Pres. Obama is spreading accelerant and flicking lit matches around.

RJ| 9.22.11 @ 8:18AM

Obama-Mao is doing just fine in his game plan to destroy the "American Imperialist" economy, creating new "bond slaves" which means "getting even with Whitey" might just be a goal of his. This ex community agitator is more muslim lovin' than most would accept. He certainly is hatin' on toward those nasty Jews...right?

These are your democrats, ladies and gentlemen. Remember, the wife of serial cheater Bill Clinton, chose not to leave this bum, rather she traded up to Obama, hit the "buffet" line for extra weight, and is a progressive who wrote about Alinsky back in her academic days. Two peas in a pod here. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid...just look at these two...any shrink will tell you hysteria rules their worlds.

We be doomed until new people come to govern.

Timothy L. Pennell| 9.22.11 @ 8:18AM

Pecos Pete| 9.22.11 @ 8:54AM

TLP: "freaking FRACKING" ... spilt my coffee. Thanks for the laugh, I needed it this morning.

Redstateboy| 9.22.11 @ 8:30AM

"A popular slur among liberal pundits is to say that Republicans oppose Barack Obama's economic ideas because they want the economy to stay sluggish before the election. The slur makes no sense. If that were the Republicans' crass calculation, they would be supporting his ideas, as they are sure to make a bad economy worse."

Great paragraph...

John Navratil| 9.22.11 @ 9:07AM

Redstateboy,

I "cut" that very paragraph for comment. Strictly speaking the statement begs the question as the Left really think their ideas are best and the Republican ideas are "voodoo economics."

First, if the job of the opposition was as simple as crashing the economy to get elected, we would have had fourty years of economy crashing by the Republicans during the decades in which they did not control the house. Tip O'Neill, would have actually followed Reagan and cut spending as his "trickle down" ideas were so pernicious and dangerous. It's a silly statement on the face of it. Sometimes opposition is simply being opposed to something.

Second, the presumption is that Congress can actually do ANYTHING to "grow" an economy. Only in the mind of a command-economy socialist can the "gang of 435" actually pick winners and losers better than those with their own skin in the game. A better expression would be that they MAKE winners and losers.

When Obama leaves the White House, he should try running a 7-11. I would give him some desperately needed humility. Sadly, he will be living on the government teat for decades to come and will die a wastrel.

Louis Jenkins| 9.22.11 @ 8:46AM

All the folks speak the truth. How much more damage can the USA stomach? However, the next President will have to spend more than one week undoing all of Obama's exec orders. It may take years. No amount of stump preaching, no amount of soap box opera can undo this man's BS. We've suffered long enough, and Michelle has the gumption to wear $43,000.00 dollars worth of bling on her wrist? Yes, she proud alright! Line them up in front of a firing squad, and let nature take its course! Anything less is too kind.

Bob Grant| 9.22.11 @ 8:48AM

O'blahblah's lethal combination of leftist ideology, political and executive incompetence, narcissism, and naivete has destroyed this country.

Intelligent Design| 9.22.11 @ 8:53AM

The dean of the Columbia Business School was on the tube yesterday and said that BHO does not understand the economy. Correct. Nor does he understand budgeting, fiscal policy, monetary policy, taxation, foreign policy, or even what it takes to get re-elected. The guy is an ignorant, arrogant, inexperienced, vain, deceitful, treacherous impostor. Zero would be a reject reactionary in Communist China, which owes its economic power to the fact that it opened up to entrepreneurial ideas. Obama and his fellow Demo-Socialists in the Senate, who just shot down the effort to stop the NLRB from driving Boeing's manufacturing overseas, have created a Crisis of Confidence. The economy will not revive until after they are thrown out in November 2012. In the meantime, I just changed all my passwords to this:
bhoisapos112012ccts

Bill| 9.22.11 @ 8:53AM

Maybe we'll get lucky and he'll go on a lot more vacations.

Tom Osterman| 9.22.11 @ 8:57AM

Don't forget, even if Obama gets the boot, there's still the Democratic party. Which means there's more where he came from.

2012 is just the beginning.

Von Mises Jr.| 9.22.11 @ 9:09AM

It is more corruption than ideology. His bundler friend George Kaiser and another crony put $69M into a failing company and Obama gave them a Federal Loan Guarantee. Where did the $69M go?

Harry the Horrible has it right. The Chicago crime gang gave the money to their cronies and some gets funneled back to the Democrats. That is why Solyndra executives are pleading the Fifth!

Deborah D | 9.22.11 @ 9:12AM

Wow, Mr. Neumayer, just an excellent post. I can feel your contempt because I feel it too. I read this out loud so I could get it off of my chest! I'm so sick of this anti-American president and his anti-American administration, from Eric Holder's gangster Justice Dept. and its gunrunning and murder of a Border Agent to Secretary Chu and his rogue Energy Department handing out moolah to the undeserving without batting an eye that Americans might not appreciate him throwing our money into a black hole, to the White House's best buddy at LightSquared and their attempts to screw up our military's GPS (as well as mine!) -- I'm disgusted every single day. I'm disgusted every time I see their faces, hear their BS, and have to deal with the future they intend to inflict on my children! All they do is make me more determined to get their grubby hands off of the levers of power. Anybody but OBAMA.

Ampleforth| 9.22.11 @ 9:13AM

Barack Obama's oratory does not remind me of a used car salesman's. I'm very good friends with a used car salesman, and he is almost stereotypical, except that he's a very honest man and dealer. A good car salesman is good at the impromptu, thinking on his feet, and great at the polite rejoinder. Those qualities are necessary to his success.

Barack Obama, on the other hand, is terrible when he is off script, which is why his staff drags the teleprompters to every public speaking event. I've never thought of President Obama as a great orator. He's GOOD at giving speeches, but he's tiresome to watch because I feel like I'm watching someone watch a tennis match when he speaks. He's not even natural at shifting his head back-and-forth between the teleprompters.

I'll side with the car salesman. My friend could probably eviscerate Obama in a true, unscripted debate.

Mike D.| 9.22.11 @ 9:58AM

Amen to that. Head left to right, right to left, left to right, right to left ad nauseum. This guy is so scripted, phony, and exhausting he is becoming a caricature of himself. Nose in the air, contemp all over his face. Guy couldn't tell his wife he has to drop his @ss on the white throne without somebody rolling the teleprompter into the room. They call this guy a great orator! This guy is a total boof without his reading machinery. He is slow on his feet, not quick witted, prone to constant mistakes without the almighty. He's nothing, there is nothing inside this guy, he's an empty memory card that is programmed to function for each event.

VBMax| 9.22.11 @ 10:41AM

"Guy couldn't tell his wife he has to drop his @ss on the white throne without somebody rolling the teleprompter into the room."

Mike D, thanks for the laugh!

Bob Grant| 9.22.11 @ 7:24PM

The problem with Obama's speechifying is the fact that HE THINKS it's effective when he's in fact increasingly becoming an epic joke and a national tragedy.

Juan Jose Morales-Castillo | 9.22.11 @ 9:20AM

Back in 2009 I was willing to give Obombast a chance; the fact that he was a Harvard academic and an US Senator made him more impressive than that insignificant governor of a third rate state who nearly ran the country into the ground.
I was first concerned when he praised the "robust debate" of the 2009 Iran election fraud; he dismissed that life or death struggle for liberty as just one of those polite inconsequential academic debates whose purpose is simply to display the wit and cleverness of the debaters!
But the real shocker was when he accepted the Ig-Nobel Piss Prize; if he had any real stature he would have turned it down because he obviously had not accomplished anything that would make him worthy of it. From then on it was all downhill.
So here is my question: how was this trick of presenting this NONENTITY as the new FDR perpetrated? I still remember the time when WE DON'T WANT HIM TO FAIL was actually taken seriously by simple-ton souls such as my mother, who naively thinks that all Dem Party presidential candidates are all reincarnations of FDR and the Kennedy brothers.

Pecos Pete| 9.22.11 @ 9:35AM

JJMC: Answer: A public school education.

Old Joe| 9.22.11 @ 9:38AM

Jaun,
Part of your post I agree with but part of it is pure stupidity. First of all, Texas is not a third rate state. In case you haven’t noticed, it is now the most successful and fastest growing state in the union. It has been in that position for decades. Secondly, GWB didn’t run this country into the ground. You may have forgotten but a little incident called “9-11” happened and that little incident took over one trillion dollars out of the economy and jolted us into two wars. And finally, this country and our economy was doing just fine until people like your mother gave us Pelosi and Reid as leaders of 2/3s of our government for the last two years of the Bush presidency. I am not happy with all that GWB did but he did pretty damn good until his last two years in office which were controlled by your mother’s party.

John Navratil| 9.22.11 @ 10:06AM

Old Joe,

GWB will go down in history as a "better than most" President. He is certainly one of the most decent human being to hold that office and to be such a disappointment to conservatives. But he never really claimed to be conservative.

I cannot hold him blameless in the shambles which became the Senate and the House; he backed Specter among other unprincipled actions, and really dispirited the base.

Obama was the shiny new dime who came from nowhere at the right time and the people bought it. Unfortunately, the dime is made of lead. Just like a peanut farmer from a generation ago and another obscure southern governor who followed him.

Ultimately that will be the downfall of the Democrats. They have become so liberal as a party that they really have no choice but to run stealth candidates. Perhaps this generation has learned that lesson. Here's hoping.

VBMax| 9.22.11 @ 10:50AM

I believe he was referring to the peanut farmer.

Bartender| 9.22.11 @ 11:55AM

I thought he meant Clinton. You can't get much more "third rate" than Arkansas. (Really now, towns named "Marked Tree"? "Little Rock"? Or "Arkedelphia"?!) After all, it was Clinton who sold American Defense secrets to the Chinese for campaign cash, technology that the Chinese are using right now to build an OFFENSIVE military capability. Even Carter didn't do that.

Juan Jose Morales-Castillo | 9.22.11 @ 1:11PM

Thanks for your reply. The insignificant governor of a third rate state is Jimmy the Crater, who accomplished nothing neither for Georgia nor for the USA. The former cannot thank Ted Turner enough for making GA a genuinely significant part of the USA.
My point is that Obombast looked more impressive than the Crater; I of course was very mistaken.

VBMax| 9.22.11 @ 10:48AM

He was pushed over the finish line by the "young skulls full of mush", who had political correctness programmed into them from day one.

Anthony| 9.22.11 @ 10:11AM

The entire D party leadership is made up of vile, unprincipled, and dangerous demigods.
Schumer is a reprehensible POS, as are many Ds in congress, like Reid, Durbin, and Levin, just to name a few.
In 2012, we need to flush Obozo and the D party down the sewer where they belong, before they destroy what's left of America.

Anthony| 9.22.11 @ 1:39PM

Let me add to my comment. Rush played today a bite from a Marxist professor named "red" Herring Warren, who is running against Scott Brown in MA.
Ms. red Herring Warren spouted classic Marxism when opining that the factory owner got rich on the backs of we the taxpayers (workers).
This demented fool says the factor owner owes the workers, because it was the workers who built the roads that the factory owner transported his goods to make his profit.
Try this one, madame red Herring, we the taxpayers created a $15 T economy that allows for colleges and universities to exist and charge a median of $40,000 per year, to support school infrastructure and bloated faculty salaries.
If the factory owner owes the workers, then by extension, all colleges and universities owe us, the workers, a check each month for what we built in order to allow these institutions to exist.
We built the classrooms, we built the faculty lounges, we built the sports complexes. Got it???
And furthermore, you, madame red Herring Warren, owe us a check each month from your bloated salary as well.
Folks, 2012 is the fight to save America from these demented Marxists, led by the Muslim Marxist himself, president Obozo.

SF_Exile| 9.22.11 @ 3:38PM

Sadly, the voters of MA will go for it, hook, line and sinker. The moonbats are still peeved that their "Marsha" let them down and allowed Scott Brown to sneak in. They will be out fighting tooth and nail to get this loon elected.

Simon Templar| 9.22.11 @ 10:16AM

A Frivolously Destructive Presidency?
It is not frivolous, it is calculated. If you think things have been bad so far, then wait and see what happens in next 14 months.

Al Adab| 9.22.11 @ 12:14PM

Everyone keeps saying incompetent orfrivolous or other terms. You are correct Simon, it is very calculated. Tghe campaign promise was to "fundamentally transform America" after all. What do people think he meant? Was no one listening?

W| 9.22.11 @ 1:45PM

I agree it is calculated. He sat in Rev Wright's church for 20 years soaking up the hate -America and hate-whitey sermons. If he disagreed he would have left. He agrees with the far left views of his political mentors, Bill and Bernadine Ayers. What mainstream Democrat would start his political career with a fundraiser at the home of two radicals involved in bombing buildings ?

Obama is not stupid or lazy or indifferent. He is smart and calculating. Fortunately he will be voted out. Hopefully Republicans will unite and realize the goal is to beat Obama.

russel| 9.22.11 @ 10:37AM

Well George , tho I had to quit half-way through . I didn't think I could despise the f-ing socialist anymore than already , but you were throwing fuel on the fire . Then today I read Bozell said all stops will be removed ( if they wern't already ) by the Lame Streams to protect the ___ during the campaign . May they die by their own sword .

no hussein 2012| 9.22.11 @ 10:48AM

Without a doubt the WORST of all time.

Ken (Old Texican)| 9.22.11 @ 10:50AM

Folks,
You might want to watch Governor Perry on Hannity... right here:
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/.....t_id=86924

Mimi| 9.22.11 @ 11:17AM

He has a new add out, Thats just amazing...POWERFUL... teary eyed assured!

Simon Templar| 9.22.11 @ 2:33PM

Here it is, Mimi...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....r_embedded

Enjoy. Excellent ad..whoever is doing these knows how to create an ad.

skip| 9.22.11 @ 3:28PM

That is the best ad I've seen in a long time. Since the Swedish Bikini Team, at the very least. As much as I like the ad I can honestly state I did not get a tingle either up or down my leg. And I watched two more times to be sure.

Simon Templar| 9.22.11 @ 4:33PM

Whether or not you are a Perry supporter or not or even a liberal troll, it is well done from a message/marketing point of view and whoever put it together certainly knows their craft.

W| 9.22.11 @ 5:37PM

Good ad.

Mimi| 9.22.11 @ 11:24AM

Saw the add at Human Events!

cicero| 9.22.11 @ 12:08PM

Toward the end of the article, it is mentioned that the so-called feminists next campaign will be to allow women in combat. No society in the history of the world has done that for any length of time. It is always a disaster. For crying out loud, we should be trying to find ways to protect ourseelves that do not require men to go into combat. Do they think warfighting is a game?
There is no such thing as a "good war". Sometimes there are necessary wars. Wars cause the death of the young, and the destruction of the wealth of real people.
I'm suprised no one commented on this. We waste too much time trying to vilify the current occupants of the WH. We should be spending more time showing the absurdity of the po;licies that have been forwarded by the Democrat Party since 1972, and the destruction such have caused.

Al Adab| 9.22.11 @ 12:20PM

Cicero:
The Left, having never studied military history, sees the military as a means to imposing some vision of "social justice" on others. They use it for social engineering within our own nation all the while decrying its cost. The purpose, as you note, is to protect ourselves from those who would do us harm or invade our states and nation. It is to cause destruction to our foes. The Left criticizes the Right for fighting, yet it is they who send the military into situations without cause or goals. Nation building is not the purpose of the military any more than social experimentation.

Bob Grant| 9.22.11 @ 3:08PM

Or in Hugo Chavez's case, use it to impose his leftist economic agenda like forced price controls of commodities.

His war on prices involve having his goons take over processing plants to ensure supply meets increased demand due to artificially low prices.

Who here doesn't think Obama wouldn't do the same if he could get away with it?

Bill| 9.23.11 @ 10:01AM

Putting women in combat. Yes, I'm sure that's coming soon on the feminist agenda. We need to have equality on the PTSD rolls. What someone said about for feminists and lefties this is all some kind of academic exercise is true.

Just think of an afflicted female combat vet coming home and giving birth to a couple of kids before the PTSD gets worked out; if it were a dad, he could be persuaded in most cases to get out of the picture until he gets it together, but a mom with combat trauma will be different story. "I'm sorry I shot my kid, I had a flashback."

Johnny| 9.22.11 @ 1:23PM

I keep posting this but I guess folks just don't believe the way I do. Obama is not doing all this damage to our economy accidentally. That is how he will "fundamentally" change the U.S., by bankrupting our country so that he, the great one, can rebuild it the way he wants it to be. Why is it so hard for folks to see the way that he does everything shows his true intentions.

CalMark| 9.22.11 @ 1:41PM

Most people probably believe you.

But Americans don't take things lying down. If it gets down to that...think 1776.

Bill| 9.23.11 @ 10:03AM

I think people find it very difficult to accept the proposition that President Obama is intentionally destroying our country and our culture. They just can't accept (yet) that a person who wants to be President would be trying to destroy the country.

CalMark| 9.22.11 @ 1:40PM

Obama the crook and his tacky, nasty wife are don't realize they are an embarassing cliche, just like another infamous group of real-world noveau riche criminals. (Think "Sopranos.")

Parody is based on truth that is much more unbelievable--and far worse than fiction.

JP| 9.22.11 @ 1:52PM

The typical upscale Obama supporter living in places like Austin Texas, Fairfax Virginia, or Shaker Heights Ohio must be very anxious. These people earn between $200,000 and $400,000 a year (endowed professors, trust fund babies, middle managers at non-profits, etc..). Obama has put a big target on thier backs. I can just hear them complain, "We didn't mean raise our taxes! We meant the millionaires and billionaires!". Of course, the real money is not with the millionaires or billionaires. The real tax revenue vein of gold lies with those earning between $250,000 and a million. Didn't they read any of Obama's old speeches or read his books? He's had these people targeted for a decade or more. These Progressive supporters of Obama may not realize it, but they are the Bourgeosie.

I can imagine all of those good Progressive Democratic supporters in New York flooding Schummer's phone lines in panic. Good grief, $250,000 in Yonkers or Queens is chump change. A tenured high school principal in Brooklyn makes more than that! And thier Man, the Anointed One is targeting them? Think of the betrayal they must feel!

Susan Rawlings | 9.22.11 @ 1:52PM

Destructive and wasteful. Let's hope it ends up being worth something to someone, though that would probably only be to perhaps Michelle Obama who seems to be making the most of her time as First Lady.

Looks as though 2012 could be the year of moving on to a more reasoned, fiscally responsible approach to government. Lets all hope our kids don't vote for him in 2012. Anyone who wants to share conservative values with their kids should check out The Conservative Teen. You can get it online at http://www.theconservativeteen.com/toc

Occam's Tool| 9.22.11 @ 2:57PM

Thanks!

Al Adab| 9.22.11 @ 6:07PM

I followed the link to the magazine. What a great concept. We need to let them know their future is being mortgaged to pay for these schemes. How can we ever apologize to our grandchildren for we have failed them miserably.

Buck| 9.22.11 @ 2:26PM

It's you that is frivolous. Calling the sanctioning of "gays" in the military by the Commander-in-Chief a "fad" is frivolous. Obama ordering it, is not a "fad". Are you thinking?

Calling the destructive raising of taxes and the central control of our economy a "fad" is frivolous. President Obama is cleary a more serious man than are you.

martin j smith| 9.22.11 @ 4:06PM

Everything has been done on purpose. watch for an attempt for Socialists to try a switcheroo with Hillary baby. I have become more and more of a conspiratorialist as Obama's Regime has piled on and I believe it is possible ( time will tell ) that Obama and Hillary made a deal Me first ( Obama ) for one term you next may for two.

Indy| 9.22.11 @ 4:19PM

Did anyone read Michelle Malkin's piece on the "latest" scandal? This one may be worse than Solyndra. MM has the usual level of detail with links to follow, how many scandals will there be? We have so few good journalists, I am thankful for those who seek the truth to inform us

http://michellemalkin.com/2011.....oondoggle/

Trinacria| 9.22.11 @ 4:58PM

As disgraceful and inept as Obama has been, he is but a symptom of a much deeper and far more ominous underlying problem. When the citizens of a democracy (I know, it's a representative republic) become so shamefully lazy and irredeemably stupid as to abdicate their responsibility to carefully evaluate the qualifications of presidential candidates and take their votes seriously, the ship has already begun to sink. Regrettably, treating the primary symptom will have little effect on the longer term prognosis.

W| 9.22.11 @ 5:39PM

I agree, Trinacria. Did you get my suggestion about Capri to avoid the possible Wiener contamination?
Hope all is well with you.

Trinacria| 9.23.11 @ 1:36AM

Si (graze!); buon idea.

beebop| 9.22.11 @ 7:08PM

' say that Obama fiddled while America burned,'

okay. For those who don't fully understand Ohio:

1. Cincinnati is the most conservative section of Ohio.

2. Kentucky? When did they last vote for a Democrat? Here's one fact: McCain won.

3. Cincinnati is the home of Union Hebrew College and has a very conservative Jewish constituency.

4. Not a big union area.

5. The damn bridge is getting supplemented and doesn't need him to part the waters (like he can part anything).

He is a waste of carbon. He will not be missed except as a punch line by the late night comedians by the time his residency is over. Happy with your PC obcession, America?

dw| 9.22.11 @ 7:27PM

Watch for the next cause for the gays....the gov. should pay for Chastity to become Chazz or visa versa.

R. Kavanagh| 9.22.11 @ 8:05PM

Obama should fail and lose the 2012 election. His policies are not policies but sick ideology. Redistribution of wealth is pathetic. The U.S. needs to wise up. Remove this character, prosperity awaits you.

Southern_Comment| 9.22.11 @ 9:06PM

If he were out to destroy America what would he do different?
486 days until he's gone.

Marc Jeric| 9.23.11 @ 12:28AM

Beating a dead horse - that's Mllah Obama's energy policy. There are no engineers in the White House nor in the Congress, otherwise somebody there would know that nobody can beat the laws of thermodynamics. There is NO green energy; there is NO renewable energy! Keep beating the dead horse! After this drunken sortie into the communism it will take many years and an enlightened leadership (is there anybody like that?) to get us out of this deadly hole of marxism.

العاب بنات | 9.23.11 @ 1:58AM

POST American| 9.23.11 @ 3:10AM

-----------------BOTTOMLESS LINE-------------------

---The CFR/RIIA/Rock--F--L--O sleaze op
Bush Sr/ Clinton/ Bush Jr / Obama front
pipes merrily on. The age--enda undisturbed.

The Global mafia RED China set up and TREASON OP nearly complete.

USURY, standardization, extermination of the unborn, sodomy and
'SSSS--US----STAIN----A---BILL --IT---HE' the modus operandi.
( remember ---we're the ITs! )

----Remember kiddies, as those cancer and
leukemia sleeper viruses, in all those Salk
50's, 60's and 70's polio shots are just now
kicking in.

You want to play with EUGENISTS? -- turn
your heart, your soul, your ancestors ---your
children over to the powers of USURY and
their scientific, expediency mongering, priest
class? ------Then you've asked for it.

IN FACT, in the giggling upper reaches of
the inbred capstone, they're not satisfied
until you yourself ---have been thoroughly
engineered to comply.

---'CALM---PLY----ANTS'---- as they say.

Brian| 9.23.11 @ 4:51PM

At least Obama only gives money to his friends. The Repubs give money to to groups, corporations etc that are working feverishly against them like ACORN, and GE/MSNBC.

Rick| 9.23.11 @ 10:59PM

Obamas' polices DO to work! Its just headwins. Your a bigget and a rasist!

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