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The Obama Watch
Holding Obama’s Party Accountable
Obama has profoundly reshaped the makeup of his party. Now all Democrats will have to answer.
Barack Obama is on a far worse political trajectory than Jimmy Carter was. First, the Democrats lost Sen. Ted Kennedy’s seat to a Republican in ultraliberal Massachusetts who campaigned against Kennedy’s signature issue of national health insurance. Nothing that dramatic happened while Carter was President.
Then Democrats suffered historic, grievous losses in the 2010 midterm elections, with a New Deal size loss in the House of 63 seats, and a loss of 6 seats in the Senate. In Jimmy Carter’s 1978 midterms, Democrats lost only 15 seats in the House and 3 seats in the Senate.
Now in the recent special election in New York City, Democrats have begun to lose seats they haven’t lost since before the New Deal.
That is so fitting, because President Obama is not an anomaly in today’s Democrat party. Quite to the contrary, he represents the party’s heart and soul today, which is well to the Left now even of George McGovern in 1972. Witness the reelection of Far Left San Francisco Democrat Nancy Pelosi as House Democrat leader even after the historic voter repudiation of the Pelosi Democrat House majority in 2010. Witness the choice of Far Left screamer Debbie Wasserman Schultz as leader of the Democratic National Committee. Witness Obama EPA Chief Lisa Jackson, Obama Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, and the numerous similar, utterly clueless, ideologically rigid, far left appointees throughout the Obama Administration.
That is also so well deserved, because of what the Democrats are doing to our nation, even as their power starts to wane. Historically, for the American economy, the deeper the recession the stronger the recovery. Based on that historical record, we should be nearing the end of the second year of a booming recovery by now.
But almost four years after the last recession started, there still has been no real recovery. Unemployment is stuck over 9%, with unemployment among African-Americans, Hispanics, and teenagers at depression level double-digit rates for at least 2 years now. Real wages and incomes are falling, back to levels last seen over 30 years ago. Poverty is soaring to new records as well, with more Americans suffering in poverty than any time since the Census Bureau started keeping records over 50 years ago.
As a result, we are on track now for an historic conservative victory in 2012, far bigger even than in 1980.
The Do-Nothing Senate
In the Democrat majority-controlled Senate, 23 Democrat seats are subject to elections in 2012, with 6 of those open seats involving a retiring incumbent. Only 10 Republican seats are subject to election, with only two retirements from safe seats in Texas and Arizona. Let’s compare the record of this Democrat-controlled Senate with the record of what the Republican-controlled House has already accomplished this year.
The first act of the Republican House was to pass repeal of Obamacare, reducing future taxes and spending by trillions. The Senate has failed to act on this at all.
The Republican House passed the budget proposed by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, which would cut federal spending by $6.2 trillion over the first 10 years alone, and permanently balances the budget soon after that, as scored by CBO. Government spending as a percent of GDP would ultimately be reduced by 40% from current levels.
The Democrat-controlled Senate has failed to pass any budget at all, as required by law, for the second consecutive year now. At least they had the good sense to vote down Obama’s proposed runaway budget, 97-0. But the failure to pass any budget leaves the government subject to possible shutdown this fall.
The Democrat Senate has also fought tooth and nail against every spending cut. They even threatened to shut down the entire government last week because the House Republicans funded emergency FEMA disaster relief spending with $1.5 billion in offsetting spending cuts, half of one thousandth of the entire federal budget. The cuts were to a Department of Energy corporate welfare loan program, like the program that just lost half a billion in taxpayer funds in the Solyndra bankruptcy scandal. Senate Democrat Majority Leader Harry Reid said this microscopic spending cut to a program with no valid justification was “not an honest effort at compromise,” as quoted in USA Today on Monday. The shutdown was averted only because FEMA decided it didn’t need the emergency funding after all, meaning the Senate Democrats were successful in nullifying the negligible spending cut.
The House also passed a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which would eliminate the government’s power to run a deficit and increase the national debt. The Democrat-controlled Senate has failed to pass it.
To restore the creation of new jobs, the House passed the Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act, which would stop the imposition of federal regulatory burdens on farmers and small businesses that would impede job creation. The Democrat-controlled Senate has failed to do anything to stop the runaway regulatory burdens of the Obama Administration, killing jobs and the economy.
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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Kenny| 9.28.11 @ 6:50AM
"Too many conservatives in the race are dividing up the conservative vote and leaving the lead to the more moderate."
Specifics. We need specifics to understand who/what you mean, Peter.
jothepro| 9.28.11 @ 7:48AM
Hey Kenny, I know who/what Peter means. Put on your thinking cap.
Mike Hawk| 9.28.11 @ 8:06AM
That makes little sense as there has been no voting yet. The primaries are still months away.
Alan Brooks| 9.28.11 @ 8:56PM
Ferrara,
it is an open secret the GOP willl elect another Bush in 2012 or '16; the way it looks at this moment, probably in 2012. However what value will such a victory have- save for nostalgia?
Alan Brooks| 9.28.11 @ 9:02PM
Mr. Ferrara,
it has become routine, post-Reaganism is now so rote you can set your watch by it:
1. talk smaller govt but increase spending while lowering tax rates.
2. talk national security while soldiers are picked off one by one and a few trillion are spent on the wars.
If everyone knows it, then it is no secret anymore.
Brian Mc| 9.28.11 @ 7:32AM
If one only had a crystal ball. He/she could look down the road, say a hundred years from now, and see how/what historians are writing about this debacle occurring before our very eyes and what the inexorable outcome will be.
Do we stop the Marxist onslaught? Or, do we suffer four more years of regulations and policies that lead toward serfdom: the total erosion of self-determination and individual rights to life, liberty and the PURSUIT of happiness? Without the proper number of folks willing to get off their government-induced postures required to expectantly await the arrival of the next postman's visit, I believe that the latter course is already in the cards. Ah, yes...ignorance is bliss: after all, it is what gave us popular senators afraid to do the right thing which might cause them to lose their...popularity. Why else would the Senate be in a state such as that which we are witnessing?
Dear God, please don't mind us and continue to bless America!
martin j smith| 9.28.11 @ 7:37AM
I agree with you that Obama and the Socialist Party must be held accountable for their poilcies and the results that we have. It is time to end the "blame Bush" syndrome.
But, to some extent that is up to the Republican Leadership and the Presidential candidates. I do not see enough aggressive calling out of Obama and the Socialists for their actions. Not only are they playing brinkmanship but as we know well their un-civil discourse is further imperiling our civil society. Mr Ferrara Republicans must be more assertive and willing to offer our nation a choice. We ought to call ourselves the Freedom and Democracy Movement. Let the Socialists call themselves whatever they wish.
The so caled Democratic Party in my view changed with the 2000 election when they denied GWB as the legitimate winner. From that point onwards they have roiled themselves into a tither and become the angry, hostile Marxist -Leninist Mob that they are.
russel| 9.28.11 @ 10:54AM
Martin , we're called the Tea Party and we have no specific ' leader '. We are simply Americans fed up . We didn't exist when a good number of the spineless RINO's were elected . They are in our sights and have been warned to do thier job or lose it . We are headed towards a war with the Progressive Socialist's and the career GOPhers will just get in the way . The likes of Lugar will be voted out anywhere it's possible . Have patience , 2012 is coming .
Mimi| 9.28.11 @ 7:41AM
Peter....AGAIN a MAGNIFICENT gathering of FACTS !
This article IS the 2012 campaign in a nutshell. It should be sent to every Republican running for ANY office.
We have lived through watching this DESTRUCTION from early 2009 , when a warning came out that home-grown terrorists are returning VETS and PRO-LIFE old ladies working in church basements to elect Republicans. That wave of fear, foriegn to our psch knew we were in trouble with the NEW-GUY just inauguarated.
I agree the DEMOCRATS have much to answer to. So does the MEDIA !
We.......have to WORK together TO THROW TEM ALL OUT !!!
Mimi| 9.28.11 @ 7:42AM
"THEM"
Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 9.28.11 @ 8:47AM
Yeah, throw out all of em' Mimi!! I hope the Republicans win every single one of these elections in 2012!! I know that's probably asking a little too much, but I hope this is the most historic electoral rout ever, EVER!! The Democratic Party has turned into something that's almost unrecognizable, this is not the same Party of JFK, this is the Party of Vampires. Human blood sucking, money spending, wealth distributing Communist Vampires!! And the only good Vampire, as you well know, is a Vampire with a stake through its heart (or however the hell you kill Vampires?)!!
Mimi| 9.28.11 @ 10:50AM
Gee LLL you must be riled up as much I am....Peter's article opened up some OLD wounds and bitter memories! Hoping 2010 was just a rehearsal !
NYMPH| 9.28.11 @ 11:02AM
You must also remove their heads so they don't come back to life. (Vampires literally, Democrats figuratively)
Margie| 9.28.11 @ 1:34PM
All you have to do to them (vampires) to destroy them is hold a cross up to them!
Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 9.28.11 @ 6:11PM
Can we still kick 'em in the balls, cut off their heads, and drive a stake through their black hearts, just for the fun of it? And if you say yes to that, then this next idea isn't too much of a stretch for you to go along with, and I think it could be really fun. So after the kicking and the cutting, and the driving of the stakes, then we can throw their lifeless bodies out of a C130, and play a giant game of corpse-lawn-darts. I think I can secure the plane for this, and I know a good drop-zone too.
Margie| 9.28.11 @ 9:02PM
Yes.
Go for it, just come pick me up first. I want to be part of it.
Mike 3/505| 10.1.11 @ 9:03PM
So YOU are the rascal who put me out over the tree as Camp MacCall.
Regards,
Mike
VBMax| 9.28.11 @ 8:00AM
If some of these Republican candidates would carve up Obama instead of their fellow Republicans they would find their poll numbers rising.
BBuoni| 9.29.11 @ 6:39AM
Herman Cain ... the man with solutions!!
Corey| 9.29.11 @ 9:30AM
Listen to what Herman says in the debates... He keeps his fire off of fellow republicans and directs his attacks to this administration and his party.
He is the real deal.
TrueBlue| 9.29.11 @ 11:41AM
And he has a sense of humor, and has never been a lawyer or a politician! On top of that he has successfully risen to the top position in THREE different career fields, from the bottom. All this and more from an AMERICAN whose father was a chauffeur and mother was a maid.
davelnaf| 9.28.11 @ 8:16AM
The silver lining in the dark cloud of Barack Obamism is the near demise next year of the Democratic Party. Personally, it is hard to get one’s head around the fact that these people still appear willing, if not eager, to go over the cliff with him. The dem party is indeed so far to the left now that doing this might even appear to be a resume enhancer to a lot of voters; the dems could try and see if it works anyway.
Mimi| 9.28.11 @ 8:42AM
"The dark cloud of Barrack OBAMISM"....near FATAL??? The Democratic Party are GONERS...The end ,,,FINI !!
Peter laid it out in black and white.
America can comeback like a hard rubber ball....after the MAJOR correction!
Old Joe| 9.28.11 @ 10:33AM
The members of the Democrat Party have no choice but to support Obama strongly for the following reasons:
1. They selected Obama in 2008 and to now stop supporting him would prove that they didn’t know what they were doing then and therefore the country cannot trust Democrat Party judgment.
2. If they withdraw support from the first black president, they will alienate the entire black voting bloc. This would result in the black voting bloc either staying home on Election Day or voting Republican for revenge. If the blacks stay home on Election Day, the Democrats will lose almost every election. They have to dance with the girl they brought to the party.
Oh what a mess they have created for themselves.
Mimi| 9.28.11 @ 10:58AM
Old JOE...If they were HONORABLE they could! If they loved their country more than their PARTY they could....ie "NIXON" was that easy,..it was the rightthing to do for the country...We survived ie " REAGAN" . The Rock and the Hard place Ain't gonna fly! They could stand up and be counted for God's sake!!
Old Joe| 9.28.11 @ 1:59PM
Mimi,
It is a just plain wrong to say the word “honorable” and “Democrat” in the same sentence.
DaveS| 9.28.11 @ 3:33PM
Yes, that combination is rare - but not extinct. Still the rarer-by-the-day exceptions do not, as Samuel Johnson would say, refute the point.
Lowell Wilson| 9.29.11 @ 3:53PM
Joe,
you either are not that old, or you haven't learned from experience. Here are a couple of things I have learned in my old age:
1) Blacks will never vote republican. ever. It is true that if the democratic base is not energized, low get out the vote efforts will result in lower turnout of African Americans. However, if they go to the polls, they vote democrat. period.
2) Jewish Americans will always vote mostly for democrats - I know you didn't mention, but we often get excited about Jews voting republican. It never happens. period.
I know that these facts are frustrating to most on this board, but there is no use over-estimating the positive. The best we can hope for is an unmotivated, underfunded, democrat machine. It doesn't really matter that both of these groups are better served by conservative, free market policies, the end result is predictable.
If there is a point in my post, it is only a caution to not count hour chickens. We need to be active in our communities to get our voters out, we need to focus on local elections, and we need to pressure our elected officials do what they were elected to do. There will not be any shortcuts, such as a positive demographic shift; regardless of how much sense it would make.
Sam Levi| 9.30.11 @ 2:50PM
Most jews vote Democrat, not all. I am a card carrying Republican and have been for almost 25 years; so is my father. Granted, being a southerner, a jew, and a conservative, I am not popular with about 90% of my brethern. But not all Jews are political morons. I for one cannot understand how they can support a party that reviles us.
no name| 9.28.11 @ 8:38AM
Well written and true. I know of this myself because that is how we broke our coon hounds from killing chickens. When we caught a hound that had got into the chicken coop and killed a chicken, we wired the dead chicken close onto the collar of the hound. After the hound drug the smelly rotting chicken around for over a week that hound didn"t want no more chicken. Same here, only the dead chickens are still being wired onto the democrat party. Wear your albatross (CHICKEN) proudly Barry, you earned it! Ohh I forgot to mention, we never removed the dead chicken from the hound, he wore it till it rotted apart and fell off....
Gary B| 9.28.11 @ 9:01AM
Republicans taking over is one thing. Expecting them to undo the huge damage by the regulatory agencies is quite another. When's the last time a Republican reversed agency rules put in place by the reptiles in DC? And, counting on the courts to reverse any of this vandalism is a cruel joke.
Timothy L. Pennell| 9.28.11 @ 9:05AM
Here's the REAL Problem.
The numbers for the Pharaoh are BAD, and they're gonna get worse. He's gonna reach a point of no return. And, then, things are gonna get UGLY.
Think, Wounded Animal. Worse. Think, CORNERED Wounded Animal.
This guy will go on a Marxist Rampage, like we can't even Imagine. Look at the Damage he's inflicted on this Country, with his Policies. Every Economic Indicator is WORSE than it was during the Great Depression.
Look at the situation in the World, since he's taken power. He has made Freedom and Liberty, weaker. The Middle East is ON FIRE.
He seeks to finance his Dream of FAIRNESS, on the backs of our Military. The Democrats on his Super Committee, will NEVER acquiesce to any Spending Cuts to Social Programs or Entitlements. (Yet, they never make a sound, as Obama makes HUGE CUTS to Medicare)
Unless the Republicans completely Roll Over on all of the New Spending Demands, that the Liberals will propose? The super Committee will BALANCE their Sheets with HUGE CUTS in the MILITARY, at a time when EVIL is on the March, and Communist China is on the move.
He will do away with the "Formalities" of the Office. EVERYTHING will be an Executive Order. He will try and install his Sycophants, in to every nook and cranny of the Government.
Obama's "Great Awakening" will commence.
His Union Thugs will earn their keep, in the City Streets. Violence will become commonplace. They will SHUT DOWN this Country, as best as they can.
The Dems in the SENATE know the Math. They are FINISHED. They will begin to Feather their Nests, like a Roman Emperor. This Country will be UNRECOGNIZABLE.
You don't believe me?
He's a Narcissist, Marxist, True Believer. He really does BELIEVE, that "We are the ones we've been waiting for".
Do you honestly think that a man, like that, will just go away Quietly?
DO YOU?!
Dan Hirsch| 9.28.11 @ 9:30AM
I hope you are overestimating their bad behavior. I think you are. But, face it we must, lest they have another four years to farther embed themselves in our government and our lives...
DTOM
Ed| 9.28.11 @ 11:41AM
Yesterday, the Governor of North Carolina "suggested" that next year's elections be suspended (check Drudge Report for details). Of course, she said that she was "only joking". I hope that Tar Heels respond to this by throwing the DemocRATS out in the next election. If the elections really are suspended, we will have a Charley Foxtrot situation to end all Charlie Foxtrots. For those of you who do not know military slang, Charley is the phonetic code for C, and Foxtrot is the phonetic code for F.
KaribooKidd| 9.28.11 @ 1:58PM
I prefer the phrase "Cluster Fornication". It is much more descriptive.
Dan Hirsch| 9.28.11 @ 2:20PM
Ed;
There are an awful lot of people who swore to support and defend the Constitution. Maybe they might want to remind the NC governor that they will keep their oaths...
This also might be a Dem talking point, Peter Orszag basically wrote the same thing ten days ago at The New Republic.
Looky here:
http://www.tnr.com/article/pol.....MjE2NjE2Nj
This is the logical extension of the NLRB's support of the "Card Check" practice.
This needs to be shouted down, loud and clear, by all!!
We should all asking any Democrat we see whether they agree or disagree with this idea. We should insist on an answer, no hemming, no hawing, no skirting, no dodging, just answer me dat.
DTOM
Louis Jenkins| 9.28.11 @ 4:17PM
Dear Ed:
The people in the "know" have their sights on Bev Purdue. This comment will resurface as the election gets closer. A Republican candidate is a lot stronger now that she has tied herself up in a knot.
Ed| 9.28.11 @ 4:36PM
It is nice to know that Tar Heels will be able to use this gaffe in the next election.
BDBerzerker| 9.29.11 @ 6:31PM
You, Sir, have hit the nail squarly on the head. I've seen this coming since he won the primary. It makes me sick and sad for our country that we are going to see this unnecessary violence. He will do ANYTHING to stay in power. The unions will be his army.
KennesawJack| 9.28.11 @ 9:25AM
I think your penultimate paragraph is the most important in a very well written road map to victory over Obamarx in 2012. Why don't we start with holding GE and GM accountable? Let's have a good, old-fashioned boycott of the two of them starting right now. Personally, we purchase nothing with the GE brand on it in our household and haven't since their CEO got down on his knees before the One.
TrueBlue| 9.29.11 @ 12:18PM
I've made a point of not buying anything from a company I know received bailout funds. And this recent bs with Darden Restaurants and Mrs. Obama has my family avoiding Olive Garden, Red Lobster, and LongHorn establishments.
A free capitalist society does not need a federal government to do anything except ensure that we can STAY a free capitalist society.
John II| 9.29.11 @ 1:51PM
Agreed! But damn: my wife and I keep getting those Olive Garden freebie plastic cards for birthdays and Christmas from all those witless Demos on her side of the family. Hell, we could eat for a week without spending a dime, but we're stuck with our conservative principles, and anyhow the food (no surprise) really isn't all that good.
But I keep thinking: why can't her family, so to speak, be content with giving us ugly socks and unwearable ties? Oh, the profuse and often hidden injustices of the Obamanation!
The Professor and his retinue have much to answer for.
And now back to "The Road" (2009), in which Viggo Mortensen (aka Rigor Mortis) plays a liberal Democrat in a dystopian future caused by the policies of the Obamanation.
Foxfier | 9.30.11 @ 12:48AM
You might consider donating them-- imagine the response if a homeless guy walked in and used the card. ^.^ Good deed, with enough spice to be funny!
Indy| 9.28.11 @ 9:35AM
Where is the Paul Revere in the GOP Leadership?
Every day, voters need to be reminded that the Senate has not passed a budget in ~900 days
The leadership cannot articulate a simple message and when they allowed the stimulus spending to remain in the baseline, any respect I had for them vanished, they did not even mention it once during the debt debate, not even budget wonk Paul Ryan, why?
loulou| 9.28.11 @ 9:56AM
Boehner and McConnell are WORTHLESS as leaders. Boehner just wants to compromise, golf and tan. McConnell thinks if he's a good boy and says nothing he'll get to be Senate Majority Leader.
They need to be ousted as leaders since they are not leaders.
JP| 9.28.11 @ 10:36AM
The GOP Senate is in a quandry. If the GOP does in fact win big in the Senate come 2012, almost all of the leadership slots will go to liberal Republicans. Seniority will propel Lugar, McCain, the Maine Twins, Grassley, as well as Lindsay Graham into key committee chairmenships. They will control the agenda, steer policies, and make or break legislation.
What this could mean is that all of the major reforms or repeals that the House offers up will most probably be gutted. Don't think for a moment that Dick Lugar will even consider repealing ObamaCare, or for that matter reigning in the EPA, or investigage past WH actions such as Solyandra or Operations Fast and Furious.
Even if the Democrats lose 20 Senate seats (ie be reduced to 34 seats), GOP Senators will do everything possible to appease them, thier K-Street cohorts, and the Beltway Establishment.
Indy| 9.28.11 @ 2:27PM
Isn't Lugar facing a primary? I hope so, would like to find a Mike Lee type candidate to show Lugar the door, just like the good people of Utah did with Bennett. Graham is up in 2014, perhaps that will help to keep him in check...maybe Tim Scott will put in a senate bid then or Nikki Haley, SC has a strong bench coming up.
TrueBlue| 9.29.11 @ 12:29PM
Which is why we need to replace every Congresscritter that has been in office for more than 12 years (two Senate terms), and then have the new guys all pass a term limit Amendment limiting time as a House member to 4 years, and Senator for 12 years. It should make it clear that the terms need not be consecutive, but that time in one body of Congress does not count for the other (so if you're a House member for 4 years you can still run for and hold office as a Senator for 12 yrs).
Two terms, just like the President. It may not eliminate the good ol' boy problem, but it'll sure put a big dent in it.
No more retirement for serving in Congress either. You are there to serve your country, not for your personal benefit. After all, what private sector job will pay out 50+% of your salary the minute you hit the age to draw Social Security for working there for only 2-16 yrs (even the ones where you earn $150k or more a year don't get retirement THAT fast)? You MIGHT get a decent severance package at 16 yrs, but you sure as heck won't at 2. They can serve their time and then go back to work like the rest of us.
tj| 9.29.11 @ 6:50PM
50% salary hell more like 90%
Fallgold| 9.28.11 @ 12:07PM
Right on. The candidates should be attacking on both these points in the debates. Why don't they understand this? Also, they should be attacking the "do-nothing" Dem Senate.
Fallgold| 9.28.11 @ 12:10PM
This comment was meant for the comments by Indy.
Indy| 9.28.11 @ 2:30PM
Go it, you make a good point the GOP candidates are silent on these issues as they are with POTUS governing by exectutive order...many, many missed opportunities. They are losing focus by going after each other instead of educating voters on many important issues.
Indy| 9.28.11 @ 2:31PM
Oops, left off a letter, meant to say
"Got it" too little sleep and way too much coffee!
TrueBlue| 9.29.11 @ 12:43PM
It's a sad side effect of the "personal responsibility" angle the Republicans tend to stand for. They expect people to be responsible and intelligent, to find the information to make the best decision for the situation. So they don't spend time countering stupid Democrat rhetoric or pounding the opposition for gaffs.
Clint| 9.28.11 @ 10:52AM
Wall Street & The Ruling Elite are setting us up for their Frontman Mittens Romney, while there is a fostered game of musical chairs with the Candidates Du Jour, keeping away focused criticism from their Ruling Elite Wall Street Anointed One, Mittens Romney.
We can walk & chew gum.
Give The Wall Street & The Ruling Elites ' Anointed One, Romney the same critical scrubbing that other candidates are getting.
Rise Up In Rebellion.
Rmm| 9.28.11 @ 11:00AM
Certainly, Obama cannot run on his record because it is horrendous. His numbers are dropping like a stone. The only avenue left for him is continue to blow smoke and Hope the poor dumb-asses who can't think past tomorrow will vote for him because they like the way he dresses or the way he does this or that. Our only salvation will be the true Patriots who love this country outnumber the bums who want something for nothing.
Who Knows?| 9.28.11 @ 11:08AM
“Far Left San Francisco Democrat Nancy Pelosi”, “Far Left screamer Debbie Wasserman Schultz”, “EPA Chief Lisa Jackson”, “Labor Secretary Hilda Solis”
Gee, Peter, you pick just women to accentuate the wild and wooly thinking far left fringe of the Obama closing-gate party?
Actually, I well remember some “ladies” I knew back in the late 60’s and early 70’s at UCSB, when being radical was so much fun for me. And, it’s like that hoary saying goes---truth is stranger than fiction; or is it “you can’t make this stuff up”?
Nancy Pelosi, and I’m sure most of the other females you listed, represent a type of radical from the distaff divide, who “made it”.
I met two such females, both seven years older than me in Isla Vista, a one-square-mile “city” adjacent to the campus that was practically only students.
However, Wanda and Ellen were just perfect Pelosi wannabes---and, didn’t even know it at the time. The former was a single mom with two kids, on welfare. She’d married an ex-Polish guy while they were in Australia. He was seeking his fortune looking for precious metals. The latter was the child of a rich ex-missionary in China, who also was divorced with two kids. Her ex was an eternal student, still pursuing his Ph D in philosophy.
Wanda specialized in raising hell in governmental affairs, going to all kinds of public meetings to do so. Ellen just tried to get by by substitute teaching.
What a pair!
About five years ago, I tried to find Wanda’s girl, and found out she had been working for the university. And, proving the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, she had filed a sexual harassment suit against her boss—and lost it, and her job!
There are way too many people like these in America!
Oh well, extreme affluence has, UNTIL RECENTLY, afforded us the ability to indulge such clowns. But the time has come to separate the tail from the dog, if you know what I mean.
In the Japan of shoguns, if a samurai came upon a beggar, it was out with the sword, and off with his head. We are too civilized for THAT, but in effect the makers DO have to put their feet down, and stifle (Thanks Archie!) the takers!
Gazinya| 9.28.11 @ 11:15AM
And here is the crux of this article as I see it. Everything in this article would be a jaw dropping expose to many Americans. The fact that the media, except for many 'on line' conservative outlets, do not even suggest that the House has proposed, debated and passed ANY legislation. Even that much ballyhood Fox News almost never hammers the idea that it is still Democrat intransigency that has choked off any hope of recovery. Why doesn't the only 'on air' network and the most watched bring this demonic practice to light? Does not the truth of this Democrat lie warrant the term "Fair and Balanced News, we report you decide" screed? They, the network and it's Mike Wallace and Sheep Shepard and that 'hat' The OReilly, are like the Repub machinists. People like Boehner and McConnell are in 'fear' of something they don't understand. The loss of something they never had and that would be the Integrity of principle.
Von Mises Jr.| 9.28.11 @ 11:16AM
We could learn one thing from the Democrats. Elect someone such as Herman Cain and then shut down the government. Pass a CR and let Mr. Cain decide what Agencies and Departments to fund. As Rahm should have said: Energy, Dead! Commerce, Dead! Education Department, Dead! Interior, Dead! EPA, Dead! IRS reformed to one-tenth its current size with the option to adopt a flat tax of 9-9-9 or fail to fund the central government with this current maze of a tax code.
For those not paying attention, this is what Obama and Reid are doing today. If you don't give us X, then we shoot the country. Perhaps a good strategy if used for noble and moral goals!
Anthony| 9.28.11 @ 11:44AM
The timing was perfect, what the D party had presented to it was the confluence of a "clean" black radical Muslim Marxist and a political party that had turned hard left. The rest, as it goes, is living history, or, our living nightmare.
The R establishement and leadership still do not "get it", or are too timid to act on behalf of a nation that is demanding action, because they might look bad to the NY Times.
Boehner has been presented with political softballs which he has wiffed patheticly on.
The Rs can't or won't do the job to stop the Ds from destroying of America, hence, we Americans need to take matters into our own hands and bitch slap both political parties!!!
KaribooKidd| 9.28.11 @ 2:04PM
A communist, an illegal alien, and a muslim walk into a bar.
The bartender asks "What will you have, Mr. pResident?"
Slacker| 9.28.11 @ 12:18PM
Holding Obama’s party accountable?
I plan to punish the bastards for a very long time. The republicans can fight the political battles. I’ll fight as a consumer and community member.
The people and corporations who support democrats are not going to get my business. If it is made of sold by union workers I don’t buy it. Prominent liberal CEO? I’ll pass on the brand.
Lefties aren’t invited to my parties anymore (it has been refreshing to get rid of them). Public sector workers are not our friends. Marginalize them.
Don’t talk about these decisions. Just quietly make choices. Maybe someday I will forgive the left for giving us Obama. Right now I want my pound of flesh.
JmsA| 9.28.11 @ 12:45PM
I agree with you, Slacker. I've doing much of what you suggest for quite some time now.
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RefriedTomatoes| 9.28.11 @ 2:31PM
The one no one talks much about is Harry Reid. That Searchlight Synchophant has single-handedly blocked any chance of debate, and is too cowardly to have his 23 vulnerable go on the record for who they really are. I know we're stuck with him for 4 more years after 2012, but on the back bench is where he belongs.
DaveS| 9.28.11 @ 3:30PM
The Balanced Budget Amendment is a stupid idea. You can always raise 'revenues' to cover your 'expenditures.' Other than that, the article describes lame Democrats as being in the wrong quite well. Use the same stick to beat them, and put Obama's face on the handle.
Indiana Alex| 9.29.11 @ 9:50AM
I strongly agree, especially since using baseline budgeting and cock-eyed scoring, claiming a balanced budget over a ten year period is meaningless.
uncleFred| 9.28.11 @ 4:21PM
I am old enough to remember the elections of Nixon, Carter, and Reagan. Despite Ford's pardon of Nixon and the anger it produced on the left and in the media, the Ford republicans did not approach that election fatalistically. Still Carter won and the left swept in to dominance, and promptly over reached. Carter's failures, incompetence, and unpresidential manner embarrassed the nation. His malaise speech offended the core of the country. His revelation that he was surprised that the Russian premier had lied to him, made us aware that his incompetence directly endangered the nation. Reagan, who was pronounced to conservative to win, won in a landslide because he presented a belief in American greatness and the country was utterly sick of Carter.
Unlike the 1976 election, in 2008 the Republicans were fatalistic. Far to many of us refused to hold our nose and vote for McCain. Far to many of us stayed home on election day. As a result we got Obama and a filibuster proof Congress in radical left hands. There is a lesson here about fighting every fight, but that is not my point.
The nation's disapproval of Carter was nothing, compared to it's feelings toward Obama today. In 1980, the dissatisfaction was largely focused on Carter, the democrats in congress were not as much a focus. This time around the electorate is intent on holding Obama and, because of their insufferable arrogance, the democrat party as a whole accountable for this mess.
If you look at the 1980 polling, Carter appeared to be competitive until shortly before the election. The fact was that the average voter had long made up their mind. I don't know why the "conventional wisdom" was not reflected in the polls until the last minute. Perhaps people were not being honest with pollsters, perhaps the pollsters were cooking their data, but no one from the middle of the political spectrum to the far right was surprised by the 1980 election results. Polling information is much more open today, but I have to wonder the degree to which we'll see a repeat of 1980. I suspect it will be huge, dwarfing what current polls suggest. In any event, we each must mobilize at every level and work to restore our nation.
Dan Hirsch| 9.29.11 @ 3:17AM
Uncle,
My recollections of that race mirror yours with the exception that I recall that Reagan never was clearly ahead of Carter in the polling, until the actual election.
Others recall that, too. Looky here:
http://voices.washingtonpost.c.....eback.html
DTOM
Pat| 9.28.11 @ 6:23PM
Ok, so Nancy Pelosi isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed. We Californians tried to trade her to Montana for two state assemblymen and a pregnant sow but the good folks of Montana were having none of it. But Nancy is popular among America’s Democrats for the same reason most intelligent earthlings pity her. Every issue our leading drama queen tackles becomes a hissy fit issue – recently, for example, during the Debt Ceiling debate comedy hour she said “we (meaning the Democrats) are trying to save the planet from the Republican budget”. Save the planet? Joking, right? Nope, Nancy said it with a straight face, even a tightly clenched jaw, no kidding around on her part.
Now complex math stuff like debt to GDP ratios goes right over the head of your typical Californian. If the federal government doesn’t have enough money, you just borrow some more, right? That’s what we do here in the Golden State – so what’s the problem again? But the “something’s seriously wrong here” message is starting to surface right here in our sun kissed asylum. Seems like our government doesn’t have a clue how to fix anything, high unemployment, new business investment deader than a 3 day old mackerel, companies fleeing the state every day – this could be bad we’re thinking.
No, Californians aren’t about to register as Republican voters, nothing crazy like that but we’re starting to get worried. Can we support our entire state economy on Disney movies alone? That might possibly work but first we’d all like to hear whether Nancy thinks more Disney movies could also save the planet.
Nite| 9.28.11 @ 10:15PM
Frankly, I hope the voters throw the Democrats out of office this next election. They have crammed one bill after another down our throats, stopped the oil and gas exploration, which might have kept energy costs down. The EPA is running amuck, and trying to get cap and trade in through the back door. The NLRB is suing Boening who had the nerve to open a plant in South Carolina, a right to work state even though no Union jobs were lost in Washington and it goes on an on. Obama and his minions have been insulting our allies of many years and we are a laughingstock in the world. Are you worse off than when Obama took office? I sure am!
VBMax| 9.29.11 @ 12:42AM
"Are you worse off than when Obama took office"?
Yes, Obama has definitely raised my blood pressure.
D Roamer | 9.28.11 @ 11:04PM
California's Gov. Brown, is still of the idea he can tax more, he is going after the Prop. 13 safe guard we had on our property years ago, other states at that time were jealous of the law we had passed. California cannot print money like the Federalists can and will not get any loans except for solar programs, and we all know how that is working out. The state has to go bankrupt. Have the judges order cuts where needed and start over. Industry will never come back. Tourism will be the only tax income that the state can gather. Just a thought.
blackdog52| 9.29.11 @ 12:47AM
I like the way the Auther refers to Obama's party as the "Democrat Party" rather than the "Democratic Party". There is nothing democratic about them.
sub| 9.29.11 @ 5:40AM
obama is an american faux dictator. he plays his constituency of youth, race-based, and clueless progressive supporters based soley on his "cool" factor and their absolute and total ignorance with regard to pressing issues. his willingness to pit one group of americans against another is perhaps the most chilling part of his disturbing tenure. elect a man with a clinical narcissistic disorder, and this is what you get. thanks dems, you're actually more idiotic and irresponsible than i ever could have given you credit for.
Crawler| 9.29.11 @ 6:49AM
I predict that Obama and his Democrat Progressive Party will resemble the Hindenburg in 404 days...
Tracy C.| 9.29.11 @ 10:35AM
Yep. Pull up your lawn chairs. Get your pop corn and enjoy the implosion :-)
Ted Keer | 9.29.11 @ 8:18AM
Yes, let's throw out ALL the incumbents. Including the RINO incumbistanis like golf-with-the-enemy Boehner. With 23 Democrats and 10 "Republicans" replaced that means a 13 seat gain, to 60 in the Senate.
Yes, to hell with the establishment. Let's elect a man of principle—Herman Cain (!)
Enough with the pretty-boy technocrats like Romney. We've already got one in Obama and at least he doesn't lie like Romney and pretend to be a conservative.
This election will be about confidence and principle or it will be about nothing.
This is it folks. This is the most important election since 1860.
Raise Cain!
Corey| 9.29.11 @ 9:25AM
After the implosion of Bachmann and Perry, its time for conservatives to get behind the guy with staying power. Herman Cain.
He's a fantastic speaker, he is consistently a conservative, no waffling and no compromising his beliefs. And he will absolutely destroy Obama in a debate.
R. Nixon| 9.29.11 @ 10:32AM
This is an excellent article that speaks the TRUTH, and deserves to be spread far and wide.
Simply stated, America cannot withstand another 4 years with Obama & these socialist clowns in power. It would spell the end of the U.S.A. as we know it, and ulitimately the end of western civilization as we know that!!!
Tracy C.| 9.29.11 @ 10:33AM
It is so great to see so many people jumping on the Herman Cain bandwagon. I think Herman is our only chance to defeat Obama. He's refreshingly honest, upfront and tells you like it is. He's inspiring and that is what this country needs right now. He and Rubio are the closest thing to another Reagan I have seen in a long time. Go Herman Cain, go!! Also, Sub, you put it so succinctly your description of Obama and his ilk.
Timstigator| 9.29.11 @ 10:35AM
It gets worse. Obama and his campaign team will do their best to create an atmosphere of hate and class warfare. They will welcome the violence they will help create. They know the only chance they have to provide the gasoline to those true believers. This campaign over the next 13 months will be far worse than anyone can imagine. Riots, arson, violent demonstrations, etc. Obama knows he's toast, and the only way for him and his ideology to succeed is to double-down on his socialist strategy. This is the Far Left's Great Last Chance. After this, if we survive, you can put to rest that stupidity for a long time. The Democrats will return to a more centrist strategy. You will hear and read Democrats, post-Obama, slam him and his ideology. They will be jumping off that boat. Strangely enough, it probably will be Democrats who can help prevent this conflagration from happening...the ones who can see where this is heading, and know it's a death knell, and know it's not good for America.
Bill Perney| 9.29.11 @ 11:08AM
I think both parties do a pretty good job of "hate and class warfare". ...but the award goes to the republican party. With superstars of hate like Rush, Rove and etc. they are the NY Yankees of hate, fear and class warfare.
Timstigator| 9.29.11 @ 11:22AM
Hmmm...Rush motivates benign groups like the Tea Party. Karl Rove motivates Repubs who follow him. It's hard to get those guys out on the streets to do some class warfare. Meanwhile, Trumka's thugs, the SEIU, and whatever's left of ACORN will do whatever is necessary to do the O's bidding. Apples to oranges. Please try again.
Tracy C.| 9.29.11 @ 10:52AM
Obama isn't above enacting Marshall Law because I believe that is what they want to do. To incite riots so he'll do that. This always seems to be the libs first line of defense. Lie and commit violence to get what they want. So much for being open minded and tolerant of other's differences of opinions. What a joke.
Bill Perney| 9.29.11 @ 10:53AM
The economy is tanking because "globalization" sent most of the means of production overseas and because of manufacturing efficiency breakthroughs. This will not change when Republicans take over the entire government in 2012. From 2011 - 2016 we will see a radical decline in jobs/income and a huge increase in fear and despair regardless of which party is in power. What happens in 2016? I don't pretend to know, but, it seems clear it will be dramatic.
R. Nixon| 9.29.11 @ 12:08PM
"The economy is tanking because "globalization" sent most of the means of production overseas and because of manufacturing efficiency breakthroughs."
NONSENSE!!!
Did places like China & India & others not exist before the collapse???
In August 2007 (shortly before the financial collapse) the U.S. unemployment rate was 4.6% and there were 7.1 million unemployed. Are you trying to say that in 4 short years "globalization" caused the unemployment rate and the number of unemployed to double???
Change the current government and their disasterous economic policies, and I guarantee you that your miserable 2011-2016 forecast won't be worth the paper it is not written on!!!
Bill Perney| 9.29.11 @ 1:24PM
Look back well before 2007 and look at the trade deficit trends and etc. 2007 represents what chartists refer to as "hitting the crook in the hockey stick". You reach a point where the multiplier effect kicks in visibly (downward in this case) on employment and production in general.
It wouldn't have mattered that much if John McCain (whom I worked for) had been elected, there are larger economic macro forces at work here that our politics are powerless against.
R. Nixon| 9.29.11 @ 3:04PM
"The business of America is business", not big government and unions.
Obama and his far left colleagues who now control the Democrat Party do not recognize this, and have spent the last 3 years demonizing/regulating the hell out of the people/forces (the business community) that they needed to assist them in pulling the country out of recession??? What have they/did they hope to accomplish with this ridiculous behavior other than playing to their whining/socialist base?
No one including you will ever convince me that a change in government to people who understand my opening comment won't have a significant positive impact on the economy, despite other influences.
Steve McDevitt| 9.29.11 @ 11:50AM
The only thing great about this article is that it shows how fast the head are getting out over the feet of the GOP running to the cliff. Obama a Marxist? You may disagree with him but this isn't the 1960s and people don't read Sartre wearing berets while smoking cloves. Even the Chinese aren't really communists. Your paradigm was shattered decades ago. For the GOP to be howling about Marxism and Socialism at this point in history just reveals the delusion. Those terms aren't even relevant in today's discussion. Perhaps conservatives disagree with Obama on whether the appropriate means of interpreting the Constitution is textualist or realist, but to call him a Marxist if laughable. Seriously, did you get your talking points from "J. Edgar Hoover on Communism"?
Sid Vicious| 9.29.11 @ 12:18PM
Ask the Chrysler bondholders, whose property Uuhhhbama stole by the billions to pay off his cronies in the auto-workers' union, whether That One is a Marxist or not. I'm sure they'll be more than happy to take you to school.
james wilson| 9.29.11 @ 1:08PM
An historic victory, for what? The Republicans have no plan other than to be less destructive than Democrats.
Darryl Schmitz| 9.29.11 @ 1:17PM
A victory by a typical, Constitution-ignoring right wing Republican to replace a Constitution-ignoring left wing Democrat would be a hollow victory indeed. And so the two-ring circus continues...
Gmason | 9.29.11 @ 1:20PM
Thank you for so forthrightly articulating the danger we face. Too many even in the conservative media are treating this as "business as usual" - they shouldn't be.
zeezil| 9.29.11 @ 1:45PM
A devestating article to Dumbocrats. I would love to see an Obamanista read this and watch his head explode. Facts are inconvenient things to marxist progressive liberal Democrats, which encompasses the vast majority of the 'Ridiculous Party'.
Opus8no4| 9.29.11 @ 1:58PM
But wait, there's more. The 2010 midterms saw a major change in the political landscape at the state level, with the election of more GOP governors and nearly 800 GOP state legislators.
Will that fundamental shift to the right continue in November 2012? Count on it.
Glenn Koons | 9.29.11 @ 2:24PM
The purists, elitists in the Pub groupings, will have to come out in droves and forget any griping and Third Party dreams. Enough of that absurdity which will allow the Socialist in Chief to win. Time for the RNC to also point out in ads, horrid corruption-scandas via Solyn, the billions in green solar firms which are wacky slush funds and crony capitalism via Dem donors. Plus the evil Fast and Furious scandal. So along with Obamacare, no domestic energy policy, huge taxes, regs, and spending, enthusiasm must be boots on the ground in 2012. No DC Estab lies now. Support the Pub nominee and take out as many local, state legs, guvs, and Congressional liberal flacks as we can. No more excuses.
datameister| 9.29.11 @ 3:19PM
If the mainstream media were truthful in their reporting, the headlines would read, "Obama Promises Massive Tax Increases and More Government in 2013, If Re-elected."
But they won't do that, since they are collectively guilty in their complicity of getting him elected in 2008. They know they are on the hook for this boondoggle of a presidency, as much as Obama is himself. They will attack, smear and vilify any contenders to Obama's throne just to cover their own bias and mistake.
Any other candidate would not have passed a simple vetting of their clearly socialist ties in this country back in 2008, as Obama's past plainly presented.
This fawning and complicity in the U.S. mainstream media will continue, in spite of his plainly non-presidential divisive, class warfare invective and Big Government Is Better plan. Only a foreign press corps at this time would be able to break through with the truth.
The media are clearly carrying his water for him again in 2012.
The difference going forward now is that most Americans are awakening to reality, and the growth of alternative media that people now have access to, compared with a few years back.
Further, the Tea Party Movement has much to do with this change in perception and conversation, and change in elected representation going forward. Its success is validated by the fact that it is being vilified by the entrenched habitues of BOTH parties. And the media.
I AM THE TEA PARTY. I am only one of millions of others in this country just like me - and we know who we are, who now have found and gathered our voices - and our legs. And we are taking a stand. We stand for Fiscal Responsibility, Consitutionally Limited Government, Personal Liberty, and Free & Open Markets.
And for every one of me, there are 10 more who, as the silent majority, stand beside me.
November 6, 2012 will be epic, historical. If we get active NOW!
Nomadc| 9.29.11 @ 4:03PM
One would believe from these comments that Barrack Obama singlehandedly took a robust economy and destroyed it in just two short years. Do you people get your news anywhere but conservative media? If so, you'd know (and/or common sense would tell you) that our current problems are the result of policies enacted long before President Obama took his seat as the junior senator from Illinois. And you'd recognize that the policies that created our economic slide were exacerbated by eight years of Republican governance (six of those with majorities in both houses) during which time banking regulations that had worked quite nicely for over 70 years were dismantled, wars were waged in two Middle Eastern countries (unfunded), a new entitlement program, the Medicare drug program, was launched (again unfunded), and a new government agency of monstrous proportions (Homeland Security) was launched. And admist all this, taxes were cut.
Barrack Obama did not create our current problems, nor did he do anything to exacerbate them. If this president is to be criticized, it is for naively believing that Republicans would work for the good of this country rather than party politics.
Before your begin the celebration, please note that Congress' approval rating is in the toilet with no sign of improvement in the short-term. You should also note that the current crop of GOP presidential hopefuls are too far to the right to attract independents and moderate Democrats and Republicans. And you should finally come to grips with the fact that the vast majority of voters in this country are nowhere as far to the right as the current Republicans party has moved.
So, enjoy your premature celebration because it's unlikely you will be celebrating in reality after the 2012 elections.
ZZMike| 9.29.11 @ 4:57PM
We Republicans have forgotten one thing: The Democrats, the Left, and the young have social networks sewed up. They're in control of a medium that can reach several million voters almost instantly. On our side, Republicans and conservatives are still using rotary phones and Rolodexes.
Consider how many first-time voters will go to the polls next November. And they will all follow the dictum that "if you're not a liberal when you're young, you have no heart; if you're not a conservative when you're older, you have no brain".
Unless we can reach those voters, we're going to lose. Obama's poll numbers can sink to the low 20s, but as one man interviewed in the current Time said, "I'll hold my nose and vote for Obama".
With a little luck, we'll hold the House and make a few more gains in the Senate, but we're still a long shot away from the White House.
Larry| 9.29.11 @ 7:04PM
You are a defeatist, and I think you are wrong. Young people everywhere are as concerned and discouraged now as they were enthusiastic for Obama four years ago. Not as many of them have jobs now, either. I don't think the youth vote is going to matter as much next time around, and I predict Obama will lose part of the youth vote, whether they stay home or vote against him this time.
My motto for next year's election is posted below: Eviscerate them! Turn them into a rump party!!
Rick| 9.29.11 @ 6:07PM
Obama will NOT loose! His polices do to work but there headwins. Your a bigget and a rasist!
Larry| 9.29.11 @ 7:06PM
/sarc You've done a good job, Rick, convincing everyone you know what you are talking about. You have to be a product of the Obama public education policies. /sarc off
You are a dunderhead.
Timely Renewed | 9.29.11 @ 6:17PM
The fundamental underlying problem is the vast expansion of the federal government beyond its original scope in the Constitution. We will not be able to stop and roll back the ever-increasing expansion of the federal leviathan and leftist social policy imposed by judicial fiat until we have restored the original meaning of the Constitution. Given the deep entrenchment of the special interests and Supreme Court precedents which support the leviathan, we can only accomplish this by amending the Constitution to reverse such Supreme Court misinterpretations of the Constitution's original meaning and structure. See http://www.timelyrenewed.com.
Larry| 9.29.11 @ 6:59PM
An excellent article. People, I beseech you, go back and read about the Irish elections of April 2011 - "Fianna Fáil was swept from power in the worst defeat of a sitting government since the formation of the Irish state in 1921." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.....tion,_2011
Fianna Fail was one of the most established liberal/left political parties in Europe, having had power for most of the 20th and 21st centuries, and having the largest party in the Irish Parliament since 1927!!!! Their historic defeat was a direct result of the financial and economic crisis and how their corrupt and incompetent government handled it, more than anything else.
THIS kind of result is what we in America must do to the Democrats here. THIS is how we must hold the Democratic party accountable. You cannot just say "well, my Democratic congressman is an okay guy, he's not like Obama." He IS like Obama, he IS enabling the guy to do the damage he is doing. The Democrats (especially FDR and LBJ) created this stupid socialist welfare state system we have, and it is they who have caused the chickens to come home to roost, creating the environment in which has made it difficult to enact real alternatives to bad leftist policies and restore our economy to health.
Eviscerate them. Eviscerate them!! Turn them into a rump party!!
Kevin| 9.29.11 @ 7:28PM
'Tis a pity that Republicretins have no interest in holding the creators of the Great Recession responsible for their actions. An even greater shame is their impending Greater Depression. Maybe THEN you idiots will see that they don't give a rat's behind about you if you can't enrich their coffers. And you call yourselves patriots...
If you really care, end GOP policies of privatization of profit with socialization of loss. End GOP policies of Corporate Welfare. End GOP policies of corporate loopholes. End GOP policies of calling job exporters "job creators". End GOP policies of shipping middle-class jobs to other countries. End GOP policies of destroying America in order to destroy it's President.
When one who is honest is confronted by the truth one will either cease being mistaken or cease being honest. This article's author has CLEARLY chosen the latter. And you call yourselves patriots...
Todd Collier| 9.29.11 @ 9:33PM
This article needs to be sent to the headquartes of every national,state and local GOP. The list of passed House legislation needs to become the center piece of every major ad campaign for 2012 -with the simple statement that if we had the Senate and the WH these bills would become law and our recession would be behind us.
Jessie| 9.30.11 @ 4:37AM
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jgo| 9.30.11 @ 1:00PM
"Too many conservatives in the race"
Yah, Perry and Romney need to be pushed aside by the less wishy-washy candidates that have a chance to energize the base and achieve victory in 2012.
Michael Kirkby| 9.30.11 @ 2:03PM
I am no fan of King Barky nor have I been a fan of American polticians for a very long time. The last one who had any potential to turn around America was JFK. We know why he was killed. He was killed because he shut down the Fed and gave control of the money back to the American people. That is a reason no one ever seems to want to talk about.
The Republicans are no better than the Democrats. They all serve the same Master; they just have different agendas that must be carried out to appease Master. Many of the politicians running for the GOP have direct ties to the John Birch Society; the Quiver Full groups and other entities with questionnable mandates. It's fun if you're the GOP to ridicule Barky's birth right; his questionable educational/political pedigree; his affiliation with groups such as ACORN and the Black Panthers. It doesn't make them better; it's just part of the sick game.
Republicans for the most part are the slaves of the International Corporations who actually do run this world. Both parties were part and parcel in the sub-prime mortgage scam which ended up with the PRC controlling 90% of it to go along with the trade deficit. Would the Republicans like to reconsider selling some 50 sq. miles of land parcels in states like Iowa for example to assuage the deficit held by the PRC? It has been proposed. Lord knows Nestle wasn't above selling the natural water resources until they were caught red handed. I would like to see which politicians benefitted from that criminal activity.
America is turning into a house divided with the assistance of the very politicians who promise hope; change; and a better America. America now sees increasing violence between black and whites; Muslims and Christians much of which has been nurtured by various leaders politically, religiously and commercially. The very Republicans who want to oust King Barky don't want to issue any changes that would cost them the support of Big Finance; Big Medicine; Big Life Insurance; Big Energy or the major Financial Institutions run by their cronies. They wish only to increase the International Corporatist Friedmanesque economic control paradigm to America and the entire world so they can maximize profits. The very things initiated and carried out against the third world is now extant in America.
This is why America is on the verge of becoming the United Fascist States. The common man doesn't stand a chance. He/She has been sold lock, stock and barrel down the river by the very government that instead of governing for the people, and by the people; governs merely to expand their bank accounts at the expense of the country; its environment and its constituents. The US government has become nothing more than a whorehouse and all its politicians sleezy whores who bend over just a little futher to accomodate and pleasure their international clientel. The President has become the Grand Madame of it all. GFL
Albert W. L. Moore, Jr.| 9.30.11 @ 2:40PM
It would be grossly unfair and harmful to rank and file Democrats and the country to hold all Democratic Party members responsible for the machinations of their communist leadership in nominating a likely Comintern mole who probably lost his American citizenship decades ago and won election to the Office of President through the false pretense of being half Negro.
This is especially true in light of House RINO complicity in concealing the facts about Obama by refusing to conduct an exhaustive investigation of him. This facilitates Obama's continued false pretense that he is half Negro and undoubtedly an American citizen and patriot.
Such an investigation, starting with subpoenae of Obama's DNA, and the vital records referred to by Dr. Fukino in July 2009, would at last identify Barry and his actual racial heritage. Odds are they would prove that he is the son of a Caucasian father (my guess: Stanley Armour Dunham) and a native Hawai'ian mother, both U.S. citizens. This evidence would also show adoption at birth by Stanley Ann Dunham and the alien black Luo tribesman Barack Hussein Obama, her partner in a platonic marriage to adopt Barry at birth.
Further investigation would be necessary to determine whether Obama relinquished his American citizenship altogether by voluntary naturalization as an Indonesian citizen with the intention of relinquishing his U.S. citizenship.
As the State Department has noted:
POTENTIALLY EXPATRIATING ACTS
Section 349 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1481), as amended, states that U.S. citizens are subject to loss of citizenship if they perform certain specified acts voluntarily and with the intention to relinquish U.S. citizenship. Briefly stated, these acts include:
1. obtaining naturalization in a foreign state (Sec. 349 (a) (1) INA);
2. taking an oath, affirmation or other formal declaration to a foreign state or its political subdivisions (Sec. 349 (a) (2) INA);
3. entering or serving in the armed forces of a foreign state engaged in
hostilities against the U.S. or serving as a commissioned or non-commissioned officer in the armed
forces of a foreign state (Sec. 349 (a) (3) INA);
4. accepting employment with a foreign government if (a) one
has the nationality of that foreign state or (b) an oath or declaration of allegiance is required in accepting the position (Sec. 349 (a) (4) INA);
5. formally renouncing U.S. citizenship before a U.S. diplomatic or consular officer outside the United States (Sec. 349 (a) (5) INA);
6. formally renouncing U.S. citizenship within the U.S. (but only under strict, narrow statutory conditions) (Sec. 349 (a) (6) INA);
7. conviction for an act of treason (Sec. 349 (a) (7) INA).
ADMINISTRATIVE STANDARD OF EVIDENCE
As already noted, the actions listed above can cause loss of U.S. citizenship only if performed voluntarily and with the intention of relinquishing U.S. citizenship. The Department has a uniform administrative standard of evidence based on the premise that U.S. citizens intend to retain United States citizenship when they obtain naturalization in a foreign state, subscribe to a declaration of allegiance to a foreign state, serve in the armed forces of a foreign state not engaged in hostilities with the United States, or accept non-policy level employment with a foreign government.
See http://travel.state.gov/law/ci....._778.html.
Obama's volition and intent are issues of fact that will require extensive evidence-taking and legal and factual analysis. Obama seems to believe (perhaps wrongly) that the issue would be resolved in favor of a voluntary relinquishment of U.S. citizenship, for he has almost certainly made criminal and seditious bargains to conceal his Indonesian citizenship. His obstruction of justice, however, is impeachable conduct, whether or not he is found to have relinquished American citizenship.
The true "roots of Obama's rage" are also likely to be found in Indonesia. Raised as a communist by a communist birth father and his wife Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham, Obama's communist fanaticism might have been seared into him by learning of the CIA's use of his paternal half-sister and adoptive mother to identify Indonesian communists. The CIA apparently turned over such information to supporters of an anti-communist coup, who had communists and suspected communists - some 250,00 to 1,000,000 - murdered.
Democratic Party members urgently need the full disclosure of facts about Obama's identity, citizenship and true allegiance in order to make rational decisions whether they want to have him renominated. This disclosure requires the invoking of public investigatory authority, primarily by Congress. The need for it is increasingly urgent, nearing the emergency point, because investigation of the Indonesian, crucial to the determination of Obama's constitutional eligibility, will take time, and early caucuses and primaries are hard upon us.
Democrats need the facts now, to make rational and fully informed decisions whether they want to retain their party's communist leadership and renominate a possible Comintern mole of questionable American citizenship to the head of their ticket.
State secretaries of state need the facts, to make rational and fully informed decisions whether to allow Obama on the ballots for primaries and general elections.
It is madness to strain at gnats and be a sap to false hope when the dire emergency need is to investigate Obama to inform the public, especially members of his party and state secretaries of state, gate-keepers to the ballots by which states appoint presidential electors.
Andrew Ian Murphy| 9.30.11 @ 11:57PM
I have heard rumors about Obama having worked for the CIA in his days in Chicago and how some officials are planning to release this information. That would pretty much finish his chances for reelection.
sober| 10.1.11 @ 1:36AM
Zzzzzz I can'believe I wasted the time to read that whole pile of drival. Lil Peter took 3 whole pages to tell fellow rightwingers to deperatly blame the local congressman for the BS they try to stick on the president, while they dodge any responsability for CREATING THIS MESS !!
3 Pages to say if locals vote for the person in their district, based upon what that Representtive stands for. Then the GOP is SCREWED !!!!!
The rest he just pulls out of his keister, like my 12 yr old when you ask why her rooms a mess.
That desperate Jimmy Carter angle proved to be totally worthless too. I don't recall Carter filling up STADIUMS full of activist suppoerters. And lil Peter seems to forget that THIS president, has already demonstrated that he can CRUSH and publiclly HUMILIATE blowhard Republicans in national elections!!!
So GOP. If this is all you got. Desperate whining form washed up old buggers like lil Peter. Then you might want to sit this one out. Save yourself the national humiliatrion.
Steven_Broiles| 10.2.11 @ 11:48PM
The CPUSA stated in the early 1960s that they would never give up trying to infiltrate the institutions of this country. They infiltrated the Democratic Party and Obama is their man. Hopefully, he will wind up being a political suicide bomber. I hope he brings the whole Dem Party down! Problem is, we'd still be stuck with the GOP!