The Relentless Conservative watched Obama's press conference yesterday with a little glee and a lot of worry.
Glee, because the news media are finally asking our president tough questions -- yes, even Chuck Todd, NBC correspondent, unrepentant liberal and former Democratic campaign operative, asked a few vaguely challenging questions before being cued to sit down and shut up.
The late Tim Russert hand picked Todd, whose toadying followers are called "Chuckolytes," to accept the torch of Chief-of-Smug for liberal TV. He now treats all Conservatives with Russert's same snarky, condescending style. How can someone who worked for Democratic Presidential candidate Tom Harkin, then became a 'journalist,' wrap himself in journalistic integrity? Only in the Liberal Media.
Back to the "worry." I've never seen a president so arrogant, so defiant, so full of himself. No way the American people should accept his claims that his "party has already accepted the need for substantial spending cuts" (they hadn't, until the outraged American people demanded that they stop the wild spending); his repeated, shameful scolding of Republicans, when this mess we're in is his and only his creation; and the desperate-sounding reference to his daughter's homework assignments in regard to, once again, the Republicans. Does nobody else see through his nonsense?
Oh, you can claim Bush is responsible like all good, little Libs, but Obama's bailouts and his TARP program, as well as all his 'shovel ready,' projects, were supposed to pull us out of this thing. Did they? Nope, they've all inflicted more damage on this frail economy. President Obama and his merry band of economic pranksters make the Keystone Kops look like an efficient, well-oiled machine.
This President is completely clueless as to what's going on around him. That's a dangerous situation for this country.
During his recent New York City trip, he accomplished little except to tie the traffic into huge knots and disrupt the lives of hardworking New Yorkers. Well, he did attend a couple of fundraisers for his next campaign, one at swish Daniel restaurant (dinner ticket: $35,800), the other at Broadway's Sister Act where he got on stage after being introduced by a gushing Whoopi Goldberg and soaked the already fleeced donors for even more money--this while the economy emits death rattles and gasoline nudges $5 per gallon. I won't even mention the other disastrous goings-on abroad or the debt-ceiling issue.
Around the same time, the First Lady was on an 'official visit' to South Africa that included her mother, daughters, nieces, nephews, and a full support and security staff. It's not clear what official business was accomplished or what the expense to the taxpayer was but Liberals will love her 'carbon footprint' for this decadent trip and revel in the First Lady's environmental damage.
Where's the leadership in this White House?
In direct contradiction of Whoopi, who stated that Obama needs four more years "to finish what he started," I say we need to ensure he doesn't finish the damage he's started and make him a one-term President like Carter.
Nuff said.
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He does no research on any thing he spouts about.Just because he writes down his opinion and Cons read it,it doesn't mean it's true.
Do you conservatives ever listen to what comes out of your mouths and think what people who have intelligence hear?
You might try to be somewhat accurate.
But, you're a Tea-Pubican - so lying comes easy, heh?
The Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) is a program of the United States government to purchase assets and equity from financial institutions to strengthen its financial sector that was signed into law by U.S. President George W. Bush on October 3, 2008. It was a component of the government's measures in 2008 to address the subprime mortgage crisis.
crickets...................
If the Republicans and the right would engage us, they would have to change. Even they, with their utter lack of empathy for the American people, would be moved to tears to think that they have served us so badly. By ignoring our pleas for relief, by turning away - they excuse themselves from feeling for all of us. I'm not surprised - the pain must be terrible - who would want to experience that?
Well - look to your holy texts - I think there is someone you all revere that would have words for YOU about the way you have behaved towards the rest of our excelllent country - how do you think HE would have responded?
Well?
The republicans are committing treason trying to tank our economy for political gain. the American people understand this and will remember on election day.
That three hundred lasted a day - our financial mess will last a generation - we the People lost that battle, the Republicans won - America lost. If we allow the Republicans to gain power in this country again, they will finish what they started, and we will have Corporate America for real - Company Town USA - everywhere. Like gruel, do you?
There's a little book called "Homegrown Democrat" by Garrison Keillor that pretty much sums up why I'm a liberal. "Liberals stand for tolerance, magnanimity, community spirit, the defense of the weak against the powerful, love of learning, freedom of belief.... the very things that make American worth dying for."
That said, my belief that Republicans are the Devil's spawn is fairly recent. It is difficult to remember a day when Margaret Chase Smith said: ".... to displace [a Democratic administration] with a Republican regime embracing a philosophy that lacks political integrity or intellectual honesty would prove equally disastrous to this nation. The nation sorely needs a Republican victory. But I don't want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny -- Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear. I doubt if the Republican Party could -- simply because I don't believe the American people will uphold any political party that puts political exploitation above national interest."
Those Republicans are gone (God bless them for the real patriots they were and even Richard Nixon gave us the EPA). What we have today are foot soldiers intent on creating a shining plutocracy on the hill that none of us will ever be able to climb; they are evil indeed. And sad to say, Smith was wrong -- apparently the American people will uphold political exploitation above national interest, particularly if FOX News tells them to do so.
They want to create a new chunk of wealth to steal simple as that, this is why they refuse tax increases but endorse cutting and gutting social welfare. Public investment in social welfare does little to shape their portfolios but not paying a fair share in taxes and investing in multinationals with increased bottom lines due to cheap foreign labor does. So does investing in all the companies that make and profit off of war which is why they won't touch defense cuts either. The only true conservative worth trusting or listening to right now is Ron Paul, as crazy as he sometimes seems he is at least rooted intelectually in conservative principles and as a result uses facts rather than fear and social warfare.
Now the old system has gone bust but the propaganda continues. We need cuts they say, not increased revenues and regulation (GOP), We need new trade agreements not more protectionist policy based on American Made and American Paid. (Almost bipartisan)
Why base elections on the fear of the Supreme Court being too liberal to overturn Roe vs. Wade when true conservatism would fight for the issue to be handled by the states individually. Same for gay rights/ marriage, gun laws/ assault weapons bans and on and on. They must make people into scared blind mice and single issue voters in order to keep pulling the wool over their eyes just enough to have them continue voting against their own economic interests all the while supplying ample boogeymen to assign the blame to when jobs are lost and wages stagnate while they squeeze every last scent of profit out of the crooked system.
It's pretty sad when you can't tell satire from the real thing.
1) Think that this "person" is satire, and just bad at their profession.
2) Or think that this "person" is real, is incompetent, unable to make corrections, unable to check facts, unable to communicate with, research, or understand his audience.
The second option is a pretty nasty condemnation, in my opinion, so I'll go for #1.
1. Rate of reducing spending > rate of increasing revenue.... until the budget is balanced or when a mutually agreed upon manageable deficit level is reached. Agree on a target date then set the rates accordingly. Just do it!
2. A bipartisan overhaul Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac!
3. A bipartisan repeal or re-write the Community Reinvestment Act.
4. More balanced future bail outs. Split it between the producers (business) and consumers. Consumers can't generate demand by consuming if they don't have money.
5. The politics of race, anger, and hate is counter productive and can only lead to disaster. It is a lose-lose game to play. Grow the #$%& up!
6. Come up with reasonable regulations that assume most people have good intentions, not bad.
Business succeeds when the needs of both sides are met.
7. You have a right to what you earn, not what I earn too.
8. Hold your elected leaders to higher ideals than accepting their shameless behavior as necessary evil to achieve an ends.
9. Taking care of those in need should be the goal of both political parties.
10. While this is a nation of immigrants we can't absorb the whole world all at once. The solution must be bipartisan.
11. We can't afford the fat....CUT IT OUT!
13. Support education.
14. Make sure Corporations don't take over America.
15. Same for the churches.