If President bush ‘started a war with Iraq’ then why didn’t they plant WMD?

Correction. The end should read: “correctly, of trying to do with the war in Iraq”

Deal. But you gotta man up and give him full credit if your prediction turns out to be wrong. Or are you one of those who assumes it is impossible that you are mistaken?

Oh, my predictions could easily be wrong. If Obama started a war, that could be a game-changer. (The irony would be, of course, that that is what the Left always accused Bush, falsely, of trying to do with the War on Terror.)

Also, Obama might always wake up one morning and suddenly realize that he needs to cut spending by $2 trillion (not grow it), harden the dollar and lift regulations so that productive people can grow the economy again. It happened for a brief moment with Lenin in the early Soviet Union, after all.

Much like the President w/o a teleprompter.

To all the lurking liberals: Can we please get a higher class of troll?

get back to me when your IQ is higher than the temperature. luckily, winter isn’t too far off.

Thank you, NDT, for once again calling bob on the carpet for his hypocritical and pedestrian efforts to distance his master from his own fu*k-ups without even having to be asked. bob is clearly angling for that prestigious Plausible Deniability Czar appointment. And how sweet is it that bob calls us “morons,” and in the next sentence attempts to cure our ignorance by offering up this perfectly logical, eminently reasonable explanation for all of the confusion about Obama’s speech to the nation’s school children: the US Department of Education WENT ROGUE! DUH–of course that’s what happened! I don’t know how we missed that considering how fiercely independent those public school bureaucrats are. Obama turns his back for one minute and…total chaos. Thanks, bob, for that “insiders” view of what was clearly a simple misunderstanding.

Now, obviously, this is a completely different situation than something like, I dunno…the Sigma Chi hazing that went down at the Abu Ghraib detention center 10,000 miles away from the continental US in the middle of the Iraqi desert. It’s beyond dispute that Rumsfeld, Bush, Rove, and Cheney had full knowledge of every single thing that went on in there (right down to the configuration of every last naked-enemy-combatant-pyramid) because they most certainly watched the floor shows for laughs via their real-time web cams. Yes, knowledge of the horrors of Abu Ghraib tore a super-sonic, high-definition path out of the desert, through the Middle East, across the Atlantic, and all the way to the halls of power and the Oval Office itself. They knew EVERYTHING that went on.

But Obama’s Department of Education? Clearly a situation where the right hand and the left hand were not communicating.

Let’s see; what is the Department of Education? Oh, that’s right; an agency of the executive branch.

And who heads the executive branch? Oh, that’s right; the President.

Funny; in the past, Barack Obama and the liberal left wouldn’t let CEOs get away with the excuse that their underlings did something wrong and that they weren’t responsible. But when it comes to following their own standards, Barack babbles and screams that he can’t be held accountable.

Again, Barack Obama the racist believes that his skin color exempts him from having to follow his own rules. Barack Obama is a hypocrite and racist who applies different standards based on skin color.

Actually, no.

Barely 10% of the “stimulus” money has been spent, yet above Barack Obama was blabbering about how we would experience “3 – 4% growth” for the remainder of the year.

Obviously the “stimulus” was completely unnecessary — unless the point was to provide Barack Obama’s cronies with payments, which seems to have been the only goal, given how Barack Obama ignored requirements and urgency in favor of rewarding cronies.

Deal. But you gotta man up and give him full credit if your prediction turns out to be wrong.

Sorry. Barack Obama doesn’t have to take responsibility, as we see above with Barack Obama’s babbling that Barack Obama is not responsible for his failed unemployment projections.

Why does Barack Obama demand of others what he won’t do himself? Is it because Barack Obama believes that his skin color exempts him? Is Barack Obama a racist who has double standards based on skin color?

Deal. But you gotta man up and give him full credit if your prediction turns out to be wrong. Or are you one of those who assumes it is impossible that you are mistaken?

CforC bribed consumers to turn in perfectly good cars for destruction, thus defeating its own environmental goal. The environmental impact of destroying a working car and replacing it with a new one is far greater than the environmental impact of letting a good 12-year-old car stay on the market and make someone happy (either the current owner, or the new owner they would have otherwise re-sold it to).

CforC also got consumers who were going to buy a new car anyway to “time” their purchase to match up with the CforC program – in other words, to a large extent it only cannibalized the car sales of a few months later and earlier. It will be interesting to see those numbers, when they come out.

CforC bribed people with shaky debt records, who should be getting out of debt because that is the solution to the recession as well as their own financial problems, to take on tens of thousands of dollars of new debt. It’ll be interesting to see the CforC loan default numbers, a year or two from now.

Finally – Why CforC? I mean: why not cash for refrigerators, or old LP records or brand-new copies of World of World of Warcraft? If it’s the road to prosperity, why not expand it infinitely? (But of course it isn’t.)

CforC: A plan so incredibly stupid and destructive that only Democrats could think of it… and only Tano could defend it.

He did not triple the debt.

No, he’s only going to double it, over the projected course of his administration. Gene slightly misspoke. Instead of saying Obama’s plans will triple our total national debt, to be accurate, Gene should have said Obama plans will be doubling our total national debt. Big. Freaking. Deal.

Without the stimulus, we would now be in a depression.

Tano, I love your utter cluelessness. People like you are part of how I have made money with my investment theses of the past 10 months and thus will survive the long-term process of DEPRESSION that we are already in, and that Obama is worsening, cluelessly.

I really hope the economy does seem to recover well, now and for the next several months. (I know it can’t last much longer than that, before we take the next step down.) When the fat lady sings I want Obama to have been in power for at least a year and to receive the full blame, that he is going to deserve richly.

“He told us he would shorten the misery shorten the pain.”

Which is exactly what he is doing. Without the stimulus, we would now be in a depression.

” He tripled the countries debt for what?”

He did not triple the debt. Get a clue before you make statements.

“Look to a non partisian polling company for true and accurate polls, Rasmussen’

Dont be a clown.

“your nazi goose stepping is frightening.’

So this is the only way you can deal with people who disagree with you, eh? You bring disgrace to your political movement.

First, remember that *the deficit* is the stimulus. Obama has voluntarily chosen to increase Federal spending in myriad ways and run $1.6 TRILLION annual deficits… after having campaigned on spending cuts, haha. So “the stimulus” is all of the Obama-owned deficit increases, current and proposed, including:
- the last-minute additions by Democrats to the FY2009 budget
- the official Porkulus bill
- the spending of all the bailout money (which Obama did not need to do and should not have done)
- the proposed escalation of spending under KopechneCare
- Cash for Clunkers (bribing people to destroy used cars and take on more consumer debt)
- and the rest.

How can we say it’s a failure? By simply LOOKING AT IT.

- It’s adding crushing debt burdens to future generations.

- It’s a giant reward for the lazy and the corrupt. (a category in which I include most government employees)

- It’s part of a pattern of government hyper-growth that UNDERMINES confidence in the economy and America’s future. Notice how the markets have panic attacks, for example, when it seems like Obama’s latest fascist boondoggle is about to pass (be it cap-n-tax, KopechneCare, or what have you)… then get better when Obama’s plans recede.

- It’s the driver for increasing Fed monetization of debt, which means that some combination of double-digit interest rates (if they stop monetizing) and/or double-digit inflation (if they keep monetizing) is certainly in the Dear Leader’s future.

Anything that adds $1.6T per year to the U.S. national debt is a colossal failure, in and of itself. As for the idea that the economy will have a short burst of growth at some point, before the hyperinflation sets in: It would have anyway. That’s what economies naturally do, when government aren’t burdening and destroying them as the Dear Leader has been doing.

Latest estimates I heard is that we will have 3-4% growth for the rest of the year, especially after Oct 1 when the bulk of the stimulus kicks in. How on earth can you possibly claim it has failed?

But then, when actual numbers come in showing that Barack Obama’s policies failed, such as what happened with unemployment, what is Barack Obama’s excuse?

Yes, its true, that back in January, the administration, along with almost every private sector forcaster, predicted that unemployment would not go over 8 percent or so. Everyone underestimated the seriousness of the recession.

Spin, lie, and blame others.

Barack Obama said that unemployment would not go over 8% if the “stimulus” bill was passed. Unemployment is now at 9.7% and rising. Barack Obama lied — and worse, Barack Obama is trying to drag other people down with him by blaming others, instead of being a man and taking responsibility for his actions and statements, as he blabbers other people should do.

Sounds bad. Investigate. Prosecute if there is a case to be made. See what a jury says. Its the American way.

Actually, it isn’t; Nancy Pelosi, for example, said that anyone who was accused of a crime should be required to step down from their leadership positions and leave Congress.

Amazingly enough, she can’t fulfill her own demands. She is a liar and a hypocrite, just like Barack Obama.