President Barack Obama’s budget will lead to deficits averaging nearly $1 trillion over the next decade, the CBO estimated Friday.
Via Instapundit.
What the Democratic nominee for president said in October:
But there is no doubt that we’ve been living beyond our means and we’re going to have to make some adjustments.
Now, what I’ve done throughout this campaign is to propose a net spending cut.
And you wonder why the tea parties have taken off.
Dan, you like me expect people, especially leaders to say what they mean and stick to it.
But you and I also think 2+2=4. WRONG!!
Read this from the detroit enclave of the peoples republic of michigan….
educated, who’s educated……
Friday, March 05, 2010
Simptums of D-Troit Publik Edjecashun
Posted by: Meredith Jessup at 4:07 PM
Here’s a new slogan for Detroit public schools: get an education or you’ll end up like, well… like the president of the city school board.
It’s bad enough Detroit’s schools are currently graduating a pathetic 1 out of every 4 students. But now, the Detroit News is wondering what kind of example the public school board’s leadership is setting when it sends out emails like this one:
“Do DPS control the Foundation or outside group? If an outside group control the foundation, then what is DPS Board row with selection of is director? Our we mixing DPS and None DPS row’s, and who is the watch dog?”
And this one sent to supporters just a few days ago:
“If you saw Sunday’s Free Press that shown Robert Bobb the emergency financial manager for Detroit Public Schools, move Mark Twain to Boynton which have three times the number seats then students and was one of the reason’s he gave for closing school to many empty seats.”
The author of these emails is DPS board president Otis Mathis, a life-long resident of Detroit and public secondary school and higher-ed graduate. Mathis acknowledges he’s a “horrible writer,” but shouldn’t a lack of basic skills like writing disqualify someone to lead the city’s board of education?
In another city, these revelations might be grounds for disqualification. But Mathis is liked and defended by many of his peers, who cite his collegiality, lack of defensiveness and leadership as more important than his writing skills.
h/t townhall.com blog
I knew him for a liar before, during and after the election and I am hopeful it isn’t to late for the country!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MddREczVeL4
How convenient……..Sebelius sats there like an old schoolmarm reprimanding insurance commissioners today….followed by the letter His Majesty O’Keefe received. What grand photo-ops from the Theatre of the Absurd…. Act 3: Scene 6, “The Administration, Champion of the People”. However the President, Sebelius nor the San Fran Chronicle bother to mention what a lame showing Mr Peter “Casanova” Orszag had in his WaPo op-ed today trying to explain the expenditures for Obamacare. Clearly the administration is not willing to address any of the insane healthcare costs that will beset the country as long as it may be in office….could that be outta fear of what the truth will do to them at the polls in 2012 ????? It’s not until 2018 and they’re long gone from office when some sort of increase in taxation on Cadillac plans will be instituted; remember that’s minus the one’s union members enjoy of course, they keep their sweet-heart deals … Let’s not forget the sell-out Mr.O made with Big Pharma…… and then there’s the $300Million he’s got going on with Senator Landrieu too. Oh yeah, the closed door shams that were made with hospitals and the AARP…. those mustn’t be forgotten either….. It get’s so damn confusing, know what I’m saying ?
Tell me something, if you wanted to explain something to the American people, why would you go and place an op-ed in a paper only your buddies and Washington insiders read? Secondly, why for God’s sake, was the WaPo editorial so lame the average person would have to re-read it a few times before he could even hope to make sense of it? Fuzzy math my butt…..my guess is, this White House hasn’t got a clue how they’re gonna pay for most of this healthcare bill. It’s kinda like in grade school, when ya lobbed toilet paper up at the ceiling…. some of it stuck….right?????
And some leftist idiot will say, “Bush ran deficits, too” as though it makes Obama’s far worse deficits OK.
I don’t see what the problem is. It’s all coming true.
O promised spending cuts. My employer has cut spending and now 30 percent of the people in our office (me included) are unemployed. Promise kept.
O said: there is no doubt that we’ve been living beyond our means and we’re going to have to make some adjustments
Right on. I am now currently living beyond my means and it’s likely I will be making some adjustments.
NB: When O says “we”, he doesn’t mean the collective “we”; he means “you people” who were too stupid to get a gummint job.
Yikes, hope you find work soon Robert!
Maybe he was talking about the folks who got home loans with food stamps and unemployment as “income”??? Perhaps “adjustments” is his PC way of saying “pack your shit and get out!”.
GET A GUVMUNT JOB!!! JOIN SEIU!!!! This is war between the public sector and the peasant sector. Seize the moment (and the treasury) and live for today. Tomorrow never comes. The trough is in Washington and if you don’t go get yours, you are not fit be called a pig. You should only regret that you do not have a vote to sell for your party. Life is just round of picking low hanging government fruit and you have to go along to get a high pair place to pick it.
And now, a word from Tano:
Where is Tano??? She usually jumps right in to “inform” us about our ignorance and lack of perspective on what Obama is attempting to accomplish. Once again, how is that Affirmative Action plan for the Presidency going – higher deficits, higher unemployment, etc.
Let us hope it is not too late for our nation. This guy is all about redistrubting the wealth of this country and said as much. When will we WAKE UP!
Let us hope it is not too late for our nation. This guy is all about redistributing the wealth of this country and said as much. When will we WAKE UP!
Don’t worry tomorrow Obama will strut onto the stage and give us another speech about how he’s going tohelp us. Arrogant fool.
Gay patriot should start a count down clock for the end of Obama’s presidency on their front page
There’s a very unflattering article in the NYT today about David Axelrod which paints him as a burned-out, overweight “walrus of man” who is largely responsible for the Obama Administration’s communication failures. What I found remarkable about the article is that Axelrod is strangely unguarded and essentially concedes fault. But then it occurred to me that the only reason Axelrod did not respond to questions in the usual Democrat bunker mentality mode (i.e. vehement denials of any missteps) is because the Administration is probably laying the groundwork for his exit after the mid-term elections. Supposedly from the beginning, Axelrod agreed to stay at the White House for two years, so after the election (which we all know will be catastrophic for the Democrats), Axelrod will resign, implicitly taking the blame for Obama’s policy failures (which will all be spun as “communication failures,” instead of what they really are–Obama trying to implement bad policy). Then, STILL in campaign mode, Obama will give a couple of grandiose speeches about “moving forward,” “fresh starts,” and “working together,” and the MSM will swoon as if it is election night 2008 all over again and launch A PR campaign for “Hope and Change 2.0”. Chrissy Matthews, Rachel Man-Dow, and crew will continue to defend Obama and deflect all criticisms with the explanation that Obama is an infallible super-genius, but he just didn’t have the right team assembled during his first two years in office. We will also get the exact same whining that we heard right after Obama was elected, i.e. why can’t those mean, pessimistic conservatives give the President a chance to succeed? Anyway, that’s my prediction.
Some of the quotes in the NYT article are hilarious:
“Mr. Axelrod said he accepts some blame for what he called ‘communication failures,’ though he acknowledges bafflement that the administration’s efforts to stimulate the economy in a crisis, overhaul health care and prosecute two wars have been so routinely framed by opponents as the handiwork of a big-government, soft-on-terrorism, politics-of-the-past ideologue. ‘For me, the question is, why haven’t we broken through more than we have?” Mr. Axelrod said. “Why haven’t we broken through?'”
Of course, if Axelrod answered his own question about why they haven’t “broken through,” we know what he would say–Obama is such a genius that any failure was the result of him not sufficiently dumbing-down his ideas so that us idiot commoners could understand them and appreciate how great they would be for the country.
This one is even better:
“Others question what happened to the Mr. Axelrod who so effectively marketed Mr. Obama, the candidate, as a change agent. He and some defenders, though, say that trying to explain a president who is dealing with a fusillade of difficult governing issues is far different. ‘In a campaign, you’re not held to the same standard of actually doing what you say you’re going to do,’ said Anita Dunn, a former White House communications director and Obama campaign adviser. Mr. Axelrod can still sound like the self-described idealist who developed Mr. Obama’s campaign message, expressing impatience with what he calls ‘the gritty pragmatist school that says you have just got to accept the system’ in Washington. ‘I’m not surprised that there are people who never liked us in the first place trying to have a big ‘I told you so’ about how you really can’t change the system,’ he said.”
Is it any surprise that these people are actually complaining about Obama being criticized for failing to accomplish what he promised? The Anita Dunn quote is priceless and tells us everything we need to know about the Democrats–of course, we naively entertain the archaic notion that if a politician makes promises in order to get elected, he will be expected to follow through on those promises. But Dunn explains the concept of “different standards” applying to campaigning and governing as if it’s something the Administration learned after conducting intensive polling and working with focus groups. She is essentially admitting that a candidate can say whatever they think the voters want to hear in a campaign and the issue of whether the candidate can actually deliver is just a challenge to be addressed down the road if the candidate wins and if the voters bring it up again. At this point, the corruption and immorality of liberals is so ingrained that they can literally pass it on to their children through their dna.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/us/politics/07axelrod.html?pagewanted=1
Hearing these Obama children complaining about the “breathless challeges” they faced when assuming office. How bout a 9/11 attack that kills 3000 and you don’t know the next day what the ensuing attack will be like. And deciding to go on the offensive in the war on terror instead of laying back waiting for phase two of the attack. Now that’s a challenge.
Babies, children, liberals.
so what do you folk want him to do? What are your suggestions? more intervention? Less intervention? more tax cuts? …just curious.
I have no opinion on the matter….
Yes to both, Mark.
jsut got off the phone with my dad. We both talked about the ‘economic disaster’ bailing out the companies was supposed to avert should have happened. It would have sucked for me, but now it will suck for my Godkids and niece and Nephew instead.
#17: We know you have no opinion on the matter, Mark W aw. You have the New York Times, Daily Kos, Huffington Post, and Democratic Underground’s opinion on the matter.
As for what I want our government to do, they could start by NOT quadrupling the budget and spending trillions of dollars on new, irreversible entitlement programs and pouring the rest of our money down a government rat hole. And considering that the world condemns the US as an evil, greedy capitalist nation anyway, shouldn’t we at least have a corporate tax rate that is lower than France, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Greece, Canada, UK, etc.? Presently our corporate tax rate is the second highest (Japan is number 1). And YES, an across the board tax cut for all taxpaying Americans (and NO tax “credits” for people who pay no taxes to begin with–that’s just welfare). This would turn the economy around and the unemployment rate would plunge. Even Obama’s most ardent critics would praise him as a hero.
The problem is, all of these measures would reduce the control and influence of government over our lives and Obama and crew are ideologically opposed to Americans having unfettered liberty and freedom from government intervention. Thankfully, a majority of Americans have already come to their senses and see Obama for the elitist ideologue he is, so we only have to endure a government under the complete control of statists for another couple of years.
There’s just no other way to explain it. Chairman Obama must be bound and determined to destroy this country as much as possible. Worse than that, there’s still too many mindless drones keen on circling the wagons ’round him.