In a post this morning, echoing Senator Jeff Sessions’s call for conducting “negotiations over raising the federal debt” in the open, John Hinderaker says that should let “their proposals see the light of day.” He contends that the president’s party has “nothing to offer but demagoguery.”
Indeed.
Yesterday, ABC reported just what kind of reelection campaign the president is running:
Signaling its messaging operation has kicked into gear, the Obama campaign today directly responded to Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann’s bid for the presidency, saying her economic policies would devastate the middle class.
“Congresswoman Bachmann talks about reclaiming the American Dream, but her policies would erode the path to prosperity for middle class families,” Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt said in a statement.
“She voted for a budget plan that would extend tax cuts for the richest Americans on the backs of seniors and the middle class while ending Medicare as we know it,” he said.
(Via Jim Hoft.) So, Obama’s people are attacking the budget plan that Mrs. Bachmann supported without offering a plan of their own. Say what you will of the charismatic Republican from Minnesota, she at least had the courage to make “tough choices” on the budget.
We still don’t have the details of the president’s plan to cut the deficit. Nor to deal with Medicare’s coming insolvency. So, his team will attack a Republican for having the courage to stand up and show where she stands on issues where he refuses himself to take a stand.
President Obama is acting as if he’s not President of the United States; he’s playing pure politics. It’s so unreal. This will not end well for him & the Obama Democrats in 2012.
Well, Mr. LaBolt, the government destroyed the American Dream when it decided everybody should have a house and used Fannie and Freddie, backed by the US Treasury, to lend money to risky people who only had to show a pulse. It facilitated, no encouraged, a housing boondoggle financed on a foundation of sand which crashed in 2008.
With the able assistance of Clinton, Raines, Rubin, Summers, Dodd, Frank, Waters, Pelosi, Orszag, Bennett, Bond, Greenspan, Cuomo, the FED, the SEC, Geithner and Wall Street bankers and bundlers, the middle class was hit with bailing out insurance companies, pension funds, investment banks and foreign banking institutions around the world.
These are not debts on the backs of the rich. Nearly 50% of the country not only pays no income tax, but are actually recipients of wealth transfer through the income tax system. The rich pay the giant’s share of income tax and are only a small part of the population.
No, Mr. LaBolt, the sucker class is the middle class. They have lost their homes or are upside down in their homes. They have been hit hard by unemployment. Their savings have been badly burned. The stock market is on a cobweb footing. The economy has stagnated. The unknown costs of Obamacare hang over Main Street like circling vultures.
And you, Mr. LaBolt, can only see confiscation of the remaining wealth in private hands as the solution to a catastrophe and the resulting chaos that was created out of whole cloth in Washington, D. C. by liberals who decided to give away houses to people who were financial risks as best.
Obama kept Summers, Rubin, Geithner, Orszag, Frank, Dodd and more as foxes watching the hen house. Some are gone, but hundreds of lesser players in the scheme remain in place.
Mr. Labolt, your team blew the door off the treasury and sent the funny money presses into high gear. What, pray tell is the Democrat plan to save what is left of the middle class?
You are thieves in broad daylight cluttering up the golf course and motorcading around town to pick up a pizza and watching the people gawk.
With millions unemployed, millions of bankruptcies, millions of foreclosures, bailouts for union buddies etc. WTF has Il Douche done for the middle class, besides f*k them royally?
Now the Democrats are talking about a 14th Amendment end-run around the debt limit and spend the money anyway. That’s the same extra-legal rationale that made Otto Bismarck Minister-President of Prussia in 1862, and eventually Reichskanzler of the Imperial Germany.