Briefly caught the president’s presser. He seemed very defensive and subdued, almost as if he was trying to conceal a certain anger.
Toward the end, he seemed to be dwelling on the need to make investments in infrastructure. Um, Mr. President, wasn’t that what that $800 billion “stimulus” was supposed to be about? You know those shovel-ready projects (that we learned later weren’t really shovel-ready)?
He also, nearly two-and-one=half years after George W. Bush left the White House, blamed his predecessor for the mess we’re in, saying that we cut taxes without paying for them. Well, Mr. President, you signed off on continuing the tax rates set in the Bush years.
And he didn’t offer any specifics of the cuts he wanted.
He was concerned that we had pushed this so close to the deadline. Well, if he was so concerned about default, why didn’t he ask Congress to increase the debt limit when he signed onto their “stimulus” plan which ramped up federal spending?
Exactly. What about all those road signs proudly touting the fact that repairs were being made due to… I forget the exact name of the law, something like “America Recovery Act”?
Iowahawk just tweeted it perfectly: “Now we know what happens when a 50 year old man hears the word ‘no’ for the first time.”
Speaking of which, 580 WDBO has a station ID ad which is a montage of all the times he said “shovel ready jobs” and ends with him joking that there really aren’t any. Like liberals, it’s funny yet pathetic at the same time.
Thirty-months into the Obama regime;
Over 800-days without a unified Federal Budget…
$800-BILLION in
“Porkulus”shovel-ready Stimulus…A Federal Deficit triple what he inherited from Bush-43…
Official unemployment at over 9%, and unofficial 20% un/under-employment…
And a US Government default in less than three weeks.
That’s “ Change You Can Believe In”.
You broke it, you own it…
Obama has let himself be clear, he is willing to cut everything except entitlements and non-defense discretionary spending.
Obama offers nothing; he’s repeated what he said in the last 2 press conferences. Obama is the one in the hot seat as his passes the buck to Congress. He’s an idiot.
Where’s the Democrats’ budget in either the House or Senate? Why has Obama been campaigning, yet he’s late to the real work of leading? Only when the 18,000 June numbers came out did Obama start talking about the debt crisis. Obama is only worried about his political career–not America itself. Obama is not serious.
More than Obama´s presser, the one that gave me a real gaffaw was Senator Chuck Schumer. there he was blaming the Repubs for not wanting to do the deal, singing the same old song, they want to keep the tax breaks for the rich, etc. Basically he wants taxes now and reductions later. Does he think people are stupid? That was the same ploy the Dems did to President GHW Bush conning him to break his pledge of no new taxes. Spending cuts for new taxes, except, they got the new taxes but reneged on spending cuts. I haven´t forgotten and I don´t think anybody else has who was awake at that time. Democrats are pathological liars.
Call me crazy, but I’m beginning to suspect that Obama isn’t the level-headed genius that we’ve been lead to believe he is.
“Federal revenue: $200 billion per month
Interest on the national debt: $29 billion
Social Security: $49.2 billion
Medicare and Medicaid: $50 billion
Active duty military pay: $2.9 billion
Veterans affairs programs: $2.9 billion
Education funding: $11 billion
All of that core spending adds up to $145 billion, which means that in the event of a debt limit, the government can pay it all and still have $55 billion a month left over.”
http://michellemalkin.com/2011/07/15/scare-tactic/
The government has been and continues to spend $100 billion per month more than it takes in. The Dems want to continue this in perpetuity.
Eliminating the Bush tax cuts and accelerated depreciation on corporate aircraft won’t begin to pay for this.
Seems to me that this is easy to understand – why doesn’t the GOP try to explain this in simple terms.
Senator Chuck Schumer never met a microphone that he didn’t mistake for a dildo when the spotlight is on; he’s a ham & egotist all in one. He certainly knows all about pork.
According to Obama the following cannot be touched:
* ObamaCare is off the table.
* Porkulus is off the table.
* Medicare is off the table.
* Social Security is off the table.
Just what is Obama proposing? Nothing. He has no plan. He wants the expanded government to remain & make it bigger–not smaller. All of this debt talk is smoke & mirrors. The Republicans are right to call his bluff & treat Obama mercilessly.
For a man of such superior intelligence, this President has no common sense.
Why does all this bring to mind that scene on the bridge of the Reliant?; Smoke and wreckage everywhere. The bloodied survivors huddle around the leader as his dying chief lieutenant gasps, “Your’s is the superior intellect.”
Thus is American politics summed-up,
…”To the last, I will grapple with thee…
From Hell’s heart, I stab at thee!
For hate’s sake, I spit my last breath at thee!”