Not that I was trying to ignore it, but I hate being white noise. I guess I can’t avoid it, though. Obama has seriously messed up, this time. Bringing Chicago politics to DC was bound to bite him in the butt at some point. Maybe this is it, but I’m doubtful.
For the most thorough coverage I can find on the issue, I have been relying on Michelle Malkin. She’s a true reporter and actually gives you the facts and then some. She should be considered a news source, as far as I’m concerned. But, that’s beside the point.
Got a call from the infamous Stacy McCain, though, who tells me this is a story that I can’t sit out. So, here I am, not sitting out.
Barack Obama, the One, has fired somebody with no real reason, violating the rules to actually fire somebody in this kind of position, apparently for no other reason than political gain or payback to a supporter.
That’s all fine and good, but the cynic in me is not as hopeful as some others I have spoken to. Barack Obama is worse than John Gotti, the original “Teflon Don.” He’s untouchable.
The media establishment is only willing to report stories about him that are positive or promote his policy agenda (re: All Obama Channel). The most devastating story reported about the guy up until now is that he killed a fly. And, they attributed that to the special abilities presidents must have (think G.W. dodging two shoes in a row). Apparently, not only is he a God, but he’s an effing ninja, too. As the opposition, how do you deal with that?
I’m not as hopeful that this will result in his downfall because, in my limited experience, Democrats can get away with anything. A republican has an affair and it’s the end of their career. A Democrat receives oral sex in the Oval Office and it’s the Republicans who come off stinking from the scandal (“They’re just obsessed with sex!). Teddy Kennedy killed a woman. He’s still praised today. His son, Patrick, drove into a barrier at 3 a.m.claiming he was late for a vote. They drove him home without administering any DUI tests and allowed him to claim that he was on Ambien, with numerous reports that he was drinking at the Hawk & Dove (a well know watering spot for people on the Hill), earlier. Didn’t he just check into rehab, again, this week? I guess that’s what RI expects from their elected representatives.
I’m young. I’ve lived a limited life in terms of years (I’ll be 28 in about a month), not experience. Sotomayor might be proud, I have a lot of “real life” experience (and, I’m a woman, to boot). That’s about it. I wasn’t around to see Nixon’s downfall, but–and this may be my cynicism–I don’t think Obama can do anything that will lead to his downfall. He has been compared to God, for God’s sake! (I apologize for taking the Lord’s name in vain.)
If the Clintons could walk away from all of their wrongdoing and end up where they are, I have full faith that the Obama’s will weather much better. There is a difference between Obama and Nixon. Obama is half-black, half-Muslim, and is viewed as the Second Coming of Christ. What I have to say is irrelevant. Most of America will either a) never read it; b) never believe it; or, c) never care. He’s buying their votes, like the Democrats usually do. Actually, as a taxpayer, I’m buying their votes for him. Let’s just be honest about it.
I’m sorry. Admittedly, I’m apparently an angry person, but I’m sick of putting all of the blame on politicians when they couldn’t be where they are and wielding the power they wield if it wasn’t for American citizens granting them that power, without deference. Lately, it seems to me, most Americans are just waiting for their own personal bailout, as if that bailout is coming from some fairy Godmother and not some young woman who has worked her butt off her whole life just to make a better life for herself. It makes me just a little sick. I’m just sayin’.
Obama is a scumbag, groomed and perfected in the politics of Chicago. For those who don’t know how dirty that city and state are visit your local library and check out a book about it. It’s been rampant with corruption since well before I was even a twinkle in my parents’ eyes.
For those of us who aren’t mesmerized by he who is Obama, we have a feel on the pulse that is the truth. He fired this guy because he was exposing one/two of Obama’s cronies. Even Democrats are speaking out about the improper protocol of Obama’s actions. But, that won’t matter. Democrats can do no wrong. It’s idealistic to think otherwise.
The Clintons couldn’t even eff with the Obamas. The MSM is in love. You think the measley response of conservative bloggers is really going to make a difference? I hope you’re right. Nothing else could explain why I’m so feversihly blogging about this, but at this point my faith in America has taken a serious blow.
A Democrat actually spoke out about it, but press reports about that letter are disappearing faster than water can evaporate from that Oklahoma lake that needs stimlus money for guard rails. And, that’s why my paranoia cynicism isn’t as unfounded as one might think.
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Obama’s plan to take over the financial markets has been revealed:
“We must act now to restore confidence in the integrity of our financial system,” the draft of the administration proposal says. “The lasting economic damage to ordinary families and businesses is a constant reminder of the urgent need to act to reform our financial regulatory system and put our economy on track to a sustainable recovery.”
President Barack Obama’s plan will touch almost every corner of financial markets, from tougher consumer-protection policies to stricter rules over exotic financial products, such as credit derivatives. The plan would bring many of the products and companies that previously operated outside of the banking system under federal scrutiny.
The administration’s proposal would give the government the power to take over and wind down a large financial company, a power that government officials lacked last year when the financial crisis was intensifying. It would also give the central bank more powers over the payments and settlements systems in U.S. financial markets to prevent a breakdown that officials fear could destabilize the economy.
The plan would abolish the Office of Thrift Supervision and create a new national regulator for financial institutions, aimed at making it harder for companies to shop between supervisors.
One new detail is that any large, interconnected company that the government wants to take over and break up could be pushed into government seizure by the Treasury Department, if certain conditions are met. Once taken over, the companies would typically be run by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., but the proposal gives the government discretion to change the way this might work. The Treasury has said these powers were necessary, but the details of how they would work were unveiled for the first time in this proposal.
Hedge funds and other private pools of capital would have to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Thousands of financial institutions would be required to hold more capital in reserve to protect against unexpected losses, and companies would also have to retain a portion of the credit risk for loans they have packaged into securities.
The Fed emerges from the plan with the power to oversee from top to bottom almost any financial company in the country, including the firms’ foreign affiliates. It would also hand the central bank another victory by allowing it to oversee any commercial company that owns a banking charter known as an industrial loan company.
The government proclaiming that they must act now is probably not the best way to restore confidence. They said that about the first bailout under Bush, which failed to fix the problems. They said that with the stimulus bill, which is being exposed for the fraud and waste it would inevitably be. And, we’re seeing it with the push for health care reform.
Obama must be a pretty intense man. Everything has to happen now, or else gloom and doom will ensue. There is such a sense of urgency! Good thing my brilliant fellow Americans were smart enough to vote him in. Our Savior has arrived to save us!
Opinion polls show that Americans have a low opinion of government, yet they turn to government to fix all of their problems. Do they not realize the idiocy of that joke? The government is made of those same people the vast majority of Americans distrust and thinks are incompetent. Government creates problems, it doesn’t fix them. Have Americans forgotten this? When was the last time anyone really thought to themselves, “Thank goodness for the government! They really solved that problem.”
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President Obama plans to create another “watchdog” agency:
WASHINGTON (CNNMoney.com) — When President Obama takes the podium on Wednesday to talk about his proposals for avoiding the next financial crisis, he is expected to unveil one idea that speaks directly to consumers and their pocketbooks.
Obama will call for the creation of a new financial watchdog agency. Its mission will be to protect consumers from deceptive or dangerous mortgages, credit cards and other financial products.
Proponents have dubbed it a “financial products safety commission” akin to the federal agency that oversees safety of toys and other products. Obama himself broached the subject on Jay Leno’s “The Tonight Show” in March.
“When you buy a toaster, if it explodes in your face, there’s a law that says, ‘Your toasters need to be safe,’ ” Obama said. “When you get a credit card or you get a mortgage, there’s no law on the books that says, ‘If that explodes in your face, financially, somehow you’re going to be protected.’ “
I know this is a hard lesson to learn, although I’m less clear on why this is such a hard lesson to learn, but more government intervention is NEVER a good thing. It may sound good on the surface, but the unintended consequences always come back to bite us.
Why don’t consumers learn to protect themselves from “dangerous” mortgages, credit card, and financial products? If consumers would exercise a little restraint when it comes to spending, maybe they (we?) wouldn’t be in the financial mess we find ourselves in. I don’t need government to protect me from myself. Why should I be punished because you, apparently, do?
Does our president not get the difference between an exploding toaster and an exploding credit card or mortgage (Yes, I feel like a moron for even writing a question including anything about exploding credit cards and mortgages. I’m just going on what our president said.)? Credit cards and mortgages don’t just explode. People are given the terms before they sign the deal. If they agree to the terms, then they are responsible for any “explosion” that occurs as a result of those terms.
I don’t feel bad for consumers who went out and bought houses they couldn’t afford. I’m sick of hearing about how there was too much fine print, they didn’t understand what they were agreeing to. They should have hired a lawyer to explain it to them, then. I don’t want to hear about how poor people couldn’t afford a lawyer to look over the mortgage. It’s the biggest financial obligation a person will probably take on in their life. Spend less on the house and get yourself a lawyer with the savings to ensure you don’t get screwed. But, wait, you didn’t get screwed because now I’m bailing you out and with this new consumer watchdog agency, I’m sure there will be more regulation of these industries making it harder for honest people like myself to get the loans and credit I need when it comes time for me to buy a house.
Let’s count the ways that I have been screwed by the irresponsible people who bought houses they couldn’t afford and charged up credit card debt they couldn’t pay back:
1.) The mortgage meltdown caused our entire economy to take a downturn.
2.) My taxes are being used to “stimulate” the economy as a result of this downturn.
3.) My taxes are being used to bail these irresponsible borrowers out of their mortgage debt.
4.) My credit card companies will penalize me for being a responsible borrower, in order to cushion the blow from the government restricting how they penalize responsible borrowers.
5.) It will now be harder for all Americans to get credit when they need it.
Shall I continue? I can’t even continue to blame the politicians. Who voted them in? Who took out mortgages they couldn’t afford? Who charged up credit card bills they couldn’t pay back? Who demanded the government act? It was my fellow American cicitzens, and so it is with you I place the blame. Politicians only have the power we the people give them. The media is only effective if we listen to them. Let’s lie the blame where it belongs. Obama didn’t take office by military coupe.
When Obama is done destroying our country we will only have ourselves to look at. We will each be forced to ask ourselves, what did we do to stop Obama from taking over the Oval Office? I’m afraid we will all come up short, myself included. But, let’s call it for what it is. Yes, the media plays a role, as do these politicians, but politicians and the media only have the power that the citizenry grants them. Unfortunately, sometimes I’m convinced the citizenry doesn’t want the responsibility of that power back.
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Who knew? To politicians, Pig Flu is just another excuse to spend money:
Pounded on the left and right, a $105.9 [billion] wartime spending bill may be happy this week to catch the flu — and the votes that come with the billions in emergency funds recently added to address the threat of the H1N1 virus recurring next winter.
The $7.65 billion has received relatively little attention to date but represents a dramatic escalation in the government’s contingency planning for the novel influenza that was just beginning to surface when the war funding debate began in April.
More than 70 countries have now reported cases, and the World Health Organization raised its influenza alert to the pandemic level last week. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that individual states such as Wisconsin have had as many as 3,000 reported cases, and the White House is beginning to drive home this message as President Barack Obama looks for the last votes to get the war funding bill through Congress.
To be clear, I think about 35 people have died from Pig flu. To put that into perspective, approximately 35,000-36,000 die each year in the United States from the regular flu. So, can someone, please, explain to me why we are going to spend $7.65 BILLION on this “novel influenza?” And, why is it being tacked onto a war funding bill? To extort buy votes, of course!
One last question, for the President Obama. What do you plan on cutting to make up for this added funding? You keep talking about pay as you go. So, how do you plan to pay for this as it goes?
That’s correct, America. They are blatantly buying votes with your great grand-children’s money. Let’s be honest, they blew through our money a long time ago, as well as our children’s and grand-children’s. At the very least, we have to be spending on the unborn’s dime by now. Isn’t America beautiful?
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Barack Obama’s pet project receives funding from stimulus bill:
It became a sort of poster child for fiscal responsibility — a clean-coal power plant in Illinois that was one of then-Sen. Barack Obama’s pet projects.
Democrats insisted they were so serious about keeping pork out of the stimulus bill that it was President Obama himself who blocked the FutureGen project from the massive spending package.
“It shows that we’re serious about it,” Brendan Daly, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s spokesman, said at the time. “The speaker said it, and the president said it: There will not be earmarks in this bill.”
Earmarks? Perhaps not. But funding for FutureGen? Absolutely, to the tune of $1 billion.
The Department of Energy on Friday announced that the FutureGen project is on track after all, committing federal stimulus money to advance the project to its next stage. One reason: It was the only shovel-ready project that fits the requirements of the stimulus bill.
I hope America is paying attention. When projects that shouldn’t be receiving funding are all of a sudden receiving funding because they were the only one’s “shovel-ready” the politicians are so blatantly wasting our money it would be laughable if it weren’t so scary. That’s like your wife coming home and saying she bought that $1000 pair of shoes because they were the only pair they had in her size.
Remember when Obama said that there would be no earmarks in the stimulus bill? Those were the days, weren’t they? I forgot, though. This isn’t pork, according to the Dems. Like I said, it just happened to be the only project that was “shovel-ready.”
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Only when fringe lunatics reinforce the left’s caricature of the right do the acts of a few represent the many:
Civil rights activists say a string of recent attacks blamed on right-wing extremists, including Wednesday’s shooting at the Holocaust Museum, show that conservative critics were too quick to fault the Department of Homeland Security over an April report warning about the potential for such violence.
The report was roundly criticized by Republicans for painting conservatives as a threat—particularly military veterans and those opposed to abortion or immigration – and DHS later withdrew the report.
“I think this latest round of killing once again shows how ridiculous the criticism from the right of the Department of Homeland Security report was. That whole brouhaha was absurd,” said Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center. “Rush Limbaugh and John Boehner can go on until the end of time about how [the report] was an attack on conservatives, but in reality it was a perfectly sober assessment of what was going on out there.”
When two straight males brutally murder a homosexual in Wyoming, which they claimed was motivated by money and drugs not because of the victim’s sexual orientation as the press and prosecution had portrayed it, it’s all over the news as an indication of those intolerant bigots on the right who further hatred simply because they are morally opposed to homosexuality or same-sex “marriage.”
But, when Jesse Dirkhising, a 13-year-old boy who was murdered by “two homosexual predators who confessed to using the boy as a sex toy while torturing him to death,” the story was pretty much ignored (coverage of the Shepard case to the Dirkhising case in number of articles was about 18:1). When the story was reported, it wasn’t used as proof that all homosexual are predators, either.
So, let’s get this straight. Straight men kill gay male and that is an indication of the rampant hate, violence, and discrimination faced by all homosexuals. Two homosexual men kill an innocent child and that is not an indication of the predatory nature of homosexuality. That seems a tad unfair, doesn’t it?
I’m not saying that all homosexuals are predators. The actions of these two perverts shouldn’t be used to paint all homosexuals as such. The same goes for the other side. The actions of two heterosexual males (who, arguably, didn’t even murder Shepard because of their supposed hate of homosexuals) shouldn’t be used to falsely represent anyone who opposes homosexuality or gay-”marriage.”
When any Muslim does anything wrong, we are not supposed to judge all Muslims or the religion of Islam based on the actions of the few. When 19 Muslims hijack commercial airliners and crash them into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and are forced down in a field in Pennsylvania, we are not supposed to judge a whole religion. When Muslims bomb embassies and market places, we are supposed to see those as the acts as the few radicals on the fringe. When Muslims behead “infidels,” we are supposed to continue believing that this is the “religion of peace.” But, God forbid a man who is labeled a Christian shoots a baby killer late-term abortionist!
When a single Christian commits a bad act, it is treated in the press as an indicator of what all Christians are capable of. If one Christian is racist, all Christians are racist. If one kills an abortionist, they’re all plotting to kill an abortionist. How come when an anti-military Muslim convert shoots at soldiers outside a military recruiting center, killing one, that’s not an indication that all Muslims are plotting to kill soldiers?
And so, I see a trend here. When members of a group favored by the left does something wrong, it’s always the acts of a few radicals on the fringe who are not representative of the larger group that they have been identified as being a part of (gays, Muslims, etc.). When members of a group disfavored by the left does something wrong, it’s always that the culprit is not one of the isolated few, but rather a true representation of the larger group they have been chosen (by the left) to represent.
If a white man utters a racial slur, it’s an indication of the rampant racism that still dominates every day life in America. All white people are racist! When the Democratic Party’s chosen presidential candidate’s pastor of 20 years is outed not only for racist remarks, but for preaching racism from the pulpit, it’s played down as not even being racist and the man is denounced as not representative of the presidential candidate who has chosen to sit in his pews for the past 20 years. Never mind! I forgot. Jeremiah Wright can’t be racist. Racism only goes one way: white against black. It’s “reverse racism” if it’s black against white. Garbage!
So, a Christian killed an abortionist. Christianity is the religion of hate! A white supremacist walks into a holocaust museum and starts shooting: it’s vindication for the Department of Homeland Security labeling a vast majority of ordinary Americans and soldiers as potential terrorists and threats to the United States. It figures.
I’m not saying that what happened here yesterday wasn’t a tragedy. This was obviously the work of a loon, whether left or right. The people falling to the left and the MSM just can’t wait to call this a vindication and use this as another opportunity to mischaracterize their opponents. What else would we expect from the left? They never let a crisis go to waste. Exploiting tragedies is par for the course.
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Cornyn and Schumer rank as the two top spenders of taxpayer dollars when it comes to travel for the first half of the fiscal year:
Sens. John Cornyn and Chuck Schumer each spent more than $140,000 in taxpayer money on travel in the first half of the fiscal year — roughly 10 times as much as some of their thriftier colleagues.
Cornyn, a Republican, racked up the highest travel bill in the Senate by spending more than $38,000 on a St. Michaels, Md., retreat for 59 staffers and by taking expensive, multicity charter flights throughout his home state of Texas.
Schumer, a Democrat, ran up the second-highest bill by routinely flying private charters to cities in New York served by commercial airlines.
To say that this is a bit excessive would be an understatement. And, Cornyn, good luck selling Republicans as the party of fiscal responsibility. I’m so sick of politicians living like rock stars on the public’s dime.
You aren’t rock stars. You are ordinary people. In fact, you are SERVANTS OF the people. No wonder Congress has such consistently low poll numbers. They’re all frauds duping the public in order to score a free ride. It’s enough to make a person sick.
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Newt Gingrich points out how what was once considered a political scandal under the Obama administration is quickly becoming the status quo:
The GM deal is yet another example of rank, taxpayer-financed political favoritism.
Once again, the big losers are GM’s bondholders, who include substitute teachers in Florida and retired tool and dye supervisors in Michigan. They hold $27 billion in GM debt but are receiving a 10 percent stake in the new company.
In contrast, the UAW, which is owed about $20 billion from GM, is walking away with 17.5 percent of the company and a cool $9 billion in cash.
According to one analysis, while the bondholders will be lucky if they recover 15 cents on the dollar, the UAW can expect to recover up to 60 to 70 cents on the dollar – four to five times what the bondholders will receive.
Forget about calling it a scandal, I would settle for just calling it illegal and unconstitutional. What did we expect from a politician groomed in the style of Chicago politics? Blagojevich wasn’t an anomaly for the state of Illinois. Corruption is just how they do things. It’s how they’ve been doing things for years. Obama is no different than the rest of them.
If Republicans are looking for an issue to hit Obama on, this one seems ripe for the picking. This deal is blatantly hurting “the little guy” in favor of big unions. There is no denying it. Unfortunately, that is not the story the general public is hearing. Not everybody is reading Newt Gingrich. It is time for the Republican Party to give the little guy a voice.
(H/T: The Other McCain)
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Listening to opinion polls, Republicans plan on hitting Obama on spending and the deficit:
Republicans on Capitol Hill think they’ve finally found Barack Obama’s Achilles’ heel: rising public concern about government spending and the federal deficit.
While Obama’s overall job-approval ratings are up over the past month, a Gallup Poll out this week has a 51 percent majority of Americans disapproving of the president’s efforts to control federal spending and a slim 48 percent to 46 percent disapproving of his handling of the federal deficit.
Those are the only areas where Obama has negative approval ratings — Americans approve, by double-digit margins, the way Obama is handling his overall job, foreign affairs, terrorism, the Middle East and North Korea. But the GOP will take what it can get.
I’m all for hitting Obama where the polls are telling us it will hurt. I also think it might be productive to hit him where he’s not vulnerable, yet, until the opinion polls indicate that those issues are going south for him, as well. While they’re at it, Republicans should try pulling themselves together and bringing back some party discipline back to what are supposed to the Republican Party’s principles. Do they want to win over the American people or return to power by default?
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Obama’s rampant federalization of everything he can get the federal government’s hands on (health care, auto industry, housing industry, banking industry, tobacco industry, etc.) is sparking a new found interest in states’ rights:
The wave of government bailouts and the Obama administration’s economic stimulus package are reviving interest in an issue that’s largely been dormant since the mid-1990s: states’ rights.
From Idaho to South Carolina and in dozens of other states, Republicans are sponsoring resolutions designed to call attention to what they view as a worrisome expansion of the federal government at the expense of the states.
“What we have is a federal government that is exceeding its authority and blackmailing the states into submission through printed dollars,” said Pennsylvania Republican state Rep. Sam Rohrer. “We are trying to say to the federal government, ‘You have a role, but your role stops not too far outside Washington, D.C.’”
Rohrer has been shepherding a bill that declares sovereignty for Pennsylvania “under the 10th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the Constitution of the United States.”
States’ rights? What are those? Who is kidding whom on this one? South Carolina’s Supreme Court just ordered their governor–Governor Mark Sanford–to take $700 million in stimulus funds. There are no state’s rights, anymore. The states are selling their rights as quickly as the federal government will buy them up, which is pretty quickly considering that is what the “stimulus” scheme was planned to do.
The Democrats are in power, which means a consolidation of power by the federal government at the expense of the individual states and people. They have been slickly building this moment for years and they are certainly not going to waste this crisis in order to respect the Constitution they have spent, at least, the past fifty years denigrating and destroying.
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