Author: Bonfire of the Absurdities

A Potemkin Village economic recovery to re-elect Obama “It seems all too likely that a presidential campaign which used ‘GM is alive, Osama is dead’ as its campaign theme ordered or pressured GM executives to keep the assembly lines running all-out regardless of the business consequences.” Now, the deluge of layoffs. Oh, and those “good” housing and jobs numbers from Sept and Oct are suddenly being revised downward. Lies, damn lies and Barack Obama.

WH petition demands Obama cancel Hawaii vacation. …and instead devote the estimated $4 million bill (to the public, not himself) to victims of Hurricane Sandy. Hey, can some hack newspaper columnists write about this? No, they’re too busy writing about how private citizens chose to spend their time and money.

The revolt of the Kulaks. “History tells us, however, that economic redistribution plans fail because the producers of society would rather not produce, than have the fruits of their production taken away and given to others. Obama can raise the tax rates on income, but he cannot force people to generate income to be taxed.” A brief history of how Obamunist ideas worked in the now-defunct USSR. The article is from 2009, but is worth revisiting in light of Dear Leader’s recent “victory.”

Unemployment rate drops to 7.7%… …due to a “drop in the labor force participation rate which declined by 0.2% to 63.6% once again, as the number of people out of the labor increased by over 540K to 88,883,000.” Oh, and most of the 146k jobs added were the type of jobs the left-media denigrated as “hamburger flipping” jobs back when a non-Democrat was president.

Monckton evicted from UN climate summit after challenging global warming. “‘Escorted from the hall and security officers stripped him of his UN credentials.” “Monckton to UN: ‘In the 16 years we have been coming to these conferences, there has been no global warming’.” Yeah, and in the 16 years we’ve been sending money to Nigerian bankers, we’ve never gotten one million-dollar check in return. Wonder if there’s a pattern there…

Dana Milbank chides Mitt Romney for not riding to the rescue of the country that just rejected him. WaPo hack Milbank is annoyed – Romney is taking a job with Marriot Intl instead of helping the First Golfer “fix” the crisis he and his fellow grifters created. “Are you an idiot, Dana Milbank? Barack Obama just spent a year calling Mitt Romney a bully, a felon, and a murderer. Why on earth would Romney lift a finger to help Obama after that?” Fear not, we’ll help you with some advice, Mr. President – try angling that putt a little to the right.

McConnell offers to vote on Obama’s Fiscal Cliff plan, Reid objects. Obama’s plan includes a $2 trillion tax hike and $400 billion in new “stimulus”… can’t imagine why they don’t want to vote on it.

Comedian: Liberal comics “don’t want to make fun of Obama because they feel that it will weaken him.” “The narrative is that Obama is sort of a god (in fact, Evan Thomas of Newsweek said exactly that.) Gods don’t have any flaws. Thus, if they point out a single flaw, they are entirely destroying the narrative. … To the Modern Liberal who looks to their leaders the way small children look to their parents, making fun of Obama is simply beyond them.” They’re not as stupid as we thought… they’re much stupider.

Is austerity, shrinking wages, and firing of public workers a bad thing? One Eastern-European country’s actual experience. “Latvia has a flat personal tax, low corporate tax, fired on third of civil workers and the results speak for themselves: low inflation, high growth, and politicians re-elected.” Yes, but that plan makes it impossible to pay off donors and cronies or buy votes with public money… so it’s raaaaacist and sexist and blah, blah, blah…

The Blue-State Suicide Pact. “The almost uniform support of blue states’ congressional representatives for the administration’s campaign for tax ‘fairness’ represents a kind of bizarre economic suicide pact.” Well, they don’t mind, why should anyone else? Oh, and this: “Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide.” ~ W. Churchill

Detroit councilwoman to Obama: We voted for you, now bail us out. You bought our votes so where’s the check? FORE-ward!

Tweet of the day. Piers… you shoulda said “blah blah Commerce Clause…” Didn’t you read your journ0list talking points handbook? Sheesh.

Reuters: Egypt’s Morsi leaves presidential palace amid clashes. “Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi left the presidential palace in Cairo on Tuesday, two sources reported, after protesters angered by his decree last month to extend his powers clashed with police outside.” Obama is a “sort of god,” just like a wooden decoy is a “sort of duck.”

Obama voters experience buyer’s remorse. “…some who voted for him last month are puzzled as he threatens to take the nation off the fiscal cliff if Republicans don’t give him the tax hikes he demands now and puts off entitlement reform until later. He even wants to increase spending. I’ve talked to people who supported him, and their surprise is surprising.” Color us unsympathetic – these morons had four years to observe Obama in action. They CANNOT say they weren’t warned. They have no one to blame but themselves.

Polls: Nation that re-elected Obama wants more spending cuts than tax hikes, still hates Obamacare. “As the conventional wisdom has it, we are a nation divided— perhaps into multiple personalities.” To paraphrase the old adage: to a man with a hammer, every problem looks like his fingers.

EU wants to ban youth unemployment. “The European Commission wants to oblige EU countries to all people under 25 to secure a job (sic). How states are to implement the guarantee, it will not betray.” An idea so stupid, you wonder how the Euroclowns managed to beat the Kleptocrats to it.

Since Election Day, Obama has golfed more times than worked on Fiscal Cliff deal. So, that’s what the phrase “status quo” means, huh?

U.S. Small-Business owners pessimistic post-election. “…intention of 21% of small-business owners to reduce the number of jobs at their company over the next 12 months. …potential for significantly higher unemployment rate in 2013 and all of the accompanying negatives that fewer jobs imply for the economy – particularly given the importance of small-business hiring to the U.S. job market.” Jobs, hiring, who cares? We’re all gettin’ free health care!

North Korea claims discovery of ancient unicorn lair. “The Korean Central News Agency indicates that said unicorn lair was in Pyongyang City, 200 meters from Yongmyong Temple in Moran Hill. The lair reportedly features a rock, carved with the words ‘Unicorn Lair’ in front.” Oh, joy – maybe now all the leftists will head over there. Mr. President, at last your dreams are within your reach. Bon Voyage.

Delusional Government, Delusional Society. “In 2011, we spent 3.603 trillion. Almost 70% of that amount was spent on Pensions, Healthcare and Defense. If you add in the amount spent on ‘Welfare,’ the number jumps to 82%. The deficit for 2011 was 1.3 trillion. So, can we fix the problem simply by raising taxes? No.” Delusional president, delusional congress, delusional Fed, delusional media. If you’re not delusional, it would seem you’re now in the minority.

Democrat rep: amend Constitution to allow control of speech. “We need a constitutional amendment that would allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations,” Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) was quoted as saying by CNS News. Yes, this is the same Hank Johnson who was worried that Guam might capsize. Funny how people who are always babbling about corporations destroying our lives never notice it was governments that killed millions of their own people in the last century or so.

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Jay Leno: “Very dangerous to White House if journalists suddenly start asking real questions.” Jay, it would also be very dangerous if pigs acquired wings, jet engines and smart bombs and began attacking cities at random. Neither are likely to happen but if forced to pick, our money’s on the pigs. (Video at link.)

Detroit’s Bing: city workers “entitled,” only president’s job harder. “We are in an environment… of entitlement… a lot of people who are city workers, who for years and years… think they are entitled to a job and all that comes with it.” Hmmm, maybe a certain political party shouldn’t have encouraged this attitude with decades of “Vote for me and get free stuff!” campaigns, eh Mr. Mayor? Obama’s job is harder? We’ll let you know when and if he actually starts doing it.

The real tragedy of ObamaCare has yet to be felt by the poor. “Medicaid is cumbersome, complex, and wasteful – already the worst health care program in the country. But rather than making changes to improve or modernize this program designed to finance care for the poor, the Obama administration is trying to convince states to add at least 16 million more people to Medicaid, including families making more than $30,000 a year.” But Barry cares and he’s taking a vacation in Hawaii to prove it. What do you mean that’s a non-sequitur?

Belgian man shocked to learn wife of 19 years is [was] a man. “‘I thought she was an attractive woman, all woman… [and] even during sex, I never noticed anything,’ said the 64 year-old man. The deception unraveled after the transsexual began frequenting nightclubs and getting emails from other men.” The truth will set you free, right Barry?