Author: Bonfire of the Absurdities

Obama complains GOP has simple campaign slogan: “It’s Obama’s fault!” “Obama warned supporters Tuesday that Republicans have boiled down their campaign against him to a single phrase that can fit into a 140-character Twitter message and unfairly blames him for the nation’s ills.” How dare they – everybody knows it’s Bush’s fault! His next fundraiser will be held in the Twilight Zone.

“The euro Titanic has now hit the iceberg and sadly there simply aren’t enough life boats.” “A hundred billion [euros] is put up for the Spanish banking system, and 20 per cent of that money has to come from Italy. And under the deal the Italians have to lend to the Spanish banks at 3% but to get that money they have to borrow on the markets at 7%. It’s genius isn’t it. It really is brilliant.” Well, if the goal is to accelerate the onset of a disaster, it should work like a charm.

“Crying Man” calls talk show; crashes and burns. “Mike, a left-wing Madison protester, appeared on CNN. With great emotion, he announced to all Americans that the left’s failure to recall Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker June 5 means that ‘democracy is dead.'” Well yeah, democracy is when the left wins, ain’t it?

Michael Bloomberg, Soda Jerk. “The truth is that people who enjoy Twinkies and cola turn off Bloomberg, a rich man with an ultra-yuppie sensibility. But he can’t simply outlaw their preferences and mandate his.” A ruse is needed – to Bloomberg, “…gov’t spending has made health care a common concern—one he has to address by vetting individuals’ diets.” “But public costs are simply a ruse for control freaks like Bloomberg to foist their personal choices on everybody else.”

Like Jon Lovitz, Joan Rivers not crazy about Obama tax increases either. “I think if I work very hard, I should be able to gather the fruits of my labor. And I think if you’re not about to work, you should get minimal and leave me alone.” “…I’m really not interested in a woman who has 95 children and has 95 husbands. I think the Chinese have it right: You each have one children, two children and you take care of them.” Sounds like racist, Tea Party code to us.

Obama Schedule – Tuesday, June 12, 2012

11:00 am || Receives the Presidential Daily Briefing
11:45 am || Departs the White House
1:20 pm || Speaks at a fundraiser; private residence, Owings Mills, Maryland
2:35 pm || Attends a fundraiser; Hyatt Regency, Baltimore, Maryland
3:45 pm || Attends a fundraiser; Hyatt Regency, Baltimore, Maryland
4:45 pm || Departs Baltimore
5:20 pm || Arrives Philadelphia
6:10 pm || Attends a fundraiser; Franklin Institute, Philadelphia
7:45 pm || Attends a fundraiser; Franklin Institute, Philadelphia
9:05 pm || Attends a fundraiser; Franklin Institute, Philadelphia
10:20 pm || Departs Philadelphia
11:20 pm || Arrives White House

Damn, three shows in both Baltimore and Philly. Good thing he doesn’t have a job or anything, it’d be tough to get that much time off and not get fired.

Sen. Cornyn calls for Holder’s resignation. Senator and former judge accuses Att’y Gen’l Snidely Whiplash of stonewalling on the probe of the cyberattack-related national security leaks coming out of the WH as well as Fast n’ Furious. BTW, the House will vote on contempt proceedings next week. Issa expects 31 Dems to join with GOP members in finding Holder in contempt of Congress.

5 words for anyone who thinks there’s no difference between Romney and Obama. Those 5 words are “Supreme Court Justice Eric Holder.” Case closed. Anybody but Obama.

You’ve met Julia the Moocher, now meet Emily. Something’s wrong here, this woman has a face and speaks for herself. She must be part of the GOP’s “war on women” – bet she wouldn’t even pretend she was 1/32 Cherokee to get a job. Racist.

UN considering new Internet tax targeting Web content providers that could cripple their ability to reach users in developing nations. Proposal offered at a meeting of a U.N. agency called the Int’l Telecommunication Union “would amend an existing telecommunications treaty by imposing heavy costs on popular Web sites and their network providers for the privilege of serving non-U.S. users.” With the global warming scam fading, the UN kleptocrats need a new con.

The Return of the Reagan Democrats. “Democrats who are not adherents of the socialist hard left are becoming appalled at the out-of-control growth of government, and they will support any politician who has the will and the courage to rein it in. You tell me if Barack Obama qualifies. And since he doesn’t, that is why the result in Wisconsin is very bad news for his re-election prospects.” Well, Hitler was pretty mad when he found out Walker won again in Wisconsin… imagine what he’s gonna do if Obama loses.

Lanny Davis goes off on Obama aides: “You have vicious people who are working for the president.” Former Clinton aide takes Obama officials to task for saying Cory Booker is “dead to us.” “It may be meltdown unless they come to their senses.” Kinda assuming they have any senses to come to, ain’t ya Lanny?

Biden Obama: “The private sector is doing just fine.” Even though he “clarified” this remark later, Obama really does think the problem with the economy is too few state and local gubbermint jobs. Was this a game-changing moment in the campaign? If you listen closely, you may hear the sound of Michael Dukakis riding in a tank.

High school teacher tells graduating students: “You’re not special!” Producing an antidote to 12 yrs of “self-esteem” psychobabble in an hour may be too much to expect, but the reality is if everyone’s special then no one is. Full text of speech here.

French socialist “solution” to unemployment: “make layoffs so expensive for companies that it’s not worth it.” Four things will happen, all of them bad: 1) Mass layoffs will occur before the law passes 2) Companies will move any jobs they can overseas 3) If it’s difficult to fire people, companies will not hire them in the first place 4) Corporate profits will collapse along with the stock market should the need to fire people arise. Economic insanity is a progressive disease.

White House: Cory Booker is “dead to us.” Cory Booker joins the economic recovery, unity, transparency and a volt-load of campaign promises in the metaphorical cemetary.

Liberals threaten not to vote in November over disappointment with Obama. The country is awash in unprecedented debt thanks to his spending and they’re “frustrated” because, for one thing, “the president yielded to Republican pressure by devoting a significant portion of the 2009 stimulus package to tax cuts.” It’s not a question of one side seeing a glass half empty and the other, half full. These people don’t see a glass because the rich guy stole it.

Chris Rock: “We ignore the president’s whiteness, but it’s there.” Well, up until now he ignored it anyway. NBC talking head asks Rock what animal he’d like to be and ends up doing a faceplam. (Sequence starts about 2:45 in.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EofEgeOKZG0

Get serious about governing, Democrats! “So, progressives: What is the right percentage of a government budget to be spent on public sector pensions? If this requires that cities and states simply need to come up with bigger budgets (through increased taxes) precisely how much bigger would be appropriate? If you don’t want to increase overall budgets, what other government services are you willing to cut?” What, yelling “STFU!” and “raaaaacist!” ain’t a plan?

Dershowitz: Zimmerman prosecutor threatening to sue Harvard for my criticism. That would be State Attorney Angela Corey, who Dershowitz says called Harvard and engaged “in a 40-minute rant, during which she threatened to sue Harvard Law School, to try to get me disciplined by the Bar Association and to file charges against me for libel and slander.” On what grounds? “STFU!”, she explained.

Estonian president unloads on Paul Krugman on Twitter. A Krugman blog post set him off: “a Keynesian belch” at a widely linked Global Post story which described “how Estonia managed to kickstart rapid economic growth while the rest of Europe got sucked into a black hole. Three words: ‘Austerity, austerity, austerity.'” Subtitled, Estonian prez sums up the whole Euro-American technocrat elistist class in five posts. Update: Dan Mitchell has a better documented (but less humorous) retort to Krugman.

The Socialist mask of Marxism. “In November, the United States will indeed face one of the most important elections in its history. On the surface, the voters will decide which of our two main political parties will control the White House and the U.S. Congress. In fact, the voters will chose between keeping the country the leader of the Free World, or allowing the United States to be further infected by the virus of Marxism.” Having once lived under it, Ion Mihai Pacepa doesn’t like it. Experience is the best teacher.

Fat Head: the movie Nanny Bloomberg doesn’t want you to see. Like Morgan Spurlock in “Supersize Me”, Tom Naughton ate nothing but fast food for 30 days with two caveats: 1) He didn’t eat whatever the clerk suggested, as Spurlock did. No super-sizing if he didn’t want to. 2) He kept his carbs to under 100 grams a day and calories to under 2,000 using publicly available nutritional info about all the national fast-food chains. The result? He lost 12 lbs and his blood work improved. Fine for him but there’s no ego boost in it for the nannies, is there?

Dems prepare Plan B in Wisconsin. “Politico reported this morning that state Democrats are already plotting to contest a Walker victory by demanding a recount, and now Barrett supporters appear to be laying the groundwork to blame their potential loss on Republican ‘dirty tricks.'” Sure, to Democrats, not letting them win is “cheating.” The “B” in “Plan B” stands for “Bulls**t.”

Cats away! Artist turns his dead pet into flying helicopter after it is killed by a car. The good news is this is one piece of “art” the N.E.A. had nothing to do with.