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Barack Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, 44th president of the United States — socialist, radical, and enemy of Americans who believe in the constitution. Here are hundreds of articles on this man.

Obama says he promised change, but what’s your damn hurry?

Yes, it has been a tough journey, made even tougher by the presence of so-called leaders like Obama, Reid and Pelosi.

America was built by people who solved problems. Not silly problems like what wine to order with cheeseburgers but real life and death issues such as those faced by the early colonists, the pioneers who opened the west or the soldiers who landed in places like Iwo Jima and Normandy.

So why the hell did we elect a petulant whiner to lead (?) a country like this?

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"What's all this talk about change," the President asked

Real Clear Politics has an excerpt of President Boo Hoo’s speech at a recent fundraiser (what else?):

“It’s been a long, tough journey. But we have made some incredible strides together. Yes, we have. But the thing that we all ought to remember is that as much as good as we have done, precisely because the challenges were so daunting, precisely because we we were inheriting so many challenges, that we’re not even halfway there yet. When I said ‘change we can believe in’ I didn’t say ‘change we can believe in tomorrow.’ Not change we can believe in next week. We knew this was going to take time because we’ve got this big, messy, tough democracy,” President Obama said at a campaign fundraiser in Chicago on Wednesday night.

Yes, it has been a tough journey, made even tougher by the presence of so-called leaders like Obama, Reid and Pelosi. And despite daunting “challenges” (like finding something new to blame for his messes) Obama has delivered change. Change for the worse.

He’s also right that we are a big, messy, tough democracy which hopefully still has enough gumption to admit its mistakes and correct them in 2012.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: Real Clear Politics

Obama and Senate Democrats plan to spin … er … pivot to jobs

The Ballerina-in-Chief is at it again. Now that his debt ceiling melodrama is going on hiatus, Barry and fellow dancers are planning to “pivot to jobs.”

The Ballerina-in-Chief is at it again. Now that his debt ceiling melodrama is going on hiatus, Barry and fellow dancers are planning to “pivot to jobs.”

Seems we’ve heard this song before. Yet the unemployment numbers continue to worsen despite the administration’s frequent announcements that it’s now pivoting to jobs.

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It's times like this that the Obama administration really misses the ballet stylings of Rahm Emanuel

Politico’s “exclusive” reveals new revolutions:

Senate Democrats hope they now have “checked the box” on debt reduction and can move to an agenda focused on job creation and economic growth, through a combination of spending and tax cuts.

Sure, worked so well the last two years. Doing the same thing over again and expecting a different result is the definiton of insanity and liberalism.

Many Democrats fear the budget fights of this year have distracted from the issue that will be central to voters in the fall of 2012 – and officials want to get Paul Krugman off their backs.

Running backwards full speed into a wall will also work, both for distracting voters and getting rid of Krugman.

POTUS has closed meeting with AFL-CIO Executive Committee in East Room at 9:15 a.m.

Sounds like Boeing wants to move another plant.

Vice President Biden told reporters… “…[we] should be talking – right now about job creation initiatives. We should be talking about infrastructure. We should be talking about investment in education. We should be talking … about investing in innovation.

No Joe, you should be talking about taking a bullet train out of town. The only thing you people know about jobs is it’s a 4-letter word. The music employers want to hear is Obama’s swan song.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: Politico.com

Obama, the only adult in the room, was asked to leave the room

Despite the Mostly Sycophantic Media’s efforts to prop up the cardboard cut-out that is Barack Obama, the truth leaks out anyway. Obama’s not fit to be president.

Barack Obama likes to portray himself as the calm, even-tempered, above-the-fray kind of guy, the only adult in the room. The reality is he’s a whiny, spiteful crybaby who has to be kicked out of the room so the adults can get something done.

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The only adult in the room

The Hill reveals that during the debt ceiling negotiations, Obama was outstanding … in the hall:

GOP aides and lawmakers, speaking on background, portrayed Boehner as the calm negotiator who repeatedly exasperated President Obama.

Boehner last month asked the networks to televise his response to Obama’s address to the nation, a request which infuriated the White House, Republican sources said.

On July 23, they claim, the White House called Nancy Pelosi, telling her not to participate on a call with Boehner, Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). Pelosi informed Reid, who declined to participate, and the call was canceled, the Republican sources said.

Later that day, the four leaders met with Obama at the White House. At one point, GOP officials said, the Democratic and Republican leaders asked Obama and his aides to leave the room to let them negotiate.

Despite the Mostly Sycophantic Media’s efforts to prop up the cardboard cut-out that is Barack Obama, the truth leaks out anyway. Obama’s not fit to be president of an Elvis Presly fan club, much less the United States of America.

The King deserves better, and so do we.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: The Hill

Question of the day: Do you know anyone who supports Obama in 2012 who didn’t support him in 2008?

Seriously. Do you know anyone who’s changed their mind about Obama in a positive direction?

Let’s give credit where credit is due: We saw this question asked over at Ace of Spades HQ and thought it was a great way to get some discussion going.

no obama 2012Seriously. Do you know anyone who’s changed their mind about Obama in a positive direction?

Someone who thinks he’s doing such a bang-up job that they’ve become an Obamatron?

Someone who hears the question “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?” and answers yes?

If so, tell us more. Talk amongst yourselves.

H/T: Ace of Spades HQ

Democrat Senators suddenly suffering Jimmy Carter flashbacks

The hilarious admission comes from none other than Obama groupie Maureen Dowd in none other than the Obama fanzine otherwise known as the New York Times.

Don’t look now, but Democrats are resigning from the Barack Obama Fan Club en masse. The debt ceiling debacle pried open their eyes and finally allowed them to see things Republicans have been seeing for a couple years.

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Peanut farmer, community organizer, what's the difference?

The hilarious admission comes from none other than Obama groupie Maureen Dowd in none other than the Obama fanzine otherwise known as the New York Times:

…Democratic lawmakers worry that the Tea Party freshmen have already “neutered” the president, as one told me. They fret that Obama is an inept negotiator. They worry that he should have been out in the country selling a concrete plan, rather than once more kowtowing to Republicans and, as with the stimulus plan, health care and Libya, leading from behind.

As one Democratic senator complained: “The president veers between talking like a peevish professor and a scolding parent.” (Not to mention a jilted lover.) Another moaned: “We are watching him turn into Jimmy Carter right before our eyes.”

Only problem is the Democrats’ tense. He’s not turning into Jimmy Carter. That transformation was completed long ago.

H/T: Fox News

And the award for Front Page of the Day goes to the Newark Star-Ledger

The largest newspaper in New Jersey came up with a striking image for Monday’s front page. What a contrast. What a brilliant side-by-side comparison of the strong and the weak.

The largest newspaper in New Jersey came up with a striking image for Monday’s front page.

What a contrast. What a brilliant side-by-side comparison of the strong and the weak. The bold and the timid. The conservative and the liberal. The reformer and the problem. The doer and the talker. The fat and the emaciated (sorry, that last one just slipped out).

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H/T: The Weekly Standard

Eric Cantor says what you’ve been saying for two years: Obama is “in over his head”

It’s a bit of a mystery to us why Republicans haven’t been pounding this theme home day after day after day. So we’re glad to see that Eric Cantor finally spoke his mind.

It’s a bit of a mystery to us why Republicans haven’t been pounding this theme home day after day after day. So we’re glad to see that Eric Cantor finally worked up the balls to speak his mind.

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The other players eventually catch on when you bluff on every hand

Politico.com has Cantor’s comments:

The president has not run a business or created jobs and has proven himself ill-suited to put the economy back on track, the Virginia Republican said in a midday interview on the Wall Street Journal’s website with opinion columnist Peggy Noonan and editor James Freeman.

“I think, frankly, he’s in over his head as to what to do about this economy,” Cantor said.

At one point during negotiations on a deal to raise the debt ceiling, Cantor said that the president chose to play politics rather than working on the substance of the deal. Obama seemed “agitated” by Republicans’ opposition to any measures that might be perceived as tax increases – something that the president wanted in a deal – and, at one point, said, “Eric, don’t call my bluff,” Cantor recalled.

Just a note to President Obama for the future: When you’re bluffing, don’t announce that you’re bluffing.

Apparently the guy is no better at playing poker than he is at playing president.

Source: Politico.com

Joe Scarborough reveals the obvious: Democrats secretly admit Obama’s no leader

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough says that Democrats secretly admit to something Republicans already knew – Barack Obama is to leader as Leona Helmsley is to generosity.

Does it qualify as news if it’s something that everyone already knows? In this case, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough says that Democrats secretly admit to something Republicans already knew – Barack Obama is to leader as Leona Helmsley is to generosity.

“I have got to clear this up. Mika heard two days ago on Capitol Hill Democrats all saying the same thing. And that is, this president has been invisible, he is not a leader. They said this all behind closed doors. Democratic leaders, Democratic rank-and-file. In fact, 40, 50 of the most powerful Democrats on the Hill. I will just stop right there. The complaints were all the same. The president has vanished. He has left us here alone again like he did with health care. Where is he? Now, they didn’t call him a loser, but they sure as hell didn’t call him a leader.”

As we used to say in high school, “No shit, Sherlock. Where’d you get your first clue?”

http://youtu.be/_VFdRRBx80A

Source: Real Clear Politics

Barack Obama, comedy genius, says FDR was “fiscally conservative”

Stop, Barry, stop. You’re killing us. Our stomachs hurt from laughing. Dy-no-mite, baby, dy-no-mite.

Ladies and gentlemen, let’s have a warm IHateTheMedia.com welcome for a new young comic who’s getting a lot of attention for his comedy stylings. He just flew in from Washington, DC, and, boy, are his arms tired. With no further delay, here he is. Let’s make some noise for Barry “Shecky” Obama:

… FDR comes in, he tries all these things with the New Deal. But FDR, contrary to myth, was pretty fiscally conservative. And so, after the initial efforts of the New Deal and it looked like the economy was growing again, FDR then presented a very severe austerity budget. And suddenly, in 1937, the economy started going down again. And, ultimately, what really pulled America out of the Great Depression was World War II.

Stop, Barry, stop. You’re killing us. Our stomachs hurt from laughing. Dy-no-mite, baby, dy-no-mite.

Alabama Republican Jeff Sessions boils it down to the essence: “The President thinks it’s all about him”

It’s taken two and a half years, but Congressional Republicans are finally starting to say what the rest of us scream at our televisions on a nightly basis.

It’s taken two and a half years, but Congressional Republicans are finally starting to say what the rest of us scream at our televisions on a nightly basis.

In this case, Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions went to the floor of the Senate and offered up this gem during his discussion of the debt ceiling and the Reid plan:

“The president said—really—this is what the president said a week ago: ‘The only bottom line that I have is that we extend this debt ceiling through the next election, until 2013,’” Sessions says in the video. “The president thinks this is about him. It’s all about him. This is about America, and what’s good for this country. It’s not about the president. It’s not about politics.”

In the words of Burt Bacharach:

What’s it all about, Alfie?
Is it just for the moment we live?
What’s it all about when you sort it out, Alfie?
Are we meant to take more than we give?

In the words of IHateTheMedia.com:

What’s it all about, Barry?
Is it just for the moment you live?
What’s it all about when you sort it out, Barry?
Are we meant to works our fingers to the bone to earn enough money to pay the taxes it takes to support your socialist, nanny, welfare Islamic, third world state?

Maybe not as elegant as the Bacharach version, but it just feels right today. Feel free to sing along.

The country’s problems are just gonna have to wait a little while. It’s time for Obama to get his party on!

Staggering unemployment. Crippling inflation. Crushing deficits. The country wallowing in a new great malaise. What’s the most smartest president in the history of the American Republic to do?

Staggering unemployment. Crippling inflation. Crushing deficits. The country wallowing in a new great malaise. What’s the most smartest president in the history of the American Republic to do?

Throw himself a party, that’s what!

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You know who puts the party in the Democrat Party

The Chicago Sun Times rounds up the details so you can RSVP ASAP:

President Obama returns to Chicago on Aug. 3 to mark his 50th birthday with fund-raisers at the Aragon Ballroom, with tickets ranging from $50 a person to $35,800 per couple, which includes VIP seating at a “Birthday Concert” where celebs will be performing and a dinner with the president.

The fundraiser at the Aragon, the historic ballroom in Uptown, will be one of the biggest third quarter events, expected to draw in national supporters. Obama’s 50th birthday is Aug. 4. UPDATE The Aragon is a cosy venue–I went to concerts there in college and high school–and I heard Thursday afternoon all the performers will be native Chicagoans. END UPDATE

The Obama team on Wednesday reported collecting more than $86 million in second quarter fund-raising over $47 million directly for the Obama 2012 campaign and more than $38 million for the Democratic National Committee.

But wait it gets better!

The event is multi-tiered: There is a concert at 4 p.m.–Foster said songstress Jennifer Hudson may perform–for the basic $50 contribution, of which there is supposed to be “limited availability.”

For $10,000, a person gets a souvenir photo with Obama at a reception and preferred seating at the concert. For $1,000 a person gets seated in a “premium section” with a “hosted bar.” A general admission ticket is $200.

What’s that you say? The peasants have no bread? No worries, let them eat Obama’s birthday cake.

Written by Kip Hooker at TheVitaminPress.com

Source: Chicago Sun-Times

Representative James Clyburn urges Obama to transform the Presidency into a monarchy

So this is how James Clyburn would have our democracy end. Not with a bang. Not even with a whimper. But with Obama assuming the unilateral power.

So this is how James Clyburn would have our democracy end. Not with a bang. Not even with a whimper. But with Obama assuming the unilateral power to further sell off our children’s futures to China in his never ending crusade to buy votes and pay back his political cronies.

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"The Constitution? Hmmmmm. I've heard people talk about it, but I'm not really familiar with it myself."

Real Clear Politics provides the stage:

Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC): “I’ve said time and time again, if the President gets up to August 2nd, without a piece of legislation, he should not allow this country to go into default. He should sign an Executive Order invoking the 14th Amendment and send that to all the governmental agencies for us to continue to pay our bills. He could do that with a stroke of a pen.

“We’ve seen many big things done in history that way. I’ve joked with my staff the other day, ‘tell me what was the bill number of the Emancipation Proclamation.’ It was an Executive Order.

Perhaps someone should let the honorable Representative James Clyburn know. Through the Emancipation Proclamation Lincoln sought to free some of the slaves, not create new ones.

– Written by Kip Hooker at TheVitaminPress.com

Source: Real Clear Politics

Insomniac-in-Chief: Crisis-mongering keeps Obama up nights

Awww. President Obama is working so feverishly convincing grandma that John Boehner wants to kill her, he’s losing sleep.

Awww. President Obama is working so feverishly convincing grandma that John Boehner wants to kill her, he’s losing sleep. At least that’s the narrative his staff is pushing to make it appear the roadblock-in-chief is not the one actually blocking the road.

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He's coming to scare your granmother

Wipe your tears away as we hear from that purveyor of conventional wisdom, Reuters:

President Barack Obama is deeply involved in trying to win a debt deal and his White House was working flat out, aides said…

They’re so busy they haven’t had time to actually write a plan.

“He’s getting absolutely no sleep. He’s working tirelessly, meeting with his economic team, doing a lot of outreach, exploring all kinds of possibilities for compromise,” top Obama aide Valerie Jarrett told Reuters Insider.

In Obama-speak, “compromise” means “doing what I want.” He’s working tirelessly on ways to obfuscate that.

Several press conferences and a prime-time televised address to the nation by the president from the stately East Room, plus a background briefing by senior Obama aides that went late into Friday night, have added to the controlled frenzy at the White House.

Obama’s concept of “work” is babbling to the media. Listening to the fool is even harder.

This has translated into even longer days than normal at the White House, which already begin in the early hours of every morning as senior staff prepared for their daily 7:30 a.m. meeting in the office of the chief of staff.

Boo-hoo. Life would surely be easier if members of the Obama administration spent a bit of time amongst the legions of “funemployed” where their policies have put so many others. Someday soon, if we’re lucky.

-Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: Reuters

Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders: “Primary that right-winger Obama!”

Bernie Sanders, the only officially declared socialist in Congress, thinks President Obama veers too far to the right and he’s not talking about the latter’s putting.

This comes not from the Onion but from “Think Progress” (a euphemism, we’re sure.)

Bernie Sanders, the only officially declared socialist in Congress, thinks President Obama veers too far to the right and he’s not talking about the latter’s putting. He can’t be joking, there’s no such thing as socialist humor.

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Bernie Sanders, just as crazy as he looks

Sanders: “… I think there are millions of Americans who are deeply disappointed in the president; who believe that, with regard to Social Security and a number of other issues, he said one thing as a candidate and is doing something very much else as a president; who cannot believe how weak he has been …in negotiating with Republicans and there’s deep disappointment. …I think one of the reasons the president has been able to move so far to the right is that there is no primary opposition to him and I think it would do this country a good deal of service if people started thinking about candidates out there to begin contrasting what is a progressive agenda as opposed to what Obama is doing. …I think it would be a good idea if President Obama faced some primary opposition.” 

True, millions are unhappy with President Obama, but not because he’s not bankrupting them fast enough as ol’ Bernie believes. No matter, as a famous Chicagoland thug once said, “Never waste a good crisis.”

So you go, Bernie, primary Obama. Make him turn left so much he spins like a top and drills himself another hole to dig out of.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

H/T: Hot Air

U.S. government now being largely run by and on behalf of two classes of people

Sadly, the U.S. Government is now being largely run by and on behalf of two classes of people: Theorists and Agitators.

The Chicago Boyz (they’re free market advocates, not cronies of President Pampers) have an interesting hypothetical question: what if there were a shovel-ready project that would generate American jobs, require NO government money or debt, provide America with a secure source of energy and benefit an important ally… what would we think of an American administration that continually obstructed this project?

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Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton get together to protest this crazy talk about an agitator class

Turns out there IS such a project, the Keystone XL pipeline. And it’s being blocked by the Genius-in-Chief on behalf of the usual suspects:

The reality is that large segments of the environmental movement have become so unhinged that they will instinctively oppose any large-scale construction project, even if it involves the transportation of magical pixie dust.

Actually, transportation of magical pixie dust is probably the one thing Obama would support.

The Chicago Boyz come to this unhappy conclusion:

Sadly, the U.S. Government is now being largely run by and on behalf of two classes of people:

–Theorists, whose heads are so deeply buried in books, models, and spreadsheets that they are unable to see the actual world and have lost all semblance of balance and judgment.

–Agitators, who “earn” their living and get their sense of satisfaction in life from stirring up all segments of society against one another, in a neo-Hobbesian war of all against all.

A bunch of pinheads and weiners, the Obama Administration is the albatross around our necks. And while we’re sitting in the dark waiting for our windmills to turn, China will buy the oil and the Canadians will get even richer.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: Chicago Boyz

Wynn the future: Harry Reid booster Steve Wynn trashes Obama

I’m saying it bluntly, that this administration is the greatest wet blanket to business, and progress and job creation in my lifetime …

Casino mogul Steve Wynn describes himself as a Democratic businessman and Harry Reid supporter. While supporting McCain in 2008, his wife drank the Kool Aid. But like many astute businessmen, Wynn cares more about business than politics and is not above supporting Republicans when necessary, or excoriating a Democrat president either.

Wynn’s press conference rant drew Business Insider’s attention:

…I’m saying it bluntly, that this administration is the greatest wet blanket to business, and progress and job creation in my lifetime … I could spend the next 3 hours giving you examples of all of us in this market place that are frightened to death about all the new regulations, our healthcare costs escalate, regulations coming from left and right. [Obama] keeps using that word “redistribution.”

…until we change the tempo and the conversation from Washington, it’s not going to change. And those of us who have business opportunities and the capital to do it are going to sit in fear of the President … this is Obama’s deal and it’s Obama that’s responsible for this fear in America.

The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don’t invest, their holding too much money. We haven’t heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody’s afraid of the government and there’s no need soft peddling it, it’s the truth.

Well, even Krugman thinks it’s 1937 again.

By the way, Steve, your buddy Harry Reid helped Obama significantly to realize his “accomplishments”. Maybe it’s past time you considered downgrading his freebies. Just sayin’.

http://youtu.be/LTbjcKZzrmM

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: Business Insider

It’s phony White House photo time, Part II

The two staged photos bear remarkable similarity – same stony stares, same awkward poses, same complete unbelievability.

Phony Photo #1: President Obama and his family gather in the Situation Room to watch Navy SEALs raid of Osama Bin Laden’s Afghanistan compound.

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Phony Photo #2: President Obama and his people gather to watch the United States Women’s National Soccer Team play Japan in the finals of the Women’s World Cup championship game.

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Oh, wait. Our mistake. We got the photo captions switched. But in our defense, the two staged photos bear remarkable similarity – same stony stares, same awkward poses, same complete unbelievability.

All signs, including road signs, bad for Obama

The hacked electronic sign at the intersection of Unionville-Indian Trail and Ridge roads in Union County was changed to read “Impeach Obama.”

Forget the bogus polls produced by the media fellators – when road signs turn against a politician, he’s cooked.

No matter how many of those “This waste of money courtesy of American Non-recovery and Malinvestment Act” signs Obama bought, none of them mean as much as one honest electronic sign.

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Consider it a sign of the times

WSOCTV.com has the story of a sign of the times:

A Department of Transportation electronic road sign was apparently hacked into and the road warning changed over the weekend.

Hacked? We can hear Jay Carney now babbling something about GW Bush’s secret computer skills.

The sign at the intersection of Unionville-Indian Trail and Ridge roads in Union County was changed to read “Impeach Obama.”

The sign was corrected Sunday night, officials said.

Good thing they fixed it. Impeachment is a long drawn-out process and the Democrat weiners in the Senate would never convict him. Better to vote Barry out of office in 2012 and then procescute him.

Electronic road signs were also hacked several months ago in Rock Hill. Instead of displaying political messages, those signs warned of zombies, hunters and tanks in the roadway ahead.

We beg to differ. Zombies and tanking pretty much ARE political messages in the age of the greatest presidential failure ever. All the signs were there before the last election, and even more of them are visible now.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: WSOC-TV

Obama to banks: Pssst. Don’t bank on U.S. defaulting

Fox News relates a tale of underhanded scaremongering for personal political advantage – in other words, just another day at the Oval Office in the Obama Administration:

What do you call a guy who yells “Fire!” in a crowded theatre while texting his cronies “Chill out and get ready to snap up free popcorn”?

Unfortunately, the proper appellation in this case would be “Mr. President”.

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"Fire! Fire! Fire! Just kidding! Just kidding! Just kidding!"

Fox News relates a tale of underhanded scaremongering for personal political advantage – in other words, just another day at the Oval Office in the Obama Administration:

While officials from the Obama Administration raised their rhetoric over the weekend about the possibility of a debt default if the debt ceiling isn’t raised, they privately have been telling top executives at major U.S. banks that such an event won’t happen….

…administration officials have told bankers that the administration will not allow a default to happen even if the debt cap isn’t raised by the August 2 date Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner says the government will run out of money to pay all its bills, including obligations to bond holders.

A senior banking official told FOX Business that administration officials have provided guidance to them that […] a default is off the table…

This guidance is a big reason why Wall Street has largely dismissed the possibility of default…

“They also know they can pay the debt with cash on hand,” this official told FOX Business.

Obamunists scream “Republican monsters are going to eat your social security checks!” to grandmothers while nudging the bankers and whispering, “Don’t take this crap seriously.”

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: FoxBusiness.com

Calling bullshit on Obama: Law prof says Social Security at no risk from debt ceiling cave-in

The current president of the United States seems not to know how anything works. But that’s no problem when you’re willing to just make crap up.

The current president of the United States seems not to know how anything works. But that’s no problem when you’re willing to just make crap up. Ironically, the world’s smartest man apparently considers his ignorance a feature and not a bug.

Case in point: The President has repeatedly implied that social security payments might stop if the debt ceiling issue is not resolved.

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Step One: President speaks. Step Two: Push the button.

Stanford Law Professor Michael McConnell calls the president on this egregious lie:

The Social Security trust fund holds about $2.4 trillion in U.S. Treasury bonds, which its trustees are legally entitled to redeem whenever Social Security is running a current account deficit. Thus, if we reach the debt ceiling ….this is what will happen. The Social Security trust fund will go to Treasury and cash in some of its securities, using the proceeds to send checks to recipients. Each dollar of debt that is redeemed will lower the outstanding public debt by a dollar. That enables the Treasury to borrow another dollar, without violating the debt ceiling. The debt ceiling is not a prohibition on borrowing new money; it is a prohibition on increasing the total level of public indebtedness. If Social Security cashes in some of its bonds, the Treasury can borrow that same amount of money from someone else.

Addition and subtraction, maybe that’s his problem.

George Soros promised Obama if he took the job, there would be no math. Or history, or science, or geography. Just talking and vacations.

More likely telling the truth is just one more thing that’s above the man’s pay grade.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: AdvancingAFreeSociety.org

Honey, she shrunk the President: Sarah Palin labels Obama a “lame duck president”

Sarah Palin reminds the country of what the media conveniently chooses to forget – President Obama’s prominent role in forcing the country to bang its head on the debt ceiling every day for the past month.

Sarah Palin reminds the country of what the media conveniently chooses to forget – President Obama’s prominent role in forcing the country to bang its head on the debt ceiling every day for the past month.

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And at the end of the second inning the score stands at Palin 1, Obama 0

Let’s go to Palin’s Facebook page for the money quotes:

[Obama] proposed an absurdly irresponsible budget that would increase our debt by trillions of dollars, and whose party failed to even put forward a budget in over 800 days!

Not coincidentally, 800 days is as long as he’s been in office.

[Obama] is pushing our country to the brink because of his reckless spending on things like the nearly trillion dollar “stimulus” boondoggle.

His current “untouchable” sacred cow boondoggles include hi-speed rail, Obamacare and “green” jobs.

[Obama] ignored his own debt commission’s recommendations and demonized the voices of fiscal sanity …wanted to push through an increase in the debt ceiling that didn’t include any cuts in government spending! …wants to slam Americans with tax hikes to cover his reckless spending …hasn’t put forward a responsible plan himself, but has rejected reasonable proposals that would tackle our debt. …who still refuses to understand that the American electorate rejected his big government agenda last November.

“We don’t want it. We can’t afford it. And we are unwilling to pay for it.”

And that includes his damn vacations.

He has been deemed a lame duck president. And he is angry now because he is being treated as such.

We had to check twice, but she did say “duck.” Although spelling it with an “i” would also have been correct.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: Facebook.com

Obama’s corporate boy toy blames business for the lack of jobs

Obama crony Jeff Immelt gets marched out to defend the job killing effects of Obamanomics by blaming businesses for not creating enough new employment.

President Obama is a study in hypocrisy. He lectures the pubic on the need for sacrifice while wasting millions of their dollars on parties. He promised the most transparent administration in our history but has delivered one of its most secretive. He defends trickle down tax hikes on the middle class by attacking the “fat cat corporations” while all the while enriching those friendly to his regime.

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Immelt and Obama: The boy toy and the manchild

No wonder Obama crony Jeff Immelt gets marched out to defend the job killing effects of Obamanomics by blaming businesses for not creating enough new employment.

This is from CNN:

The head of General Electric (GE) told a jobs summit at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Monday that businesses needed to take the lead on job creation.

At a conference where many of the comments were focused on government barriers to hiring, GE Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt acknowledged there needed to be some policy changes by Congress and the Obama administration. But he said that the responsibility for hiring lay with businesses.

“The people who are part of the business sector, the people in this room, have got to stop complaining about government and get some action underway,” he told the group. “There’s no excuse today for lack of leadership. The truth is we all need to be part of the solution.”

No Mr. Immelt. If the people in that room want to succeed what they’ve got to do is buddy up to Obama. That way they can get some TARP money and skip out on paying their taxes too.

– Written by Kip Hooker at TheVitaminPress.com

Source: CNN

I’ll be here all week: Obama makes joke about confirmation process, but no one laughs

Obama bombed in Washington, DC on Monday. He stunk up the joint. (Sound of crickets) “That’s a joke,” he reminded the audience.

Oh, how far the mighty have fallen. There was a time, just two and a half short years ago, when the media would have hurt themselves laughing at any attempted witticism on the part of the funniest President in history.

No longer. Obama bombed in Washington, DC on Monday. He stunk up the joint.

“Back in the 80’s, Richard was also a five-time Jeopardy champion and a semi-finalist in the Tournament of Champions. Not too shabby,” President Obama said while announcing Richard Cordray’s nomination to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

“That’s why all his confirmation — all the answers at his confirmation hearings will be in a form of a question,” Obama said to silence. 


(Sound of crickets)

“That’s a joke,” he reminded the audience.

And then he concluded with, “Richard just flew in from Ohio and, boy, are his arms tired.”

Surprise! Obama opposed to cutting spending, capping spending and balancing the budget

The White House on Monday warned President Obama will veto GOP legislation to “cut, cap and balance” spending and the budget.

Obama knows how his bread is buttered. With the labor of generations of tax payers yet to be born. And the president is willing to fight tooth and nail for his right to benefit from that labor far more than most of our children ever will.

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Obama puts his feet up on the desk in the Oval Office and laughs about the thought of your grandchildren toiling to pay his bills

The Hill is alive with the sound of this administration’s muzak:

The White House on Monday warned President Obama will veto GOP legislation to “cut, cap and balance” spending and the budget.

In a statement of administration policy, the White House Office of Management and Budget labeled the GOP bill as an “empty political statement.”

The House Rules Committee is expected to take up the measure on Monday, and it is likely to receive a floor vote on Tuesday. The measure would cut spending in fiscal 2012 by $111 billion, cap future spending at 19.9 percent of gross domestic product and allow for the debt ceiling to be increased if a balanced-budget amendment is approved by Congress and sent to the states.

The administration said the measure, which is not expected to move through the Senate, is unnecessary and unrealistic.

Yes, of course. It is unnecessary and unrealistic to expect the government to live within its means. Especially at a time when the taxpayers are expected to live so far below their means in order to finance all the votes and favors Obama is going to need if he expects to have a prayer at getting re-elected.

– Written by Kip Hooker at TheVitaminPress.com

Source: The Hill

Lord Obama demands more sacrifice from his subjects

After a number of years of benefiting from our sacrifice without providing any of his own he is once again returning to that old rhetoric.

From the dawn of his national political career the President has talked to the country of sacrifice. And after a number of years of benefiting from our sacrifice without providing any of his own he is once again returning to that old rhetoric.

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"Why don't you little people sacrifice while I try on this nifty hat."

Yahoo the website has this story on yahoo the president:

President Barack Obama is urging US lawmakers to quickly forge a deal to keep the world’s richest nation from plunging into debt default, saying he is “willing to compromise.”

Obama has warned of economic “Armageddon” should Congress fail to raise the debt limit to allow more US borrowing, with his administration highlighting disastrous ripple effects that would churn through the global financial system.

But after five straight days of crisis talks ended Thursday without a clear solution, Obama implored fellow Democrats and opposition Republicans to embrace “shared sacrifice” to help break the stalemate that has led ratings agencies and top US lender China to sound the alarm over US creditworthiness.

“I’m willing to compromise. I’m willing to do what it takes to solve this problem, even if it’s not politically popular,” Obama said in his weekly radio address Saturday.

“Simply put, it will take a balanced approach, shared sacrifice, and a willingness to make unpopular choices on all our parts.”

Under normal circumstances this the part of our story where we would have written something (hopefully) clever to tie the piece altogether. We didn’t have to do that this time. The perfect summation had already been written. IHateTheMedia.com would like to thank Ayn Rand for the following bit of brilliance:

It only stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

What she said.

Written by Kip Hooker at TheVitaminPress.com

Source: AFP via Yahoo

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