The Price of Puerility
The wheels coming loose on Hopey Change has inspired so many good political books lately that it’s hard to keep up with them. The Price of Politics by Bob Woodward looks particularly promising, providing an answer to the question, who the hell is running the country while the Adolescent Narcissist in Chief poses in front of the mirror? That answer is: nobody.
Woodward’s book, which comes out September 11, purportedly uncovered what ABC News calls “an explosive mix of dysfunction, miscommunication, and misunderstandings” both inside and outside of the White House. The situation was apparently so intense as a result of these factors that the historic deal [to avoid defaulting on the national debt] ended up flat-lining, leaving essential issues unresolved and positioning America to continue on a path that some say will end in fiscal chaos.
The key issue that apparently led to the communication breakdown was Obama’s push for extra added taxes, something Boehner wasn’t prepared to give in on. When the deal had progressed along and this disagreement was evident, Obama tried to unsuccessfully reach the House speaker three times. When the president finally spoke with him later that day and Boehner rejected the deal, the president purportedly became irate.
Woodward’s book claims that Obama had a “flash of pure fury.” Even Boehner admitted to the author that Obama “was spewing coals” in an incident that the book describes as being on the edge of a “presidential tirade.” …
“He was pissed….He wasn’t going to get a damn dime more out of me. He knew how far out on a limb I was,” the speaker told Woodward. “But he was hot. It was clear to me that coming to an agreement with him was not going to happen, and that I had to go to Plan B.”
Plan B, as described by Woodward, led Boehner to cut Obama out from key negotiations. Both parties in Congress, minus Obama, then essentially came together to come up with a plan that would ensure that the nation avoided default.
Another revelation: even Nancy Pelosi despises Obama enough to mute him during conference calls when he begins to bloviate.
It may take years to compile the full picture of just how absurd it was to elect this clown president. Woodward is probably planning a sequel already.
On a tip from The MaryHunter.
“President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people,” — Clint Eastwood
http://www.pineconearchive.com/120907-1.html
“He was spewing coals…”
Hitler reacted the very same way when he too was told “no, you can’t rule the world”.
What you fail to realize is there are plenty just like him in local governments. Our little moonbat version want to spend 40 million on 102 miles of “greenways” in the county. You do the math.
I’m tired of the progressives.
actually the election of Obysmal is easily explained. The Baby Boom generation and the feral children they raised never left high school mentally. The vote for the most important positions in America as if it were for student council – “Oh… he’s SO cool.”
Their whole approach to life is infantile – me, me, me. Because of this they are terrified of not being liked so all you have to do is tell them they have to do something or they’ll be “bad” and shunned by the Kewl Kidds and they’ll hurry right out and do it and then look for the pat on the head.
Thanks 52%.
Chuck is right. There are 70 year old’s that comment in the local paper that act like they’re 16. Label others and refuse to even acknowledge the disaster happening. And always finish off with such drivel as tee hee hee or some other stupidity.
Barry couldn’t run a friggin hot dog stand. What were the moonbats thinking. This is not some bloody game we’re playing here. Get off the Xboxes.
Well I’ll be damned?
The Faces Of Liberalism In 30 Years
Political Correctness:
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The basic idea behind Newspeak is to remove all shades of meaning from language, leaving simple dichotomies (pleasure and pain, happiness and sadness, goodthink and crimethink) which reinforce the total dominance of the State. (Wikipedia)
Political Correctness is all about words. Like Orwell’s ‘Newspeak’, Political Correctness works tirelessly, to banish many words from your vocabulary. Like Orwell’s ‘Newspeak’, Political Correctness alters, even inverts, the meanings of those words you’re still allowed to use. Welcome to the mind warping world of ‘Doublespeak’.
Doublespeak? You bet, and it’s a real piece of work. What do you get when you combine two Orwellian concepts – Doublethink and Newspeak? You get that bane of effective communication, Doublespeak. That’s right, Doublespeak. If you’re fuzzy on this concept, don’t worry about it, we’re up to the challenge. Wikipedia defines it this way:
“Doublespeak is language that deliberately disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words. Doublespeak may take the form of euphemisms (e.g., “downsizing” for layoffs), making the truth less unpleasant, without denying its nature. It may also be deployed as intentional ambiguity, or reversal of meaning (for example, naming a state of war “peace”). In such cases, doublespeak disguises the nature of the truth, producing a communication bypass…”
(Wikipeadia “Doublespeak”)
Believe it or not, despite its Orwellian pedigree, ‘Doublespeak’ is not the brainchild of George Orwell, but rather, came from the devious minds of Leftists as a way of controlling how people think and speak…
From the patriotic minds at PIG…
@Chuck in st paul. I do concur with your evaluation. Many of the liberals I know, voted for antiChrist Obama for the reasons you stated. They treated the election as if it were a high school popularity contest. And the notion of proving you were not a racist by voting for a guy based on his race. I know, it makes no sense what so ever.
Also you might want to read the blog: Sultan Knish, article the Branding of Obama. I do have to give credit to the Dems, what they did was damn smart and again made the GOP once more the Party of Stupid. The treated the election campaign as if they were selling a product. They sold an image/fantasy that allowed for you to feel good about yourself. Thus they embraced the selfworship (I am a very cool person, cause I am voting for the first black president) and deliberately ignored every thing else.
Chuck et al…it’s the Bell Curve in action
and why we were supposedly a representative republic
instead of a moonbat-democracy.The majority of voters are of questionable intelligence.
As thinking Americans knew all along – from day one – Obama is a greasy brainless little lying punk who reads out loud well.
The fact that there are still those out there who ‘adore’ the rat bastard is very telling of their low IQ and suicidal tendencies.
So if Obama is as bad as you say (and he’s been bad, no doubt) we’ve had back to back disastrous PsOTUS form 2 different parties.
What does that tell you? That one party id better than the other.
I don’t follow that logic…
Since he wants to compare himself to Clinton, it’s interesting contrast to see what Bubba said on welfare, work, deficit, eduction and abortion, in his acceptance speech August 29, 1996, compared to Obummer’s boring rant:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/convention96/floor_speeches/clinton_8-29.html
http://www.npr.org/2012/09/06/160713941/transcript-president-obamas-convention-speech
Bubba- “We must give parents, all parents, the right to choose which public school their children will attend and to let teachers form new charter schools with a charter they can keep only if they do a good job. …We should reward teachers that are doing a good job, remove those who don’t measure up. … We should reward teachers that are doing a good job, remove those who don’t measure up.”
OBummer – “I don’t believe that firing teachers or kicking students off financial aid will grow the economy — (cheers, applause) — or help us compete with the scientists and engineers coming out of China. After all we’ve been through, I don’t believe that rolling back regulations on Wall Street will help the small-businesswoman expand, or the laid-off construction worker keep his home.”
Bubba – “On welfare, we worked with states to launch a quiet revolution. Today, there are 1.8 million fewer people on welfare than there were the day I took the oath of office. We are moving people from welfare to work. We have increased child support collections by 40 percent. The federal workforce is the smallest it’s been since John Kennedy. And the deficit has come down for four years in a row for the first time since before the Civil War — down 60 percent, on the way to zero. We will do it.”
I want our nation to take responsibility to make sure that every single child can look out the window in the morning and see a whole community getting up and going to work. We want these young people to know the thrill of the first paycheck, the challenge of starting that first business, the pride in following in a parent’s footsteps. … The welfare reform law I signed last week gives America a chance, but not a guarantee, to have that kind of new beginning. To have a new social bargain with the poor, guaranteeing health care, child care and nutrition for the children, but requiring able-bodied parents to work for the income.”
Bubba – “Let me say again. Every tax cut I call for tonight is targeted, it’s responsible and it is paid for within my balanced budget plan. My tax cuts will not undermine our economy. They will speed economic growth. We should cut taxes for the family sending a child to college, for the worker returning to college, for the family saving to buy a home or for long term health care and a $500 per child credit for middle income families raising their children who need help with child care and what the children will do after school. That is the right way to cut taxes: Pro-family, pro-education, pro-economic growth.”
Obummer – “Now, I’ve cut taxes for those who need it — (cheers, applause) — middle-class families, small businesses. But I don’t believe that another round of tax breaks for millionaires will bring good jobs to our shores, or pay down our deficit. You can choose a future where we reduce our deficit without sticking it to the middle class. (Cheers, applause.) Independent experts say that my plan would cut our deficit by $4 trillion.”
Bubba – “Four years now — from now — just four years from now — think of it. We begin a new century full of enormous possibilities. We have to give the American people the tools they need to make the most of their God-given potential. We must make the basic bargain of opportunity and responsibility available to all Americans, not just a few.”
Obummer – “And the truth is, it will take more than a few years for us to solve challenges that have built up over decades. It’ll require common effort, shared responsibility, and the kind of bold, persistent experimentation that Franklin Roosevelt pursued during the only crisis worse than this one.”
Obummer -”But unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country’s energy plan or endanger our coastlines or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers. (Cheers, applause.) We’re offering a better path.”
Obummer – “As citizens, we understand that America is not about what can be done for us. It’s about what can be done by us, together — (cheers, applause) — through the hard and frustrating but necessary work of self-government. That’s what we believe.So you see, the election four years ago wasn’t about me. It was about you.”
Bubba – “But abortion should not only be — abortion should not only be safe and legal, it should be rare. That’s why I helped to establish and support a national effort to reduce out-of-wedlock teen pregnancy, and that is why we must promote adoption.”
Obummer -”… Washington politicians who want to decide who you can marry or control health care choices that women should be making for themselves. (Cheers, applause.)
anono-bot says:
So if Obama is as bad as you say (and he’s been bad, no doubt) we’ve had back to back disastrous PsOTUS form 2 different parties.
So what do you suggest we do, anono?
“So what do you suggest we do, anono?”
Criticize your side just as aggressively adn don’t vote for them until they get the message. The only way to motivate each side is show them you will not accept the “it’s OK that my guy’s an ass hole because your guy’s an ass hole” reasoning that both side use.
I’m not voting for Obama because he lied about what he would do generally, he’s continued to further a unitary exec after criticizing Bush over and over for it, and he played kissy face with the banks after they caused the biggest financial crisis since the Great Derpression.
The point of this site, though, is to get people to vote Republican. And at this point, that’s at least as ridiculous as voting for Obama considering he will further the same policies of Bush and Obama of coddling the financial services industry and vesting power in one branch.
If Romney said he would drop Dodd/Frank, reinstall Glass Steagal and put in modest capital requirements, he’d get my vote tomorrow. Neither party is willing to do this becasue they’ve been bribed not to – and we split hairs over who’s worse.
It’s pathetic
The point of this site isn’t so much to “get people to vote republican” as it is to expose the information the media isn’t telling everyone.
The we get little narrow-minded effete-elites like anothercommie, lao, and dangleeater who want to split hairs or try to corner folks here on minor technicalities while ignoring the elephant in the living room.
Let folks vote as they want, but do so, knowing there are two sides to the coin. Seriously, I’m not republican, and the reasons Romney will likely get my vote is because he has more experience than the current narcissist, and even more so, because he tapped Ryan.
This country needs some ‘R and R’ after its tango with hope, change and fundamental transformation.
OK Grunt – than I can assume you wee equally outraged by W’s 8 years, especially considering how it ended economically?
If there can be one thing I will miss after we boot this punk out on his righteous ass: all of the comic fodder flooding out of the white house.
Difference being, AnalBot, “Dubya” did a better job than Obama could in his wettest and wildest of dreams…
…all without lauding himself as the Messianic equivalent, all without degrading the economy, and keeping REAL unemployment below the 8% mark.
All this debt that your little brown Gawd “inherited” was more as a result of the 111th congress, headed by the Pelosi/Reid disaster-duo–oh, and Bammy also inherited a triple A credit rating, as well as an America that had a higher ranking among other countries.
Bush also had something Obummer doesn’t have: Balls.
Hm…I wonder what kinda turkey-baster they use…? OXO Good Grips? I recon that’s the only way Sasha and Malia could have been created–if Needled*ck the BugF*cker In Chief actually is the DNA donor.
More to the point, Analbutt, Fannie and Freddie coulda been derailed and prevented the housing bubble (and the subsequent crash), had the initiatives offered by Bush and McCain been implemented.
Your President Potemkin actually had a hand in the lawsuits that forced banks to lend to unstable borrowers, because many of them were single-parent households with low incomes (and coincidentally, blacks, hence Barry’s interest…if they were mostly white, he wouldn’t have cared a whit) and poor credit ratings.
After all, don’t you know, the government seems to have this notion that blacks are somehow less able to do for themselves–hence affirmative action and other laws and organizations structured exclusively to cater to blacks–and through these unfortunates that actually do get help, very few manage to keep those mortgages up.
To me, it’s a welfare state that divides, and the owners of the plantations are using more binding methods than chains to keep those minorities in line.
That’s how they like it. After all, you don’t see too many poor and uneducated blacks who are more conservative–because UNlike the Left, the folks on the right want to see advancement based on MERIT and CHARACTER, not skin colour.
Try using that parking lot between your ears for something besides your cornflake collection.
If I had an asshole for a president, it would look like him!