In the words of syndicated columnist, Dr. Charles Krauthammer, in his describing of Barry "Almighty's" speech on Wednesday, "I rarely heard a speech by a president so shallow, so hyper-partisan and so intellectually dishonest, outside the last couple of weeks of a presidential election where you are allowed to call your opponent anything short of a traitor. But we're a year and a half away from Election Day and it was supposed to be a speech about policy." And you know, I couldn't have said it better myself. I probably could not have said it as well. But it is a very valid criticism.
So in the name of promoting the "new" civility and in supporting the call for a more toned down political discourse, we witnessed on Wednesday our president once more acting like nothing more than some common punk than as a president as he proceeded to come out swinging in his snoozer, at least for "Slow Joe", of speech on Wednesday. I feel like Rip Van Winkle in that after hearing this "campaign" speech, I find myself wondering if someone somehow managed to move the 2012 election up to June 1? This speech was extraordinary and well over the top, and a rather pathetic response to Paul Ryan's budget. It was nothing more than an example of pure demonization characterized by blistering partisanship and of course the usual and never-ending distortions. It was the kind of speech that presidents usually outsource to some hapless underling so as to provide to the president a certain amount of plausible deniability. But such was not the case this time around, instead Barry chose to essentially call Rep. Ryan "outside." Barry's fundamentally flawed political tirade would have been unusual even for a Vice President to give during the fervor of a heated campaign. The bullying tactics that have worked for him in the past are once again what he has chosen to fall back on. Such behavior could be a risky proposition, since a growing number of people are finally beginning to now wake up and recognize the seriousness of our growing debt problem.
Supposedly, the immediate goal of this outrageous political rant that we were exposed to, was, I guess, an attempt to inoculate the White House from criticism that it is simply not taking seriously enough our current fiscal crisis, especially after blatantly ignoring its own deficit commission last year and then tossing off a $3.73 trillion budget in February that increased spending amid a record deficit of $1.65 trillion. Barry was quite literally chased to George Washington University on Wednesday because Mr. Ryan and the Republicans outflanked him on fiscal discipline and are now setting the national political agenda. And so, acting in typical reactionary as well as retaliatory fashion, Barry did not bother to actually propose an alternative that would rival Mr. Ryan's plan, instead he spent nearly his entire speech doing noting more than to categorically reject all of its reform ideas, repeatedly vilifying them as being, essentially, nothing short of un-American. "Their vision is less about reducing the deficit than it is about changing the basic social compact in America," he said, supposedly pitting "children with autism or Down's syndrome" against "every millionaire and billionaire in our society." Again as usual, Barry was not attempting to join the debate Mr. Ryan has started, but rather to close it off just as it begins and banish House GOP ideas as being detrimental to America. It's all the typical class warfare nonsense that hopefully is losing some of its effectiveness with the American people.
Barry dispersed his unique brand of bile in the rhetoric of bipartisanship—which "starts," he said, "by being honest about what's causing our deficit." Ah, that would be…HIM. The speech he chose to deliver was nothing short of one that was crafted to be patently dishonest even by Democrat political standards. Barry presented what some might call the false choice between merely preserving the government and having with no realistic plan for doing so, aside from making a cockamamie proposal consisting of $4 trillion in imaginary deficit reductions over some gimmicky 12-year budget window that makes the reductions seem larger than they would be over the normal 10-year window. Barry said that the typical political proposal to rationalize Medicare's gargantuan liabilities is that it is "just a matter of eliminating waste and abuse." Barry’s own plan is to double down on the program's price controls and central planning. All Medicare decisions will be turned over to and routed through an unelected commission created by ObamaCare—which will supposedly ferret out "unnecessary spending." Is that the same as "waste and abuse"? Ya know, it just strikes me as being nothing more than typical Democrat mumbo-jumbo, all smoke and mirrors and means absolutely nothing. Every time this guy opens his mouth nothing come out but lies piled upon even more lies. He's really quite pathetic. He is continually resorting to his thug mentality and is really isn't a very pretty, or convincing, picture. He's all show and no go! No big surprise there.
This whole exercise was nothing but an attempt by Barry to rally his loony left base with a promise for major tax increases on those evil "rich" folks. You know, the producers in our economy. Apparently Barry is of the opinion that every U.S. fiscal trouble has as its source the Bush tax cuts "for the wealthiest 2%" but he very conveniently passed right over what he euphemistically called his own "series of emergency steps that saved millions of jobs." And how exactly is he able to quantify those supposed millions of "saved jobs." Anyway, I can only guess that he means the $814 billion stimulus/slush fund that was nothing short of an abysmal flop and a new multitrillion-dollar entitlement in ObamaCare that will in all likelihood kill off job creation. Under the Barry tax plan, the Bush rates would be repealed for the top brackets. But I'm curious, wasn't the "cost" of extending all the Bush rates in 2011 over 10 years about $3.7 trillion? Some $3 trillion of that was for everything but the top brackets—and Barry says he wants to extend those rates forever. Also, according to Internal Revenue Service data, the entire taxable income of everyone earning over $100,000 in 2008 was about $1.582 trillion. Even if all these Americans—most of whom are far from wealthy—were taxed at 100%, it still wouldn't cover Barry's deficit of $1.65 trillion for just this year. How about asking those who continually get away scot-free every April 15 to pony up a bit. No one is “entitled” a free ride. Everyone can put a little into the communal pot.
Barry sought more tax-hike cover by falling back to his deficit commission, seeming to embrace its proposal to limit tax deductions and other loopholes. But the commission wanted to do so in order to lower rates for a more efficient and competitive code with a broader base. What Barry wants to do is to pocket the tax increase and devote the revenues to deficit reduction and therefore more spending. So that's three significant tax increases that he's in favor of—higher top brackets, the tax hikes in ObamaCare and fewer tax deductions. Lastly, Barry came out for what he calls a debt "failsafe," which will require the White House and Congress to hash out a deal if by 2014 projected debt is not declining as a share of the economy. But under his plan any deal must exclude Social Security, Medicare or low-income programs. So that means more tax increases or else "making government smarter, leaner and more effective." Which, now that he mentioned it, sounds a lot like cutting "waste and abuse." Barry ludicrously claimed that Mr. Ryan favors "a fundamentally different America than the one we've known throughout most of our history." Once again Barry is talking out of his anal orifice because nothing is more likely to bring that future about than the Barry's political indifference in the midst of a worsening fiscal crisis. Calling you opponents names or simply ridiculing their proposals in the absence of proposing anything yourself is not how goes about instilling any level of confidence in the people that you know what your doing. I also causes them to possibly question your motives for ignoring possible solutions however politically distasteful they may be to you.
So in the end, what is it that we can hope to see take place? Will Barry come to his senses and commence to do what is right for the country? Or will he continue to be ruled by his determination to advance his socialist agenda at the expense of all else, even the future of our children? All questions that are still lacking any sort of a substantive answer. He is driven by his belief in an all powerful central government and will do whatever it takes and use whatever tactic he thinks will lead to his eventual success. The question that remains is whose side will the American people ultimately come down on? I guess we wait and see.
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