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Showing posts with label conservatives. Republicans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label conservatives. Republicans. Show all posts

Thursday, June 30, 2011

WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS, OBAMA MAKES IT ABOUT KIDS VERSUS CORPORATE JETS...


If Barry's news conference the other day accomplished anything, it underscored, once again and in very striking tones, what he sees as now being his strategy for winning the debt ceiling fight with Republicans. The reverting to that old Liberal Democrat tried and true tactic of making it a clash of the classes. It’s about to become all about victimization, about, Rich versus Poor, about Us versus Them and about those who support children, food safety, medical research and, presumably, puppies and apple pie versus those rich, and let's not forget evil, fat cats who don't. It's all just so twisted. Look, are we really going to fall for this same worn out rhetoric that has been around since, I can't remember when? Are we that easy to manipulate by this sleazy, corrupt politician and his even more corrupt party? Are we? Really? So I guess in the alternate universe where Barry currently resides, it's only the Democrats who are for kids while its those evil old Republicans, who are out only for corporate jets, and would just as soon throw all them kids under the bus. That is a sharp distinction that Barry hopes could help put the GOP on defensive, but it still may not be enough to persuade Republicans to change their posture on the debt-ceiling talks. Excuse me, but it’s the Republicans who are trying their best to preserve some semblance of a future for those very same kids, trying to prevent them from being essentially forced into servitude to an incredibly massive federal bureaucracy. The GOP has no reason to go on the defensive, all they need to do is to properly communicate the fallacy, as well as the blatant falsehood, of Barry's endlessly idiotic rhetoric. They need to find an articulate member of their group and to then present the facts as they truly exist, and their solutions for our present problem, circumventing the state-controlled media to the greatest extent possible, and going directly to the American people. They simply cannot afford to have their plan filtered through the very obvious liberal bias that permeates today's "mainstream" media. They should never turn down opportunities to make their case via those organizations that form the state-controlled media, but that should not be their primary avenue of choice in getting their ideas out to the American people.



Republicans have cast Barry "Almighty" as being nothing more than your traditional Liberal tax-raiser and a Big-Government spender and rightly so. I means let's be honest here, there has been more than enough proof made available over the course of his presidency, and before, to make that accusation stick. A presidency that, by the way, has already proven to be the most disastrous for this country since that of Jimmy "The Terrorist Lover" Carter. This latest lame attempt of his is, I guess, what he now sees as being the one weapon that may work to turn the Republicans' arguments against them. With more than his usual air of condescension and disdain, Barry even went so far as to dredge up the death of Osama bin Laden in his attempt to score some political points. Give me a break. "I've been doing Afghanistan, bin Laden and the Greek crisis," Barry said, jabbing Congress for being out of session so much. "You stay here. Let's get it done." Let's face it, Barry ain't been doing shit unless you count his very frequent little golf outings, the many fundraisers he has attended and any number of faux official trips which were essentially nothing more than extravagant family vacations. For him to stand up there and to say that he has been engaged throughout this entire process and has actually been leading on the issue is a joke and more than just a little disingenuous. In fact one might go so far as to call it a…lie. But as we have seen so many times throughout our history, the telling of lies doesn't hold the same stigma for Democrats as it does for the rest of us. It's nothing more than a means to an end. To them if the reaching of there desired goals requires a few lies to be told, so bet it. No harm, no foul. I'm sure we all remember quite well the steady stream of lies that we were told regarding Barry's supposed healthcare "reform." In fact we're still being told lies about it, only now the lies are coming from those individuals wearing the black robes of the judiciary. Judges, usually those appointed by liberals, can no longer be counted on to simply interpret the Constitution, now they read things into it that quite simply just aren't there.


In his news conference of a couple days ago, his first since March I might add, Barry insisted that the Democrats had made significant compromises in private talks by agreeing to billions of dollars in budget cuts that would hurt their voters. Not that would hurt Americans, only Democrat voters. You know the ones, the one who continue to pump out kids that they can't support, those who are here illegally and essentially anyone else that they’ve managed to get firmly attached to the government teat that they rest of us foot the bill for. Look, it is a solid gold political fact that Democrats do not compromise, never, they just don't, they only lie about doing so. They present the façade of compromise in order to concoct an image that then allows them to paint the opposition as not being unwilling to compromise. So let's not try to fool anyone here. And once again this is all nothing but a very transparent attempt by Barry to portray the Republicans as being nothing more than obstructionist. But, he whined, it's those stubborn Republicans who are refusing to bend by not agreeing to eliminate tax breaks to owners of those big fancy corporate jets and those evil, profit-rich oil companies. If Republicans get their way, Barry complained, the end result would be unbalanced deal that lifts the debt limit but forces the government to make deeper-than-necessary cuts. Don't you hate when your president is such a sniveling whiner? Then he did it, he went straight for the kids, saying that "If we do not have revenues, that means there are a bunch of kids out there who do not have college scholarships." "[It] might compromise the National Weather Services. It means we might not be funding critical medical research. It means food inspection might be compromised. I've said to Republican leaders, 'You go talk to your constituents and ask them, "Are you willing to compromise your kids' safety so some corporate-jet owner can get a tax break?" ' Sadly, there are probably enough Americans stupid enough to believe all of this tripe. Of course we know that roughly 99 percent of the black population in this country, completely unable to think for themselves, will lap it up, because, well because, that's what they do.


But just in case any viewers happened to miss his class-warfare message, Barry made sure to refer to those evil rich, corporate-jet owners, at least three more times before he finally taking his second question. Remember the game here folks, repeat the lie often enough, while getting plenty help from the state-controlled media complex, and soon enough the lie becomes something that is actually thought of as being true. But this was not the first time where Barry has spoken in what are the grimmest of terms about the consequences of cutting too deeply in order to strike a bargain that will win enough votes to raise the debt ceiling. But his rhetoric was sharper, and a bit more harsh, than it has been in the past, which may be an indicator of a certain level of desperation on his part. And it may well pose a bit of a risk this time around as it has the potential to anger Republican leaders just as he's supposedly trying convince all those watching that he's actually reaching out to them in compromise. Barry apparently has decided to throw caution to the wind and gamble that he will be able to muster up enough public pressure via his baseless accusations and will therefore end up in a better position to be able to force Republicans to bow to his demand. And as we all know, Barry is an expert when it comes to bowing. But Republicans are facing some pretty stiff pressure of their own; the influential Tea Party movement won't accept any tax increases and wants to see responsible budget cuts as being the option of choice when it comes to the debt limit. Barry's rhetoric may prove to do nothing more than to back them into a corner. Normally, the constitutionally challenged Barry seeks some kind of a middle of the road tone in his rhetoric, keeping his options open and burnishing his image as somebody always willing to find a bipartisan solution. An example of that was how he managed to tap dance around the issue of a New York law allowing for gay marriages during the same news conference. With liberal activists demanding that he support the measure and make gay marriage a cause of his presidency, Barry demurred. It's a states-rights issue, he said. "Each community is going to be different," Barry said. "Each state is going to be different." And said like he really believed it. NOT!


The bottom line here is that Barry and GOP leaders in Washington must soon come to grips with the fact that the nation's sluggish economy will almost certainly take a hit if Congress doesn't choose to increase the amount of money that the U.S. can borrow. Having said that, there has to be some rational spending cut made, because we simply cannot continue with our present level of insane spending. We simply cannot do it. Raising the debt limit was once a routine affair, but that now seems so long ago when the sums of money being discussed were nowhere near what we're taking about today. Republicans are demanding steep budget cuts and no tax increases as the price for votes in favor of raising the limit. All Barry and the Democrats want to do is to raise taxes, hence the stalemate. Barry hopes to save face, and as many Democrats favored government programs as he can. "The question now is, are we going to step up and get this done?" Barry said. He knows the answer is yes, and the only question is how. I guess by doing nothing more that acting like some political thug and calling the other side juvenile, school yard names, he thinks he can get the Republicans to acquiesce. Accusing them of just about everything possible so that they will eventually capitulate on their demands and come around to Barry's and the Democrats' way of thinking. I guess that's how Barry intends on getting this done. "Call me naive," Barry said, "but my expectation is leaders are going to lead." Barry is naive only if he thinks a single news conference is going to change the political paradigm. He's not naïve, what he is, is devious and insidious. And he should be very careful in that before he critiques the ability of others to lead, he should try doing a little of that himself. Because a leader he is not, nowhere close. He's just a fella who likes to vote present on the really tough issues while leaving the actual leadership, the heavy lifting so to speak, on important issues to someone else. It's just easier that way. And besides, it leaves him an out, where he has someone to blame if things go south. Not really a positive leadership trait.

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

SO THIS IS HOW REPUBLICANS PLAN TO TAKE BACK THE SENATE IN 2012?


Somehow this is not how I would have thought that the Republicans would go about the generating of the level support that will be necessary if they are to have any hope be being able to assume control of the Senate in 2012. I'm just not feelin it. But hey, go figure, I have been proven wrong before, maybe this is a good strategy. But I just don't think so. What causes me a little concern here is the fact they we now have this rube, Senator Saxby Chambliss, who I guess fancies himself as being another "Maverick," saying that the U.S. House’s 2012 budget proposal submitted by fellow Republican Paul Ryan is “not going to work” because it relies too heavily on spending cuts and doesn’t raise tax revenue to help cut the deficit. What? I'm a little surprised that this would be the tactic of choice by those who, if you believe the political gurus, are supposed to be in a great position of taking back control of the Senate come the next election. Chambliss, though you wouldn't know it from these recent comments, is a Republican from Georgia. He is the co-leader of yet another bipartisan "gang," this time of six senators, who are supposedly busy crafting their own version of a debt-reduction plan that may redirect the budget debate as Congress faces fights over raising the federal debt limit and the fiscal 2012 budget. This stellar little group includes such notables as Senate Majority Whip "Little Dick" Durbin (D-Ill.) and fellow senators, Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), Mark Warner (D-Va.), Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho). Chambliss and Tom Coburn, are, or so I'm told, personal friends of House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), and Sen. Mike Crapo, is a close adviser to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). Kent Conrad, is the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee; and "Little Dick) Durbin, as we all know, is the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate and a close Barry ally. Warner is remembered as being the former governor who "famously" balanced the Virginia budget.



“Everything is on the table,” or so it is claimed by the esteemed Senator Chambliss. Adding that, “For a Republican to put revenues on the table is significant. For a Democrat to put entitlements on the table is significant. But Mark and I believe and know in our hearts that the only way we’re going to solve this problem is to have a dialogue about these issues.” Have you ever heard anything that sounded more ridiculous? Everything, despite what Saxby says, should not be on the table, certain things must be seen as being non-negotiable. And the raising of taxes is very much one of those things. I am curious though about how it came to be that old Saxby is now free to assume that he is able to speak for all Republicans? Sounds like he's doing little more than looking for a little time of his own out there in the limelight. As stated earlier, this group, which has laughably taken to calling itself the "Gang of Six," does include some of the Senate’s more influential members, men with close ties to Barry "Almighty" as well as GOP congressional leaders. Which is a little disconcerting when I hear comments like, “Are some people going to pay more in taxes? You bet,” as Chambliss said during a news conference in Atlanta yesterday after giving a speech to the Rotary Club. I'm not sure when this moron is up for re-election, but I think the GOP would be doing itself a huge favor if it were to start looking, and as soon as possible, for a solid conservative opponent to face off against old Saxby in a primary election next time around. At the same time, this clown called a proposal by Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, to privatize Medicare “very intriguing.” Very intriguing? In his speech to the Rotary group, Chambliss said the plan “could be the answer” to overhauling the federal health-care program for the elderly. Yup, could be! What a freakin simpleton!


What Ryan’s plan would do is to phase out Medicare and instead provide retirees with subsidies that would enable them to buy private health insurance. The budget proposal released April 5 by Ryan, a Republican from Wisconsin, would cut the federal deficit in coming years by about three-quarters. It would also reduce spending by roughly $6 trillion over the next decade and lower top individual and corporate tax rates from 35 percent to 25 percent. Our buddy Chambliss was of the opinion that some of tax exemptions would need to be eliminated in order to lower tax rates and increase revenue. I could be wrong, but somehow I just don’t think that Chambliss is smarter than Ryan, especially when it comes to complex budgetary issues. Chambliss, Warner and their group’s other four senators aim to address financing of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. Chambliss said their little gang is “getting close to an agreement” on its proposal, though he didn’t offer any specific details of their proposal. Of course not, because they don't have any, only more smoke and mirrors. Warner, who joined Chambliss at the Rotary Club, said, “If we can start this with a bipartisan plan, it increases the chance of success.” Look, any plan that comes out of this pathetic little group is not going to be taking the steps that need to be taken. There is no plan that has Democrat fingerprints on it that will as its purpose the getting done of what needs to get done. Republicans, all Republicans need to unite behind the Ryan plan, tweak it where it might be needed and force the scumbag Democrats to come up with a competing plan. If they can. Chambliss said Barry's plan, announced by an aide on April 10, to give a speech tomorrow to propose changes in Medicare and Medicaid was a “curve ball” for his group. DUH! “None of us knew until yesterday that the president was going to make any comment on the long-term deficit issue,” Chambliss said. I'd be willing to bet that the three Democrat members of the "gang" knew.


Jim Kessler, a vice president of the Democratic policy group Third Way in Washington, said Chambliss’s comments on taxes -- similar to the view among many Democrats that some tax increases will be needed to cut the deficit -- are important. “We’ve moved from slim to possible on a major deficit- reduction deal this Congress,” Kessler said. Again I ask, just who the Hell is Chambliss to be making such idiotic comments and saying that the raising of taxes as now being put on the table? Just who is he speaking for other than himself? Didn't we just agree, not all that long ago, to have the Bush cuts extended through 2012? What happened to all of the talk about making them permanent? Are the memories of these people that short? What's really scary is that we now have a Republican sounding very much like many Democrats. What's wrong with this picture? The possibility of ax increases should be nowhere near the ongoing discussions. The last thing that needs to be done is to further rob from the American people more than what is already being stolen from them by a very bloated government bureaucracy. There should be no one on the Republican side who is advocating an increase in taxes, for anyone! Except for maybe the Democrat created permanent parasite class who currently pay absolutely no federal income taxes but still get to take full advantage of all of the privileges and benefits provided to them because they are fortunate enough to live in this country.


The budget proposal Barry offered in February aims to reduce deficits by $1 trillion over coming years, though it didn’t offer proposals on Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security. Naturally Democrats say Ryan’s plan would balance the budget on the backs of the nation’s seniors and poor while granting tax breaks to the wealthy. Typical drivel we always hear from those on the Left. Warner has said his group is using a report last year by leaders of the Barry’s "bipartisan" deficit reduction commission as a basis for its discussions. The group’s co-chairmen were former president "BJ" Clinton's chief of staff Erskine Bowles and Republican former Wyoming Senator Alan " The RINO" Simpson. Once Barry provides his ideas in his coming speech, the debate among Republicans, Democrats and outside interest groups on restructuring the government’s finances will begin in earnest, said Simpson. “The savagery hasn’t even started,” he said in a phone interview yesterday. “When they see it getting closer and closer,” interest groups “will come out of the woodwork and shear the sheep,” Simpson said. Kessler said Barry’s speech offers “a great opportunity for him” to try to win back some of the momentum Republicans gained in negotiating a short-term budget deal that led to an April 8 agreement to cut about $38 billion in government spending. At the same time, Kessler said, “there’s a lot of his progressive base that’s not going to be happy."


So, the Republicans gained some momentum in the negotiating of the recent budget deal. Oh really? To expect any claims to be made by Barry about his finally being serious about getting spending under control is wishful thinking. This thug is addicted to the spending of ever larger amounts of money robbed from the American people. He will say anything in his attempt to convey to people that yes, he finally does get it. We need to control our level of spending and make the necessary cuts, no matter how drastic, in the attempt to get our fiscal house in order. But this is not what he believes. He is the consummate liar, for whom the end always justifies the means. He is not to be trusted in anything that he says. He is out to bankrupt us, plain and simple. And Republicans, if they are to have any hope of acquiring control of the Senate cannot afford to be seen as being accomplices in Barry's efforts to destroy this country. Because if the differences between the two parties are not made to be very stark, then why vote the Republicans instead of the Democrats?