August 16, 2011
— Ace The economy? "Bad luck."
"We had reversed the recession, avoided a depression, gotten the economy moving again," Obama told a crowd in Decorah, Iowa. "But over the last six months we've had a run of bad luck." Obama listed three events overseas -- the Arab Spring uprisings, the tsunami in Japan, and the European debt crises -- which set the economy back."All those things have been headwinds for our economy," Obama said. "Now, those are things that we can't completely control. The question is, how do we manage these challenging times and do the right things when it comes to those things that we can control?"
"The problem," Obama continued, "is that we've got the kind of partisan brinksmanship that is willing to put party ahead of country, that is more interested in seeing their political opponents lose than seeing the country win. Nowhere was that more evident than in this recent debt ceiling debacle."
Several things. Obama spent like a drunken sailor and got a very weak "recovery" for it. Typical recoveries feature early growth rates of 5%, 6%, even 10% sometimes. The best he got I think was 4.5%, which was immediately followed by lame rates of 3.5% and 3.2%. (Lame for a recovery, I mean, when you're growing from a diminished base, and so you generally expect bigger growth rates when you pull out from them, as you recover what was just recently lost. Those 3.5% type rates are okay for an economy it its normal expansion/decent economy phase -- but not for the actual recovery part of it.)
Why was his "recovery" so stunted and weak? Partly maybe because "this time it's different," as many people seem to think, but largely because he spent his trillion dollars on the wrong things, stuff that offered a very feeble short-term boost but did not actually spur an economy capable of growing on its own without that boost.
Part of it is ObamaCare and the EPA and all the rest of the regulatory regime he's established -- even when he's not imposing higher taxes on business, he's imposing stealth taxes (which the government doesn't even get the benefit of) in the form of simply making business less profitable. He seems to almost take a perverse pride in the fact that he's made it difficult for businessmen to make any money (social justice!), without realizing that it's these same businessmen he currently needs to hire more people.
How do you hire more people when you're actually losing money?
In addition to the jackass regulations and mandates he's already imposed, everyone knows his next move is more of that, so investors look out and see a very unpredictable business environment. (Well, it can be predicted the environment will be bad, but they can't figure out in what concrete way it will be bad.)
They can't define the risk, so they avoid it.
This is what the smartest man in the world calls "bad luck" -- the natural consequences of his own Leftwing Social Justice Avenger punitive economic policies.
Good luck is the product of good design. Bad luck is the product of bad design.
Another point here is that Obama again blames the Republicans' "brinksmanship" for the slowdown and downgrade. Despite the fact that slowdown started months before the debt ceiling debate, and despite the fact that the debt ceiling debate was already over, and had been for almost a week, when S&P dropped us to AA+.
Obama threatened to veto perfectly sound policies like Cut Cap and Trade, and the Majority Leader of the Senate was fond of labeling such workable initiatives "dead on arrival."
And yet only one party dabbled in "brinksmanship"?
Obama was also confronted by a Tea Partier who wanted to know why his Vice President had branded Tea Partiers "terrorists." Obama's defense? You did it first.
After calling another person, Obama circled back to address Rhodes' question: "First of all, in fairness to this gentleman who raised a question, I absolutely agree that everybody needs to try to tone down the rhetoric."Obama added: "Now, in fairness, since I've been called a socialist who wasn't born in this country, who is destroying America and taking away its freedoms because I passed a health care bill, I'm all for lowering the rhetoric."
After the event, Obama came up to speak with Rhodes and another Tea Party.
It's hard to quote their conversation exactly, because of the music, but Rhodes again raised "the terrorist" comment and Obama defended his vice president, Joe Biden.
It's all about him.
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Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 16, 2011 07:27 AM (UOM48)
So he has to run on the same thing he ran last time. Bush did it and I am great.
Posted by: Vic at August 16, 2011 07:27 AM (M9Ie6)
Posted by: dogfish at August 16, 2011 07:27 AM (N2yhW)
Posted by: Sub-Tard at August 16, 2011 07:28 AM (0M3AQ)
Posted by: real joe at August 16, 2011 07:28 AM (j+oeN)
What made me sick were the shouts of "Stay strong, Mr. President! You're doing a great job!"
I wanted to throw something at the television. Idiots.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 16, 2011 07:28 AM (UOM48)
Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.
Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.
Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.
Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.
Because, you see, it can't be said enough.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at August 16, 2011 07:29 AM (8y9MW)
Insty had this quote from Robert Heinlein regarding "bad luck":
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as “bad luck.”
Posted by: robtr at August 16, 2011 07:30 AM (MtwBb)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at August 16, 2011 07:30 AM (eOXTH)
*seething rage*
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 16, 2011 07:30 AM (UOM48)
Posted by: Blue Hen at August 16, 2011 07:31 AM (326rv)
Posted by: Insomniac at August 16, 2011 07:31 AM (v+QvA)
Sooo... spending money like a drunken pirate then?
But that makes Barky sound cool.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at August 16, 2011 07:32 AM (8y9MW)
In the Jive Dictionary the name Barack translates as "Be-yotch". As in "B. Obama is a stuttering cluserf*ck of a miserable failure".
Posted by: MrObvious at August 16, 2011 07:32 AM (2uovW)
Posted by: Olliander at August 16, 2011 07:32 AM (6uiF7)
Posted by: Barry Obama at August 16, 2011 07:33 AM (kD+se)
President Thin-Skinned
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 16, 2011 07:33 AM (UOM48)
1) It's a poor workman who blames his tools, or luck.
2) He did it first! Really? This is what I expect from 5 year olds.
Posted by: pep at August 16, 2011 07:33 AM (GMG6W)
Ace, I just sent you an e-mail with a linky to the LA Times. Seems three of the Fast & Furious supervisors have been.....promoted.
Of course they were. The plan worked as intended. No, that's not snark, that's my actual take on this. The plan was to arm the cartels and the cartels were armed. Promotion time!
*seething rage*
Right there with you. I plan on ingesting copious amount of chocolate to attempt to keep from going on a spree.
Stuttering clusterfuck etc.
Posted by: alexthechick at August 16, 2011 07:34 AM (VtjlW)
Sooo... spending money like a drunken pirate then?
But that makes Barky sound cool.
Posted by: AllenG
He spends like the lord of the manor, who spends money he seizes from the peasantry. And in both cases, it's feudal.
Posted by: Blue Hen at August 16, 2011 07:34 AM (326rv)
Posted by: Vic at August 16, 2011 07:34 AM (M9Ie6)
Posted by: Mr Pink at August 16, 2011 07:35 AM (bJPKz)
Posted by: Insomniac at August 16, 2011 07:35 AM (v+QvA)
Blame other countries: Check
Blame Republicans: Check
Blame the Tea Party: Check
Blame Americans who oppose his destructive Keynesian economics: Check
Blame Bush: Check
Posted by: SFC MAC at August 16, 2011 07:35 AM (/qSCt)
Posted by: nevergiveup at August 16, 2011 07:36 AM (i6RpT)
Posted by: nevergiveup at August 16, 2011 07:37 AM (i6RpT)
Posted by: Vic at August 16, 2011 11:34 AM (M9Ie6)
WHY do you watch that?
Posted by: Tami at August 16, 2011 07:37 AM (X6akg)
Posted by: joeindc44 at August 16, 2011 07:37 AM (QxSug)
I am coming more and more to think that with the government essentially paralyzed for the foreseeable future, the only way we’re going to get jobs is by turning to actual job creators: business itself. With all their cash, companies shouldn’t be waiting for Congress to give them tax incentives to hire people. They should be trying to jump-start the economy — and fend off another recession — by making investments, and hiring workers, that will lead to renewed prosperity.
The only way that’s going to happen, however, is if our society implicitly makes the kind of compact that German society makes explicitly: We have to be willing to allow companies to sacrifice short-term profits for the long-term good of the country. As the leadership expert Michael Useem wrote recently on The Washington Post’s Web site, business needs to make “people a priority, not just earnings.”
He gets so close, but then misses by "that much."
Listen, Joe, business will make "investments and hire workers" when those investments (yes, hiring a worker is an investment) show some promise of paying more than they cost. That isn't now.
You want a "jobs program" from the government? Kill the EPA, castrate OSHA, abolish the minimum wage, and cut at least 80% of the regulations we currently have in place. But you don't want to do that. You want more socialism as though a corporation has some responsibility to you, and not to its shareholders (read: owners) to make a profit.
Why are they such idiots?
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at August 16, 2011 07:37 AM (8y9MW)
It's neither unfair nor inaccurate to point out that the cornerstone of Obama's economic remedies has been speeches. Perhaps Obama believes his own hype and think he can inspire an economic boom.
For instance: "It is time for companies to step up."
He said this in May 2011 and has said it a few times before then.
There are so many things wrong with it, I don't know where to begin.
Posted by: söthí at August 16, 2011 07:37 AM (sqkOB)
Actually what the SCOAMF did was turn the whole stimulus package writing over to the biggest communist in the congress, Pelosi. So unlike his hero commie FDR, there were not any real infrastructure improvements done.
Pelosi spent like a drunken witch on social welfare projects and bailouts for socialist States and cities with a few bones thrown to cronies.
This is why they got nothing from the stimulus package at all, except huge amounts of debt.
Posted by: Vic at August 16, 2011 07:38 AM (M9Ie6)
Barky ain't sleepin' on the three million dollar bus (as if).
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 16, 2011 07:39 AM (UOM48)
I'm so sick of hating -- it's really unhealthy.
Posted by: laceyunderalls at August 16, 2011 07:39 AM (pLTLS)
Posted by: Olliander at August 16, 2011 07:39 AM (6uiF7)
Posted by: bobby78751 concerned beyond obamacare's checkered past at August 16, 2011 07:39 AM (PcoXF)
Posted by: Brock O'Bama at August 16, 2011 07:39 AM (n1JN0)
Posted by: 5 year old boy at August 16, 2011 07:40 AM (bJPKz)
Posted by: Hamlet Obama at August 16, 2011 07:40 AM (Hx5uv)
Posted by: pep at August 16, 2011 07:40 AM (GMG6W)
Posted by: The Almighty at August 16, 2011 07:41 AM (H/Wdv)
Acts of God, really. I'd ask Him, but it's above my pay grade.
These aren't acts of God.
They are the Acts of the Apostles.
Apostles of Karl Marx, that is.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 16, 2011 07:41 AM (sbV1u)
Posted by: WalrusRex at August 16, 2011 07:41 AM (Hx5uv)
Posted by: Mr Pink at August 16, 2011 07:42 AM (yLQS8)
The economy has been fairly consistent since the early 1970s. If gas is relatively cheap the economy does well. If expensive, not well. For the next few decades (at least) we're going to need to up domestic oil production in a big way. Barring a perfect magic battery a la the one featured in that cartooniah Tom Cruise - Cameron Diaz spy movie: Knight and Day.
Upping oil production, of course, is punishable heresy to the Left and Obama. Now they are attacking our only not-overtly-hostile source of imported oil: the oil sands in Canada.
Posted by: Beagle at August 16, 2011 07:42 AM (sOtz/)
Barky's bus, from the BBC Canada, no less.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 16, 2011 07:42 AM (UOM48)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at August 16, 2011 07:42 AM (eOXTH)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at August 16, 2011 07:43 AM (ZDUD4)
Posted by: laceyunderalls at August 16, 2011 07:44 AM (pLTLS)
Meh.....
This President started off his miserable failure of an administration bowing to foreign heads state on a worldwide apology tour.
Stunning that a little bit of that "my bad" never works its way into his own performance.
Posted by: fixerupper at August 16, 2011 07:44 AM (C8hzL)
European countries in debt? The Middle East is unpredictable?
Let me guess: Six months from now it'll be a snowstorm in Buffalo or an outbreak of the flu somewhere.
I'm starting to think that this guy isn't even ready to play Sims.
Posted by: FireHorse at August 16, 2011 07:44 AM (gTGz3)
Posted by: joeindc44 at August 16, 2011 07:44 AM (QxSug)
Posted by: Captain Hate at August 16, 2011 07:44 AM (houma)
Time & Money.
That's what Obama's '12 reelection campaign is all about.
Obama is going to go to the American people and say he needs more time and more money and then everything will be great.
that reminds me, brb...
Posted by: söthí at August 16, 2011 07:44 AM (sqkOB)
Posted by: pep at August 16, 2011 07:45 AM (GMG6W)
***
Whoa!
I just found out what Obama's campaign '12 theme song/excuse is.
George Harrison's "I've Got My Mind Set On You."
I got my mind set on you
But it's gonna take money
A whole lotta spending money
It's gonne take plenty of money
To do it right child
It's gonna take time
A whole lot of precious time
It's gonna take patience and time, ummm
To do it, to do it, to do it, to do it, to do it
To do it right child
Posted by: söthí at August 16, 2011 07:45 AM (sqkOB)
I think he's selling QPR today, so he's less evil today than yesterday. Says the Brighton and Hove Albion supporter.
Posted by: Bender Bending Rodriguez at August 16, 2011 07:45 AM (1H47k)
What do you need? Three boats and a helicopter?
Posted by: God at August 16, 2011 07:46 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Fresh Air at August 16, 2011 07:46 AM (DfTKE)
In FAIRNESS?
Here's some fairness: Fuck You.
That's "in fairness" to what you've been doing to this country.
Posted by: My Sharia Moor at August 16, 2011 07:46 AM (KZi9D)
Posted by: Sub-Tard at August 16, 2011 07:46 AM (0M3AQ)
Posted by: alexthechick at August 16, 2011 07:47 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: cherry π at August 16, 2011 07:47 AM (OhYCU)
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at August 16, 2011 07:47 AM (jx2j9)
What the...
Posted by: Lauren at August 16, 2011 07:47 AM (cVIY5)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at August 16, 2011 07:47 AM (ZDUD4)
Of course he's not apologizing for being reasonable. You don't apologize for things you haven't done.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at August 16, 2011 07:47 AM (8y9MW)
I control the weather, dumbass.
Posted by: The Almighty Dick Cheney at August 16, 2011 11:41 AM (H/Wdv)
_________
FIFY
Posted by: Anachronda at August 16, 2011 07:48 AM (FzhYM)
Busted out laughing. That sounds almost Wilde-ish.
Posted by: pep at August 16, 2011 07:48 AM (GMG6W)
European countries in debt? The Middle East is unpredictable?
Let me guess: Six months from now it'll be a snowstorm in Buffalo or an outbreak of the flu somewhere.
I'm starting to think that this guy isn't even ready to play Sims.
Posted by: FireHorse
This is excellent. This would be a great theme to push, that would make a connection. 'Was Obama ready to be President? He's not ready to play Sims!". Segue to Perry and a string of balanced budgets in Texas.
We had our fill of hope and change, no one wants to 'stay this course' and only habitual gamblers throw away money and grumble about 'bad luck'.
Posted by: Blue Hen at August 16, 2011 07:49 AM (326rv)
Two Six months from now it'll be a snowstorm in Buffalo
FIFY.
He thinks businesses go into business so they can have employees.
I've known far too many people who think this way. It would make me weep for humanity if I had any compassion.
Posted by: alexthechick at August 16, 2011 07:50 AM (VtjlW)
Campaign slogan: The last 4 years was all bad luck. Obama 2012
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 16, 2011 07:51 AM (1Jaio)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at August 16, 2011 07:51 AM (ZDUD4)
I passed a health care bill
Take a moment to consider the breathtaking narcissism behind that statement.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at August 16, 2011 07:51 AM (B+qrE)
Posted by: söthÃ
it's begun! I was right! That makes two times now.
Posted by: Paul Krugman (advisor to Enron) at August 16, 2011 07:51 AM (326rv)
Posted by: The Robot Devil at August 16, 2011 07:51 AM (136wp)
And he drives an evil SUV, that Barry wants the auto industry to stop making.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 16, 2011 07:51 AM (UOM48)
Posted by: söthà at August 16, 2011 11:50 AM (sqkOB)
Ahhh, Finally! They've landed!
Posted by: Beardo Krugman at August 16, 2011 07:52 AM (1H47k)
He thinks businesses go into business so they can have employees.
I've known far too many people who think this way. It would make me weep for humanity if I had any compassion.
Posted by: alexthechick at August 16, 2011 11:50 AM (VtjlW)
Me, too. It's really bizarre to me that people don't get the fundamental truth that businesses exist to make a profit. Everything else is a means to that end, but the end is "profit." Until you understand that, you won't understand business, and you won't be able or willing to do the things it will take to get businesses started hiring again.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at August 16, 2011 07:52 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at August 16, 2011 07:53 AM (H/Wdv)
Well, I don't know but she certainly doesn't look like that hot alien in Cowboys and Aliens.
Posted by: WalrusRex at August 16, 2011 07:53 AM (Hx5uv)
Is this lunkhead moron running for President?
Has he ever actually bothered not running for President since he got elected?
Oh, but liberals are so much smarter than everybody else, so fuckin smart, and great, and caring, because they can even elect a stupid black guy who looks so cool President.
It's like Matt Damon thinkin' he's got some brains in his purty little head, the head that allowed him to get his brilliant acting career by paying special attention to the crotches of Hollywood power brokers.
Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz at August 16, 2011 07:53 AM (tcSZb)
I passed a health care bill
Take a moment to consider the breathtaking narcissism behind that statement.
President Narcissist
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 16, 2011 07:53 AM (UOM48)
But wouldn't that be blaming Himself then?
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at August 16, 2011 07:53 AM (9hSKh)
Posted by: Astronaut I M Lame at August 16, 2011 07:53 AM (nVW1M)
I passed a health care reform bill
But I had nothing to do with all the spending by Congress.
btw, I need more money to fix the mess created by Bush.
Posted by: lolobama at August 16, 2011 07:54 AM (sqkOB)
Posted by: polynikes at August 16, 2011 07:54 AM (r8Vu0)
But wouldn't that be blaming Himself then?
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta)
That's where the Trinity part comes in handy.
Posted by: The Manufactured Messiah at August 16, 2011 07:54 AM (326rv)
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as “bad luck.”
Posted by: Greg Q at August 16, 2011 07:54 AM (/0a60)
Let's face it kids. The economy is effed up for at least 2 more years EVEN if we are granted a sweeping election in 2012 and the new administration is allowed to take a meat clever to the existing regulations and stewpidity handed down from this administration. It will take time to change those laws and implement them. Even if the first act of a new President Elect was to repeal ObamaCare and start exporting illegal immigrants by Presidential decree, it will take time for the economic relief to seep back into our economy.
The best things we can hope for now includes the JEF stepping on his own dick and getting hung legally for it. The second best thing that could happen would be if the wanna-be conservative candidates managed in some way to castrate the MSM and lay the blame for the JEF and his stewpidity at their feet for the propaganda they pushed in selling him to us. I don't forsee any changes in the political rhetoric until the public realizes the liability of continuing to allow them access to public airwaves to push their propaganda.
The economic mess we are in is a 3 front war: The Liberals, Their Shills AND The Economy that is currently stalled.
Posted by: MrObvious at August 16, 2011 07:55 AM (2uovW)
Posted by: Michael Rittenhouse at August 16, 2011 07:55 AM (2Oas0)
"The problem," Obama continued, "is that we've got the kind of partisan brinksmanship that is willing to put party ahead of country, that is more interested in seeing their political opponents lose than seeing the country win. Nowhere was that more evident than in this recent debt ceiling debacle."
Does he know how self-unaware he sounds here? He's like a parody of the ugly politician.
Posted by: Truman North, TPT at August 16, 2011 07:55 AM (K2wpv)
I passed a health care bill
Take a moment to consider the breathtaking narcissism behind that statement.
President Narcissist
I guess he missed the part where it was found un-Constitutional.
Take a moment to consider the breathtaking idiocy behind that statement. That and he taught Constitutional Law according to his manufactured bio.
Posted by: Sub-Tard at August 16, 2011 07:55 AM (0M3AQ)
Hi! I'm the one who caused the recession. Yes, really
Yep, I'm that little gremlin/ghost/whatever from the Family Circus cartoons that breaks the lamp or draws on the wall that the kids always blame. Now, I've been brought out into the real world to take the blame for Obama's failure(s).
So whenever this stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure makes another economic debacle, and the question arises, "Who made this mess?" Obama can truthfully answer, "Not Me!"
(Either that or he can blame George Bush...)
Posted by: Not Me at August 16, 2011 07:56 AM (WDySP)
Posted by: Astronaut I M Lame
Is this an act of God defense or more accurately the Scooby Doo defense?
Posted by: Daphne with a corndog; that pic is a keeper at August 16, 2011 07:56 AM (326rv)
Posted by: Matt Damon at August 16, 2011 07:56 AM (ZDUD4)
Is this an act of God defense or more accurately the Scooby Doo defense?
Posted by: Daphne with a corndog; that pic is a keeper at August 16, 2011 11:56 AM (326rv)
Does that make Biden Scrappy Doo?
Posted by: The Robot Devil at August 16, 2011 07:57 AM (136wp)
"...and make no mistake, one of those things is not true!"
Posted by: Bender Bending Rodriguez at August 16, 2011 07:57 AM (1H47k)
I don't think that's completely true. I don't think we'll be "out of the woods" faster than that, but I think that, if a new President slashed most of the new regulations (and/or ordered his agencies not to enforce them, which is the same thing), and ObamaCare and Frank/Dodd were both repealed, you'd see a flurry of activity- especially among small businesses.
One thing that I've observed to be true about a small business- you constantly need to expand. Very few small businesses can survive on "recurring" business, you need new customers- but new customers require new products and/or new personnel. So I think there a not-inconsiderable number of small businesses out there wishing the regulatory environment were better so that they could expand with some confidence.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at August 16, 2011 07:58 AM (8y9MW)
But he's the best speechifier since Lincoln!
Posted by: WalrusRex at August 16, 2011 07:59 AM (Hx5uv)
Posted by: The Mega Independent at August 16, 2011 07:59 AM (VM1tJ)
Posted by: Fritz at August 16, 2011 08:00 AM (/ZZCn)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 16, 2011 08:00 AM (lbo6/)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 16, 2011 08:00 AM (UOM48)
Obama can't blame the failure of Evergreen Solar going tits up in the US on the Arab Spring or on a tsunami.
Posted by: söthí at August 16, 2011 08:00 AM (sqkOB)
Okay, if there's another #AskObama twitter event, I want you to post that (or something close). Please.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at August 16, 2011 08:01 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Politician who rather not compromise than see the country succeed at August 16, 2011 08:01 AM (yLQS8)
Our chief weapon is surpriseÂ…surprise and fearÂ…fear and surpriseÂ…. Our two weapons are fear and surpriseÂ…and ruthless efficiencyÂ…. Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiencyÂ…and an almost fanatical devotion to the Tea Party Â…. Our *four*Â…noÂ… *Amongst* our weaponsÂ…. Amongst our weaponryÂ…are such elements as fear, surpriseÂ…. IÂ’ll come in again.
Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at August 16, 2011 08:01 AM (e8kgV)
Posted by: Wendy at August 16, 2011 08:01 AM (KydDZ)
If I was Perry or Romney, I'd be out there right now talking about how we took a bath on Evergreen.
And on how Obama's new green economy turned out to be a sinkhole for taxpayer dollars.
Posted by: söthí at August 16, 2011 08:02 AM (sqkOB)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at August 16, 2011 08:02 AM (ZDUD4)
I don't think we'll be "out of the woods" faster than that, but I think that, if a new President slashed most of the new regulations (and/or ordered his agencies not to enforce them, which is the same thing), and ObamaCare and Frank/Dodd were both repealed, you'd see a flurry of activity- especially among small businesses.
I think the Dow climbs 300 points on the day after Election Day.
Provided JEF loses.
It goes 300 points the other way if he wins.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 16, 2011 08:02 AM (sbV1u)
"Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as “bad luck.”"
Robert Heinlein
Posted by: beedubya at August 16, 2011 08:02 AM (AnTyA)
Posted by: Needs more cowbell at August 16, 2011 08:03 AM (ENKCw)
iowahawkblog David Burge Report: Obama basing 2012 campaign on "Harry Truman strategy": nuclear attack on Texas begins next week
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 16, 2011 08:03 AM (UOM48)
Posted by: Fritz at August 16, 2011 08:03 AM (/ZZCn)
Posted by: Sub-Tard at August 16, 2011 08:03 AM (0M3AQ)
They've invaded! Time for a war against space aliens and, thus, stimulus!
Posted by: Tom Friedman at August 16, 2011 08:03 AM (usXZy)
Posted by: Dave at August 16, 2011 08:04 AM (Xm1aB)
Posted by: nevergiveup at August 16, 2011 08:04 AM (i6RpT)
Posted by: Amazon epub at August 16, 2011 08:04 AM (VM1tJ)
Posted by: The Almighty at August 16, 2011 11:41 AM (H/Wdv)
Not if I can help it!
Posted by: The Gorical at August 16, 2011 08:04 AM (N2yhW)
I passed a health care bill
I also seem to recall there was a time when Barry was saying it was wrong to call it Obamacare, I suppose to try and spread the blame. Well, you scrofulous jackass, which is it?
Posted by: pep at August 16, 2011 08:04 AM (6TB1Z)
Posted by: nevergiveup at August 16, 2011 08:05 AM (i6RpT)
What that in response to?
I don't know, CAIR bitching about something.
Jihad Watch says: "The letter, from [Hamas-linked] CAIR South Florida Executive Director Nezar Hamze, specifically asked West to cut his ties with Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, Joe Kaufman, and Joyce Kaufman, among others."
Posted by: Bomber at August 16, 2011 08:05 AM (qzoN5)
"All those things have been headwinds for our economy," Obama said. "Now, those are things that we can't completely control. The question is, how do we manage these challenging times and do the right things when it comes to those things that we can control?"
Easy.
Resign.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 16, 2011 08:05 AM (YKK68)
Posted by: Neo at August 16, 2011 08:05 AM (e8kgV)
Posted by: The Schwalbe : © at August 16, 2011 08:06 AM (UU0OF)
Posted by: Graaad, mole person from Japan at August 16, 2011 08:06 AM (yLQS8)
Better idea, pass the bong to everyone and we'll all be believers. Until the economy is so bad we can't afford the bong, the water or the necessary ingredients.
Posted by: baseballguy at August 16, 2011 08:06 AM (MaS0T)
That's a good question, but this is a fairly new quote, and the House is on Vacation.
Expect one or more of the candidates to blast back in some way later today.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at August 16, 2011 08:06 AM (8y9MW)
Funny how no matter what the circumstances the "right things" to do is to tax more and spend more.
Posted by: söthí at August 16, 2011 08:06 AM (sqkOB)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at August 16, 2011 08:06 AM (ZDUD4)
Posted by: Neo at August 16, 2011 12:05 PM (e8kgV)
They've found you!! Hide!!!!
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 16, 2011 08:06 AM (UOM48)
Posted by: Dick "Jake" Obumbles at August 16, 2011 08:06 AM (WUWb9)
Posted by: B. OdipO, Lucky Bastard at August 16, 2011 08:06 AM (4nfy2)
Posted by: shibumi at August 16, 2011 08:06 AM (z63Tr)
Posted by: Speller at August 16, 2011 08:07 AM (J74Py)
Posted by: mpurinTexas, Evil Conservanatrix, supports Rick Perry, bitch at August 16, 2011 08:07 AM (ignDe)
"All those things have been headwinds for our economy," Obama said. "Now, those are things that we can't completely control. The question is, how do we manage these challenging times and do the right things when it comes to those things that we can control?"
I was in the pool!!!!
There was shrinkage!
Posted by: President George Hussein Costanza at August 16, 2011 08:08 AM (sbV1u)
Posted by: Dave at August 16, 2011 08:08 AM (Xm1aB)
In my neck of the woods, we dipped our toes in the recession, and decided we didn't like the temperature. So we largely didn't participate.
Did I mention I live in Texas? Apropos of nothing, of course.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at August 16, 2011 08:08 AM (8y9MW)
Obama added: "Now, in fairness, since I've been called a socialist who wasn't born in this country, who is destroying America and taking away its freedoms because I passed a health care bill, I'm all for lowering the rhetoric."
Barry, as the saying goes, if the shoe fits. And you being a socialist hell bent on destroying the country is a perfect fit you thin skinned twat
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 16, 2011 08:08 AM (1Jaio)
St. Louis County police will release more information this afternoon about 30 people were taken into custody from a home in Bel-Ridge last week.
They were taken into custody shortly before midnight on August 11.
Police said they went to a home in the 8800 block of Snowhill Court to execute a search warrant for prostitution, drugs and alcohol.According to the Missouri Secretary of State's website, the non-profit, Yes We Can Social Club, is run out of that home.
Posted by: Tami at August 16, 2011 08:08 AM (X6akg)
According to reports, 41-year-old Fairey and his colleague Romeo Trinidad were punched and kicked by at least two men outside the Kodboderne 18 nightclub in the early hours of last Saturday morning. Fairey claims the men called him "Obama illuminati" and ordered him to "go back to America".
Posted by: pep at August 16, 2011 08:08 AM (6TB1Z)
Posted by: The Mega Independent at August 16, 2011 08:10 AM (VM1tJ)
The dog ate your debt plan?
Posted by: huerfano at August 16, 2011 08:10 AM (kD+se)
Posted by: Obama illuminati at August 16, 2011 08:10 AM (6TB1Z)
Posted by: Barky in his pirate costume at August 16, 2011 08:10 AM (UOM48)
Posted by: joeindc44 at August 16, 2011 08:10 AM (QxSug)
anyone mentioned what a stuttering clusterf@rk of a miserable failure he is today?
Posted by: Shame The Shameless at August 16, 2011 08:10 AM (dh5Eu)
He may (I know this is hard to believe) actually be busy. Joe Barton (my rep), for instance, has been doing a lot of local business/town hall type stuff.
Really, it's easy for the Pres to take these swipes (it may also be why he's not calling Congress back for an emergency session) while Congress is in Recess. Let the Candidates hit the nice, low, hanging curve ball.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at August 16, 2011 08:11 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Dave at August 16, 2011 08:11 AM (Xm1aB)
Bwahahahaha. Bad luck I guess.
Posted by: B. OdipO, Lucky Bastard at August 16, 2011 08:12 AM (4nfy2)
In my neck of the woods, we dipped our toes in the recession, and decided we didn't like the temperature. So we largely didn't participate.
That's not necessarily a recommendation.
Same thing happened to me - and I live in DC
Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 16, 2011 08:12 AM (sbV1u)
Posted by: Shame The Shameless at August 16, 2011 12:10 PM (dh5Eu)
Bears repeating.
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at August 16, 2011 08:12 AM (jx2j9)
Posted by: The Mega Independent at August 16, 2011 08:12 AM (VM1tJ)
I look at the TV and see hundreds of breathless Obama fans hanging on his every utterance and just think....what stupid, f*cking people.
That's "hundreds" not "thousands".I bet they are having a hard time even rounding up that many stooges.....
Posted by: The terrorist Hobbit formerly known as Donna at August 16, 2011 08:12 AM (OVCfn)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 16, 2011 08:13 AM (pdRb1)
Posted by: joeindc44
I just had a vision of someone trying to explain anything written by Heinlein to JEF. I'm reminded of the bit about trying to teach a pig to sing.
Posted by: Blue Hen at August 16, 2011 08:13 AM (6rX0K)
Posted by: BSKB at August 16, 2011 08:13 AM (xmaGn)
Posted by: Precedent Obama at August 16, 2011 08:13 AM (TXKVh)
I look at the TV and see hundreds of breathless Obama fans hanging on his every utterance and just think....what stupid, f*cking people.
Yes. My poor television has no idea how close it's come to getting smashed. I only hope that the Obamabots are secretly suffering more than anyone can imagine. Sadly, that thought makes me happy.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 16, 2011 08:13 AM (UOM48)
WTF? "little to do before him?" I thought he was laser focused on jobs? Even if not, don't we have a few minor details to which he could be attending? Like, oh, I don't know... an unravelling relationship with Israel, a failing "kinetic military action" in Libya, a resurgence of violence in both Afghanistan and Iraq, and a Department of the Treasury that seems really intent on spending their new credit limit just as fast as is humanly possible?
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at August 16, 2011 08:14 AM (8y9MW)
High hanging curveballs, low hanging fruit.
Posted by: The Frozen Head of Pedantic Zombie Ted Williams at August 16, 2011 08:14 AM (VM1tJ)
Obama's Don't Blame Me bus tour plays the Shaggy song:
But she caught me on the counter (It wasn't me)
Saw me bangin' on the sofa (It wasn't me)
I even had her in the shower (It wasn't me)
She even caught me on camera (It wasn't me)
She saw the marks on my shoulder (It wasn't me)
Heard the words that I told her (It wasn't me)
Heard the scream get louder (It wasn't me)
She stayed until it was over
Posted by: söthí at August 16, 2011 08:15 AM (sqkOB)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 16, 2011 08:15 AM (UOM48)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at August 16, 2011 12:14 PM (8y9MW)
Pity. It would probably be worth something.
Unlike the wads of green paper in my wallet right now.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 16, 2011 08:15 AM (sbV1u)
Posted by: mpurinTexas, Evil Conservanatrix, supports Rick Perry, bitch
Or this.
Posted by: Dang at August 16, 2011 08:16 AM (TXKVh)
198 OT mood lifter about Shepherd Fairey, the guy who did the Obama Hope poster:
According to reports, 41-year-old Fairey and his colleague Romeo Trinidad were punched and kicked by at least two men outside the Kodboderne 18 nightclub in the early hours of last Saturday morning. Fairey claims the men called him "Obama illuminati" and ordered him to "go back to America".
Yeah read that. Even Euro trash socialist don't like obama fairies.
Posted by: Sub-Tard at August 16, 2011 08:16 AM (0M3AQ)
Posted by: Barney Frank at August 16, 2011 08:16 AM (e8kgV)
WTF? "little to do before him?" I thought he was laser focused on jobs? Even if not, don't we have a few minor details to which he could be attending? Like, oh, I don't know... an unravelling relationship with Israel, a failing "kinetic military action" in Libya, a resurgence of violence in both Afghanistan and Iraq, and a Department of the Treasury that seems really intent on spending their new credit limit just as fast as is humanly possible?
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at August 16, 2011 12:14 PM (8y9MW)
Its a week later. He's done focusing on jobs again. He's got to wait for the next "crisis" to come up and be resolved so he can again focus on jobs.
Posted by: buzzion at August 16, 2011 08:16 AM (GULKT)
Did you understand what I meant? Okay then.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at August 16, 2011 08:16 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Jimmah Carter at August 16, 2011 08:17 AM (f8XyF)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at August 16, 2011 12:14 PM (8y9MW)
If they have to, they will.
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at August 16, 2011 08:17 AM (jx2j9)
Posted by: mpurinTexas, Evil Conservanatrix, supports Rick Perry, bitch
Or this.
Posted by: Dang at August 16, 2011 12:16 PM
Or this.
Posted by: huerfano at August 16, 2011 08:17 AM (kD+se)
If it gets to that, expect Articles of Secession.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at August 16, 2011 08:17 AM (8y9MW)
That big black bus makes it look more like Obama's on his way to a funeral. To bury the US economy.
Posted by: Dang at August 16, 2011 08:18 AM (TXKVh)
Lordie if it weren't for bad luck I would've had no luck at all.
No kiddin! I remember "Billy Beer"
Now that was some bad luck.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 16, 2011 08:18 AM (sbV1u)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at August 16, 2011 08:18 AM (tf9Ne)
Posted by: The Frozen Head of Pedantic Zombie Ted Williams at August 16, 2011 08:18 AM (VM1tJ)
Posted by: Socratease at August 16, 2011 08:19 AM (vaIln)
Posted by: cherry π at August 16, 2011 08:19 AM (OhYCU)
Posted by: valentine michael o'bama at August 16, 2011 08:20 AM (W5ilH)
Obama needs to be holding a cardboard sign on an overpass saying he's down on his luck and needs some cash.
Posted by: Roy at August 16, 2011 08:20 AM (VndSC)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at August 16, 2011 12:17 PM (8y9MW)
Yep.
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at August 16, 2011 08:20 AM (jx2j9)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at August 16, 2011 08:20 AM (ZDUD4)
Posted by: al-Cicero, Tea Party Jihadist at August 16, 2011 08:20 AM (2wKsS)
Posted by: cherry ð at August 16, 2011 12:19 PM (OhYCU)
I've always wondered, what's the square root of cherry ð?
Blueberry?
Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 16, 2011 08:21 AM (sbV1u)
Stop slandering drunken sailors. Drunken sailors stop spending when they run out of money. What do you do with a drunken sailor? Roll him over and take his wallet.
Posted by: Sub-Tard at August 16, 2011 08:21 AM (0M3AQ)
Where? The? F*ck? Are? They?
Where is the forceful pushback to this lie that Boehner somehow is responsible for the downgrade because he walked away from a "grand bargain" offered by Obama?
Where the f*ck are they?
Sarah Palin did.....
But she is an icky girl with a vagina so some here don't like her
Posted by: beedubya at August 16, 2011 08:22 AM (AnTyA)
Haven't seen the entire thread, but has anyone pointed out yet that the president is a stuttering clusterfuck of miserable failure?
Not in, oh, 30 seconds.
But it bears repeating.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 16, 2011 08:22 AM (sbV1u)
Posted by: Obama at August 16, 2011 08:22 AM (yLQS8)
Posted by: Fritz at August 16, 2011 08:22 AM (/ZZCn)
I get a feeling you're trying to put a round peg in my square root
Posted by: cherry π at August 16, 2011 08:22 AM (OhYCU)
Posted by: cherry ð at August 16, 2011 12:22 PM (OhYCU)
Indeed.
Shhhhhhhhhh. Oh, and close the curtains too.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at August 16, 2011 08:23 AM (sbV1u)
If I had to guess, I'd bet we'd see Moses and Stephen Austin, Sam Houston, and William Travis. After that we'd get to governors.
Jim Bowie (no matter how much we love him) wasn't really the kind of person you brag about being on your side, IYKWIM, and Davey Crockett (again, no matter how much we love him) wasn't a Texan.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at August 16, 2011 08:23 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: beedubya at August 16, 2011 12:22 PM (AnTyA)
Mo better.
Posted by: A. West at August 16, 2011 08:23 AM (EL+OC)
Posted by: Dang at August 16, 2011 12:18 PM (TXKVh)
Damn, that's good.
Posted by: AmishDude at August 16, 2011 08:24 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: Dave at August 16, 2011 08:24 AM (Xm1aB)
Whose picture would be on the Texas Dollar, Jim Bowie? William Travis? Davey Crockett? Walker Texas Ranger?
Tom Landry.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at August 16, 2011 08:24 AM (B+qrE)
Posted by: Drunken Oldsailor's poet at August 16, 2011 08:25 AM (ZDUD4)
Posted by: Rick Perry at August 16, 2011 08:25 AM (Xm1aB)
Minor quibble- a facebook post on 8/8 cannot, by definition, be in response to comments made on 8/15.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at August 16, 2011 08:25 AM (8y9MW)
Drinking corn liquor in Nebraska?
Posted by: Barbarian at August 16, 2011 08:26 AM (EL+OC)
Posted by: cherry π at August 16, 2011 08:26 AM (OhYCU)
Posted by: Rick Perry at August 16, 2011 08:27 AM (Xm1aB)
Posted by: cherry π at August 16, 2011 08:27 AM (OhYCU)
Posted by: Graaad, mole person from Japan at August 16, 2011 12:06 PM (yLQS
___________
Where is Sewer Urchin when you need him?
Posted by: Anachronda at August 16, 2011 08:27 AM (IrbU4)
Posted by: Spiker at August 16, 2011 08:28 AM (nVW1M)
Posted by: Socratease at August 16, 2011 08:28 AM (vaIln)
Unfortunatly, I had a credit card
Hey! Who ordered these latex catsuits?
I got a gross of them out in the truck. You guys having a party?
Posted by: FedEx at August 16, 2011 08:28 AM (sbV1u)
Posted by: Dang at August 16, 2011 12:18 PM (TXKVh)
Damn, that's good.
It needs a smiley face with a mustache. Just sayin. "Yes we can!"
Posted by: Sub-Tard at August 16, 2011 08:29 AM (0M3AQ)
Allen G
Jim Bowie (no matter how much we love him) wasn't really the kind of person you brag about being on your side, IYKWIM, and Davey Crockett (again, no matter how much we love him) wasn't a Texan.
Not to be too picky but how many Texans were at the Alamo?
Posted by: Velvet Ambition at August 16, 2011 08:29 AM (0OJd9)
When he says "they get back" he means "he gets back" right?
Is this the $10 in spending cuts for every $1 in tax increases plan he's so crazy about?
Posted by: AmishDude at August 16, 2011 08:29 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: Mr Pink at August 16, 2011 11:35 AM (bJPKz)
That's the tragic part. This is his best.
And if Barky thinks he has bad luck, he should spare a thought for America. We've had two and a half years of truly shitty luck. Thanks, 52%ers! Great choice, given that Jim Jones wasn't available.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 16, 2011 08:30 AM (YKK68)
Obama told Iowans that he's working on a specific jobs plan and he'll whip it out on Congress when they get back from their summer vacation.
'Scuse me while I whip this out.
Posted by: Sherriff Bart at August 16, 2011 08:30 AM (sbV1u)
More like a fascist.
Posted by: Socratease at August 16, 2011 12:28 PM (vaIln)
I figured this out when the lefties got all wee-weed up about the "possibly racist" "slur" of calling Obama a socialist.
They think it's an all-purpose pejorative. They think it doesn't have any meaning.
Posted by: AmishDude at August 16, 2011 08:30 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: Joffen at August 16, 2011 08:31 AM (EPcuy)
Posted by: Dave at August 16, 2011 08:31 AM (Xm1aB)
You must be joking. Those ads would kill our chances of getting into the 2011 Beltway Area Wine and Arugula Tasting. Justin Bieber is going to be there!
Posted by: The RNC at August 16, 2011 08:31 AM (tqwMN)
President Jonah!
The only way to save the ship of state is to throw his ass overboard.
M'chelle would be great casting for Leviathan.
Posted by: Mr. Book at August 16, 2011 08:32 AM (L1sKL)
Posted by: Tri Curious at August 16, 2011 08:32 AM (ZDUD4)
Is this three-day campaign... uh, "jobs tour"... really worth $3 million?
When/where did the administration get this bus and how else is it used?
Posted by: Y-not at August 16, 2011 08:32 AM (5H6zj)
Posted by: Sub-Tard at August 16, 2011 08:32 AM (0M3AQ)
Posted by: 9/11 at August 16, 2011 08:33 AM (Xm1aB)
Little people.
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at August 16, 2011 08:33 AM (jx2j9)
Well I thoroughly enjoyed the daily presidential tracking poll today -23.
Posted by: The terrorist Hobbit formerly known as Donna at August 16, 2011 08:33 AM (OVCfn)
Posted by: Guy Fawkes at August 16, 2011 08:33 AM (4nfy2)
Oh – damn. This bad luck will leave a mark.
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at August 16, 2011 08:34 AM (jx2j9)
Posted by: Sub-Tard at August 16, 2011 08:34 AM (0M3AQ)
Posted by: Spiker at August 16, 2011 08:34 AM (nVW1M)
Posted by: Sub-Tard
Wouldn't a black colored bus create increased air conditioning costs? Seems to be that this would be basic common sense; like ensuring that tires are properly inflated.
Posted by: Blue Hen at August 16, 2011 08:35 AM (326rv)
There's the fallacy: The economy was, as the American economy does, recovering by itself. Obama's spending did not get a weak recovery - it blasted a real recovery all to hell and gone. Government spending is a drag on the economy, and Obama's was no exception. We'd be doing fine today but for his spending.
Posted by: Roger at August 16, 2011 08:35 AM (tAwhy)
Pollster Scott Rasmussen is about to release the first national post-straw poll numbers. The results:
Perry 29, Romney 18, Bachmann 13, Paul 9.
It looks like Rick got out more of a bang out of Iowa and the Battle of Waterloo than Michele did.
Posted by: Tami at August 16, 2011 08:35 AM (X6akg)
Posted by: 9/11 at August 16, 2011 08:35 AM (Xm1aB)
Posted by: Tri Curious at August 16, 2011 08:35 AM (ZDUD4)
Don't remember the exact number, but a around a hundred, I believe. Including Davey Crockett's Volunteers (God bless them) there were around 200 defenders of the Alamo, and I'm pretty sure Crockett brought between 50 & 80 men.
Like I said, we still love Davey Crockett, he just wasn't a Texan.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at August 16, 2011 08:35 AM (8y9MW)
Someone must have entered the race and been polled.
Posted by: Guy Fawkes at August 16, 2011 08:35 AM (4nfy2)
Posted by: buzzion at August 16, 2011 08:36 AM (GULKT)
Posted by: Joffen at August 16, 2011 08:36 AM (EPcuy)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at August 16, 2011 08:36 AM (ZDUD4)
Posted by: The Mega Independent at August 16, 2011 08:36 AM (VM1tJ)
Someone must have entered the race and been polled.
Posted by: Guy Fawkes at August 16, 2011 12:35 PM (4nfy2)
I'm betting its a new low for the President Putt-Putt. That or a new poll about GOP candidates with a major shakeup.
Posted by: buzzion at August 16, 2011 08:37 AM (GULKT)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at August 16, 2011 08:37 AM (8y9MW)
Turns out she's not a stranger in these parts...
Posted by: Starship at August 16, 2011 08:38 AM (GBXon)
That iceberg we grazed while going for a speed record in waters that we knew had an unusual amount of pack ice?
Bad luck.
Posted by: Zombie Capt. Alexander J Smith at August 16, 2011 08:38 AM (326rv)
Posted by: 9/11 at August 16, 2011 08:39 AM (Xm1aB)
If it's a prediction, it's from The Washington Examiner. There's a link a little higher up.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at August 16, 2011 08:39 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: cherry π at August 16, 2011 08:39 AM (OhYCU)
That can't be. Perry said something mean about Ben Bernanke. He has no understanding of the public mood.
Posted by: Methos thinks Gabe's a tard at August 16, 2011 08:40 AM (sOXQX)
Posted by: joeindc44 at August 16, 2011 08:40 AM (QxSug)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at August 16, 2011 08:40 AM (ZDUD4)
That warning about airplanes inbound from the north, that we decided were B-17s that had to be coming in from the east, since they were travelling at the extent of their range, and then went to breakfast?
Bad luck.
Posted by: some putz at Schofield Barracks Dec 7, 1941 at August 16, 2011 08:41 AM (326rv)
Posted by: Joffen at August 16, 2011 08:41 AM (EPcuy)
"The problem," Obama continued, "is that we've got the kind of partisan brinksmanship that is willing to put party ahead of country, that is more interested in seeing their political opponents lose than seeing the country win. Nowhere was that more evident than in this recent debt ceiling debacle."
Everything he accuses the other side of applies more to his own.
Posted by: Decaf at August 16, 2011 08:41 AM (XUoX3)
Thanks enviros for killing our national bird.
Posted by: Guy Fawkes at August 16, 2011 08:41 AM (4nfy2)
Oh!
Which dude, then? That's not a very specific descriptor.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at August 16, 2011 08:41 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Jeff at August 16, 2011 08:41 AM (A3tpD)
Posted by: joeindc44 at August 16, 2011 08:41 AM (QxSug)
The guy who popped Obama's little bubble on the misery tour. Apparently he was one of the guys whose car dealership got closed in 2009.
Posted by: Methos at August 16, 2011 08:43 AM (sOXQX)
Posted by: President Saystuff at August 16, 2011 08:43 AM (KulgD)
Posted by: cherry π at August 16, 2011 08:43 AM (OhYCU)
That decision to force an engagement in the North while blind without cavalry, and to then ignore field commanders?
Bad luck. No wait. I admitted that it was my fault.
Posted by: Robert E Lee at August 16, 2011 08:44 AM (326rv)
Didn't we get a lecture a few weeks ago about how his daughters finish their homework before it's even assigned? He's had this assignment since January 20, 2009. Not setting a very good example for those impressionable daughters.
Why isn't he selling his specific jobs plan right now while Congress is in recess? He could have the jump on them by several weeks.He could be getting the public familiar with it so by the time Congress comes back his plan has the momentum of familiarity and theirs can be labeled as reactionary and slapped together. Besides not looking presidential, he's not looking politically savvy either.
Looks like what he's really about is avoiding the presidential version of the summer reading list as long as possible so it doesn't ruin *his* vacation.
Posted by: Retread at August 16, 2011 08:44 AM (BO5ap)
Posted by: F--- Nevada! (I'm AoSHQ's DarkLord©, and I approve this message) at August 16, 2011 08:44 AM (GBXon)
Is there any way to possibly pin all this on the Republicans? Maybe the tea party, for sure, they're easy dumb mark rubes, but all the Republicans, I think there's an angle. Republicans cause bad luck by being in congress, therefore they don't belong there. I think that will play well in DC and New York.
I'm going to call David Gregory, maybe he can get the ball rolling at NBC News.
Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz at August 16, 2011 08:44 AM (s5aNX)
"All those things have been headwinds for our economy," Obama said. "Now, those are things that we can't completely control.
First it was bumps in the road then headwinds and now bad luck which may be headwinds too. And of course the reason the economy is in the crapper is not Mr. Wonderful's fault. The buck stops somewhere over there.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 16, 2011 08:44 AM (1Jaio)
Posted by: joeindc44 at August 16, 2011 08:44 AM (QxSug)
Posted by: Dave at August 16, 2011 08:44 AM (Xm1aB)
Why isn't he selling his specific jobs plan right now while Congress is in recess?
Because Harry and Nancy haven't told him what's in it yet. Shoosh - do I have to answer all the hard questions?
Posted by: Sub-Tard at August 16, 2011 08:45 AM (0M3AQ)
Ok, this is a little OT, so sorry about that:
Does anyone know a good source to look at to find examples of Obama-imposed regulations that are strangling businesses? One of my pet peeves about moonbats saying it took 8 years of Bush to get into this mess and it will take time to get out is that they never mention which policies of Bush created these problems in the first place. So, I want to be prepared when I say all the new regulations piled onto businesses by Obama are one of the reasons for the slow/nonexistent recovery.
Thanks!
Posted by: Marmo at August 16, 2011 08:45 AM (InrkQ)
http://tinyurl.com/3q64u8w
Posted by: SeeBS at August 16, 2011 08:45 AM (O2f0L)
I googled "stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure" and got 139,000 hits.
Most of them in this thread
not bad
Posted by: glowing blue meat at August 16, 2011 08:45 AM (K/USr)
Looks like what he's really about is avoiding the presidential version of the summer reading list as long as possible so it doesn't ruin *his* vacation.
Posted by: Retread
I disagree. He will not put up a plan without Congress in session because then the world would have an unfettered shot at it. He wants to drop it on Congress and act like the adult assigning homework. Again.
Posted by: Blue Hen at August 16, 2011 08:46 AM (326rv)
Posted by: Tim Pawlenty at August 16, 2011 08:46 AM (FcR7P)
Posted by: President Pull-ups at August 16, 2011 08:47 AM (KulgD)
Posted by: Kay Bailey Hutchison at August 16, 2011 08:47 AM (Xm1aB)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at August 16, 2011 08:48 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Rick Perry at August 16, 2011 08:48 AM (Xm1aB)
Well, yes, normally you do have to answer all the hard questions but this time is an exception. Barky claims *he's* got a plan. Now it might be that he copied from Harry and Nancy but that's all the more reason he should hand it in first.
Posted by: Retread at August 16, 2011 08:48 AM (BO5ap)
Posted by: Kay Bailey Hutchison at August 16, 2011 12:47 PM (Xm1aB)
I concur. Trust us on this.
Posted by: Bill White at August 16, 2011 08:49 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at August 16, 2011 12:36 PM (ZDUD4)
Yep. Expect Romney to lash out with a clumsy and ineffective attack against Perry, which only hastens his demise.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at August 16, 2011 08:49 AM (FkKjr)
Posted by: Spiker at August 16, 2011 08:50 AM (nVW1M)
Posted by: MrObvious at August 16, 2011 08:50 AM (2uovW)
Posted by: Fritz at August 16, 2011 08:51 AM (/ZZCn)
That's certainly been his MO, but aren't we all supposed to be thinking outside the box, or some such pap? Except for him. Again, I guess.
Posted by: Retread at August 16, 2011 08:53 AM (BO5ap)
Posted by: Fritz at August 16, 2011 12:51 PM (/ZZCn)
God damn peas...
Posted by: Orson Welles at August 16, 2011 08:53 AM (FkKjr)
This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes...again
. . . .
The blue bus is callin' us
The blue bus is callin' us
Driver, where you taken' us
Posted by: WalrusRex at August 16, 2011 08:53 AM (Hx5uv)
From PMSNBC:
President Barack Obama will on Tuesday announce fresh steps to boost rural hiring on the second day of a bus tour through the U.S. heartland to explain his economic and job policies to anxious voters.
But his hands are tied by a divided Congress, where Republicans control the House of Representatives and oppose any significant spending measures to stimulate growth.
See comrades, it's the EVIL Republicans in the House who are stopping brave Barry from saving us.
Obama will spend much of Tuesday at a rural economic forum in Iowa, and will unveil $350 million in funding for small businesses over the next 5 years — not the big plan to be presented to Congress next month, but help all the same.
At least they don't editorialize in the middle of their stories. Barry's solution is to throw money at everything and that's made everything as hunky dorey as it is today
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 16, 2011 08:53 AM (1Jaio)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, in Cylon hell at August 16, 2011 08:54 AM (GBXon)
So are you or aren't you?
Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at August 16, 2011 08:56 AM (1rHeD)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet
Davy Crockett, with this motto he so artfully coined: "You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas."
Posted by: Hobbitopoly at August 16, 2011 08:56 AM (h1p5V)
Posted by: WalrusRex at August 16, 2011 08:56 AM (Hx5uv)
"...The question is, how do we manage these challenging times and do the right things when it comes to those things that we can control?"
"The problem," Obama continued, "is that we've got the kind of partisan brinksmanship...."
This is a really annoying pattern for me. First, he asks a question of us, "how do we manage this" when we are are him to manage it. Then, he answers our question with, "its unmanageable because of divided government."
The implication; "give me back my total control and power and I can solve this."
The solution is to give total power to Barack Obama but he never tells what he would do with that total power, what the Grand Plan to get the economy roaring again is. He doesn't have a plan for that. His plan, he stated, is more power for Barack....end of plan.
Posted by: sgm at August 16, 2011 08:58 AM (crTpS)
-- H/T to Barky's Secret Decoder Ring
Posted by: No Whining at August 16, 2011 08:59 AM (FcKXR)
Posted by: Spiker at August 16, 2011 12:50 PM (nVW1M)
One of those busses would be great for taking on Humongous. Maybe they are planning for the post-collapse?
Posted by: grognard at August 16, 2011 09:00 AM (NS2Mo)
Posted by: No Whining at August 16, 2011 09:00 AM (FcKXR)
I don't care how much I pay (Too much, Big Black Bus)
I wanna drive my bus to my baby each day (Too much, Big Black Bus)
Give me a Trillion (Big Black Bus)
I won't take under (Big Black Bus)
Goes like thunder (Big Black Bus)
It's a four-year wonder (Big Blackc Bus)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at August 16, 2011 09:03 AM (tf9Ne)
Posted by: KG at August 16, 2011 09:06 AM (LD21B)
1. Oba-one getteth elected
2. Oba-one passeth Da Stimulus Gargantuous
3. Oba-one enacteth Obamacare
4. Oba-one proposeth EVEN MORE DEBT
Now, mothers of Amerika, datz what we call a STRING OF BAD LUCK.
Tsunami Obami, you're here.
(and so are your ears, Mr ThinSkin)
Posted by: Cricket at August 16, 2011 09:06 AM (kIHWe)
Posted by: Barack Obama at August 16, 2011 09:07 AM (YKK68)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at August 16, 2011 12:25 PM (8y9MW)
Not so minor quibble....Boner had been taking the blame way before 8/15...8/8 even...so what comments on 8/15 are you referring to?
Posted by: beedubya at August 16, 2011 09:08 AM (AnTyA)
Posted by: Spiker at August 16, 2011 09:10 AM (nVW1M)
Posted by: George Custer at August 16, 2011 01:05 PM (YKK6
I know what you mean, mon frere
Posted by: Napolean at August 16, 2011 09:10 AM (AnTyA)
Posted by: Napolean at August 16, 2011 09:12 AM (AnTyA)
Now there be the making of the best cryptic bumper sticker in the future.
Obama: Psalm 109:8
They'd have to look it up.
But first, the victim would take it as a compliment.
Posted by: jwb7605 at August 16, 2011 09:37 AM (+KHIt)
Obama added: "Now, in fairness, since 1. I've been called a socialist who 2. wasn't born in this country, who 3. is destroying America and taking away its freedoms
Baby we can talk all night
But that aint gettin us nowhere
Now don't be sad (don't be sad)
'cause two out of three aint bad
Posted by: Meat Loaf at August 16, 2011 09:37 AM (o3ppL)
Posted by: Buffalobob at August 16, 2011 09:38 AM (OhQBX)
Allen G
"Jim Bowie (no matter how much we love him) wasn't really the kind of person you brag about being on your side, IYKWIM, and Davey Crockett (again, no matter how much we love him) wasn't a Texan."
Sam Houston was Governor of Tennessee before he went to Texas, ergo one could infer that he wasn't really a Texan, either.
Had get a poke in, my ex-wife was a Texan and I'm a native Tennessean. Everytime she would get on a Texas-is-the-greatest rant I'd have to remind her that if it weren't for Tennessee there probably wouldn't be a Texas.
Posted by: Country Singer at August 16, 2011 09:40 AM (L8r/r)
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at August 16, 2011 09:49 AM (jgkJo)
With a catchy beat you could make a song out of that.
Posted by: Retread at August 16, 2011 09:51 AM (BO5ap)
Posted by: Spiker at August 16, 2011 09:56 AM (nVW1M)
Posted by: Country Singer at August 16, 2011 09:57 AM (L8r/r)
Posted by: Someassholestolemypen at August 16, 2011 10:02 AM (KGfAO)
Posted by: Bruce at August 16, 2011 10:38 AM (iqUtl)
"Hey, it was perfectly okay for everyone to be as insulting as possible to Bush and Palin, et al. After all, no one thinks like them and they should be insulted. When people are asking me questions, and not embracing my every thought as a pearl of golden wisdom, why, then the rhetoric in this country is just too overheated."
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 16, 2011 11:09 AM (/zYUh)
And this: "They can't define the risk, so they avoid it."
Recovery = a business environment in which risk takers can assess the risks they are taking.
It's not that difficult, Mr. President...unless you are a Marxist ideologue. In which case I suppose you thought it would work because the "right" people were doing it this time?
I'll be going down to the train platform now to board the cattle car headed to the re-education camp.
Posted by: BigDaddy1964 at August 16, 2011 11:23 AM (DueYW)
I don't think so, SCOAMF...
(Link goes to a pic found on phun. Pic SFW, reast of the site, not so much.)
Posted by: FORGER - Racist TEAhadi at August 16, 2011 11:33 AM (YGzTa)
Posted by: MarkD at August 16, 2011 01:23 PM (iYBP2)
Posted by: Monsters of Men AudioBook at August 16, 2011 04:16 PM (s40ej)
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