April 15, 2011
— Ace Very clever way to put it from Tarranto.
Obama's speech was little but waste (of time), fraud (on the public), and abuse (of invited guests, who were prompted to expect a serious proposal, not a demagogic, unserious nakedly-political attack).
On that last point, before turning to Taranto: Alan Simpson, former Republican Senator (and known as a deficit-hawk), and Obama's appointee to the deficit commission (the first one which he ignored, not the second one he will soon be ignoring), said before his speech that he expected "movement." He thought Obama was going to seriously tackle these things. He thought that Obama would dig down deep and find his inner statesman. He thought -- with Republicans now putting themselves at political risk by offering a real plan -- this freed the cautious, weak, vain Obama up to show a little courage in kind.
He too was invited to witness this travesty. I knew he was wrong and said so. But now he knows he's wrong, too.
Former Sen. Alan Simpson appeared jarred by the political nature of President Barack ObamaÂ’s speech on reducing the deficit Wednesday at George Washington University.The Wyoming Republican, who had a front-row seat for Mr. ObamaÂ’s speech and co-chaired the White HouseÂ’s panel on deficit-reduction last year, didnÂ’t want to comment directly on the speech after it was over. His co-chairman, Erskine Bowles, wouldnÂ’t even turn around to talk to reporters. Such a response is unusual for both men, who usually seek out reporters to talk about the countryÂ’s growing fiscal problems and demand immediate action.
We know Simpson wasn't pleased because where before he placed his hopes in Obama, now he could only place his hopes in the Gang of Six, six Senators (including three Democrats) who are actually sounding serious notes about some kind of real plan for the deficit and entitlements.
“Pray for the Gang of Six,” Mr. Simpson told two reporters after the speech, referring to a bipartisan group of lawmakers in the Senate who are working on a deficit-reduction plan. “They are six guys, three Republicans, three Democrats, that are committed to doing something. Just pray for the gang of six.”...
The one point of criticism Mr. Simpson would offer on Mr. ObamaÂ’s speech was the way the president characterized a proposal last week from House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R., Wis.).
“Put your plan on the table, but don’t just label [the Republican proposal] as the ‘Great Republican theme’ because that’s not what it is. It’s a plan,” Mr. Simpson said.
He was asked what happens if the Gang of Six failed, too.
“Guys like you will be picking grit with the chickens when you are 65,” he replied. End of interview.
This is theme common to Obama -- profound disappointment. Obama, due to the sharp crease in his trousers, is able to convince people that he's a serious-minded, intelligent, and wise person. One by one they keep having the scales removed from their eyes.
Obama is just an actor. That's a good analogy, I think. Some actors are deemed leading men due to their looks, "type," and ability to project confidence and serious demeanor. Some actors can be credibly cast as scientists, professors, presidents, and captains of men. Heroes.
Some are always doomed to play the comic relief roles, the Hero's Friend roles, the character actor roles.
Importantly, this is just the ability to fake a heroic manner. Alec Baldwin, for example, seems well-cast as a brilliant corporate executive or a gutsy general in World War Two. But of course, in reality, he's wildly incompetent in either of these fields, and pretty much every other field, too.
This is what the Educated Elite don't get about Obama. This is where what they consider to be their inferiors do get, and the Educated Elite keep on being shocked to discover: That appearances can deceive.
For David Brooks, Obama is/was a candidate straight out of Central Casting, and I mean every inch of that analogy. He looked the part. He sounded the part. He had the right bullet-point credentials that you'd expect a Hero in a Movie to have -- Harvard, Columbia, mixed-race past, sonorous tones of enlightenment and idealism and rationality. And of course those impeccably-creased trousers.
He was well-cast in the Role of President.
But they never bothered to ask the questions their alleged inferiors did -- "What has he actually done?" He rabble-roused a bit and then served very briefly in politics, doing nothing of importance, except to advance himself politically. Hell, he's currently disowning his own vote on 2006 debt-ceiling increase as completely frivolous, selfish, and political.
But it didn't matter to the Educated Elite. Because, for them, it's not about accomplishments or character or actual thought, but the surface of things, and it's crucial they keep that system of the Surface of Things running smoothly because their livelihoods depend on it.
An economist (apparently a big-deal, accomplished one) also finds the scales dropping from his eyes.
In his speech on our nation's long-term budget crisis Wednesday, President Barack Obama identified the problem, but he failed to provide concrete solutions.Indeed, when it came to describing how he would fix federal health care spending, Obama stayed pretty close to his budget document in which he said that Medicare and Medicaid costs would come down because they'd come down and, if they didn't, a panel of experts would tell Congress to lower them.
Give us a break. This is simply a continuation of kick-the-can down the road, which leaves ever larger government bills for our kids to pay.
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Eloquence is no substitute for substance. We need real leadership now, not after the next election.
But Obama's speech made no effort to find common ground with House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan's plan to address Medicare and Medicare. Ryan was brave enough to say exactly what he thinks needs to be done with these programs.
If you read his Medicare plan carefully, you'll see that it's highly progressive because the size of each Medicare participant's voucher is based on his/her pre-existing health conditions, and poor participants have worse health status, on average, than rich participants.Ryan's plan also puts the government on a fixed health care spending budget when it comes to these two programs, each of which is fully capable, on its own, of bankrupting the country.
I voted for and even campaigned for the president, and my jaw drops every time I hear him speak. But eloquence is no substitute for substance. We need real leadership now, not after the next election.
He goes on to say that if Obama proposed a serious reform, he'd be cheerleading for his reelection.
David Brooks, the highly regarded expert on trouser-creasing, still seemed to be holding out hope for Obama a week ago.
It also creates the pivotal moment of truth for President Obama. Will he come up with his own counterproposal, or will he simply demagogue the issue by railing against ''savage'' Republican cuts and ignoring the long-term fiscal realities? Does he have a sustainable vision for government, or will he just try to rise above the fray while Nancy Pelosi and others attack Ryan?
Why is it that the very smart David Brooks didn't know the answer to these questions when we peons did?
Take note of this -- before the speech, when David Brooks could still live in a world of optimism about the intentions and seriousness of his nicely-trousered hero Barack Obama, he had harsh words for a then-hypoethetical demagoguing of the issue. Before Obama opened his mouth, and could still take either the high road or the low road, Brooks slammed the low road, as you'd expect.
But after Obama took that low road, Brooks has now changed his tone, and finds it just splendid.
The president, meanwhile, hit the political sweet spot with his speech this week. He made a sincere call to reduce debt, which will please independents, but he did not specify any tough choices. He called for defense cuts and asked the Pentagon to find some. He called for a reduction in tax credits but didnÂ’t point to any that should actually go. He called for reductions in Medicare costs and asked his board of technocrats to come up with some.These are exactly the sort of vague but well-intentioned policies that have sold well in election after election. The president is not being cynical about this. He genuinely does believe that seniors and the middle class can be spared from any shared sacrifice. He really does believe in calling together teams of experts to devise proper solutions. ObamaÂ’s sincere preferences happen to be more popular.
See what he did there? Before Obama spoke, he specifically warned him away from this sort of naked demagogic appeal. But now that Obama has made that naked demagogic appeal, David Brooks is delighted, and can't say enough good things about it.
Oh well -- I included Brooks as the exception that proves the rule. For some people, the scales will never fall away. David Brooks is like a ten year old boy who is Michael Jackson Super Fan #1 and who will scream in horror if you mention that maybe the King of Pop was a boy-hungry pervert. Little children, and David Brooks, can never get over their hero worship and address reality.
Back to Taranto.
Obama said he was going to start "by being honest about what's causing our deficit." It's hard to cut spending: "You see, most Americans tend to dislike government spending in the abstract, but like the stuff that it buys." It's hard to raise taxes: "My finely honed political instincts tell me that almost nobody believes they should be paying higher taxes." And politicians are selling voters a bill of goods when they "feed the impression that solving the problem is just a matter of eliminating waste and abuse."What's needed, he claimed, is "a serious plan" that will "require tough choices." He then outlined a four-step "approach"--it wasn't detailed enough to achieve planhood--that showed his promise of honesty to be an utter fraud.
Taranto then outlines that each of Obama's meager cost-cutting promises involves -- get this -- clamping down only on waste, fraud, and abuse, and vowing to make no cuts except to those spending cateogries.
Does no one else in the media notice this? That after sounding like an adult in the very beginning, and telling the public that any politician who tells you that we can reduce our deficit just by cutting "waste, fraud, and abuse" is a demagogic liar, he then goes on to only specify cuts targeting "waste, fraud, and abuse"?
Just words?
This is a man who owes his position to words (and his ability to play-act the role of Thoughtful, Wise Urban Professional).
Does no one else notice that we just heard that Obama is a demagogue, and a liar, and unserious about governance from the highest possible authority possible -- the mouth of Barack Hussein Obama himself?
There is literally nothing to Obama but an actor's craft -- lies, words penned by others appearing on cue-cards, feigned empathy, the ability to seem "right for a role," a bit of good (but not too good looks), and a talent for projecting a false air of competency.
People have compared Reagan and Obama. The comparison is apt, but requires some nuance:
Reagan was a popular actor who became a presidential candidate.
Obama was a presidential candidate who became a popular actor.
More: It doesn't want to, but even the the media is beginning to fault the formerly-praised performances of Captain Bullshit.
Even Democrats in Gang Of Six Can't Defend Naked Emperor: "Pray for the Gang of Six."
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., offered a terse reaction. “Our bipartisan group of six Senators continues to work for a comprehensive solution to our nation’s debt,” Durbin said. “The president’s speech makes it clear that he is committed to the same goal.”
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Wow, David Brooks is a tool.
"These are exactly the sort of vague but well-intentioned policies that have sold well in election after election."
It's called bullshit, David.
Posted by: Soothsayer, Republican Whip at April 15, 2011 08:37 AM (uFokq)
Obama made a speech. It wasn't a plan. It wasn't even a plan for a plan.
Obama spouted off goals. And he vilified the opposition party and half of the American people.
That's all he did, David.
Posted by: Soothsayer, Republican Whip at April 15, 2011 08:38 AM (uFokq)
Seriously, if he keeps underwhelming you, recalibrate your expectations.
Posted by: Tami at April 15, 2011 08:39 AM (VuLos)
Posted by: EC at April 15, 2011 08:40 AM (GQ8sn)
Morgan Freeman 2012
He may just be an actor too, but he has a better voice and by all accounts is less of a prick
Posted by: JollyRoger at April 15, 2011 08:40 AM (NCw5u)
"What's needed, he claimed, is "a serious plan"..."
Appointing a commission = a serious plan.
This is who we're losing to...
Posted by: Soothsayer, Republican Whip at April 15, 2011 08:40 AM (uFokq)
Posted by: ParisParamus at April 15, 2011 08:41 AM (Mp3tb)
You may not be able to fool all of the people, all of the time, but the danger that arises from people like Obama is that they can fool enough of the people, enough of the time, to cause some serious damage.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 15, 2011 08:41 AM (9hSKh)
Oh! You were listening?!?!?!
Posted by: Barack Obama at April 15, 2011 08:42 AM (Q1lie)
if he doesn't, somebody better cowboy up and rid us of this POS
not being an optimist, I can still see Harper's Ferry from my house
Posted by: SantaRosaStan , ArgenKongPretoria at April 15, 2011 08:42 AM (UqKQV)
Posted by: Slublog at April 15, 2011 08:42 AM (0nqdj)
Posted by: AoSHQ's worst commenter, DarkLord© at April 15, 2011 08:42 AM (GBXon)
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at April 15, 2011 08:43 AM (uVLrI)
I haven't been underwhelmed by Obama ever. I always thought he was a thin skinned, poseur, socialist asshole.
The dems said if I voted for McCain we'd have a president who is tempermental warmonger who would get us into Middle Eastern wars and had no plan for the economy and would make healthcare worse, and a dim witted veep, and you know what? They were right!
Posted by: JollyRoger at April 15, 2011 08:45 AM (NCw5u)
Well, at least I'll be working.
Posted by: Young Obama Voter at April 15, 2011 08:45 AM (Q1lie)
Reagan was a popular actor who became a presidential candidate.
Obama was a presidential candidate who became a popular actor.
I've said something similar multiple times in the comments.
Ronald Reagan: An actor that became President
Barack Obama: A man that wants to act like he's President.
Posted by: Dr. Sheldon Cooper. PhD. at April 15, 2011 08:45 AM (oVQFe)
Typical narcissistic behavior. His work is done. To a narcissist, stating a goal is essentially the same thing as having it happen.
Posted by: Purple Avenger at April 15, 2011 08:49 AM (ZzIni)
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 15, 2011 08:50 AM (SfSiO)
Then it's not really "shared", is it?
Posted by: Johnny at April 15, 2011 08:51 AM (mhmc7)
“I said, 'You want to repeal health care? Go at it. We'll have that debate. You're not going to be able to do that by nickel-and-diming me in the budget. You think we're stupid?”
--President Muthafuck
April, 13, 2011
If you haven't heard this audio, do it now because his tone will make your blood boil. Obama was at a fundraiser and forgot his mic was still on.
Posted by: Soothsayer, Republican Whip at April 15, 2011 08:52 AM (uFokq)
Posted by: ya2daup at April 15, 2011 08:52 AM (FcKXR)
They have no concept of the nuts and bolts of a real Presidency, that's why they got so orgasmic over any and every Bush gaff, 'cause "no real President would ever do that, ha ha ha!"
Oh, and that's why they keep defending the JEF even after he has done everything and worse that they hated about Bush: Because they assume that the next episode will have a dues ex machina that will turn everything around and their hero will be seen by the world as the hero they always knew he was. See, this shittyness we have now, that's just a plot device in the story arc--the rainbows and skittle-shitting unicorns are gonna be here any minute now!
Posted by: jimmuy at April 15, 2011 08:52 AM (LkNeJ)
Posted by: Davey Brooks at April 15, 2011 08:53 AM (Ywu4d)
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 15, 2011 08:53 AM (SfSiO)
Posted by: Waterhouse at April 15, 2011 08:54 AM (Ylofh)
Posted by: hindmost at April 15, 2011 08:54 AM (t6Jvs)
Posted by: ya2daup at April 15, 2011 08:55 AM (FcKXR)
Exactly so. This is why we should refer to him as 'acting President Obama." This is true on several different levels.
Posted by: OregonMuse at April 15, 2011 08:56 AM (R6pSM)
He's a narcissistic psychopath of epic proportions.
Posted by: laceyunderalls at April 15, 2011 08:56 AM (pLTLS)
Posted by: NC Mountain Girl at April 15, 2011 08:57 AM (51xvx)
Posted by: ya2daup at April 15, 2011 08:57 AM (FcKXR)
And have you seen his hair? His hair, so finely dusted with wisdom! My God!
Posted by: David Brooksie at April 15, 2011 08:57 AM (GwPRU)
People like Barack Obamna, and even George W. Bush and Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, ran for President to BE somebody. Reagan already WAS somebody when he ran for President. He ran to DO something, namely to save the country from a slide into socialism at home and surrender to Communism abroad. He did what he said he would do, and he built a bipartisan consensus around those goals, which is why he is the most beloved of our recent Presidents. Nobody can figure out what the hell Barack Obama wants to do, except get reelected and smear Republicans.
Posted by: rockmom at April 15, 2011 08:57 AM (Y01Pi)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2011 08:57 AM (TMB3S)
Posted by: ya2daup at April 15, 2011 08:58 AM (FcKXR)
It seems to me that the reason why liberals call others racist for not liking Obama is the fact that he is superficially a great candidate.He's "clean","articulate", and has the requisite two kids and happy-looking marriage. He says the right words. Liberals believe that other people are too stupid to see deeper than the surface. So, since Obama satisfies all the superficial "qualifications" for a public figure, the only reason to oppose him is his skin color.
They know appearances can deceive. That's exactly what they were hoping for with Obama in the first place.
Posted by: JohnJ at April 15, 2011 08:58 AM (vKcGf)
The Dems attempted to pass the RSC budget by voting present. A number of Republicans had to change their votes because of this.
“Democrats, vote 'present!' ” House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) shouted at his colleagues, who tried, one by one, to switch their "no" votes to "present." Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), the architect of the official GOP budget, shouted “Shut it down!” in an effort to close the vote and count the tally before Democrats could switch enough of their votes to advance the amendment.
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at April 15, 2011 08:59 AM (uVLrI)
You're an idiot, Kotlikoff.
A stupid, fucking idiot.
Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at April 15, 2011 08:59 AM (AB8DI)
Why wouldn't the GOP do this? Ryan-Rubio. Lock up Wisconsin and Florida. It would make it much tougher for Obama to win... on top of them being two really attractive serious candidates.
Posted by: Johnny at April 15, 2011 09:01 AM (mhmc7)
“Guys like you will be picking grit with the chickens when you are 65,” he replied. End of interview.
Don't even start with that shit.
Posted by: The Chicken at April 15, 2011 09:02 AM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: Nikita Obama at April 15, 2011 12:55 PM (vbh31)
It's in orbit near Uranus, I think.
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 15, 2011 09:02 AM (XBM1t)
Brooks: "The president...hit the political sweet spot with his speech"
Chris "Rara Avis" Buckley in 2010: "Obama didnÂ’t deliver a speech so much as a symphony..."
fucking jokes, the both of 'em
Posted by: Soothsayer, Republican Whip at April 15, 2011 09:03 AM (uFokq)
Posted by: RushBabe at April 15, 2011 09:03 AM (Ew27I)
http://tinyurl.com/4yeufms
Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2011 12:57 PM (TMB3S)
Can you explain this to me please? I'm not sure I understand it. Thanks!
Posted by: momma at April 15, 2011 09:04 AM (penCf)
Posted by: laceyunderalls at April 15, 2011 09:04 AM (pLTLS)
Yes, it sure would be terrible if America sunk to that level.
Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at April 15, 2011 09:05 AM (b0BN0)
Posted by: Barky the Mad Collectivist at April 15, 2011 09:06 AM (Q5+Og)
Posted by: ya2daup at April 15, 2011 12:58 PM (FcKXR)
Damn. I read that as:
President Obama, step away from your clitoris.
Posted by: momma at April 15, 2011 09:06 AM (penCf)
I caught that the other day. Yes, sir, I like it.
Trump up next.
Posted by: RushBabe at April 15, 2011 09:06 AM (Ew27I)
Too bad Alan Simpson isn't twenty years younger. He has a certain way with words.
Posted by: SlaveDog at April 15, 2011 09:06 AM (9fDAi)
Posted by: Monty at April 15, 2011 09:07 AM (4Pleu)
Posted by: NC Mountain Girl at April 15, 2011 12:57 PM (51xvx)
My guess? They will show lots of bullshit classes like Race and Society, Beatnik Poetry, etc. and straight Cs. From what I have read he was pretty much stoned his entire time in college. I'm quite sure he was let into Harvard Law through connections and because he was a black international student who BSed real good in his interview.
The dirty little secret about Harvard Law, and other grad programs like the Kennedy School of Government, is that the hard part is getting IN. They don't let people flunk out, because that means they made a mistake letting them in. So Obama probably sat on his ass and smoked weed all the way through Law School too. Note he was the first President of the Harvard Law Review NOT to be offered a Supreme Court clerkship. And that was when Thurgood Marshall was still on the Court.
Posted by: rockmom at April 15, 2011 09:08 AM (Y01Pi)
Damn. I read that as:
President Obama, step away from your clitoris.Not so sure that's not entirely accurate, although it does give a bad name to those of us thus equipped.
Posted by: RushBabe at April 15, 2011 09:08 AM (Ew27I)
Who was doing the Walk for MS? How did they fair? Wasn't the walk a week or so ago, maybe longer?
OT II:
Trump is on Rush right now.
Posted by: momma at April 15, 2011 09:09 AM (penCf)
Posted by: Marcus at April 15, 2011 09:10 AM (CHrmZ)
Dumbass. Obama proposes a lot of things. He also never follows through. Not even in golf.
Posted by: AmishDude at April 15, 2011 09:10 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at April 15, 2011 09:10 AM (uVLrI)
Posted by: curious at April 15, 2011 09:12 AM (k1rwm)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2011 09:12 AM (TMB3S)
Posted by: Barky the Mad Collectivist at April 15, 2011 09:14 AM (Q5+Og)
The politicians don't give a fuck if America crashes. They have their money and power, and the rest of us can pound sand.
I'm serious: we're faced with financial ruin and the bastards in Washingtoin just don't give a fuck. They know they'll survive.
I certainly hope they all die very very soon.
Posted by: Jones at April 15, 2011 09:14 AM (cUNcx)
I have NO sympathy for these idiots who elected this freakish destroyer that we have to call president. These so-called educated elites....they are so damn smart right?....could not even lift a finger to do a little research on him. It was THEY that put this idiot in the white house and only now their jaw drops at his asinine speeches? NOW they want a real leader? Give me a flippin break!....Makes me sick
Posted by: kawfy at April 15, 2011 09:15 AM (tfifJ)
Posted by: RushBabe at April 15, 2011 09:16 AM (Ew27I)
As happy as I am that the real Barry is showing through the curtain and the smoke and that his exposure as the waste of flesh that he is, is likely the only thing that we'll save us, it is also indicative of the truth to the extent that this country is in deep, deep trouble.
Exposing Barry is clearly not nearly enough. Huge steps are needed, in my weak mind, if this country has any hope of surviving. I don't think politicians, by in large, are going to go down that road.
In the event of sudden destruction, place your head between your knees and kiss your ass goodbye.
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at April 15, 2011 09:16 AM (jx2j9)
/He's saying the right things, but my heart just isn't into him. Although I'll concede he'd be a much better Pres than Obama (which isn't a high hurdle to jump over).
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 15, 2011 09:19 AM (9hSKh)
Posted by: cleaningmygun at April 15, 2011 09:19 AM (bojaw)
Lots and lots of bullshit.
Anybody who is impressed with their college professor in the social sciences or humanities deserves to have a lifetime of disappointment.
Posted by: AmishDude at April 15, 2011 09:20 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at April 15, 2011 09:20 AM (uVLrI)
That would be mpfs; she'll be doing the Walk for MS end of April, if memory serves me correctly.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 15, 2011 09:20 AM (9hSKh)
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., offered a terse reaction. “Our bipartisan group of six Senators continues to work for a comprehensive solution to our nation’s debt,” Durbin said. “The president’s speech makes it clear that he is committed to the same goal.”
With a name like Majority-Whip-Dick-Durbin...what could possibly go wrong??
Posted by: dananjcon at April 15, 2011 09:21 AM (pr+up)
Posted by: curious at April 15, 2011 09:22 AM (k1rwm)
/He's saying the right things, but my heart just isn't into him. Although I'll concede he'd be a much better Pres than Obama (which isn't a high hurdle to jump over).
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 15, 2011 01:19 PM (9hSKh)
I see Donald Trump for what he is: Bad Cop.
It's easy for any of the candidates to triangulate Trump.
Posted by: AmishDude at April 15, 2011 09:23 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: robtr at April 15, 2011 09:24 AM (MtwBb)
Obama is "a mother's revenge against the America she despised".
He drank in this anti-American hatred with his mother's milk. It defines him, despite the pleasing surface act he presents to the world.
Posted by: Clubber Lang at April 15, 2011 09:25 AM (QcFbt)
Posted by: Barbarian at April 15, 2011 09:26 AM (EL+OC)
Posted by: Soap MacTavish at April 15, 2011 01:22 PM (vbh31)
Rush doesn't do tough interviews. Probably why he doesn't like to do them at all.
Trump should go on Levin. They'd both enjoy it.
Posted by: AmishDude at April 15, 2011 09:27 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: Barky the Mad Collectivist at April 15, 2011 09:27 AM (Q5+Og)
Posted by: David Brooks at April 15, 2011 09:28 AM (mEyVv)
You rang?
Posted by: Honey Badger at April 15, 2011 09:30 AM (GBXon)
that's just sad
Posted by: curious at April 15, 2011 09:31 AM (k1rwm)
I'm not willing to go as far as to think that he's a plant, but I seriously question his motives.
Cynical me thinks that this is all promotion for The Apprentice. He just mentioned that he'd probably announce something on the season finale on May 22.
Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at April 15, 2011 09:31 AM (JxMoP)
"I'm not willing to go as far as to think that he's a plant, but I seriously question his motives."
Trump, like Obama, loves himself too much. No other explanation needed. Trump is a consumer product doing its product placement thingy.
Posted by: Barky the Mad Collectivist at April 15, 2011 09:32 AM (Q5+Og)
Except that Chauncy never had a vindictive, malicious streak in him. The characters projected themselves on to him but for the 0, he thinks he can project himself on everyone.
Posted by: wade1970 at April 15, 2011 09:33 AM (MQOrx)
Posted by: curious at April 15, 2011 09:33 AM (k1rwm)
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 15, 2011 09:33 AM (SfSiO)
Posted by: Flapjackmaka at April 15, 2011 09:34 AM (u8JAM)
I'll go with if Trump wins he turns the Presidency into a reality show.
Where politicians have to compete at usless tasks to get their bills through. While Trump sits behind a giant desk yelling "you're Fired".
Posted by: Buzzsaw at April 15, 2011 09:34 AM (tf9Ne)
Well, he's still not seeing the truth about Obama. He's still glad that Obama is President. The needle is just not moving, and he's mostly immune from Obama's economics because he lives off a trust fund that will provide him with a healthy income for the rest of his life.
He doesn't even care that Obama won't release his transcripts. He thinks that going to Harvard is proof enough that Obama must be smart enough. After all, he went to Harvard.
Posted by: Kensington at April 15, 2011 09:34 AM (mEyVv)
Posted by: OxyCon at April 15, 2011 09:35 AM (eJ7Yr)
Posted by: curious at April 15, 2011 09:35 AM (k1rwm)
Frank Marshal Davis' influence, Rev. Wright, Chicago Annenberg Challenge, SAT scores, Occidental transcript, Columbia transcript, Ryan's unsealed divorce records, Pakistan college visit, land purchase from Rezko, Michelle's $300,000 job which no longer exists, recommendations to Harvard Law, ad infinitum.
There are a million fucking questions about this guy and credential whores like Brooks and that economist couldn't be bothered. They can fuck themselves until hell freezes over.
Posted by: boniface ballers at April 15, 2011 09:35 AM (bPbwB)
Did you guys see the poll where Trump is leading the primary field?
Hopefully some of the other candidates will figure out why he's leading and then find their gonads and do the same thing (hint: it's because he's attacking Obama).
Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at April 15, 2011 09:36 AM (JxMoP)
Posted by: AoSHQ's worst commenter, DarkLord© at April 15, 2011 09:36 AM (GBXon)
Posted by: Lord High Obama, Ruler of the Universe at April 15, 2011 09:36 AM (DffuX)
Hell, at least the VP wouldn't fall asleep during his speech.
And he has already run a country and an Empire...even if just in the movies,
. Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 15, 2011 09:37 AM (9hSKh)
Posted by: HoneyBadger at April 15, 2011 09:37 AM (GvYeG)
Posted by: curious at April 15, 2011 09:37 AM (k1rwm)
Posted by: Flapjackmaka at April 15, 2011 01:34 PM (u8JAM)
American Spectator ain't buying it.....Public Policy Polling -- a Democratic firm -- has a poll out today that shows Donald Trump leading among Republicans nationally. But after reading the questions I'm quite skeptical of the result.
http://tinyurl.com/3ctv8kb
Posted by: Tami at April 15, 2011 09:37 AM (VuLos)
"Except that Chauncy never had a vindictive, malicious streak in him. The characters projected themselves on to him but for the 0, he thinks he can project himself on everyone."
I did mention the personal issue thingy differentiating the two. They are both dimwitted though and extraordinarily placed in settings of influence by those projecting their own wishes onto them. Just sayin.
Posted by: Barky the Mad Collectivist at April 15, 2011 09:38 AM (Q5+Og)
WHAT THE FUCK?!
Are you a man or a mouse?
Get after him. Take to him, hammer and tong. Get on every talk show and expose him for the cowardly fraud that he is?
C'mon, Simpson. You were Mr. Brave Power To Truth Teller just this week when telling the nation how much your party hated teh homos.
Where'd all that righteous anger go? Afraid of the black fella, are you? Afraid the media will call you a racist because you don't like the pretend black guy?
Posted by: Warden at April 15, 2011 09:38 AM (fVIlG)
Posted by: Havedash at April 15, 2011 09:39 AM (sFD5n)
We've bandied about the notion of whether or not The Vapid One© was merely incompetant or deliberately bringing America down.
The fact that he is doubling down on his particular brand of economic stupid prooves that he is deliberately causing our demise, along with the usual gang of libiots.
He needs to be impeached and removed from power at the earliest opportunity. Yesterday would've been good.
Posted by: The Chicken at April 15, 2011 09:39 AM (d0Tfm)
I want to mention (again) that OBumbleCare already included a savings of $500B in fraud and abuse over 10 years. So now he is going to save that money AGAIN in his new 'plan'. Plus, I'm still anxiously awaiting the Congress showing us all a graph with the $60-70 billion in waste/fraud savings they have already made in the 1.3 years OFuckMeCare has been in effect.
Yep, I'm still waiting.
Posted by: GnuBreed at April 15, 2011 09:39 AM (ENKCw)
Posted by: curious at April 15, 2011 09:39 AM (k1rwm)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at April 15, 2011 09:40 AM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: Gordo at April 15, 2011 09:40 AM (pecsX)
He doesn't even care that Obama won't release his transcripts. He thinks that going to Harvard is proof enough that Obama must be smart enough. After all, he went to Harvard.
Posted by: Kensington at April 15, 2011 01:34 PM (mEyVv)
I saw an article somewhere today where Behar was making that same argument. Elizibeth Hasleback shut her up when she said "Bush went to Yale AND Harvard. Does that make him smart?"
Posted by: DiogenesLamp at April 15, 2011 09:40 AM (v2K2g)
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 15, 2011 09:40 AM (XBM1t)
Posted by: Flapjackmaka at April 15, 2011 09:41 AM (u8JAM)
Talk about insulated...
Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at April 15, 2011 09:41 AM (AB8DI)
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 15, 2011 01:40 PM (XBM1t)
Cantor is a bitch.
Posted by: Flapjackmaka at April 15, 2011 09:41 AM (u8JAM)
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 15, 2011 09:41 AM (XBM1t)
Posted by: IreneFingIrene at April 15, 2011 09:42 AM (JKe0g)
Posted by: curious at April 15, 2011 09:43 AM (k1rwm)
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at April 15, 2011 09:43 AM (uVLrI)
From Brooks As a result, both men are misinformed about the other, and both have developed a cold contempt for the otherÂ’s position.
Yo David, when I get invited to a attend a presidential speech I'm always happy to hear the President aim cheap shots at me.
Posted by: Paul Ryan at April 15, 2011 09:45 AM (VN6OM)
Posted by: curious at April 15, 2011 09:45 AM (k1rwm)
Posted by: Soap MacTavish at April 15, 2011 01:41 PM (vbh31)
If you were to have a full-frontal lobotomy, the piece of your brain that they take out could be left out for a week in the sun and still achieve a Ph.D. in political science.
Posted by: AmishDude at April 15, 2011 09:45 AM (T0NGe)
While we're on the topic of good-looking candidates with meager accomplishments, I've always felt that way about JFK. The Harvard crowd creamed their pants over someone whose greatest achievement was being rich and good lucking with a glamorous wife. You still hear these aging simpletons go on and on about how JFK inspired them in their youth. Don't expect the Obama fans to wake up.
Posted by: Matt at April 15, 2011 09:46 AM (ecpMe)
If he tries that "legacy" argument then point out that legacies are white affirmative action. Obama got in by affirmative action.
Posted by: Miss Marple at April 15, 2011 09:47 AM (Fo83G)
Posted by: curious at April 15, 2011 09:47 AM (k1rwm)
My God!
That's it! They think he's Morgan Freeman! They voted for Morgan Freeman and no one is going to tell them that this wise, calm black man isn't just the right tonic for our nation's woes.
Posted by: Warden at April 15, 2011 09:47 AM (fVIlG)
Posted by: David Brooks at April 15, 2011 01:46 PM (erPX9)
You had me at "I" David.
Posted by: Barry the Lemon Squeezer Sotero at April 15, 2011 09:49 AM (pr+up)
Since you posed that question to a bunch of morons at AoSHQ.
I'm going to assume you've already started and are looking for approval to assuage your guilty conscience.
P.S.It's never too early to start drinking.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at April 15, 2011 09:49 AM (tf9Ne)
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 15, 2011 09:50 AM (XBM1t)
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 15, 2011 09:53 AM (XBM1t)
I'm not sure how that works, especially when their respective philosophies couldn't be more diametrically opposed. The leadership might ultimately shaft the Budget Committee, but I've seen evidence that the Budget Comm. firmly believes in this plan.
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at April 15, 2011 09:53 AM (uVLrI)
Posted by: Barky the Mad Collectivist at April 15, 2011 09:54 AM (Q5+Og)
How the living Hell do people who grow up, campaign for elections, hobnob with elites, and finagle backroom deals be so catastrophically, abyssally, bone-shatteringly stupid?
I mean, fucking really. I cannot figure it out. It doesn't seem biochemically possible.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 15, 2011 09:54 AM (bxiXv)
They thought he was Bill Cosby playing Cliff Huxtable. It was a deliberate part of the campaign to give that visual image. Go back and look at how BO and Mo were dressed...very professional and middle class. The girls were carefully coifed and dressed so that they looked like Rudy and Vanessa from the show.
After the election, Michelle showed up in that "Kiss of the SPider Woman" dress, and the disguises disappeared. But I swear to you they were deliberately trying to look like the Huxtables.
Posted by: Miss Marple at April 15, 2011 09:54 AM (Fo83G)
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 15, 2011 01:50 PM (XBM1t)
FIFY
Posted by: Damiano at April 15, 2011 09:54 AM (3nrx7)
Posted by: Warden at April 15, 2011 01:47 PM (fVIlG)
Of course. Actually, the First Black President was supposed to be Morgan Freeman. Old, distinguished, the weariness of many years of oppression.
He would have been an accidental president, of course, because the racist American people would never actually vote for a black man for president. Oh, possibly vice president, but more likely he'd have to be appointed to the vice presidency and then take over due to illness.
And he'd be Eisenhower. He'd wow everyone with his staid, quiet wisdom and clever insights while not being too ideological. He'd do things that would frustrate the mean old fat wrinkled white Senators from both sides of the aisle but the people would love him. He'd be full of common sense and he might actually have some academic credentials that he doesn't brag about too much.
Nobody could possibly object to President Morgan Freeman.
Besides, people like Brooks voted for Obama almost exclusively because of his race. So, by the principle of psychological projection, anybody who didn't vote for him must have done so also because of his race, but in the bad racist way, not in the good paternalistic condescension kind of racist way.
Posted by: AmishDude at April 15, 2011 09:55 AM (T0NGe)
Plus, that show was the top show for several years back in the 90's, when a lot of the younger voters were growing up.
Posted by: Miss Marple at April 15, 2011 09:57 AM (Fo83G)
Posted by: Miss Marple at April 15, 2011 01:54 PM (Fo83G)
I do think that's true of the girls and Michelle, but Cliff Huxtable is not presidential material.
Posted by: AmishDude at April 15, 2011 09:57 AM (T0NGe)
I believe he sincerely thought he could do something about it by uncovering and reporting all of the unsavory details about Ogabe, which he did, magnificently. He failed to consider that the presstitutes were already on the Soros payroll. (Honestly, if your ad revenue is sub-basement, and you don't care, someone else is footing the bill.)
More than once Glenn has sounded quite bitter about how idealistic he was to think that the MBM would follow his lead. Since his TV show didn't do it, he's going to try another tack to make more people see Ogabe for what he is.
Posted by: RushBabe at April 15, 2011 09:58 AM (Ew27I)
did anyone mention this passage?
"But it didn't matter to the Educated Elite. Because, for them, it's not about accomplishments or character or actual thought, but the surface of things, and it's crucial they keep that system of the Surface of Things running smoothly because their livelihoods depend on it."
Actually it's not about the appearance: Ivy League leftists believe that they are all that brilliant, so why shouldn't Big O fit the bill? (It's not like his daddy got him into Yale and got him that Harvard MBA, like that big dope GWB.)
Posted by: mallfly at April 15, 2011 09:59 AM (bJm7W)
Posted by: Barky the Mad Collectivist at April 15, 2011 01:54 PM (Q5+Og)
As if things weren't already sky-high there. I remember seeing people exiting the grocery store with one, maybe two bags of stuff. Meanwhile, at the commissary, we usually had between six to 10 (for two of us).
Posted by: RushBabe at April 15, 2011 10:01 AM (Ew27I)
Good post. Obama fools a lot of the people all of the time.
Posted by: Beagle at April 15, 2011 10:04 AM (sOtz/)
Posted by: JayBee at April 15, 2011 10:05 AM (kX5hh)
"As if things weren't already sky-high there. I remember seeing people exiting the grocery store with one, maybe two bags of stuff. Meanwhile, at the commissary, we usually had between six to 10 (for two of us)."
If you are on Oahu, you know the locals hate you don't you?
Posted by: Barky the Mad Collectivist at April 15, 2011 10:06 AM (Q5+Og)
Obama gave Amanda Marcotte, the real leader of the left, what she wanted. A huge fist up every tax payer's ass.
Posted by: Lemon Kitten at April 15, 2011 10:06 AM (0fzsA)
I know it's early, but have an alcoholic beverage handy.
Posted by: RushBabe at April 15, 2011 10:07 AM (Ew27I)
Posted by: davidt at April 15, 2011 10:07 AM (u8VNX)
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at April 15, 2011 10:09 AM (uVLrI)
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 15, 2011 10:09 AM (SfSiO)
Posted by: kansas at April 15, 2011 10:10 AM (mka2b)
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at April 15, 2011 02:09 PM (uVLrI)
Yup, only 2 Republican "no" votes with 94 R's left to vote in 6 min.
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 15, 2011 10:12 AM (XBM1t)
Posted by: tsj017 at April 15, 2011 10:12 AM (4YUWF)
If you've never seen Ann Barnhardt's "Nice" video, it's a must see.
Posted by: RushBabe at April 15, 2011 10:13 AM (Ew27I)
Posted by: Brooks: "The president...hit the political sweet spot" at April 15, 2011 10:13 AM (w41GQ)
Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at April 15, 2011 10:14 AM (/rKtK)
Was on Oahu, was. Aiea, to be exact. The only American city comprised of vowels. That was 20 years ago, but I'd guess it's not much different now, grocery-wise. I'd look for Ebola to put the screws to commissaries soon anyway. Even Boooosh was trying to do away with them.
Posted by: RushBabe at April 15, 2011 10:16 AM (Ew27I)
Posted by: Soothsayer, Republican Whip at April 15, 2011 12:52 PM (uFokq)
He was using his "Streets the Clown" voice for it; I'd pay cash money for the opportunity to bitchslap that fucking punk. Tammy Bruce is talking about it now.
Posted by: Captain Hate at April 15, 2011 10:16 AM (vEVry)
Posted by: East Bay Jay at April 15, 2011 10:17 AM (ocHBO)
"Was on Oahu, was. Aiea, to be exact. The only American city comprised of vowels. That was 20 years ago, but I'd guess it's not much different now, grocery-wise. I'd look for Ebola to put the screws to commissaries soon anyway. Even Boooosh was trying to do away with them."
I was stationed at Kaneohe. My favorite island was Hawaii, very nice people. Oahu was a hit and miss with the locals. Believe it or not, I gave up surfing in HI because of (1) the huge glass sharp lava rocks under the waves and (2) the local surf nazis. Either one could kill you at any moment. Took up scuba diving. It was safer.
Posted by: Barky the Mad Collectivist at April 15, 2011 10:20 AM (Q5+Og)
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 15, 2011 10:21 AM (XBM1t)
If you read his Medicare plan carefully, you'll see that it's highly progressive because the size of each Medicare participant's voucher is based on his/her pre-existing health conditions, and poor participants have worse health status, on average, than rich participants.
This is the kind of stuff which really grinds my stomach. It's one thing to disagree on policy, but another for the President of the US to come out and comprehensively lie about proposed legislation in prepared remarks invoking putting sick kids on the street. It might be a new low for official demagoguery in my lifetime.
And most of the media will push Obama's lies.
1984 was not intended as a how-to book.
Posted by: Beagle at April 15, 2011 10:23 AM (sOtz/)
Only made it to Maui the short time I was there. Ended up barfing on a whale-watch boat. Kaneohe, huh? A Jarine! Are you still in?
Posted by: RushBabe at April 15, 2011 10:23 AM (Ew27I)
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 15, 2011 10:23 AM (SfSiO)
Posted by: RushBabe at April 15, 2011 10:24 AM (Ew27I)
The Republic is too stupid to survive. Happens all the time.
Posted by: Beagle at April 15, 2011 10:25 AM (sOtz/)
Posted by: TexasJew at April 15, 2011 10:26 AM (gdGPK)
Posted by: Miss Marple at April 15, 2011 01:54 PM (Fo83G)
Didn't work for me. I grew up on the Cosby Show and loved it. iWon and his family didn't bring the Huxtables to mind at all.
Maybe it did for those who are more susceptible to bullshit.
Besides, the precedent never wore a nice sweater and khaki pants, which is what I associate with Dr. Huxtable (and somehow, a pipe... which I know he didn't have). His wife always seemed to wear the more business class suits while he was a bit laid back. The kids were always well dressed, though.
Posted by: soulpile is.. expendable at April 15, 2011 10:26 AM (gH+Hj)
Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at April 15, 2011 10:27 AM (/rKtK)
@3: "And he vilified the opposition party and half of the American people."
Well, 48% of the American people, but many of them, in truth, are still pretty much cool with free gummint shit. Further, what, exactly, is this "opposition party" of which you speak? The guys who argue that we should commit national suicide at a slightly slower rate? They still agree with the destination, they only differ slightly on the method.
Posted by: Fa Cube Itches at April 15, 2011 10:28 AM (xy9wk)
"Only made it to Maui the short time I was there. Ended up barfing on a whale-watch boat. Kaneohe, huh? A Jarine! Are you still in?"
No. That was many moons ago. We had a President then. A guy named Ronald. Good times.
Posted by: Barky the Mad Collectivist at April 15, 2011 10:29 AM (Q5+Og)
I think, after we lost the '08 election, that we - some of us - had some meager hopes that, well, at least since this guy was elected, maybe Blacks in particular could finally see that institutionalized racism was truly past. Over. Gone. Done. That they - blacks - could finally get over whatever stigma remained of an unpleasant (vastly understated), part of US history, and at last accept their inclusion into the body politic. They ...and the rest of us, too.
Oh, we worried about his lack of anything remotely resembling executive experience (let alone ability), amongst a lot of other questions & observations ...but, for that few minutes of history, we had the hope that at least there'd be some mitigation, and a final healing, by the Obama election, that was so publicly obvious that anyone of any race or polity could see it, accept it ...and finally get on with life.
Regardless of the politics of it ...hell, it was still something we could be proud of, as a nation.
But ...since then ...the obvious reality keeps smacking us 'longside the head.
He was simply the wrong black guy for the historical part he's played.
He's a racist (really). A bigot. Unqualified. Detached. Narcisstic to the point of it being a classic example of the pathology. A hokum-skokum, foghorn-j-leghorn caricature, snake oil salesman ...and so obviously such that it's become a national catastrophe and an international embarrassment (politically, socially, and culturally).
And yet still promoted by a clueless media enabling (in another example of a classic pathology) this ...failed ...prophet of Hope and Change.
And as for the rest of the O-believers class: living proof of the PT Barnum-esque truism that "...there's a sucker born ev'ry minute."
...and, as my darling bride ever so accurately noted a few years ago: "He's really not very, umm, bright, then, is he."
Indeed.
It wasn't worth it.
Good gawd, he's worse than Jimmy Carter ...the vast scope of whose dysfunctional presidency didn't even become finally totally obvious until 9/11/2001 ...and if it took 30 years for America to reach the trough of that fool's mistakes, what depths do we yet have to look forward to from the Obama administration's ineptness?
Ain't lookin' good people ...ain't lookin' good at all.
Posted by: davisbr at April 15, 2011 10:30 AM (uCShA)
Posted by: davidt at April 15, 2011 10:34 AM (u8VNX)
"Good gawd, he's worse than Jimmy Carter ...the vast scope of whose dysfunctional presidency didn't even become finally totally obvious until 9/11/2001 ...and if it took 30 years for America to reach the trough of that fool's mistakes, what depths do we yet have to look forward to from the Obama administration's ineptness?"
You forgot to add the 8 years of Clintoon and his cruise missile jihad over his Jewish princesses spotted dress. That and his CRA underwriting standards implemented by the right honorable Franklin Delano Raines. Agree with your estimate of Carter, but you do have to give a nod to the first Black President as well. Now we have the WON. Of the three who do you make to be the greatest narcissist?
Posted by: Barky the Mad Collectivist at April 15, 2011 10:41 AM (Q5+Og)
@70: "It's in orbit near Uranus, I think.
That's gotta be one stinky-ass orbit, then."
----------------------
We scientists got tired of those kind of childish jokes and changed the planet's name. It's now known as Urectum.
Posted by: Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth at April 15, 2011 10:41 AM (xy9wk)
@112: "And he has already run a country and an Empire...even if just in the movies"
Yeah, but Vader was an incompetent fuckwit.
Loyalty to Republic/friend? Fail.
Find stolen Death Star plans? Fail.
Protect said Death Star? Fail.
Capture/destroy Rebel command? Fail.
Ability to get fleet through asteroid field? Fail.
Convince son to join with him, overthrow Emperor, rule galaxy? Fail.
Convince son to join Dark Side? Fail.
Loyalty to Empire? Fail.
Posted by: Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth at April 15, 2011 10:56 AM (xy9wk)
Posted by: Dr. Heinz Doofensmirtz at April 15, 2011 10:57 AM (3kLAm)
@142: "That's it! They think he's Morgan Freeman! They voted for Morgan Freeman and no one is going to tell them that this wise, calm black man isn't just the right tonic for our nation's woes."
Well, in my defense, I am kinda busy fucking my step-grand-daughter.
Freak flag status: flyin'.
Posted by: Morgan Freeman at April 15, 2011 11:01 AM (xy9wk)
Posted by: OxyCon at April 15, 2011 11:18 AM (eJ7Yr)
About those electing BO to get rid of racism..heh.
Actually right. But here's the problem. The damn schools (of which I know much) do the same..."Aw, poor little black kids, let's give 'em prizes and treat 'em like Harriet Tubman was more important than GW, and they'll fimally like us."
Instead, what happens is, those kids, already narcissistic and histrionic, not to mention out-of-control, become MORE so, 'cos now they've had their high self-esteem validated. We all know now that urban black kids have the highest self-esteem and that the worst disrupters have the highest SE, and that what we need to require is self-discipline, instead of giving mindless praise.
So it works in reverse. Now we have brawls in the cities and Black Panthers at the voting area and Eric Holder only caring about "his people." Obama's become pathological and so have a lot of his 'bots who call the talk shows and get all bent out of shape 'cos we're not respectin' the president.
Don't know where I'm going with this. But I think we made a grave error (well, those fooled enough to vote for him) by not waitng until we had a black candidate who deserved the position, 'cos now there's more entitlement than ever. And just listen to BO's tone on that tape..That kind of contempt is growing steadily as they attempt to marginalize the rest of us.
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Today's word is legerdemain.
It means sleight of hand; trickery; deception.
As in budgetary legerdemain perpetrated by the president and Congress.
Posted by: Soothsayer, Republican Whip at April 15, 2011 08:35 AM (uFokq)