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May 25, 2011

VDH Updates the Standard Obama 2008 Stump Speech. [ArthurK]
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Here's the first paragraph - read the whole thing at this link.

The Economy: "Make no mistake about it - we must have critical new investment and government priming to free us from the Bush recession. Therefore, if America is willing to embrace such Keynesian spending, I will promise to keep our unemployment rate below 10 percent, while my team borrows no more than an additional $5 trillion for new shovel-ready stimulus. I envision our national debt rising to no more than $16 trillion over my tenure. I also promise to take over any corporation that explores bankruptcy as a way to default on what it owes its union members and pensioners, who will always have a higher claim than any creditors or Wall Street speculators. I have already talked of spreading the wealth; but as president I promise to extend food stamps to more Americans than at any time in history."

Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:32 PM | Comments (23)
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1 And toast the Queen. I promise to toast the Queen. Also, I appeared hugely awesome with the background music of God Bless America when I was toasting her. Nice touch. I was expecting them to play God Save the Queen at some point, but whatevs.

Posted by: OzJohnnie at May 25, 2011 10:49 PM (RJY0+)

2 What, not one word about me? That little jerk!

Posted by: Saul Alinsky at May 25, 2011 11:00 PM (PHxOH)

3 VDH's latest "Works and Days" entry is where's-the-hemlock depressing.

Posted by: Waterhouse at May 25, 2011 11:00 PM (FbsN1)

4 Scary part? That half the voters would love such a speech if it fell out of Barry's mouth.

Posted by: George Orwell at May 25, 2011 11:12 PM (AZGON)

5 OT... "Yes, folks, you read that right. Spanish air traffic controllers make an average of $500,000 a year (indeed, according to the Times of London, ten of them were paid between $1.1 and $1.3 million last year, while another 226 were paid between $630,000 and $770,000). And they are upset because the government wants to pare back their average take to below $300,000 a year. So they are on strike. And the Spanish people actually put up with this." Mark my words, this is coming here. We will be indistinguishable from the EU on a few years. Get a gubmint job if you want some long green.

Posted by: George Orwell at May 25, 2011 11:30 PM (AZGON)

6 Ugh. And Hanson still left stuff out. It really could go on and on and on. How far we have fallen been driven down by the JEF, the Pelosi/Reid Congress, and the cabal of czars.

Thanks, MBM, for your bang-up job of reporting and analysis. Bastards the lot of them.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at May 25, 2011 11:46 PM (DAEhL)

7 Meanwhile, for the most centralized health care system in the Western world, the average salary for primary care physicians in Spain is around $70,000.

Yeah, verily ... but a doctor can only kill one patient at a time. An ATC can boff off an entire flight.

Posted by: Adriane at May 26, 2011 12:29 AM (L9W0l)

8 Jeez that Pajamas article Hanson wrote makes you want to eat a bullet.

Posted by: Zakn at May 26, 2011 12:41 AM (7F9i5)

9 That 52% really fucked us. Funny thing is, they fucked themselves too.

Posted by: Case at May 26, 2011 02:00 AM (0K+Kw)

10 Posted by: Case
..........
They don't look at it that way.. As a matter of fact, they think anyone voting against the Dems is "voting against one's own self interests".

To them, it's just grab what you can while the free stuff is flowing.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at May 26, 2011 02:18 AM (qsodE)

11 The lawlessness Dr. Hanson describes in the Pajamas piece is enabled by our elected masters whose whole raison d'etre has been reduced to shaking down the productive to keep the entitled at arms (or gated) length a little longer.

Posted by: Snake Plissken at May 26, 2011 02:43 AM (4SDHr)

12 Jebus. Vic is laying on the truth sauce of DOOM thicker than Monty in a California brothel.

Ease into it, big fella. Your audience is one loving spoonful away from a frontal lobotomy.

Posted by: Fritz at May 26, 2011 03:05 AM (AN8d5)

13 "Yes, folks, you read that right. Spanish air traffic controllers make an average of $500,000 a year"

And the thing is, there's no huge skill involved here. A couple weeks training and an average person would know everything there is about the job.

Posted by: lowandslow at May 26, 2011 03:18 AM (GZitp)

14 E-mail that to everyone you know. For it is awesome.

Posted by: Lemon Kitten at May 26, 2011 04:32 AM (0fzsA)

15 we must have critical new investment and government priming to free us from the Bush recession.

The economic pump won't prime? Maybe it needs needs new leathers or a complete rebuild. We can pour all the money in the world down this leaky econ pump and it will never prime.

But since these bastards in DC have never lived in the real word they wouldn't know that.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at May 26, 2011 05:21 AM (tf9Ne)

16 I want to barf. This is not a good way to wake up in the morning.

Posted by: 57 States at May 26, 2011 05:33 AM (K5N29)

COA 1: Military coup...followed by the dissolution of the United States, initiation of nuclear strikes on our primary hostile sovereign debtholders coupled with renunciation of all federal debt, seizure of all major oil fields in the Mideast, and establishment of reeducation camps for the Washington/Manhattan axis.

COA 2: Do nothing...and the nation is overrun by debt/hyperinflation, the older set continues its capital harvesting from the productive younger generations, and the nation is beset by madness as Obama continues his hourly assault on rationality and propriety.

Maybe it's a false dichotomy, but I wish there were an inkling of support for COA 1.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at May 26, 2011 06:00 AM (DPM1U)

18 All that is missing is all the multiple "uhs" between each sentance.

Posted by: Spiff at May 26, 2011 06:46 AM (ZY3rA)

19 President Doofus makes Mickey Mouse look like a Nobel Prize winner----er, Doofus is a Nobel Prize winner.

Posted by: Comanche Voter at May 26, 2011 07:09 AM (3ESDJ)

20 Large amounts of citizens on unemployment, welfare and food stamps is the pre-eminent sign of a successful, first world society since unsuccessful countries can't afford to pay benefits to their citizens. It is also preferable to have the US government run every business in the country, because the larger the government, the more successful it is.

Posted by: The MSM, Working for You, Peon! at May 26, 2011 07:40 AM (OKZrE)

21 You think you're depressed after reading VDH? Try living 25 mins up the highway from him.

Posted by: michelle's mustache at May 26, 2011 09:48 AM (vyk8N)

22 The sad thing is, the same people (let's call them "pseudoAmericans") who elected the guy might read this and be totally cool with it.

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