All politics, all the time

The title is a quote from Reince Priebus (and I thought I had a funny name), who heads up the Republican National Committee.

Ya see, the Republicans have scheduled a candidates' debate on Sept. 7, 8:00 pm. It's been scheduled for months now.

And, curiously enough, the Comrade sent Speaker of the House John Boehner a message requesting to address a joint session of congress on Sept. 7, 8:00 pm. It seems the Comrade's interns slapped together his promised jobs proposal while the Comrade was golfing in Martha's Vineyeard. Now the Comrade wants to blot out the threat of a Republican candidates' debate with his speech -- which I could probably give you right now.

I mentioned the "dog in the manger" phrase a couple blogs back. I'd heard that it originated from some kind of story about a dog getting in Jesus' manger and wanting to hog the limelight. Well, I looked it up, and it seems it comes from Aesop's Fables. About a dog who laid down in a manger, not because he wanted to eat the grain, but because he wanted to prevent the oxen from getting at it. Just out of some psychopathic impulse to wreck everyone else's lives.

Never fails to amaze me how... the more things change, the more they stay the same.

Like the Russian Czars and communist/fascist dictators everywhere, the Comrade apparently just can't even tolerate the idea of someone else suggesting solutions to the nation's problems. I mean that's why Sakharov was baished to some armpit in Siberia in Russia -- because he dared to engage with Solzhenitsyn in some public conversation about how to improve life in the USSR. Solzhenitsyn took refuge for a time in the USA. And neither one of those guys were rapping the existing regime in their talk. The government just didn't want to take any chances on allowng any competition.

The Comrade, cut of the same cloth as other autocrats and diktators, appears to share that common totalitarian attitude.

Dog in the manger, not that he'll have much to say (tax the rich, another useless, wasteful, destructuve stimulus of some kind, tighten controls over what's left of the "free" market, pay off my union thugs, kiss the environmentalists' asses). He just wants to make sure that no one else has a voice.

And that's not how it's suppose to work in the USA, Comrade. But then I wouldn't expect him to understand that. He hasn't so far.

Boehner has offered Sept. 8 as an alternative for the Comrade's speech. Think the Comrade will be willing to reschedule his tee-time? Or is he just making life as totally, stupidly combative and untenable as he possibly can? What do you think? What's he done so far?

Everything's a problem with this guy. Aren't you getting tired of nursing his neuroses and psychoses? I am.

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Addenda to media criticism (see below)

Well, the the media's hot news focus of the day has shifted -- only slightly -- from rehashes about tropical storm Irene to "We were right to provide moment-to-moment coverage on the storm and NOTHING ELSE for three days."

I mean, yeah, providing serious warnings about impending danger is a worthwhile and even admirable thing. Standing on an abandoned beach for 14 hours in a chartreuse windbreaker -- and this a day before the storm arrived -- and delivering informative and insightful reports like "Nope, nothin' yet, but the wind seems to be picking up" -- is just a teense over the top. Just a little too eager for a potential misfortune.

And I'd like to separate the actual residents of the East Coast from the news people. The residents behaved very well, very wisely for the most part. Even those young men on the Jersey Shore who planned to stick it out because, "We paid for the house for a week and we're staying a week."

Apparently even people from other countries are up to their eyeballs in tropical storm Irene stories and hoping for even a whiff of anything else leaking out from the East Coast-based US news conglomerates.

Someone suggested to a newscaster that Japan's 7+ quake and tsunami were much worse.

Thanks for ponting that out. Actually, I think Japan should get 21st Century Award for Enduring a Mind-Boggling Disaster Without Whining About It Like a Bunch of Babies.

As a matter of fact, I'm giving Japan that award right now.

By contrast, guess where the US news media ranks on that one?

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National media opts for local weather reporting

Now that tropical storm Irene has passed over, scaring the bejeeses out of the media but apparently not spooking too many other people, can we see something on the news besides vistas of empty beaches and that abiding favorite, spots-of-water-on-the-lens?

Face it, "Hurricane" Irene was a bust, despite the way the media hyped it.

On TV, we got three days of the local weather -- for the mid-Atlantic region. How very provincial. I mean really provincial. All the crap weather we've had in the rest of the country, and the local TV news everywhere still found a bunch of other stuff to talk about. Iowa was embroiled in all kinds of politics, for example. Yeah, in this one-horse segment of the nation. Imagine that.

The whole Midwest had what amounted to a land-based hurricane sitting over five or six states, from Kansas to Ohio, Minnesota to Arkansas, for the entire first half of this summer. Winds were, periodically, worse than what Irene was spinning. Unpredictable and very violent storms. The national media did mention the worst of the tornados. I mean, who can resist a scene of absolute devastation, where your kid's swimming pool ends up somehow in a neighboring county? Who cares about the rest? Texas is fried. Have the temperatures there fallen below 100 degrees yet? Who knows? And who cares? This is all the "fly-over zone" after all. The only thing that matters is what happens in NYC or LA. Right?

Pretty sorry that the national media can't seem to penetrate any further into the USA than the coastlines.

Even if Irene wimped out at the end, the media did its best to blow it up into something the dimension of Krakatoa or Mt. Pinatubo. Let's pretend the East Coast is more important than the rest of the country. Or the rest of the world, for that matter.

Legends in their own minds?

"Well, XX% of the population lives on the Eastern seaboard." "This is a 'historic' storm." I'm not quite convinced of that. I'm sure they've seen much worse. I've seen much worse. One visit to Virginia, there was a hurricane off the coast and I never knew it until I heard someone chatting about it at a souvenir shop in Yorktown. In North Carolina, New York, and New Jersey, many residents appeared to be skateboarding on the seawalls or strolling calmly on the barrier beaches, scarves flapping in the wind. Others probably breaking into stores and cars, even as Irene was whipping up the waves.

OK. It's over. So can we move on?

Sick and tired of it. Do we really need to hear about the repair of each and every downed power line in the Pine Barrens or Upstate New York? The media even pretty much snubbed Boston.

Our "big blow" in northern Illinois was more than a month ago, and on the forested lots, there are still fallen trees stacked up like fire wood, which I suppose it will be, if and when the county gets around to picking it up. Send a news crew! OMG, we had a storm! Who would ever suspected such a thing might happen?

But wait! They still have six more East Coast governors to interview and applaud for listening to the weather reports. Yeah, quite an accomplishment for a politician, no?

I suppose next January, we'll have to sit through a series of man-on-the-street interviews about how dreadfully hot it is in Florida. Yeah. We know.

How about something that concerns the rest of us?

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What a bunch of wusses

No offense to the East Coast, but they've certainly "evolved" a purty fer distance from Daniel Boone et. al.

The East Coast was shaken by a 5.8 earthquake a couple days ago. Didn't do much damage except to structures very close to the epicenter in Mineral, VA. I happen to be slightly familiar with the surrounding area because it falls pretty close to Grant's road to Richmond. Not much around there except old battlefields and some pretty rugged, often heavily wooded terrain.

Anyway, some ceiling tiles were loosened in a public school, a couple grocery stores had stuff rocked off their shelves, at least one home was about completely collapsed, and now there's a large crack in the Washington Monument. And no end of whining and hysteria all up and down the East Coast. Especially in DC. A bunch of panicked federal workers scampering around the Mall. Had to leave work early, maybe their swivel chair rolled across the office and would no longer be safe to sit on.

The East Coast has suffered earlier and much worse eathquakes with about half the noise and panic.

A relative of mine lived less than a mile from the epicenter of the Northridge earthquake in L.A. about 12 - 15 years ago. The quake struck very early morning. He told me when he got up, in his kitchen he was knee-deep in broken glass, dishes, and shattered condiments. All the cabinets and the fridge were open. He could never again get glass to fit in the twisted patio doors. Outside, fountains gushed from broken water mains and flames were shooting up from broken gas mains. No phone service. No electricity.

A different relative lived many years in L.A. and told me -- laughing -- about putting her make-up on in the morning, getting ready to go to work, when a sudden tremor rocked her apartment building. She'd been applying mascara and with the abrupt shift in the landscape, ended up with a weird black streak across her face. Hard time cleaning that up, but she made it to work. Just a small setback.

But we're supposed to be all upset about this little tremblor back East.

Now the East Coast is threatened by Hurricane Irene. Last I heard, it had yet to make landfall and was already abating somewhat -- though it could re-energize, I suppose.

Wisely, I think, Bloomberg is shutting down subways, etc. in New York City as of noon Saturday. Irene is predicted to slam right into the city, and if it does with any force, the subways may flood. And all along the East Coast, residents are warned to evacuate. They have plenty of warning.

And because they have plenty of warning, why the panic?

You guys ever go outside, look up, and see the whole sky -- clouds looking like they're torn patches of black cardboard -- revolvng slowly around you? Tornado sirens going off all around. Only last month no one for miles around my neighborhood had any electricity due to fallen trees. The trees pulled down electrical wires. A fallen transformer was blocking a nearby intersection. I mean trees 50 to 100 feet tall uprooted and flung across the streets and highways. Difficult to drive anywhere for thing like candles or even food (no electricity, no refrigeration) -- traffic lights not working, gas pumps not working. And no place to go anyway, as the stores were all closed.

But we're supposed to be all on edge and worried about a dissipating hurricane maybe touching New York City.

Please. Grow up. Evacuate if you're scared. I would. At least you guys have some warning. With tornados, you get 15 minutes if you're lucky. And with those bizarre winds we had -- no warning at all. Just suddenly the wrenching crack of tree limbs (and trunks), roof tiles flying all over... not mention the flooding in low-lying areas, including sections of streets and highways.

And guess what? We all survived.

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Coffee, Tea or Waters

Maxine Waters, congressional rep from the 35th district, California -- that is, South Central Los Angele -- has told the Tea Party to "go to hell."

As a self-selected member of the Tea Party, I must say I'd prefer to go to hell rather than live in South Central L.A.

Waters' district is a classic example of "plantation politics." Or of a classic plantation of the old Slave South. The only difference is, the slaves couldn't get away from it; they were legally held as property by their owners. You can escape from South Central, but only if you reject all those things that Waters and those of her kind preach: that you are a helpless victim that must be infantalized and kept dependent in order to harvest your vote.

I mean, look at the structure of a slave plantation. You had Ol' Massa and the Missus at the top of the pyramid, makng all the decisions and dispensing whatever kindnesses were available, including medical assistance -- such as it was. The slaves were trained from birth to believe that they were stupid, incompetent, irresponsible, and could never manage their own lives by themselves. Ol' Massa sincerely believed, therefore, that he was owed a debt of gratitude by the  slaves.

Now let's look at South Central L.A., as but one example of similar, blighted urban areas in the USA. You have Maxine Waters and like-minded politicians at the top of the pyramid, makng all the decisions and dispensing whatever kindnesses are available, including medical assistance -- such as it is. The district voters are trained from birth to believe that they're stupid, incompetent, irresponsible, and can never manage their own lives by themselves. Ol' Maxine sincerely believes, therefore, that she is owed a debt of gratitude by these voters. And she gets it every time her "dependency" re-elects her.

Eveything the slaves/district voters earn is gobbled up and/or appropriated by Ol' Massa/Maxine and the various levels of government. What benefits do they get for their labor -- if they can find jobs? They get public housing or welfare assistance, food stamps, maybe training for "green jobs" that most probably will never materialize. They get a mean and ugly subsistance.

In South Central L.A., your only chance to get ahead is to become a successful drug dealer, or to be lucky enough to do some really serious looting of electronics stores during a riot and then actually find buyers for those stolen goods. Otherwise, you're just pretty much stuck with whatever Ol' Maxine feels you "deserve" and what she can finagle from the federal government. Noblesse oblige.

'Course, Ol' Maxine's husband's bank gets millions in TARP funds or whatever, but then she lives on a very different level than her constituency, right? I mean, after all, she's Ruling Class. She deserves that kind of gratitude. No?

In fact, if Maxine Waters approved of the Tea Party, I'd think the Tea Party was doing something very, very wrong.

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One small step for illegal aliens; one giant step toward dictatorship

The Comrade and his friends in the executive branch decided yesterday that since Brain-dead Harry Reid's "Dream Act" bill failed in congress, that they would simply ignore the will of the American public and announce the Dream Act provisions in the form of some kind of dictatorial decree.

This is not the first time the Comrade has done this. The EPA is busily trashing the energy industry as we speak -- even though the Comrade didn't have a shot at getting his anti-coal, pro-windmill bullshit endorsed by congress. And using the NLRB as a bully pulpit for labor unions when the "card-check" crap didn't have a prayer of being legislated. Just a couple examples. There are many more.

I'll tell you the truth -- the Comrade's complete contempt for the law, for congress, for the democratic legislative process in the US is more important than any of these single issues.

He's a fucking autocrat. Diktator. Authoritarian. Tyrant. Whatever.

We can't afford to keep this piece of shit in office much longer, let alone pay for his luxury vacations. He's proved he can do as much, if not more damage, while sucking up federal dollars on a beach in New England as when he's actually in the Oval Office. He needs to go now. And his little dogs with him.

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Food stamps as "stimulus"

The current regime gets more and more desperate. Now the head of Agriculture is saying that food stamps are about the most powerful kind of stimulus you can have.

Man, this guy, Vilsack or something like that, really has his head up his butt.

He says every time you spend $1.00 in a grocery store, you impact the whole supply chain, triggering production, delivery trucks, stock boys, cashiers, blah-blah-blah. So if you spend $1.00, you generate $1.82 in the economy.

This is old. It's known as "the multiplier effect." And if it's true at all, it's true for spending private dollars as well as government food stamps.

The main difference is -- and please pay attention, Vilsack, et. al. -- EVERY TIME YOU SPEND $1.00 IN FOOD STAMPS, OR IN ANY OTHER GOVERNMENT PROGRAM, YOU CREATE $1.00 (AT LEAST) IN GOVERNMENT DEBT.

And the "multiplier effect" of government debt is... taking money out of the hands of investors and entrepreneurs who spend it to underwrite the creation and growth of productive -- that is, profit-making -- ventures. This is how the private sector creates jobs. And in succcessful ventures, profits keep on creating more and more jobs.

And then, of course, consider another "multiplier effect." That is, just gettng food stamps into the hands of the public requires how much MORE government spending? Collecting taxes, IRS processing, establishing agencies and systems to distribute the food stamps, etc etc etc. So how much is Obamacare going to cost us -- above and beyond legitimate payments to doctors, hospitals, etc. The socialized medicine bill creates something like 165 new government agencies. All to deliver "free" health care. Yeah. Right. (See, the Good Fairy from the East comes by and replenishes the US Treasury from time to time.)

With all this in view, I think $1.00 in food stamps probably costs the US economy about $12.00. But I'm just guessing. It's probably a lot higher than that.

I've also heard it said -- and by otherwise intelligent and well educated people -- that government stimuulus and private spending have exactly the same impact.

No, no, no, no, no. You see, with government spending, especially with stuff like food stamps, you get this wide disbursal of funds across many, many people. You know, a dollar here, a dollar there. It tends to make "capital formation" which is what banks and rich people do, impossible. And you need capital formation, or large pools of capital, to fund productive ventures, launch businesses and so forth.

Even the government needs capital formation for big projects. 'Course, since all government money is appropriated from private citizens, ANY CAPITAL THE GOVERNMENT HAS REPRESENTS GOVERNMENT DEBT. Worth keeping that in mind.

Got it? Good. It's not hard to understand. Apparently only the blockheads in government and Paul Krugmann fail to see it.

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Comrade wants to listen... so listen

Cute. Yesterday the Comrade was challenged in Iowa by Ryan Rhodes, who I've seen described as one of the organizers of the Iowa Tea Party.

Apparently Rhodes shouted out a couple questions while His Hindness was giving a speech, or maybe during a Q&A that followed. Then Rhodes relentlessly followed up in a reception line after the speech. I've been looking for the video on YouTube, but as of last night, it wasn't posted there.

Rhodes asked why the Comrade didn't object to idiot v.p. Biden, when Biden seemed to agree that conservative Republicans in congress are "terrorists."

The Comrade "explained" that the Republicans were "holding the nation hostage" and threatening to allow a default. Rhodes asked, quite calmly, something like, "Don't you think a balanced budget is a reasonable request?" And so on.

Significantly, and quite typically, Comrade Narcissist refuses to see the other side, that is, that Brain-dead Harry Reid did more than his part to "hold the nation hostage" by rejecting two proposals regarding the debt crisis that actually had passed the House. No, ol' Brain-dead and the Comrade aren't holding anyone hostage with their imbecilic actions and insane demands. If you don't bow and kiss their feet, you're the one who's behaving badly.

Well, Comrade, you called your Rolling Blunder thing a "listening tour." So take a listen. We are NOT on your side. We know what you're trying to do, and we will block you at every turn. Get used to it.

And kudos to Ryan Rhodes. I should think it would be quite intimidating to act like a rational and well-informed citizen amidst the frenzy of dem supporters, the Secret Service, etc. etc., trying to hold the Comrade's feet to the fire against His Hindness's highly regaled "charisma," if that's what you want to call it.

Thanks, Ryan! And by the way, have you considered running for president? Open field here.

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Rolling Blunder -- Comrade's Midwest bus tour

Lots of attention on Iowa just now, with the Straw Poll and wannabe Republican candidates gearing up for the "real" caucus early next year. Mitt Romney and Rick Perry both did not participate in the Straw Poll, though Romney has been active in Iowa, and Perry timed his announcement to eclipse the Iowa Straw Poll.

Micbele Bachman won the Iowa Straw Poll. Nice for her, kinda indicates where Iowa Republicans are at, but Straw Poll winners have only rarely won national nominations and/or the presidency.

What I find bizarre is in the midst of the Iowa State Fair and Straw Poll hoopla, Debi Wasserman Schulz shows up in a summer dress, disparaging Republicans and reminding us all that the Comrade is blameless. Like... what?

And the Comrade himself has launched a bus tour -- I call it "Rolling Blunder" -- through several Midwestern states this week, I think. The route has not been announced, apparently to spare the Comrade from threats on his life. Given his performance in office, however, it just seems consistent with an overall pattern of aimless meandering.

Anyway, what's with Rolling Blunder? I mean, what exactly is the point? And wasn't he supposed to go to Martha's Vineyard to allow the liberal rich some exposure to his glorious self?

Rolling Blunder just seems odd. Perhaps having seen what the dems did to trash and anihilate the Republicans in the run-up to the 2008 election, the Comrade et. al. feel compelled to go out and try to defend themselves against the onslaught of contradictory -- and much much better -- policy ideas proposed by the right. I mean if the Iowa Debates last Thursday night were an indication, Republicans have a lot more and lot better solutions for the US's problems.

No, I think it's just that the Comrade sees this party going on in the Midwest, he wasn't invited, but he's going to crash it -- and deep in his icy heart, he believes Midwesterners will be grateful to see him.

Ever hear the phrase "dog in the manger"? I'm not sure where it originated, but supposedly it relates to some attention-hungry dog climbing into Jesus's manger in Nazareth to bask in the reflected glory and woo attention away from the baby. Kind of like when a news person is doing a broadcast from a bar or something, and some drunk keeps poking his own slobbering face in front of the camera.

The Republicans have been drawing crowds -- the Comrade just can't resist rushing in and trying to claim them as his own.

I don't think it'll work for him, though. We've already seen quite enough of him.

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Spending cuts or just go with the triggers?

Busy all day so wasn't watching anything public very closely. However....

NYSE dropped a total of 635 points Monday. Apparently all the nervous nellies getting out. But today, finished about 434 on the plus side. So looks like the more experienced and hard-to-scare traders decided to buy cheap and have picked up a lot of the slack.

More importantly...

Last night on some show -- and sorry, so tired, I forget which -- a reporter said she was at a press conference of some kind with the Comrade. Newsies asking about how those automatic triggers in the Default Compromise would work.

You know, there's supposed to be a "super committee" created of 12 members, three dems and three Reps from both House and Senate. Then, by Thanksgiving, this committee is supposed to devise a plan to cut $1.5 TRILLION or so from the federal budget. Their recommendations will be voted on "straight up or down" -- no debate, no amendments.

So, if for some reason the recommendations from the super committee are not forthcoming, or are voted down, then that triggers huge cuts in the defense budget and in Medicare.

Pundits claim the defense budget cuts would alarm Republicans, while Medicare cuts would upset the dems. But I don't think so.

The reporter in that aforementioned news conference with the Comrade? Someone asked, "What happens if Medicare is cut? What will seniors do"

The reporter said that the Comrade's eyes shifted around, he mumbled nervously, and finally said, "Obamacare."

So looks like a lose-lose for Republicans and conservatives. And I don't think the dems on that committee will be willing to talk much to conservatives, or grant them any respect.

Like, Brain-dead Harry Reid announced his dem Senate picks for the super committee:

• John Kerry, who never forgave the USA for Vietnam (though his time there was very short and comparatively uneventful, he's lived off anti-war sentiment ever since)
• Max Baucus, who was a leading pile-driver shoving socialized medicine down our throats
• Patty Murray, whom I'm not familiar with, but she's from Washington state, so probably believes human beings should leave the planet to the owls and fish.

What? No Barney Fudd?

So, not looking good, right? It depends on who the Republicans chose. But anyone who would actually work at making REAL budget cuts would just serve as counter-weight to these dem jerks from the Senate, who aren't about to "compromise" on anything. And I can only imagine which dems Pazzo Pelosi will chose from the House. Hmmm, let's see, that socialist from Vermont? (I don't want to give her any ideas.)

Oh well, we'll just have to vote all these creeps out of office next time. But there will be lots of stuff to undo.

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Insane, stupid, or deliberate?

Well, the Comrade was just on TV once again. First time since S&P downgraded US notes, though he did roust David Axelrod to step out and deliver the same old message, with a few new twists.

Seems even the Comrade realizes that George Bush is long-gone. So now he blames the Japanese tsunami, "events in the Middle East," and what was it? Oh, the weather.

And the Comrade still wants to raise taxes and spend more money. Especially spend more money. And lately he's been hinting at doing away with Medicare, too. I mean, really, who needs seniors? Many of them still remember how capitalism is supposed to work. Get rid of them as quickly as possible.

"A definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results." Dr. Phil says this a lot, but I read that it was actually Albert Einstein who first went on the record with it.

Oh, how could I forget? One more group to blame:

"My policies have not worked at all. In fact, they've made the situation much, much worse. The Tea Party won't let me make the same mistakes of the same magnitude, so they must share in the blame for my failure."

Is this making any sense to you?

Look, only three options. Either the Comrade really is insane. He's incapable of learning. Or he's deliberately working toward destroying free market capitalism.

Which explanation fits most closely?

When I say he's a marxist socialist, that' based on a factual assessment of his policies. I'm not just calling him names. He is a marxist socialist. He and Michelle were probably sipping champagne and dancing to "The International" all weekend. Probably didn't want the nation to see how thrilled he was that the US economy is taking such a hit.

We really need to get rid of this guy.

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I understand the socialists...

Yes, I do understand the socialists. They've worked subrosa for decades trying to bring down capitalism. All their work, their labor, the lies they've palmed off, the dollars devoted to propaganda, to corrupting the education system, to planting their fanatics in key positions in government. Lots and lots of work has gone into that. Many died before seeing their dreams come true. And now they're so very close to crushing capitalist-driven economic prosperity in America. All it takes is one little push... just one whopping tax increase, a few more crippling regulations, and the nation will never recover.

For the socialists, it's jut heartbreaking that the Tea Party, amongst the great mass of other U.S. citizens, flatly reject the notion of a purposeless and hopeless life. What on earth could be wrong with those people who want to create a better future for themselves and their kids? The socialists are dogmatically insistent that their way is the only way. Despite the fact that socialism has brought nothing but despair and poverty to every nation that has tried it.

On Fox just now, they had some silly twit dem spokesperson vs. a guy who had worked for Jeb Bush, supposedly "debating" the credit downgrade.

The moderator framed it by saying: You're little kids having a fight. Your mom has just sat you down together in a room to work things out. What do  you have to say for yourselves?

The conservative guy:  We have to stop the spending and especially have to rein in entitlements.

The dem woman: This is all the fault of the Tea Party. They're standing in our way.

'Nuff said?

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Dumbass dems own debt rating downgrade

Hey, Brain-dead Harry Reid! Dickhead Durbin! Pazzo Pelosi! Comrade Osama!

YOU DUMBASSES HAPPY NOW?

Y'all wouldn't accept any reasonable program for the dramatic and meaningful budget cuts proposed ad nauseum from the "extremists" on the right. N-o-o-o-o. Let's just keep spending like total brainless idiots.

S&P sees the writing on the wall, though your blockheads are blind to anything but your own ambition and to hell with the USA.

Well, we'll see who gets elected next time, you shit-fot-brains. Thank God the rest of the country is not quite so damn stupid as you all.

Meanwhile the idiot in the White House gives a speech hinting at another stimulus? How has this moron managed to survive this long in the real world? That's my question. Can he even get himself across a busy street without getting run over? What a damn fool.

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Dow dropping like a stone

Haven't written here since the debt ceiling compromise was passed. I don't like the deal, but it passed. Big whoop. Really, it's about the best congress could do, given the number of socialists voting there.

But apparently the markets don't like the deal, either. The Dow has been on a losing streak for a couple of weeks now. It lost over 300 points today, not unusual. Jay Carneybarker says that it's probably due to the Japanese tsunami. Yeah, I'm sure Wall Street just heard about that, and all the traders are on tenterhooks awaiting the outcome.

Watched a brief man-on-the-street thing yesterday, a reporter going around New York City, asking people what they thought of the debt. Predictably, many people asked, "What debt?" The reporter asked one guy, "Do you know how much the national debt is?" The man answered, "Fourteen billion." The reporter said, "TRILLION." The man-on-the-street's eyes got real big and he noted, "TRILLION? Damn, that's crazy!"

Yeah. But apparently not frightening enough to the jerks in DC to actually do anything about it.

Putin called the U.S. "parasites on the global economy" or something like that. Well, he oughta know.

Pazzo Pelosi was on TV, too, a couple days ago, whining about how the debt deal "Tied our hands so we can't create jobs." This is such a stupid comment I should just let it go, but...

Look, once again, Pazzo, the government doesn't create the kinds of jobs required in a free market system -- or in any viable and productive human system at all. When the government creates a job, it creates more debt, because it's got to pay the worker. Got that? That's non-productive. That's just treading water. That's totally useless. It doesn't boost or stimulate or support much of anything.

The only jobs that help the economy are those created by private industry, because private employees actively create wealth through their productivity. But with Obamacare hanging over our heads, the threat of increasing taxes when the "Bush tax cuts" expire, ongoing mortgage crisis in the banks, the fed sucking up all the capital, Big Labor working tirelessly to jack up the cost of labor and over-regulate corporations, etc.... any new-hire employee would have to bring in a truckload of money to justify the cost of hiring him or her.

So no one has any money to spend. No need to produce much. No need to hire anyone. The economy gets sucked into a downward spiral. Circling the drain, you could say.

Socialists just don't get it. They really believe in Santa Claus, or manna raining down from heaven, or something like that. Ultimately, they place the  "full faith and credit of the U.S. dollar" into the hands of the guys who run the printing presses. And paper dollars with nothing of substance behind them are just kindling, basically.

I'm pretty sure the market/economic "peak" of last April was the result of the Fed pumping lots of worthless paper bills into the economy. That creates inflation, prices go up arbitrarily. People complained, so they stopped. So the markets decline back to where they were.

Oh, and it was the Comrade's birthday yesterday. Another chance to party and raise funds for his campaign. Glad he found something he can do right to keep him occupied. And he says he's working non-stop trying to create jobs.

You know, that's exactly the problem. Get the hell out the economy and we'll be just fine. It's all the government meddling and regulation that's driving economic collapse.

How can anyone fail to see that anymore?

'Course then there's the ditzy blonde from Pepperdine or someplace who was on Cavuto last week, asking, "The corporations have all this money. Why don't they hire people?" Demonstrating such a monumental lack of information... if I were Pepperdine, I'd re-consider her tenure. There is a major, major difference between "corporation" and "charity."

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Extreme leftists unraveling debt deal

Funny thing, we've heard about nothing but "extreme rightists' and Tea Party members weakening the democratic (that's democratic, not "democrat") process by standing on principle and refusing to compromise on this debt ceiling thing. Boehner was supposed to be "weak" for taking so much time to get what turned out to be TWO bills through the House to solve the debt ceiling issue.

And both killed in the Senate with barely a mention.

OK. so didn't I say the Senate would never vote on Brain-dead Harry Reid's proposals because HE DIDN'T HAVE THE VOTES IN A DEM-CONTROLLED SENATE? And isn't that exactly what happened? 'Ol Brain-dead went bawling and whining to the Comrade and begged for another "high-level" conference. Ol' Brand-dead couldn't handle it on his own. (You know, I heard he used to be a boxer. No wonder his brain dysfunctional.)

Personally, I don't like the current deal. I don't like a $3 TRILLION increase in debt with $1 TRILLION in cuts now and more to come. (Where have I heard that before?) And the built-in triggers -- automatic cuts to defense and Medicare.

The Comrade really doesn't like old people. Have you noticed that? His "solution" for the volume of retiring Boomers -- deny them adequate care -- which they've paid for all their lives -- and hope they die as quickly and quietly as possible. Better still -- refuse to pay their doctors and hospitals and watch them deteriorate searching for medical advice. I suppose that's the work of Dr. Deathwish, the czar who loves the British death panel.

So, anyway, getting back to the debt ceiling... Pazzo Pelosi, a leading member of the merry marxists, has told her blockheaded following to "vote their conscience." Yeah, like they have a conscience. I think what she means is: Vote no, although I'm such a gutless wonder and so afraid of offending the Comrade I won't go on the record with that."

So looks the bill may go down, and not because of the Tea Party, but because of rabid, foaming-at-the-mouth extremist marxist socialists on the other side of the aisle.

HEY, MAINSTREAM MEDIA -- THINK YOU CAN GET THIS ONE CORRECT?

Actually, Brian Williams and Chris Mathews will probably spend all evening pondering on exactly when Pelosi joined the Tea Party. Like the Tea Party would have her.

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"Cloud of Uncertainty" White House's latest buzzword

OK, first of all, briefly, the supposed deal on the debt ceiling sucks. It only demonstrates that what needs to be done is to remove the president and all his freak show from office. That's coming.

What I wanted to talk about, though, is: How stupid does the Comrade and particularly that David Fluff guy and Jay Carneybarker -- the Comrade's mouthpieces and speech writer -- how stupid do they think we are?

First of all, let's go back and consider that Time or Newsweek cover that had profiles of the Comrade and Ronal Reagan side-by-side. Really? The Comrade and Reagan? You're comparing?

You've got to be kidding. Not even apples and oranges. More like Karl Marx and Milton Friedman. It would have been funny except that it illustrates how pathetic this president is in over-reaching for borrowed glory. The comparison would be insulting except that it's so desperately ridiculous.

Then throughout this whole debt ceiling thing, the Comrade continued to drag Ronald Reagan's name into every discussion somehow, as well as insisting that his voracious appetite for tax money and spending was somehow "balanced." No doubt a term that resonated among some focus groups because of the word's association with Fox News. However, it doesn't apply to the Comrade's approach, and he fooled no one.

I think if you replay all his little press conferences in slow motion, you'd probably find "Reagan" and "balanced" slipped in as unconscious suggestions between the also-familiar terms "tax the rich" and "George Bush's fault."

Now Jay Carneybarker comes out to a press briefing and announces, "Did you notice that cloud of uncertainty outside the White House has lifted?"

An hour later, Valerie Jarret, sr. advisor to the Comrade, gets on Fox and in a three-minute spot, repeated "cloud of uncertainty" at least three times. As though she has Tourette's Syndrome.

So this is their latest strategy for re-election? Repeat certain phrases over and over again, like conducting some kind of Pavlovian experiment? At the term "cloud of uncertainty" are we all supposed to salivate like hungry dogs or what?

(FYI Pavlov was a scientist who trained dogs by ringing a bell shortly before they were fed. After a certain number of repetitions, the dogs would begin to salivate at the sound of the bell.)

Listen, fools, the "cloud of uncertainty" this White House created extends far, far beyond the debt ceiling issue. That's only one tiny part of it. How about excessive and expensive new regulations from EPA? How about shutting down Gulf oil drilling and refusing to drill in ANWR? How about selling out Chrysler and GM to the UAW? How about flushing $800 billion down the stimulus toilet? How about the impending (and continuing) threat of tax increases? How about the coming disaster of Obamacare that hangs over all of our heads like the blade of a guillotine?

So this half-assed and unacceptable deal about the debt crisis lifted all the "clouds of uncertainty." In your dreams.

And the Comrade vs. Reagan?

Give me a break.

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