Change We Can Roll Our Eyes At

There goes the "hope." "Change" will be next to fly out the window.

Over the past week, President Obama, who promised "a new era of responsibility" and a culture of bipartisanship, had the following experiences:

His choice to be Secretary of Health and Human Services went down in a hail of tax evasion allegations. Ditto his choice for "performance czar." His selection to be Labor Secretary had her confirmation hearings postponed because of a tax lien left unpaid for 16 years.

His trillion dollar "economic stimulus" is nothing more than a lipsticked pig: a hog farm for the ages. Public support for it is dropping faster than Bill Clinton's inhibitions at a Hooters. And Republicans, who were schmoozed but not heeded, are blowing him off. Ditto for the Democratic court jesters in the Congress.

He's only been president for two weeks, and already he's drowning. His "new era of responsibility" is awash in wrongdoing, double standards, hypocrisy, and incompetence. His culture of bipartisanship lasted all of five seconds, and has been overtaken by the attitude of the Democratic majority: shove it, GOP.

The Bama has lost control: of the debate, of the process, of the national conversation. Not a good sign for a neophyte president.

Somewhere in Foggy Bottom, a pantsuited frosted blonde smiles as she sips her tea.

Comments

[gringoman]

OBAMANATION ESCALATION

(While BamBam tries the same sky-is-falling tactic that Goldman Sachs' SecTreasury Henry Paulson used so effectively last Fall to steamroller George Bush and demolish Pub nominee John McCain, rolling them for the Democrats' staggering stimulus- cum- bailout bill....)

.......As the great Socialist Serpent coils around the body of Lady America, ever more tightly, how will the people react===not just they who suck from her, but those who love her?

[SteveOk]

After all the campaign blather is over and he is sworn in to office we are beginning to see the real B. Obama. The lamestream media gave him a free pass and refused to investigate his life in Chicago which we have seen already was a huge mistake. But now, after two weeks as President we are beginning to see that Obama is all hot air and zero leadership. He has shown zero leadership on the crap sandwich which he now acknowledges is a "spending bill" (not a stimulus bill). His appointments to his Cabinet was first hailed by the lamestream media as the 12 Apostles of the Messiah. We don't hear much about the "team of rivals" now after discovering many of them didn't pay taxes, duh. So much for the "dream team".

He has basically scammed the American people. After pretending to be a moderate Democrat and fiscal conservative he is sponsoring the largest spending and redistribution of wealth in the history of mankind. One of his first acts was to close Gitmo, without a plan to relocate the terrorists. What type of leadership is that. He left the "spending bill" to Nancy Peloser to write. What type of leadership is that?

The scary thing about his lack of leadership skills is that our enemies around the world are seeing the same things we are seeing. They can see this guy is a minor league lightweight that doesn't know what the hell he is doing.

Not only is that "pantsuited frosted blond" smiling, but gangsters like OBL are having a good chuckle also.

[John Gray]

Monica- On President Reagan's Birthday I think it is appropiate to remember the other GOP President from California- Richard M Nixon.

Who would win the Nixon/JFK debate today? I AM from New England. Keep up your fine analysis. All the Best!!!! John

[gringoman]

OBAMANATION ESCALATION

(A very slight, yet telling revision)

....As the great Socialist Serpent coils around the body of Lady America, ever more tightly, how will the people react===not just they who only suck from her, but those who love her?

Posted by: gringoman | February 06, 2009 at 09:14 PM

[Robert Ball]

Your Obama grade of C- for the past week 2/6/9 on your McLaughlin Group "performance" was totally out of line even with Pat B. The rest of the group including Pat B gave him a B. Now you say he's drowning. You trying to convince us, yourself or are you just an oxycontin Limbaugh style dream? Come on Monica, you're just another "bubble headed bleach blond"..Least you don't have A Colter's adam's apple. just don't make it soooo obvious. Its NOT FAUX news for God's sake.

[Ummahgummah]

Robert Ball aka DOPE.. aka.. you GOTTA STOP using the catch words, pal!

The bleached blonde thing's been way overdone by you "people".

Easy on the Jhericurl next time.

[Ummahgummah]

JAILCORNbert, you're been MADE.

[Ummahgummah]

This bill is a big fat load of PORK!

Mr. OBAMARX™, as you should KNOW, pork is HARAM!

[mjfell]

Monica--

All fellow Conservatives---

A call to arms!

We need to launch a full scale effort to get Sen. Susan Collins and Sen. Arlen Specter back in line!

Use every means at your disposal.

[mjfell]

Reporter restrained after Panetta hearing

http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0209/Reporter_restrained_after_Panetta_hearing.html

Tim Starks, a reporter for Congressional Quarterly, said he witnessed Strohm approach Panetta and ask a question, just before the man began “grabbing him by the arm and moving him away.”

“I said to the guy, ‘That’s not the way you do it,’” recalled Starks.

Starks said that he’s covered the CIA for years and had never seen a reporter strong-armed that way before, adding that the agency is typically respectful of journalists.

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"Change we can believe in"?

[Truther]

Either Obama is dishonest, or he fell for the old "raft is going to drift upstream to liberty" trick, foisted upon him by his White party.

It is too bad, but he should have checked out "Life on the Ole Miss", rather than watching Hawaii-50 reruns. The speech he gave in Williamsburg, made him look completely out of control- like he thought he was still the Junior Senator.

[mjfell]

He IS still the Junior Senator!

[mjfell]

Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, Kim Jong Il, Osama Bin Laden...they're going to play the Junior Senator from Illinois like a cheap fiddle.

[mjfell]

Obama ratchets up the rhetoric; Shows GOP clenched fist...

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Obama-ratchets-up-the-apf-14284923.html

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's soft-sell pitches to Republicans haven't gotten him very far on his economic stimulus plan, so he's resorting to a sharper tone that is at odds with his vow to make Washington less partisan.

Stopping just short of a take-it-or-leave-it stand, Obama has mocked the notion that a stimulus bill shouldn't include huge spending. He's also defended earmarks as inevitable in such a package. And he's pointedly reminded Republicans about who won the November election.

The heightened rhetoric reflects White House frustration that Obama's earlier efforts, which included high-profile visits to House and Senate Republicans last month, yielded not a single House GOP vote for the legislation. In the Senate, Obama and his allies were battling Friday for just a handful of Republican votes to avoid a bill-stopping filibuster.

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Only a couple of weeks on the job and he's starting to abandon his high profile rhetoric and throw tantrums...

This poor chump is in way over his Junior Senator head...

[mjfell]

McCain blasts Obama...

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/18500.html

“What do you think a stimulus is? That’s the whole point. No, seriously, that’s the point,” Obama said at the retreat in Williamsburg, Va.

On Friday morning, McCain fought back.

“The whole point, Mr. President, is to enact tax cuts and spending measures that truly stimulate the economy,” McCain said. “There are billions and tens of billions of dollars in this bill which will have no effect within three, four, five or more years, or ever. Or ever.”

[mjfell]

Senator Arlen Specter's email:

http://specter.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=contact.contactform

Senator Susan Collins' email:

http://collins.senate.gov/public/continue.cfm?FuseAction=ContactSenatorCollins.Email

Email these RINOS and tell them to vote NO before it's too late!!!

[mjfell]

The Great Overreach
Ten pounds of manure in a five-pound bag.

By Jonah Goldberg

The stimulus bill has failed. Barack Obama has failed. The Trojan Horse of Hope and Change crashed into the guardrail of reality, revealing an army of ideologues and activists inside.

Now, before I continue, let me say that Barack Obama will still be popular, he will still get things done, and he will declare victory after signing a stimulus bill.

But Obama’s moment is gone, and politics is about nothing if not moments.

The stimulus bill was a bridge too far, an overplayed hand, ten pounds of manure in a five-pound bag. The legislation’s primary duty was never to stimulate the economy, but to stimulate the growth of government, the scope of the state.

By spending hundreds of billions on things that have absolutely nothing to do with providing an immediate stimulus for the economy, Democrats hoped to make a down payment on their dream government. The billions for student aid, expanded welfare and health-care benefits, and bailouts for profligate state governments; the hundreds of millions for better museums and prettier government buildings; and the millions for smoking-cessation programs and bee insurance aren’t just items on crapulent Democrats’ wish list. The budget bloating was deliberate.

Remember what passes for a “cut” in Washington. Any decrease in the rate of increase counts as reduced spending. If you spend 20 percent more this year than you did last year, that’s a spending increase. But next year, that additional 20 percent is part of the baseline. And if your budget grows by “only” an additional ten percent, you’ve just "drastically cut" spending!

The stimulus bill was designed to give Democrats maximum maneuvering room. It would increase non-defense discretionary spending by more than 80 percent in a single year, in a single bill! Moving forward, they could grow government by smaller percentages while seeming to be responsible budget balancers. By putting chips on every square of social spending, they could let it ride for years to come.

Of course, this was more than a budgetary ploy. Democrats had good reason to believe that this was their moment. For the first time in a generation, they truly own the political commanding heights. They’ve won a string of elections, including the momentous presidential contest in which their candidate never really ran to the center the way Democrats normally do. He stayed on the liberal left all the way through Election Day, so liberals figured voters knew what they were getting with Obama. Indeed, that’s why the president keeps saying “I won,” as if that settles the issue. Funny how that argument didn’t work for the last president when he tried to reform Social Security.

Moreover, many actually believed Obama’s own hype. This was the moment for this, that and the other thing. This was the time when we, as Americans, were going to have our cake and eat it too. Future generations were going to look back and remember how Republicans and Democrats, cats and dogs, Klingons and Romulans came together and marched to the sunny uplands of history, where shopping carts have no wobbly wheels; airplane food is free, delicious, and filling; and we get all of our energy from 100 percent renewable Loch Ness Monster poop.

Throw in the media’s shock-and-awe campaign—which has been softening enemy positions with obsequious coverage of Obama as Franklin Delano Lincoln, the Jedi-Lightworking-Messiah community organizer from the south side of Krypton, combined with near-daily autopsies of conservatism and the Republican party (cue Richard Dreyfuss: “This was no voting accident!”)—and it’s no wonder liberals thought they had an open field in front of them.

The economic crisis was almost too good to be true. Like FDR and Lyndon Johnson, Obama was poised to act on Rahm’s Rule of Crisis Exploitation in a way that would not only guarantee a newer New Deal and an even greater Great Society, but would also receive bipartisan approval. That’s why Obama wanted so much GOP support—so as to ratify the left turn to European-style social democracy, particularly when voters cottoned on to the con.

But that didn’t happen. Obama and his party were undone by their hubris. There was just too much muchness in the bill. The once impressive support from conservative economists evaporated. Right-wing radio has been having one long tailgate party celebrating Obama’s overreach. According to the polls, voters are souring on the whole thing. Republicans finally discovered testicular fortitude—and they seem to like it.

There is still probably bipartisan support for a stimulus bill, but only for a measure intended to stimulate our market-based economy rather than one that hastens its Swedenization.

Again, Obama’s presidency has many victories ahead of it, and Democrats still run the show. But the perfect storm of liberalism has dissipated to mere scattered showers.

[Truther]

The banks are taking over the government. $15k to buy a house extends the predation on the public and should be excised from the stimulus bill. They need to deal with the banks and replacing the missiong regulations, or the problems will worsen.

[mjfell]

Another RINO siting!

http://snowe.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactSenatorSnowe.Email

Write an email to Senator Olympia Snowe and tell her to vote NO!

[mjfell]

Senator Olympia Snowe's email:

http://snowe.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactSenatorSnowe.Email

Senator Arlen Specter's email:

http://specter.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=contact.contactform

Senator Susan Collins' email:

http://collins.senate.gov/public/continue.cfm?FuseAction=ContactSenatorCollins.Email

Email these RINOS and tell them to vote NO before it's too late!!!

[Ummahgummah]

Well, I think more a deluge.

It's been 17 days.

I wish all it were was showers.

[Ummahgummah]

Looks like Monica GETS IT when it comes to islam!

Too bad she's not in government...

[GilbertWashington]

UG: When you live alone you even reach a point where you offend yourself:

"It's been 17 days.

I wish all it were was showers."

Posted by: Ummah Gummah | February 07, 2009 at 01:06 PM

Don't forget the soap.... don't want you stinking up the computer store where your're testing your intellect against Fred.
Oh, and remember to tale the Gingko Biloba as it helps the memory; otherwise people will mistake you for Bobo. If you and Bobo shower together once every 17 days one of you should remember the soap.
Don't drop it...

Now shuffle off to Buffalo... crazy as it sounds they're watching for Jihads and you seem to have season tickets. At least you'll smell good.
Bring Bobo.

[mjfell]

On February 7, 2009, three Republican Senators (Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine and Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania) made a compromise with the Senate Democratic leadership which will allow the stimulus package (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009) to reach the Senate floor for a straight up or down vote with no additional votes on amendments. This means that Sen. Sessions' amendment (SA 239), which would force businesses and localities who receive stimulus money to use E-Verify, will not receive a vote on the Senate floor. One must conclude that the Democratic Senators and these three Republican Senators believe that illegal alien workers have an equal right to compete with American workers for stimulus-funded jobs.

Please send your Senator(s) a fax and scold him/her for backing a stimulus bill that does not protect the employment interests of American workers. If the stimulus package goes into effect without the E-Verify stipulations, it is likely that hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens (if not millions) will benefit from this nearly $1 trillion stimulus package.

[GilbertWashington]

The oly thing that is likely...:

"If the stimulus package goes into effect without the E-Verify stipulations, it is likely that hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens (if not millions) will benefit from this nearly $1 trillion stimulus package."

Posted by: mjfell | February 07, 2009 at 03:41 PM

...with E-Verify is that MJFELL increases his chance of playing in a mariachi band.
Where does he get this crap?: "it is likely that hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens (if not millions) will benefit from this nearly $1 trillion stimulus package."

Yeah, MJ, Banco Popular and Wells Fargo can do credit swaps knowing that toxic assets in the traded security is insured by the government.
You really are on ideo drugs.

[GilbertWashington]

MJ waxes elequently on economic stimulus:

"it is likely that hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens (if not millions) will benefit from this nearly $1 trillion stimulus package"

Without E-Verify MJ has zero chance of landing that mariachi gig thereby saving that cultural artform.

[Ummahgummah]

MJ, if there is one OBNOXIOUS unwanted BOOB around here it has GOT to be JAILCORNbert.

This little prick is so starved for attention that he comes on TRUE Conservative™ blogs and insults the people there with his gratuitous illogical "crap sandwiches" of cuss words mixed with unintelligible gibberish - all in hopes of yet another beat-down.

Hey, Sanfordington: EXCITINGLY!

LOL

[WeimMom]

http://www.numbersusa.com/content/

FAX your Senators now and tell them of your disappointment (or anger) that the E-Verify amendment to the Stimulus Package was not even allowed to come to the floor.

We need all the support we can get to protect American Jobs!