Posted on 12/22/2014 3:56:07 PM PST by Kaslin
Please enjoy these observations and rants from my Facebook. I believe they ruffled mostly the right feathers.
A. President gets humiliated and repudiated by voters rejecting his agenda at the polls.
B. He pretends it didn’t happen.
C. He starts making up all kinds of stuff he doesn’t have the authority to do, like: i. a re-write of immigration law; ii an assault on fossil fuel; iii deals with China, Cuba, et al.
D. Congressional Republicans are terrified to boldly confront him; they even pass the budget he wants them to.
E. The media starts slavishly and predictably praising the president’s amazing comeback even though the public is opposed to or mixed on all his unilateral initiatives.
F. Crazy world we live in. Crazy.
Congress is afraid to confront the president that offended America enough to cause voters to reconfigure Congress. Sony is afraid to defy a tiny prison camp nation that paid hackers to undress Sony. Networks are afraid to honestly report on the administration that employs their spouses, lovers, brothers and friends.
Employers are afraid to speak up against he administration that is choking them.
This is a creepier, uglier public era than even the 70s.
Never in history has a president so disregarded and defied a plain rebuke by the American people. He disrespects us. Should we respect him? Isn't that a definition of tyranny?
Live presidential press conference. Oh, please, is there not one member of the press to ask something like: "Mr. President, you frequently urge the Republicans in Congress to compromise. But, is there any compromise or move in their direction that you are willing to offer? Isn't compromise a mutual proposition?"
Obama’s legacy is this: He never gave an inch of compromise to his Republican opposition; he never asked an inch of compromise from America's enemies.
Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt disdained the Constitution and Bill of Rights before Barack Obama did. Progressives want to rule. They hate that stuff about separated and limited powers, consent of the governed and protected rights.
There's a contest for my favorite senator. But Trey Gowdy is my favorite rep without contest.
Setting aside the reach of his executive power, on the merits, I confess to ambivalence and maybe support for Obama's move to regularize relations with Cuba. What have 50 years of isolation and boycott done for us or for oppressed Cubans? Is Castro's evil grip any looser? Are there fewer political prisoners as a result of US shunning them? Is there a chance that engagement and exchange, travel and tourism will inform and enlighten more Cubans than we've seen as a result of putting a big western wall around them?
There’s too much imprecision in this debate. Appeasement is when you give up something of value to the opponent hoping the opponent will make nice. But, if our sanctions are not rational or effective, then they aren't something valuable to surrender. How exactly, are we "appeasing" Cuba, by giving up a 5 decade unsuccessful effort to quarantine it? We aren't paying ransom. We aren't offering foreign aid. We're just saying: okay, we'll notice you're a nation.
To the critics, please explain why Cuba should be the exception. We recognize, trade with, and allow travel to and from a lot of monstrously governed countries: Russia; China; Arab nations; African nations.What principle requires us to restrict the freedom of Americans and American companies to deal with Cuba as they choose? And why just Cuba?
I'm at the computer. My cat extends her claws when she paws and kneads me. I'm starting to like it. 50 shades of cat.
Colorado governor John Hickenlooper was caught on video recently saying Americans aren’t able to educate their children well. Hey, Gov, check the record. Ya know... spelling bees, SAT scores, stuff like that. You are full of nonsense.
On a personal note, my wife Yvette didn't graduate from college. But at different times for different reasons, she home schooled five of our seven children. One of them graduated from Colorado State University in three years and went on to UCLA Law School. One of them was a HS valedictorian and then graduated while competing in D-1 college athletics with both a bachelors and masters degree. They owe their head start to their amazing mom.
Hey John, you are an arrogant twit who perfectly embodies liberal presumption to denigrate and control others.
Hey Republicans, what about New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez? By the way, obviously I’m floating a female Latina presidential candidate because I'm a racist, sexist Republican.
News Hour quotes the Dissembler in Chief urging Republicans to compromise. He is shameless. No liberal can cite substantive compromises Obama ever offered his political opponents. He's a phony and a hypocrite.
In the spirit of "I am Spartacus!" I think we all should post mocking things about North Korea. I'll start. Their boy dictator looks like the eager Scout in Up.
A thought: Sony might have been fearful mostly of millions or billions in liability if there were some large attack, and, knowing the threat, it had released the movie anyway. That's a consideration. It's a pretty insane legal system if a judge and jury can decide after the fact to hold a movie maker liable for third party terrorist acts.
Great point by Powerline blogger John Hinderaker. Contrary to Josh Earnest and the Obama White House, the response to North Korea's aggressions should not be "proportionate" it should be effectively deterrent. What would be proportionate, anyway, sabotaging part of North Korea's film industry?
A response to an aggression should be strong enough to discourage further aggressions. I think this idea captures the unseriousness, too, of Israel's critics who assert its response to mostly ineffectual rocket strikes should be proportional. What, IDF should program its missiles to miss their targets? Balderdash.The objective is to impose enough cost to stop the attack.
News Hour. Judy Woodruff on the Sony Nork fiasco: "Should there be limits on criticism and political satire?"
Gads, the Left is showing its face. Like hushing up the Mohammed Cartoons, Leftists would rather censor Americans than stand up to bullies.
bttt
Gee Judy, I don’t recall you saying that when George Bush was being called a Hitler. What a hypocrite you are, you bitch.
Putin better keep his pants on (/snix).
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The "Progressive" Obama said at his recent presser, he's "Not Done Yet," and has already gifted the world with Amnesty, ObamaCare, continuing racial unrest complete with 60's-era looting and burning, with Communist Cuba thrown in the WH garbage pile, for good measure.
HE'S HAVING WET DREAMS AGAIN All of Obama's most execrable activities serve to cherry-pick specific left-Democrat constituencies.....to serve his goal of a permanent Democrat majority.
Too bad midterm voters didn't go along with it.
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Obama long ago ran out of ideas and is now publicly showing how he is running out of torment options.....and is resorting to his community organizer con man schemes....like extortion.
The Deranged Progressive Mind At Work: Community organizer Obama coerced and sued banks into providing “dignity mortgages” to deadbeats w/ no intentions of paying up----a big part of how struggling taxpayers got soaked in the bailout financial crisis.
Now as president, Obama's siccing the US Justice Dept on banks b/c a buncha dumbos got stuck w/ mortgages they can't possibly pay.
As Investors’ Business Daily concludes: The Obama/Holder bank actions have little, if anything, to do with “justice” or restitution for innocent victims. In its 30-page “statement of facts,” Justice couldn’t provide a single shred of evidence that BofA had committed fraud. Nor could Holder ID a single “victim” by name.
(The effect of the serial Obama/Holder bank heist is that) lenders are bankrolling the same lefty parasites that bled them for the risky loans that burdened American taxpayers. With endless streams of cash, Obama/Holder enables lefties to ramp up their shakedown campaign.....repeating the Obamacycle of dangerous political lending that wrecked the economy.
Obama and Holder are punishing banks over and over again---extorting billions of dollars from the largest banks and giving it away to Obama's lefty political friends---major suck-ups to his favorite liberal causes.
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Taken by itself, Obama's newest brainchild---Operation Choke Point---puts pressure on banks not to do business w/ entities Progressives hate---like gun shops. It epitomizes imperial governance but when combined with his, and Holder's, aggressive use of civil forfeiture and Internal Revenue Service seizures of assets for no cause, a picture of government run amok emerges.
These govt-sponsored schemes strip ordinary Americans and business owners of their most basic rights simply because Obama doesn’t believe in them, fundamentally transforming the nation into little more than a banana republic in the process.
Choke Point sounds like another train wreck in the continuing saga of The Obama/Holder Extortion Unlimited. Obama told Joe the Plumber he was going to spread the wealth around. Nobody realized it would be going to idiots like Jonathan Gruber, to Obama's lefty community organizers....and into all those secret offshore accounts.
OBAMA'S FEEL GOOD MOMENTS---TALLYING HIS HOLDINGS Valerie Jarret is Obama's "Deputy Senior Advisor"---in Chicago gangland parlance that means "Wire Transfer Artist."
This is one of his standard lines along with 'I'm ready to listen to good ideas and I'll use the best ideas.'
He isn't and he won't. Barry gets what he wants or he tosses the table over and blames the Republicans. This is the guy Boehner and McConnell want to make deals with. Morons.
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