Posted on 03/18/2009 3:13:34 PM PDT by sswenviron
The One is turning out to be the stupidest smart guy ever.
He should have stayed in academia, where his brand of brilliance couldn’t do any harm.
He couldn’t cut it in academia, the land of “publish or perish”. He never published Jack. Even while he headed up the Harvard Law Review. He might be “hireable” but no respectable school would have granted tenure to this poseur.
I shudder to think.
I think he’s a bit mental. He’s charging about in a thousand different directions, announcing this change and that change but not actually doing anything before moving on to another topic. His aides must be exhausted trying to follow his abrupt changes of direction.
Barack is dumber than a bush.
Or, perhaps his various “advisors” are the ones pulling the strings, and just feeding him stuff to read off the teleprompter.
It would explain the scattershot nonsense coming out of the White House.
And yet our guest speaker at Black History Month, who was at the University of Chicago when Obama was there, proclaimed that he was the most astonishingly BRILLIANT man he’s ever known. He was completely in awe of him and coundn’t understand why ANYONE would vote for McCain over the most astonishingly BRILLIANT man.
I seethed through the entire hour-long Obama lovefest. They’re not dragging me to another one of those things, ever again.
Wonder if he’s bi-polar?
I believe you’re right.
The shotgun approach has everyone chasing around while EVIL is being perpetrated in the White House.
March 17, 2009 Contact: Wendy Knox 202.225.6216 ]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE or Sam Sackett 316.262.8992
Tiahrt Calls on President to Withdraw VA Plan
Obama Administration proposal would add burdens on veterans
WASHINGTON—U.S. Congressman Todd Tiahrt (R-Goddard) today sent a letter to President Barack Obama asking him to publicly withdraw his Administration’s plan for the Veterans Administration to bill a veteran’s personal insurance company for certain healthcare costs associated with a service-related disability. The White House has proposed the plan as part of its fiscal year 2010 VA budget, but Tiahrt and veterans groups are calling the plan unacceptable and are working to defeat it.
Tiahrt wrote that the White House proposal would “add additional burdens on our veterans.” The letter goes on to say, “Providing billion dollar bailouts for corporations one week and increasing burdens for our veterans another week is not a message we should be sending our brave men and women who have served in harm’s way on behalf of our nation.”
The following is the full text of the letter:
The Honorable Barack Obama
President of the United States
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
March 17, 2009
Dear Mr. President:
It has come to my attention this week that your Administration has proposed a policy change that would require the Veterans Administration to bill a veteran’s personal insurance company for certain healthcare costs associated with a service-related disability. I am writing to voice my vehement opposition to any such proposal that shifts the burden from the VA to veterans and their insurance providers.
It is the duty and responsibility of the VA to care for the men and women who have served our country and who have sustained injuries from combat or other related military service. I believe it is entirely inappropriate to consider such a proposal, and I ask that you publicly withdraw this plan that would add additional burdens on our veterans.
Should your Administration continue advocating a plan that would cause increased hardships for veterans, I will introduce legislation and work with my colleagues in the House and Senate to defeat any such proposal.
Within the last few weeks you have signed into law a massive spending increase for federal government programs – the largest annual discretionary spending increase since the Carter Administration – and you have supported sending hundreds of billions of borrowed taxpayer dollars to failing corporations.
Providing billion dollar bailouts for corporations one week and increasing burdens for our veterans another week is not a message we should be sending our brave men and women who have served in harm’s way on behalf of our nation.
Thank you for your quick and responsive attention to this important issue on behalf of our nation’s veterans. I look forward to your reply.
Best regards,
Todd Tiahrt
Member of Congress
“Todd Tiahrt”
The GOP should ask for this idea to be brought to a vote immediately. Let’s all vote and see who is in favor of the idea!!!
hmmmmm, wonder if we'll end up paying for the aides' mental health.
This begs the question why you attended, apparently against your better impulses, in the first place? Peer pressure? Professorial pressure? Morbid curiosity? Other? In any event, it was a learning experience, which is after all, why we attend college, law school, and other academic niches in the first place.
The “best and brightest” are looking like the worst and dumbest...
PS - nice catz. My wife and I are retired USAF but, that said, Hooo-rah!
Watch for the next tactic... Obambi will no longer talk about doing it, but will still do it.
He knows not the truth - The truth is not in him.
I never go to those things, and usually I can avoid them because they’re held across the street in the federal building.
This one was held in our building, on our floor. My boss sent out three emails about it, each one increasingly suggesting our attendance. The last one nearly made it a command performance. The director’s assistant announced it over the loudspeaker, and our EEO rep came running through the building reminding everyone to show up. Serious pressure was brought to bear, this year more than any other. I have a theory about that.
Against my better judgement, I went. I expected it to be about Obama, but I wasn’t prepared for it to be that bad.
In hindsight, I should have dug in my heels and refused to go. Next year I’ll take leave if I have to.
And before some DUmmie lurker calls me a racist, I’m avoiding Women’s History Month as well. :-)
The “best and brightest” are the worst and dumbest...
Thanks!
I need to update the picture of the kittens. They’re nearly four years old now.
Ooh rah!
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