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Nice article. BO is advocating spending and controlling a great deal very early in his Administration and the public is not certain about this from the latest polling. In a year if things have not improved economically in the U.S., what "political capital" does he have left? He can only blame the previous POTUS for so long......he can't blame Congress since they largely wrote his plan for him......he can't propose further big spending since the mods/conservatives in his own party are already walking the tight-rope on TARP and the stimulus.

A year from now, Barry will be an essential lame duck as spending bills have produced nothing, more big bills are politically unviable, and, the economy is largely unchan ged from today. What then?

1 posted on 02/10/2009 11:27:21 PM PST by JoenTX
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To: JoenTX

He wants ACORN to get 50 billion so they can vote him in again. Problem solved.


2 posted on 02/10/2009 11:31:03 PM PST by Blind Eye Jones
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To: JoenTX

Already failed ? It was DOA.


4 posted on 02/10/2009 11:37:35 PM PST by libh8er
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To: JoenTX

The Financial Times editorial staff is all over the place. Just yesterday on Yahoo tech-ticker video program Wolf, editor of the FT was saying Obama and Congress should do nothing and now he’s saying Obama is not doing enough.

http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/172116/Part-II-U.S.-Too-%22Politically-Frightened%22-to-Admit-Truth-About-Banks-FT%27s-Wolf-Says?tickers=XLF,SKF,FAZ,C,BAC,JPM,WFC


9 posted on 02/10/2009 11:57:05 PM PST by JerseyHighlander
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To: JoenTX; M. Espinola
Obama has already failed. And failed badly.

Just wait until all those retired members of AARP learn the Dems want to gut Medicare.

There will be rioting in the streets. Guess the Dems will have to activate all those secret FEMA prison camps the government has been building. Got to put all the useless eaters somewhere . . .

Have not heard about the prison camps, yet ____ ? Check my freeper page. They are real. One of Obama's closest associates, Alcee Hastings, proposed the legislation. YouTube Video

Oh, well. Nothing to see here. Time to move on.

10 posted on 02/11/2009 12:04:34 AM PST by ex-Texan (Ecclesiastes 5:10 - 20)
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To: JoenTX

[A year from now, Barry will be an essential lame duck as spending bills have produced nothing, more big bills are politically unviable, and, the economy is largely unchan ged from today. What then? ]

What then indeed. You have the potential for some none traditional coup. I doubt it would come from the military, but I’m thinking if Obama is perceived as a total incompetent in a year, dragging us down into a second Great Depression while his position as CIC is discredited during a terrorist crisis, a lot of people will want him politically gone.

Obama is well onto this course right now.


11 posted on 02/11/2009 12:06:23 AM PST by FastCoyote (I am intolerant of the intolerable.)
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To: JoenTX; Admin Moderator
Please use the correct title:

Why Obama’s new Tarp will fail to rescue the banks

12 posted on 02/11/2009 12:16:44 AM PST by metesky (My retirement fund is holding steady @ $.05 a can.)
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To: JoenTX
Hopefully there will be an angry mob of Americans storming DC with barrels of tar and buckets of chicken feathers.

But, that's just my idea of "hope and change" for Washington DC.

13 posted on 02/11/2009 12:18:00 AM PST by Prole (Please pray for the families of Chris and Channon. May God always watch over them.)
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To: JoenTX

You are somewhat new to FR,
in the future please use original article titles when posting here, especially when posting from a major media source such as the FT, even with the original title this article will be posted several times today, all we can do is try to minimize the duplication and consolidate conversations around particle articles, our best option to do so is using the original article title.

Cheers,

p.s. Definitely should check out Wolf’s interview in my post above.


14 posted on 02/11/2009 12:22:58 AM PST by JerseyHighlander
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To: JoenTX

It is one thing to want to be President,quite another to actually be President.Barack Obama ius finding out the differance real quick.


16 posted on 02/11/2009 2:06:27 AM PST by screaming eagle2
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To: JoenTX
Has Barak Obama's Presidency already failed?

The answer to that depends on how Hussein and his backers define success and failure. In the "stimulus" bill they get pretty much control of everybody's family doctor. All that money to ACORN while a lefty DoJ is in place gives him control of federal and probably important state elections. Taking the census into his own house gets some control on the allotment of Congressional Representatives. And then there is Amnesty coming. And the Civilian Defense Force (funded at the same level as DoD). The last two aren't even necessary to initiate a true One-Party State, but they will bring the fullness of it much sooner and will be the enforcement of such necessary measures as disarmament and physical wealth confiscation. Does anyone fancy wearing a placard detailing one's sins against the people as one is paraded through the streets preparatory to incarceration or a peoples' righteous lynching?

17 posted on 02/11/2009 2:10:45 AM PST by arthurus ( H.L. Mencken said, "Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.")
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To: JoenTX
WooHoo! I used search before I posted! LOL!

Excellent article I looked for as I saw it a few minutes ago but wanted to see FReeper commentary on it.

18 posted on 02/11/2009 2:16:04 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: JoenTX

He hoodwinked his base with promises of giveaways; homes, cars, kitchens, ...

Just ask Henrietta and Julio.


20 posted on 02/11/2009 2:24:41 AM PST by maggief (Rome is burning . Chickens are roosting.)
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To: JoenTX

[tinfoil]

$550B of withdrawals that begin at 11 on a Thursday in September.

Obama ties to Soros.

US on verge of having our currency blowup due to debt.

New socialist/marxist President elected on hopenchange telling us to spend $1T on insulating the federal buildings in DC.

I am beginning to wonder if our enemies are not engaging in the only kind of warfare they can beat us at - financial.

[/tinfoil]


22 posted on 02/11/2009 4:55:17 AM PST by IamConservative (Dems: "Do as we say, not as we pay.")
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To: JoenTX
Has Barak Obama's Presidency already failed?

Doesn't it matter what his ultimate goal is?

Maybe he's right on track...

23 posted on 02/11/2009 5:02:08 AM PST by paulycy (BEWARE the LIBERAL/MEDIA Complex)
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To: JoenTX

The best we can hope for is failure and that he doesn’t get anything done. Failure will be much less damaging than what “success” will be if it means his policies and “vision” are enacted.


26 posted on 02/11/2009 9:17:21 AM PST by philled ("I prefer messy democracy to the stability of tyrants." -- Howar Ziad, Iraqi Ambassador to Canada)
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To: JoenTX

Obviously it’s amateur time at the White House with this clown. Now with Obama’s idiot at the Sec of Interior, Salazar, getting ready to scotch off-shore drilling, look for another steep gas hike. These people are stupid and dangerous.


27 posted on 02/11/2009 11:23:28 AM PST by driftless2
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