PPHHLLBBTT!
Posted on 02/28/2009 1:04:10 PM PST by topfile
President Obama on Saturday struck back aggressively at critics of his $3.6 trillion budget proposal, casting himself as a populist crusader whose "sweeping change" has angered Washington's entrenched special interests, and promised to fight them.
"I realize that passing this budget won't be easy. Because it represents real and dramatic change, it also represents a threat to the status quo in Washington," Mr. Obama said in his weekly video and radio address.
Mr. Obama's language was combative and confrontational, as he promised to fight for "American families."
"I know these steps won't sit well with the special interests and lobbyists who are invested in the old way of doing business, and I know they're gearing up for a fight as we speak. My message to them is this: So am I," he said.
Since he unveiled his budget blueprint on Thursday, the reaction in the financial markets and among the business community, not to mention the Republican party, has been decidedly negative.
Influential conservative economist Lawrence Kudlow wrote Friday that Mr. Obama was proposing "anti-growth" tax hikes that make "absolutely no sense" and are intended to promote a "left-wing social vision."
Mr. Obama, he said, was "declaring war on investors, entrepreneurs, small businesses, large corporations, and private-equity and venture-capital funds."
One day after announcing that U.S. combat troops would leave Iraq in 18 months, the president's weekly address was his first major response to budget criticisms. He portrayed critics as fat cats and power brokers who have enriched themselves at the cost of every day Americans.
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PPHHLLBBTT!
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Suicide is a "real and dramatic change" too.
To draw an analogy, 0bama wants to force feed the American goose that lays the golden eggs of freedom and wealth. What's he hoping for after he kills it? Foie Gras?
He is definately not fighting for American families.
Hitler was big on “real and dramatic change”, too. 0bama doesn’t seem to understand that most such change is disastrous when it is as thoughtlessly conceived and carried out as he wants to do.
Is it time to report to the camps yet?
Sounding more and more like Hugo everyday...
IMPEACH HIM NOW!!!
This budget “battle” is a tool. Obama is setting up a strawman - supposedly lobbyists and special interests who oppose this budget (they don’t). But the GOP does. Obama has all the necessary votes to pass this comfortably and then some. So, voila, it passes, he claims credit, and gets to lump the GOP in with the non-existant lobbyists and special interests opposing the budget that will bring change. He looks like a big populist hero and the GOP looks small and special-interestish.
He’s setting up a classic strawman in this supposed budget “battle.” He has all the votes necessary to pass this and then some.
That is right of the Blagovich playbook...
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Sadly, the sooner his Socialist/Communist executions reach critical mass with the taxpayer, the sooner we can begin to dig our country out from this nightmare. To raise taxes on the top 1,2,5 or even 10 percent, during or soon after a deep recession, is to commit economic suicide.
Look for Alinsky-type propaganda about “the wealthy paying their fair share” married to a healthy dose of collectivist demagoguery in the future. Once the electorate, not only sees, but feels, the light-speed domino effect this will have on employment and therefore the economy, they will be in open revolt.
The Kenyan Communist is executing a hedging strategy. He is putting a lot of his strategy into effect upfront by getting a Socialist foot-in-the-door, if you will. He will then wait until after the 2010 elections to pull the trigger on full blown, non-hedged Socialism.
This coming from ACORN’s attorney? Who is this clown to say anything about special interests? Sit down and shut the F up, Obama. The stockmarket tanks every time you talk.
If that man really said that, it just about covers the entire producing segment of society. So, if they get fought successfully, where then does the money come from to fuel his plans?
Obama is messed up in the head.
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