Posted on 03/03/2009 6:06:46 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
AFTER a month of personnel appointments and canine selection, last week was the Obama administration's week of revelation.
In a speech at Camp Lejeune, President Obama pledged "to succeed" in what candidate Obama called a "misguided war" in Iraq - slowing down his promised pace of troop withdrawals, pledging to retain a substantial military force to support Iraqi democracy, and claiming credit for a "new strategy" that was largely the implementation of President Bush's own. The McGovernite peace candidate became the responsible commander in chief.
On domestic policy, the revelation was different. Candidate Obama was a tonal moderate - a pragmatist determined to muddle the old divisions of blue and red into a pleasing, post-partisan purple. His mainstream economic appointments seemed to confirm this intention. His stimulus package and bank bailout proposals were expansive and expensive, but not ideologically radical.
And then the budget came - ideologically ambitious, politically ruthless and radical to its core.
Obama chose a time of recession to propose a massive increase in progressivity - a 10-year, trillion-dollar haul from the rich, already being punished by the stock market collapse and the housing market decline. This does not just involve undoing the Bush tax reductions but capping tax deductions to collect about $30 billion a year. Despite all the rhetoric of "responsibility" and shared sacrifice, the message of the Obama budget is clear: The wealthy are responsible for the economic mess and they will bear the entire sacrifice so that government can "invest" in the people.
But governments do not "invest," they spend. Such spending can be justified or unjustified. It is wealthy individuals, however, who actually invest their capital in job creation. Most have much less capital than they used to.
Under the Obama budget, they would have less still.
(Excerpt) Read more at whittierdailynews.com ...
Sounds like a “No Shirt, Shylock” moment
bookmark for later.
Yes, Obama plays hardball politics and wants to crush Conservatives.
Perhaps, the Republicans should also play hardball and find a leader who wants to crush Liberals.
and he’ll end up destroying the concept of ‘Blue Dogs’ again just like Clinton did.
What happened to all the Blue Dogs the last time? We won all those seats.
And Heath Shuler just got voted one of the Top Ten Busts in the NFL Draft. EVER! And while Washingtonians hated him as their quarterback, now he back there representing them while screwing over the people of North Carolina. Time to cut Shuler and get a new Congressman in the Draft next november.
Close. Obama wants to crush everyone. The difference is that liberals don't care for freedom as much as they care for free goodies from government, so they don't mind the burden of government.
Who said the Democrats will wait until the economy recovers? FDR didn't. And we're heading down the same ol' path.
Obama and his Obamatrons are going to distroy themselves and a good part of the country.
Some people have to play with fire and get badly burned before developing a clue.
We’ll see what happens here...
The war for freedom is on.
Just wonder where the first shot will come from.......
This Dirt-Bag WANTS America to go South.
He WANTS the rest of the world to "catch up" to the US.
He most likely is itching for one-world government and sees this as his big opportunity to make it happen.
Make no mistake...he IS a Marxist.
“Perhaps, the Republicans should also play hardball and find a leader who wants to crush Liberals.” Sorry, Rush has already said he wouldn’t take the pay cut and doesn’t enter cesspools.
What he wants is the same thing the weathermen wanted for America. He’s just found other means.
Don’t you mean to say ‘THEY’ have found other means?
The inside is exactly the same.
Bambi is stark raving mad and must be institutionalized ASAP
Single handedly wrecking our economy. Stirring up the entire world with his psychotic behavior. War spilling over our southern border. Begging china to buy even more of our debts.
Bookmarking for later read
I am not investing in anything. I am holding only cash, waiting for the counter-coup, and will not enter the market or buy anything other than necessities until after regime change and Dow recovers from the dead cat bounce at 1700.
There are too many people in this country that are too busy hating the rich rather than doing what it takes to become rich.
If this administration thinks that one brigade will be able to quell the demonstrations and eventual revolt from conservatives and others, they’re smoking the same stuff their leader used at Occidental College!!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.