Posted on 03/13/2009 3:56:07 AM PDT by xtinct
What George W. was to “strategery,” Barack Obama is to “change.” Every time he uses the word, America stifles a laugh.
Change? Please. One year ago, then Sen. Obama pledged to change “an earmarks process in which many of the projects being funded fail to address the real needs of our country.”
Fifty days ago, President Obama promised to change the culture in Washington by “going through the budget line by line.”
But on Wednesday, Obama slipped into Dick Cheney’s old “undisclosed location” and signed the $410 billion, 9,000-earmark pork-u-lust bill. In just 50 days, Obama and the Democratic Congress have spent $1.2 trillion, which works out to $1 billion in new spending an hour, 24 hours a day.
Spending lots of money we don’t have on programs that don’t work is the oldest of old news. Obama’s only “change” is spend faster, while shamelessly denying he’s doing it at all (“There are no earmarks in the stimulus bill.”)
This has become the MO of BHO - do anything you want and call it “change.”
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
It’ll be interesting to see when (or if) buyer’s remorse kicks in.
These fools were so thirsty for change, they forgot to ask themselves is it good change or change for the sake of change.
I would venture to guess if they were asked now if their lives were better today than even one year ago, we would get a resounding NO!
I hope they learn to ask questions about change next time....
He is changing things quite a lot. It’s just that he’s changing them for the worse, just as McCain predicted.
Lest we forget...Bush was a horrible President. All of this was begun by him and his father. NWO is a Bush slogan.
No regrets that he lit out of the White House like the Road runner on steroids.
Would have preferred Romney, McCain or even Clinton but, it is what it is. We are stuck.
The RNC is less than useless. Most Pubs are just another version, a different type of Democrat. I do not know what the answer is.
I am not happy with the spending and immigration policies Bush ushered in, however, I did not go to bed each night wondering what terrorist nation was going to be attacking us in the morning and whether Bush would have the balls and the plan to deal with it.......
You are correct as to the Republican party. If anything good is to come out of this train wreck, it will be a stronger, more cohesive, republican party that remembers where it came from and can get back on the course of where we need to go.
I think at this point, while they have the majority rule in both houses and the WH, we should let them implement all of their crazy policies without obstruction.
They are going to do it anyway, as evidenced by the last 50 days, and at lease they will have no scapegoats to blame that we stood in the way. Let them overreach and screw it up so bad that we can clean house for a good long time.
conservatives will always have the sheer will to fix the problem, but we have to get them to own it first.
One example is the SC governor vs. that asswipe representative calling it racist that sanford used zimbabwes economy to reject part of the stimulous. They will use this, and countless other incidents to say that this is the reason that obamas programs couldn’t work. Its time to fight this by not fighting it I think. there are tons of biblical examples of this. God always gives us enough rope to hang ourselves. Maybe it is time to do the same for these jerks once and for all. Just keep your powder dry.......
No, actually none of this is Bush’s fault. This is Obama’s fault. Take a hike troll.
Did Bush ever actually use the word strategery or is that another thing they made up to bash him with? I know the lousy “actor” Will Ferrell said strategery in one of those debate skits they did on SNL in 2000 but just like “I can see Russia from my house” a lot of dolts out there think the candidate actually said this.
If it turns out Bush never said this then that is a smear that will never go away. Just like the bogus “is our children learning” line. Ron Kessler in his book says that Bush actually said in a speech “what we must ask is, are children learning?” This slur will stand but the misstatements and insults made by Obama and Biden are largely ignored.
All this bagan with Clinton in 1999.
From the NY Times sept, 30, 1999:
In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders.
The action, which will begin as a pilot program involving 24 banks in 15 markets — including the New York metropolitan region — will encourage those banks to extend home mortgages to individuals whose credit is generally not good enough to qualify for conventional loans. Fannie Mae officials say they hope to make it a nationwide program by next spring.
Fannie Mae, the nation’s biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton Administration to expand mortgage loans among low and moderate income people and felt pressure from stock holders to maintain its phenomenal growth in profits.
“as soon as Mary the Moocher can’t find her free gas “
Where mah free gas?? Where it be?? That Barack he say I get free gas and pie!! I-ma call da White House after I git my food stamps and welfare check.
“as soon as Mary the Moocher can’t find her free gas “
Where mah free gas?? Where it be?? That Barack he say I get free gas and pie!! I-ma call da White House after I git my food stamps and welfare check.
you forgot;
“can I borree yo cell phone, mine got shut off”
Will Ferrel said it on SNL, Bush never said it.
I believe Miss Malkin’s Moniker for her was
“Peggy the Moocher”
Or nuggets
but but but, the polllllice can get my money back
I wish you were right about the GOP.
Based on the noise coming from the party since last November, however, they’re still not getting it. Their march to the center continues.
These are tough times.
What makes things worse for the SC Gov is that he has people in his own party down there calling what he’s doing “tomfoolery” and trying to circumvent his decisions.
With friends like that...
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