Question in the envelope: "Name "One Big Ass Mistake, America"
Posted on 08/30/2009 4:31:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
Never has an administration who had more firepower at their disposal, been set to so totally fail in the next six to eight weeks. It is nearly a foregone conclusion. It is nearly unavoidable. And it defies all logic given the sizable majority the administration has in both houses of Congress.
Since I was the first pundit to predict Obama's presidency (Dec 2006) it behooves me to tell you the course I believe the next few weeks will take and effectively halt the radical transformation that the left appeared unstoppable with only months ago.
1. Health Care's long and painful death.
Barring the existing possibility that the Democrats cram a reform bill down the throats of actively protesting Americans through an ultra-partisan process that would shut out conservatives and Republicans from even being allowed to contribute to the discussion, health care reform is dead. It actually died a good while back when the President decided to pivot and create a new issue that no one had been discussing--health insurance reform. The American people will want to know why we should spend $4 billion to cover everyone in America "efficiently," when we already do so with inefficiencies like people using the emergency room as their general practitioner for $2.5 billion. Deep thinkers on the issue want to know why the President hasn't entertained one item of tort reform--protecting his friends, the trial lawyers--yet is willing to claim that doctors are eager to lop off feet, tonsils, and foreskin just to make a buck.
2. Cap & Trade will be the largest tax increase in American history.
With the 2010 election cycle just around the corner, campaign ads are not far off from being drafted. With Cap & Trade still sitting in legislative limbo, with the President's own advisor--Warren Buffet--now opposing it openly on media, with the 9.12 project in the works in which the largest gathering of anti-tax Americans from the left, right, and middle will be coming to Washington DC on September 12, and with blue dogs getting absolutely hammered in their home districts supporting it, the chance of single-party ram through victory on the matter is not wise. Cap & Trade, if passed, will contribute to unemployment, Wall Street stop and starts, and ultimately reduced treasury revenues. It would serve as the single largest tax increase on the average American in all of American history. Even President Obama admitted as much, predicting that electric bill prices, in his words, would, "skyrocket." Those that have looked at the specifics tell us that the average utility bill in America will go from $167 to $307 per month, per family.
3. Unemployment to remain high.
Now several Washington organizations from left and right, and one of note consisting of both--the Congressional Budget Office, predicts that unemployment will not shrink from the predicted "Obama high" of 8%. Instead, nearly without fail, economists are predicting unemployment at or over 10% for up to the next 24 months. That is nearly 250% the increase in unemployment under Bush for nearly the duration of his two-term presidency. If people were working, higher taxes and possible new health care entitlements could be considered, but without them working it is political suicide for Democrats to even think of it.
4. Obama's integrity tarnished in August.
Not a great deal has been made of the whoppers that the President has been spewing while the Federal Government has been in recess, but it is worth noting that many more people than I had previously realized have notice the President "exaggerating" badly in his talks on health care. For instance confusing he actual $500 physicians get to amputate a foot as opposed to the $50,000 that he claimed they got. He has shown an utter disregard for the reputation of those he talks about, the "facts" he uses to make his argument, and is highly overly optimistic about the results of his policies. Long story short, at the beginning of the summer Americans mostly trusted him, his passion index was at +10, he heads into the fall at -14.
5. A $3 trillion dollar budget.
New spending for this and that sure added up. And that brings me to number 6.
6. A coming middle class tax hike.
They will hem and haw. There will be an official, and ever arrogant Robert Gibbs explanation from the White House Press room as to why they must to do this to be "good stewards" and to be a "responsible administration" that, "pays as it goes." But the truth is, in order to pay for everything they've promised and budgeted for, a tax is looming for small businesses and working families that President Obama promised would never come. And as an aside, he was going to break that promise all along. Because the minute the "Bush tax relief" runs out in 2010, middle class taxes would be going up in an "Obama administration." Hence fundamentally Obama's "not a single dime" pledge on the campaign trail was bollocks start to finish.
Of course the President, the Democrats, the left, and Congressional leadership could surprise me. They could show up in September and endorse the Coburn health care bill in the U.S. Senate and swipe the credit for it. They could show up next week and fight with all their might to not allow the tax rates to skyrocket in 2010. They could decide to scrap Cap & Trade and re-think the use of public money for true job-based economic stimulation.
But I'm not holding my breath, and I'd advise you against it as well.
They've awakened the American worker, the American small-business owner, and the American voter.
All three of which are now wondering aloud, "What on earth have we done?"
Indeed. Molon labe.
There was a strange thread posted here, about “black eyes,” probably just a DUmmie ruse, but there’s some truth behind the popular image.
You’ve no doubt seen the images, of Obama, and even his wife, that just knock you back, the hate emanating from the eyes of those two. One in particular, Obama proposing a toast from a lectern. He’s not fully in control, though.
McCain has an issue there, too, but it’s just a certain ... deadness. It’s as if he’s not in control at all.
What’s in Hillary’s eyes is glinting, fully conscious and malevolent, though.
The only warmly human eyes in that whole election charade belonged to Sarah Palin. And, she’s feared and reviled among our “betters” on both sides of the aisle like no public political figure I’ve seen in my forty-going-on-fifty years.
It’s hard to escape the feeling I get, that she stands in the way, of “it,” whatever “it” might be.
Does this all sound kooky? Probably, to many. But, these are beyond kooky times, in which we’re living.
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$20.00 worth plush shipping and a nice tip. Or as many to that amount as she wanted to bother with.
Had some fresh liche from friends recently. Yum.
The Chinese chess pieces round, thick coin-sized pieces of plastic in a plastic box—colored on one side, characters of pieces on the other.
I’ll email you. Better yet, email me and I’ll reply. I’m not sure my email for you is active still.
BTW, I prefer blue. If no blue, red. No orange. Preferably no green unless that’s all thats available besides orange.
Thx big.
Thanks for your kind reply.
I’ve seen that term hereon and got the meaning but now I’ve forgotten.
Again, please, what does it mean?
Molan labe?
Fun! Hunt begins for chess sets in the morning. I’ll email you.
NO!
NOT KOOKY
AT ALL.
Have long been a student of eyes. Can usually give a pretty good summary of the personality if I can see even one pic—better 2-3 pics with clear view of the eyes straight on.
Yeah, Sarah Palin is God’s Esther . . . what use He will make of her remains to be seen. Seems to me like it’s all down-hill until Armageddon . . .
though I’ve often wondered . . . is God going to set up an alternate structure, group, something even amidst the Great Tribulation? . . . and gradually destroy the enemy leaving HIs folks truly inheriting the earth after
HIS FINAL coup de gras at Armageddon?
I don’t know of Scripture to point to. NOT saying it will be that way . . . have just sometimes wondered . . . just how is it
that mortal good guys will go all the way through the Great Tribulation and end up inheriting the earth in their mortal bodies.
Mysteries abound.
The film "300" is quite good and speaks to the issue of the value of fighting for freedom very eloquently.
No, these are retired people who are not financially strapped. Our kids are grown and gone. Our homes are paid for. We are in relatively good health and live active, interesting lives.
They watch the local news at 5 PM and read the paper for their news. Some are still registered as Democrats though they don’t vote D.
It seems as if they don’t have a patriotic bone in their bodies!
” Obi Wan Nairobi”
Good one
For others who may be interested:
I play only the half game. The full game is too much work—like western chess.
I play Pung Hu Island rules . . .
Ma2 eats diagonally. Moves as usual. Eats everything.
Pow4 jumps one and only one piece to eat the piece it lands on. Distance not an issue but has to be one and only one piece jumped.
Ju [car/cart] MUST HAVE ONE OR MORE spaces between itself and what it eats. As many spaces as are available is fine even the full length of the board to target piece.
Top general cannot eat soldier.
Soldier eats only another soldier or the top general.
All pieces upside down and random and played on half the full board.
All other pieces move and eat as usual—one square horizontally or vertically.
I use a cutting mat on the back blank side with a 8 X 4 grid drawn on it in permanent felt tip marker.
Leaving for His House shortly.
Ahhhh.
Thanks.
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That would be more effective than dropping bombs on the cities to destroy them.
Ping; TM’ers, too.
Check out #99 and #186.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2327875/posts?page=99#99
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2327875/posts?page=186#186
Question in the envelope: "Name "One Big Ass Mistake, America"
I totally agree, I have been saying for years that this is what the rats do best once they get in power—self destruct.
Then, the states can simply cut the Fed off from the tax monies collected within their borders. Nothing to stop them from doing that. Quid pro quo and all that.
"NO!NOT KOOKY AT ALL. ~ Quix
At the moment - but for how long - they know this - why do you think they have this planned?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt2yGzHfy7s
“JUST as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded”?
WE have @ 3 million in our military, spread around the globe. That many within the country would be a force of an average of 60,000 per state - dressed in Pres. Bobble Head's signature “Blue” shirts?
the millions in ACORN will be the first wave and they are ready to go...
Will we beat the tipping point - the ‘emergency’ Biden spoke of (not knowing he was on mike) that would cause them to take action that we would not agree with - like ??? declare a national emergency, shut down the public Internet (our ability to communicate) and unleash his private army..
Think they wouldn't do it?
I wonder how many Russians saw the Bolshevik Revolution coming before it was too late?
I wonder how many regular German people saw what happened coming before it was too late?
At least, we have those examples for a ‘heads up’ = hmmm, let's see:
First Hitler took over the banks;
then the auto industry
then health care -
The he unleashed his Brown Shirts -
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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