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Posted on 07/02/2010 9:25:45 PM PDT by smokingfrog
I can't wait for Barack Obama's second term.
Oh I know, 2013 is a long time from now and it would be nice to have decisive leadership to help deal with the odd double dip recession, Iranian nuclear threat, massive fiscal imbalance, remaking of the world order, that sort of thing.
But honestly, I just don't expect it. It is clear from events of the past few weeks that while it's July in most of America, it's already November in Washington. Every decision is cast in the context of the mid-term elections. No risk is too small to sidestep. No decision is too trivial to triangulate.
Getting reports of growing unemployment rolls? Compounding them with signs of sluggish growth and appalling developments in the housing market? A time for action? You might think so. But instead this president and this Congress hem and haw and propose effectively nothing. It's not just the Republicans blocking with appalling callousness the extension of unemployment benefits (while also fighting hard to ensure that big banks don't have too much of a tax burden). It's that the Democratic leadership is content to let the Republicans beat back the bill figuring they can use it against them in the election.
Lost in all this? Oh, right, the 9.5 percent of Americans who are "officially" unemployed not to mention the almost equally large number who don't make it into government statistics.
Is the reason for this fear of the exploding budget deficit? While one can debate the merits of government intervention vs. battling that deficit, we know the president and his team are not letting the economically disenfranchised suffer purely for reasons of economic orthodoxy.
(Excerpt) Read more at rothkopf.foreignpolicy.com ...
nevermind
It can't get any worse.
I laughed out loud at that. (I’e just decided to stop using LOL and such, my personal protest against the corruption of our language.)
You always tell it like it is! Good to see you posting again. May God bless you with a speedy recovery.
“I can’t wait for Barack Obama’s second term”
I can’t either as long as it’s in a prison!
He’s on the station Howie Carr is on in oston, so if I don’t turn Carr’s show off right away, he comes on. I can’t stand to hear his voice.
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The writer has this goofy idea about "experience," which shows what kind of freakin idiots we're dealing with. It's like having a building put up by someone who's put up a series of outhouses that all fell apart--he KNOWS how he's screwed up, so he won't make those mistakes again, unlike someone who's done a good job, who's only known success!
AFAIC, that’s a gr8t and noble endeavor that no one should ROFL at.
[pesky, aren’t I?]...;]
Welcome Home!
Yes, but unlike me your posts aren’t crammed with spelling errors while I’m bitching about literacy, so you get a pass.
1) Recession made into near depression.
2) Worst oil spill in history with some who think it is deliberate.
3) No response to said oil spill by the feds.
4) No attempt to seal the border in the face of geniune invasion by Mexican army units.
5) Full takeover of all health care, done in an extraconsitutional way.
6) Seizure of several major automobile industries.
7) Heavy regulation of banks paving the way for outright seizure.
8) Takeover of student loans.
9) The failure to pass a budget, but then acting as if you have, so you can spend more money.
10) Purposefully alienating longtime allies.
11) Embracing nations who have always hated us (and hate us still), sending them aid and technology.
12) Proposing MASSIVE energy taxes.
13) Proposing MASSIVE value-added taxes.
14) Engineering ways to shut down dissent, including a kill switch on the internet.
And this is all in TWO YEARS.
This moron wants SIX MORE?????
Oh, yeah, the 0pacalypse will be so much fun.
Cheers!
” After all, it can’t get worse than this, can it?”
LOL
Dems lack sufficient imagination to realize that Obama is just getting warmed up for the grand finale — Yes, it CAN get much worse.
You forgot the disintegration and surrender of our dominant space program.
bttt
Well, there's your problem. You have to be out of your mind to be a liberal.
True passion often causes one to miss the little things...:)
[Horrible secret time: as a lowly freshman, I became my high school spelling champ by beating 9 seniors. Needless to say, that did not endear me to any of them and I earned the nickname “Shari the dictionary”. Just what every insecure 14 year girl old needs....agonistic attention that will dictate the social course of her next 4 years.]
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