Can You Dig It? (Obama doesn't use just a shovel - he uses a pickaxe so he can dig a deeper hole)

american spectator ^ | 12/15/10 | ross kaminsky

[bestintxas]

One of my favorite bits of practical advice is "when you find yourself in a deep hole, stop digging."

The hole that Barack Obama finds himself in, while largely due to his policy positions, is also a function of his seeming out of his league, a man-child who was elected to an office he was unprepared to hold, perhaps the only candidate for president who made Sarah Palin look like an experienced and worldly statesman in comparison (and who continues to perform that remarkable feat today).

Obama is not offering much new in the way of policy -- fortunately for the nation, still suffering from a tremendous bout of indigestion over Obamacare, cap-and-trade (being implemented by the EPA regardless of lack of congressional action), Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and his failed effort to shutter Guantanamo Bay (because Muslim radicals in Yemen will hate us so much less if their Mohammedan brothers are kept in frigid downstate Illinois instead of their current Caribbean resort).

Thus, his biggest ongoing issue is the reinforcement of the perception among Americans and foreigners alike that America has its most unpresidential president since at least Jimmy Carter, and perhaps in its history.

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An economically sound United States will never accept membership in the global Marxist utopia.

They have to burn the village to save it.

[Cyber Liberty]

So, let's get this straight, Mr. President: The fate of a tax measure that is of critical import for an economy with a near-10% unemployment rate, a measure that will impact directly or indirectly a 9-digit number of Americans, and a measure with political ramifications potentially as large as Obamacare's is to be left in the hands of an ex-president (did I mention "ex"?) because your wife is waiting?

I normally don't pay much attention wehn he gets up to speak, but I happened to see this press conference. I was shocked to see him say that and walk out of the presser.

[SouthDixie]

Thanks, it is a quote I borrowed from Lucille Ball.

[wizr]

That photo, then, could be Barry “Arnez”, saying:

(Drumroll, please.) “HONEY, I’m home!”

[SC_Pete]

That’s a very succinct way of describing the LEFT’s economic policy: TAX THE PRODUCTIVE PEOPLE OUT OF EXISTENCE, TAKE THE ESTATE AWAY FROM THE HEIRS, AND KILL ECONOMIC PROSPERITY. Then, offer the SECULAR GOD, the omnipotent STATE, as the solution. This drives everything they do: immigration policy, taxation, health care, financial regulation, crony capitalism, enriching RAT bankers at the expense of manufacturing, scanners and pat downs (give up liberty for security), and on and on. This is the RAT agenda: DESTRUCTION of everything the United States stands for: freedom, liberty, free enterprise, individualism, limited government, and English common law.

What RINOS do is enable the dismantling of our republic.