Posted on 01/29/2011 10:58:19 PM PST by Red Steel
I missed the middle section of Obama's State of the Union address when I took a break to read "War and Peace," but I gather he never got around to what I was hoping he'd say, which is: "What was I thinking?"
The national debt is $14 trillion, the Democrats won't stop spending and President Nero gave us a long, gaseous speech about his Stradivarius.
I feel so Southern whenever I watch a Democrat give a State of the Union address — and not just because it makes me want to secede. Consternating the rest of the family, my Kentucky mother always talked back to the TV. I do it only when a Democrat is giving a speech.
And if liberals didn't like Samuel Alito mouthing the words "not true," they should be really happy I wasn't in the House chamber Tuesday night.
All I kept hearing was, "Ann pays more." That's all I ever I hear when Democrats start in with all that "investing."
Apparently the government will be "investing" in education, "investing" in technology, "investing" in roads and "investing" in lots and lots of government workers. Ann pays more, Ann pays more, Ann pays more.
Obama compared "investing" in education to our sending a man to the moon after the Russians launched Sputnik. Say, who was the president who recently gutted spending on NASA? Oh yes, that was Obama.
So he reminded us of the glory days of the space program, but now he's taking that money and funneling it to public school teachers. As the Democrats say: "If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we hire another 10,000 public school teachers?"
Also, solar panels. Obama said the government was already "investing" in solar panels! That's a total relief. This must be how the president who brought us "Recovery Summer" is going to dig us out of the second Great Depression.
But I do wonder why no private lender considered solar panels a wise investment, forcing solar panel manufacturers to turn to the government for loans, followed by endless tax credits just to break even.
I guess people who work for the government are just smarter. We're so lucky to have them "investing" our money for us! Boy, egg must be on Warren Buffett's face!
Remember how massive government "investments" gave rise to the telephone, the light bulb, the automobile, the airplane, the personal computer ... OK, none of those.
But massive government expenditures did give us Amtrak and the TSA!
The only thing Obama vowed to cut were "earmarks." Yippee! The guy with the ears is against earmarks. Yes, the same president who quadrupled our deficit by giving money away to his UAW pals, Wall Street cronies and government workers is now lecturing us about earmarks. This is a bit like being scolded by Charlie Sheen for ordering a second wine cooler.
Still, I can't wait for Obama's America. An America where I can use lightning-fast, high-speed Internet to file electronically for my unemployment benefits. Or better yet, I can ditch my old "oil-powered" car and take a "sunlight and water"-powered high-speed train to the unemployment office for a change.
And I hear CalTech is working on biofuels to power "Recovery Summer 2011."
The big laugh line was when Nero said mockingly, "I heard rumors that a few of you still have concerns about the health care law." That's called "60 percent of the American public." It's not a joke, and it's not funny.
Here's one: Hey, Obama! Guy walks into a bar in the Gaza Strip. The bartender says, "What'll you have?" But the guy is killed instantly when an Iranian-made CT-28 missile strikes the bar, also killing a woman and small child next door. Get it, Obama? HA HA!
Synthesizing Karl Marx and Ronald Reagan, Obama said the government will soon be taking over every aspect of our lives, and Republicans can't stop him — but gosh, isn't America a great country! Teachers are great, we need to innovate, children are our future, we need paved roads, kids should do their homework, Labrador puppies are cute, I like apple pie, I (heart) Justin Bieber, and how about them Yankees! Now, here's your 2011 tax bill — how would you like to pay for that?
Actually, I was glad to hear him say that "there isn't a person here" — which presumably included Democrats — who would live anyplace else.
Then why are they always trying to turn us into Western Europe?
Good stuff but posted on FR last Wednesday.
Thanks for posting, red steel. Since last Wed. I’ve been in a coma. Awakening to find this gem from Ann Coulter surely gives one a new appreciation for the thoughtfulness of others.
I don't believe it. Well, I don't believe anything obama says, period. But I especially don't believe he'll cut spending, and he'll never get rid of earmarks. He promised to end earmarks during the campaign - then submitted a budget with ... what was it, 8000+ or was it 9000+ earmarks in it?
Like every single thing hussein obama says this earmark claim is a lie. Perhaps the only thing obama has ever said that is true is that he wants to transform America. Unfortunately, his vision for America is of a miserable socialist state with a huge intrusive and all-controlling government.
Rules?
Hard to believe that this fine specimen of a human being smokes Winston king size light cigarettes. At least she did in ‘post’ 1998, when she spoke before a sympathetic crowd at Eureka College, Eureka, IL, during a pre-event conversation/moment. She asked those present if we minded if she smoked. Are you serious? Would anyone object?
President Party boy should just go on permanent vacation and let some grown ups come in and clean up his mess.
>>Then why are they always trying to turn us into Western Europe?<<
Normally, I would bow to Ann Coulter’s much greater intellect than mine. However, I believe she misspoke when she says “Western Europe”. I believe the present regime has EASTERN Europe in mind as a goal. Specifically, East Germany, Romania and Albania.
She should smoke a real cigarette, like Camels....loved smoking those{with the filters}.
And here is 0bambi flipping a coin to decide Mubarak's fate: 
Ann, like all of the other conservative media talking bobbleheads continues to avoid the most important constitutional issue ever to face our republic. Shame on you Ann, where I thought you were a giant and a leader I find you’re only a tool of the ruling elites.
by “cut earmarks” Obama just means that he’s going to redefine earmarks into something inconsequential so he can keep using earmarks only they won’t qualify as earmarks anymore, thus allowing the One to boast about how HE ended earmark spending.
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