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Obama Is Fresh Out of Ideas
Townhall.com ^ | August 2, 2011 | David Limbaugh

Posted on 08/02/2011 4:49:48 AM PDT by Kaslin

One of the most striking facts about the course of the Obama presidency so far is that Obama has no constructive solutions for anything, which is one reason he campaigned on vague promises. It's why he established bogus metrics, such as "saved or created jobs."

It's also why he's always pointing the finger of blame on others for his policy failures. Everyone knows by now that Obama's reckless and corrupt stimulus package failed to restrain unemployment as he had promised and that instead of accepting responsibility for it, he blamed Bush.

He also played another familiar liberal card: He insisted his stimulus bill would have worked if he had been allowed to spend more money. So he started pushing for a second stimulus, all while increasing the government's regulatory stranglehold on business and cramming Obamacare down our throats.

All of which is to say -- with added emphasis -- that Obama is fresh out of ideas. Worse, he's the immovable force standing in the way of those who do have constructive proposals.

He didn't even submit a plan during the debt ceiling negotiations, and his party's Senate majority hasn't presented a budget for more than 800 days. We have a spending and entitlement problem, but Obama's ideology precludes him from addressing either. It drives him, instead, to insist on increasing taxes on the rich. But raising rates would further smother the economy and not significantly increase revenues.

The GOP is far from perfect, but it has presented serious proposals to address the debt crisis, which include capping discretionary spending, restructuring entitlements, passing a balanced budget amendment and reforming the tax code. These plans could work, but the Democrats have steadfastly and shamelessly opposed them and ridiculed their proponents, such as Rep. Paul Ryan.

During the debt ceiling negotiations, we've seen more of the same. Obama's Democrats are refusing to sign on to real cuts (only reductions on the rate of spending increases) and even more resistant to meaningful entitlement reform.

If a compromise passes, it will only be because Republicans have concluded, accurately or not, that it's the best they can get in their effort to reduce the bleeding until 2012, when they hope to regain firm control of both political branches. No matter how they spin it, it will not be a good deal; the only question is how bad it will be.

Republicans fear that if they don't take the deal and the budget ceiling is not lifted, disastrous economic and political consequences will ensue: Our economy will collapse and Republicans will be blamed and lose the 2012 elections, and then any chance of saving the nation from financial catastrophe will be lost.

I am not convinced that a debt ceiling impasse would result in the predicted Armageddon or that signing on to a dubious bill would enhance the GOP's 2012 electoral prospects. But I am convinced that if we don't start working this debt down -- as opposed to whittling away at the rates of increase while the debt continues to expand -- we will experience real financial collapse, and sooner than we may think.

I'm also concerned that if this deal goes through, Obama will try to make the case that Republicans own the compromise bill as if they wrote it (because in part they did) and thereafter the terrible economy and the continuously exploding debt. If Republicans are so worried that Obama would successfully blame them for fallout from a ceiling impasse, why aren't they worried about being blamed if the compromise doesn't stop the growth of the debt, which it won't?

Indeed, no matter how inept Obama is at many things, he is a master at propaganda and negative campaigning. That's all he's got. The only policies he can bring himself to support cannot work. So as 2012 approaches, don't look for Obama to emphasize his record. Look for more deflection and scapegoating.

There is a historical parallel to Obama's approach. History professors agree that during his rise to power, Hitler built a coalition based on a negative assault on the Weimar Republic instead of a positive set of ideas or programs. His propaganda gurus introduced the idea of perpetual campaigning, in which they would focus on technique, not content.

In no other way am I comparing Obama to Nazis, but I am struck by the propaganda and campaigning parallels. Obama has no ideas except to foment phony crises, exploit real ones and demonize and scapegoat business, corporations, "the wealthy," insurance companies, oil companies, Republicans in general and -- President Bush.

Unlike some conservatives, I am confident that most people now see through Obama and are prepared to reject him as divisive, destructive and wholly without any solutions to our very serious problems. Republicans need to overcome the fear that now appears to be paralyzing them.


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1 posted on 08/02/2011 4:49:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Mr. Limbaugh infers that 0 ever HAD an idea, which I seriously doubt.


2 posted on 08/02/2011 4:53:46 AM PDT by tgusa (Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger......)
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To: Kaslin

..they have to have a commission of marxist czars to meet and explain in detail his next move....TOTUS is currently on vacation,their in trouble


3 posted on 08/02/2011 4:55:13 AM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Kaslin
Here's the problem: Obama thinks he could use the economic model FDR used in the 1930's for economic recovery. We know how well that went....

A better solution is what I suggested a few days ago:

A two-point plan to reduce the size of government and reform the income tax

4 posted on 08/02/2011 5:00:05 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: Kaslin
Obama is out of fresh ideas?

We're not. We should begin to play offense now.

The House should propose stimulative measures to revive the economy.

Suggestions:

First begin to remove regulatory obstacles to drilling for oil-in the Gulf and our coasts, plus Alaska.

Lower cap gains to 5% to aid commercial real estate.

Reduce corporate rate on repatriated foreign profits for domestic firms to 15%.

All these measures are free lunches-meaning that they would increase economic activity while also increasing revenues to the treasury. Whether we can get them through the Senate or not is irrelevant, let's let the American people see that we have solutions.

5 posted on 08/02/2011 5:01:27 AM PDT by wayoverontheright
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To: Kaslin
As I read this piece, I was struck by the headline. "Out of Ideas"???? I don't think so!

The stain, his regime, and his supporters are loaded with ideas. Stimulus spending, blame the other guy, national healthcare, raising the debt ceiling, amnesty for illegals, gay military, "too big to fail", open borders, tax the "rich", employ the military in the middle east, and a whole host of other "ideas" some of which are meant to deflect, some to increase the size of government, some to ruin the military, and some to overtly destroy the country in which we live.

"Out of Ideas"???? Hardly!

However, as the "ideas" come at us with frightening regularity, one thing is abundantly clear. These "ideas" - transformed into fact/law by a very strong, well led dem/lib/prog/pop coalition coupled with a weak, brain dead, capitulating, submissive, and out-of-date rino gaggle - are killing this country.

"Out of Ideas"????? We should all be so lucky!

6 posted on 08/02/2011 5:01:37 AM PDT by Logic n' Reason (The stain must be REMOVED (ERADICATED)....NOW!!)
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To: tgusa

My thoughts EXACTLY.


7 posted on 08/02/2011 5:03:56 AM PDT by Peter from Rutland
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To: Kaslin

He was fresh out of ideas in the Fall of 2008.

“Hope and Change” should have been “Smoke and Mirrors”.


8 posted on 08/02/2011 5:07:20 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: wayoverontheright

All good ideas; however, the Republican “leadership” in the House has demonstrated that it lacks the requisite masculine equipment to advance any of them.


9 posted on 08/02/2011 5:18:41 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (I'll have what the gentleman on the floor is drinking.)
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To: Kaslin

Any “ideas” that might be formulated by Obama are rooted in Alinsky Tactics and Cloward-Piven.


10 posted on 08/02/2011 5:26:05 AM PDT by radioone (Capitalism does More with Less, Government does Less with MORE...)
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To: tgusa
Indeed, no matter how inept Obama is at many things, he is a master at propaganda and negative campaigning.

Zero is dumb as a post, but he's canny and he is fully the master of populist politics, based on saying nothing substantive but simply demonizing your opponents. It worked during his first campaign, largely thanks to the press, and it will work during this one.

I think Limbaugh's analysis of it is accurate, but I'm not confident as he is that the American people will reject Obama simply because of the minor fact that he has done nothing and has no plan (or that the plans he does have are basically aimed at our destruction). It's all about image, and the media and his huge reelection fund will ensure that the peeps will be out in the street cheering for him and stomping each other into the ground to touch his garments.

Hugo Chavez has presided over the destruction of the Venezuelan economy and society as well as a huge surge in poverty - among the very class that he cultivated as his base, the lower income class - and yet when he appears, they are still swooning and cheering for him. Same with Bambi.

11 posted on 08/02/2011 5:43:11 AM PDT by livius
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To: Kaslin

He missed ‘DENTAL CARE’.

Wait until one of his minions discovers the premium revenue from dental insurance and how to enslave the profession. Not to mention the dental equipment industry.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2006_Feb_20/ai_n16071632/


12 posted on 08/02/2011 6:30:17 AM PDT by sodpoodle (Despair; man's surrender. Laughter; God's redemption.)
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To: tgusa

He has two ideas -

1) racial payback
2) advancing communism/destroying capitalism


13 posted on 08/02/2011 6:31:45 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: Kaslin

Obama is the most blatant class warrior since FDR. And his stupid and reckless, private industry-wrecking spending policies mirror FDR’s as well. He all but urges his underlings to go out and rob anyone who looks like they might be affluent.


14 posted on 08/02/2011 7:38:41 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: Kaslin

Oh, come on! He never had any that he didn’t cadge from Karl Marx.


15 posted on 08/02/2011 7:46:38 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Logic n' Reason
transformed into fact/law by a very strong, well led dem/lib/prog/pop coalition coupled with a weak, brain dead, capitulating, submissive, and out-of-date rino gaggle

Notice who is very well organized and can get out a consistent message - the Dems, the Acorn/SEIU/Soros/etc. crowd, the TV networks, Muslims (via mosques), China, and so on.

On the other hand, look at their respective oppositions - fragmented and demonized.

16 posted on 08/02/2011 7:52:47 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: P.O.E.
On the other hand, look at their respective oppositions - fragmented and demonized.

Spot on....!

And apparently...unless a certain un-named, and as yet, unannounced candidate takes center stage....things will remain as they are.

I can no longer stand to watch as the repub/rino/conserv/tparty self destruct. It is too painful.

17 posted on 08/02/2011 8:00:28 AM PDT by Logic n' Reason (The stain must be REMOVED (ERADICATED)....NOW!!)
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To: MrB

So - which pubbie candidate will have the cojones to say so? This crowd still hasn’t learned that ‘compromise’ means ‘unconditional surrender’ to the dems. The only thing the dems understand is a FIGURATIVE knee to the chest and knife to the throat.


18 posted on 08/02/2011 8:01:16 AM PDT by tgusa (Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger......)
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To: tgusa

Seriously, I’m willing to support any candidate that will simply tell the truth about the left and not worry that it’s “not being civil” to do so.


19 posted on 08/02/2011 8:02:46 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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