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It's the day the emperor officially has no clothes
New York Post ^ | 2:21 AM, August 2, 2011 | John Podhoretz

Posted on 08/02/2011 4:59:50 AM PDT by Niuhuru

If Barack Obama loses next November, we'll look back on Sunday -- July 31, 2011 -- as the day he became a one-termer.

He demonstrated the one key quality common to all unsuccessful leaders: Haplessness.

In the most confrontational partisan moment of his presidency, Obama ended up looking remarkably powerless. He didn't get his way. To put it mildly.

The deal he endorsed on the debt ceiling will long be an object of debate for both right and left. There's so much for everyone to dislike in it that people are lining up to rage against it, even though it will surely pass.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: debate; debt; deficit; downfall; economy; emperor; leaders; november; obama; partisan; presidency
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To: EBH
You're right.

This is a bad deal. Horrible in fact. When the economy crashes even more, it will be the GOP’s fault. It will be in every dem ad from here to November 2012.

And it has already started.

21 posted on 08/02/2011 7:38:54 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: SMARTY
THEN... they’d have to admit they backed the wrong horse.

They are already in the process of doing that. This article is proof.
22 posted on 08/02/2011 7:46:54 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: SMARTY

You’re right...they’d have to admit it, and while they know it, one of their secret weapons is that they never - well, rarely - admit it. And while I think a lot of them may be privately embarrassed by their boy, their whole lives are on the line now if they abandon him.

Now one has to ask who would have been stupid enough to believe him in the first place...the answer is, only a Communications major. Communications is famously the major of ditzes who can’t think what they want to do and aren’t very smart and don’t want to work very hard. Well, guess what...the entire country is now being run by them.


23 posted on 08/02/2011 8:21:49 AM PDT by livius
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To: redgolum

I’ve been out to Speaker Boehner’s facebook page. The fix is already in. Just reading the posts on there tell you the dem. base truly believe the republicans and TEA party got everything they wanted.

The fact that we have no media voice is already killing us!

No President, No Party should ever be allowed to be this powerful.


24 posted on 08/02/2011 8:23:38 AM PDT by EBH ( God Humbles Nations, Leaders, and Peoples before He uses them for His Purpose)
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To: Venturer
That's right and all his spending on the stimulus has become permanent.
25 posted on 08/02/2011 8:25:52 AM PDT by Mr. Peabody
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To: Niuhuru
It's the day the emperor officially has no clothes

I disagree. The day he officially became a naked emperor was inauguration day, complete with faux Greek columns. Passing the debt ceiling bill was a win for him, as we will see soon enough.

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26 posted on 08/02/2011 8:35:28 AM PDT by lonevoice (schizophrenic hostage taking hobbit terrorist)
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To: SMARTY
THEN... they’d have to admit they backed the wrong horse.

That is not what this article is about at all. The purpose of this propaganda piece is to provide cover for when the collapse hits. It is the smoke obfuscating the truth, that what is before the senate for voting, is more of the same old failing Keynesian economic policies.

When the trigger mechanisms kick in during the election year...it will be touted as a failure of the republican debt policy. 0bama will be held above the fray of austerity measures that will need to be implemented. They are setting up the base to 'toe the line' regarding who to blame when the money runs out, gets cut, interest rates rise, etc.

Boehner needed to force 0bama to invoke the 14th and own this crap. Nothing in this legislation is going to work and save us from the downgrade.

27 posted on 08/02/2011 8:35:47 AM PDT by EBH ( God Humbles Nations, Leaders, and Peoples before He uses them for His Purpose)
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To: Niuhuru

What are you talking about? He won! He got $26T in new spending over 10 years, and the power of unilateral debt ceiling increase. There are no deficit cuts. There are no debt cuts. He won outright. Now he can buy his next term, swiping that credit card for whatever the centrist voters want.


28 posted on 08/02/2011 8:39:49 AM PDT by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
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To: livius
I work at a university...you don't need to tell me about Communications majors.

Most can't make a sentence with a subject and predicate.

29 posted on 08/02/2011 8:48:59 AM PDT by SMARTY (A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.)
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To: mylife

“I hope his birthday party really sucks.”

Actually, I hope its a great party and everyone has lavish food and drink, smiles, laughs, entertainment and singing.
And I also hope that there is a lot of footage taken and that its plastered all over the TV.

The country and especially electorate need to face the reality re are dealing with. A self absorbed party on zero.
A loser.


30 posted on 08/02/2011 9:07:43 AM PDT by AlphaOneAlpha
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To: Mean Maryjean
He didn’t get his way? He got the increase in the debt ceiling; all the rest is smoke and mirrors. Now he can buy his reelection and not have to worry about readdressing this issue before 2013. Oh, he got what he wanted alright. Anyone who thinks otherwise is naive.

Exactly...he got what he wanted from the dumb Republicans . He got a load of cash to please the left with...and no more nasty discussions on the deficit to interfere with the election cycle.. He sits back and lets the RINOs congratulate themselves on HIS victory..

31 posted on 08/02/2011 10:25:40 AM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: worriedinoregon; EBH

There were not enough good people willing to do what it took to save the Weimar Republic.

The Chocolate Reich with it’s propaganda media will destroy America just like the Third Reich and propaganda ministry destroyed Germany.

All we can do is pray for rapture before bloodshed.

I am prepared for both.


32 posted on 08/02/2011 12:00:36 PM PDT by MikeSteelBe (Austrian Hitler was as the Halfrican Hitler does.)
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To: goldstategop

“It sucks having to wait to get rid of him!”

Yes, well, it’s better to impeach than throw him out now and then have an eternal “what if” scenario.


33 posted on 08/02/2011 1:10:55 PM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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