Posted on 03/04/2009 6:48:42 PM PST by Kaslin
As Gov. Bobby Jindal began to offer a Republican response, it became apparent that he would be no match with Barack Obama in the soaring-oratory department. The Republicans really should have tried a gimmick instead.
Perhaps Jindal could have walked on and said, "Today, the president held what he called a fiscal responsibility summit." He could then afford a wide smile, knowing his audience had erupted in laughter.
Honestly, now: Are we quite ready finally to declare the Era of Obama As Fiscally Conservative is over?
Last year, Republicans warned that Barack Obama was ultraliberal — a socialist, in fact — but the media handlers typically presented this as a conservative smear. So, they painted Obama as an aspiring moderate-GOP deficit reducer.
Take the New York Times David Leonhardt last August: "Obama's aides optimistically insist he will reduce it (the deficit), thanks to his tax increases on the affluent and his plan to wind down the Iraq War. Relative to McCain, whose promised spending cuts are extremely vague, Obama does indeed look like a fiscal conservative."
How ridiculous does that sound now? John McCain probably would have been a moderate Republican president. But the idea that President Obama would turn out to be a stronger fiscal conservative than McCain should inspire a pink-faced laughing fit at the preposterousness of the Times.
Now that Obama's emphatic ultra-liberalism is the elephant in the room, and liberals are cheering the reversal of everything Reagan tried to accomplish economically, the media still don't want to call it liberal. Instead, it's positive adjectives like bold, ambitious, audacious and even breathtaking.
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Mostly ‘attention’ deficits...
War is ok now too. As long as a Donkey resides in the WH, everything is just peachy.
Republican deficits are the only ones that matter to the liberals/radicals/Democrats. Reason being, Obama is “investing” money, he’s not spending money. He’s investing in “good” things such as “clean green energy”. If they say it’s an investment, then it doesn’t count in their mentally calculated deficits.
And, even if deficits grow under Obama, they will say he inherited $10 trillion or more in accumulated national debt from Bush, so that debt doesn’t count either, in their mental math.
And apparantly DEM deficits are all that matter to Republicans. They’re tag teaming us.
They’re is a huge difference between President Bush’s deficit and 0bama’s deficit. President Bush’s deficit was $5 or $6 trillion for the entire eight years, the 0s deficit is already $3.5 trillion and he’s only been in office 5 weeks
Guess he doesn’t see a problem with spotting 0bama a 50:1 time difference.
GOP Leaders Among Top 20 Earmarkers
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/gop_earmarks/2009/03/04/188489.html
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