Posted on 04/14/2010 6:21:18 AM PDT by NMEwithin
President Obama could rather easily restore his credibility. But to do so, he would have to stop talking and start making hard policy decisions.
Barack Obama has a marvelous way of sounding innovative, fresh, and novel while offering stale, predictable bromides. His policies at home are an extension of LBJ’s old Great Society. Abroad we’ve been getting a more sonorous version of Jimmy Carter’s global self-righteous sermonizing.
The public wanted a racially transcendent figure and got instead a Chicago ward boss. The problem now for Mr. Obama — reflected in growing popular discontent — is that on matters of debt, taxes, energy, jobs, and race, he apparently has very little new to offer. He just serves up in new wording the them/us divides of the past.
We are at a point where each new proposed federal initiative — health care, cap-and-trade, a “jobs bill,” stimulus, education — is synonymous with more debt. Mr. Obama has exhausted the time-honored Beltway gimmicks of promising to root out “fraud and abuse,” of “streaming” or “reinventing” government, of “freezing” discretionary spending. His proposed restoration of the Clinton income-tax rates does not come in a vacuum, but coincides with massive new taxes imposed by the states, health-care surcharges, and proposed raising of the caps on income subject to payroll taxes. As the deficit still grows, talk of a new federal value-added tax spreads.
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All I can see is $ signs when this hag travels,I see all the money blow out of the end of that air plane her and her husband uses like the city bus..
He’s a real nowhere man
Sitting in his nowhere land
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody
Doesn’t have a point of view
Knows not where he’s going to
Isn’t he a bit like you and me?
Nowhere Man, please listen
You don’t know what you’re missing
Nowhere Man, the world is at your command
He’s as blind as he can be
Just sees what he wants to see
Nowhere Man can you see me at all?
Nowhere Man, don’t worry
Take your time, don’t hurry
Leave it all till somebody else lends you a hand
Doesn’t have a point of view
Knows not where he’s going to
Isn’t he a bit like you and me?
Nowhere Man, please listen
You don’t know what you’re missing
Nowhere Man, the world is at your command
He’s a real Nowhere Man
Sitting in his nowhere land
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody
I remember during the early days of the 2008 presidential campaign -- before the big financial meltdown. Obam and McCain were in a debate and the question was: "The deficit is too large. Everyone knows that. Everyone agrees that we need to cut spending. Specifically, what would you do to cut federal spending?"
Obama's answer (from memory):
"The deficit is too large. We do need to cut spending. Here's what I will do -- I will invest in roads and bridges. I will invest in health care and in education. Most importantly, I will invest in green technology so that renewable energy is developed, and greenhouse gases can be eliminated."
(McCain's answer: "I would cut Defense.")
Obama believes that all solutions require massive deficit spending -- even deficit reduction requires massive deficit spending.
VDH - BINGO!
....VDH
“Invest = spend” in Dem parlance............so his answer to cutting spending was to spend even more..............
If you raise the defict to $2T the first year, then cut that to $1.8T the next year, you are fiscally responsible. /PBHO
Jeremy Hillary Boob, PhD.: If I spoke prose you’d all find out / I don’t know what I talk about.
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