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"time is running out"

Not fast enough bozo, not fast enough.

Gotta love that last paragraph... nobama wants to to beat up on our Reps about a plan he has yet to disclose (and, truth be told, probably hasn't even been created yet).

Another gem not included above:

“I want to enlist your help,” Mr. Obama told a small tickets-only audience in Peosta. “I need your help sending a message to Congress, it’s time to put politics aside and get something done.”
Tickets-only? I thought these were town hall type meetings. Were the tickets free? Were there qualifications to get a ticket? If tickets weren't free, who gets the cash? Are we sure this isn't a campaign trip?
1 posted on 08/17/2011 8:33:41 AM PDT by upchuck
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We need to repeat over and over that the Tea Party Caucus is 13% of the House and 4% of the Senate. How does such a small faction control anything? Answer: it doesn’t.


23 posted on 08/17/2011 8:58:22 AM PDT by matt1234 (ObamaCare: Killing mommies for commies.)
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“I want to enlist your help,” Mr. Obama told a small tickets-only audience in Peosta.

Help is what this nit needs, but not from this planet.........Canadian buses at a huge cost to the country for three days so this failed man can ape Palin with his own bus tour? This is exactly why the Tea Party came into being.....excess government, excess expense, by an excessive president who loves the hi-life...he is off to Martha's Vineyard for a posh vacation few others other than Saudi Princes can afford..............didn't he just come back from Camp David....oh yeah, he doesn't like that 'rough' place.

24 posted on 08/17/2011 8:58:28 AM PDT by yoe
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25 posted on 08/17/2011 8:59:12 AM PDT by radioone (Don't let the media pick our nominee. "Palin 2012")
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Maybe Obama and his merry band of paranoids can take his big black bus to a Tea Party and intimidate all of us. Dems becoming a joke.


26 posted on 08/17/2011 9:00:04 AM PDT by GOPJ (One ring to rule them/one ring to find them/one ring to tax them/and in indebtedness bind them.)
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This is all part of the script - demonize the Tea Party and then paint the GOP candidate that color. Chuck Todd has been doing it for about a week. The MSM is following. Great Leader continues the narrative.


28 posted on 08/17/2011 9:04:17 AM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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Dear President Obama,

About that gridlock in Congress....that was created in the 2010 election by the citizens of the United States who gave the big spenders in Congress a message - Stop the Out-Of-Control Spending. We went to DC and were ignored, we wrote, we emailed, we went to Town Halls to no avail.

So, with that historic shellacking the People put that gridlock in place to stop both parties from destroying this nation with debt. You are frustrated? So were we but we don’t have big donors, big Unions, big lobbyists or big money all we had is our one vote and vote we did.

How can a country protect its citizens, be prepared for emergencies or take care of those in need if it constantly maxes out its credit cards?


29 posted on 08/17/2011 9:05:40 AM PDT by 30Moves
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As he tours in his Canadian-manufactured bus and lectures "the People," he faces the "jobs" deficit, which his Keynesian economic philosophy has not and will not solve, as well as the potential collapse of his so-called "health care" mandate.

No wonder he criticizes the millions in that great movement called Tea Partiers who continue to publicize, oppose, and bring pressure on their elected representatives to resist the agenda to "fundamentally transform" America--the one nation in the world where hundreds of millions have fled to enjoy liberty.

Now is the time to stand for the foundational principles of liberty enshrined in the 1787 Constitution.

The "Trojan horse" called "health care reform" simply was a vehicle in the goal of "transforming America" from its foundations in individual liberty to one of coercive rule by political elites--imperfect persons in positions of power in government.

America's Founders understood the latter concept well, and they soundly rejected it in favor of a written "People's" Constitution to forever limit, separate, check and balance, and "bind down" their elected and appointed representatives in government. In Article V, they provided the only valid means of amending that written Constitution. The results were astounding!

Then, along came the so-called "progressives" who, in their arrogance and lust for power and control, several decades ago began to erode those "foundations" of individual liberty. Now, led by the current Administration, "health care reform" was to lay a different and opposite foundation.

By the Founders' formula, "the People's" written Constitution was the anchor of our liberties, binding government to the "People's" limitations on its power.

The "progressives" (who are, in fact, regressive in their counterfeit ideas), in effect, would undo all the monumental work accomplished by the Founders on behalf of liberty and leave the law afloat and without anchor, relying, as of old, on mere men and women.

From Page xv of "Our Ageless Constitution," allow me to include here excerpted words from President Andrew Jackson's Proclamation of December 10, 1832:

"We have received it [the Constitution] as the work of the assembled wisdom of the nation. We have trusted to it as to the sheet anchor of our safety in the stormy times of conflict with a foreign or domestic foe. We have looked to it with sacred awe as the palladium of our liberties, and with all the solemnities of religion have pledged to each other our lives and fortunes here and our hopes of happiness hereafter in its defense and support. Were we mistaken, my countrymen, in attaching this importance to the Constitution . . .? No. We were not mistaken. The letter of this great instrument is free from this radical fault. . . . No, we did not err! . . . The sages . . . have given us a practical and, as they hoped, a permanent* Constitutional compact. . . . The Constitution is still the object of our reverence, the bond of our Union, our defense in danger, the source of our prosperity in peace: it shall descend, as we have received it, uncorrupted by sophistical construction, to our posterity. . . ."

*Underlining added for emphasis

And, it was Thomas Jefferson who used another metaphor with reference to the Constitution when he indicated that "the People" must "bind them (government) by the chains of the Constitution." In another instance, he declared: "It was intended to lace them up straitly within the enumerated powers. . . ."

As we see, when "the People" begin to be informed and to assert their Constitutional mandate to "lace them up. . . within the enumerated powers," those who wish to expand the power of government can be heard to complain.

30 posted on 08/17/2011 9:16:16 AM PDT by loveliberty2
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Blah blah blah.

I’m looking forward to your concession speech on Nov. 6 next year. Probably to be given before 10:00 if we’re lucky.


31 posted on 08/17/2011 9:25:57 AM PDT by RockinRight (The ObamAA+ Downgrade)
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Obama: Tea-party GOP blocking U.S. recovery

No, this is blocking the U.S. recovery.

Obama Deficits:

32 posted on 08/17/2011 9:27:41 AM PDT by Polybius (Defeating Obama is Priority Number One)
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Not blocking recovery, Obama. They’re blocking your
inflationary spending—one of the things you’re causing
to stop recovery. They’re standing in the way of your
tax hikes—another of the things you cause to block the recovery. In other words, Obama, they’re going to sit on the back of your neck as you smash face first into the dirt
and remain there until you grind to a halt.


33 posted on 08/17/2011 9:33:59 AM PDT by righttackle44 (I may not be much, but I raised a U.S. Marine.)
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It's Taxed Enough Already (TEA) Party.

That's TEA Party!

It's about taxes! We don't need more taxes.
We need less government spending!
We need less government!!!


35 posted on 08/17/2011 9:36:59 AM PDT by CharlyFord (t)
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36 posted on 08/17/2011 9:37:01 AM PDT by Iron Munro (One Trillion seconds = 31,709.79 YEARS / One Trillion dollars = Obama's spending for 3 months)
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That's right. Those damned producers just won't let you steal your fair share. :)
38 posted on 08/17/2011 9:47:33 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ( "The right to offend is far more important than any right not to be offended." - Rowan Atkinson)
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There is not one Federal Agency that is required for this country to function. If the FAA were to disappear, not one flight would be cancelled. If the FCC were to vanish, not one broadcast would be interrupted, every single facet of the Federal behemoth does nothing to produce any kind of profit or benefit. If the Federal government, which is bankrupt, were to close doors tomorrow, everything would go on. Banks would still be open, kids would go to school, we would all be going to our jobs. In short, no one would even notice.

I propose we do just that. Lay them all off, because USA Inc. can not afford them. We are bankrupt. Time to close the doors. For one year, and one year only, stop all Federal taxes.
With in 18 months, every house would be sold, every business would be booming, every person would be employed, every person would be out of debt or near out of debt.

After the one year of total tax relief, start to hire back in ten percent increments per fiscal quarter until all the work can get done, then freeze Federal hiring until there is an actual need for more staff.

39 posted on 08/17/2011 9:47:43 AM PDT by RavenLooneyToon
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“I need your help sending a message to Congress, it’s time to put politics aside and get something done.”

Hey obbummerjack@$$, how about you putting YOUR politics aside and work with Congress?

40 posted on 08/17/2011 9:49:30 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Dear God, please let it rain in Texas. Amen.)
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“The Tea Party is blocking the U.S. Recovery”. A statement only a socialist democratic fraud could believe in. Other winning statements from these frauds. “It’s a real copy of my birth certificate”. “AGW is caused by CO2” and man is responsible. Any wonder why the socialist infested democrat party and obama regime is collasping faster than al gore can side step a debate.


41 posted on 08/17/2011 9:55:50 AM PDT by spawn44 (spawn44)
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Obama: Tea-party GOP blocking U.S. recovery



WHEN DID HARRY REID JOIN THE GOP?

When Harry Reid scheduled a rare motion-to-table vote for this morning rather than waiting for the cloture vote tomorrow, one had to presume that he had the votes to kill the Cut, Cap, and Balance Act. He did — but but it was close. From the Boss Emeritus:
43 posted on 08/17/2011 10:26:50 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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...challenging audiences to tell Republican lawmakers on their August recess to support his upcoming plan.

In other words, to paraphrase Nazi Pelosi, support it so it can be passed, so you can then find out what's in it.

Words fail me. Does he think we're ALL idiots like his sycophants are?

44 posted on 08/17/2011 10:30:18 AM PDT by Emile (Leftists are so 'open-minded', their brains have fallen out. -- (HT to GOPJ))
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He needs to be set straight on this B.S. he’s been spewing. He had all three branches of government and didn’t do sh!# until the eleventh hour. The GOP better shut this crap down now!


45 posted on 08/17/2011 10:34:52 AM PDT by jersey117
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I thought we were still riding in the back seat?


46 posted on 08/17/2011 11:01:35 AM PDT by Mygirlsmom (Liberalism: the belief that with enough $ one can wish away any natural law he finds inconvenient)
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