Obama: A lot of the ‘fuss’ over Libya is politics
I hate to say it……but when Bush was in offce…..oh nevermind. Who has the time for this bullpucky?
Archive for June, 2011
So President Obama is ticked off that Congress is not acting like grownups and agreeing to raise the debt ceiling.
And what’s the disagreement?
The GOP insists there should be no tax increases and Obama insists there needs to be.
So in essence, President Obama is ticked off that Congress does not agree with him.
This short column in the Washington Post is worth a read, but here is a small clip.
Most people were never comfortable with the idea that the only way to preserve the financial system was by bailing out its worst members. The claim that the stimulus bill would keep unemployment at 8 percent or below was proven false long ago. The Federal Reserve’s Quantitative Easing program has not resulted in sustained recovery.
The idea that the way to solve America’s debt problem is by raising the debt ceiling is the most counterintuitive of them all. The public doesn’t buy it. In the experience of most Americans, the way to get out of debt is to cut up the credit cards and stop spending. They have not read Lord Keynes and doubt whether his prescriptions work in the real world. For them, thrift is not a “paradox” but a virtue.
In today’s Longmont Paper is this call in to our anonymous opinion section (in print only) is this little call in. Take note how it perfectly matches what the columnist above is suggesting.
“Nation’s credit at risk”? “Economy could suffer”? Are you kidding me? These people don’t get it yet. We’re top heavy. We’re brok. The solution is simple. What would you do? What would the biggest companies in the world do? What does anyone with common sense do?
And in the meantime, Obama is stomping his feet.
How hard would it be to agree to cuts in government, get his higher debt limit passed and then go back and look at his taxes? But he won’t do it. It’s about “face”.
Dear Mr. Boehner,
Make him blink. It will please me greatly.
All my best
Terri
UPDATE: Daniel Henninger at the WSJ sees this moment as defining who we are. Looking at Greece, I have to agree.
We do not want to be babies of the big state. At least not yet. We’ve been complacent but as look at ourselves in the mirror we have to choose. I know who I want to be.
In all of politics one thing I have never understood is how Democrats could possibly think that once they got power, that they would always have power.
For example, why pass bills concerning government run healthcare when the LAST person in the world the left would ever want running health care is someone on the right?
It makes no sense.
Go read Ed Morrissey today as he takes note of how the Democrats have become irrelevant now that the right has taken over the house. Big D’s had the house for a short time, but not by a big majority and now……
When it came time to discuss a stimulus package in early 2009, then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi locked Republicans out of the law-drafting process. Obama at that time told Republicans, “I won.” It turned out to be a big political miscalculation, since Democrats ended up passing Porkulus with almost no Republican support (only three votes in the Senate), and its failure ended up being blamed squarely on Democrats. Now, Cuellar and other Democrats want people to pretend they matter, but even Obama can’t muster up that much imagination.
Come out and play!!
Geithner: Taxes on ‘Small Business’ Must Rise So Government Doesn’t ‘Shrink’
And we don’t want government to ‘shrink’ because it would put “a huge additional burden on the economy”.
“And if we were to cut spending by that magnitude to do it, you’d be putting a huge additional burden on the economy, probably greater negative economic impact than that modest change in revenue,” said Geithner.
“Probably greater negative economic impact than that modest change in revenue”
Probably? Based on freaking what??? How about spending less? How about making regulations such that all of these people commenting over at Dr. Helen about the secret jobs they have would be willing to come out into the sunshine?
“We’re not doing it because we want to do it, we’re doing it because we see no alternative to a balanced approach to reduce our fiscal deficits,” said Geithner.
No alternative. There is just no alternative. Bullshit. They see no alternative and it becomes clear why Republicans had to pull out of the debt talks. The Dems have exactly that little imagination that they can imagine no other alternatives.
In a statement, Cantor said the talks had “identified trillions in spending cuts” and “established a blueprint that could institute the fiscal reforms needed to start getting our fiscal house in order.” He praised Biden, saying the vice president “deserves a great deal of credit for his leadership in bringing us this far.”
“That said, each side came into these talks with certain orders, and as it stands the Democrats continue to insist that any deal must include tax increases,” Cantor said. “Regardless of the progress that has been made, the tax issue must be resolved before discussions can continue.”
Go read the first link. It’s worth your time just for the laugh on a Friday.
Methinks that Geitner has no clue what conservatives wish for.
I am copying Instapundit’s entire post here because it does such a great job on this news story about Hillary asking “Who’s side are you on?” of Congress.
Libya is a “dumb war” — because it’s halfhearted, half-assed, and run by committee, and the President can’t even articulate the national interest involved. Obama the candidate said he was smarter than that. Obama the President is proving the candidate wrong.
Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 7:59 am
I can’t stand him (Obama), I just can’t stand him.
How unconcerned with other human beings do you have to be to misname the one living Medal of Honor recipient out of 5 total that you have given? Seriously, it’s a real question.
You stood there. You looked him in the eye. You hopefully read his story along with the story of the 4 others who are deceased, who’s families you looked in the eye.
He’s a politician for Pete’s sake. His job is to remember people’s names.
Last week I asked the question about whether it was ok for columnists (Ezra Klein to be exact) to basically adjust reality to fit their agenda. Essentially Paul Ryan’s concept is similar to Medicare Part D which, while being yet another entitlement, is also built on choice and competition AND has surpassed expectations as it concerns costs/prices/customer satisfaction.
Klein essentially found “facts” to deny those surpassed expectations. Why? Because he would never want to see a similar plan for all of Medicare via Paul Ryan. Why? I’m guessing because some Journolist somewhere decided that the left wing media needs to be against it.
This week James C. Capretta calls him out big time.
The program is now in its sixth year of operation, and it has exceeded all expectations. Some 90 percent of Medicare participants are now in secure drug coverage of some sort, and public-opinion surveys continue to show that seniors are very satisfied with the new program. Most important, the drug benefit’s costs for the first decade are coming in 42 percent below what was predicted at the time of enactment.
As this evidence of success has piled up, the critics largely and wisely went silent, realizing they had little ground to stand on.But that began to change when Rep. Paul Ryan proposed a broader reform of Medicare that is modeled on the Part D success story. Now the critics have little choice but to try to discredit Part D lest they lose the battle over the future of Medicare. And so the attacks have resumed.
The only problem is that the critics’ arguments still have no basis in fact.
Take the latest attack from Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein. He recently argued: (a) that spending on prescription drugs throughout the health-care system (that is, not just in Medicare) is also far below previous expectations, which proves that Part D’s market-based design had nothing to do with costs’ coming in under budget; (b) that, regardless of what has happened to date, future Part D spending is expected to rise rapidly, thus undermining claims of cost discipline; and (c) that Part D premiums are 57 percent higher in 2011 than in 2006.
Unfortunately for Klein, each of these criticisms is easily dismissed.
Go, read the whole thing and then quit bothering with Mr. Klein. He’s apparently a tool.
(ht JG)
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