Well, the Department of Labor released some more of their horrendous news on Friday which prompted some of the most unsuccessful political spin since the Obama White House invented the new unofficial government statistic of, “saved jobs.” Just for fun, here is a video of Debbie Wasserman Schultz from yesterday’s Sunday bloviating political spin meisters line up. Bear in mind, that by the time she laid this line of unadulterated bull spit upon us, we already knew that the number of people in this country faking disability in order to feed themselves and their families has outpaced private sector new hires by about 20%. That trend by the way stretches back for well over 2 years.
Thankfully, Reince Priebus was also around to counter this line of goofiness. The take-a-way quote for me was this. “I don’t know if Schultz was vacationing in New Hampshire or on Mars.”
Well, if there is one thing that our great producer of Presidential Kabuki Theater is really good at, it is producing Kabuki Theater. Obama decided this morning that it is high time that he return to his formerly successful roots. So, today he had himself another national address to his audience, which means us. Once again we get the double dose of class warfare mixed with economic fallacy, all of it contained within the Obama Snake Oil. Tax fairness you see, is convincing the middle class, who ever they are today, that Obama has lowered their tax burden by $3600, while excluding the increased taxes hidden within Obamacare, Dodd Frank, and the devaluation of our currency, which is a tax increase that nobody had the chance to vote for or against.
From day one of his Presidency, Barack Obama had announced that the economy was the first thing he thought about in the morning upon waking, and the last thing to cross his mind before sleep overtook him each and every night. Too freaking bad the economy seems to have failed to enter his thoughts any of the times in between those two points of the day. If it had, we may have gotten something more substantive than idiotic gimmicks, pandering to his cronies, bribes, payoffs, and sweeping legislation which will have no other effect than to destroy our economy. Today’s campaign presser, once again masquerading as a policy address to Americans, Barack Obama has proposed, one more time the very same proposal rejected during the Lame Duck Session of Congress. Then, in December of 2010, even with vast Congressional majorities, with the benefit of no longer having to worry about how a vote in favor of something stupid would affect their reelection chances, this same proposal went down in flames.
So, what is different today? Today is in a point in time when we are not in a Lame Duck Session of Congress, following an ass whooping of President Obama’s disastrous political agenda. Today represents a point in time when the President wishes to make class warfare the centerpiece of his reelection bid, and he has that very wealthy opponent to highlight as the embodiment of our nation’s wealthiest, “robber barons,” which he plans on using as the focal point of our disdain and hatred. Along with the Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) Mars, spin, we were also treated to Robert Gibbs and others on the same talking head shows on Sunday making some very non specific allegations of nefarious wrong doing by Romney for opening perfectly legal brokerage accounts to conduct business in foreign lands.
So, just so everyone’s clear, they have accused Romney of no crimes, not doing anything at all which is not completely above board, but have gone out of their way to make it sound as if he were as evil as the worst comic book super villains ever imagined. I was waiting for the hating of puppy dogs accusation, but they made that one months ago, and were forced to drop the claim after some one noticed that Barack himself bragged about eating puppies in one of his ghost written auto biographies.
Are we really this willing to set aside our ability to think critically in order to believe the pure unadulterated crap a politician is willing to sling in our direction. Barack Obama has been caught lying flat out so many times now that even Pinocchio and his famously long schnoz would be blushing were he a real boy. Yet, he continues to receive the benefit of all doubts so long as he continues to promise his bag of endless goodies simultaneously promising that they will never need to be paid for by anybody other than that elusive and despicable class known as the, “rich.” Never mind that the tiniest amount of mathematical scrutiny applied to the Obama tax proposal destroys this thinking, such that if we confiscated every single penny of every single American making over $250,000 per year, we would still have a deficit that tops $500 Billion. That assumes that people in that income bracket would not do anything at all to protect themselves, like for example, placing investable assets very legally in overseas accounts.
Once again, it is time to counter the imbecilic argument of solving our budgeting problems by inflicting, “tax fairness,” upon a deserving class of evil successful people. Never mind the fact that this argument fails to recognize that the top 1% of wage earners pay 39% of all taxes currently, or that nearly half of all Americans currently pay nothing in taxes at all. We will use my favorite example of sarcastic genius to follow this argument to its hyperbolic absurd conclusion.
Cross Posted at Musings of a Mad Conservative.
Alternator Belt Cut on Romney Bus
Debbie Wasserman Schuuuuuuuuuullllllllltz!
SS, DD…
The question with the taxes all comes down to who pays for the fair share. Zero plays on the envy and greed of people. he appeals to the baser instincts of men. Give me something for nothing. I fear for this country as we become more and more a maojority who want something given to them but have no problem giving away their freedom to get it. If the govt gives you everything, they control you.
We are heading toward a country full of mediocrity. No one can rise above the others cause that will not be fair. Except of course the ruling aristocracy.
Welcome to Europe !
@ Guggi:
Obama promised to fundamentally transform America, and European Socialism was the model he chose for that. Looks like he has been successful. I attribute this to active malice.
@ waldensianspirit:
There are times I wish those Union thugs who usually pull this shit gets caught…and SHOT!
Iron Fist wrote:
In every respect.
Barack Obama’s Brother to Make Film Debut in Anti-Obama Documentary (Exclusive Video)
ht drudge
heh
Venezuela’s Chavez says “totally free” of cancer, again
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez declared himself fully recovered from cancer on Monday, three months before an election in which he is seeking another six-year term.
“Free, free, totally free,” he told reporters when asked if he was free of the disease that struck a year ago.
The 57-year-old socialist leader was first diagnosed with cancer in the pelvic region in mid-2011. He wrongly declared himself cured at the end of that year before having a recurrence of the disease in February.
cool ride in a Ford Fiesta!!!!
in San Fran no less
@ MikeA:
Let’s ask Roman Empire, Spanish Empire, Bourbon France, Czarist Russia and the British Empire is that work!
@ Iron Fist:
Obama can resign right now and mission accomplished for him. He has fundamentally transformed America with the help of John Roberts.
mawskrat wrote:
That’s friggin’ AWESOME! (and “awsome” is not a word I use lightly)
Thanks for posting that!
@ waldensianspirit:
Great video. Very interesting to me that Obama’s brother who lives in a hut has seen fit to take responsibility for his own life, rather than having blamed the government for not helping. He’s also written a book extolling the virtues of Capitalism in seems.
Some good news: According to ABC/Washington Post poll Romney and Obama are tied at 47%. The kicker is that its a +9 Democratic sample.
Flyovercountry wrote:
Heh, and he calls himself the “black sheep”.
@ Rodan:
People never learn from history. Its why I love to read history books. People have not changed. We might have Ipods, internet, etc but we are no different than those people in the Roman Empire or anywhere else. Still have that sinfull nature, still self centered, still have leaders who want power. Our founders knew this and created the best government they could but we have slowly lost it starting with Wilson but really accelerated with FDR and LBJ.
I just hope we can get back on track but at times I am not so sure. From what I see in the local town by me (I teach a college course there part-time). The people want their free stuff from “the man”. Don’t want to work or if they do, want $20/hour to do nothing with no skills.
Where did I put that big reset button….
@ Rodan:
See, man, they are manipulating the polls. Where the hell do they get +9 from? The deepest blue states aren’t +9 for the Democrats.
waldensianspirit wrote:
Obama has another half brother who is in import/export
in Hong kong.
When they finally met Obama excoriated him for leaving
Kenya & not stayin down with the people.
His brother can’t stand him & pretty much told him to
fuck off.
BHO could piss off Mother Goose.
MikeA wrote:
I’m pretty sure that ship has sailed; societies don’t become more conservative over time, they become more liberal. Our only chance is to slow the drift and expand the economy in the hope of paying for it.
@ MikeA:
That’s exactly how the 2 Empires of our ancestors (Rome and Spain) fell apart. An elite emerged that began sucking out the economic dynamism. Then they began to form little cliques and divided people against each other. The key to their downfall was the death of synamism and class mobility. Both societies became stratified and stoped thinking outside the box.
A series you would love is the Alatriste series by Arturo Reverte. Its about a Spanish Infantryman in the 1600′s. It shows Spain still dominant, but you see signs of the societal rot. The Spanish elite stop caring for the Empire and just begin to leech off the economy. They disrespect the Imperial Army and even begin to short change them. All this while Spain is at war with Holland, England and German Protestants. The best 2 books are The Sun over Breda and Pirates of the Levant.
Its a chilling book series because the political background reminds me of the US today. Very eerie and scary.
@ MikeA:
yep there is nothing new
under the sun
@ Iron Fist:
They really are trying to prop up their beloved Caligula. The key is to make him look like a winner so the uninformed/Hipsters come out for him.
@ MacDuff:
Sadly I know that. I do not expect our country to get out of this. The debt is too high and the people become more and more complacent. Its just a matter if we go out with a bang or a whimper.
@ Rodan:
And that’s trying to skew the poll in Obama’s favor. Even with +9 Dem they can’t pull in good numbers.
Meanwhile, Scotty Rasmussen has Romney ahead by 3 pots (47 to 44) and Obummer at -18 with 43% strongly disapprove.
Kabul on the Nile?
New Egyptian TV channel debuts with fully covered female news anchors. All guests will be covered and those who aren’t will have their faces and heads digitally blurred out.
@ MikeA:
Yup, there is no real leadership out there. Anyone who would be a real leader can never get near the GOP nomination nor the Presidency. Reagan was fluke and Republican elites will never let that happen again.
Carolina Girl wrote:
They are really trying to prop up Obama. He’s their creation and they will do anything to keep him in the game.
@ Carolina Girl:
Uh, that should be “points” not “pots” I’m sure if there was a “3-pot” advantage it would go to Bummer.
@ Urban Infidel:
McCain is happy!
@ Rodan:
No doubt about it. He’s their creation and their journalistic malpractice got him elected in the first place. I’ve stopped counting the number of people that have said “I didn’t know that” when I relate a fact about Obama that is common knowledge to any of us that read/listen to conservative or right media.
For instance, the quote “Fundamentally transform America” did not get the widespread airplay you would have thought it had. Also, many of them did not even know that he had sealed his transcripts and other documents or that he was a buddy of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
@ Carolina Girl:
The problem is that that is in the margin of error. I think the election is a toss-up right now, and that means Obama can steal it. We have to win beyond the margin of fraud. I hope aRomney can pull it off, but I think that this is going to be a nailbiter.
@ Carolina Girl:
Another item people don’t know. Obama promised to make the ocean levels recede, heal the earth and cure cancer. When I bring that up to people, they laugh and think I lie,. I show them the clip and they get pissed. I also mention that some of Obama’s stimulus went to European companies. That pisses people off. The facts don’t work in Obama’s favor. That;’s why the media presents him as a cool and hip guy. Its a cult of personality.
Rodan wrote:
So is Obama. Will Mooschelle pick out a snazzy designer niqab for Mursi’s visit to our capitol?
@ Urban Infidel:
Now that will be a huge money-saver! They can use the same woman for all three anchor positions, and just triple up the video. CNN, take note!
@ Iron Fist:
Of course, my little optimistic soul wants to think Obama’s really at 40 and Romney is a 50.
@ Iron Fist:
Yup, Obama is a cultural phenomenon. This something you and I get, but too many Conservatives think we are dealing with a regular politician. Rubio said it best, that Obama is a symbol. That symbol needs to be destroyed in order for Obama to be exposed as the failure he is. I sent the Romney campaign an email with some of my ideas!
@ Rodan:
Someone suggested (and I forget if it was here, or Weasel Zippers or Ace) that we get time delay footage of someone on the beach at high tide and as the water level increased yell out
“WASN’T OBAMA SUPPOSED TO FIX THIS???”
Carolina Girl wrote:
If Obama was a normal politician it would be Romney 55% Obama 35%. But he’s a cultural phenomenon and has a cult behind him. This is something I have never seen in America. But reading history, has happened in other places.
Carolina Girl wrote:
That was my idea and I emailed that to the Romney camp!
MikeA wrote:
Oh, I don’t necessarily think we’re done, far from it. But I do think we’re in store for a fundamental re-thinking of how we do things. Private industry is capable of performing a lot of functions heretofore thought exclusively in the government purvue, most notably in space and in wars, and I see that trend continuing in areas such as education and perhaps even the management of social services.. The result would be an expansion of the private sector and a dramatic contraction of the public sector.
@ MacDuff:
The Dems from BHO on down refer to the wealthy as the
“More Fortunate Americans”.
Really nobody earned what they have, it’s all luck?
What is someone referred to Barry & Michelle as the more
“Affirmative Action Fortunate Americans”?
Alberta Oil Peon wrote:
Hell, they could just have all the women disappeared and have men in burkas doing the show.
@ Rodan:
This is going to get a little interesting I think, because if I recall correctly, the open enrollment period for health plans begins October 1st for pretty much everyone. It is at that point that people will learn if their companies decide that they are going to drop health coverage and/or we’ll see how the rates in coverage rise as insurance companies will now be forced to cover a myriad of medical items gratis. Also, watch for business to start a round of layoffs in order to be able to keep their employees covered (and those laid off employees will now be responsible, under law to obtain health care from themselves.
I think by election day people will see the real truth behind all the “free” health care they were going to get.
@ Rodan:
It’s a good one. I was all over the board yesterday so I couldn’t keep track where I was on the internet at any given time. I think I responded to you in one of ZIP’s threads, even.
@ Rodan:
Of course, it’s good to remember that pretty much right up until the week of the election, Carter was still polling strong and a Reagan defeat was predicted.
I think with the probable exception of Ras and maybe Zogby, the polls that are conducted either by or in conjunction with the MSM are going to consistently oversample Democrats in order to give Obama better numbers than exist in reality. But I’m seeing a positive in this. If Democrats think that Obama is going to win, they are going to far less motivated to go to the polls than the conservative/moderate right who is very ramped up to get Republicans in Congress and Romney elected in order to overturn Obamacare.
And let’s not also forget that Romney’s win removes that criminal twerp Eric Holder as Attorney General and Arizona can reinstate its immigration law without fear of harassment from the DOJ. And states will be allowed to implement voter ID laws and purge rolls of illegal voters. And they can drop that hate crime bullshit against George Zimmerman.
BTW -- anyone know what the statute of limitations is on the voter intimidation assholes in Philadelphia. Because I’d love to see the Romney AG’s first order of business to be bringing back the charges.
@ Rodan:
Spengler agrees with you
@ Carolina Girl:
As far as the medical coverage goes, my company already gutted it THIS year. We went from a selection of plans to 1… Just one with 2 different choices of deductable. And it is huge. Multiple thousands. We call it the Las Vegas plan. You bet you don’t get sick.
MikeA wrote:
Apt.
@ Poteen:
Thanks for the great leap forward in spell check…
@ MikeA:
At my old company healthcare went up about 15%the this year. And my COBRA coverage is astronomical. The biggest scam about ObamaCare is that they call it the “Affordable” healthcare act. It absolutely guarantees that insurance will skyrocket. I think the Left see that as a feature, not a bug. This is intended as an incremental step to government “universal” healthcare anyway. They won’t be satisfied until they ruin our healthcare system.
@ Carolina Girl:
.
it’s a fraud. If Obama had any interest in maintaining
employer sponsored health care coverage, the bill would
not include what it does.
The free rider penalty/tax is set lower than providing
coverage.
This is a segue to Single payer with all the baggage,
doctor shortags, rationing and de facto eugenics.
@ Iron Fist:
Add “Patient Protection” to that.Infants and Seniors and anybody
else failing the cost/benefit test will just be denied care.
@ RIX:
It’s going to be a health care system that will work flawlessly for those who are healthy and don’t require health care.
MikeA wrote:
It’s why I love Battlestar Galactica.
[Plunks Down 10,000 Quatloos to The Osprey] 8)
@ Macker:
Isn’t Quatloos From the original Star Trek??
@ MacDuff:
Liberal guy I know the other say said to me “so what would YOU have done.”
1. Allow health insurance to be purchased across state lines.
2. Tort reform for malpractice suits -- must prove negligence by doctor and not simply medical error. Cap economic and punitive damages.
3. I certainly wouldn’t have “children” covered up to age 26. If I can’t deduct my 24 year old living at home, why the hell should I have to give him health care coverage.
4. In cases of “pre-existing condition” insurance, allow buyers to take a tax deduction of set amount per year for the higher cost of the policy. It’s fair, and if you allowed insurers to pool nationally, cost would probably go down.
And someone should really explain to me exactly what mechanisms were in place in the ACA that would reduce costs, which is what everyone is complaining about in the first place.
Considering that the three health plans the government runs already -- Medicare, the VA, and the Indian Health Service -- are the biggest deniers of coverage and have the biggest operations in the red -- explain to me how the government running coverage for everyone is going to work out (especially when 83% of doctors have said they will consider retiring when the ACA goes into effect)
@ Carolina Girl:
The same way all those high speed rail projects are going to be profitable, despite the inability of Amtrak to ever come close to breaking even. Apparently, if we spend 50 times as much on a train, it becomes more cost-effective…
@ Iron Fist:
I don’t know…personally, I think the biggest scam is the idea that it’s going to provide anyone with health care.
It’s not about health care. It’s about health insurance.
You may get a shiny plastic card, but that in no way equates to actual medical care.
@ lobo91:
Oh man, don’t get me started. Of course the greenturd libs in California’s blue urban areas approved it -- look at us! How cool that we’re so green!
Of course, no one is pointing out that (1) the only leg that has any kind of financing and geared for completion is to going to go between L.A. and Fresno, meaning that it is going to cut through the Central Valley farmlands; (2) you can drive from L.A. to Fresno on Hwys 5 and 99 in pretty much 3.5 hours anyway, (3) air fare on Southwest air is cheaper than the anticipated train fare and takes less time; it is a very, very boring train ride -- nothing but cotton crops as far as the eye can see.
Now, of course, Moonbeam is now having to go to the voters and ask for a tax increase to pay for his beloved high-speed rail project. And frankly, Jer, I think the voters are going to tell him to jump off a bridge.
Carolina Girl wrote:
BWAHAHAHAH… Jerry’s High Speed Train to Nowhere is never going to get built, the Democrats and Progressive liberals have been totally and completely hoisted upon their own petards. The Environmental protection lawfare invented to prevent petroleum refineries or nuclear power plants or desalination plants from being built in California have Jerry’s High Speed Train to Nowhere crucified to the door of the Governors mansion.