Last Wednesday, Patterico pointed out more Obama hypocrisy
On the Barack Obama web site, in a section titled “Ethics†(stop snickering!), Obama made the following pledge during his campaign:Sunlight Before Signing: Too often bills are rushed through Congress and to the president before the public has the opportunity to review them. As president, Obama will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days.
Patterico then highlights two bills Obama signed that didn’t meet his own “promise” — the SCHIP expansion [aka the nose of the nationalized medicine camel] was signed within hours of coming out of the House of Representatives, and the Ledbetter [gift to trial lawyers] Act, signed by Obama within two days of passing Congress and not posted to the Whitehouse.gov site until after it was signed.
The Obama admin responds
This policy will be implemented in full soon; currently we are working through implementation procedures and some initial issues with the congressional calendar.
Soon. From the Most Tech-savvy Admin EVAH!!!. “Soon”, as in not one minute before Obama signs the latest incarnation of the Pork-o-rama being rammed through the Senate that the public has yet to even see.
The Sun Will Come Out … Tomorrow
Indeed.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/7 @ 1:12 pm #
Oh. I see where you and Mr. Patterico are coming from and it’s understandable but a bit dated. This is part of the Change. That’s all it is. I know in the past, presidents were held accountable for this sort of thing by the media, and a lot of people got kind of used to that. We don’t do that anymore. Get with the program you two.
Comment by Bob Reed on 2/7 @ 1:14 pm #
Just Words?
Comment by Carin on 2/7 @ 1:16 pm #
They’re going to get to it SOON, you guys. What part of “soon” don’t you folks understand?
Cripes. He made a lot of promises. As if he could be expected to even remember them all…
Comment by Sdferr on 2/7 @ 1:20 pm #
It’s weird, Bob, that of the cascade of Obama speeches over the last two years, that “Words? Just words?” bit sticks out so very well in memory. One of a tiny handful that are instantly recollectable in tone and delivery. Ack.
Comment by parsnip on 2/7 @ 1:23 pm #
Don’t blame Obama, he tried the bi-partisan route.
Comment by McGehee on 2/7 @ 1:23 pm #
To see full implementation of 0bama’s 2008 campaign promises, we just need to wait for his fourth term. Maybe his fifth.
Comment by Sdferr on 2/7 @ 1:24 pm #
Yeah, right. Bi-partisan.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/7 @ 1:25 pm #
Baracky failed miserably, alphie. Bless his heart. He’s brand new at this leadership thing.
Comment by parsnip on 2/7 @ 1:26 pm #
And his approval rating is up 2% today:
http://www.gallup.com/Home.aspx
Comment by happyfeet on 2/7 @ 1:32 pm #
The tragedy is that it’s on purpose I think.
Comment by parsnip on 2/7 @ 1:35 pm #
Happy,
Obama’s not trying to win the approval of you right wing extremists.
The rest of America is quite pleased with his performance so far…the Dow is even up 300 points since he took office.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/7 @ 1:36 pm #
What kind of whore spends a trillion dollars for a 2% bump anyway? Egads. Wanton dirty socialist slut, your Baracky.
Comment by parsnip on 2/7 @ 1:41 pm #
He’s a popular president trying to do what’s best for America.
Look on the bright side, the stimulus bill costs less than your guys’ Iraq disaster.
Don’t remember your kind squealing about cost when the money was being spent on Iraqis.
Why the sudden conversion to fiscal conservatism?
Oh, that’s right, Bush isn’t the one handing out the government money any more.
Could you guys be any more predictable?
Nope.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/7 @ 1:42 pm #
Baracky’s spending will take the U.S. budget deficit up to some 12% of GDP.
Comment by Sdferr on 2/7 @ 1:42 pm #
Don Boudreaux @Cafe Hayek passed along this link to Hayek’s Nobel lecture. The title is The Pretense of Knowledge.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 2/7 @ 1:46 pm #
Keep spinning while Barky flies himself into the ground, nipply.
He should be hovering around Carter levels of popularity before the summer, I figure.
Comment by Darleen on 2/7 @ 1:48 pm #
the stimulus bill costs less than your guys’ Iraq disaster.
Hmmm… veggie of pallor not only misses Saddam and wishes he were still dictator, but lies about $800 billion Porkorama in one fell swoops vs $600 billion over fives years in an Iraq that just had a very successful exercise in democracy.
Veggie is anti-US-military anyway … he’d rather the US “endure” a few more 9/11’s than fund any kind of protection.
Comment by parsnip on 2/7 @ 1:48 pm #
Why do you hate America, SBP?
Why do you and your leader Rush want America to fail?
Comment by happyfeet on 2/7 @ 1:51 pm #
And that’s just Baracky getting started, Darleen. The 12% number for debt as a percent of GDP is figured as if Baracky and his dirty socialist cult say okay we’re done til next budget year. Nope. Baracky has only begun to spend.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 2/7 @ 1:51 pm #
Why do you and your leader Rush want America to fail?
1) As far as I know, I’ve never listened to an entire Rush Limbaugh program.
2) I don’t want America to fail. That would be your side, nipply.
Back in the bin you go, liebot.
Comment by Bob Reed on 2/7 @ 2:04 pm #
Sdferr,
That’s because of the inherent hypocrisy it drips with…
As being confirmed every day since January 20…
Comment by cynn on 2/7 @ 2:06 pm #
It’s not Obama that is pissing away these billions. It’s the morons in Congress who are larding it up. I think a temporary extension of social benefits is a good provision, and immediate investment on infrastructure is essential, but more substantial tax cuts would have much greater impact than three-quarters of the worthless crap both sides are proposing. And I’m no fan of tax cuts.
I also reluctantly agree with those critics who argue that too much of this stimulus addresses a long-term social agenda. All that should be completely stripped out and taken up in more stable times.
Comment by Carin on 2/7 @ 2:08 pm #
Don’t blame Obama, he tried the bi-partisan route.
He did? I must have missed it.
Comment by Sdferr on 2/7 @ 2:10 pm #
But cynn, wouldn’t Pres. Obama have to insist by way of a veto threat that he won’t accept what you would otherwise blame on the Congress in order to justify your claim that it’s not him that’s doing this, or not his responsibility? Not to mention the now forgone possibility that his White House could have written and submitted his own version of a bill?
Comment by Carin on 2/7 @ 2:12 pm #
Why do you and your leader Rush want America to fail
You know, Snippy does one thing well. He sure knows how to memorize and repeat the talking points he learns. Stay FOCUSED on Rush, Snippy. W/o him, the entire conservative movement will be rudderless.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 2/7 @ 2:13 pm #
But cynn, wouldn’t Pres. Obama have to insist by way of a veto threat
That would require him to have a spine, which he doesn’t.
Comment by parsnip on 2/7 @ 2:13 pm #
I don’t want America to fail.
Of course you do, SBP.
Just admit it.
How else will your discredited beliefs make a comeback?
You don’t really want Obama to fix what the Republicans broke, do you?
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 2/7 @ 2:19 pm #
I once had someone accuse me of “worshiping” Sean Hannity, and I had to look up who the hell he was.
I don’t listen to talk radio, and very rarely watch the talking-head shows on TV.
Nipply, if you’re still out there: some of us take our philosophy from people like Milton Friedman and John Locke, not from some idiot on the babblebox.
But hey, enjoy Plastic Jesus while he lasts. Pretty soon, you’re going to be feeling like a 10 year old girl who just found out that her teen idol crush is gay.
It’s not going to be pretty.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/7 @ 2:19 pm #
Baracky’s spending will take the U.S. budget deficit up to some 12% of GDP, alphie. That’s an epic fail in just two weeks. Bloody epic.
Comment by Joe on 2/7 @ 2:20 pm #
Bammy = Annie? Racist! Debate over because you are mean and too effective in pointing out Obama’s weaknesses!
Comment by Carin on 2/7 @ 2:20 pm #
I’m gonna ask this just once more time. For shits and grins. Tell me, Snippy, how the Stimulus package is going to help out people like ME. Husband owns a small business (you know, those types of joints that make up 70% of American jobs) … his clients (more small businessmen) are having trouble paying us. Exactly what aspect of Pelosi’s plan is going to help us from losing the business, then losing our home?
Because, most business people are scared shitless of what he’s doing.
The Green shit isn’t gonna help. Neither are those funds targetted at refitting the federal auto fleet with hybrids. Or, that frisbee park in California.
Comment by Carin on 2/7 @ 2:22 pm #
I know, those millions spent on Climate modeling is gonna save small businesses!
YEA! Deliver us Baracky!
Comment by Darleen on 2/7 @ 2:24 pm #
SBP
Obama hasn’t indicated he wants anything less that the pork-laden Democrat wishlist. If it helps him move the Federal government as the primary “partner” in every citizen’s life and HE gets to run it all, then Bamie’s pen is itching to sign this bill into law before the hoi poloi get a good look at it.
And he’s getting downright hysterical that “I won” hasn’t cowed fiscal conservatives into dropping to their knees and servicing him as the MSM is still struggling to do.
Comment by JHoward on 2/7 @ 2:24 pm #
Implementation procedures? Implementation procedures?!
Credibility 1, O!bama 0.
Comment by parsnip on 2/7 @ 2:26 pm #
Tell me, Snippy, how the Stimulus package is going to help out people like ME
The “Stimulus” Bill is a reward to all the American’s smart enough to vote for Obama, Carin.
Why would there be anything in it for you?
Comment by Carin on 2/7 @ 2:28 pm #
I also reluctantly agree with those critics who argue that too much of this stimulus addresses a long-term social agenda. All that should be completely stripped out and taken up in more stable times.
Congrats Cynn. Did you guys see how she did that? Admitted fault from “her side” of the political isle?
But, I hate to tell you this, Cynn; dissent w/in the party will not be tolerated. When the kool-aid gets delivered to your house, make sure you drink up!
Comment by Carin on 2/7 @ 2:29 pm #
Ok, Snippy’s a parody. At 226. I’m not buying it.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 2/7 @ 2:30 pm #
Of course, nipply was lying through his teeth about Barky taking a jump in popularity.
oday’s numbers reflect a decline for the President since inauguration day. In the first set of interviews conducted after Obama became the nation’s President, 45% Strongly Approved of his performance while 16% Strongly Disapproved for a Presidential Approval Index rating of +29.
Following a week in which the partisan divide in Washington heated up, the number of Republicans who Strongly Approve of the President slipped to single digitsâ€â€9% now, down from12% a week ago. Slippage among Democrats was even more dramatic, from 76% a week ago to 64% today.
As for those not affiliated with either major political party, 29% now Strongly Approve of the President and 24% Strongly Disapprove. A week ago, those figures were 41% Strongly Approve and 27% Strongly Disapprove.
He’s cratering. Big time.
Comment by Darleen on 2/7 @ 2:33 pm #
Carin
No, veggie of pallor is just no longer afraid of revealing Leftist dogma. Fed Gov is there for veg and HIS ilk … from “Fairness Doctrine” to card-check it was never about American rights for all Americans.
Comment by parsnip on 2/7 @ 2:36 pm #
Darleen, when you give up your union protected government job I’ll be able to read your posts on this topic without giggling uncontrollably.
Until then, forgive me if I can’t take you seriously.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 2/7 @ 2:37 pm #
Missed the paste. Today’s numbers:
37% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing as President.
Down from 45% right after the inauguration.
Republicans: 9%, down from 12% a week ago.
Independents: 29%, down from 41% a week ago.
Democrats: 64%, down from 76% a week ago.
Sucks to be nipply, huh?
Comment by ushie on 2/7 @ 2:38 pm #
Oh, parsnip, parsnip. You gonna saunter on down to Williamsburg, VA to wave at Obama and his Dems whilst they’re on their big (taxpayer-funded) bucks retreat to “think”?
Your enduring oblivioty (I made it up, that’s right) is kind of endearing, in a drooling St Bernard puppy fashion, except you’ll never grow up enough for anyone for make you at all useful in hauling brandy or indeed doing anything else of note.
Comment by Carin on 2/7 @ 2:39 pm #
Let it be noted that Snippy had no answer to my question.
And, let it be noted that my husband employes those who voted for Obama. So, when/if they no longer have a job, how have they benefited under the Obama Stimulus plan? Unemployement will keep ‘em in Ramen noodles, so I doubt they’re gonna prefer no-job to job.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/7 @ 2:41 pm #
oh. But Baracky is gonna give a speech on the tv, Spies. A speech! That’ll turn it around! And if it doesn’t, hah! You wingnuts better know Baracky has a Plan B. Um. A speech! That’ll turn it around!
Comment by Carin on 2/7 @ 2:44 pm #
Why doesn’t Baracky care about the network revenue, Happy? We’re getting him tHREE times this month.
I mean, those people who watch him. I’ll be busy. Washing my hair or something.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/7 @ 2:50 pm #
Baracky thinks he’s the sixth Friend, Carin.
Comment by Darleen on 2/7 @ 2:52 pm #
veggie
My legit government job protects you. Until you give up law enforcement/judiciary you can stop with your lame variation on the chickenhawk meme.
Comment by Darleen on 2/7 @ 2:54 pm #
Oh look, another famous Obama acolyte with legal problems.
Comment by parsnip on 2/7 @ 3:03 pm #
Darleen, exactly how many brown people can you people arrest and lock up?
Please don’t try to pass off your government teat-suckling racism as yet another instance of you crazy right wingers somehow “protecting me.”
Comment by McGehee on 2/7 @ 3:05 pm #
I’d never heard of Hannity until he turned up subbing for Limbaugh one day, and I was left wondering, “Who told this guy he knew how to host a radio show?”
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 2/7 @ 3:15 pm #
Oh look, another famous Obama acolyte with legal problems.
Vandalism is okay if it’s in a good cause. It’s like tax fraud that way.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 2/7 @ 3:18 pm #
Yeah, hf. Interrupting people’s CSI or football games three times in one month for political bloviating is a guaranteed way to win friends and influence people.
What planet is this guy from, anyway?
I’d give a pretty penny to have some kind of response metric that told us how many times the phrase “It’s that damned Obama again!” gets uttered during every speech after the first.
Comment by ushie on 2/7 @ 3:33 pm #
“government teat-suckling racism”
I’m laughing, but it’s a laugh tinged with melancholy. parsnip probably spent all week on coming up with that phrase, and sadly it’s just so awesomely dumbass.
Poor little sniplet.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 2/7 @ 3:47 pm #
A brilliant four-word summary of the history of the Democrat party!
Comment by Darleen on 2/7 @ 3:59 pm #
Geez, veggie of pallor, in your world there are no rapists or murderers…
not that those things don’t happen, it is just you won’t allow the words since they are judgemental of the true victims of White hegemony and it’s Joo-Xtian-Spaghetti-God and His Oppressive commandments against redistribution of wealth and old-fashioned mores enforcing heteronormative body integrity.
veggie pens fan letters to OJ.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 2/7 @ 4:04 pm #
So funny that bi-partisan, non-partisan, and post-partisan all end up meaning the same thing:
I won – my way or the highway.
I am sure that there were no extra-partisans in Stalin’s USSR. Everything is post-partisan when there is nought but one party.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 2/7 @ 4:09 pm #
#18 is so amusing.
There is no Russia without Stalin, there is no Party but the Party.
There is no Totalitarinism,
Like Totalitarianism,
Like the Totalitarianism
We’ve known.
Makarov’s for everybody!
Comment by Mikey NTH on 2/7 @ 4:16 pm #
Josef Stalin is the guy I love.
Barack Obama is the guy I love.
Barack Stalin is the guy I love.
Now ain’t that too damn bad!
Sing it!
Too bad – and too good – that Barack isn’t quite so competent. He needs a Dzerzhinsky to get things on track. And I don’t think he knows where to find one.
Comment by Techie on 2/7 @ 4:27 pm #
Again, I must wonder, why is alphie allowed to flout his previous banning?
Comment by MarkJ on 2/7 @ 5:09 pm #
parsnip,
“Don’t blame Obama, he tried the bi-partisan route.”
Ummm, no. Obama’s idea of “bi-partisan” is “left…and lefter.” And Obama didn’t “try” anything–Pelosi, Frank, Reid, et. al. have been running the show on the “porkulus package.” His Majesty’s “leadership,” to date, looks more like Jimmy Carter’s “Rose Garden Strategy” than anything else. And that was a real winner, wasn’t it?
“Why do you and your leader Rush want America to fail?”
You’ve just proven that you don’t listen to Rush (except through the buffer of the HuffPo, etc.). Rush has repeatedly stated, “I want America to SUCCEED. However, I want Obama to FAIL.” Failure for Obama’s brand of Ivy League ignorance will definitely be a good thing for this country.
Comment by maggie katzen on 2/7 @ 5:17 pm #
Those tiny hot dogs are pretty tasty, usually.
Comment by meya on 2/7 @ 5:22 pm #
“Soon. From the Most Tech-savvy Admin EVAH!!!. ”
Week 3 of THE FAILED OBAMA PRESIDENCY
Comment by Mark Turner on 2/7 @ 5:36 pm #
I see big gains for the GOP in the House and possibly the Senate in 2010 if Obama continues on this path — seems to be making the same types of mistakes that Bill Clinton did at the beginning of his first term when the Dems controlled congress…pander to the left, have some token GOP input, then watch the voter backlash and act surprised.
Comment by Mark Turner on 2/7 @ 5:41 pm #
…and the current economic mess is not solely the fault of the Bush administration/GOP…subprime lending – a major root cause of the current financial crisis – was championed by Democrats. The “too big to fail or let fail” attitude on Wall Street and big business has been a problem for decades.
Comment by Mark Turner on 2/7 @ 6:28 pm #
I want Obama to succeed as much as the liberals/Dems wanted Bush to succeed. I’m sure they didn’t want “America to fail” either.
Comment by Nan on 2/7 @ 6:58 pm #
Speaking of timing, I just read an article about the Obama AG’s office “accidentally” releasing a sealed file that included some stuff about Michael Steele to the WASHINGTON POST. Purely accidentally. Yeah, I believe that. No really. Why ever would they want to put out a sneaky innuendo or two on the highest ranking African American in the Republican Party?
Comment by cynn on 2/7 @ 6:59 pm #
Funny graphic Darleen, BTW. Disrespectful, but funny.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 2/7 @ 7:01 pm #
You’re too cynical. Next you’re gonna claim there was something bad going on when those FBI files got into Clinton’s hands.
Comment by Nan on 2/7 @ 7:06 pm #
Hey, I live in Illinois, in the shadows of Chicago. I’m allowed to be cynical.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 2/7 @ 7:08 pm #
Actually, I think it’s required.
Comment by Pablo on 2/7 @ 8:09 pm #
Shepard Fairey is lily white you dumb racist fuck.
Comment by Pablo on 2/7 @ 8:10 pm #
Is that the stuff Chucky Schumer illegally dug up, like his credit file?
Comment by Joe on 2/7 @ 9:01 pm #
http://patterico.com/2009/02/07/feeling-unstimulated-watch-this/ This will make you want to cry, because he is so right!
Comment by Joe on 2/7 @ 10:20 pm #
Jeff, here is a Colorado writer you could aspire to!
Comment by geoffb on 2/7 @ 11:03 pm #
But he is more like Chandler’s roommate Eddie.
Comment by geoffb on 2/7 @ 11:17 pm #
Good thing. Those “9grams of lead to the back of the head” solutions can be a headache
Comment by Rusty on 2/8 @ 7:20 am #
Comment by Nan on 2/7 @ 7:06 pm #
Hey, I live in Illinois, in the shadows of Chicago. I’m allowed to be cynical.
It’s mandtory now.
Comment by Rusty on 2/8 @ 7:22 am #
“mandatory”
Comment by geoffb on 2/8 @ 7:35 am #
In case anyone wants it here is a link to both Deval’s and Obama’s “just words” speeches.
They are “just words” when lip service is all that is paid to them.
Comment by thor on 2/8 @ 10:34 am #
Own your failure. Your warehouser-hero hubby’s business is failing? You failed!
70% of jobs are small businesses? Bullshit! You’re a liar. Quantify small and small isn’t so small in reality, is it, parrot head.
Retro-fitting cars will be done by regional businesses and the parts required will be made in Detroit (metaphorically). Is that impossible for a business failure like you to understand, if it is, get the fuck out of your failed business and ask WalMart of an job application.
Quit asking the Obama government to bail your failed Bushonomic-asses out.
From one small business owner to another – stop making whine, it ain’t selling.
Comment by happyfeet on 2/8 @ 10:40 am #
Baracky is flailing about in a dirty socialist speaking in tongues fugue I think. I’m not sure if he needs an economist or an exorcist really.
Comment by B Moe on 2/8 @ 10:43 am #
Quit asking the Obama government to bail your failed Bushonomic-asses out.
You really are a clueless fucking idiot at heart, aren’t you? The only way you ever made money anywhere is by being lucky enough to latch onto the right coattails.
Comment by thor on 2/8 @ 10:59 am #
Nah, I’m just smart enough to see right through all your second-rate bullshit.
You’ve read what I’ve written. Re-build our manufacturing base, re-write corporate law so that management is actually responsible to the shareholders they serve, regulate Wall Street until its focus is on capital formation and restrict prison-labor wage imports.
The only thing Bush did right? He fought off the EU and WTO and kept steel tariffs in place as long as he could, that is, until retards like you, Rush Limbaugh, and every other extremist right-wing air-head who knows not a fuckin’ thing of which they speak about made him bend.
We have to manage out economy – it’s a business airhead – and good management isn’t no-management, fuckin’ dumbassed welfare retards.
Obama needs to take a two-by-four to the rethuglidums. He can’t break you down to nothing (as in you’re not much now). Reaganomics was built on lies. The KKult has to be destroyed.
Comment by thor on 2/8 @ 11:02 am #
He can’t break you down to nothing = He can break you down to nothing
Goddamn Freud must’a made the coffee this morning.
Viva la O! Revolucion!
Comment by B Moe on 2/8 @ 11:07 am #
You’ve read what I’ve written. Re-build our manufacturing base, re-write corporate law so that management is actually responsible to the shareholders they serve, regulate Wall Street until its focus is on capital formation and restrict prison-labor wage imports.
And what the fuck does any of that have to do with family owned business like Carin is talking about? Yeah, I’ve read the same generic fucking little boilerplate you spout when you get serious, the same fucking shit no matter what is being discussed. What I want to know is how you call letting a self-employed contractor keep enough of his profits to keep a business afloat and growing a fucking bail-out. That is so goddamn retarded it completely disqualifies anything else you will ever post on here. Why does the government deserve more of Carin’s husbands profits than he does? It is a simple question you have been asked repeatedly and everytime you either start with the insults or duck behind your superior understanding of the rules and regulations.
Fuck the rules and regulations. A man deserves the fruits of his own labor. You and your little butt boy Obama are fucking thieves. Own it.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 2/8 @ 12:04 pm #
A managed economy worked so well for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. So well that it collapsed economically. Nevermind – it will work this time because President Obama said so.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 2/8 @ 12:05 pm #
Perhaps this time around we just need to have a better population. New Soviet Man, anyone?