We need more shovel ready jobs to get the folks back to work — which is why the government needs more revenue to create more shovel ready jobs. And the kinds of enormous cuts I just directed Congress to make — the biggest cuts in history! — cannot alone balance the budget or create a healthy economy. We need a balanced approach. Which includes fixing the loopholes in the tax code that are costing us too much in tax expenditures, robbing the government of its ability to create the shovel ready jobs that Americans crave. The rich need to pay their fair share. We can’t give tax breaks to big corporations. Instead, we need to direct them to expand their businesses and hire more workers.
So. Who’s up for another round of stimulus, a host of hidden tax increases, additional legislation through regulation, and some more quantitative easing? After all, the national Democrats can’t be expected to launder money all by themselves, can they? And I’ve got a couple trillion here to blow before the next elections just burning a hole in my pocket!
YES WE CAN!*
Can we make it another year and a half? I dunno.
Look! Gabby Giffords is here!! And we’re all clapping! Crying, even! Yay!
Isn’t that great!
Quantitative easing results in inflation that taxes everyone, and taxes accumulated wealth as well. Obama has to love that.
Thanks, GOP!
But hey, the boys saved us from a default, so we’ve got that going for us!
I wanted to see the “default” because I know what would probably have happened would be what happened in Minnesota; no one noticed the lack of government “services” until it became apparent that their beer supply would get cut off, and that just made the government look even worse. The government needs that money to fuck with you, and without it, you would be pretty much left alone.
The only thing shovel-ready these days is Obama’s rhetoric.
I wanted to see the “default” because I know what would probably have happened would be what happened in Minnesota; no one noticed the lack of government “services”
Minnesota didn’t “default”: they just shut down the gubmint. The default we were being threatened with was not paying the interest on the national debt, which is held by other countries and who knows who else, and that would have been bad news.
Of course, we could have easily paid the interest without raising the debt ceiling or anything else, so this particular bit of kabuki was no different than the other “pass this bill to stop the sky from falling” garbage they’ve been shovelling since Sep 2008.
Fortunately, Putin is calling us “parasites” and other stuff reminiscent of what Hitler said about the Jews. Beck pointed out that one of the reasons Hitler got the Germans to go along with the extermination of the Jewish “parasites” is that the Germans got to plunder the property that the Jews left behind. Which, the Jews “owed it” to the rest of Europe for ruining their economy and causing all the wars.
Fortunately, nobody wants to reclaim “stolen” land in the southwest or anything, so we’re safe.
Positive feedback, Jeff. Having addicted the system to dysfunction, they must continue mainlining dysfunction. Most notable and devastating of this evil if fiat monetary policy…
for reals did that douchebag have another press thing?
what a whore some things you just can’t spin but I bet he’s pissed off at how Gabby stepped all over his message of the day yesterday
it’s cause she’s racist I bet
Hey, maybe he’s listening after all? Just in case, I urge urge urge that he get out there in their faces again as soon as possible. He’s going to turn this thing around if only he’ll talk talk talk because people only want to hear more of him talk talk talking. O please God hear our prayer.
My point.
To add, they would have had to cut a bunch of services because they wouldn’t be able to pay for the. Net effect, the same as MN.
There is only one shovel-ready job, that is truly shovel ready, where many people are actually standing around waiting to use their shovel for this particular shovel-ready job.
Fear of the SS prohibits me from going any further, or being more specific.
Here’s the kicker, folks: this time, Obama will spend the money on actual shovel ready jobs, in the hope of affecting visible, short-term improvement on unemployment. He wants to look like FDR going in to an election, and the press will help him.
But not as much as our GOPers. Who actually funded it.
So there’s that.
Y’know, I was thinking that, when the revolution comes and it’s time to start lining up people against the wall and holding a reenactment of the Nuremberg trials…
…the harshest punishments should be reserved, not for the Pelosi’s and Reid’s, nor for the Chris Matthews’ and Keith Olberman’s, but for the good folks of the Weekly Standard, half of NRO, Jen Rubin, et al.
The Left, well, they are what they are. A good number of them probably even believe their spin and rhetoric. That they seek evil, tyrannical ends shouldn’t be surprising — it’s what evil people do, all while convincing themselves that they only want What’s Best for Everybody. I’m sure Hitler thought the same (though he employed a somewhat selective version of ‘Everybody’). It’s not like he woke up each morning thinking “Goddamn, I’m one evil son of a bitch, possibly the worst monster in human history! Hans, get me a dog to kick.”
But the Respectable Conservatives, they have to know better. They’re lying to us (and possibly themselves) to advance their own personal goals, whatever they are. Personal goals that stand in opposition to their previously-stated (or at least heavily implied) principles of “smaller government, less taxes, etc.”
And the ‘good men’ who willfully choose to do things that advance the cause of evil are far worse, in my book, than the inherently evil. A rabid dog; well, what are you going to do… but the guy who feeds the dog, and then opens the door and lets it into the nursery (“all children love puppies!”), that’s true evil.
If I recall correctly, Dante reserved the lowest (and helliest!) circle of Hell for the Traitor. I concur.
The president is one person I don’t really blame for this. He is exactly who I thought he was, and is doing exactly what he said he would do when he was off-teleprompter. I blame the MBM for not doing their due diligence in informing people who this man is. I blame the 52% who voted for him, mostly because of optics.
But most of my blame right now is centered on the GOP. They could have stopped this right now, and they didn’t.
This is so, but Dante operated under a vision of politics (Aristotle’s, more or less) vastly different from ours. The basis of that politics was friendship. So the traitor was seen as the worst of the worst. The basis of our politics is not friendship, but the war of all against all. So traitorousness has risen somewhat, I’d reckon, from being the lowest of the low.
Shorter OBarcky presser – I me my I me my I me my racist.
I’m sure Hitler thought the same (though he employed a somewhat selective version of ‘Everybody’). It’s not like he woke up each morning thinking “Goddamn, I’m one evil son of a bitch, possibly the worst monster in human history! Hans, get me a dog to kick.”
Hitler never would have kicked his dog. The Nazis were seriously into animal rights, which is why they conducted their experiments on people. I kid you not.
Hitler was not motivated by “what’s good for everybody.” He was a malignant narcissist and a psychopath; people like that are motivated by an insatiable lust for power and adulation and whatever else give them the rush they crave. (By the time he hunkered down in his bunker, he was on an insane cocktail of meth and heroin and who knows what else.)
Psychopaths are clever enough to know how to sell their ideas to decent people, however, and lacking a conscience, they’re excellent liars. Hitler only “believed” his propaganda to the extent that it gave him what he wanted. But to imagine that he was operating on principle, however misguided, is a grave error.
He wasn’t wrong or crazy: he was evil.
If O! didn’t have those ears “given to him by the angels” (as my mom would say), I probably would think that he was a Marxist little prick.
You’d think that his mom (Steven? Ralph? I just can’t remember) would have not let him sleep with his ears bent over double.
Too much Commie shit to do to take care of your kid, I guess. I have a kid with big ears, but he doesn’t look like Dumbo, ready to take flight.
“Angel Ears” my butt! They are Obama’s mom’s responsibility, and, in reality, they are called “jug ears”. I wonder if his dad had ears like that?
WAIT! I THINK HE DID!
Could that be a Marxist identifier?
Those of you with “Dumbo” ears are not true Americans. And I don’t blame you! With Obama ears, I would be truly pissed off, too. And I might even marry Michelle, or, even better, Debby Wasserman Schultz! Have you seen THOSE thighs?
OMG! I would never come out of the root cellar if my tractor was that big! How can you take someone seriously, when each leg weighs four hundred pounds? That’s even worse than “angel ears”!
Thank you…
Wait a minute TLD, you’re actually R Crumb in disguise?