Well, this ought to chap Obama’s ass: getting owned by a public school snowbilly writing on a social media site. From Sarah Palin on facebook:
After listening to the President’s press conference today, let’s keep in mind the following:
This is the same president who proposed an absurdly irresponsible budget that would increase our debt by trillions of dollars, and whose party failed to even put forward a budget in over 800 days! This is the same president who is pushing our country to the brink because of his reckless spending on things like the nearly trillion dollar “stimulus” boondoggle. This is the same president who ignored his own debt commission’s recommendations and demonized the voices of fiscal sanity who proposed responsible plans to reform our entitlement programs and rein in our dangerous debt trajectory. This is the same president who wanted to push through an increase in the debt ceiling that didn’t include any cuts in government spending! This is the same president who wants to slam Americans with tax hikes to cover his reckless spending, but has threatened to veto a bill proposing a balanced budget amendment. This is the same president who hasn’t put forward a responsible plan himself, but has rejected reasonable proposals that would tackle our debt. This is the same president who still refuses to understand that the American electorate rejected his big government agenda last November. As I said in Madison, Wisconsin, at the Tax Day Tea Party rally, “We don’t want it. We can’t afford it. And we are unwilling to pay for it.”
Now the President is outraged because the GOP House leadership called his bluff and ended discussions with him because they deemed him an obstruction to any real solution to the debt crisis.
He has been deemed a lame duck president. And he is angry now because he is being treated as such.
His foreign policy strategy has been described as “leading from behind.” Well, that’s his domestic policy strategy as well. Why should he be surprised that he’s been left behind in the negotiations when he’s been leading from behind on this debt crisis?
Thank you, GOP House leaders. Please don’t get wobbly on us now.
2012 can’t come soon enough.
Well, then. I’d say that pretty much hits all the high notes.
And for a coda, Mike Lee, appearing on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” Highlights include a clueless reporter having her loaded, factually incorrect assertions batted away, and Lee characterizing at least one statement from Obama as a “bald-faced lie.”
Which, now we’re talking!
(thanks to Stephanie and happyfeet)
I call dibs.
YMVVW. Ain’t she great? I knew she wouldn’t let us down. The ‘lame dick president’ is gonna smart after that. I predict petulant waters ahead. If by petulant you mean ‘toddlers at play.’
It occurs to me that, if Boehner and company wanted to do something really ballsy, not only would they refuse the President’s summons, but they’d issue one of their own and invite Obama to testify before a Committee of the Whole about his “plan.”
This is meme-worthy. Make it so, internet.
Perhaps Bill Clinton can give him his, “I am too relevant,” speech.
The New York Times shakes the pom-poms for fascist Hugo Chavez-style tyranny right here in failshit America
Scary stuff. And I think president limp dick’s wounded pride might make this option look viable. But nobody’s gonna buy bonds solely on the authority of a cowardly ghetto trash lame duck cocksucker.
I concur on the meme-making bh. Can you do anything about that?
These idiots are deranged. And given that, their next proposition is even worse.
Krugman is in a supressed state of rage and panic over Obama’s negotiating strategy.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/22/conceder-in-chief/
Looks like the troll of economics is starting to doubt The Won’s dedication to progressive causes…
I figured he’d do this. Now he has Posner’s opinion and Clinton’s blessing.
Think about what this means: neither the people nor the Congress is legally permitted to stop this man from doing what he wants.
Dictatorship.
Nah, I’m just the guy who says “meme-worthy”, Bob. Skilled internet people are supposed to swoop in at this point and provide the laughs.
Here’s a handy site though.
Don’t want to make it too meme worthy. The proggs might get ideas and pull a late night change at the top of the ticket. He needs to be sufficiently weak that he defeat is inevitable but sufficiently over cheerleaded (thanks MBM! – that polling cuts both ways) to give the proggs false hope before the change.
Liberal law scholar Larry Tribe says nein.
If Plan A was “You Got Me” and Plan B was “recreate 1995” I guess this means “Plan C” is recreate 1998.
We should dare him to go ahead and do it. Sure it’s illegal. And sure, even if we impeached him, he’d never face conviction in the Senate, so he’s guaranteed to get away with it.
But I for one look forward to the day President Palin uses the line item veto like a skinning knife.
PRECEDENT, BITCHES!
Sorta surprised they haven’t realized this on their own.
Some member of congress would merely have to go on CNBC, Paul Ryan perhaps, and say that investors should think twice about buying worthless bonds and they wouldn’t be able to give them away.
Jeff, I don’t think Clinton’s blessing carries all that much weight these days… and too many of the Treasury and Tribe types have come out and said “No. Hell No. Oh, Hell No!” I almost want him to do it, so the mask slips off completely.
You’d probably better work on strengthening your rib area muscles – or you will be sore from all your laughing at the rubes who admire pants creases or “good men”.
I want one, collectors value, I’ll buy after they crash and burn.
I don’t know about that, since I’ve heard stories of people who broke their own ribs laughing too hard.
I’d not consider William Jefferson Clinton a counselor without his own motives and reasons to see Obama over-reach for the brass ring of power. Bill has a memory like the mob.
Yes. That too should be a meme.
Think about what this means: neither the people nor the Congress is legally permitted to stop this man from doing what he wants.
And that’s worked so well everywhere it’s been tried. (see Germany, Venezuela, etc.)
Of course, push come to shove, as long as there are 34 senators who won’t impeach his historic ass, Obama’s unlimited ‘transformational’ power was always a given. Still, it’s refreshing to see them being so open about their desires.
You can’t say that the left doesn’t love their Fascism. They just get pissy when you call it that.
I don’t think I would bet on 34. Liebermann is sane enough to vote for impeachment. Can’t think of another one off the top of my head, though.
Here’s the gist of the NYT piece, written by a pair of law profs:
As I noted on facebook, actually, the correct answer, as the Constitution makes clear, is the Congress. It isn’t a static entity. This Congress didn’t commit to that spending. This President and the Democrats did, knowing full well that they were spending in excess of the debt ceiling, and that they’d need it raised to pay for their agenda. The argument here has the perverse effect of suggesting that future Congresses are to be held hostage to the spending of past Congresses, and if they refuse, the President can step in and take over the purse strings. This is both absurd and obscene and incentivizes overspending, because overspending as such will always, under the legal auspices of this argument, have to be paid for, and no Congress can step in and stop it.
Why have a Congress at all, then? Why not just allow the President to pass legislation, as well — that way he won’t run into any later problems with Congress?
Checks and balances are so messy.
I could have sworn that we were just being warned about an Imperial Presidency. Some guy from Texas, maybe?
#24 could be its own post, Jeff.
This is stunning.
These people teach Constitutional law.
What they are saying here is if the President decides on his own to take us into default, we cannot stop him, nobody can. He can borrow more money and force us all to pay for it — and he is has sole authority to do so, if he deems it necessary because our system of checks and balances is too obstructionist.
Seriously. In a sane country, these people would be asked to leave their respective universities and shamed by the legal community.
I’d not consider William Jefferson Clinton a counselor without his own motives and reasons to see Obama over-reach for the brass ring of power. Bill has a memory like the mob
I occasionally wonder if Bill Clinton didn’t get Obama the 2004 Convention speech, to prep him to be Hillary’s VP in 2008. She must really give him the business when he stops by the house from his 11 year and running sexual liberation tour.
Shorter short gist, from another lawyer (who also happened to be President).
Ol’ tricky Dick was a great pragmatic Republican president, what with the price controls and all.
And he won in a landslide that one time (unlike, say, Christine O’Donnell), which is the only thing that really matters… Go Team R!
Jeff, isn’t that in a nutshell the argument for both the line item veto and the BBA? The law profs have several doors they could walk through with that argument, but they chose the one that does nothing to clamp down on the profiligacies (sp) of liberalism. They could have advocated for Obama invoking across the board spending cuts, for example, but then that would interfere with the long march and results in a more conservative government. They could also have advocated for across the board Obama imposed tax increases, too.
Any wonder they chose door number 3? Which BTW insures a downgrade by Moody’s and S&P. They have already said an increase with no cuts is not a legitimate option.
Motionview, I was thinking of Obama charging Clinton with racism over his call to Ted Kennedy during the primaries. That is not something the “first black President” will let pass without payback at some convenient future moment.
i’m meme memed up
Then we should double-dog dare him to do it. Let him do the Democrat brand what Hoover did to the Republican.
Borrowing can be viewed as a tax increase. It is a claim imposed on future tax revenue or a claim on assets which were purchased with tax revenues of the past. Either way they are a demand for more taxes than would otherwise be called for at some point in time other than the present.
Why he’s a lame duck? Because, He can’t help himself.
(Well really, I only linked it for the picture. But still.)
Either way they are a demand for more taxes than would otherwise be called for at some point in time other than the present.
With this bunch, I think it’s a demand to build a faster printing press, wherever the money is coming from.
The Obi-Wan justification… ‘from a certain point of view.’
The Laffer Curve in that case would logically apply to debt as well as taxes. At some point on that curve, the debt is unrecoverable by the debtee. Better hope he’s not called ‘The Chin.’
Inflation is still a tax. Just a real nasty sneaky one.
Then there is this idea.
I know that. It is also a cause of bracket creep. Hence the problem with the AMT. I’m just saying the Laffer Curve is still operable if you want to label the axis as taxes or debt. The effects of additional dollars are the same.
These fools are gonna make us Argentina and then when a million dollars will buy you a loaf of bread, 100% of the electorate will be ‘rich’ as defined by proggs and the IRS.
Stephanie, I think geoff went all Krauty on my quippy.
Nsh, that was from Ghostbusters, Ernst.
Whichever, I’m kinda used to libs assuming a chick on the nets don’t know nothin bout economics (sorry Butterfly McQueen) that I forget which tab I have open and exactly where in the comments I am. Next comment pops and it’s no longer in context. It can be rather disjointed to say the least. I tend to assume (bad me) that all ‘informational’ comments are directed at me. For the edumacation. Apologies to all.
Here.
Stephanie, that is an assumption I’d never make about you. I type rather slowly and so make comments that end up way down from where I wished. I usually blockquote or cite a comment number but not always.
Which, BTW, could be one cause of the ‘nasties’ creeping in from time to time. Commenters assume other commenters are being ‘helpful’ and take umbrage to it. I tend to acknowledge the info and confirm by comment that I understand the concept and go forward. No umbrage taken and a moment to ‘show my chops’ as it were. Some commenters just assume they are being patronized. Always. And take umbrage. Always. Can be messy, can’t it?
Then of course there are those that begin, Stephanie, you ignorant slut… Kinda like cleo or thor. Then it’s volleys at the ready. Bomb them back to Kos licking their wounds.
I try to BQ or at least italicize, too, but sometimes the heat of the moment forget. Part of the problem is in assuming everyone on the nets either have the same knowledge you do from your readings that day or that they don’t have the same knowledge and you need to impart em some wisdom. Can cause quite the uproar as people get offended with “do you think I’m stupid. I know that” or they don’t get the reference cause they don’t have the latest updates to the story.
“….Then it’s volleys at the ready. Bomb them back to Kos licking their wounds.”
Now you’re talkin sister!
Stephanie, you well informed, highly educated slut….
That is what keeps Danger and hall monitor bh busy putting out the brush fires.
And I fully agree with your points in #47-48. text is so limiting compared to face to face or even telephone.
Ha, Ernst! And with that most excellent comeback, I’m off to bed. I have a 10:36 appointment with a driver. He’s a little thin, but he’s been packing quite a shot lately. Now, if he would just have a ‘come to Jesus’ meeting with my 5 wood…and my putter. And yes, the heat index is expected to reach something like 104. Tis why God invented the beer cooler.
Outlaw!
‘night Stephanie.
Apparently FT will sue or something if I quote from them more than they will allow, so I’ll just link and say…
When Geithner and Paulson appear together in public do they wear matching “I’m with Stupid” t-shirts or is the clown makeup enough of a clue as to the veracity of their statements?
Good night Stephanie.
Apparently FT will sue or something if I quote from them more than they will allow[.]
I say let ’em, since obviously they haven’t been paying attention.
I don’t see where you get “ghetto.” He led a comfortable middle-class life.
How to tell when your time has passed.
Any typing of that combination of words should give one pause, Pablo. Especially an intellectual, Nobel prize winner.
Krugman, having no neck, glances laterally with difficulty.
Mark Steyn ‘gets it‘…
Obama and the Democrats don’t (yet) get it.
It’ll take a downgrade from S&P’s and Moody’s to get their attention I’m guessing. By the time they ‘get it’, spoiled Americans will be in the streets, protesting a return to the reality that is normalcy: humans can’t be coddled for votes, because they are inherently lazy.
There’s a wake-up call coming to fat, dumb and happy Americans.
Let’s call it Austerity.
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Just read the Krugman article, plus as many comments on it as was bearable.
Can someone tell me at what point Obama got to the right of Reagan? Did I miss a memo, bitterly clinging to my guns and Bible?