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Obama State of the Union speech open thread

I will be at wrestling practice with my son, but for those of you brave enough to watch it, you can comment on it here.

Me, I’ve already heard it. In my head. And it sounded just like I knew it would.

Call me prescient.

284 Replies to “Obama State of the Union speech open thread”

  1. Bob Reed says:

    I’m sure the wrestling practice will be far more interesting…Prescient :)

  2. Darleen says:

    I’m not ready to buy a new television set, so, no, I just can’t bring myself to watch another Obama Perpetual Campaign Speech … especially with Barry talking about “fairness” and Michelle having Warren Buffet’s secretary sitting next to her.

  3. newrouter says:

    the state of the unions speech?

  4. LBascom says:

    I wonder if he’ll mention that he signed a law known as the National Defense Authorization Act?

    this year the NDAA bill has passed with new provisions that should have the entire country up with pitchforks.

    Normally, this is just an act which details the monetary calls of the Department of Defense which is passed every year. However, the act passed for the 2012 fiscal year changes the bill and can be seen as an extension of the Patriot Act. Now, the indefinite detention has been extended to U.S. citizens as well. If people are spied on and suspected of being terrorists, they may be detained indefinitely without trial.

    Followed up by declaring his critics “terrorists”.

    You think I kid.

    Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky has stated that there are laws regarding terrorist suspects in America in place by the Department of Justice. Issues such as having an armed weapon or having a food supply lasting at least seven days can be grounds for terrorism.

  5. geoffb says:

    I already have “Lie To Me” on DVD. I feel no need to watch this High School Drama Club version tonight.

  6. sdferr says:

    Full text, 2011 SOTU, for comparative purposes. Maybe someone will paste up the link to tonight’s speech when the embargo expires.

  7. dicentra says:

    These vids on David Thompson’s blog are more honest and substantial than the SOTU.

  8. newrouter says:

    “Issues such as having an armed weapon or having a food supply lasting at least seven days can be grounds for terrorism.”

    they hate some gbtv

  9. geoffb says:

    Here is what is purported to be the template of tonight’s speech.

  10. leigh says:

    they hate some gbtv

    It sounds like they hate anyone who lives out in the country. And Mormons.

  11. LBascom says:

    If you all are bored, here’s some interesting reading, if you really want to know what’s going on.

    From my fav guilty pleasure blog, Mind Control</a< Theories and Techniques used by Mass Media.

  12. happyfeet says:

    Warren Buffett’s whore secretary is gonna be there I heard

  13. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Let me be clear blah blah blah

    I reject the false choice between blah blah blah

    fairness blah blah blah fair share blah blah blah

    Do nothing Congress blah blah blah

    blah blah blah

  14. newrouter says:

    “Warren Buffett’s whore secretary is gonna be there I heard”

    so will keystone peeps

    SOTU: Boehner Counters Buffett’s Secretary Invite, Invites Keystone Supporters

  15. McGehee says:

    There’s not enough cheap Scotch in all the package stores in three counties to get me through the first four words of #Occupant Obama’s speech.

  16. Bob Reed says:

    One can be sure that the phony, “Date Night”, practice of opposing members sitting together to demonstrate “bi-partisanship” will end once the Democrats no longer control the White House…

  17. Bob Reed says:

    Awwwww…A big hug for Gabby Giffords…Thank goodness she survived the day of the shooting teabaggerzzz.

    What a putz. All of the empty gladhanding and “joe cool” cocktail party talk.

    Let the lies begin!

  18. newrouter says:

    hairplugs is epic tonite

  19. leigh says:

    OBL right out of the gate.

  20. newrouter says:

    hairplugs is doing the blinky tonite. thank allan someone to fill sanfrannan’s shoes

  21. Bob Reed says:

    But no victory celebration for the formal end of the Iraq war, eh. Perhaps too…jingoistic for the won.

  22. happyfeet says:

    I would rather bin laden be alive and this job-hating rapist be out of office where he can’t hurt people anymore

  23. Bob Reed says:

    And he had to hit the OBL note.

  24. leigh says:

    Beatcha to it, Bob.

  25. Bob Reed says:

    All of his platitudes about the 50’s economy, and indeed all of the leftys that whine about the inequality, conveniently leave out that essesntially the rest of the worlds manufacturing ability had been destroyed.

    It’s no wonder the US smokestack industries prospered for 35 years after the end of WWII.

  26. Bob Reed says:

    No mention of CRA in his list of eeeeevolll market forces that brought about the 2008 economic crisis.

  27. Bob Reed says:

    With the strangulating Dodd-Frank connivance-called-bill

  28. leigh says:

    I think I can quit listening now and wait for Mitch.

  29. Bob Reed says:

    I am Barack Le Grand! L’etat c’est moi!

  30. Bob Reed says:

    Dude, the auto industry?
    It’s easy for GM to turn a profit when we all collectively bailed them out…

    Volts for everyone!

    Now he’s making the corporatism pitch.

    C’mon man, fascism isn’t that bad

  31. motionview says:

    A quick school of lies analysis
    The excerpt
    1.Think about the America within our reach: 2.A country that leads the world in educating its people. 3.An America that attracts a new generation of high-tech manufacturing and high-paying jobs. 4.A future where we’re in control of our own energy, and 5.our security and 6. prosperity aren’t so tied to unstable parts of the world. An economy built to last, where 7. hard work pays off, and 8. responsibility is rewarded. “
    1. A transformed America is within his grasp.
    2. The Left controls the educational system and they have produced a generation of uneducated, unemployable clients.
    3. The Environmental regulations prevent that as Jobs told him before he died.
    4. Obama just passed on a new huge source of energy.
    5. He’s abandoned Iraq and abandoning Afghanistan and the only reason Petraeus has not resigned is because he won’t leave his troops behind.
    6. We are completely exposed to the upcoming Eurozone default
    7. Except for the 1%, who really need to just give it up for the people.
    8. Extend unemployment, forgive mortgages.

  32. leigh says:

    He congratulated Ford. Ford didn’t take any bail out money, bozo.

  33. Bob Reed says:

    Well, all his Wall st buddies are going to love his corporate AMT; on all revenues domestic or overseas

    Wonder what Immelt thinks of that?

    How fast do you think US companies will suddenly become overseas concerns should this look as if it’s coming to pass…

  34. happyfeet says:

    GM hasn’t even remotely paid back all the welfare Barack shoveled at them

    are Koreans really dumb enough to pay money for American shitmobiles?

  35. Bob Reed says:

    I hope he doens’t hurt his elbow patting himself on the back about the free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama, and Korea…That he and his fellow Democrats made sure were blocked when the Boooooooooooosh! administration originally negotiated them and sent them to congress for ratification.

  36. Pablo says:

    When is Jeff Immelt going to bring jobs home because China is too expensive? What did he say when Barack asked him what he can do to bring jobs home?

  37. motionview says:

    your cronies in teh NEA are falling behind quote Dear Leader.

  38. Bob Reed says:

    So 99 weeks unemployment isn’t good enough, now we’re going to train everyone as well.

  39. newrouter says:

    his lips are moving. be careful he might be lying.

  40. happyfeet says:

    yup he’s begging begging begging for spendings like a whore cause that’s all that’s propping up his ghetto ass

  41. leigh says:

    Trade school for everyone, comrades!

  42. motionview says:

    Every one says this raining crap; they forget how much better Kardashian’s ass looks than a textbook for many of our brethren.

  43. sdferr says:

    People like Jackie have one master. Good for little Jackie. That is, it’s good to be a slave.

  44. Bob Reed says:

    Smells like the Dept of Ed will be getting some big bank shoved their way of Dear Leader has his way.

    When it should be being eliminated…

  45. newrouter says:

    mr newt said 99 occupoopers could have gotten an associates degree in that time

  46. newrouter says:

    i luvs some baracky in communist red

  47. Bob Reed says:

    And if the NEA, AFT, and the Dept of Ed would either get out of the way, or concentrate on actual education instead of a pomo ideology indoctrination we might have students that can actually, you know, think.

  48. leigh says:

    I see the fingerprints of Arnie Duncoan on all this Ed talk.

  49. JD says:

    I quit counting at 20 lies. That was a record for how quickly he arrived at said figure.

  50. Bob Reed says:

    And here we go, free college for everyone!11!1!

  51. happyfeet says:

    “we’ll run out of money”

    lol

  52. Bob Reed says:

    It’s not enough to increase student aid, the State’s have to also!

    ruh-roh
    He’s telling the colleges they have to cut costs…There go those juicy professorships.

  53. newrouter says:

    didjasee al franken clapping like a seal at sea world?

  54. motionview says:

    Si se puede. American through and through except for being Mexican.

  55. Golem14 says:

    Just as my IRA was starting to go back up, he had to open his mouth again…

  56. Bob Reed says:

    And here comes the amnesty talk. He’s responsible for the decline in illegal crossings, you see; not the poor economy…

    This is the day the illegal tide stopped rising!

  57. motionview says:

    I need every vote, illegal or legal, in 2012 to keep the gravy train rolling amigos.

  58. newrouter says:

    the mexican drug cartel’s customers are on display nationwide.

  59. motionview says:

    Now where’s that hoary old 69% number. Deliver the line bitch.

  60. sdferr says:

    Price and wage controls are the only way to go. But then, the slaves have always known that.

  61. Bob Reed says:

    I though a person’s own ambitions provided the incentive to get ahead. Who knew the government could regulate our individual ambitions?

  62. sdferr says:

    Wonder not: the tyrant too can be Mr. Cool, jes wait and see.

  63. motionview says:

    Give me a small business a law to create jobs. Then raise the taxes on all those damn wreckers.

  64. Bob Reed says:

    What?!? Dodd-Frank is responsible for shutting off the venture capital spigot in this country. What does he want, the government to provide all venture capital, just like student loans?

  65. Nothing but a campaign speech, and a campaign speech filled with lies and obfuscations at that.

  66. motionview says:

    You can’t have this Keystone energy now but look at here where the mermaids live? I’ll dangle that now and someone down the line will kill it for us.

  67. Bob Reed says:

    An all of the above strategy on energy!?!

    Obama’s the one that’s been blocking oil and gas drilling. For what, so he can throw some Solyndra magnitude cash at a few more of his buds?

  68. sdferr says:

    And the slaves slobber themselves to applaud lagging oil exploration development.

  69. motionview says:

    I’m all for unicorn methane plants, but only green unicorn methane plants.

  70. Bob Reed says:

    I can’t believe he has the balls to talk about his administration’s successes in clean energy.

    Solyndra anyone?

  71. motionview says:

    Solyndra? I thought you said “Ah steve-choo”

  72. Bob Reed says:

    There is no limit to his gall.

  73. motionview says:

    Our experience in solar panels shows our venture socialism is terrible, but I will not walk away from teh American worker. I claim the wind and the sun!

  74. leigh says:

    Bye bye oil exploration.

  75. Bob Reed says:

    Wait a minute. Clean energy tax break? Isn’t that “spending in the tax code”?

  76. motionview says:

    Climate change. Guess who can’t say no! he Navy! Suck it up boys the slackers gotta slack.

  77. Bob Reed says:

    Great…

    NASA doesn’t fly to space anymore, and DOD will now be spending it’s shrinking money by underwriting “clean energy initiatives” on public land.

    God help me, Navy is leading the way…

  78. motionview says:

    In the Depression there was no rural broadband?

  79. Bob Reed says:

    And what is this, “send me the bill”, BS. Barack le Grand is ordering the slaves to “make it so”…

  80. motionview says:

    Say, where’s your budget for all that Sparky?

  81. motionview says:

    1000 days you say.

  82. motionview says:

    Here it is, Obama’s paying our mortgages!

  83. Bob Reed says:

    Ah, and here we go. Not even a phony peace dividend. Half the money formerly spent in Iraq will be spent “nation building” at home. Got that?

    The “baseline” just increased again…

  84. B. Moe says:

    I got an idea for an education program, teach all registered voters fucking economics.

  85. JD says:

    No bailouts. No handouts.

    Is he really banging the banks over CRA?!?!??!??!

  86. motionview says:

    No bailouts, no handouts..

    Will we just close DC Dear Leader?

  87. sdferr says:

    That’s why I’m sending this Congress a plan that gives every responsible homeowner the chance to save about $3,000 a year on their mortgage, by refinancing at historically low interest rates. No more red tape. No more runaround from the banks. A small fee on the largest financial institutions will ensure that it won’t add to the deficit, and will give banks that were rescued by taxpayers a chance to repay a deficit of trust.

    Pethokoukis paydirt

  88. newrouter says:

    it sounds better with the sound off

  89. motionview says:

    Dear Leader drops a groaner

  90. Bob Reed says:

    Yep MV,
    Here he is offering those who overbought the haircut they want; on the rest of our backs.]

    But, you know, he’ll act like it’s the banks who made the Faustian TARP bargain foot the bill. But we all know that the cost will be passed on to the rest of us.

    This is chicken-in-every pot, utopian, BS.

  91. motionview says:

    What about regulating dirt Dear Leader?

  92. Bob Reed says:

    I will not go back!11!1!

  93. newrouter says:

    “A small fee on the largest financial institutions will ensure that it won’t add to the deficit, and will give banks that were rescued by taxpayers a chance to repay a deficit of trust.”

    give my bankster buds $3500 in fee charges. good allan this man knows jack and shit.

  94. motionview says:

    When was this mystical past Obama is always talking about going back to? Is that where the strawmen live?

  95. JD says:

    Is he claiming that he has reduced regulation, given his history of using regulation where he could not get legislation?!?!?!?!?!

  96. happyfeet says:

    more government investigators!

  97. Bob Reed says:

    A blue ribbon panel of TOP! men…

    Yeah, just like the debt reduction panel.

  98. motionview says:

    Hey, ask that financial fraud unit to take a look at Franklin Raines and Barney Frank.

  99. motionview says:

    Pay down our debt. Now where did I leave my budget….

  100. motionview says:

    My two month tax deal is back. Do as I command.

  101. Bob Reed says:

    WTF is Cantor clapping for, Obama’s telling him to pass his effin’ bill!??!?

  102. motionview says:

    We’ve agreed to $2T in cuts and savings.

    I will bet $2T that that is a lie.

  103. sdferr says:

    “poised to spend”

    Classic demagoguery

  104. motionview says:

    Everything else or tax cuts for the pigsrich? Fair choice?

  105. motionview says:

    Fair share = Buffett rule

    30% AMT

  106. Bob Reed says:

    *groan*
    Now the class warfare begins in earnest. And what a laugher; Obama has no intention of paying down the debt, he’s only interested in increasing it…

    And Dear Leader, feel free to pay as much as you think is fair to the treasury.

    Put your money where your mouth is.

  107. motionview says:

    You can call this class warfare. We don’t begrudge success, just want their money.

  108. Bob Reed says:

    And the slight of hand makes me sick; “Warren buffet should have to pay as much as his secretary”…

    I guarantee, in magnitude, he paid way more dollars than she did; unless that’s the greatest secretary job in the US.

  109. motionview says:

    He is really going down deep to deliver some of these lines tonight. Must have really gotten fired up at the Apollo.

  110. Bob Reed says:

    Yes Baracky, we’re all thinking the same thing right now; ENOUGH ALREADY! STFU

  111. bh says:

    That group to look into the mortgage mess? Gonna be chaired by Eric Schneiderman.

    Think Elliot Spitzer but then picture him ten paces to the left.

  112. newrouter says:

    justice gingsberg was drolling

  113. leigh says:

    Great. He’s proposing restructuring the government. Fuck the Constition!

  114. Bob Reed says:

    Easy to call for a up-or-down vote within 90 days on appointments now, but when Boooooooooosh! was in office?

    Some of his appontments to the federal bench never even got to the friggin’ Senate floor.

  115. newrouter says:

    yea but he’s ” smart and articulate and clean” says plugs.

  116. Bob Reed says:

    After all of the statist BS he wishcasted, he has the nerve to quote Lincoln; “Governemnt should only do what people cannot do for themselves, and no more”.

    Like we can’t read mortgage agreement, for one.

  117. Bob Reed says:

    He will take action with or without Congress?

    The tyrant is showing his hand.

  118. Bob Reed says:

    Taking credit for the arab spring, naturally…

    And in Syria, well, we’ll see.

  119. sdferr says:

    That’s why I’ve asked this Congress to grant me the authority to consolidate the federal bureaucracy so that our Government is leaner, quicker, and more responsive to the needs of the American people.

    And whose will determines those needs? Not the people, who can rest assured they will be ignored when they raise protest against grotesque propositions such as ObamaCare. But Barry, tyrant Barry, has the will, and has the knowledge what the American people need. Only listen. Then obey.

  120. newrouter says:

    well he’s got the “dic” part right. eff that ‘tator and the cliven horse he rode in on.

  121. Bob Reed says:

    Hillz looked nervous when O! was talking about the Middle East…

  122. Bob Reed says:

    She lookin’ kinda nervous when Baracky talks about Iran too.

  123. motionview says:

    Now, you can call this class warfare all you want. But asking a billionaire to pay at least as much as his secretary in taxes?

    That is the kind of lie that he really should be called and never will. It is in the written text so it is exactly what he planned to say. of cours it is blatantly false, Buffet paid tens of millions in taxes and is avoiding hundreds of millions more. They might claim “we meant percentage” but is that credible? It is in the written speech. He wanted to say But asking a billionaire to pay at least as much as his secretary in taxes? and he did, knowing it is a lie.
    And is class warfare.

  124. Bob Reed says:

    A tyrant. Promising to be one…Tellin’ us what he plans to do…And we’re supposed to join the pinheads in the applause.

    Not I.

  125. motionview says:

    I’m gonna come back and clean up all my comments I promise.

  126. Bob Reed says:

    “America is back, anyone who tells you different doesn’t know what they’re talking about”.

    Streetcorner frontin’, stylin’ and profilin’…A posing perpetrator…

  127. bh says:

    It’s also wrong as a percentage, mv. Cap gains of 15% come after a 35% corp tax.

  128. Darleen says:

    JAYSUS H KEERIST ON A PONY HOLY MARY MOTHER OF GOD AND JUMPING JOSEPH ….

    husband really wanted to watch this farce (“know your enemy”) but even he right almost picked up the fireplace poker to throw through the t.v.

    I kept having to leave the room to scream

  129. Darleen says:

    hubby finally turned off the tv … Good, maybe I’ll let him sleep in the bed tonight …

  130. He starts with killing bin Laden and he finishes with killing bin Laden.

    What a piece of work this guy is.

  131. Bob Reed says:

    Criminy, ridin’ Bin Laden’s assassination like rented horse.

  132. leigh says:

    Invoking Seal Team Six. I really hate this guy.

  133. sdferr says:

    Community organizer to the bitter end. Meet end soon.

  134. motionview says:

    Is that some kind of patriarchal math you are using there bh? What is this capital gains you speak of? No we don’t want to raise that. We just want the people who pay at that rate to pay at this rate: as much as we need.

  135. Pablo says:

    Finally!

  136. Bob Reed says:

    Likening our national success to a military mission has another, subtle connotation. One of central control, unquestioned, from the brass.

    As long as we do what we’re told, by the schmott guys like him, we’ll succeed…

    What a piece of…work

  137. happyfeet says:

    which one is Warren Buffett’s dirty little slut?

  138. leigh says:

    The one in the Mandarin jacket.

  139. Bob Reed says:

    Anyone who makes more than a million dollars must play a 30% minimum tax?

    Such demagoguery…

    Is that on all profits, or just income? Does it apply to capital gains? And what about the small businesses that file using the 1040 schedule?

  140. Bob Reed says:

    JUST WORDS?!?!?

  141. happyfeet says:

    I’ll have to watch later and see cspan you can’t rewind

  142. JD says:

    Did he submit his budget, as required, yet?

  143. Bob Reed says:

    Budget? Caesar Baracky le Grand don’t need no steenkin’ budget. That’s his wallet man.

    Don’t mess with his stack, Jack JD.

  144. leigh says:

    Bob, I keep saying to the husband (former USA, retired pilot) that the AF One pilot needs to take one for the team.

  145. Darleen says:

    Bob

    And what about state income taxes? In CA it’s another 10% … and Obama doesn’t think that million entitles you to any deductions …

    and did you notice the sleight of hand as he said 30% for mil/year then went right to only families under $250K should have low taxes.

  146. leigh says:

    He also said earn he didn’t mention property.

  147. Pablo says:

    Did he submit his budget, as required, yet?

    Well, yes. And the Senate laughed it down, 97-0.

  148. He also talked about people making over $1M paying 30% in taxes, then immediately said if you make less than $250K your taxes will not go up. Wonder just how much he plans to squeeze those in between…

  149. Bob Reed says:

    I noticed that slight-of-hand Darleen, and thought the same about the same tax burden myself.

  150. newrouter says:

    hoo ray mitch mitchey go stupid party. effin mock this a’hole at this point clowns.

  151. Darleen says:

    charles

    yep…kinda like when Obama said “businesses that stay in America pay some of the highest taxes in the world” then immediately transitions into talking about making American companies with operations overseas PAY MORE (not a thing about lessening domestic business rates)

  152. newrouter says:

    yea tired white guy that’ll fire up krystal and coulter and brooks

  153. Did you notice the crease in his pants though?

  154. newrouter says:

    mitchy go away loser

  155. Bob Reed says:

    The problem is Leigh, he’s planning on getting in our wallet’s like a tapeworm in our gullets. He and his fellow travelers won’t be happy until the top rates are back to what they were when Jack Kennedy was POTUS.

    And as far as property? Well I’ve heard some of the left propagandist MBM foot-soldiers explicity say that we shouldn’t be able to pass personal wealth onto our descendants. The quote was something like, “Your children shouldn’t be wealthy just because you did well in life”.

    And they said it with earnest intent and a straight face. My head nearly exploded.

  156. happyfeet says:

    Mitch is sucking ass robustly

  157. newrouter says:

    i’m sticking with dennis miller for the win on this. go stupid partea.

  158. happyfeet says:

    mitch completely wasted this opportunity right when Team R needed a message

    what a piece of shit

  159. bh says:

    You’re already above 30% in fed income tax once you’re above $175K.

    So, the new AMT dealio would probably work to negate all charitable deductions and increase cap gains about 2x.

    It’s about the worst policy prescription I can think of.

  160. Bob Reed says:

    I don’t think Daniel’s response is bad at all, myself. His delivery made leave something to be desired, but the content sounds strong.

  161. Mr. Reed, because they’ve earned the right to spend the money you make, not you. The death eaters always want to phrase the issue in the terms of the receipients who don’t deserve it rather than the right of the person who did earn it to spend it as he or she chooses. Apparently, it would be fairer if everyone blew their savings right before they die.

  162. newrouter says:

    stay away from ann coulter’s vibrator while mitchy speaks.

  163. leigh says:

    I hear ya, Bob. Good thing we created those trusts. Those will probabaly be verboten soon, too.

    Mitch is saying good stuff, but man oh man is he boring.

  164. happyfeet says:

    I’m not gonna unite with Mitch to “save the safety net.”

  165. Darleen says:

    His delivery made leave something to be desired

    Ok, I admit, I haven’t watched a lot of his speaking before, but it was like he was shot full of Novocaine at about the neck level … not a muscle in his face moved, even his lips …

  166. bh, only marginal rates for earned income. Capital gains aren’t. And we don’t even want to start on passive gains or losses, or just what constitutes income.

    What exactly do you think would happen to Warren Buffett if he was handed a tax bill for $30B and had to liquidate his assets to pay it?

  167. happyfeet says:

    Mr. Karl noticed how Mitchfag took a swipe at Gingrich…

    I personally would add to that list admiration for the strong family commitment that he and the First Lady have displayed to a nation sorely needing such examples.

  168. Bob Reed says:

    Excellent observation Charles. Intersting how they always focus on “the unworthy”, when, as you say, it’s the right of the one who earned to do with it as they see fit.

  169. newrouter says:

    i luv watching cultural suicide inaction. over to you brian williams…

  170. leigh says:

    Oh, I missed that, happy. I must have nodded off.

  171. Darleen says:

    oh… btw… has anybody fact-checked Barry’s claim that the technology to extract shale oil was only because of public funding?

    Smells of Gore’s “I invented the internet”

  172. happyfeet says:

    i missed it too – Mr. Karl is sharp as razor blades in halloween candy

  173. leigh says:

    Darleen, I must have said “citation?” twenty times at least with his wild claims.

  174. newrouter says:

    yo peeps buy guns and gold

  175. Bob Reed says:

    Wow happyfeet, you’re surprising me a bit.

    I thought you were in Daniels’ corner; at least last summer…I thought he gave a pretty good address, all things considered, in terms of content.

    Addressing a joint session of congress is a hard act to follow, especially in a solitary office, for someone who’s delivery leaves something to be desired.

    When did you sour on the man? When he dropped out of the race?

  176. I saw over on Cato that Chris Matthews loved Mitch Daniels’ response. Take it for what it’s worth. No word on whether Mr. Matthews experienced any tingling in his extremities.

  177. newrouter says:

    “has anybody fact-checked Barry’s claim that the technology to extract shale oil was only because of public funding?”

    the propaganda arm of the fcc “will make it ” true?

  178. happyfeet says:

    I like Daniels as governor but he sucks ass in this moment

    he didn’t even sound a tiny wee little bit angry

    he should stick to the oped format

  179. happyfeet says:

    and what was that creepy mentos eye flash he kept doing

  180. Darleen says:

    leigh

    hubby and I were muttering “bullshit” so much, it’s a wonder we actually heard so much of the campaign speech.

  181. newrouter says:

    “When did you sour on the man? When he dropped out of the race?”

    i “soured” when no one in the stupid partea will mock the baracky. this tool is highly mockable in alinsky fashion. eff this stupid shat.

  182. newrouter says:

    oh my brian bill and mittens

  183. happyfeet says:

    I personally would add to that list admiration for the strong family commitment that he and the First Lady have displayed to a nation sorely needing such examples.

    Fuck you. Your whore wife left you to bang doctor cock and then when he kicked her whore ass to the curb she decided she wanted another taste of Big Pharma.

    Strong family commitment bullshit you gave your daughters a whore for a mother.

  184. bh says:

    I’m out.

  185. sdferr says:

    That whole “self-governance” thing looks less likely than otherwise, what with slavery come so strongly back into vogue.

  186. happyfeet says:

    Mr. bh it was not Mitchfag’s place to take a jibe at Mr. Newt

    especially not from the tawdry glass house he lives in with his whorish slut wife

  187. Pablo says:

    Yeah. I can get this on Lifetime.

  188. bh says:

    I’d think that if you’re gonna support Gingrich or Romney you’d temper your criticisms of any other Republican politician accordingly.

    Or at least have the common decency to have your head explode out of extreme cognitive dissonance.

    Okay, now I’m out.

  189. Pablo says:

    Or maybe Logo.

  190. sdferr says:

    “I personally would add to that list admiration for the strong family commitment that he and the First Lady have displayed to a nation sorely needing such examples.”

    Come on, I think this is totally a racist jibe at the negro community, and has nothing to do with Gingrich.

  191. happyfeet says:

    I’d think that if you’re gonna support Gingrich or Romney you’d temper your criticisms of any other Republican politician accordingly.

    Mitchy D’s nasty shot at Newt didn’t help Romney one bit I don’t think.

    Everyone knows Romney is as fucking sexless as a nun.

  192. happyfeet says:

    oh. racism?

    cool!

  193. Bob Reed says:

    Maybe it’s not so much a swipe at Newt as it is a desire to say something nice about O! before he got down to business rippin’ him. You know, out a sense of gentlemanly comity, collegiality, and in the spirit of “the loyal opposition”.

    Too much benefit of the doubt? Well I’ve been wrong before.

  194. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Mitch Daniels failed to live up to the pikachu’s highapplepieinthesky flights of fancy?

    Well knock me over with a feather!

  195. happyfeet says:

    I think it’s too much benefit of the doubt. It just honestly clicks for me as a swipe at Newt.

    We’ll see tomorrow i guess.

  196. newrouter says:

    ruling class? establishment class? how about greedy bloody sucker class? calling herr dr. buffet! these peeps sux, you go baracky in epa language: feed the pig!!11!!energy suckers

  197. sdferr says:

    Either that, or it’s just a cigar. But then, we all know where White House cigars end up.

  198. happyfeet says:

    yes Mr. Ernst I was sorely disappointed tonight

    we’re careening towards a date with destiny, our little country is

    and asshats they are legion

    I’m starting to think maybe I should take another look at Santorum even. At least he’s not imaginative.

  199. happyfeet says:

    i was gonna watch the C-SPAN thing again to see Warren’s naughty l’il minx but I just don’t have it in me

  200. leigh says:

    She’s a chubby middle-aged Nebraska hausfrau in a red mandarin jacket.

    You aren’t missing anything.

  201. bh says:

    Okay, I’m back like a bad rash but I just figured something out. Wasn’t sure why you mentioned what you did at #179 at first, Charles. But, yeah, I was loose with my comment. You’re above 30% after $175K of earned income. Correct. I wasn’t explicit there.

    My thrust is that to get this aggregate, AMTesque new millionaires tax will almost certainly require negating charitable deductions and increasing the amount paid on cap gains. Otherwise, you’re already above it.

    There aren’t many good things that happen when you reduce the incentives to give to charity or invest. Way to stick it to the rich (and the poor and people who work for companies), Obama!

  202. happyfeet says:

    “Or maybe Logo,” Pablo said drily, allowing the barest hint of a moue of distaste to play across his scotch-moist lips. “That happyfeet is certainly a saucy rascal,” thought the earnest commenter, earnestly.

    “He’s certain to get his…

    Someday.”

  203. happyfeet says:

    i think I saw the bottom of the jacket after but they didn’t pan up… did she go down to the floor?

  204. Darleen says:

    There aren’t many good things that happen when you reduce the incentives to give to charity or invest

    Not good things for Americans, but for Progressives it nudges people into leaving the running of their lives to Big Government.

    woohoo!

  205. leigh says:

    Not that I saw.

  206. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Way to stick it to the rich (and the poor and people who work for companies), Obama!

    Everything is proceeding according to my design.

  207. leigh says:

    I think it’s going to nudge this crowd to buy more ammo.

  208. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Now, witness the suffocating power of this fully tentacled and stifling bureaucracy!

  209. newrouter says:

    i say swiss cake rolls for all per baracky! and chicken livers in every thought.

  210. happyfeet says:

    the thing is, our gimpy rapist-in-chief could never have made that speech without clearing it with bernanke first

    “You’re not gonna bust me, are you?… You got my back?”

  211. sdferr says:

    Let the record be set and reset, doubled and trebled: 1,000 days? Ha! Let it span a decade.

  212. newrouter says:

    so what happens when you find that commie/fascist/totalitarians silently take over your country? vacation in cuba! yea che>

  213. motionview says:

    Geitner did not look good during the mortgage forgiveness talk. The whole place seemed a little unsettled, it was almost as if the Progs weren’t sure if Obama had dropped the last mask and it was time to head to the barricades.

  214. MissFixit says:

    Ok well I’m glad I missed it. I knew I could just come here and get the goods. I switched on the TV and hear Obama say “doesn’t matter if you’re latino, native american, blah blah” — and shut that shit right off.

  215. leigh says:

    When he was lying bout meeting with all of these business owners &c, I knew he was lying because there have been no photo ops.

    Unless he met them on the golf course.

  216. happyfeet says:

    this whole thing was creepy and mein kampfy

  217. sdferr says:

    Hey, America! Those shackles look damn good on you! How about we sparkle ’em up a little with mandatory High School Graduation?

  218. Ernst Schreiber says:

    GE is a business. Berkshire Hathaway is a business. He meets with Immelt and Buffet all the time.

    The SEIU is a business too. The kind you never discuss with those outside the family.

  219. Danger says:

    Hey Bob,

    I work with a former associate of yours.

    Does the name “Pellet” strike a chord?

  220. happyfeet says:

    Berkshire Hathaway makes that sub-par over-priced See’s Candies crap

    on the other hand they make those tasty DQ jalapeno popper thingers and plus I heart me a jiffy burger with an orange drink whenever I’m down DQ way

  221. Darleen says:

    hf

    See’s beats Godiva’s ass on a daily basis. And the chocolate it uses is the same supplier it used in the 1950’s

  222. Jeff G. says:

    run run mitchy save christmas!

  223. geoffb says:

    There aren’t many good things that happen when you reduce the incentives to give to charity or invest.

    I want to be a little more explicit than Darleen was in #207.

    The purpose is to eliminate “private” charity, this is just one means to that end. Then there is also the purpose of eliminating “private” investment, this too in simply another means of reaching that end. Hell, starting with Clinton they changed government spending to “investments”.

    Eliminating the “private” doesn’t eliminate the needs, the wants, the desires that drive the private sector but the vacuum created will be filled by government. All everything to be filled by government.

    State slavery rising again. This time it will work, they believe, because there will be no sanctuaries of freedom, this time.

  224. happyfeet says:

    NG likes See’s too

    but they don’t make a white chocolate – Godiva and Ghirardelli both do

    white chocolate is far more of an art than for reals chocolate, which has the benefit of having actual cocoa involved

  225. happyfeet says:

    run run mitchy save christmas!

    god bless america all my hope are turn to dust

  226. newrouter says:

    unions and buffet:

    Financial Information

    On Feb. 12, 2010, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, LLC, (formerly known as Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation) and BNSF Railway Company became subsidiaries of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Burlington Northern Santa Fe, LLC, and BNSF Railway Company each continue to file annual, quarterly and current reports on Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).http://www.bnsf.com/about-bnsf/financial-information/

    link

    go team baracky

  227. newrouter says:

    push back that pipe line

  228. Darleen says:

    White chocolate is not real chocolate — only has cocoa butter in it

    and just what are you talking about re: See’s no white???

  229. newrouter says:

    we need rockerfeller delivery systems now. go 1880.

  230. happyfeet says:

    oh. I will try – I’ve asked in the airport several times

  231. newrouter says:

    i luvs the smell of corruption near eric holder’s ear. go team baracky!!11!!

  232. happyfeet says:

    white chocolate IS real chocolate in the sense that it’s a very nuanced sensual experience what doesn’t just happen without a nice bit of craftsmanship attendant

    so many times you get white chocolate and it just tastes lemony

    what good is that?

  233. Darleen says:

    geez, hf, at the airport that’s a KIOSK not a store!!

    the keylime truffle is to die for …

  234. Darleen says:

    so many times you get white chocolate and it just tastes lemony

    because some cheap-ass companies don’t use cocoa butter or very little of it, and use shortening and just call it “white chocolate”

  235. geoffb says:

    7181 words of which 1% (72) are “I”, “I’m”, “I’ll”.

    Next most frequent is “jobs”, 32 times, 33 if you count Steve Jobs as one.

  236. happyfeet says:

    ok ok I will do better I promise but I’m not buying tasty See’s white chocolate in any quantity until that fascist and his whore secretary sell the company to real Americans

  237. Darleen says:

    geoffb

    Word missing from speech? “Stimulus”

    heh

  238. Darleen says:

    On the day I took office, our auto industry was on the verge of collapse. Some even said we should let it die. With a million jobs at stake, I refused to let that happen. In exchange for help, we demanded responsibility. We got workers and automakers to settle their differences. We got the industry to retool and restructure. Today, General Motors is back on top as the world’s number one automaker. Chrysler has grown faster in the U.S. than any major car company. Ford is investing billions in U.S. plants and factories. And together, the entire industry added nearly 160,000 jobs.

    There is so much wrong with just this paragraph, I don’t know where to start … but by what rights has Obama got in lumping GM and Chrysler with Ford? Ford took absolutely NO money from the Feds.

  239. geoffb says:

    James Pethokoukis on the Obama mortgage refi plan.

  240. cranky-d says:

    I was watching in a bar, and I saw the blurb that came up about “everyone needs to do their fare share,” and my response was, “each according to his abilities, each according to his needs.”

    Commie, pure and simple.

  241. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Michelle gave that away for years ago cranky,

    to anyone willing to listen and let themselves hear.

  242. newrouter says:

    “If the idea tonight was that the President would fulfill his constitutional duty to give us ‘information of the State of the Union’, we should be able to expect some truth. I didn’t hear much truth. Truth is that the real unemployment rate is probably still above 10%. Truth is that after all the hand-wringing and deals of the past couple of years, instead of cutting spending, the President and Congress are going back to the well for another $1.2 Trillion debt limit increase. And the truth is we are seeing nothing from either the President or the Republicans that will really change any of those unacceptable realities.

    “Only in the twilight zone that is Washington could a President who has bailed out and stimulated our economy to death stand in the Capitol and declare there should be ‘no bailouts, no handouts, and no cop-outs’. Can anyone spell GM or TARP or Solyndra?

    “The President said we deserve a government that plays by the same rules as millions of hard-working Americans. Perhaps that should begin with the government not borrowing and printing 43 cents of every dollar it spends – something hard-working Americans can’t and don’t do.

    “Until we see a real plan – not a Washington smoke and mirrors plan – that puts a stop to deficit spending and really puts America back to work, all of this rhetoric is just wasted breath.”

    link

  243. geoffb says:

    Herman Cain, tea party response to SOTU

  244. dicentra says:

    Is it over yet?

  245. jdw (note the "w") says:

    At the end of World War II, when another generation of heroes returned home from combat, they built the strongest economy and middle class the world has ever known.

    Co-opting an entire generation of good people who would definitely spit on your neo-softspoken-Communist ideology, Baracky; and who would’ve likely sent you careening out of town riding a rail, covered in chicken feathers.

    What’s at stake are not Democratic values or Republican values, but American values. We have to reclaim them.

    Can’t do that with the crop of Democratic LeftLibProggs and soft-underbellied Republicans we’ve installed as our Representatives in Office. That page you speak of, Baracky, those missing ‘American values’, was ripped out in the ’60’s, with the rise of LBJ’s Great Society. Since, you and yours, the ‘Progressives’, have accelerated our downturn; your SOTU speech gives no hope to those of us *really* looking to restore American values.

    This guy’s gonna win another term, and we, the people seeking a return of the ‘real’ ‘American values’, are totally and desperately fucked.

  246. Carin says:

    When he said “don’t we all want to be like Detroit” – my husband and I laughed ourselves silly.

    Then we turned it off.

  247. sdferr says:

    I heard that (be like Detroit! Crumble!) and thought of you laughing Carin, just knew you would be. He can’t hear his own words — the tyrant — hence cannot know how amusing he can be, nor what terrific entertainment he makes.

  248. JD says:

    We are so fucked.

  249. Ernst Schreiber says:

    you can’t make fun of Detroit!

    raaaaacists!

  250. Mueller says:

    #131
    I can’t afford to buy more TVs so I passed on this one, but I understand it’s much like the previous one. Same shit different day.
    Anyway. 10 more months and this will all be over, barring marshal law, of course.

  251. Ernst Schreiber says:

    What about Democrat or Republican virtues vis-à-vis American virtues? Are they at stake?

  252. Matt says:

    I was disappointed he didn’t do a big finish by singing us some Al Green.

  253. Slartibartfast says:

    I heard an excerpt this morning on NPR to the effect that “companies fail” in reference to Solyndra.

    Our government has, in its “encouragement” of green technologies, demonstrated an uncanny knack for spotting fail about to happen.

    If only they could use that to determine which companies not to “encourage”.

  254. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Solyndra would have failed a lot sooner withou all that sweet sweet taxpayer cash. But hey, judge them by their good intentions right?

  255. Slartibartfast says:

    Come to think of it, I could use a little encouragement.

  256. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Your good enough, smart enough, and gosh darnit,

    people like you Slart!

    Now get your filthy paws out of the government kitty you damn dirty APE!

  257. JD says:

    Figured when I woke up and read a little that ampaign speech of lies and divisiveness might seem less bad. Wrong.

    What a douchenozzle.

  258. happyfeet says:

    Rubio lurvs hims some Wall Street Romney huh

  259. Slartibartfast says:

    white chocolate

    oxymoron

  260. Entropy says:

    Not just Obama’s campaign, but the GOP squish effort for 2012 has begun.

    Mitch Daniels “sets the tone” for contrasting our values with Obama.

    Now I understand why, in the same fashion all tolitarian societies must build walls to keep their population in, the nanny State must oppose the practice of assisted suicide.

  261. happyfeet says:

    we have to unite with mitch to ave the safety net Ernst plus bitchy mitchy says family commitment is super-double-d-duper

  262. happyfeet says:

    hmm. *save* the safety net I mean

  263. Ernst Schreiber says:

    What the hell are you babbling about now?

  264. happyfeet says:

    plus did you see where bitchy mitchy said we have to means-test social security and medicare?

    Redistribution! It’s what we stand for as a party don’t you know.

  265. Slartibartfast says:

    What the hell are you babbling about now?

    Would a babbled explication serve? If not, why are you bothering to ask?

  266. leigh says:

    Rubio says Romney is nifty.

    I cross Rubio off my list of future hopefuls.

  267. happyfeet says:

    he just does says stuff like that cause he’s a curmudgeon Mr. Slart

    it’s a thing

  268. happyfeet says:

    yeah Rubio is not showing good sense there is no way in hell if his pitiful immigrant parents wanted to come to America today that Romney would say yes

    oh but no Romney would say hell to the no you filthy immigrants and tell me what immigrant magnet is pulling you so I can smash it

    we don’t want your kind here

  269. sdferr says:

    “Redistribution! It’s what we stand for as a party don’t you know.”

    What? You propose the Republican’s wait for the Democrats to reform entitlements? Ha! Gonna take awhile, and even then it’s kinda hard to imagine the Fascists would get it anywhere near right mathematically. But then, on the bright side, putting the strongarm on people is a Democrat specialty, so there’s that.

  270. leigh says:

    We Romney did say they could voluntarily go back to Cuba and get in line.

    He has a plan. A stupid plan, but a plan.

    In fact he’s full of plans, just like Obama.

  271. happyfeet says:

    we have to unite to save the safety net with renewed redistributions Mr. sdferr

    otherwise we might have to cut benefits, and that’s un-American and un-Islamic

  272. leigh says:

    sdferr, I was wondering last night if there was a way to lock all the doors in the building and set it afire.

    It would be like 1812, without dishy Dolly Madison. Then we could start over anew, with a shovel ready project IYKWIM.

  273. happyfeet says:

    excuse me while I self-deport

    brb

  274. Abe Froman says:

    Wouldn’t a fire melt all the white chocolate?

  275. Ernst Schreiber says:

    he just does says stuff like that cause he’s a curmudgeon Mr. Slart

    And a misanthrope too!

  276. happyfeet says:

    fondu!

  277. leigh says:

    That’s a chance I’m willing to take Abe.

  278. RI Red says:

    Jeff, et al., I was not brave enough to watch the State Of The Utopia last night. Did he say anything about “fairness”?

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