In my email today:
Darleen —
I just renewed my oath of office to serve as your president for four more years.
Thank you for making this possible. It’s an honor to be your president.
Now it’s time to finish what we started — let’s get going.
Barack
P.S. — Organizing for Action is the next step in our grassroots movement and will be crucial to finishing what we started. If you haven’t already, say you’ll be part of it.
——-
Barack —
No, thank you.
Darleen
P.S. — I note your re-branded “Organizing for America” removed “America” now that you don’t have to stand for re-election, just like you removed a representative of religious folk at the inaugural by the unprecedented move of having a non-clergy person give the invocation — an invocation that deliberately left out the word “God” from the Pledge of Allegiance.
P.S. II — I don’t want America “transformed” so, respectfully, fuck you.
“What we started” is nicely non-specific.
Dear Barack,
I hope you fail.
Love, McG.
Grassroots?
yeah stupid food stamp what part of fuck you are you having trouble understanding
But, but,… he’s a Good Man™!
Quote of the day from HeatherRadish over at Ace re: Barry’s speech:
And I’m sure it sounded better in the original German.
[…] occasion of his second inauguration as Supreme Dickhead Of State of the peoples of his realm but Darleen Click beat me to it [this is worth quoting in […]
I hope you don’t mind, Darleen, but I quoted you in full.
You said it better than anything I had come up with.
Circa 1848, say, rather than the 1930s…
I’m honored, Bob. :-)
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I was thinking Frankfurt School. Unfortunately it could be any of them.
I couldn’t listen to it, well not much of it.
I did hear the Cuban gay poet read his work. It was a serious affront to creative writing.
He made Maya Angelou sound talented.
Such a modest President, removing references to himself from the normal program. We are so blessed that he has come to be with us now.
Inaugural Lunch .
Michelle’s food rules are for the prols, not for the elite like her and her husband.
moochy eats whats she wants while baracky picks his nose
Bitch has no imagination when it comes to menu planning. I haven’t read a menu from the WH in four years that isn’t a version of steak and lobster and pie.
Okay I finally got that vid to play. Looks to me like she is just rolling her eyes at a joke, Boehner and Obama are both laughing. Folks might be reading a little much into this.
I haven’t read a menu from the WH in four years that isn’t a version of steak and lobster and pie.
You say that like its a bad thing…
That guy was reading a poem? Sounded more like he was taking inventory.
“The silver trucks loaded with oil and milk and lumber, the bristles in our children’s toothbrushes, those shadows that lurk in the back of our refrigerators, and all those… little things… with the sort of… raffia-work… base.”
(cut to shot of awestruck Joe Biden)
No. BMoe, it’s not boring if you’re eating it at the house. But every single State Dinner? C’mon.
that says alot.
Rolling her eyes at Weepy, or at a joke? Um…
Yeah. About that. Probably better to blame incompetence instead of malice, don’t you think?
The alternative line of thought will drive you to drink.
The Executive Branch of our Government is way out of control. This is what was feared: a wannabe ‘King’ who pile-drives over the other two branches as if they didn’t even matter.
Fundamental CHANGE, indeed.
If ever the citizens regain control, there’ll need be better safeguards written into the next versions. But I don’t see that happening during my lifetime.
The safeguards were there in the original version serr8d. We’ve systematically removed them as vestigal redundancies or some damned thing.
Constitutional safeguards only constrain those men with respect for the Constitution.
The executive is surely overstepping it’s proper bounds, I agree whole-heartedly, but that is not where the more serious problem lies, at least not in the context of Madison’s scheme of government. It’s the collusion of the Senate, and to the extent they’re able, the collusion of the Democrats in the House with the executive that’s the problem. The permanent intention of Madison’s scheme was that these separate powers should forever jealously guard their perogatives under the Constitution, and we can see clearly that this idea has been abandoned, not by the over-reaching executive (for Madison expected each of the branches to over-reach, but to be checked by the others) — but abandoned by the majority in the Senate and the minority in the House, and only very weakly upheld by the majority in the House. And as to the Court? You know. Fail.
That. And because we keep trying to run a federal republic as a national democracy by pretending.
or sit back with a stiff drink and read Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
it is who they* are
and what they* do
*they=proggtards
And people in those other two branches who allow it, because holding actual power and being responsible for its use? That’s just scary.
hmmmm
I sometimes think that The Thermidorians would make a decent name for a political party/band.
with social security IN THE FUCKING BANK and food stamps in my hot little hands, I’m free to pursue my risky dream of building an internationally renowned aromatherapy clinic for turtles
this is why this is the greatest country on fucking earth
And of course we have to blame citizens who’ve put their own welfare first over the Republic’s. Citizens (and I use that term loosely) who can be manipulated with smooth words and promises that could never be kept. We’ve become, as predicted, the Unsustainable States of America.
That’s been a fact since the Lincoln Administration. The Executive proved it could ignore the courts as long as the Senate wouldn’t confirm impeachment.
or how the corporate “press” is a pr agent of the gov’t
with chumpsky it is only the “right” who pull this manipulation of the media. the proggtards are as pure as the driven snow.
Which means you are both doomed to fail.
The lesson here: Don’t ever get between Michelle and her food!
Full Historic Inaugural Speech
I suspect that even manufactured consent is driven more by laziness than ideology.
The ideology just makes it easier for them to feel good about going about their work in a lackadaisical manner.*
There’s also the reality of corporate news in an era of decline and retrenchment. Nobody is going to spend money for a reporter or reporters to try to run down a story that they might not be able to publish/broadcast if it doesn’t pan out.
*Speaking generally, so no offense to Roddy.
michelle bachmann was babbling today about how historically puddlewonderful this sort of peaceful transfer of power is
this is a hooch I simply don’t relate to on any level
and you know what I’m done trying
OT: Followed an Instapundit link about some hatemail that read like this:
First comment there? Happyfeet, who says, “some of that reads like hyperbole to me”. I wonder if he’s ever used that defense here?
When was Lincoln impeached?
I’m pretty sure Abe was long dead when Andrew Johnson was impeached for giving speeches in a loud voice.
How’d he find the time, what with all those embarrassing life-doodles, hoochies, and godbotherers on the right to keep track of?
Actually he was impeached for firing Edwin Stanton –and that itself was an attempt to wrest back from the Senate power rightfully belonging with the Executive.
i think he obviously feels very strongly about this subject I just wonder if he’s expressing himself as clearly as he might if he were to step away from the computer and sing baby you a song you make me wanna roll my winders down and croooooooze
and then come back and reread what he’s written
if you don’t relate to Bachmann, maybe McCain is more your style, griefer
Wherever there are vile scumbags to minimize or defend, Ernst, he’ll be there. He’ll work overtime if necessary.
mccain’s libyan adventurism makes me feel queasy
it’s like he’s lashing out mindlessly in his impotent dotage
he should step away from the cameras and sing baby you a song you make me wanna roll my winders down and croooooooze
Like Tom Joad?
Speaking of minimizing scumbags….
That’s more familial, Ernst. I’m thinking it’s more like the union brotherhood of trolls.
griefer, did you read the whole thing? Everything Bachmann said about Libya was TRUE … though McCain slammed her and the Left is trying to get her kicked off the Intelligence Committee.
Honest folk owe Michelle an apology.
I was thinking of that windy Henry Fonda speech at the end of the John Ford movie.
Blah Blah Blah, I’ll be there. Blah blah, I’ll be there.
Jane Darewell cried.
Ahhh, I getcha now.
Doesn’t matter, Darleen. She vomited up some boilerplate bromides about the peaceful transfer of power. Forever tainted is she.
And he worked so hard to forgive her the vaccination nonsense of last year.
Although, speaking of union brotherhood of trolls, I was thinking that maybe it was time he tagged out and let slipperyslope spell him for a bit.
the gun stuff keeps happening. go figure peeps writing “manufacturing consent”. upright citizens i say.
via wiki
reagan was sworn in the next month
and then reagan was shot by a delusional character. proggtard modus operation. proggtards like some crazy in their gun grabbing schemes.
“let us collect the guns proggtards shout” as one of their own shoot peeps
when I first saw a bikini top on her she was vomiting up some boilerplate bromides about the peaceful transfer of power
proggtards also liked John Lennon, so why shoot him and not Yoko?
A possible “Stupak” of gun control sticks his head out. Sniffing to see if he can make hunting guns his hill to die on.
Putz. Stupak thought he had protected the unborn from Obamacare or at least he proclaimed that and then voted for it. They weren’t protected and he was Stupak stupid for saying that they were. He did, IIRC, go on to a nice position after he lost his seat. They always have a safe sinecure awaiting for the useful idiots.
I’m sure one of the gun control outfits will find the Walz of the Party a safe landing zone for their 13 piece silver parachute.
No comment.
I think OFA morphed into Obama For America…which I believe is the vehicle Obama plans to use to hijack the Democrat party and marginalize the DNC.
The Democrats have no idea they invited a Trojan horse in.
Team R invited in people what greased the skids for porky porky chris christie’s showcase showdown and what will tell you we can’t afford to let the sequester happen because national security.
Speaking of hijacked.
Sure they do. Democrats as we (well, those of us who are over 25) knew them are long-gone; what we have in their place are far-left neo-Communists whom the ‘real’ Democrats of old would’ve kept at arm’s length. Or shot on sight, if you go back far enough.
‘Organizing for Action’ is Obama’s legacy, a tool designed to destroy all opposition to his (sorry sdferr) ideological vision of a one-Party, no-opposition Progressive State. The badly-wounded GOP must be destroyed; if he can’t get that done in his next 4 years, then his powerful and now-nearly-invincible political construct will.
It truly is sunset for America, as we knew her..
So, they’ve termed originalists who want to anchor against the New Left ‘overreactors’, and set about to demonize and marginalize us. They’ve got ‘charismatic’ ‘Republicans’ (eg. Chris Christie will get toad-stroked for awhile, to get him complacent, and we know they love Meghan McCain’s fat ass). They’ve got a perpetual ‘Community Organizing’ Machine of the likes we’ve never seen before.
The only thing standing in their way is their own economic overreach. Based on mathematics and not on silky-smooth voices and nirvanistic concepts, the economy will likely crash.
Then, Katy bar the door.
whorenanke wants out so someone else will have to shovel the debased dollars into the furnace what’s been keeping the failshit train from rolling back down the hill
Connecticut looks eager to one up New York.
http://tinyurl.com/akveo7y
Offered with very little comment. Maybe a little commiseration is in order. Who knows. You tell me.
The badly-wounded GOP must be destroyed
And the sooner that anvil is removed from the necks of conservatives the better.
Applause, Gulermo.
“the peaceful transfer of power”
Were they afraid that 2008 Obama would refuse to vacate the office and throw the incoming president 2012 Obama in prison or something?
Incumbents don’t peacefully TRANSFER power. They peacefully MAINTAIN it. Because that’s how words work and shit.
she’s quite daft
One among the many questions confronting the Americans who take interest in the preservation of their once standout politics and unique Constitutional order is how they stand regarding the Republican party; how they view its recent pointed decade of failures (a decade especially grievous in the light of its last century falling behind the curve of progressive change, acquiesing incrementally in its own demise as it struggled to keep afloat); how they see its ugly prospects in the near term, its inability to understand not merely America as an idea made actual, but the Republican party itself and its relation to that idea.
These Americans cannot be heartened. But their choices now will make the future of the country and its politics. Will they attempt to stand with this Republican party in its demise? Will they attempt to “take it over” and remake it in the manner in which Ronald Reagan is said to have done? Or, will they abandon it to begin afreash, to seek their own more native interests by building a new party consonant with their own opinions of the American founding, its purposes and means to achieve those purposes? Will they then arise to make a new party, to actively destroy the Republican party grown now inimical to American prosperity? Wouldn’t such a break appearing between the various potential contestants in the Conservative ranks create a rift fit to serve the interests of the progressives, who may merely stand aside to watch their political enemies destroy themselves?
What are the practical considerations? Which method of recovery is both quicker and surer of result? Would any attempt to take the Reagan path be too long in coming, in other words doom by the length of the effort any possibility of actual government reform before the hideous consequences of the progressive order (internal bankruptcy, demoralization and defeat at the hands of America’s enemies abroad certain to follow)? Or would an effort to mount a new party itself take too long, resulting in electoral defeat after defeat, and in consequence a similar result: i.e. a progressive march through the governing order, dismantling the nation from within?
So yes, fight, by all means fight. But think first, how.
““the peaceful transfer of power””
I was referring to all the awful inaugural colective press-vomit yesterday about how great it was to watch the “peaceful transfer of power”. Not whatever Bachmann might have said. I was going on the Obama permanent campaign theme and how dumb it is to talk about peaceful transfers of power when someone just won reelection.
I guess the reporters wanted to imply that America was lucky that Obama’s supernatural authority was somehow preventing a horde of racist republicans from all burning Washington DC to the ground that very instant in their futuristic KKK commando-ninja outfits, while playing loud country music end cutting donuts on the capitol lawn in their huge, fuel wasting SUV’ with confederate battle flags painted on the doors .
And a standing ovation. Didn’t even have enough honor to admit his mistake.
Overheard by by a newsblatherer yesterday:
“The crowd was smaller than last time (inauguration), but much larger than expected.”
That’s quality reporting, right there.
We simply must put an end to those deadly pistol grips!
That makes me want to put a a short hunting-rifle stock on my revolver.
Lincoln wasn’t impeached. He SHOULD have been, when he ignored the Supreme Court on habeas corpus, but because his party controlled the Congress, especially the Senate, it wasn’t going to happen. Barack is just following in his footsteps.
paleo, you and Wyatt Earp (see Buntline Special) would have both been in trouble.
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It probably didn’t hurt Lincoln’s cause any that this was one of those “Cases of Rebellion or Invasion [when] the public safety may require it[,]” and Congress wasn’t in session.
I’m watching a show on the BBC about British prisons. There is a fellow who is locked up for four years for having a rifle.
Coming soon, to our country across the pond.
Thanks Bob!
meanwhilst Prince Douche maybe shot a taliban
and, impressively, he kept his clothes on after
(the prince)