So if you make all of these campaign promises and then when you're voted in as President you go 180 on many of them - can the voters send the candidate they voted for back?
Pork. No!!! I mean Yes!!
Via Politico
“I recognize that Congress has the power of the purse,” he said in brief remarks in the Old Executive Office Building that were unmistakably aimed down Pennsylvania Avenue. “As a former senator, I believe that individual members of Congress understand their districts best. And they should have the ability to respond to the needs of their communities.”
At times, he sounded more like a defender of the old ways than a critic.
“Done right, earmarks have given legislators the opportunity to direct federal money to worthy projects that benefit people in their districts, and that's why I've opposed their outright elimination,” Obama said. “There are times where earmarks may be good on their own, but in the context of a tight budget might not be our highest priority.”
Mr Obama has promised bipartisanship, transparency in government, vetting all bills with the American people for 5 days before signing, no lobbyists in his government,
troops out in 16 months, immediate closing of Gitmo, and no wasteful pork projects in any legislation that he signs...among other promises. All unfulfilled.
If Mr. Obama were a used car salesman you could literally return the car sold to you in many states because of the vast misrepresentations.
But with Presidents you can't do that.
Oh yeah, that makes sense.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Monday, March 9, 2009
I take the President's view on Global Warming
The President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus, that is:
MR. KLAUS: I'm afraid that a serious debate about that issue has not yet started. What we witnessed are monologues, a conference of believers in global warming. The debate has not yet started. Nevertheless, I'm afraid the politicians have already accepted this idea, understood that it's a good political project, and now the things are moving in a way which I consider extremely dangerous. And I know that not only politicians, the businesspeople discovered that it's very attractive investments to get taxpayers' money and to start doing some things. So this is another problem.
But I would like to make one thing clear, let's really differentiate the protection of the environment from the debate about global warming and decarbonizing the economy. I am not against the protection of the environment. I am against global-warming alarmism. Those are conceptually, structurally, two totally different issues.
President Klaus has very distinct opinions about free markets vs government bailouts as well are you listening President Obama?
MR. KLAUS: I'm afraid that a serious debate about that issue has not yet started. What we witnessed are monologues, a conference of believers in global warming. The debate has not yet started. Nevertheless, I'm afraid the politicians have already accepted this idea, understood that it's a good political project, and now the things are moving in a way which I consider extremely dangerous. And I know that not only politicians, the businesspeople discovered that it's very attractive investments to get taxpayers' money and to start doing some things. So this is another problem.
But I would like to make one thing clear, let's really differentiate the protection of the environment from the debate about global warming and decarbonizing the economy. I am not against the protection of the environment. I am against global-warming alarmism. Those are conceptually, structurally, two totally different issues.
President Klaus has very distinct opinions about free markets vs government bailouts as well are you listening President Obama?
Saturday, March 7, 2009
When you want to know how we got here
Invest 8 minutes and 37 seconds and you can find out how we got into this mess.
The big story you won't hear from the main stream media.
This next link to youtube was taken down and can only be accessed through Canada. It's 3 minutes and 58 seconds that will sicken your stomach.
The democrats who now will benefit most from the 1 trillion dollar Obama gift clearly glossed over the impending doom. Collusion?
Amazing. Absolutely amazing.
The big story you won't hear from the main stream media.
This next link to youtube was taken down and can only be accessed through Canada. It's 3 minutes and 58 seconds that will sicken your stomach.
The democrats who now will benefit most from the 1 trillion dollar Obama gift clearly glossed over the impending doom. Collusion?
Amazing. Absolutely amazing.
Friday, March 6, 2009
Reads Well - A+
The teleprompter issue with Obama is quite embarassing apparently. He simply can't get his thoughts out extemporaneously. From Politico.com:
“It’s just something presidents haven’t done,” said Martha Joynt Kumar, a presidential historian who has held court in the White House since December 1975. “It’s jarring to the eye. In a way, it stands in the middle between the audience and the president because his eye is on the teleprompter.”
Just how much of a crutch the teleprompter has become for Obama was on sharp display during his latest commerce secretary announcement. The president spoke from a teleprompter in the ornate Indian Treaty Room for a few minutes. Then Gov. Gary Locke stepped to the podium and pulled out a piece of paper for reference.
The president’s teleprompter also elicited some uncomfortable laughter after he announced Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as his choice for Health and Human Services secretary. “Kathy,” Obama said, turning the podium over to Sebelius, who waited at the microphone for an awkward few seconds while the teleprompters were lowered to the floor and the television cameras rolled.
“It’s just something presidents haven’t done,” said Martha Joynt Kumar, a presidential historian who has held court in the White House since December 1975. “It’s jarring to the eye. In a way, it stands in the middle between the audience and the president because his eye is on the teleprompter.”
Just how much of a crutch the teleprompter has become for Obama was on sharp display during his latest commerce secretary announcement. The president spoke from a teleprompter in the ornate Indian Treaty Room for a few minutes. Then Gov. Gary Locke stepped to the podium and pulled out a piece of paper for reference.
The president’s teleprompter also elicited some uncomfortable laughter after he announced Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as his choice for Health and Human Services secretary. “Kathy,” Obama said, turning the podium over to Sebelius, who waited at the microphone for an awkward few seconds while the teleprompters were lowered to the floor and the television cameras rolled.
President Bush we know wasn't so good with the teleprompters. But he was an honest man who had no problem getting his heartfelt points across without a teleprompter.
I hear they're developing battery powered teleprompters so they can be put up quickly at disaster sites.
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Thursday, March 5, 2009
The Pinocchio Cabinet Part 1
Yesterday Tim Geithner our Secretary of the Treasury, poorly vetted by our President, had this to say via the New York Post
There was Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, boldly testifying Tuesday before Rep. Charlie Rangel's Ways & Means Committee - promising that the Obama administration intends to propose "a series of legislative and enforcement measures to reduce . . . tax evasion and avoidance."
There was Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, boldly testifying Tuesday before Rep. Charlie Rangel's Ways & Means Committee - promising that the Obama administration intends to propose "a series of legislative and enforcement measures to reduce . . . tax evasion and avoidance."
This guy and Larry (I just lost 400 million for Harvard in bad investments) Summers are throwing darts at the wall deciding which of their pals' banks gets a big pile of taxpayer bailout dough next.
I don't know about you but I'm pretty sure I'll be bagging groceries in retirement to supplement my now dead 401K.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
What he meant by NO pork projects was actually 9264 pork projects
Ah the audacity of lies.
The recent 2009 budget signed by President Barack Obama contains 9264 pork projects from legislators on both sides of the aisle. He promised "no piece of legislation signed by me as President will have any pork projects in it"
Let's see Zero or 9264....Zero or 9264.... Well he's only been President for 6 weeks, give him a break.
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Monday, March 2, 2009
Obama putting on the gloves. This is precious.
President Obama in his weekly radio address re Reuters:
"These steps won't sit well with the special interests and lobbyists who are invested in the old way of doing business," the president said in his weekly radio address.
"I know they're gearing up for a fight as we speak," he said. "My message to them is this: So am I."
Someone, anyone tell me about a lobbyist who is stepping up to fight this week. Obama and the democrats have passed a trillion dollar plus Spendulus bill that is not going to stimulate the economy, but rather put us in debt for decades to come. It is loaded with hundreds of billions of dollars that will be spent by lobbyists and their clients. They definitely will keep their mouths shut except during the periods when they open their mouths to laugh all the way to the bank.
The only fight Obama needs to get ready for will be the one from the people who realize that they just got rope-a-doped by the Prez. And that would be taxpayers. Some now - and the rest real soon.
"These steps won't sit well with the special interests and lobbyists who are invested in the old way of doing business," the president said in his weekly radio address.
"I know they're gearing up for a fight as we speak," he said. "My message to them is this: So am I."
Someone, anyone tell me about a lobbyist who is stepping up to fight this week. Obama and the democrats have passed a trillion dollar plus Spendulus bill that is not going to stimulate the economy, but rather put us in debt for decades to come. It is loaded with hundreds of billions of dollars that will be spent by lobbyists and their clients. They definitely will keep their mouths shut except during the periods when they open their mouths to laugh all the way to the bank.
The only fight Obama needs to get ready for will be the one from the people who realize that they just got rope-a-doped by the Prez. And that would be taxpayers. Some now - and the rest real soon.
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