WSJ Calls Obama Dishonest
The speech he chose to deliver was dishonest even by modern political standards.
Did someone move the 2012 election to June 1? We ask because President Obama’s extraordinary response to Paul Ryan’s budget yesterday—with its blistering partisanship and multiple distortions—was the kind Presidents usually outsource to some junior lieutenant. Mr. Obama’s fundamentally political document would have been unusual even for a Vice President in the fervor of a campaign.
The immediate political goal was to inoculate the White House from criticism that it is not serious about the fiscal crisis, after ignoring its own deficit commission last year and tossing off a $3.73 trillion budget in February that increased spending amid a record deficit of $1.65 trillion. Mr. Obama was chased to George Washington University yesterday because Mr. Ryan and the Republicans outflanked him on fiscal discipline and are now setting the national political agenda.
Mr. Obama did not deign to propose an alternative to rival Mr. Ryan’s plan, even as he categorically rejected all its reform ideas, repeatedly vilifying them as essentially un-American. “Their vision is less about reducing the deficit than it is about changing the basic social compact in America,” he said, supposedly pitting “children with autism or Down’s syndrome” against “every millionaire and billionaire in our society.” The President was not attempting to join the debate Mr. Ryan has started, but to close it off just as it begins and banish House GOP ideas to political Siberia.
Mr. Obama then packaged his poison in the rhetoric of bipartisanship—which “starts,” he said, “by being honest about what’s causing our deficit.” The speech he chose to deliver was dishonest even by modern political standards.
The great political challenge of the moment is how to update the 20th-century entitlement state so that it is affordable. With incremental change, Mr. Ryan is trying maintain a social safety net and the economic growth necessary to finance it. Mr. Obama presented what some might call the false choice of merely preserving the government we have with no realistic plan for doing so, aside from proposing $4 trillion in phantom deficit reduction over a gimmicky 12-year budget window that makes that reduction seem larger than it would be over the normal 10-year window.
Hat tip: The Wall Street Journal
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I read this article this morning. It was fantastic. Obama is a child (no offense to children).
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A howdy-doody show.
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I would love to have seen Paul Ryan get up half way thru Obama’s campaign speech and walk out. I know I know…decorum. But damn, it woulda been sweeeeet!
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/swat-attacks-home-school-mom-for-refusing-to-force-med-child.html
http://www.freep.com/article/20110414/NEWS01/104140433/Officials-Detroit-girl-taken-standoff-doesn-t-need-meds-right-now
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wtf??
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Post 4=== If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face — forever. by George Orwell
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Maggot gagger~~~
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Uh oh, the Bureau Economic Planning and National Resources is calling for a boycott of the Atlas Shrugged movie.
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Jesse Jackson charged in sexual harrassment suit – propositioning gay man.
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/jackson-push-bennett-lawsuit-119861339.html
You can’t make this stuff up.
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#4 You will see MUCH more of this when the UN’s “rights of the child” takes effect. Go to http://www.parentalrights.org and see what they are doing about it. We donated to them last week. They need all the help they can get since they are going after a constitutional amendment to protect parents and families.
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Accusations are easy to make, poetic justice someone may be doing it against him for once. For the right price I’m sure all this will go away. 😉
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An aide to GOP House Whip Kevin McCarthy compared Republicans voting against the budget “deal” to Hanoi Jane Fonda.
http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2011/04/mccarthy-aide-c.php
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jhc
http://beatthechip.blogspot.com/2011/04/dept-of-commerce-unveils-nstic-details.html
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11 – aide needs to be terminated, even he knew he crossed the line with that remark.
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Jesse has a history of affairs and an illegimate daughter he fathered in 1999.
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“In a statement, a McCarthy spokesperson said Meachum had made amends. “This was a regrettable decision made by one of our staff members, who sent an email acting independently and without the approval of the office or Congressman McCarthy,” said Erica Elliott.”
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So your office is in the habit of letting staff send emails acting independently and without approval of the congressman’s office or the congressman himself so long as they apologize later?
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14 – was there a point you were trying to make there I see my quote with nothing added?
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nm I see you fixed it now.
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#10 But I hope it stays in the media for quite a while before the big payoff. Not that it matters, he could snort coke off Obama’s left butt cheek and keep his title of Reverend for his adoring fans who think he is somehow a Christian.
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14 – Well aware of it, doesn’t mean the asking for a bj from the gay guy is true or untrue, my point is he’s leveling accusations at jessie (true or untrue) in return for a payoff (fair or unfair) to go away quietly. This is the same tactics rainbow push uses.
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Surprise: Mitch Daniels Opposes Arizona-Style Immigration Law:
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/mitch-daniels-opposes-arizona-style-immigration-law/?smid=tw-nytimespolitics&seid=auto
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18 – Bingo.. after today I doubt you’ll see the story again, last time he got caught it was barely covered as well.
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14th look at a player to be named later?
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He will go pray with bill clinton and all will be forgiven.
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http://www.suntimes.com/4828757-573/man-accused-of-stalking-woman-before-killing-her-in-oak-brook.html
Why he’d call the cops and just surrender to a life in prison I do not understand, he at least had a shot at getting away with it, though slim due to his poor planning. Watch the internet and guns become the villain here. Wonder what she did to piss him off so much. 😉
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So someone I don’t know sends me a message on facebook
so I respond
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#24 Dude.
Of note- the article does not say allegedly. Was this intentional, or just an oversight?
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It is 8:42 EST and I still HATE liberals, socialists… and THE ZERO
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Here is one you might like.
http://www.youtube.com/user/BlackAndRight#p/u/6/yluiM7zM1PM
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judy next time just show them this
Federal Revenues, Spending, Deficit
YEAR…REV…SPDG..DEFICIT ($ IN TRILLIONS)
FY1996 1.458 – 1.560 = 0.102
FY1997 1.579 – 1.692 = 0.113
FY1998 1.721 – 1.651 = 0.070
FY1999 1.827 – 1.705 = 0.122
FY2000 2.025 – 1.788 = 0.247
FY2001 1.990 – 1.863 = 0.127
FY2002 1.853 – 2.011 = 0.158
FY2003 1.783 – 2.160 = 0.378
FY2004 1.880 – 2.293 = 0.413
FY2005 2.154 – 2.472 = 0.318
FY2006 2.407 – 2.655 = 0.348
FY2007 2.568 – 2.731 = 0.163 (last passed by R-house R-senate R-president
FY2008 2.524 – 2.983 = 0.459
FY2009 2.105 – 3.518 = 1.413
FY2010 2.162 – 3.456 = 1.294
FY2011 1.019 – 1.850 = 0.830 6 months
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If they can’t see the obvious then no point in further conversation because obama is just awesome!.
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Rand Paul tells it like it is on Senate Floor;
http://www.therightscoop.com/rand-paul-goes-awesome-on-the-senate/
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#27 Me too.
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Well JM when you call the police and admit something the press tends not to bother with the ‘allegedly’, besides that’s usually just reserved for followers of Allan.
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30 – acroso point me to that earlier, good speech, too bad it’s fallen on largely deaf ears in the chamber.
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Judy, KH,
Telling truth with facts to a liberal is like pissing in the wind.
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Oh the STUPID BITCH used the subject line THE TRUTH….
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THE TRUTH is that Democrats and Obama are spending 3 times faster than Republicans…
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http://newsok.com/oklahoma-rejects-54.6-million-federal-grant/article/3558402?custom_click=headlines_widget
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#32 Agreed for the most part. I have seen plenty of news stories that use allegedly after a conviction or an admission of guilt. That has always bothered me. Funny that you mention Allan followers though, because Hassan is still in the alleged category, and how many people saw him do it? That dude could recite the Koran front to back, praise Allan for his assistance with the murders, claim it a great victory for muslims…….and the media will still scratch their heads as to his motives.
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KH #37
Gov. Mary Fallin – another conservative woman who has the courage to do what is right.
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gnqanq and RP…Rand Paul is freaking awesome in those clips!!!!
He is among a VERY prescious few that it truly telling it like it is!!
Hell, maybe he IS ready to be President!!
Paul/West or West/Paul?? Paul/Cain or Cain/Paul? could work!!
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Cain is a must in my book, don’t care in which order he falls with either Ryan or Paul, but he has to be in there. Trump needs to go. Huck needn’t bother. Mitt? Seriously? Santorum is great, but I don’t think he will be as tough as my other choices. Bachmann is a nice idea on paper, but she really would serve this country best doing what she is doing right now, same with Palin.
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Ryan is going to be our next president!!!!
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Ryan gets his budget passed reasonably intact he needs to be the next Speaker. Let him run that 3 cycles so we get the budget balanced then reward him with the Presidency.
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Unfortunately, the GOP being what it is, I would lay better than even odds the 2012 GOP nominee will be Romney. 🙁
With few exceptions, the GOP has a way of always giving it to the establishment cadidate who’s turn it is next. Romney seems to fit that bill this round.
BTW, I received an email today that David Harmer, the candidate who almost won CA-12 (I think that’s the number) last November will be joining Romney’s finance committee. I felt like writing him and asking for my substantial campaign contribution back. I guess that’s the best we can hope for here in Kalifornia.
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Interesting series of maps based on 2010 census data of some major MSA — http://www.datapointed.net/2011/04/maps-us-population-change-2000-2010-census/
Does not help dims…
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45 – Those maps are a sweet find dr.
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2:54 am… still hating liberals
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5:27am … still hating liberals. 😉
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7:40am …. ditto
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They don’t get better with age.
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Your good news report of the day —
Colorado Regents Vote to Shutter Boulder Journalism School
A divided Board of Regents of the University of Colorado System voted narrowly Thursday to close down the journalism school at its flagship campus at Boulder, The Daily Camera reported. The regents voted 5 to 4 to shutter the school, approving a plan to replace it with a “journalism plus” approach in which students could earn a bachelor’s degree in journalism if accompanied by another major. Board members who opposed the school’s elimination argued that its problems could be fixed.
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the A/P, with its “layers upon layers of fact-checkers” (and thus we can, um, trust them!), has this “news” article up now:
“House prepares to vote on $6B spending cut plan”
huh? a simple headline mistake?? Nah. in the body of the ariticle they have THIS:
“The GOP plan…promises more than $6 billion in spending cuts from the budget that President Barack Obama offered in February…”
wow…way to go A/P!!!
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The real fight starts today. Vote in an hour or so on the Ryan Budget.
Once passed, the Senate will be under pressure to pass it also, or the debt limit will not be increased.
This is the fight Republicans are picking.
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Praying!!!!!!