After waiting more than two days to respond to Standard & Poor’s downgrade of US credit to AA+ President Obama showed that he really is a one-trick pony by blaming everything but his own incompetent administration. He called attention to the earthquake that damaged Japan and the Arab Spring (which he supports) then sniped at …
Category Archive: Demagoguery
Aug
09
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Jul
20
Spending Cut Specifics
Having heard “The One” repeatedly excoriated by conservatives for not specifying any spending cuts the lamestream media is circling the wagons to defend their president. Chris “Tingling Leg” Matthews asked Rep. Joe Walsh several times where the cuts were in the Cut, Cap and balance bill. I think that Joe did a splendid job despite …
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Jul
18
Balanced Budget Amendment
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., likewise bashed a GOP plan to push for a balanced-budget amendment in exchange for raising the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling. "The bottom line is those who want to push a balanced-budget amendment are saying ‘I can’t promise you that I won’t steal again, but I will vote for the Ten Commandments,’" …
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Jul
12
Presidential Prevarication
In an press conference about the ongoing debt limit discussions Obama stated that professional politicians who do not want to raise the debt limit are being irresponsible as opposed to his stance in 2006 as a senator. The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership …
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Jul
09
From Blaming Bush to Blaming the GOP
Obama has finally found a problem he doesn’t try to tell us is George W. Bush’s fault. He has graduated from blaming Bush to blaming the GOP. In a recent speech he tried to explain an “unexpected” rise in unemployment as being caused by businesses not being sure that the debt ceiling would be raised. …
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