President Obama’s SOTU – The Views of the American People Just Don’t Matter To Me


My big takeaway from President Obama’s speech yesterday is that he is walled off from reality in the White House and he has absolutely no clue what average Americans are feeling these days.  Clearly, after stunning losses in Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts over the past few months, this Administration was sent a message from the American people that they are mad at President Obama’s big government policies.  He did not hear that message and he told them last night that he is pushing forward with ObamaCare and other big government ideas.  They don’t want it.

The President, when not blaming the Bush Administration for his problems, merely thinks that the American people are not listening to him.  This is good news for conservatives, because the President’s speech last night shows that he will take no action to right the ship before Congressional elections this November and he seems incapable of a nuanced approach to politics that includes a mix of conservative and liberal approaches to problem solving.  The President is like the Captain of the Titanic in April of 1912 steaming past huge icebergs in the hope that his ship of state somehow makes it until the end of the year without a catastrophic collision.

The President is very good at recognizing problems and stated the obvious to the American people last night.  From the President’s first State of the Union:

But the devastation remains. One in 10 Americans still cannot find work. Many businesses have shuttered. Home values have declined. Small towns and rural communities have been hit especially hard. For those who had already known poverty, life has become that much harder.

This is an I feel your pain moment for President Obama, yet he did not propose any solutions to the economic devastation, other than a jobs bill that is a scaled down retread of his failed Stimulus plan.  President Obama then went on to claim that he is a tax cutter and sounded Reaganesque:

Let me repeat: we cut taxes. We cut taxes for 95 percent of working families. We cut taxes for small businesses. We cut taxes for first-time homebuyers. We cut taxes for parents trying to care for their children. We cut taxes for 8 million Americans paying for college. As a result, millions of Americans had more to spend on gas, and food and other necessities, all of which helped businesses keep more workers. And we haven’t raised income taxes by a single dime on a single person. Not a single dime.

The problem with this statement is that this President will sign a version of ObamaCare (House version) that includes an income tax increase to pay for government run health care.  Furthermore, the President has redefined “tax cut” to mean “tax credit.”  On October 13, 2008, the Wall Street Journal critiqued the Senator Obama’s claim that he was going to cut taxes for 95 percent of working families:  From the WSJ:

For the Obama Democrats, a tax cut is no longer letting you keep more of what you earn. In their lexicon, a tax cut includes tens of billions of dollars in government handouts that are disguised by the phrase “tax credit.”

This critique is accurate today.  The President’s plan to put Americans back to work is his proposal for a ”Jobs Bill” contains some new tax credits.

So tonight, I’m proposing that we take $30 billion of the money Wall Street banks have repaid and use it to help community banks give small businesses the credit they need to stay afloat. I am also proposing a new small business tax credit — one that will go to over 1 million small businesses who hire new workers or raise wages. While we’re at it, let’s also eliminate all capital gains taxes on small business investment and provide a tax incentive for all businesses, large and small, to invest in new plants and equipment.

The idea of eliminating all capital gains taxes on small business investment is a good idea.  The idea of lowering or eliminating taxation on small business will spur economic growth, yet this proposal is buried in a Jobs Bill that is loaded with new federal spending.  Congress is working on an $82.5 billion plan with tax credits for companies that hire, money for alternative energy and a bailout for fiscally irresponsible states.  That does not sound like economic stimulus to me — sounds more like President Obama’s Stimulus Part II.

The President, when talking about ObamaCare, showed that he did not listen to the people of Massachusetts when they elected Senator-elect Scott Brown in a referendum on ObamaCare:

Still, this is a complex issue, and the longer it was debated, the more skeptical people became. I take my share of the blame for not explaining it more clearly to the American people. And I know that with all the lobbying and horse trading, this process left most Americans wondering what’s in it for them. 

The President thinks this issue is too “complex” for the average American to understand.  He also says that he didn’t explain ObamaCare more clearly to the American people.  This is conclusive evidence that this President has contempt for those who disagree with him and an “I am smarter than you” attitude to governing.  He implies that the American people are too dumb to understand his ObamaCare bill.  They do understand.  They don’t like it.  At some point this Administration needs to back away from this wildly unpopular plan.  The President urged Congress to double down on ObamaCare.

Here’s what I ask of Congress, though: Do not walk away from reform. Not now. Not when we are so close. Let us find a way to come together and finish the job for the American people.

If Congress does finish the job of passing ObamaCare, Blue Dogs and moderate Democrats in the Senate can kiss their jobs good bye.  The President and Congress’ secretly negotiated ObamaCare bill is not popular and even liberal Massachusetts has said no to a government takeover of health care.  Moderate Democrats should update their resumes because Obama’s plans on health care seem like a stimulus plan for Republicans running for the House and Senate.

The President proposed a freeze in government spending after he blamed President Bush for many of his problems:

Starting in 2011, we are prepared to freeze government spending for three years. Spending related to our national security, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security will not be affected. But all other discretionary government programs will. Like any cash-strapped family, we will work within a budget to invest in what we need and sacrifice what we don’t. And if I have to enforce this discipline by veto, I will. We will continue to go through the budget line by line to eliminate programs that we can’t afford and don’t work. We’ve already identified $20 billion in savings for next year. To help working families, we will extend our middle-class tax cuts. But at a time of record deficits, we will not continue tax cuts for oil companies, investment fund managers and those making over $250,000 a year. We just can’t afford it.

A freeze is not a cut and this plan is only effective if the President vetoes Congress’ appropriations bills that come in over budget.  The proof is in the actions of our President and we will not see if he is serious about this freeze until the appropriations process is complete later this year.  On foreign policy, the President seems to be more focused on getting troops out of Afghanistan and Iraq than winning these wars:

In Afghanistan, we are increasing our troops and training Afghan Security Forces so they can begin to take the lead in July of 2011 and our troops can begin to come home. We will reward good governance, reduce corruption and support the rights of all Afghans — men and women alike. We are joined by allies and partners who have increased their own commitment, and who will come together tomorrow in London to reaffirm our common purpose. There will be difficult days ahead. But I am confident we will succeed. As we take the fight to al-Qaida, we are responsibly leaving Iraq to its people. As a candidate, I promised that I would end this war, and that is what I am doing as president. We will have all of our combat troops out of Iraq by the end of this August. We will support the Iraqi government as they hold elections, and continue to partner with the Iraqi people to promote regional peace and prosperity. But make no mistake: This war is ending, and all of our troops are coming home.

Victory is a better goal than promising that “all of our troops are coming home.”  The bottom line with this speech, as with all others by this president, is that he is great at promising, but not so great at delivering.  He gave a Clintonesque speech last night with a long list of issues and promises.  We will know by the next State of the Union if this President is serious about promises or if he is the Promise-Breaker-In-Chief.



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His emotional immaturity, intellectual childishness

hunter (Diary) Thursday, January 28th at 9:13AM EST (link)

Really shone through.
I think the best bet from now will be when he starts playing the race card when people dare to disagree with him.
It is coming. Sooner than later.
Even Carter had been elected to, and finished a term, in a significant office. Plus, Carter had served honorably in the Navy and run a family business.
Kennedy had served in the Navy, fought in battle, and been elected as Congressman and Senator, winning re-election.
Obama has done nothing.
He campaigned on vague ‘hope and change’, never speaking out clearly just what he was planning.,Now he whines when people don’t like the policy realities he confronts us with.
He is not, no matter how tries, a populist. He is an elitist, and it shows through in his body language, in his pedantic arrogant tone, and in his lack of understanding of what Americans want.
Most of all he is an elitist, not a populist, because he does not respect the populous.

hunter

 

The arrogance of obamas' status quo has to GO. NT

bobojake (Diary) Thursday, January 28th at 9:18AM EST (link)

Obama is a piss-ant

uss626dw Friday, January 29th at 12:54PM EST (link)

This man has the arrogance of all of the worst people in history , make no mistake about it he CARES NOTHING ABOUT THE USA!!! He wants power and a crown. The sooner we get rid of this loon the better, Scandel is in the wings,, watch Hilary to continue to distance herself from him ,, I have no respect for this MAN, just the office,, but I guess thats Bush’s fault also ,,,

 
 

Speech Length

loganyung (Diary) Thursday, January 28th at 9:19AM EST (link)

This speech could be considered ‘Castro’ long. I thought it would never end.

Castro Long and Chavez Stoopid!

Repair_Man_Jack (Diary) Thursday, January 28th at 9:22AM EST (link)

” I side impenitently with the human race against the modern reformer.” – C.S. Lewis

 
 

2012 Campaign Meme

Repair_Man_Jack (Diary) Thursday, January 28th at 9:21AM EST (link)

If you want to get rid of ObamaCare; you MUST- get rid – of Obama!

” I side impenitently with the human race against the modern reformer.” – C.S. Lewis

 

It is all your fault

neoavatara (Diary) Thursday, January 28th at 9:28AM EST (link)

Don’t you know that? What is wrong with you people? Clearly, Obama is doing great! All is well! Close your eyes and enjoy the ride!

http://neoavatara.com/blog/?p=9658

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I'm trying to decide

partyof1 Thursday, January 28th at 9:32AM EST (link)

which best represents Obama’s tone last night

1.) I’m telling you for the last time.

2.) I will stop this car!

3.) I know you don’t want me to come in there.

4.) I’ve had just about enough of this!

Just then a wadded up black Supreme Court Justice robe hit Obama in the side of the head.

“Who threw that? Who? I’m keeping this!”

 

bad analogy

streiff (Diary) Thursday, January 28th at 9:32AM EST (link)

The President is like the Captain of the Titanic in April of 1912 steaming past huge icebergs in the hope that his ship of state somehow makes it until the end of the year without a catastrophic collision.

The situation we’re in is more like going onto the bridge of the Titanic and finding not a captain but a Japanese kamikaze pilot.

“What keeps me here is the reek of beer, the ladies and the craic”

 

My advice

Duke Thursday, January 28th at 9:36AM EST (link)

to Obama and his Washington D.C. minions: Go for it! Keep chugging on toward the ultimate victory; don’t give up. Disregard what will appear to be a political bloodbath next November, and just keep pushing and pushing. Never quit. You are right; you know better, and the people are just not hearing your messianic proclamations.

If you follow my advice above, America will see a new birth of freedom; we will see the political oceans recede and our planet begin to heal. And in 2012 we will finally be rid of you and your thugs, as the Democrat Party gasps its last breath and slowly sinks to the bottom of the Chicago River wearing cement overshoes cast by the people of America.

It’s not about a purge. It’s about an insurrection.

Good advice...

revolutionary Thursday, January 28th at 10:19AM EST (link)

I say “Bring it!” If they thought we were causing trouble before, they better hold on. They haven’t seen us upset yet…

-For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Jonathan Swift-

-Majority rule only works if you’re also considering individual rights. Because you can’t have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
Larry Flynt-

-I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
Harriet Tubman-

 
 

Instead of saying this:

muffin Thursday, January 28th at 9:38AM EST (link)

“Let us find a way to come together and finish the job for the American people.”

He should have said:

“Let us find a way to come together and finish the job for the American people.”

Fortitudine vincimus – By endurance we conquer

 

He has no clue what average Americans are feeling

Achance (Diary) Thursday, January 28th at 9:51AM EST (link)

because he doesn’t know any and never has really. The closest he has come to being around average Americans was his time in high school in Hawaii and even that is a very different experience from what most Americans have; Honolulu isn’t a lot like Omaha. From there he goes to elite colleges and from there he’s spent his whole life in academia or in the world of poverty pimps, radicals, and the sorts of politicos that hang out with poverty pimps and radicals. The only time he’s ever even seen people that actually work for a living or run businesses and such was when he was campaigning for President.

In Vino Veritas

 

No pivot and clearly a double down

oldgeezerguy Thursday, January 28th at 10:08AM EST (link)

Soros and Co have mandated he not pivot to the center like Clinton did and has him doubling down on all the wrong policies.

The destructive ways of his entire agenda is a feature not a bug.

He says the congress critters should represent the people but demands items the polls all say are a no go.

 

What arrogance!

revolutionary Thursday, January 28th at 10:10AM EST (link)

I had to leave the room and take a breather before I strangled him through the TV. There were so many things he said last night that made me scream! He has absolutely NO idea what is going on with American families. I bet for every positive letter he cited last night on the great job he was doing and how we still had hope, there were probably 100 asking him what in the hell he thought he was doing? Blaming Bush is old…I realize he inherited some less than favorable problems, but in a year’s time he has shown nothing in the way of real, lasting solutions to them. A jobs bill on his desk? Really? How does he think Congress is gonna do that? We, the people, have a thousand ideas on how to create jobs and stimulate the economy but no one listens to us. So how does he think they are going to come up with solutions that will actually work?

He infuriated me when he spat about the Republicans insisting on 60 votes, blah, blah, blah. What a short memory he has…does he not remember how that became the rule in the first place? Republicans are not the party of “no”- we are the party of “Hell no…we will not sacrifice the people that keep this country running for the government to hijack every program and strangle capitalism”

It’s easy for him to stand up there and say that he feels the pain of the Americans when he has not had to wonder, in his adult life, where his next paycheck was coming from or what he would feed his daughters when there is no food and no money. He has no clue what it is like for many of us out here struggling to keep the delicate balance of our lives from collapsing around us. He was so arrogant during that speech and I HOPE that in the coming months the American people step up the outcry and make it louder and bolder because he can’t spin it all. Eventually all the lies cross and the truth emerges.

I HOPE the town hall in Florida tonight makes it abundantly clear that we are mad as hell and you can’t spin that!

-For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Jonathan Swift-

-Majority rule only works if you’re also considering individual rights. Because you can’t have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
Larry Flynt-

-I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
Harriet Tubman-

To call what he does a "town hall" meeting is to accept yet another redefinition of a word or phrase.

USNJIMRET (Diary) Thursday, January 28th at 10:52AM EST (link)

Not that he is unique or the first, but the very carefully picked members of the ‘audience’ and the ‘questions’ they are allowed to pose, scripted from start to finish. IMO
Surely his ‘team’ isn’t going to risk the first public event after his performance at the SOTU speech being derailed by a bunch of planted bagger/birther/Bible thumping radical hate mongers, right?
The whole thing, from his reminder in the SOTU address last night, to the live coverage of Marine One departing the White House, to the arrival at whatever airfield Air Force One will land at, to the venue of the ‘town hall’ itself, the time that the event actually occurs (scheduled for 12:30 PM in Tampa), all designed to insure that the most important part of every Nobama action, coverage by the fawning media, is pandered to.
The event is said to be “free and open to the public. With tickets having been made available yesterday at the venue site. I still contend that the audience will be very carefully screened to insure that there is as close to zero as possible any chance of a “You lie” or “That’s not true” shout out.
Or maybe I am just being overly cynical, a trait for which I blame Bush, because everything else on the planet is his fault, I might as well join the crowd!!

So true

revolutionary Thursday, January 28th at 12:31PM EST (link)

I stand corrected and how right you are. How silly of me to think that his “people” would allow any “real” Americans sit in on this travesty. We’ll have to find another way…

-For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Jonathan Swift-

-Majority rule only works if you’re also considering individual rights. Because you can’t have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
Larry Flynt-

-I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
Harriet Tubman-

 
 

Right !

uss626dw Friday, January 29th at 12:59PM EST (link)

This man has the arrogance of all of the worst people in history , make no mistake about it he CARES NOTHING ABOUT THE USA!!! He wants power and a crown. The sooner we get rid of this loon the better, Scandel is in the wings,, watch Hilary to continue to distance herself from him ,, I have no respect for this MAN, just the office,, but I guess thats Bush’s fault also ,,,

 
 

Obama the great

dlgd Thursday, January 28th at 10:26AM EST (link)

The President doesn’t really believe he is just President…he is the ancient and great philosopher king who knows so much more that his subjects, the great unlearned, so why should he listen to We the People…

 

The Scolding of the Union

Ausonius (Diary) Thursday, January 28th at 10:40AM EST (link)

Sometimes you do not get what you vote for, because the person has defrauded you.

The BIG BRObama voters really believed he was different, a so-called centrist, bringing people together, blah blah blah.

The BIG BRObama voters did not in general read his books! They did not listen carefully to the speeches with their hints of class warfare and Socialism/Communism.

The BIG BRObama voters believed his lies, which we in the opposition suspected were lies from the beginning.

By repeating his campaign strategy – which you must admit was successful! – he thinks he will win the day for his warped agenda.

Our political theater is truly now a Sophoclean tragedy: arrogance, contempt for the intelligence of others, narcissistic belief in a unique inability to fail, blaming others when failure in fact looms, and the desire not to bring a country to greatness, but to reduce it to mediocrity because of his belief that he has suffered personally from the country’s failings.

Ausonius: 310-395 A.D. Teacher, Poet, Consul, General, Farmer.

Personal Tutor to the future St. Paulinus of Nola and to young Gratian, heir to the throne during the turbulent final years of the Western Roman Empire. When his former student Gratian was assassinated, Ausonius threw up his hands and retired to his farm in Gaul. Rome was captured by barbarians 14 years after his death.

Cato@rock.com

 

What do you expect from President Arugula?

neyney Thursday, January 28th at 12:29PM EST (link)

This is the man that said:

“Everybody can buy a truck”

“I Won”

“Get out of the way so I can clean up your mess”

“The police acted stupidly”

“the SCOTUS decision on McCain/Feingold was wrong for the country”

“the American People will like the HC bill once it’s in place”

“the American People just don’t understand his nuanced messages about the HC bill and that the way to fix that is to talk to us more and have more public meetings about it”

I knew before the SOTU that he would just double down on the rhetoric and that HC wasn’t dead. The man is incapable of adult, reasoned behaviour. He is a spoiled, petulant brat who’s mama never said no to him. Now we are saying no and he has no way to deal with it except to double down. This man thinks the American People are stupid and he knows what is best for them. A true man-child. God help this country!

neyney, he's more than just spoiled, he's a

sharonmcp (Diary) Friday, January 29th at 11:28AM EST (link)

textbook example of a narcissistic leader.

Barack Obama – Narcissist or Merely Narcissistic?

The narcissistic leader prefers the sparkle and glamour of well-orchestrated illusions to the tedium and method of real accomplishments. His reign is all smoke and mirrors, devoid of substances, consisting of mere appearances and mass delusions. In the aftermath of his regime – the narcissistic leader having died, been deposed, or voted out of office – it all unravels. The tireless and constant prestidigitation ceases and the entire edifice crumbles. What looked like an economic miracle turns out to have been a fraud-laced bubble. Loosely-held empires disintegrate. Laboriously assembled business conglomerates go to pieces. “Earth shattering” and “revolutionary” scientific discoveries and theories are discredited. Social experiments end in mayhem.

It is important to understand that the use of violence must be ego-syntonic. It must accord with the self-image of the narcissist. It must abet and sustain his grandiose fantasies and feed his sense of entitlement. It must conform with the narcissistic narrative.

Thus, a narcissist who regards himself as the benefactor of the poor, a member of the common folk, the representative of the disenfranchised, the champion of the dispossessed against the corrupt elite - is highly unlikely to use violence at first.

The pacific mask crumbles when the narcissist has become convinced that the very people he purported to speak for, his constituency, his grassroots fans, the prime sources of his narcissistic supply – have turned against him. At first, in a desperate effort to maintain the fiction underlying his chaotic personality, the narcissist strives to explain away the sudden reversal of sentiment. “The people are being duped by (the media, big industry, the military, the elite, etc.)”, “they don’t really know what they are doing”, “following a rude awakening, they will revert to form”, etc.

When these flimsy attempts to patch a tattered personal mythology fail – the narcissist is injured. Narcissistic injury inevitably leads to narcissistic rage and to a terrifying display of unbridled aggression. The pent-up frustration and hurt translate into devaluation. That which was previously idealized – is now discarded with contempt and hatred.

This primitive defense mechanism is called “splitting”. To the narcissist, things and people are either entirely bad (evil) or entirely good. He projects onto others his own shortcomings and negative emotions, thus becoming a totally good object. A narcissistic leader is likely to justify the butchering of his own people by claiming that they intended to kill him, undo the revolution, devastate the economy, or the country, etc.

“Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.” ~ Ronald Reagan

 
 

MEANWHILE...BACK AT THE RANCH

reelman (Diary) Thursday, January 28th at 1:09PM EST (link)

JAN 28…U OWE $45,000 MORE

The Democratic-controlled Senate has muscled through a plan to allow the government to go a whopping $1.9 trillion DEEPER IN DEBT.
The party-line 60-40 vote was successful only because Republican Sen.-elect Scott Brown has yet to be seated. Sixty votes were required to approve the increase.
The measure would lift the debt ceiling to $14.3 trillion. That’s about $45,000 for every American.
Democrats had to scramble to approve the plan, which means they won’t have to vote on another increase until after the midterm elections this fall.
To win the votes of moderate Democrats, President Obama promised to appoint a special task force to come up with a plan to reduce the deficit.
The House must still vote on the measure before it’s sent to Obama for his signature……FNC 1.28.2010
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Hold your breath on the spending reduction…the economy beatdown continues…taxes galore loom and 51 votes to pass gov-meant ObamaCare…thanks democrats…ya more than broke the bank year 1…J. Carter Obama continues to scourge America.
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“Ignore what is said, watch what is done”
The problem is congress…is congress…
Secular Socialism is never the answer…
“This is where we hold them, this is where we fight”
The “reelman” in central Louisiana

 

Obama wants to be king

smorgasbord Friday, January 29th at 1:58AM EST (link)

All of the conservative blogs seem surprised when Obama does something that will hurt the USA.  You either haven’t figured out, or have forgotten, Obama does not want the USA to succeed.  If nothing else will convince you of this, him wanting a civilian police force UNDER HIS CONTROL that has as many members as the military, and funded equal to the military, should convince you he wants to take over the country.  What did Adolph Hitler call his civilian police force?  Obama can’t activate the Nation Guard, governors have to do that.  With his civilian police force that is as strong as the military he could easily take over the country.

I honestly believe Obama wants to be King, not president.  He knows he can’t be king in a republic (we are not a democracy), so he is aligning himself with those who will help make him king.  Since a person can only be king in a dictatorship, Obama is friends of dictatorships since he wants to have one of his own. Using this logic it is easy to see why he wants to be friends with Venezuela and Cuba.

Remember, he had to have a title BEFORE he was president, so he CREATED the title of “Office Of The President Elect,” and had a seal made for it.” How long will it be before he DEMANDS to be called “Your Majesty?”

He bowed to the Saudi King because the king is like the Godfather to Obama.  You only bow down to those you are in allegiance to.  In that simple act Obama showed the world who he is subject to, and who he honors the most.

I think Obama’s plan is to turn the USA over to other countries, and he figures he will be crowned king over it, or a part of it.  Now I understand why he couldn’t keep from laughing during his 60 Minutes interview.  He knows they are helping him become king, and he will be ruling over them as their king some day.

 

No need to wait

RME KRNL Friday, January 29th at 9:17AM EST (link)

“We will know by the next State of the Union if this President is serious about promises or if he is the Promise-Breaker-In-Chief.”

There’s no need to wait any longer. There’s already ample evidence, and multitudinous examples, of the disparity between what Obama says and what he does.

I’m not even going to waste my time listing them all here, but I could generate a list of a dozen broken promises, at least, many of them major ones, without even slowing down to think.

It’s already obvious that when he promises something he either doesn’t mean it when he says it or, even if he does mean it, he later can’t deliver it. He is eloquent but inept.

Either through omission, commission or lawyerly word parsing, he lies to the American people all the time. And the almost breathtaking expanse and extent of his arrogance and elitism are partially belied in the fact that he knows that’s what he’s doing but, he thinks, WE THE PEOPLE are just too stupid to know it as well.

Well, some of us have seen it and known about it for a long time, and, thank goodness and finally, more and more are discovering it now with each passing day. He promised Hope and Change and has given us a government of Hoax and Chains.

For a growing number of us, the Obama shell game is over. We no longer care where you say the pea is hidden — just turn over all three walnut shells so we can see where it is.

RME KRNL

 

SOTU --- Mass hypnotism!

bacchus_2006 Friday, January 29th at 9:40AM EST (link)

Even the most “highly educated” will begin to see the light [if not already]! If I’m NOT mistaken, when the “Skipper” assumes the Helm of the “Ship of State” — ALL EVENTS THEREAFTER are the responsibility SOLELY RESTED upon that Captain. Should that ship run aground, does he blame the LAST SKIPPER for the navigational error?
A country so sickened and weakened by Political Correctness and Blame/Shame going elsewhere except for those MAN ENOUGH to admit .. “THAT buck stops here!”. Moral Relativism allows a criminal to blame his parents for “failing him”. Terrorists are given the very rights US citizens now lack in security and safety.
Main Stream Media still censors news unfavorable … void of answering the call that brought Nixon down in dire duty to REPORT and not opine. Now a laughing stock of those who pay taxes and suffer increased costs at a Supermarket. But even then the voices of the “COMMON MAN” go unheard and … unheeded.
Hasn’t enough damage been done to this country that even people from Timbuktu have better educational smarts than Yale graduates? SMARTS! The difference between being ‘educated’ and yet smart enough to APPLY that education. The value of Thomas Paine’s ‘COMMON SENSE’. vs. blind obedience to a style that brings us dangerously close to the Dark Ages of ignorance.
A warning! IF that Health Care Bill is rammed down the throats of an already exhausted taxpayer lot — it will be more than a massacre at the elections … it may be sooner! We’ve already assessed SERIOUS violations of the OATH OF OFFICE. Those words: “To PRESERVE, PROTECT and DEFEND the U.S. Constitution ,,,,,, AGAINST …….” have been IGNORED! We are at WAR with terrorists …. and in times of war even Military personnel are BOUND by that oath. TREASON is no longer — just the Moral Relativism of ….. redefined “terrorist”. NRA?
There is far more to this than just Dems vs. Reps ….. it is a sick … dangerously sick war of values, common sense and morals — or those who chose to deny moral values. The ones in POWER now signal they have NO REGARD for the people they are supposed to serve. Only those who pay the MOST! The BEST Senate that money could buy! How well one addressed in history would know the very thing that brought the Roman Empire to its very knees! Corruption from within!
SOTU address? I turned to a movie instead. It was called INDEPENDENCE DAY! How UNGODLY appropriate!
It’s NOT going to get better! Caged rats behave a certain way .. and we will be seeing DESPERATE MOVES from a “sinking ship of state”. Throw the women and children to the sea and save yourselves … but bring the gold in your pockets!
The WAR between the Rockefellers and Rothschilds has its human costs! NO MAN should know the REAL REASONS for all this — and curse the very church he attends!

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CincoSolas_del_Bronx (Diary) Friday, January 29th at 9:52AM EST (link)

Those dreading urbanization should remember that though the Kingdom of God first appeared in a temporal Garden, at the end of the book it is established in an eternal City. (paraphrase, James M. Boice)

soli Deo gloria

 
 

IT IS A SHAME!

bacchus_2006 Friday, January 29th at 11:59AM EST (link)

Name calling and bickering along Party lines. No one seems to know what the REAL situation is. DIVIDE AND CONQUER! So how about some of us Conservatives pull some of you Liberals to the nearest Tavern and we share a few brews! Maybe then we will know we are ALL AMERICANS, albeit differing in how we address our political views. UNITED against “BIG BROTHER” telling us what we can or can NOT do in our own bedrooms, what we can or CAN NOT have in our refrigerators ….. or that Mr. Ray Krock could NOT make a better burger [McDonalds] because cow farts cause Global Warming!
SOMEWHERE there has to be a common ground!
The appears a little more than apparent indignation at those who say: “DON’T do as I do …. DO as I say!”
Woodstock is long gone. Out of the thousands who attended … only a handful stayed behind to clean up the mess. The ones lauded were the loudest in protest — yet those who silently stayed behind to clean up the mess … never got mentioned.
Today they are the same farmers, grocery boys, office clerks, even Doctors, Executives — who don a uniform to PRESERVE, PROTECT and DEFEND the U.S. Constitution — against ALL enemies both foreign and domestic. Only back in the 60′s to be spat upon by the very people who now say this HEALTH CARE Bill is the best “medicine” to calm our ills!
WHAT is the common bond between those sipping at Starbucks in Georgetown, and the farmer well into his day sipping coffee at 6:00 AM? THAT VERY CONSTITUTION binds all of us into a United States who has been more than a beacon to all of the world, of hope, of charity, of freedom to be ourselves. The very reason even our enemies envy us enough to silently cross our borders to become … “one of us”!
Time for name calling and politics to go aside and UNITE. ALL of us need to get rid of the trash in D.C. and start fresh.
If you REALLY want to see where this is hitting us … take note of your energy bill, grocery bill, gas prices (ALL FUEL) – and the way we can no longer be free with our expressions – and how heavily Political and Scientific Correctness has hold of our very throats. We are a country DIVIDED …. and the very source of this is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Banks? When you “tax the rich” does it fall into logic that the “rich” will carry that burden back down to the consumer? Tax the Energy Companies and we will see it in our bill! Does this simple form of Economics 101 FAIL to register with Foggy Bottom?
When a man who only makes $100 a week has to pay a tax so heavy on a pack of cigarettes, compared to a man making $2,000 — is this fair?
And again NO ONE has asked why so much of that Stimulus Package went to places not even existing in regional districts of specified states. No OVERSIGHT? Press silent? WHERE did that money REALLY GO!?
Has anyone even bothered to ask? No .. instead we get the same “blame” game going .. all Bush’s fault … even though a school child should know that the POWER OF THE PURSE is with Congress!
My Liberal friends (and there are many) — time for us to take a break and head for the Pub … down a few brews and share what we STILL have in common! We have children we want to see educated, we pay taxes HOPING there is accountability, we have the FINEST Health Care in the world — we can still cross from North Carolina to Tennessee without “papers” … we still worship as we please …. and we still have that right to address a forum as this ….
Let’s NOT lose it!
The [T]axed {E]nough [A]lready people are NOT radicals .. just your average Ma and Pa concerned citizens. NO PARTY AFFILIATION .. and lets make sure it stays that way!
All we want to do is to take back this nation into the very roots we now fail to see in our children’s history books.
We are now at WAR — war to preserve the very fundamental principles our fathers and grandfathers fought so hard for on foreign shores. The last GREAT generation who know all too well what the Great Depression was all about…… and survived.
THAT common bond … the very thing being lost now.
Regardless of our Political affiliations we DO share one common bond ….. we are FREE! Let’s strive to keep it that way!
Vote them ALL OUT!!