This is Like Season 4 of 24, But With the Economy Instead of Terrorism


In Season 4 of the television show 24, President John Keeler is on Air Force One as it is blown out of the sky. Under the 25th amendment, power transfers to the Vice President, Charles Logan.

But Logan is unable to deal with the demands of national security, so his Chief of Staff convinces him to bring former President David Palmer back to handle all the national security issues.

Well, 24 has become reality. Except instead of terrorism and stray nukes we’re talking the economy. Barack Obama brought back Bill Clinton to handle the economy.

President Obama summoned former President Bill Clinton and business leaders to the White House on Wednesday to talk about how to improve the nation’s employment situation, on the same day that the administration released a report alleging that their $862 billion stimulus has saved roughly three million jobs.

The meeting with Clinton was announced mid-morning on Wednesday and was yet another sign that Obama is worried by the increasing perception that his policies — particularly the regulatory regimes created by the health care and financial regulation legislation — are anti-business and are having a negative impact on the economy.

Obama and Clinton met with Honeywell CEO David Cote, Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan, Centerbridge Partners Managing Principal Mark Gallogly, Johnson Controls VP David Myers, Hannon Armstrong CEO Jeff Eckel, and Ameresco executive VP David Anderson.

Let’s see here . . . if they are taking cues from 24, next season we should see Barack Obama involved in an international incident with the Russians that doesn’t end so well. Kind of like the whole Russian spy business happening the day after Obama took Putin’s puppet to Ray’s Hell Burger.

Oh, I guess we’re running seasons together now.

By the way, I thought businesses had no problem with Obama. Why then does he need Bill Clinton?


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24 wasn't a comedy, but....

nivlem (Diary) Wednesday, July 14th at 10:52PM EST (link)

this administration bringing Clinton for economic adivice would be – if it wasn’t reality.
Episode 5 should be great!!!

 

I thought the stimulus....

qixlqatl (Diary) Wednesday, July 14th at 10:56PM EST (link)

was supposed to save 8 million jobs?

“Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying,
Streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.”

George Gordon Noel Byron

 

Why *does* Obama need Clinton?

eastbaylarry (Diary) Wednesday, July 14th at 10:58PM EST (link)

Running out of scapegoats or something?

2+2=4 dammit!

 

Green Energy Economics?

jeffsmnz (Diary) Wednesday, July 14th at 11:05PM EST (link)

Interesting that the business leaders in Obamas meeting today are heavily involved in energy related projects implementation and financing, primarily conservation, efficiency and renewables…. Guess His Idiocy is just convinced that his green economy is going to save the nation.. I’m sure these business leaders have visions of green as well, although it may be green cash that they’re thinking about..?? God help us.

 

We are going to have to replace the actor playing our President now

izoneguy (Diary) Wednesday, July 14th at 11:05PM EST (link)

He cannot improv, he always needs that damn prompter, and when he does study the script he cannot remember two lines in a row before going ah, ah….

He cannot hold an eye line and his body language is all wrong for someone who is supposed to be the leader of the free world….

For god’s sake get me Morgan Freeman, now that guy can act like a real President.

The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.

 

Obama and Clinton working together.

NeoKong (Diary) Wednesday, July 14th at 11:27PM EST (link)

I feel better already.
Maybe they will sue Microsoft again.
It worked so good last time.

They have a lot in common.
They both promised to cut taxes and then raised them.
One was impeached.
One might get impeached.
They both appointed Attorney Generals who are incompetent and don’t seem to like the law much.
They both know how to raise a lot of untraceable cash.

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Having given over responsibility on Iraq to Biden, Afghanistan

septembergurl (Diary) Wednesday, July 14th at 11:38PM EST (link)

Afghanistan to Gen Petraeus, Russia to Hillary C linton, the economy to Bill Clinton, President Toonces can focus on the things he does well– buying ice cream, wearing mandals, getting on and off planes, holding barbecues and parties and of course, playing golf.

Wouldn’t it be easier just to give him his own reality show where he pretends to be President and Michelle pretends to be First Lady? At least it would be entertaining.

 

Remember the last time?

kchand Thursday, July 15th at 1:47AM EST (link)

Clinton was called in and Stupak got a quid pro quo job offer. What ever happened to that?

Just shows you how ‘deep’ Obama’s bench is.

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Well heck - as soon as Bill telegraphs what he wants to do...

Ron Robinson (Diary) Thursday, July 15th at 2:11AM EST (link)

…Obama won’t let him do it.

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It wasn't Clinton who balanced the budget...

dirkbelig Thursday, July 15th at 2:20AM EST (link)

…it was the Gingrich Revolution Republicans who jammed fiscal restraint down Bubba’s throat while he was jamming his….uh, you know.

Unfortunately, those GOP folks were rapidly corrupted by D.C. in a few short years and they drove real conservatives away, setting the stage for the Dubya-Obozo Decade of Profligacy and multi-trillions in debt in the hopes of buying votes. But for a brief while, they were solid and responsible and, of course, the media handed all the kudos to the Big He.

Even if The Zero, er, One decided to try and fake triangulation, the Reid-Pelosi cabal are too committed to dragging the country off the left cliff before they’re turned out, so he’s either going to have to start vetoing giant spending bills – killing off what little remains of his hardcore statist base – or he’s going to go down with them and lose in a landslide, if he even tries to run.

“This would be a great job if it weren’t for the ****ing customers.” – Randal Graves, “Clerks”

Clinton Took The Credit For Republicans' Success

Ausonius (Diary) Thursday, July 15th at 8:58AM EST (link)

You are quite right about the Gingrich Congress helping Clinton.

I was driven nuts back then by otherwise intelligent people saying: “He’s doing a good job with the economy.”

No, HE was not, especially when one recalls that he wanted economy-killing Hell-th Care back in 1993.

But MAObama – I do not believe in the incompetence theory – ideologically wants capitalism destroyed, so that a socialist “planned” economy can be imposed by D.C.

Why therefore call in Clinton at all? AgitProp, and the illogical persistence of Clinton as somebody whose advice we would want.

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.

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Yes, and let's not forget the dot-com crash of 1998-1999

renny (Diary) Thursday, July 15th at 5:43PM EST (link)

that took $13 trillion in paper assets out of the markets and our pockets. The country really can afford something like that happening again. The DOW would be 5000.

Bill did nothing for the economy except campaign on it against Bush I, due to the laser focus of Carville. Maybe O should get the Ragin’ Cajun instead of his tutoree.

 
 
 

hmmm

fotophun Thursday, July 15th at 3:41AM EST (link)

what does Clinton get out of this
just a chance to play President again and feel important
these two go hand in hand

I am real surprised he would go out of his way to help Obummer
news recently came out about how Obummer may have stolen the election from Hillary…the new Black Panther case
too bad Chelsea is not getting married this weekend or is she???

 

as far as I can see

fotophun Thursday, July 15th at 3:44AM EST (link)

the Dems are on their way to eating each other alive

I thought Obummer was going to bring us all together and we were all going to sing Kum Ba Yah
As far as I can see this Pretender in Chief is setting back Civil Rights

they finally have one of their own in the White House and they still are not happy

 

The Numbers

themersh01 Thursday, July 15th at 8:36AM EST (link)

Let’s assume the stimulus package save 3,000,000 jobs. If that’s true, the cost to the nation to save each job was $287,333.33. Even with a 50% overhead rate, that’s $142,666.67 salary per job saved. It does not take a freakin’ genius to figure out that there were not 3 million $142K jobs saved.

Back to my original statement. If the stimulus package was that “successful”, what an absolutely inefficient way save anything. What an absolute ludicrous claim by the Idiot in Chief’s administration.

Can you imagine what could have been created if taxes were slashed by an equal amount?

 

Clinton's economic advice to Obama

SG_Lominac (Diary) Thursday, July 15th at 8:38AM EST (link)

(1) Annihilate our national security apparatus, most prominently the military. Great savings and the next republican President can take the fallout of a weakened state.

(2) Lose the Congress to the republicans. Great savings there as the republicans can axe some of the more idiotic lefty programs. Done deal.

(3) Have an astronomical internet bubble whereas worthless companies are worth 150 dollars a share and the accompanying tax receipts fall right into your lap. OK, maybe this one isn’t repeatable.

From the movie “Hard Times”

Jill Ireland: “What does it feel like to knock somebody down?”
Charles Bronson: “It makes me feel a hell of a lot better than it does him.”

 

Makes sense

okiejim Thursday, July 15th at 9:11AM EST (link)

The old Arab saying “keep your friends close and your enemy’s closer” comes to mind. Obama knows Hillary is going to challenge him in 2012. What better way to keep her under control than to keep Bill close at hand.

 

Hmmm. Let's see. $862 Billion saves 3 Million jobs.

romeg Thursday, July 15th at 9:20AM EST (link)

That’s a paltry $287,333 per job. How does the President expect anyone to get by on THAT?

“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” – C. S. Lewis

No, Romeg. The worker probably gets about $50K

Repair_Man_Jack (Diary) Thursday, July 15th at 9:53AM EST (link)

The remaining 240 or so gets peed down a rat-hole. He is creating or saving jobs at a 400+% wrap-rate. If a defence contractor tried to pull that sh_t, some Congress-Idiot would be yammering about $600 toilet seats on jet-fighters.

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

I hope you didn't miss the irony/sarcasm in my post.

romeg Thursday, July 15th at 1:22PM EST (link)

It’s like Joe Kernan of CNBC’s Squawk Box said yesterday morning:

Obama claims that by adding 30 million people to a health insurance program paid for by their fellow taxpayers that the country will SAVE money. If that is the case we should add the rest of the world and save TRILLIONS!

You just have to understand Liberal Math. Under Liberalism (they prefer the word Progressive but Progressive has about as much to do with politics as Gay has to do with Homosexuality but I digress) the fundamental laws of the sciences are different. In the Liberal Dimension, CO2 causes global warming. But in the REAL universe, on the planet Mars, whose atmosphere is 80% CO2, the stuff precipitates out of the atmosphere and freezes on the ground.

Same way with their laws of mathematics. Taking money out of the economy and using it to subsidize unemployment actually creates MORE jobs than leaving it in the economy. By this logic, unemployment could be solved altogether by simply raising tax rates on everyone that IS working and extending benefits indefinitely for those who are NOT working.

It’s so simple, even a Cave Man could do it.

“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” – C. S. Lewis

And Once You Tax Everyone at a Rate of 100%

Repair_Man_Jack (Diary) Thursday, July 15th at 4:51PM EST (link)

you get the singularity! :)

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

 
 
 

$287,333 per job saved vs. unemployment

vamoose Thursday, July 15th at 1:23PM EST (link)

According to Nancy Pelosi it would stimulate the economy more to NOT save the job and let the displaced workers collect unemployment benefits which,

“…is one of the biggest stimuluses to our economy….. It creates jobs faster than almost any other initiative you can name.”

Why settle for merely saving jobs when you can create them the Pelosi way?

 
 

Well...since the Republicans were responsible for the economic improvement...

From ME to You (Diary) Thursday, July 15th at 10:56AM EST (link)

during the Clinton administration Bubba should advise TheOne™ to campaign for more Democrat candidates thereby ensuring a Republican controlled Congress! ;-) )

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