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Birnbaum may still have some unspent bile.

Or is it a type of birth defect?
Speaking about a type we will always be cursed with, Auberon Herbert said that they “perceive dimly the immediate consequences , but not the more remote consequences of what they do”. Further,” those who accustom themselves to the use of force grow stupid, and not only stupid, but brutal”.. That’s only about a hundred years ago, but liberals[?] are very slow learners.
Well, they have their big government Daddy, where’s the answers, the efficiency, the intelligence, and the ability ? This is what happens when you stake your personality to something as cumbersome and gross, and as theoretically abstract as government.

But at least it’s a home for their hostility. Everyone needs an outlet.

One day soon, this administration and Congress are gonna experience that difference.

Let’s pray they find out the easy way and get voted out.

…from the former head of the Office of the President Elect? I’m shocked.

Early on in this administration Hugh Hewett (or someone on his show) commented that no incoming President is as big as the office he is entering but most grow into it and that it was clear even then that this President was going to shrink the Presidency to fit him.

That office is looking smaller all the time.

Ntrepid
Proud Redstate Member since April 2006…?

This regime’s most major problem is they are trying to ‘cure’ ills with policies that ‘cure’ nothing. They are the quintessential second coming of the mountebanks, trying slight of hand and misdirection to appear competent while they hope and pray their problems will simply disappear. The dirty little secret among the dogooding, busybody set is they are simply guessing and postulating instead of figuring out actual solutions to the problems. Everything they try is an experiment, but one based on faith and not actual practice or experience. They despise the solutions that work as conventional, and just try that which is to them novel. In fact, this has all been tried before and failed, miserably, but they cannot see that or recognize that because it would make them appear as silly as their results.

Could not have said it better!

that Obama was only going to spend 3 hours in the Gulf region. It takes him 5 hours to play a round of golf. It takes him that long because he spends so much time in the woods looking for his errant shots. Rush read that in the NYT.

I’d say that applies to his mouth and his policies as well.

Neither o nor any of his henchmen have ever “done” much of anything except be politicians or pol. appointees. They have no business nor “real-life” experience and so have to create their own reality. Ergo, you get temps. painting the grass green and picking up tar balls to clean the beaches. (And the remps’ jobs will prob. show up in Louisiana’s employment stats next month as proof of job growth.) The Red Queen would do no worse.

Too bad little o can’t follow the White Rabbit down the Hole and plug the spill. It would be the most relevant action he could take.

It’s called “Vaporware.” It described a product that would do all sorts of wonderful, super-duper geeky things. Venture capitalists would pour millions in the super-duper geeky gizmo. The tech magazines would be abuzz about it.
Then reality hit…
The creators of the new super-duper geek gizmo missed on release date after another. All the while saying that they would make the next release date.
Soon, the press, and the geeks of I.T would label the next super-duper geek gizmo…Vaporware. In I.T circles, vaporware was a word worse than death.
Obama is Vaporware. We are still waiting for the next release. Oh, wait there is one coming up in November….
Just imagine what this oil crisis would have been like for G.W.Bush had he played it like Obama is!

As conservatives we need to be careful here. Part of the lie of liberalism is the government can control all aspects of its citizen’s lives so that citizens have a good life. So if something bad happens, the government didn’t do its job. So elect more liberals and nothing bad will happen.

This is a lie. We do not want a government that attempts to fix all things nor can a governement fix things like oil wells that blow up.

I’m pretty sure that Obama and Soros and those of the left know the truth but market the lie. Something bad happens and reality shines a light on the lie.

We can’t as conservatives start saying IF a conservative had been in office this whole mess would have gone better. A conservative would have “fixed” it quicker.

What we need is to get oil drilling closer to shore and in Anwar. We don’t need to buy the lie nor use the lie, government will take care of you and good governance means you are taking care of, as a criticism.

Which means the current state of affairs in any culture can be blaimed on it’s colonial master. Don’t think this is anything other than a direct shot at the South by Obama. He couldn’t be more pleased. He’ll plug the hole when the Gulf freezes over with ice.

Obama has apparently been pissing off more than a few Democats in the Gulf States that are affected by the oil spill. I always thought of James Carvile as a Clinton operative but from the the video I saw of him unloading on Obama he may begin moving against him much earlier than expected?

Only a miniscule percentage of the people at the appointee level in this regime have any experience actually doing anything. Even those with extensive government experience don’t have it at the level where you actually do anything; government runs in spite of appointees, not because of them. Add in the fact that many of them would never have had their fancy degree or their fancy titles on merit; the administration is also a monument to political correctness and affirmative action. Consequently, none of them know how to do anything, but they feel really good about themselves.

Has an excellent (as always) piece in IBD on President Canute.

“It is becoming increasingly clear that neither Obama nor his administration nor the Democrat Congress are up to the task of governance.”

Actually, its becoming increasingly clear to the vast indifferent majority that assumed that the very fact that Mr. Obama managed to secure his party’s nomination meant he possessed acumen that could overcome his paucity of experience.

Now they are beginning to become aware that Obama is a mere mortal politician, unable to change by drawing from a well of experience and disinclined to do so by an ossified ideology that borders of invincible ignoirance.

When the swooning and swaying zombies start wandering the streets with a bewildered look, or talk of suicide, we’ll know its clear even to the left. Unfortunately, they will likely cohere around the “great victories” of health care and open homosexuality in the military until the damage is nearly fatal to the civic order.

Who said something on the order of we have left you a republic-if you can keep it?

What then is the Obama plan for the day BP finally run out of the resources to pay for this and the compensation the people down there deserve?

But really at this point we’re saying “No, Louisiana we insist YOU take him for the 180 minutes and the photo op.. No, no we wouldn’t dream of denying you the company of the One. There’s only so much of him to go around and he does have a tee time to get to. ”

Speaking of water hazards….

On the plus side I believe all our counties that got hit with flooding are now officially declared disasters. Our county was approved about a week ago, and the farmers are grateful.

You need to stop trying to figure out the why’s in Obama’s actions. This is a man suckled, raised and bred in modern communist theory. Marx had great ideas about how to organize people who are downtrodden, and if there are no downtrodden people visible, divide society into smaller groups and convince them that other groups are against them and that they are in fact downtrodden. In short,Marx was an excellent theoretical trouble maker. Its easy to convince people that others are against them – after all life is a struggle, one way or another, for everyone. The problem with communism is that it wasn’t intended to govern in any way. For that you need a government, and after people have succumbed to the Siren’s call of communism, the best choice has to be some form of Fascism. A tyranny of some description. Obama is not capable of “governing”. He is an airhead who knows nothing about governing, only the destruction of governments, and societies. It’s his training.

In this thread it might be appropriate to say what a libertarian is and why I keep trying to be one. So much has been said about how Obama is doing this or doing that when the question, I believe, is should the government be involved in much of anything that is going on now? Ronald Reagan said it best when he said, “government is not the solution, it’s the problem”. I also believe that many, maybe most of our Founding Fathers were libertarians.

If you want to know what a libertarian is you really only need to read one thing, Ayn Rand’s “The Virtue of Selfishness”. And you really only need to read the first chapter i.e. “The Objectivist Ethics”. There are probably many other sources but Ayn Rand explained the fundamental philosophy of libertarianism as succinctly as anyone I have read. If you read those pages you’ll know why I always say “It’s very tough being a small “L” libertarian but I keep trying.”

Don’t be put off by the title and what you’ve heard your whole life about being selfish. And don’t be put off by the fact that Ayn Rand was an atheist. I am a devout, practicing, unapologetic Christian and I have had no great difficulty in resolving Ayn Rand’s philosophy with my faith. But you have to be willing to examine your own faith, for yourself. The “Churches”, many of them, have been a haven for the Progressive/Socialist movement. Most of what I learned about the bible, and you too as a youngster was filtered through the Progressive clergy, many of whom learned Greek and other original Bible languages so they could read the original texts and then “translate” them any way they wanted to in order to fit with their preconceived notions.

If you haven’t read the original Greek and other original texts of the Bible, then how do you know enough to argue with the translators’ spin? You could learn Greek and some of the other original languages or like me, read many of the English translations over decades and use your God-given brain to resolve the contradictions as best you can. Ayn Rand said, “There are no contradictions, if you find one, check your premise”. I’ve had to check many, many premises.

Finally, please don’t get me wrong here; when given a choice between Democrat, Republican or Conservative I always vote Conservative or Republican. I believe there is a huge difference between the Democrat Party and the Republicans. I sometimes think that the Republicans and Conservatives are mistaken on some issues and don’t see the unintended consequences of some of their positions (after all, I am one of those wacko libertarians) but I agree with some of those above who think that the progressives, now nearly all of the Democrat Party know exactly what they are doing and that knowledge makes their intentions evil.

What really gets me is when the progressives use the government to steal the fruits of your labor using brute physical force, i.e. the IRS, then give it to others who haven’t earned it, and then claim the moral high ground. And of course their intention isn’t to help the poor, it’s just to buy votes to keep them in power. It isn’t about sex or money, it is always, always about power.

Just my 2 cents.

is an understatement of this guy’s dishonesty. FINALLY, after two decades, there’s a Republican running against him who has a good chance of ousting him. The posts at RedState urging us to get involved got me involved in helping Matthew Berry to do that. Check him out at Berry2010.com. He clerked for Clarence Thomas, among other bona fides in his resume. Thanks for the urgings, all you who wrote about doing more than cheering or sending money. I have to go now – I’m doing a lit drop today for Berry in VA-8th.

This is the “caring” bunch that are convinced they can do a better job with our healthcare? If they address heart disease or cancer the way they’ve addressed the Gulf oil leak, we’re in for a very quick population reduction.

Saudi oil kings are very happy to let the oil distroy the gulf so America will not drill baby drill. Obama has done well.
The radical environmentalist are very happy that no more drilling will happen.
The Cap & Trade profitiers are very Happy, as spill will make passing this scam doable. Goldman Sachs and Al Gore are major owners of the Chicago Exchange started by Obama. Trillions at stack.
SO OBAMA has done his true bosses proud and is very successful.
Scream all you want Carvell, you and the gulf shores do not matter.
Obama vacations in Hawaii anyway.
Wake up America, Obama gets raves from his real bosses.
Delaying the fix only enchances their goals.