Ace Of Spades Moron Bloggers Nice Deb Photoshops Thank President BushHere’s the latest video from GOP.gov, one of their best, yet:
Go to Innocent Bystanders to hear Geoff explain why saving the jobs of ‘teachers, police officers and firefighters’ isn’t “stimulus”, anyway. (Sorry, no chart, this time).
See also Ace:
“They’re Between a Rock and a Hard Place:” Democrats Divided on Economy; Grim Unemployment Figures Suggest Need for Second Stimulus, But Their First Free-Spending Ineffectual Non-Stimulus Leaves the Nation Already Bankrupt
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July, 8, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Sigh. I’m so very much more than a chart-maker.
I hope.
July, 8, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Hey, GOP? More, please….
Why isn’t Michael Steele out beating this drum on every talking head show?
July, 8, 2009 at 3:27 pm
Hey Jana, thanks for the linky at Aces.
I want Sarah Palin for new head of the RNC.
July, 8, 2009 at 4:48 pm
The most depressing part of this whole train wreck is how many Americans didn’t see it was coming. There was no way this plan was ever going to work and yet more than half of the voting population was all for it. How dumb are these people?
July, 8, 2009 at 4:53 pm
The most depressing part of this whole train wreck is how many Americans didn’t see it was coming
I think the fact that the Dems can probably sell the public on a second round of stimulus spending is even more depressing.
July, 8, 2009 at 5:03 pm
>>I think the fact that the Dems can probably sell the public on a second round of stimulus spending is even more depressing.
If he manages to get that through I am going to have to seriously consider moving up my time frame for fleeing to the islands. I really don’t think it’s sunk in with most people that we are in really serious trouble, trouble we may not be able to get out of.
July, 8, 2009 at 5:05 pm
I am going to have to seriously consider moving up my time frame for fleeing to the islands.
I’ve been trying to figure out where to flee to, because I too believe that this may be the terminal decline of the country.
But no place looks all that great.
July, 8, 2009 at 5:12 pm
>>I’ve been trying to figure out where to flee to, because I too believe that this may be the terminal decline of the country.
I’ve got a soft spot in my heart for the Caribbean, lived there before and wouldn’t mind doing it again. Costa Rica is another very attractive alternative $ wise.
And I agree, for the first time in my life, I don’t believe America’s best days are ahead of us. We did this to ourselves.
July, 8, 2009 at 5:23 pm
I know a guy who just moved to Panama.
July, 8, 2009 at 5:24 pm
And I agree, for the first time in my life, I don’t believe America’s best days are ahead of us.
I feel so bad for my kids.
July, 8, 2009 at 5:32 pm
I’m thinking of moving to the UK (before the last of the pubs close). My philosophy is: if it’s going to suck and be socialist, it might as well have good beer.
July, 8, 2009 at 5:45 pm
>>I’m thinking of moving to the UK
I like your thinking but I have a problem with the destination. I want a place that is warm and beer that is cold. Somehow the UK seemed to get this basic equation backwards.
July, 8, 2009 at 5:55 pm
Somehow the UK seemed to get this basic equation backwards.
True. Tragically true. But as a thermal guy, I think I can figure out how to cope with it.
July, 8, 2009 at 6:17 pm
I don’t get it Geoff, things are even worse there than they are here.
Our house is paid for, and we have a pretty nice set up here on the lake, so I can’t see us going anywhere…unless things get really ugly.
But it’s gonna be heart breaking watching this once fine country go down the tubes.
July, 8, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Not for long. We still haven’t felt the full effect of the unemployment rate, since the gov’t extended unemployment benefits, and since it hasn’t peaked yet. The states are going to require more bailing out, and then we’ve got the airline industries, newspapers, and of course the inevitable return of the car companies who want more money.
All of that money will simply be printed, since lenders are becoming scarce. And when the dollar drops in value as a result, things will become very, very ugly in a hurry.
Even if the catastrophic scenarios don’t materialize, the long-term projections are already not looking good – if we dump more magic money into the economy they’re going to look worse.
And that’s not even counting the infringements on privacy and freedom in the upcoming healthcare legislation, the please-kick-sand-in-our-faces foreign policy, the ineffectual approach to energy, the lack of attention to rising oil prices (hell, even the UK and France have started squawking), and the cap-and-trade burdens on business.
And he’s just getting started. We elected a social worker as President of the United States, and an affinity for socialism naturally comes with that profession. He runs the economy and makes foreign policy like a social worker, which is going to turn us into a 2nd rate nation before the end of his term.
July, 8, 2009 at 7:11 pm
I just don’t want to be part of his socialist experiment. I bet a large portion of the idiots who voted for him doesn’t want it, either.
July, 8, 2009 at 7:22 pm
>>And he’s just getting started. We elected a social worker as President of the United States, and an affinity for socialism naturally comes with that profession. He runs the economy and makes foreign policy like a social worker, which is going to turn us into a 2nd rate nation before the end of his term.
I agree with where we are headed but I think it’s all part of a plan. Even if you think Barry is an idiot, he is surrounded by too many people (over 30 czars at last count) who know exactly what the implications of all this spending are. He is implementing a plan that guarantees the government will have to take increasingly large swaths of the economy under its loving wing.
You don’t grow up surrounded by radical Marxists, subscribe to their beliefs in your early adult life, implement them as a “community organizer” and just automatically change when you become the chief executive.
Obama is implementing Alinsky’s playbook and he has been since the campaign began. People laughed about this when some of us first started talking about it. Fewer people are laughing everyday.
July, 8, 2009 at 8:02 pm
I’m with you Jackstraw.
Did you see this post at Ace’s: “Obama’s Decision Cycle: Not OODA, But PIDDLE”
which postulated that Obama makes decisions rashly and then doesn’t want to admit he made a mistake (like on Honduras)
That is the most charitable and least scary way of looking at him…and I don’t agree with it. Neither did most of the commenters.
July, 8, 2009 at 8:19 pm
I saw it over at Hot Air, Deb. There’s no doubt in my mind that this is intentional.
Ironically, having complete control of all branches of the government may backfire on Obama. His approval and that of the Donks in Congress is plummeting because they are 100% responsible for all these policies. People are getting very nervous about the debt and the unprecedented government takeover of industries, not to mention the skyrocketing unemployment rate. When it hits double digits, and it will, that will be a psychological bombshell that even the MSM won’t be able to gloss over. The best hope we have is that people get so outraged they force Obama, Pelosi and Reid to backoff.
If only Republicans would grow a pair and start going after this stuff they could make some serious gains.
July, 9, 2009 at 8:09 am
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