President Obama Reads “The Moon Over Star” while the Country’s Economy Sinks Deeper Toward Catastrophic Fail
-Barack Obama Lebanon, New Hampshire.
January 7, 2008
REUTERS/Larry Downing
The rise of the oceans must be beginning to slow....because I find myself in agreement with Maureen Dowd!
Earlier this week, a beam of light came down through the window, and the Moonbat Madame was struck down by the following epiphany:
On 9/11, President Bush learned of disaster while reading “The Pet Goat” to grade-school kids. On Tuesday, President Obama escaped from disaster by reading “The Moon Over Star” to grade-school kids.
“We were just tired of being in the White House,” the two-week-old president, with Michelle at his side, explained to students at a public charter school near the White House.
Even as he told the children his favorite superheroes were Batman and Spider-Man, his own dream of being the superhero who swoops in to swiftly save America was going SPLAT!
It just ain’t that easy.
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Mr. Obama’s errors on the helter-skelter stimulus package were also self-induced. He should put down those Lincoln books and order “Dave” from Netflix.
When Kevin Kline becomes an accidental president, he summons his personal accountant, Murray Blum, to the White House to cut millions in silly programs out of the federal budget so he can give money to the homeless. [through personal, private charity, I hope-wordsmith]
“Who does these books?” Blum says with disgust, red-penciling an ad campaign to boost consumers’ confidence in cars they’d already bought. “If I ran my office this way, I’d be out of business.”
Mr. Obama should have taken a red pencil to the $819 billion stimulus bill and slashed all the provisions that looked like caricatures of Democratic drunken-sailor spending.
As Senator Kit Bond, a Republican, put it, there were so many good targets that he felt “like a mosquito in a nudist colony.” He was especially worried about the provision requiring the steel and iron for infrastructure construction to be American-made, and by the time the chastened president talked to Chris Wallace on Fox Tuesday, he agreed that “we can’t send a protectionist message.”
Mr. Obama protested to Brian Williams that the programs denounced as “wasteful” by Republicans “amount to less than 1 percent of the entire package.” All the more reason to cut them and create a lean, clean bill tailored to creating jobs.
Currently, the unemployment rate hovers around 7.2%. By the Administration's own calculations, where will unemployment be after 2 years under passage of the stimulus bill? 7.0%!
Most of the jobs would only replace those lost to the recession. Even with the stimulus package, the administration estimates that unemployment would be 7% at the end of 2010 — barely below the current 7.2% rate.
As Michael Medved put it on his Thursday broadcast, this isn't a recovery passage: It's a status quo package! With one difference, of course: We will have squandered all of that taxpayer money on creating a catastrophe of new debt.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
Maybe a lot of both.
At least this time around, we have a President who is not hiding out for 7 minutes in some school classroom during "this was the moment" of our nation's "worst" economic "catastrophy".
Cross-posted at Flopping Aces
Labels: economy, Maureen Dowd, Stimulus bill
posted by The WordSmith from Nantucket at 2/07/2009 06:40:00 AM
8 Comments:
Two weeks and he's tired of the WH? He can leave.
No to “stimulus” bill. Here’s why:
Since Obama’s earnest drive to convince the nation to weaken its economic strength through redistribution as well as weaken its national defense, has confirmed the very threats to our Republic’s survival that the Constitution was designed to avert, it no longer is sustainable for the United States Supreme Court and Military Joint Chiefs to refrain from exercising WHAT IS THEIR ABSOLUTE CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY TO DEFEND THE NATION FROM UNLAWFUL USURPATION. The questions of Obama’s Kenyan birth and his father’s Kenyan/British citizenship (admitted on his own website) have been conflated by his sustained unwillingnes to supply his long form birth certificate now under seal, and compounded by his internet posting of a discredited ‘after-the-fact’ short form ‘certificate’. In the absence of these issues being acknowledged and addressed, IT IS MANIFEST THAT OBAMA REMAINS INELIGIBLE TO BE PRESIDENT UNDER ARTICLE 2 OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. Being a 14th Amendment ‘citizen’ is not sufficient. A ‘President’ MUST BE an Article 2 ‘natural born citizen’ AS DEFINED BY THE FRAMERS’ INTENT.
I guess Michael Moore better make another movie.
But Chuck, if Obama leaves, we're stuck with President Biden. Wouldn't that be WORSE???
If enough people leave, Robert Gates could be President. He's in the line-up somewhere.
SkyePuppy, you can't be more right. The easy answer is Biden could leave too but then who is next in line? Pelosi, then Robert Byrd, then Hillary Clinton. (running away screaming)
Will someone please call the nuthouse and tell them Ted has got out again?
First off we would like to congratulate you on your fine public speaking skills. It looks like those who said the Obama Administration would strike while the iron is hot may have been correct, and the Administration may be doing it in a way that does not require them to even get a vote in Congress.
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