egotism knows no bounds.
Honestly, has there ever been a bigger idiot who ran for President from a major party? Ever? My disdain for him knows no bounds. He is an embarrassment to humanity. Rarely have I ever seen anyone so clearly disordered and with so little insight into his condition. How humiliating is it to have voted for this dork? Words just cannot express it.
I mean, Obama is truly horrible, but this guy defies description.
to the man behind the curtain! Hey, the lamestream media will tell you all you need to know, so just shut up! The Anointed One doesn’t make mistakes. Only stupid people like Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman make mistakes, dontcha know!
even constitutional? There is an argument that it is not, and that Obama can just ignore it.
Of course, that would reinforce the sense that he just ignores congress when he wants to (see: Libya). I agree that it is a dangerous move, but one that Obama might well take.
notes that Obama is a braying Jackass.
Well, it’s obviously true that he is clueless when it comes to economic issues. Unfortunately, we all get to share in his faults. More’s the pity…
But it’s a decent article written by a knowledgeable person.
raising the debt limit per se. The issue is that the US has been spending SO recklessly under Obama’s watch that it is simply unsustainable. 40 cents of every dollar that the US spends is borrowed. Think about that for a minute. Could you last very long if your finances were in such shape? If no, why is it that you think the gov’t can? It won’t last forever, and it is time to put down the crack pipe and face the facts.
I understand that the US credit rating will drop if we default in the short term. But the truth is that already the US is a bad investment–there’s no need to rely on debt ratings to make that call. Regardless of what the credit rating agencies say, there is a point where others won’t buy our debt. That is the real debt limit. Unfortunately, we don’t know how close we are to it. Maybe we are already over the line. We just won’t know until everything comes crashing down–there’s no way to keep juggling and keep all the balls in the air.
Also, we are passing along not a legacy to our children and grandchildren, but a debt. I’m reminded of a line from a TV show where a character was given a Christmas gift and now he has to get one for the giver. He exclaims, “You haven’t given me a gift, you’ve given me a responsibility!”
Well, we are in the same position. Are we going to give our children and grandchildren a gift or a burden? We can’t just keep spending forever and pretend that the day of retribution will never come. The democrats say to future generations, “screw you!” and they are doing just that. It’s not fair. It’s not at all responsible.
I have a 20-year-old daughter for whom I am paying to have her wisdom teeth extracted later this summer. I was talking to the Mendelian Spousal Unit (MSU) recently and we talked about how she will likely get married in the next few years. It simply would not be kind to tell her and the new spouse, “Oh, now YOU are responsible for the financial burdens.” No, I choose not to fob off my obligations as a parent onto someone else.
But this is much worse. It is knowingly fobbing off a HUGE debt onto the yet-unborn so I can glut myself on their (future) labors. Sorry, I’m not a Vampire. Obama and the democrats should be ashamed of themselves for such treachery.
Amnesty bill. Nice.
I think this shows that the democrats know that they are toast in the next election so they are grandstanding as much as possible while they can.
My son, when he was very young, ate the dry cat food outside at my brother’s house. His mom saw him through the window and yelled his name. When he knew the gig was up, he shoveled cat food into his mouth as fast as he could go. He had gotten a few more handfuls in by the time his mother got there.
Democrats are doing the same thing. They are frantically shoveling cat food into their mouths because they know that the next election may well be their last as a viable party.
anti-Mormon views are so durable. And so socially accepted. And so much a part of the democrat thinking. In many ways that is not surprising. There is little question that race is not really an issue in politics–being black is by no means a barrier to getting elected. Being a Mormon, however…
Part of the issue is no doubt that Mormons tend to be conservative, both fiscally and socially. The church has been anti gay marriage and Utah is very conservative (though no longer a majority Mormon in Salt Lake). The church is anti-abortion. So democrats will be suspicious of anyone who says they are a leftist and a Mormon–those two things really do not go together with any kind of philosophical consistency (see: Harry Reid). I mean, you really have to twist and squirm to make those two things fit at all, and even then there is a sacrifice on one side or the other.
