Moving the Stimulus Goalposts

“the Obama administration is continuing to sell its impact with nation-wide events and press appearances.”
I have to laugh to keep from crying. Centralized command and control economies SUCK !!!!!

I cant believe anyone has confidence in these idiots to solve anything. Obama is a mushmouthed dunce and Biden is a clown. This is the beginning of the end…You have an inexperienced child at the wheel and an obsequious, fawning gladhanding ‘yes man’ with a porcelain smile fixed on his goofy face sitting behind him. WAKE UP AMERICA!!!

The corruption in washington is criminal.

And now they have passed cap and trade which will cap our prductivity and send jobs overseas. No taxes for the middle class??? Just you wait and see what oil and fodd prices are going to do. This will hurt every family in the US.

The economy: You break it. You own it.
See you at the polls in 2010.

Wait a minute, an ABC news article that isnt totally pro Obama? It isnt very tough or truthful but it isnt kissing his rear like normal. Is the press going to wake up, that would be too good to be true. I think its funny that the only media outlet that is doing well is Fox. Maybe finances will wake them up to reality. I doubt it!

I regret voting for this guy….
regretmyvote

More proof, (as if we needed any) that Obama and company are as clueless today as they were when they rammed this ill conceived waste of money through Congress. We will most certainly be bankrupt if people continue to listen to him.

No surprises here. How many more huge expenditure bills being rushed through and not performing as those who told us it “had” to be done “or else” do we need to do here before we say enough!
This is the exact reason why the so-called ObamaCare heath plans MUST be slowed down and really analyzed in much greater detail before we commit the country down that road.
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“The idea here is that, yes, the unemployment rate is rising, but it would be rising more quickly [without the bill],” Bernstein said on ABCNews.com’s “Top Line.” “We’re spending about $1 billion a day — and, by the way, with very careful oversight — and that’s creating, again, economic activity that would not have occurred in the absence of this plan. That’s the essential point.”
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So the unemployment rate would be …hmmm…11, 12, 13 %…Now? Is that what we are NOW supposed to buy into?
Since these clowns have NO POSSIBLE way to verify ANYTHING when it comes to the so-called “saved” jobs, it is not possible to verify that statement. Think we will hear many of the MSM really challenge this administration on

I can’t believe my eyes. A MSM outlet Not having an OBASM. WOW

Well, well, well. Surprise, surprise. Obama’s stimulus isn’t working, eh? Well, remember that he didn’t promise creation of jobs, be qualified that by saying that he’d preserve jobs. Thus, he always has the ready-made excuse of using the “unseen” jobs that were not lost as “evidence” of the fact that his policies are ostensibly working. Listen, the government produces NOTHING. It can only redistribute what it takes from others. Why is that so hard for the average idiot voter to understand? The Obama administration’s goal in the next 4 years is to have as many people drinking from the government trough as possible. Thus, he has a willing consituency that has to vote for him or risk losing their government largesse. When are we going to be a country of self-sufficient, independing, hard-working people again? The sad answer is: probably never!

I didn;t vote for Obama- too bad many of you did-now we are suffering. He was always a product of Chicago politics. And with Pelosi and Reid protecting Rangel, Waters, Frank, Dodd and Murtha, all under ethics charges, we will be in a real mess by 2010. The Republicans are constanly criticized for opposing Obama but they and the Blue Dog Dems are the only ones that can slow down his socialist agenda.

What GoalPosts? They are whatever the President wants them to be at the time. He is really upset over the Honduras incident. It telegraphs, ahead of time, his plans to be emperor.

find your local tea party for July 4th!

I’m against the stimulus package and have always been. It’s funny though how many here have forgotten that this whole process and problem is a two party/two administration mess. Bush/repub congress and Bush/demo congress got us here. Now Obama/demo congress can’t get us out.

This president scares the hell out of me. The previous nine presidents in my lifetime made me angry at times, but this one upsets and scares the hell out of me most of the time.
This president is naïve and reckless His solution to every problem is to print more money. He doesn’t seem to care that he is making the dollar worthless and that future generations are going to pay dearly for his naiveté and recklessness.
This president is a sheep in wolf’s clothing. He is being tested all over the world and so far it has taken him four or five days to respond, e.g., the kidnapping of the captain of a U.S. merchant ship, North Korea’s nuclear test and missile launches, Iran’s post election demonstrations.
This president is a liar and a thug. He has broken almost all of his campaign promises
and is paying off his election debts by putting thugs and incompetents in high level government positions and keeping ACORN afloat to manipulate the national census as he sees fit. He attended a church for 20 years without knowing that the preacher hated America or that his pal and mentor was a terrorist by his own admission.
This president is a fraud. He has spent, and is continuing to spend, a small fortune of tax-payer dollars to thwart legal requests for him to produce documentation for his eligibility as President. He cannot string two simple sentences together without a teleprompter and jams legislation through Congress before he, the Congress or anyone else has a chance to read, let alone understand it. This, despite his promise to give citizens five days to study all bills before he signs them (the first of his broken campaign promises).
This president is immature and petty. He absolutely cannot stand criticism and revels in the nauseating love affair that he has developed and nurtured with the liberal news media and commentators, going so far as to allow one network, who’s employees voted unanimously for him, to tout his national healthcare program from the White House. If he is ever opposed, he publicly whines about it, claiming that he is being unfairly treated, usually by a single cable news network that he coyly neglects to identify (Fox News). However, as a proponent of the ‘The Fairness Doctrine,’ he has had no qualms naming Hannity and Limbaugh as overly critical, out of control, conservative talk show hosts.
This president is not proud of his Country. He apologizes for America at every opportunity to any head of state or passerby who will listen, especially third world country dictators. He bows and scrapes to those who detest the U.S. and shuns those who have stood tall beside us. He refused to wear a U.S. Flag pin in his lapel until pestered by the press about it. He has a wife who told the world she was never proud of her Country before he was elected president and called America mean.

Economic justice:
* America is capitalist and greedy – yet half of the population is subsidized.
* Half of the population is subsidized – yet they think they are victims.
* They think they are victims – yet their representatives run the government.
* Their representatives run the government – yet the poor keep getting poorer.
* The poor keep getting poorer – yet they have things that people in other countries only dream about.
* They have things that people in other countries only dream about – yet they want America to be more like those other countries.
Hollywood cliches:
* Without capitalism there’d be no Hollywood – yet filmmakers hate capitalism.
* Filmmakers hate capitalism – yet they sue for unauthorized copying of their movies.
* They sue for unauthorized copying – yet on screen they teach us to share.
* On screen they teach us to share – yet they keep their millions to themselves.
* They keep their millions to themselves – yet they revel in stories of American misery and depravity.
* They revel in stories of American misery and depravity – yet they blame the resulting anti-American sentiment on conservatism.
* They blame the anti-American sentiment on conservatism – yet conservatism ensures the continuation of a system that makes Hollywood possible.

CHANGE!

If not for Obama’s “stimulus” package 200 million Americans would have died. Not only did Obama save many jobs he saved the country. Soon he will save the entire planet.

WOOOOOOOWW
FIRST an ABC article not worshipping the guy AND people saying he was a mistake….who would have thought it could happen

CHENEY 2012!!!!!!!!!!11

Have Faith
I would rather be watching Obama print and spend. and force America on the path to socialism, than making excuses for John Mccain.
Obama is the contrast America needs.
Turn out and vote in 2012.

OMG, the chosen one is bag on the screen trying to sell us on his climate change program and how it will create more “stimulus”, ie more jobs. He neglects to mention the jobs that will be lost. I am so sick of seeing his face on the tube. You cannot believe anything he says. He’s calling his latest appointment an “envoy” rather than a “czar”!

This is not the U.S. economy I used to know!

Gosh, everything we evil “right wing racists” said would happen is happening. Of course, I’m not a right wing racist, that’s just what I’m called when I try to point out the obvious.
Ummmm, where is your report about the climate change report that the EPA really did bury for Obama? It took me a little while to find the facts, but lordy, lordy there they are. However, there is your Messiah on the boob tube claiming victory…………………Gee, could we please get all sides of anything from you people.

Representative Jose Serrano (D) has introduced a bill in the House to abolish the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, which limits presidents to two consecutive terms or ten years in office. The bill that was introduced (February 2009) is HJ Res 5.
This resolution is in the first step in the legislative process. Introduced bills and resolutions first go to committees that deliberate, investigate, and revise them before they go to general debate. The majority of bills and resolutions never make it out of committee. If this joint resolution proposes an amendment to the Constitution, three-fourths of the states must ratify the proposal. A joint resolution, if not amending the constitution, may also be signed into law by the president.

Better the GWB and DC

The House vote on Cap & Trade was close, but we need to deluge the Senate with argument against that horrible bill. Call, email, write both of your senators and tell them a YES vote on Cap & Trade is a vote AGAINST the will of the population and FOR our decline to Third World economic status.

Obama the Empty suit.
Impeach this one soon before he does any more damage

Stimulus money is being withheld now, but will eventually flood the economy like a “sugar high”, in order to affect next years elections.
This administration has no concerns other than 2010.

The more existing taxes are raised, the more new taxes are enacted, the more businesses are regulated, the more benefits employers are forced to provide, the more government jobs are created, the more concessions are granted to special interest groups, the more money is printed, the more money is borrowed from third party nations, the LESS LIKELY the citizens of the US, as well as our nation itself, are to PROSPER in the long run. Observe the new reality, the new economy. Our jobs have left the country and doing business in the US becomes ever more expensive with every new legislation, while our leaders are selling the idea that the government must provide more benefits to the people. Even in the face of less government income, government spending increases. There is no logical avenue toward recovery of our failing economy. Conversion to “green” is the only idea this administration has come up with. But the flaw is that the government must subsidize the new business development and consumer purchases to make “green” feasible. At a time when our economy is hurting we decide to go green which is more expensive.

I don’t understand the people who say the regret voting for Obama? Obama is doing exactly what he said he was going to do during the election. Why weren’t you listening then?? Thanks a bunch everyone as we are now going bankrupt.

“About 30% of the stimulus bill was straight out tax cuts or one time refunds. Almost 10% of it all went to the Republican’s AMT patch amendment (reducing the taxes of only the upper middle class, or the odd $60k / yr earner with 8 kids).”
jhw539,
so what? Are you telling everyone now that the administration did not understand that…or account for it ?
What does the make up of it have to do with the Administrations’ Claims of what it would do ?

Don’t blame me, I voted for Palin and that old Geezer she was running with.

CrockObama strikes again!!!
HE IS A LIAR. Where is the media calling out his perpetual lies, distortions and deceit to ALL Americans?
Your electric bills are going up with cap and trade and he is still not done yet. He will destroy the coal industry aand oil industry. Oh well, as long as he gets his pizza delivered from St. Louis and his weekly 100 dollar a pound steaks and you get NOTHING but the check!!!
Wake up America, he is destroying our way of life right before your eyes.

Vote the bums out in 2010! Anyone who voted for this Cap and Trade scam needs to be drummed out of office in 2010! The House clearly ignored the will of the people and pushed this piece of crap bill through (I understand that the hot dogs voted on a bill that wasn’t even submitted in written form!!!).

We have screwed the next generation and their kids. But what will they know? They are a product of public education! Just wait until the gen-Xer are down the throats of the baby-boomers when their SS money runs out. Watch how fast euthanasia bills pass then! Its what the democrats have wanted regardless: class envy, class warfare …the struggle og the people while the priviledged sit in washington.

brian:
“The banking crisis has subsided, people are no longer panic pulling their money out of financial institutions”
There was no banking crisis. It was just a political creation to get more power.
“housing pricing have stopped falling, ” Oh, really? tell that to those people in California and Florida who can’t sell their homes to save their lives.
“personal incomes are increasing, ” No, actually, employers are cutting salaries and laying people off for a week at a time unpaid (like I was) to save money. Incomes are still falling except for the lucky few.
“unemployment benefits have been extended, ” Yeah, that’s so much better than a job, right?
“he cracked down on executive pay, ” by violating the contracts HE made. Nice way to keep his word.
“saved the car companies from themselves, ”
Yeah, tell that to those people who no longer make Pontiacs. Or to the GM people who are watching their company go under. But the union pensions are safe!
“and we are investing in our crumbling infrastructure, which is 20 years past due. ” Which we were doing all along. I have the joy of driving on new roads to work every day.
“All from a stimulus package smaller in size to GW’s ”
Um, no it wasn’t. Care to check your facts at the CBO? Didn’t think so.
“Now i know where the idiots are that made up the 51% to vote for George Bush”
Yeah, a bunch have those Obama/Biden stickers on their cars. Thanks for playing, your not a winner this time, but please, try again!

why again arent we drilling more for oil off our coasts…oh yea that would make since…something Congress and Obama don’t know how to do…..

It’s good to see so many people waking up to what is going on. If you voted for Obama don’t feel bad, because McCain would be doing the same stuff, just not as fast. Bush started the bailouts, and passed the torch to Obama. We the people of this country need to CLEAN HOUSE in Washington in 2010 or it will get much worse. Get involved, and send emails, make phone calls, and let your Representatives, and Senators know how you stand on all the issues that threaten our future!!!!

If this joint resolution proposes an amendment to the Constitution, three-fourths of the states must ratify the proposal. A joint resolution, if not amending the constitution, may also be signed into law by the president
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Or 2/3 of both houses then it can as well. However the Supreme Court has the ability to overrule congress as the constitution and the amendments are the rule of the land. It would have to be an amendment to the document.

Before Novemeber 2010, BHO will be lucky not to be impeached as a self-hating American bent on assisting our enemies.
His deficit spending can only be passed by the likes of Nancy “I fly a 757 and you don’t” Pelosi who just said she WOULD NOT make the $1.7 Trillion health care bill available before it gets voted on!!!
Don’t you just love the open door policy of these fascists???
NO2BHO

In reading many of the posts, I am thankful that more and more people are waking up! Please make a difference and don’t allow this horrible ‘cap & trade’ environment scam bill go through and pray VERY hard that the bs health according to Obama, Pelosi and Reed do NOT go through! Stand up to these thugs and bullies and take this country off the train headed for the cliff!

A woman in a hot air balloon realizes she is lost. She reduces her altitude and spots a man fishing from a boat below. She shouts to him, “Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.”
The man consults his portable GPS and replies, “You’re in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above a ground elevation of 2,346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude.” She rolls her eyes and says, “You must be a Republican!”
“I am,” replies the man. “How did you know?” “Well,” answers the balloonist, “everything you tell me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to do with your information, and I’m still lost. Frankly, you’re not much help to me.” The man smiles and responds, “You must be a Democrat.”
“I am,” replies the balloonist. “How did you know?”
Well,” says the man, “You don’t know where you are or where you’re going. You’ve risen to where you are, due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise that you have no idea how to keep, and now you expect me to solve your problem. You’re in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but, somehow, now it’s my fault.”
I’ll keep my money, you keep The Change!

This Gong Show will go on for another three and a half years and no one will be able to end this performance before it gets worse.

This “stimulus” wasn’t a stimulus plan… ever. It was a spending program.
Most of the money isn’t spent until 2010 & 2011. Really.
For anyone who swallowed the thing whole, without knowing this – by trusting politicians, they fooled you once, don’t make it twice.
Of course they have to move the goalposts. They had planned on the economy rebounding by April or May. They knew the stimulus would have a very small effect. Now that the economy didn’t rebound by itself, they HAVE to move the goalposts. Duh.

What I want to know is… where was all this critical reporting when this thing was being voted on? Sheesh.
Too little, too late. Thanks for nothing.
Sure, the Congress did not allow anyone to see the whole plan (they changed the format so when it was posted online, you could not do a search). And Obama didn’t wait (as he promised) before signing. They wanted to get this through WITHOUT anyone being able to see what’s in it.
The chickens, are coming home….

Wait until Rahm reads this; Rick Klein, watch your back! Madness is the definition of trying central planning and socialism over and over and expecting anything but economic disaster to ensure. Can the bulk of the main-stream press types really believe that our best interests as a nation are being pursued by the pack of clueless clowns in this Administration? I mean, don’t they have kids and investments that need to be protected/grown? How much more of this economy-destroying crap will it take to wake them up?

The OBAMAs are scamming the AMERICA people.

The MSM can’t cover for Obama too much longer. Americans from both parties are waking up to what a disaster this administration and congress is. They continue covering for Obama at their own risk. Even the lib “journalists” don’t want to go down with the debacle that’s coming – but it’s too late. You thought the “misery index” with Carter was bad? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet friends. The MSM’s sycophantic election of Obama will rock their reputations to their cores. They deserve nothing less.

THE AIR ACCORDING TO OSHA
Though repetition has little to do with “the truth,” we’re repeatedly told that there’s “no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke.”
OSHA begs to differ.
OSHA has established PELs (Permissible Exposure Levels) for all the measurable chemicals, including the 40 alleged carcinogens, in secondhand smoke. PELs are levels of exposure for an 8-hour workday from which, according to OSHA, no harm will result.
Of course the idea of “thousands of chemicals” can itself sound spooky. Perhaps it would help to note that coffee contains over 1000 chemicals, 19 of which are known to be rat carcinogens.
-”Rodent Carcinogens: Setting Priorities” Gold Et Al., Science, 258: 261-65 (1992)
There. Feel better?
As for secondhand smoke in the air, OSHA has stated outright that:
“Field studies of environmental tobacco smoke indicate that under normal conditions, the components in tobacco smoke are diluted below existing Permissible Exposure Levels (PELS.) as referenced in the Air Contaminant Standard (29 CFR 1910.1000)…It would be very rare to find a workplace with so much smoking that any individual PEL would be exceeded.”
-Letter From Greg Watchman, Acting Sec’y, OSHA, To Leroy J Pletten, PHD, July 8, 1997
Indeed it would.
Independent health researchers have done the chemistry and the math to prove how very very rare that would be.
As you’re about to see in a moment.
In 1999, comments were solicited by the government from an independent Public and Health Policy Research group, Littlewood & Fennel of Austin, Tx, on the subject of secondhand smoke.
Using EPA figures on the emissions per cigarette of everything measurable in secondhand smoke, they compared them to OSHA’s PELs.
The following excerpt and chart are directly from their report and their Washington testimony:
CALCULATING THE NON-EXISTENT RISKS OF ETS

Yeah, we just HAD to get an economy-busting package passed…RIGHT NOW! Or else!
So that we could sit around for months and months with no *good* effects. THAT was really worth it, wasn’t it Barr?
Our system is not perfect, but with our own little Axis of Evil in power (BO, Nancy Pel-occhio, and Reid – if you disagree with my terminology, please prove me wrong!), it has gone from a stall to a careening, flat spin into the ground.
How much longer until we can concentrate on THRIVING and stop worrying 24/7 about just SURVIVING?!

I agree with the fellow who stated that the people who are slow to realize what they’ve endorsed appear to be acting as if they are part of a fanatical religion. Each decision by this administration appears to be a calculated move, positioning itself for the larger play, regardless of the broken promises or severe damage inflicted upon the electorate. Many of those Obama fanatics reek of hypocrisy, remaining silent on policies and decisions (which will have profound negative effects on them) which they would otherwise have become completely unhinged over had those decisions come from a Republican or Conservative administration. Witnessing the blatent disregard for the Constitution, a blind eye toward corruption, the endorsement of favoritism, and feloniously stacking the deck in favor of Progressive Socialism in the redistricting efforts should compel you liberal Democrats to hang your heads in shame for endorsing this President and this Congress. Without a doubt, you’ve crippled us all with these ignorant, elitist, & short-sighted stewards of America.

I am thoroughly disgusted that the public was not given a chance to be vetted by the public–not even a week, not even a day. Congress hadn’t read it. Congress voted it through.
Then the House just passed this PeLOUSEY cap-and-tax bill. It was dumped at about 3 a.m. the morning it passed the House. Again, the public didn’t have a chance to vet it.
Democrats are NOT about democracy!

I can’t believe I voted for the dum ass President. Only thing he has done has been to increase my taxes on health and energy and lower my standard of living.
Satan has a new partner ………Elephant Ears Obama

I cannot believe that this congress voted on Friday on a bill that nobody has read. Have they no shame….I’ll never vote for a democrat again… My only hope is that they loose big in 2010 and no more Obama in 2012.

How many more lies can we endure??

No, no no…you miss the Orwellian point, Rick.
The stimulus was ALWAYS going to keep unemployment from being 4-5% higher than whatever it is. No matter what!
Orwell himself couldn’t dream this up.

Wow, how much NOT a surprise. The “stimulus” was just political payback for lemming type voting blocks. I thought they call it “bribery”, however in Washington, they call it “lobbying” and “special interests” and “PAC money”, as if it is different than Jefferson money (remember the $100k they found in his freezer?). How about this “let’s tax health benefits . . . EXCEPT for our union voting blocks”!!!Is anyone still shedding that inaugural tear for the historic nature of this election? It is only historic in that Obama is signing off on a deficit that is greater than all the other Presidents combined (did he inherit their deficits too or just W’s???) and it will soon exceed GDP. Nothing like having a deficit greater than the entire economic output of the only superpower in the world. How did that happen? Run away spending, mostly on entitlements. P.S.–the Senate will kill the piece of work called “cap n trade”.

This country is being run by IDIOTS…elected by IDIOTS. What else can you expect but more of the same BS.

LIBERAL THINK TANK: THE UNICORNS ARE BEING SHIPPED OUT TODAY, THE RAINBOWS GO OUT NEXT WEEK.

Jobs aren’t going to go away with Cap & Trade. They are just going to go to China, who is building a coal burning power plant per day. Global Warming, Climate Change, or whatever they are calling it today is a hoax. Remember in 1980 they said we only have 20 years to survive. A little late, but maybe they knew Obama was going to be elected.

Our leaders set up the stimulus law so most of the money would be disbursed from 2010-2012. Isn’t it ironic that this time frame coincides with the next election cycle? ACORN will work a little harder with their 3 billion dollars fresh in their minds. They needed this bill passed in three days unread but don’t feel it is needed to help WE THE PEOPLE until 2010 or later.

The truth will eventually win out. Old Abe was right; you cant fool all the people all the time.
BO, you have failed miserably.

Now, now folks. Don’t get too squishy about a single on-line-only outlet from the Liberal media merely noting the obvious inconsistencies, for those who pay attention, in the Obama administration.
When such organizations publish the full truth BEFORE the enabling legislaiton is whisked through Congress without any real debate over the ramifications, or even a good idea of the content, of the bill, only then will they deserve even a tiny bit of credit.
Before long, some enterprising “reporter” might even whip out a calculator and figure out that the 600,000 jobs the Obamites claimed they have saved (a fanciful number, at best), at a cost of $1Billion per day, comes out at $1,667 per job per day. Perhaps they might ahve considered competitive bidding. Personally, they can “save” my job for just $300 per day – and I’ll even take care of my own health insurance. Make it “only” $500 a day and I can hire another full-time worker, with full health coverage – a real two-for-one deal.
How about this for a question at The Chosen One’s next media love-fest: Mr President, members of your administration have calculated that the recent stimulus efforts have saved approximately 600,000 jobs which might have been lost without the stimulus plan, while others members of teh administration have noted that disbursements under the stimulus plan are approximately $1Billion per day. At a cost of $1,667 per day, or $607,200 per year, how long can we afford to save those jobs?
Only when we hear such obvious questions posed directly to The One will we be able to give the liberal media any credit for intellectual honesty.

“moving the goal posts?” – more like changing the data to avoid saying the fiscal conservatives were right. unfortunately – we are stuck with the debt.

Hmmm, as Obama is systematically wrecking the economy, I’m seeing more and more signs of buyer’s remorse. Just yesterday, Jesse Jackson expressed his displeasure with how Obama promised much to the black community and delivered hardly nothing.
And Obama’s climate bill that just passed the house? With great fanfare and huge media participation, Obama claimed he would give 95% of working families a tax cut. Well, that’s a LIE! If the senate looses it’s mind and passes Obama’s climate change bill, it will become the largest tax increase in this country’s history that will affect 100% of American homes.
Obama doesn’t understand economics, Obama doesn’t understand foreign policy. But he CAN do a good job reading from a teleprompter.

Hey, Ratdog!! Don’t worry about voting for Obama next time.
ACORN will be happy to do it for you!!

Aloha,
Only one “Man” can undo what Obama and Pelosi have wrought on us. [We are the people of the USA and O and Pelosi are supposedly public servants?] That man is Mitt Romney! He is the smartest of all the candidates we have, or had in the since G.H.W.B. Mitt saved. He has the experience, Romney’s claim to national fame came in 1999, when an inquiry into corruption found that the two top officials who led Salt Lake City’s bid for the 2002 Winter Olympics had actually paid bribes of more than $1 million to 24 members of the International Olympic Committee. As the event’s CEO, he brought in new, stricter policies on ethical behavior (like having some).
Oh for you who won’t vote for a Mormon, we need a President [not Pastor] we can believe in to fix the “Change We Can’t Believe In”.
Mahalo

If you have to “keep selling its impact” then it must not be viable. Why keep spending more money on “nationwide events and press appearances?” If it’s so good, it would sell itself.
The whole obama takeover of our government is an “obamination” and if we don’t start standing up to the continued spending, the addition of all of the “czars” that no one but the White House has control over (paid by the taxpayer), the fiasco that is the obama presidency, we’ll be in bigger trouble than we thought.
This is all the biggest mistake in our country’s history: a president who continues to lie to all of us, spending money we don’t have and he doesn’t seem to lose any sleep over it.
Oh, and did I say we are in big trouble?

Romney 2012.
Fire Congress [Senate and House of Representatives] 2010.
Local Politicians 2009 – 2012.
It is time for a wholesale cleanup of liberal politicians and RINOs from or Federal, State, and local governments. We can’t afford to keep them around any longer.

Aloha, Mary Landa
It’s not just “O”, it’s Nancy P, Harry R. and the rest of the Left-Wingnuts and RINOs.
It is time for a wholesale cleanup of liberal politicians and RINOs from or Federal, State, and local governments. We can’t afford to keep them around any longer.
Local and State Politicians 2009 – 2012
Congress [Senate and House of Representatives] 2010, 2012, and 2014.
Romney 2012 and 2016
Mahalo

Criminysakes, you make an interesting point.
After the disaster that was Jimmy Carter, the unlikely Ronald Reagan came along and he became one of our greatest presidents.
Mitt and Sarah could well be the one-two punch to straighten out things.

JCIll, the problem is, those who post on news site blogs keep up with the news. They know what’s going on, they pay attention. The majority of Obama voters don’t pay attention to what’s going on. They get their news from 30 minutes of MSNBC or the evening news. And they believe what they’re told without taking the time to cooberate the information. In a word, they’re sheeple.
We all know some of these. Prior to the election last November, you may have asked one of them why they’re voting for Obama. A typical response was, “Obama’s for the people”, or “Obama will bring change”. Those responses are mindless and totally meaningless. I’ve responded that he may bring change, but there’s no guarantee it will a change for the better.

Goal/strategy: Get the legislation passed and signed into law asap!! Dire consequences if we do nothing, window dress it the best you can. Then address the criticism as it comes in by changing the original story that most regular people will have forgotten. The opposition is labeled as the “party of NO”, with no plan.
Sooner or later (i pray sooner) Obama will suffer a defeat (maybe Sotomayor) and when he does…just watch his reaction (facial expressions). you’ll see the real Obama then. I hope he trips himself up with his own global ego.

everyone get your “dashboard” Obama from Glenn Beck’s site..dont drive anywhere without it..it is your savior. No mortgage, no car payment, Unions everywhere, free healthcare, electric cars, cooler temperatures, no wars, no need to work. Fantasy Island folks.

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All of you who are now apologizing for your Obama vote:
–apology NOT accepted.
If you had opened your eyes and listened to the warnings instead of blindly following the media, you wouldn’t have done something so stupid!
That’s the problem with HALF this country today!
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Great job ABC, how does it feel to wake-up? I know you have an OBAMA hangover but it will go away with time.

Just follow Jake

If it was actually working, our Government wouldn’t have to mount a massive PR campaign to tell us it’s working. We would simply know it. My fellow Americans, we’ve been had.
This administration is either grossly incompetent in the highest degree or actively destroying the economy with malicious intent. There are no other ways to adequately explain what has been done.
We have mortgaged our children’s futures on these stimulus packages, allowed our government to seize control of private industry, stood by quietly while the government has assumed more and more power over areas in which its involvement is unprecedented, and all we have to show for it is that our civilization is heading to ruin at a braekneck pace.
Let us be candid here, this is not a time for political correctness or dancing around the point in order to prove what nice people we are. There’s an old saying that if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it’s a duck.
Government ownership of industry, oppressive and arbitrary taxation, command economies, and “single-payer” medicine are the hallmarks of communist governments around the world. These systems are inimical to the level of individual freedom we have traditionally enjoyed in this country. We as a people must take our stand against Communism, or we will repeat the same mistakes made by Russia, by Cuba, by China, and dozens of other nations around the world.
I know there are some who say that “It didn’t work because the right people haven’t tried it”, ignoring the weight of historical evidence that confirms beyond all reasonable doubt that it just doesn’t work. There are no right people for Communism. To quote a friend of mine, Communism is like spandex. Good idea, then real people got a hold of it. I don’t need to tell you about the results, you can find them in any history book worth its salt.
If America by some miracle still resembles itself in 2010, we must clean house in Congress and vote out as many incumbents as possible, both Republican and Democrat, to voice our dismay at the actions of the current Congress and Administration. Action this drastic is about the only method we have left to send a message to Washington.
America, it is time we take a stand against this madness. If we do not, I fear that this country as we know it will be no more.
Wonko the Sane
P.S. I voted for Palin, but some McCain guy was also on the ticket. :P

I cannot believe how many people still worship at the feet of Obama thinking all this spending is so good. The big beneficiaries so far have been Goldman Sachs, the UAW and a few other friends of Obama. Even Obama himself has said on one more than one occassion all this spending is not sustainable, it will cause inflation and high interests and will be detrimental to our economy. Yet, who in God’s name is doing the spending? OBAMA is. He trotted out hope and change, reads from his teleprompter so well and people have lapped it up without any critical analysis. We are facing a situation that will make what happened under Carter look mild. As I said, even Obama himself recognizes it and yet he keeps on spending.

“Stimulus spending, Romer told the Financial Times, is “going to ramp up strongly through the summer and the fall.” Damn those economic torpedoes! Full speed ahead!

If you want to predict the future of America, just look at the history of the Weimar Republic. The current government is taking us directly to where Germany was in 1930. This is terrifying!

The Fed keeps getting bigger, costlier, and more intrusive.
The Barak-racy is going to bankrupt the country and your kids are going to suffer life in a USA that is a third-world economy.

The way ABC has reported the news since
Obama has been president, I have stopped reading any of their reporting. I found this article only because of the drudge report. If ABC will report the news without putting the Obama spin on it I may start reading their news again

Cap and trade, health care, “stimulus”, Auto industry…..what else does Mr. Obama think he can do in such a short amount of time? He is pushing for all of this quickly, becasue he knows that the American public is starting to catch on to his ineptitude. All of these bills are hundreds, if not thousands of pages long, and not one politician has read them. We have always had crooks in politics, but due to the lack of checks and balances in Washington they are the majority and are unchecked.

Every day Obama does something to move us further down the road to communism. Today the administration came out in strong support of the dictator wannabee in Honduras, along with Castro and Chavez. Let’s see, Castro…Communist. Chavez…Communist…
Obama…. not hard to see he is one too.

Bernstein says there has been
“careful oversight of the stimulus
money”? I guess he’s referring to ther
stimulus checks sent to DEAD PEOPLE!
Fool!
The stimulus is a hoax as is this
administration.
2012 can’t come soon enough!

Everyone I know voted for Obama(thanks
to COI, nee Acorn.)

If there ever was a time for the Fair Tax it is now. It will repeal the 16th Amendment, eliminate the Federal Income Tax, Payroll tax and the Social Security Tax and replace it with a consumption tax. If the politicians lose the power to tax us then we may be able to control some of this crap. Also, everyone needs to download the Fair Tax toolbar and use it. It will generate the money they need to make this a national issue. Go to

At what point can 48% of this country sue the other 52% that brought about this mess?

Let’s hope these regretful Obama voters are emailing or calling their Senators to vote NO on the Cap and Trade bill as well as the upcoming Health care “reform” bill. These two bills are trash and will ruin this country forever if passed.
We must not stay silent any more folks. Don’t wait for others to do your job….it isn’t just about voting it is about using your voice, your right, to speak out against what you do and don’t want NOW.
Head to a tea party near you this 4th and speak your mind NOW!

Just another mouthpiece article for the Obama administration. Yes it’s bad, but it would be worse if we hadn’t spent all that money we dont’ have. Borrow from the Chinese so we can buy more Chinese products.
Be a real reporter and find the truth! Who got our money? Not us.
This is one sorry excuse for journalism.

But ABC still believes in the ObamaCare ‘solutions’? Same designers, different bill.
Why would we trust people to fix the economy when they’ve never been part of the economy? Would you trust a football coach who had never worked in, around or played for any football team in his life? It would be a joke yet we pretend that somehow guys with no history in any private job know how to create private sector jobs.
What kind of jobs do socialists create anyways? GOVERNMENT JOBS!!! And that is exactly the jobs which have been ‘created or saved’ thus far. I believe Mao tried this whole thing back in the 50s. Maybe somebody in D.C. should read a book about it.