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Friday with the ‘hammer: Republicans should have fought over the debt ceiling, not Obamacare funding

by Phantom Ace ( 113 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Republican Party at October 4th, 2013 - 12:00 pm

I know many disagree with my view that the Republicans by trying to defund Obamcare fell into Obama’s trap. For months Ted Cruz was telegraphing that he was going to rally Republicans for a showdown over Obamacare. This was the type of fight the Obama Regime and their Media cohorts wanted. The NSA spying scandal and his attempts to start a war in Syria, was doing him political damage. Now thanks to Government Shutdown Obama has the Republican Party as the perfect strawman to beat up on.

The fight the GOP should have had was the debt ceiling. The American public by a 2-1 margin were against raising the debt ceiling, without cuts. That is an issue the Republicans could have won on. Instead led by emotionalism, the Republican Party went right into the trap the Obama Regime and their media allies laid.

The mainstream media have been fairly unanimous in blaming the government shutdown on the GOP. Accordingly, House Republicans presented three bills to restore funding to national parks, veterans and the District of Columbia government. Democrats voted down all three. (For procedural reasons, the measures required a two-thirds majority.)

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid won’t even consider these refunding measures. And the White House has promised a presidential veto.

The reason is obvious: to prolong the pain and thus add to the political advantage gained from a shutdown blamed on the GOP. They are confident the media will do a “GOP makes little Johnny weep at the closed gates of Yellowstone, film at 11” despite Republicans having just offered legislation to open them.

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I don’t agree with current Republican tactics. I thought the defunding demand impossible and, therefore, foolish. I thought that if, nonetheless, the GOP insisted on making a stand, it should not be on shutting down the government, which voters oppose 5-to-1, but on the debt ceiling, which Americans favor 2-to-1 as a vehicle for restraining government.

The Republicans picked a fight on Obamacare funding the Obama Regime wanted over the debt ceiling, a fight they could have won. To make matters worse, John Boehner is now prepared to cave on the debt ceiling.

WASHINGTON — Speaker John A. Boehner has privately told Republican lawmakers anxious about fallout from the government shutdown that he would not allow a potentially more crippling federal default as the atmosphere on Capitol Hill turned increasingly tense on Thursday.

Mr. Boehner’s comments, recounted by multiple lawmakers, that he would use a combination of Republican and Democratic votes to increase the federal debt limit if necessary appeared aimed at reassuring his colleagues — and nervous financial markets — that he did not intend to let the economic crisis spiral further out of control.

Once again, Republican voters have been played. John Boehner goes along with a losing fight, over a fight they could have won. If this is not evidence the GOP is the stupid party that has no strategic thinking I don’t know what is. I know people will  view me as the bad guy or RINO for disagreeing with the Conservative conventional wisdom, that Republicans are winning on the showdown and this was brilliant of  Republicans. But it is my responsibility to tell the readers of this blog the truth of the political situation.

Now that the milk has been spilled, crying over it will change nothing. The Republican Party needs to hold firm. If it means keeping the governmnet shutdown for months so be it. They should not cave on the debt ceiling either. John Boehner needs to be read the riot act on this. The Republicans need to damage Obama as much as possible, so it becomes a draw, that is the only way out of this trap

When a Dictator speaks.

by Guest Post ( 61 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Progressives, Republican Party at October 3rd, 2013 - 11:00 am

Gust Blogger: Doriangrey


Barack Insane Obama has just informed us that he has bent over backward to work with the Republican Party. A fact that will undoubtedly come as a shock to the Republican Party.

Obama: I think it’s fair to say that “I have bent over backwards to work with the Republican party” throughout my presidency

During the course of my presidency, I have bent over backwards to work with the Republican party and have purposely kept my rhetoric down. I think I’m pretty well known for being a calm guy. Sometimes people think I’m too calm. And am I exasperated? Absolutely I’m exasperated because this is entirely unnecessary.

When he was cramming Obamacare down America’s throat, when he locked the Republicans out of meetings over Obamacare and blasted them with his famous “I won” proclamation the notion that he would make the claim that he has bent over backward to work with the Republican Party would have drawn snickers even from his most ardent supporters.

When he obstructed Congress by claiming executive privilege over documents related to Operation Fast and Furious even the judicial system, well reputed for having no sense of humor what-so-ever, would have been hard pressed not to fall on the floor laughing. Moreover I assure you that the Families of Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty upon being told that Barack Insane Obama was bending over backward to work with the Republicans as they attempted to find out what happened in Benghazi and why, would not be able to find the veracity of such a assertion plausible.

Only a tyrant, a dictator or a dictator wannbe could possible behave in the manner Obama has for the last five years, and then turn around and issue such a bald faced lie as to suggest that he has bent over backward to work with the opposition party. The narcissistic arrogant hubris required to call anyone who disagrees with you a racists and a terrorists, to refuse to even listen to them let alone negotiate or compromise with them, and then claim that you have bent over backward to work with them is genuinely staggering.

The author CS Lewis once warned western civilization about men like Barack Insane Obama with these words.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis

The Fifth Column Treasonous Media have intentionally hidden Obama’s Marxist ideology and upbringing from the American people, they have done so because they know that American’s will not willingly and knowingly adopt a Marxist ideology. They know that the only way to get the majority of American’s to accept Marxism, is to lie to them. Like all Marxist, the Fifth Column Treasonous Media fully accepts the ideology that the end justifies the means, if they have to lie to American’s to get them to accept Marxism, then so be it. That is the exact same ideology driving Barack Insane Obama to proclaim that he has bent over backward to work with the Republicans.

The end justifies the means, and in this case, as so many other cases, like Operation Fast and Furious, and Benghazi, the NSA spying on Americans, the IRS intimidating conservatives, Barack Insane Obama has a Marxist Agenda he pursuing, and lying to America’s is a perfectly acceptable strategy to achieve that goal. The only conceivable context in which Barack Insane Obama’s assertion that he has bent over backward to work with the Republicans could even remotely be considered true, would be that of a Dictator would admits that he hasn’t arrested or had murdered his opposition, and that such benevolent action on his part constitutes bending over backward to work with them.

(Cross Posted @ The Wilderness of Mirrors)

This is criminal.

by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 101 Comments › )
Filed under Business, Communism, Economy, Fascism, Food and Drink, Open thread, Politics, Progressives at September 28th, 2013 - 10:00 pm

The story dates to November 2011, but it’s an important one. Here’s the short version.

There’s a trend for dinner parties hosted on small farms that grow produce organically. The food, grown as locally as just over that fence, is harvested, prepared and cooked, so city folks can get a glimpse of where the nation’s food comes from and taste it at its freshest.

fresh food picnic Quail Farms

In Southern Nevada, a small family farm hosted a similar dinner party with music, friends and guests. This was not a small picnic of hot dogs, burgers, beer and Aunt Charlene’s milk-fruit-jello salad. People paid for reservations and traveled long distances for a taste of farm-to-plate food.

Then the Food Nazis arrived.

Somehow a local health inspector got word of the party and showed up during food preparation while the guests were on a tour of the farm.

“I can’t tell you how sick to my stomach I was watching that first dish of Mint Lamb Meatballs hit the bottom of the unsanitized trash can. Here we were with guests who had paid in advance and had come from long distances away anticipating a wonderful dining experience, waiting for dinner while we were behind the kitchen curtain throwing it away! I know of the hours and labor that went into the preparation of that food. We asked the inspector if we could save the food for a private family event that we were having the next day. (A personal family choice to use our own food.) We were denied and she was insulted that we would even consider endangering our families health. I assured her that I had complete faith and trust in Giovanni our chef and the food that was prepared, (obviously, or I wouldn’t be wanting to serve it to our guests).”

And it gets worse. Health Inspector Mary Oakes and her supervisor “Susan” would not permit the farm to save the food for their own consumption, or even to feed it to their livestock, and under threat of police action, forced them to pour bleach over all of it, so they couldn’t even use it for compost.

Read the story from Protein Wisdom, which links to the original.

And some still believe nationalizing the healthcare industry is benign.

Dang. Just realized that I need to lighten up, because it’s time for The Overnight Open Thread.

Obama blames Republicans and Fox news for Obamacare problems

by Phantom Ace ( 2 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Headlines, Progressives at September 27th, 2013 - 12:10 am

Barck Obama is an overgrown man-child.