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State Of The Union Drinking Game!

by Flyovercountry ( 331 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Open thread at January 24th, 2012 - 9:00 pm

Yes, the object is to get you drunk enough to forget the crappy condition of our great nation, and the horrendous direction we are heading. If I do this right, your should be sufficiently numb within about five minutes of the campaign speech’s beginning. Make sure you ain’t driving tonight, or at the very least, choose someone to be your designated Democrat to handle those duties.

So, sit back and enjoy your evening at the Obama Kabuki Theater production of, “Our Nation in Flames.” May you be passed out, long before the scheduled two hours, yes I find that hard to believe also, is over.

Rules:

Phrases)

If the President uses the phrase, “their fair share,” take one drink.
The term, “Millionaires and Billionaires,” will net you two drinks.
If you hear, “We can’t wait,” Bottoms up for one drink.
A, “do nothing congress,” gets you closer to your goal of being numb by one drink.
If you hear the President refer to the, “middle class,” enjoy a snort.
If the President says, “the green economy represents our future,” smack yourself on the head with a piece of plywood, and have a drink to ease the pain.
If you hear, “creating robust job growth,” drink two, and then throw up if needed. (keep a bucket handy)

Baloney)

all outright lies of intent based on these specifics will cost you two drinks each.

Claiming to want to lessen the regulatory burden for independent or small business owners.
Claiming to start the process to increase domestic oil and/or natural gas production.
Claiming to want to make capital more available for housing and small business entrepreneurs.
If he claims to be a friend to Israel.
If he claims in any way to want to strengthen our military, through efficiency, streamlining, or any other means.

Stupidity)

Any mention of the, “Arab Spring,” drink three, and have a good cry.
Quantitative Easing, drink three and light whatever pocket money you have on fire, as it will be worthless anyway.

Cross Posted at Musings of a Mad Conservative.

RULES UPDATE: It has been pointed out to me that any playing this game are likely to die of alcohol poisoning relatively early on in the speech. As a result, treat it like bingo, that is, once a particular drink has been consumed, that trigger is officially off of the table. That leaves you with 25 potential drinks, and one allowed upchuck to purge excess alcohol from your tummy.

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Obama’s spending cuts don’t add up

by Phantom Ace ( 145 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Blogmocracy, Democratic Party at January 26th, 2011 - 8:30 am

Good Morning Blogmocracy Netizens!

We really dodged a bullet in last night’s State of the Union Speech. Obama, who normally gives great 3rd world style speeches, fell flat last night. He really did seem out of it and possibly on medication. He contradicted himself on many occasions. He would call for cuts in spending on one hand and then propose new spending with the other. He did not explain how increasing spending, which he called investment, would allow savings. Obama implied that government central planning would lead to prosperity. This was tried in other places and has failed miserably.

WASHINGTON – The ledger did not appear to be adding up Tuesday night when President Barack Obama urged more spending on one hand and a spending freeze on the other.

Obama spoke ambitiously of putting money into roads, research, education, efficient cars, high-speed rail and other initiatives in his State of the Union speech. He pointed to the transportation and construction projects of the last two years and proposed “we redouble these efforts.” He coupled this with a call to “freeze annual domestic spending for the next five years.”

But Obama offered far more examples of where he would spend than where he would cut, and some of the areas he identified for savings are not certain to yield much if anything.

Read the rest: Obama and his imbalanced ledger

Barack Hussein Obama is not serious in getting the deficit under control. It’s time for the Republicans to call his bluff and propose real budget cuts, as well as tax and regulatory reform. Unless this is done American will continue to economically stagnate. His ideas of central planning have been proven to fail throughout history. You don’t micromanage economic prosperity. You remove a hindrance on capital formation.

What is every one’s take on his speech?

Update: Jonah Goldberg’s conclusion of the speech is the one I had. Obama is over confident because of the GOP’s surrender in the lame duck session and his rising poll numbers. He once again believes he has a mandate to push Progressive policies and is acting like November 2nd never happened.

I haven’t been poisoned by any of the post-punditry because I watched it all on the web. But I was truly surprised by how lackluster and clichéd Obama’s speech was. My suspicion is that because he had a good month or so (START, tax compromise, Tucson speech, uptick in polls) he thinks he can go back to his comfortable talking points: Investment, Sputnik moment, green energy, high speed rail, etc. One sign of that: he was, I believe, a full ten minutes shorter than last year’s SOTU but it felt twice as long.

It’s not as if this was a speech Obama would give if the Shellacking never happened, but it’s close.

Obama botched an opportunity to solidify his case for re-election. The Republicans have been given another opportunity to politically destroy his Presidency. The question is will they be smart enough to capitalize on Obama’s blunder?

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SUCKERS OF THE UNION ADDRESS, 2011

by Kafir ( 193 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Blogmocracy, Guest Post, Politics at January 24th, 2011 - 4:30 pm

Blogmocracy in Action!
Guest post by: Huckfunn!

On Tuesday, January 25, President Barrak Hussein Obama will deliver his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress and all the rest of us suckers who care to watch. Obama will try to convince us that he is a centrist who truly cares and strives for job growth and American competitiveness in the world market place. Here is a preview of his remarks.
First of all, be sure and get the “blame Bush” mantra in right from the gitgo.

“The economy, when I first was coming in was contracting rapidly, we lost millions of jobs, businesses were shuttered, and I think a lot of people were worried about the future.”

Yeah, Barry; ya gotta keep selling that item. If the saps will believe that then they’ll probably believe this sack of crap, also:

“And so my principal focus, my number one focus, is going be making sure that we are competitive, that we are growing, and we are creating jobs not just now but well into the future.”

We’ve been getting the warm-up for the SOTU since at least Tuesday, January 18, when Obama ordered a review of federal regulations “with the goal of weeding out rules that hurt job growth and creation”. Imagine that when just 5 days earlier the EPA blocked the permit to build one of the largest mountain top coal mines in Appalachian history. Well gee, I wonder how many jobs that cost, and what will be the ultimate cost to the American consumer? The foregoing is but one example of the burden of regulation and taxation that the Obama regime has wrecked upon American business and taxpayers. In fact, the federal regulations that have gone into effect just in FY 2010 stands at $26.5 billion… Here are just some of the new regulations, and their costs, many still not quantified:

January 2010
January 8, 2010, Department of Energy, “Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Certain Consumer Products (Dishwashers, Dehumidifiers, Microwave Ovens, and Electric and Gas Kitchen Ranges and Ovens) and for Certain Commercial and Industrial Equipment (Commercial Clothes Washers)”: $23.4 million annually.
January 11, 2010, Securities and Exchange Commission, “Custody of Funds or Securities of Clients by Investment Advisers”: $125.1 million annually; $1.2 million start-up.
January 15, 2010, Federal Reserve System and Federal Trade Commission, “Fair Credit Reporting Risk-Based Pricing Regulations”: $252.1 million annually.
January 15, 2010, Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration, “Positive Train Control Systems”: $477.4 million annually.
January 28, 2010, Department of the Treasury, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency; Federal Reserve System; Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Department of the Treasury, Office of Thrift Supervision, “Risk-Based Capital Guidelines; Capital Adequacy Guidelines; Capital Maintenance: Regulatory Capital; Impact of Modifications to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles; Consolidation of Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Programs; and Other Related Issues”: cost not quantified.
February 2010
February 9, 2010, Environmental Protection Agency, “Primary National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Nitrogen Dioxide”: cost not quantified.
February 17, 2010, Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, “National Organic Program; Access to Pasture (Livestock)”: cost not quantified.
February 22, 2010, Federal Reserve System, “Truth in Lending”: cost not quantified.
March 2010
March 3, 2010, Environmental Protection Agency, “National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines”: $373.4 million annually; $744.7 million start-up.
March 4, 2010, Securities and Exchange Commission, “Money Market Fund Reform”: $60.2 million annually; $86.9 million start-up.
March 9, 2010, Department of Energy, “Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Small Electric Motors”: $263.9 million annually.
March 10, 2010, Securities and Exchange Commission, “Amendments to Regulation SHO”: $1.2 billion annually; $1.1 billion start-up.
March 19, 2010, Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, “Regulations Restricting the Sale and Distribution of Cigarettes and Smokeless Tobacco to Protect Children and Adolescents”: cost not quantified.
March 26, 2010, Environmental Protection Agency, “Regulation of Fuels and Fuel Additives: Changes to Renewable Fuel Standard Program”: $7.8 billion annually.
April 2010
April 1, 2010, Federal Reserve System, “Electronic Fund Transfers”: cost not quantified.
April 5, 2010, Department of Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, “Electronic On-Board Recorders for Hours-of-Service Compliance”: $139 million annually.
April 14, 2010, Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, “Use of Ozone-Depleting Substances; Removal of Essential-Use Designation (Flunisolide, etc.)”: $181.9 million annually.
April 16, 2010, Department of Energy: Energy Conservation Program, “Energy Conservation Standards for Residential Water Heaters, Direct Heating Equipment, and Pool Heaters”: $1.3 billion annually.
May 2010
May 6, 2010, Environmental Protection Agency, “Lead; Amendment to the Opt-Out and Recordkeeping Provisions in the Renovation, Repair, and Painting Program”: $419.5 million annually; $552 million start-up.
May 7, 2010, Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, “Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emission Standards and Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards; Final Rule”: $10.8 billion annually (2012–2016).
May 13, 2010, Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service; Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration; Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Secretary, “Interim Final Rules for Group Health Plans and Health Insurance Issuers Relating to Dependent Coverage of Children to Age 26 Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act”: $11 million annually.
May 28, 2010, Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, “Automatic Dependent Surveillance—Broadcast (ADS-B) Out Performance Requirements to Support Air Traffic Control (ATC) Service”: $100 million annually.
June 2010
June 4, 2010, Federal Reserve System, “Electronic Fund Transfers”: cost not quantified.
June 17, 2010, Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service; Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration; Department of Health and Human Services, “Interim Final Rules for Group Health Plans and Health Insurance Coverage Relating to Status as a Grandfathered Health Plan Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act”: $25.2 million annually; $30.2 million start-up.
June 22, 2010, Environmental Protection Agency, “Primary National Ambient Air Quality Standard for Sulfur Dioxide”: $1.6 billion annually.
June 28, 2010, Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service; Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration; and Department of Health and Human Services, “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Preexisting Condition Exclusions, Lifetime and Annual Limits, Rescissions, and Patient Protections”: $4.8 million annually.
June 29, 2010, Federal Reserve System, “Truth in Lending”: cost not quantified.
July 2010
July 14, 2010, Securities and Exchange Commission, “Political Contributions by Certain Investment Advisers”: $85.1 million annually; $22.6 million start-up.
July 16, 2010, Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration, “Reasonable Contract or Arrangement Under Section 408(b)(2)—Fee Disclosure”: $57.7 million annually.
July 19, 2010, Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service; Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration; and Department of Health and Human Services, “Interim Final Rules for Group Health Plans and Health Insurance Issuers Relating to Coverage of Preventive Services Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act”: cost not quantified.
July 23, 2010, Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service; Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration; and Department of Health and Human Services, “Interim Final Rules for Group Health Plans and Health Insurance Issuers Relating to Internal Claims and Appeals and External Review Processes Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act”: $75.1 million annually.
July 28, 2010, Department of the Treasury, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, “Registration of Mortgage Loan Originators”: $123.9 million annually; $283.3 million start-up.
August 2010
August 9, 2010, Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, “Cranes and Derricks in Construction”: $151.6 million annually.
August 12, 2010, Securities and Exchange Commission: “Amendments to Form ADV”: $20.5 million annually; $56.4 million start-up.
August 20, 2010, Environmental Protection Agency, “National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines”: $253 million annually.
September 2010
September 9, 2010, Environmental Protection Agency, “National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants from the Portland Cement Manufacturing Industry and Standards of Performance for Portland Cement Plants”: $1 billion in 2013.
September 16, 2010, Securities and Exchange Commission, “Facilitating Shareholder Director Nominations”: $8 million annually.

One of Obama’s stated policy goals has been to drive up the cost of fossil fuels. In his own words, “Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket”. Having failed to jam cap and trade through the Senate, Obama seeks to impose the “skyrocket” upon us by virtue of EPA’s take over of the basic element of carbon. If Obama can convince the American people of the idea that he’s a centrist, who wishes to “weed out harmful regulation”, then he can probably talk a pig into a ham sandwich.

-Huckfunn

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