Obama cries Foul!

http://news.yahoo.com/obama-something-wrong-countrys-politics-194019280.html

Obama aired his frustration with the ways of Washington at an event in Michigan before pivoting to his re-election campaign and a pair of big-money fundraisers in New York City.

He delivered a condensed version of that message at a fundraiser at the lower Manhattan home of movie producer Harvey Weinstein, where celebrities Gwyneth Paltrow and Jimmy Fallon, were among the approximately 50 guests who paid $35,800 each to attend.

This is a key paragraph that it is OBAMA who is not cooperating, and constantly playing politics.  He says he is against the rich “Fat cats” with their jets and all of that.   HE is the one who uses USA owned Air Force One for yet another private party and political fundraiser, at a wealthy persons private residence and it is HE who charges 35 thousand dollars each to hear him speak!  I know that he does not come to my house, because I don’t have 35 thousand dollars to throw away on a dinner with him. 

Obama said he told his Michigan audience that it deserves better than what it’s been getting from Washington.

“They look at what’s happening in Washington and they think these folks are really from outer space because they don’t seem to understand how critical it is for us all to work together, Republicans, Democrats, independents, in order to move this country forward,” Obama said.

Obama pandered to what he considers our simple stupidity when he refuses to acknowledge that he too is the hated Washington.  More of his method of always pointing at the other guy as the problem.

“We’re going to have to get engaged and we’re going to have to speak out,” Obama said. “We’re going to have to register the fact that we expect more and we expect better.”

Here he goes again.  He has nothing but scorn for the Tea Party movement.  His administration called the Tea party movement activitists, “terrorists”.  He accuses the Tea party people of being the cause of all of our financial problems and then he says the above. 

Unfortunately what we’ve seen in Washington in the last few months has been the worst kind of partisanship, the worst kind of gridlock, and that gridlock has undermined public confidence and impeded our efforts to take the steps we need for our economy,” Obama said after touring a Michigan factory that makes advanced batteries for alternative-fuel vehicles.

Please stop insulting the collective intelligence of the USA citizens.  John Steward may have called the American people “stupid.”  and you may have said that those who do not agree with you “…love to cling to their guns and their religion…”  Yet, it was only a few days ago that you still, after all this time, did not produce a written budget proposal, asked for a blank check, and threatened to “veto” the results of the congressional debate that was not rancorous nor partisan but civil and patriotic.  It was you, Mr. President who failed and exacerbated your failure with your fellow democrat, Harry Reid, who constantly said, “Any bill coming to the Senate from the House is dead on arrival.”

This is like a terrible game of basketball, (a game the president plays a lot ).  The player cries foul, when he is the person doing the foul.  When this is discovered, he claims that the refs are blind and unfair.  Then when this is discovered, he says that we need better refs to enforce the rules.  All the time the player continues to foul the opposite team and to try endlessly to win by fouling.  Obama crying “foul” all the time is a very big part of the problem.

 

Obama not Helping

The President is constantly saying we need to work, but does he work? It seems he is playing golf, having parties, going on vacation and attending political fund-raisers. When does he study, hear briefings, attend update sessions of each cabinet member and just take the needed time to write down his actual agenda?
The President says we need to cooperate. But then he blames the opposition party for everything. What do you think of a person who says on Monday that it is all your fault, that he takes no blame and that you and your backers are the devil and then turns right around and says, “What we need is more cooperation.”? I think of the President as the Whiner and Divider in chief!  Then there is the issue of the so-called Tea Party.  What is the Tea Party?  According to the President and his administration, including the entire Democrat party, the Tea Party members are  the major, if not the sole, cause of all of our problems.  Sounds a lot like the Nazi’s who blamed the Gypsies, the Gays and the Jews for all of Germany’s problems.  Will the Czars of the Obama administration demand that all citizens affiliated with the Tea Party Movement register as “terrorists?”  or be required to wear a yellow tea bag sewn onto their clothing?  Will the children of Tea Party affiliated Americans be vilified and mocked in the public school system and be ostracized in the publicly supported colleges?  The Obama administration is a seething pot of anger that spews forth boiling condemnations of swaths of American citizens as though these American citizens are the enemy.  Maybe they are the enemy of the Obama Administration, but Hey, this is America, after all, and such political opposition is our inherent and constitutional right.  I remember that during the Presidential campaign Candidate Obama said that he would not visit West Virginia because they were not his people.  I think that avoiding a State you are slated to lose is standard practice, but to actually say that the people of that State are not your people betrays your values.  It says that you consider yourself to be President of “your” people, namely those who agree with you, and the others are the enemy!  Sad really!  A good thing and maybe the finest thing for President Obama to do would be not to run for a second term.  It would save a lot of trouble.

Tea Party is good for America

I am the leader of several voluntary organizations. There is one thing that is fearsome, it is apathy. The worst thing that can happen to an organization is for nobody to care. When no one “gives a damn” then the organization is doomed. It’s terminal date has been written by the lack of involvement of its (nominal) members.
America is in trouble. But often organizations do their very best when they are challenged. The pressures of a crisis can cause an apathetic membership to shake off the stupor and rally to the cause.
The Tea party is a grass roots effort at rally. The people involved are not “kooks” or as the Brits accuse, “right wing nutters”. Rather, they are good citizens, working and retired Americans who care about their nation, see it floundering, and want to do their best to help. And the venue they choose is Political organization.
Why? Because they realize that public rally and political pressure are their only means of making a difference. And all of that is very good for America. I really don’t know the actual quote but it goes something like this, All that is needed for a free people to become enslaved is for them to do nothing.

Boehner Needs to worry about Betraying Fellow Republicans

http://news.yahoo.com/boehner-obama-relationship-tested-debt-fight-075022132.html

The way this debt deal is going down, John Boehner needs to worry about holding on to his Speaker position.  Frankly, he shouldn’t worry at all about Obama.  I am sure Obama doesn’t worry about him.

But there is a betrayal in the making and it involves old line Careerist Republicans like Boehner who seems intend on enforcing old school ways of doing business in the Congress. This old school way of thinking includes the continued use of patronage politics, strong-arm tactics, coercion, and political blackmail.  ( Hey that is what they all do behind the closed doors of the Whip with the full approval of the Speaker.) Such tactics have been rumored to have been used against Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, namely, that the Party might try to carve up his district in such a way as to cause him to “automatically” lose the next election.

The newly elected Representatives, many who won with strong Tea Party Movement backing, have promised to change this old school way into a more transparent, open, straight forward system of intellectual integrity, political conviction, and solidity ethical conduct between colleague and not between Speaker loyalists and others.

The game plan for the Reid Boehner bill is to have this bill written in such a way so that it will be acceptable to the whole block of House Democrats who will ally with Boehner loyalists and pass a bill that does not need any support from newly elected conservative Representatives.  In effect such an action is a cynical betrayal of the good faith and courage of the newly elected Representatives who finally agreed reluctantly to vote “yes” to a bill they did not want.

By showing the newly elected House members that they are not needed and are not effective against a coalition of old line House and Senate Careerists like Boehner and Reid, the action alienates the freshmen and forces them to choose obedience to Boehner, or continued political ostracism.  No matter, because the betrayal will have occurred and the Representatives will get their first injection of old line, old school cynicism and duplicity.  An injection that could prove fatal to their idealism and lethal to the future of the Republic.

A solution?  The freshmen need to work hard to keep their base and to stay on in Congress.  This writer believes that many of the brightest and the best are not careerists and will choose not to run again if they feel that their efforts are doomed to inevitable failure.  Their loss may insure continued longevity to Reid and Boehner but it will also guarantee to intellectually bankrupt the Republican party.

Secondly, if they can see their way to continue the fight for Conservative principles, they will need to develop a strategy for replacing the Speaker and his palace guards.  Boehner as a person, a citizen, and a patriot is not the issue. Rather, it is old line careerism and old school political practices that must be replaced by ways that more effectively reflect the mind, will and heart of the electorate.

The Tea Party Movement (TPM) may be hated.  But who hates what is not important?  It may be vilified by the President and Senator Reid and their supporters in the politically motivated press.  But who bothers to try to destroy something that is not meaningful and effective?  There may be setbacks, and maybe some may not regard the Boehner-Reid bill as a betrayal.  Nonetheless, the battle line between the old war horse careerist politicians and the newly elected Representatives is being drawn as we watch.  Actually, the first battles have already been fought and it looks like a draw.  But do not think that the so called “veteran” members of Congress are not scheming to disarm what they see as a threat to their longevity and power.

 

What went wrong with Boehner and how to fix it.

http://news.yahoo.com/debt-limit-vote-postponed-gop-seeks-support-223001521.html;_ylt=As7OO69bLhvtQprEFxd.Wves0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNwZjN0YjZhBGNjb2RlA3dlaWdodGVkY3QEcGtnAzdhYTQ0YTlhLWZmMTItM2RjZC05ZjBjLTUwNTQ4NWFmMDA4ZARwb3MDMQRzZWMDbW9zdF9wb3B1bGFyBHZlcgNjM2ViN2Q5MC1iOTc0LTExZTAtYmZkZi1iNjQwZjMwOWNjOGU-;_ylg=X3oDMTFpNzk0NjhtBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25z;_ylv=3

A good American and a fine Speaker made a serious but not fatal mistake yesterday.  John Boehner forget his own principles.  He strong armed and brow beat his fellow Representatives just like Nancy Pelosi did.  These freshmen Congress members campaigned on the platform of a New and Fresh Change in the way business is conducted in the Capitol.  They are people of philosophical and political conviction who believe what they say.  They are not phonies who talk one way and act another way.  They are sincere members of Congress who intend to stand upon their principles and to work very hard at making those principles serve the good health of the nation.  Either John Boehner, and Eric Cantor forgot that or they simply got caught up in the frenzy of the political moment.  Either way, that it happened is a little sad, but not too much.  Rather, it is a bold indicator that politics as usual in Washington has ended and that a new and more enlightened time has come to our Capitol.

The so-called “Tea Party” backed freshmen Representatives are not to be bought.  They remember the episodes with Mary Landrue and the so-called “Louisiana purchase. (When Congressperson Landrue accepted what was basically a 300 million dollars earmark for her State in return for her vote in favor of the Obama care.)  The conservative members of Congress remember that the 60th vote in the Senate came from Ben Nelson of Nebraska when he too accepted a mega earmark of money for his state in return for his vote.  People were appalled by the purchase of votes by the Obama/Pelosi people and they promised the voter’s back home that they would not do that.  Well, the freshmen and other Congresspersons kept their word and would not be threatened, bullied or bought into voting for a Bill that they did not want.

This is a great day for America and a day for which we should be thankful.  The cynical opinion of the population is that Washington can never be changed.  Many had began to abandon all hope for integrity among our leadership.  Last night’s stand up refusal by the members of the House of Representatives is an affirmation that America is still strong, still brave and still free.  Freedom was heralded last night in the halls of the House of Representatives.  Integrity was affirmed last night in the office of the Majority whip and the Speaker.  The people we elected to represent us and not themselves, did so and did it with courage.

This is not grid lock.  This is not dysfunction.  This is democracy at work.  I know that a lot of people talk about democracy but they do not like the effort involved in making it work.  But “freedom is not free”.  That slogan is often used regarding our military and the need to defend freedom in Iraq or Afghanistan or Libya.  But we need freedom at home, in the USA.  The stance of the Republican conservatives last night was a Patriotic act by sensible, intelligent, responsible, Representatives and they should be applauded and not vilified.

So what to do today?  This writer believes in Speaker Boehner.  He did his best to do what he thought was best.  He was mistaken.  His true stature will be decided today as he meets again with his fellow Representatives.  People whom he has declared and I know he believes are fully and completely his equals.  It will be his respect for this equality that will win the day.  I believe the Speaker should acknowledge that he was not reflective of the will of the Congress.  I believe that he should admit that he too like others was caught up in the frenzy created by Timothy Geithner and Barrack Obama.  He should then ask his fellow congress persons to work diligently with him, yet again, to craft a workable compromise bill that will serve the nation.  For myself, I think that he should acknowledge to those members who we believe he tried to bully that he was sorry about that and ask them for their understanding of his zealous and well-intentioned patriotism because he wanted to do the “right thing.”

Then I believe that Calm and Reasonable Reflection should be mandated.  We already know that August 2nd is a false deadline.  The Treasury has admitted that they have enough money already on hand to pay our debts.  The Social Security Administration has admitted that they have enough Treasury Bonds in the Vaults that will cover payments to Social Security recipients for more than a decade (not counting yearly revenue) ! So we need to stop, regroup, reflect and renew our efforts to create  significant legislation that honestly and realistically tackles the short term need and the long-term problem of our national debt.  For this writer this period of calm should include a day off of work and for those inclined, a day at their respective house of worship.

Do we need a new Speaker?  No.  Not over a tactical error.  Generals make tactical errors all the time. Will we need a new Speaker in the future?  Maybe, if Speaker Boehner continues a strategy that stereotypes duly elected members of Congress as Teapartiers!  If the Majority Whip continues to use the strategy of “Arm Twisting” instead of persuasion using rational and philosophically and politically reasonable argument.  The new climate among the newly elected members of Congress is a volcanic shift in thinking and in practice.  They are not interested in power.  They are interested in reasoned and practical solutions to our national problems starting today and not in ten years.

My hope is that the Speaker and the Majority whip and other old line Representatives will Get it straight, and they may yet save the day.

One last thought.  “The one who makes the rules, wins the game.”  Realistically, it is still the House and the Senate that make the rules.  Obama has not played by the rules but forced new rules on the Congress.  Last night said to the President, who has himself repeatedly name called, criticized and vilified the members of the House of Representatives, “No, Mr. President.  It is not our job to do your job for you. And you will not scare us and bully us and threaten us from the White House. “

Tells Us What You Think. We sure want to Know.

http://news.yahoo.com/boehner-plan-embarrassment-040000090.html

I am including this interview with the leader of the largest tea party group.  Please tell us what you think of the article.  Warning, if you just going to rant, then don’t bother.  We are interested in real and sincere political dialogue on this site.  We are not a forum for rant, rave, name call, finger-pointing or other junk.  But if you have a reasoned position let us know and we WILL publish it.  You ask WHY do I have the warning?  It is because on my call in shows on Blog Talk Radio, I get a lot of cranks who merely rage, rant and ridicule people.  They are a waste of time.  Not as people, of course. Everybody has an opinion.  They have a right to theirs and if their opinion is that life is a rant, a rave, a rage and ridicule, fine.  They can do that but not on my blog.

Congress not Dysfunctional

http://news.yahoo.com/debt-compromise-eyed-under-deadline-squeeze-000255892.html

The key line of this article is toward the end when the author states about the US government, ” The dysfunctional gridlock in Washington has also raised concern over the long-term decline of U.S. economic power and the status of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency.”  This is not dysfunction, this is functionality at it’s very best and highest.  The legislators are actually doing their jobs.  It may seem strange for complacent USA citizens, but this kind of real debate, real legislative work, real differences in political views…all of this indicates a very good and healthy and highly functional government.  Note that nobody is rioting.  We do not have massive labor strikes that spill over into the streets and no one is calling out the military in order to control an unruly population.  It’s just that we have become soft and we do not like conflict and we want all of this to simply be solved and go away so that we can get back to whatever it is that gives us pleasure.  Politics may be a game, but it the real game of governing and the stakes are real and there will be winners and losers- really!!

Harry Reid is Stopping Progress

the house passed the Cut spending, Cap future spending, and balance the Budget Constitutional amendment bill.  As is ALWAYS the case Senator Harry Reid, Democrat, said that the Bill was dead on arrival in the Senate.  How is that compromising Harry?  Anyway, There was great public call in and email and write in to give the Cut, Cap and Balance bill a hearing.  Instead Senate Democrats decided to “table” the bill in the Senate which means that the Democrats decided not to even read, discuss, debate or attempt to amend the House passed bill.  The House tries to solve the debt problem and the Senate says, “dead on arrival”  and then the President says that even if the Senate passes it, he will veto it.  How is that compromise?  But then President Obama gets on TV and tells the nation that the problem is that the “other guys”( Republicans) will not compromise!!  So it looks like we have some really game playing here.  First, it is the President who is supposed to propose the budget.  But Obama says that “ain’t my job , man!”  Instead he throws his responsibility upon the House Republicans and takes the role of scolder, demander and whiner in Chief.  So the Republicans take the responsibility because it is obvious the Democrats will not.  The propose the Ryan Plan.  Not perfect but a very reasonable plan.  But Harry Reid, Democrat of the Sem=nate says, ” Dead on Arrival”  But Reid then goes on TV and says that the Republicans will not compromise.  The Obama says that any plan that does not meet t=his criteria will be vetoed.  But after that Obama goes on Radio and complains that the Republicans will not compromise.  So the House passes the Cut Cap and Balance Bill and Reid refused to compromise…instead he shouts, “Dead on arrival”  and goes to the cameras and complains that the Republicans will not compromise.  Now the Republicans try again with the Boehner Bill but already Reid says, “Dead on Arrival”nd Obama says “I’ll veto it”  and then both go on TV and say, ” it’s the Republicans fault because they will not compromise.”  I believe the American people are a fair-minded people and although they may be calling the Republicans with the message, “Fix this mess.”  I think they can now see that they need to replace the not compromising Democrats at the nest election so that we can get back to functioning government.  It is obvious that the Democrats do not care about functioning government, all they care about is making sure that anything the Republicans do is eith “Dead on Arrival”  or Vetoed.

Speaker Boehner is the Right Man for a Time Such as This

Boehner Stands Firm

 

 

Monday, 25 Jul 2011 02:50 PM

By Christopher Ruddy

 

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As the
Aug. 2 debt-ceiling deadline looms, we should applaud House Speaker John Boehner
for standing firm and not being rolled over by those in the White House and
their media campaign.

Boehner has not yielded to demands for new taxes
and reducing spending cuts. Nor has he acquiesced to demands that the president
be given carte blanche to raise the debt ceiling in the future.

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Ever since the GOP
took control of the House, the president’s approach has been, at worst, one of
willful opposition to new ideas and, at best, simple indifference to fixing the
nation’s problems. Obama and his spin machine now say they need a debt ceiling
agreed to through the next election. Giving him this may not be wise. The debt
ceiling has served as a mighty lever to bring Obama to the table.

Make
no mistake about it — Obama is not Bill Clinton. Obama doesn’t believe in
compromise. When Clinton was faced with a new Republican Congress in 1995, he
did a 180-degree turn on many of his agenda items. He embraced Republican ideas
like massive welfare reform and even slashed capital gains taxes. The system of
give and take and compromise worked and propelled the nation into economic
prosperity.

Compare that to today: The president seems to want it his
way or no way.

Perhaps politics is playing a big role here. Obama is
trying to placate his liberal base, which is angry with him. He won the last
election by promising radical changes in foreign policy, especially when it came
to U.S. policy toward Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran. He defeated Hillary Clinton
largely on these issues.

Frankly, since coming to office, Obama has
gravitated to the center on foreign policy and has done a fairly good job in
that arena. He has kept seasoned veterans in key positions and his recent moves
of Gen. David Petraeus to the CIA, and Leon Panetta, former CIA director, to the
Defense Department, were brilliant.

No longer able to play the
foreign policy card as he did during the campaign, the president has been
focusing on those “evil House Republicans” to keep the liberals
happy.

One hot-button issue for his base is taxes. The president wants to
prove to his liberal base he’s going to go after the wealthy and make them pay.

The problem is that the economy cannot handle new taxes. Speaker Boehner
is to be commended for arguing three simple points: 1. The debt ceiling should
not be raised to allow the president a free ride until after the 2012 election.
2. There should be no additional “revenues” or tax increases. 3. There needs to
be serious spending cuts.

For the most part these spending cuts are not
immediate cuts to the federal budget, but are cuts to the rate of growth of
government, a sensible approach taken by both Ronald Reagan and Clinton that
dramatically improved the country’s finances during the 1980s and ’90s.

Nevertheless, Obama is dead set on new taxes. The Democrats have claimed
that such tax increases could be made by closing corporate loopholes and making
the tax system more fair for everyone.

At first glance, it seems like a
positive idea. But the net effect of this effort, advocated in the Gang of Six’s
plan, is to raise taxes over by an additional $1 trillion in new taxes. This tax
money will be taken from the private sector and moved into government accounts.

Such a move would be counterproductive. First, new taxes will only help
stall the economic recovery. Second, the economy desperately needs new stimulus,
not new taxes.

Obama and his advisers must know this. His 2009 stimulus
plan was not well planned out and only did half the job. True, it kept the
economy from falling off the cliff. At the same time his stimulus, focused on
keeping government employees at work, never gave the economy the appropriate
lift that it needed.

Republicans favor tax cuts, and I believe they
would likely do a deal for more of them.

If Obama did deal — let’s say
for a one-year holiday suspension of the FICA tax for all workers and small
businesses, it would mean more than $600 billion in additional stimulus
immediately put into the economy over the next 12 months.

This would not
only re-energize the entire U.S. economy, it would finally signal a move by
Obama to the center in a powerful way, helping to pave the way for his
re-election.

Can Obama be so bold? As the debt crisis has demonstrated,
the president is preoccupied by his party’s liberal base. The truth is they have
nowhere to go in the next election.

Instead, Obama should follow
Boehner’s path, a pragmatic approach, one that keeps the United States solvent
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