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The President sends his "Non-Regrets"
I found this article quite interesting and TRANSPARENT (rememebr those Buzz Words used often by Obama in 2008?-ya don't hear them anymore because Transparency would sink him like a submarine made from chicken wire based on his record).
From the Wall Street Journal, October 24, 2012:
President Obama doesn't give many interviews these days outside Comedy Central, so it caused a stir Wednesday when editors at the Des Moines Register managed to pin him down and even elicit some news. Specifically, Mr. Obama said he wants to pursue immigration reform in a second term, as well as a budget "grand bargain" with Republicans that includes tax reform.
This will come as a surprise to voters reading the President's just-released 20-page brochure on his second-term agenda, which makes little or no mention of these priorities. Perhaps that's why the White House first demanded that the interview be off the record, making the transcript public only after the Register editor objected in a public blog post.
But the larger reason to be skeptical concerns Mr. Obama's answer to another Register question: Whether he regrets pursuing ObamaCare and other liberal social priorities in his first two years rather than focusing on the economy.
"Absolutely not," Mr. Obama told the Iowa journalists. "Remember the context. First of all, Mitch McConnell has imposed an ironclad filibuster from the first day I was in office. And that's not speculation."
Whoaaaa there, big fella. Mr. McConnell was then and still is the Senate Minority Leader, and in 2009 he had all of 40 votes. Mr. Obama could have pursued any agenda he wanted, and the Des Moines editors wanted to know why he didn't focus on the economy first. Yet Mr. Obama's instinctive reaction is to blame Republican obstructionism that never happened.
In those first days of progressive wine and roses, Mr. Obama managed to peel off three Republican votes for his stimulus blowout in February 2009. He got five Republicans for the trial-bar gift known as the Lilly Ledbetter bill and nine for an expansion of the state children's health program, both in January. That was some ferocious filibuster.
By spring 2009, when Minnesota's Al Franken was seated, the White House had 60 votes and a GOP-only filibuster wasn't even possible. "We have the votes. F-- 'em," declared then-Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, according to the first-100-days chapters of Bob Woodward's new book.
The President is also missing the larger import of the Register's question. As Mr. Obama likes to remind voters now, in 2009 the economy had suffered a financial heart attack and needed to be nurtured back to health. That required careful management and attention to reviving consumer and business confidence.
Yet rather than work with both parties to fashion a growth agenda, he went all-in for a Keynesian spending blowout and subcontracted the details to House Democrats. And rather than wait to see how strongly—and even whether—the economy then recovered, he dove headlong into fighting to pass 40 years of pent-up liberal social policy.
It wasn't merely ObamaCare. The President also tried to impose a cap-and-tax on carbon energy production, end secret ballots for unions via card check, while promising to raise taxes in 2011 until he was stopped when voters elected a GOP House in 2010.
Mr. Obama likes to say he inherited "the most severe economic emergency we've had since the Great Depression," but then he claims that it didn't matter that he staged a two-year fight to remake one-sixth of the economy and threatened to remake another four-sixths.
If recessions following financial crises really are worse than normal, as the President also told the Iowa editors, then why didn't he take special care to postpone legislation that would add new costs to business, undermine confidence and thus weaken the recovery?
Mr. Obama didn't really answer the Register's question, so we will. He didn't focus on the economy because he didn't and still doesn't understand how the private economy works. He doesn't understand that incentives matter, or how government policies and regulation can sabotage growth. He really believes that government is the engine of economic prosperity.
Anyone who thinks the second term will be different should consult Mr. Emanuel's incisive counsel above.
ROBALO'S TAKE: HE IS NOTHING BUT A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER WITH A SOCIALISTIC VIEWPOINT AND TRULY BELIEVES GOVERNMENT, NOT BUSINESS, CAN FIX THE ECONOMY. HE WANTS TO PENALIZE FOLKS FOR BEING SUCCESSFUL AND WANTS TO REWARD LOW-LIFE SLUGS FOR COLLECTING WELFARE AND OTHER GOVERNMENT GIVE-AWAYS. HE BELIEVES IN LARGE GOVERNMENT AND THAT THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE THE MAIN ECONOMIC EMPLOYER. IGNORANT PEOPLE BELIEVE HIS LIES.
MANY FAIL TO REALIZE THAT STARTING WITH YOUR TAX RETURN YOU MUST FILE NEXT YEAR, YOU WILL BE PAYING MUCH MORE IN TAXES THAN UNDER ANY PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION-AFTER ALL, ALL PEOPLE SHOULD EARN THE SAME AND THOSE THAT EARN MORE MONEY SHOULD PAY FOR THOSE THAT DO NOT WORK OR CONTRIBUTE IN A POSITIVE WAY TO SOCIETY. HE IS A DEMOGOGUE PREYING ON THE POOR AND IGNORANT AND IS A RACIST, PROMOTING RACE WARS AS EVIDENCED BY HIS PAST STATEMENTS AND ACTIONS, SUCH AS HIS "TRAYVON OBAMA" REMARK WHERE HE EFFECTIVELY CONVICTED GEORGE ZIMMERMAN (AND BEING A SO-CALLED SPECIALIST IN "CONSTITUTIONAL LAW", OBAMA EXHIBITED HIS CONTEMPT FOR INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY). HE IDOLIZED RADICALS SUCH AS BILL AYERS OF THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND (AYERS BLEW UP GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS IN THE 1960s) AND I AM SURPRISED HE HAS NOT UNDERTAKEN THE PHILOSOPHY AND TEACHINGS OF LOUIS FARRAKAN. HE PROTECTED ERIC HOLDER FOR THE MURDER OF BORDER AGENT BRIAN TERRY WHO WAS MURDERED BY MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS USING GUNS GIVEN TO THEM BY OUR OWN GOVERNMENT UNDER "FAST & FURIOUS". HE WASTED BILLIONS BY GIVING COMPANIES "BAIL OUT FUNDS" UNDER HIS "GREEN INITIATIVE" INSTEAD OF SPENDING THOSE SUMS 0N R&D-HE CHOSE WHAT COMPANIES GOT THE MONEY AND HAS ZERO UNDERSTANDINMG OF PRIVATE ENTERPRISE AND MANY OF THOSE COMPANIES IMMEDIATELYFAILED-WALKING AWAY WITH 100S OF MILLIONS OF TAX DOLLARS GIVEN TO THEM BY OBAMA. HIS FOREIGN POLICY IS A JOKE-HE HAS BLOOD ON HIS HANDS DUE TO HIS INACTION REGARDING BENGHAZI AND THEIR PLEAS FOR MORE SECURITY BEFORE THE ATTACK AND THEN LIED ABOUT THE WHOLE INCIDENT BY SAYING SOME GD ANTI-ISLAMIC MOVIE CAUSED THEIR DEATHS FROM PROTESTERS, NOT A TERRORISTIC ATTACK AND HE BOWED DOWN TO OTHER COUNTRIES AND EFFECTIVELY SAID THE US IS HEAVY-HANDED WITH OTHER COUNTRIES-DAMN RIGHT WE ARE HEAVY-HANDED-WE ARE THE ROLE MODEL FOR THE WORLD YOU DUMBAZZ OBAMA.
VOTE THE BASTERD OUT-SEND HIM BACK TO HIS CRIME-RIDDEN CITY WHERE THEY WANT TO "TAX" BULLETS AND GUNS TO PAY FOR GANG SHOOTING "VICTIMS" MEDICAL COSTS.
From the Wall Street Journal, October 24, 2012:
President Obama doesn't give many interviews these days outside Comedy Central, so it caused a stir Wednesday when editors at the Des Moines Register managed to pin him down and even elicit some news. Specifically, Mr. Obama said he wants to pursue immigration reform in a second term, as well as a budget "grand bargain" with Republicans that includes tax reform.
This will come as a surprise to voters reading the President's just-released 20-page brochure on his second-term agenda, which makes little or no mention of these priorities. Perhaps that's why the White House first demanded that the interview be off the record, making the transcript public only after the Register editor objected in a public blog post.
But the larger reason to be skeptical concerns Mr. Obama's answer to another Register question: Whether he regrets pursuing ObamaCare and other liberal social priorities in his first two years rather than focusing on the economy.
"Absolutely not," Mr. Obama told the Iowa journalists. "Remember the context. First of all, Mitch McConnell has imposed an ironclad filibuster from the first day I was in office. And that's not speculation."
Whoaaaa there, big fella. Mr. McConnell was then and still is the Senate Minority Leader, and in 2009 he had all of 40 votes. Mr. Obama could have pursued any agenda he wanted, and the Des Moines editors wanted to know why he didn't focus on the economy first. Yet Mr. Obama's instinctive reaction is to blame Republican obstructionism that never happened.
In those first days of progressive wine and roses, Mr. Obama managed to peel off three Republican votes for his stimulus blowout in February 2009. He got five Republicans for the trial-bar gift known as the Lilly Ledbetter bill and nine for an expansion of the state children's health program, both in January. That was some ferocious filibuster.
By spring 2009, when Minnesota's Al Franken was seated, the White House had 60 votes and a GOP-only filibuster wasn't even possible. "We have the votes. F-- 'em," declared then-Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, according to the first-100-days chapters of Bob Woodward's new book.
The President is also missing the larger import of the Register's question. As Mr. Obama likes to remind voters now, in 2009 the economy had suffered a financial heart attack and needed to be nurtured back to health. That required careful management and attention to reviving consumer and business confidence.
Yet rather than work with both parties to fashion a growth agenda, he went all-in for a Keynesian spending blowout and subcontracted the details to House Democrats. And rather than wait to see how strongly—and even whether—the economy then recovered, he dove headlong into fighting to pass 40 years of pent-up liberal social policy.
It wasn't merely ObamaCare. The President also tried to impose a cap-and-tax on carbon energy production, end secret ballots for unions via card check, while promising to raise taxes in 2011 until he was stopped when voters elected a GOP House in 2010.
Mr. Obama likes to say he inherited "the most severe economic emergency we've had since the Great Depression," but then he claims that it didn't matter that he staged a two-year fight to remake one-sixth of the economy and threatened to remake another four-sixths.
If recessions following financial crises really are worse than normal, as the President also told the Iowa editors, then why didn't he take special care to postpone legislation that would add new costs to business, undermine confidence and thus weaken the recovery?
Mr. Obama didn't really answer the Register's question, so we will. He didn't focus on the economy because he didn't and still doesn't understand how the private economy works. He doesn't understand that incentives matter, or how government policies and regulation can sabotage growth. He really believes that government is the engine of economic prosperity.
Anyone who thinks the second term will be different should consult Mr. Emanuel's incisive counsel above.
ROBALO'S TAKE: HE IS NOTHING BUT A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER WITH A SOCIALISTIC VIEWPOINT AND TRULY BELIEVES GOVERNMENT, NOT BUSINESS, CAN FIX THE ECONOMY. HE WANTS TO PENALIZE FOLKS FOR BEING SUCCESSFUL AND WANTS TO REWARD LOW-LIFE SLUGS FOR COLLECTING WELFARE AND OTHER GOVERNMENT GIVE-AWAYS. HE BELIEVES IN LARGE GOVERNMENT AND THAT THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE THE MAIN ECONOMIC EMPLOYER. IGNORANT PEOPLE BELIEVE HIS LIES.
MANY FAIL TO REALIZE THAT STARTING WITH YOUR TAX RETURN YOU MUST FILE NEXT YEAR, YOU WILL BE PAYING MUCH MORE IN TAXES THAN UNDER ANY PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION-AFTER ALL, ALL PEOPLE SHOULD EARN THE SAME AND THOSE THAT EARN MORE MONEY SHOULD PAY FOR THOSE THAT DO NOT WORK OR CONTRIBUTE IN A POSITIVE WAY TO SOCIETY. HE IS A DEMOGOGUE PREYING ON THE POOR AND IGNORANT AND IS A RACIST, PROMOTING RACE WARS AS EVIDENCED BY HIS PAST STATEMENTS AND ACTIONS, SUCH AS HIS "TRAYVON OBAMA" REMARK WHERE HE EFFECTIVELY CONVICTED GEORGE ZIMMERMAN (AND BEING A SO-CALLED SPECIALIST IN "CONSTITUTIONAL LAW", OBAMA EXHIBITED HIS CONTEMPT FOR INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY). HE IDOLIZED RADICALS SUCH AS BILL AYERS OF THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND (AYERS BLEW UP GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS IN THE 1960s) AND I AM SURPRISED HE HAS NOT UNDERTAKEN THE PHILOSOPHY AND TEACHINGS OF LOUIS FARRAKAN. HE PROTECTED ERIC HOLDER FOR THE MURDER OF BORDER AGENT BRIAN TERRY WHO WAS MURDERED BY MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS USING GUNS GIVEN TO THEM BY OUR OWN GOVERNMENT UNDER "FAST & FURIOUS". HE WASTED BILLIONS BY GIVING COMPANIES "BAIL OUT FUNDS" UNDER HIS "GREEN INITIATIVE" INSTEAD OF SPENDING THOSE SUMS 0N R&D-HE CHOSE WHAT COMPANIES GOT THE MONEY AND HAS ZERO UNDERSTANDINMG OF PRIVATE ENTERPRISE AND MANY OF THOSE COMPANIES IMMEDIATELYFAILED-WALKING AWAY WITH 100S OF MILLIONS OF TAX DOLLARS GIVEN TO THEM BY OBAMA. HIS FOREIGN POLICY IS A JOKE-HE HAS BLOOD ON HIS HANDS DUE TO HIS INACTION REGARDING BENGHAZI AND THEIR PLEAS FOR MORE SECURITY BEFORE THE ATTACK AND THEN LIED ABOUT THE WHOLE INCIDENT BY SAYING SOME GD ANTI-ISLAMIC MOVIE CAUSED THEIR DEATHS FROM PROTESTERS, NOT A TERRORISTIC ATTACK AND HE BOWED DOWN TO OTHER COUNTRIES AND EFFECTIVELY SAID THE US IS HEAVY-HANDED WITH OTHER COUNTRIES-DAMN RIGHT WE ARE HEAVY-HANDED-WE ARE THE ROLE MODEL FOR THE WORLD YOU DUMBAZZ OBAMA.
VOTE THE BASTERD OUT-SEND HIM BACK TO HIS CRIME-RIDDEN CITY WHERE THEY WANT TO "TAX" BULLETS AND GUNS TO PAY FOR GANG SHOOTING "VICTIMS" MEDICAL COSTS.
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