“The President is Losing it”
Found this over at Jeff’s Protein Wisdom, one of the sites from the Good Old Days when we jumped on the blogging bandwagon in its infancy. Back before everybody and his cat had a blog. We also remember his too long hiatus and our constantly checking back to see if he’d decided to start posting again.
Ancient history, we’re showing our age. Never mind, we’re just glad he’s back doing what he does best: nailing it to the board, pissing off people left, right and center, skewering the blabbermouths with the precision of a brain surgeon and, considering that our enemies don’t have that much of a brain to begin with, that’s quite an accomplishment. How do you skewer something that is small enough to require a microscope to observe?
But we digress, as we tend to do. The articles linked over there are based on the revelations of an alleged Obongo Administration Insider. It could all be bogus, but what is said by said “insider” fits so very well with what anybody with at least half a brain can’t help but conclude from observing Ear Leader’s laughably inept administration.
Short version: Obi-Wreck Obama is so hopelessly above his pay grade, having to actually, for once in his life, DO something rather than just spend his time campaigning for his next charity fuck, that he’s crawling inside his shell, pretending that the outside world doesn’t really exist because it is just too bloody painful a place for him to live in. For one thing, it requires an IQ above that of arugula.
So, faced with a reality that he cannot change, ever-increasing odds against him and a war that he cannot even hope to win, he hides away in his (golf) bunker with his closest sycophants.
Forget the parenthesis, but does that remind you of somebody else too?
This time, Bawreck, would you be as kind as to NOT kill the dog with cyanide first?
For the Puppies™?
Thatisall.
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I’m a failure at logic: ‘just can’t see the wisdom of fixing a trainwreck by sending another train into the wreck.
“Losing it?” The empty poseur never had it. All he ever *had* was being “black”, which he isn’t.
No surprises, but if it’s accurate it may be worse than than we suspected. The scariest part is that this insider thinks he can and may be re-elected in 2012. God forbid…
I am guessing that Obama isn’t going to seek a second term. At least that is what another unnamed “insider” said last week.
I couldn’t imagine ANY scenario where I would want that thankless job.
And given the huge piles of shit the man has had to deal with since taking office, I doubt that ANYone could have gotten through it better than he has. Certainly nobody here.
That’s why I am going to openly campaign for a Beck/Palin or Palin/O’Donnell ticket in 2012. I want to see that “good, common sense” and other folksy philosophy go to work on those tough problems.
This says it ALL
DJ, I agree to some extent.
The economic crisis was bound to happen at some point, since unsustainable economic situations tend to revert to equilibrium at some point. It just happened to happen in his watch. The fact that the crisis happened was not Obama’s fault. The foundations for the crisis were laid by several pro-big-government administrations (Dems and Reps). It was simply a mixture of politicians buying votes with tax-dollars and economists supporting theories that pretty much every European country has proven to be simply wrong.
However, the president’s reaction should have been different, especially since he had (AFAIU) a super majority. The idea of trying to mend a debt and currency crisis by loading on more debt and printing more money is ludicrous. It would have been his responsibility to take that leadership responsibility and explain to his party and his country why severe fiscal and personal pain right now is better than even worse pain at some later point.
It is hard to imagine that the man who was voted to the highest office of the most powerful nation in the world is not able to understand that government cannot create full employment. The world simply does not work like that (just a recent example).
I certainly do not envy the man his job, but he had a one-in-lifetime chance of taking all the advance approval, the water-tight majority and the extremely positive media influence and guiding the nation through the first 4 years of a very tough but inevitable adjustment process. The task would have been grand: Reducing the size of the state, reducing the powers of the FED, reduce implicit and explicit debt etc. But I believe that he could have explained that to his party and to the country as a whole. A chance wasted.
DJ Allyn, ITW said the following:
I see youve “moderated” your verbage DJ. Somewhat Cowardly, no?
the economic crisis was caused by the democrats with their community reinvestment act while at the same time they covered up the losses at freddy and franny until the elections then they tried to blame it on busch.that was the major reason for the housing bubble and the affirmative action market melt down.the problem with busch was not using the veto on spending however the national socialist democRATS have out spent all all presidents combined and purposely put us in a huge hole that we might not get out of.so watch out the tar is being warmed up and the feathers are being prepared.
LC Panzermann said the following:
Now, now, Kumpel, you should know that that’s just not true. It worked wonders for the Weimar Republic, didn’t it?
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Oops…
Never mind. I was holding my history book upside down again.
And why aren’t the Imperial Proofreader Brigades telling me when I fark up and forget to insert a link to the post I’m talking about anymore?
That’s it, it’s coming out of your pay, you lazy bastitches!
LC Panzermann said the following:
Again, I am not sure ANY reaction would have yielded any better results only two year (or even six years) later. This was a result of bad fiscal and economic policy going back thirty years, with each subsequent Congress and Administration building on the mistakes of their predecessors.
Obama had the luck of being able to man the barn door after the horses got out. He also had only the people that had helped get us in this situation to “advise” him as to how to get out. It is really hard to say whether his actions up to this point prevented further problems or not — but I don’t think they made things any worse.
As far as that “super majority” meme, the Dems never really had sixty solid votes. At best, they’ve had 52 solid votes counting Bernie Saunders. The rest of that sixty are Conservo-Dems who might as well be your RINOs. The point is, if the Dems had actually had that “super majority”, we’d all have single payer health care right now and the Republicans would have been unable to obstruct anything.
LC Panzermann said the following:
About as ludicrous as waging two wars while cutting taxes and then keeping that expenditure off-the-books? By insisting that the Bush tax increase for the rich not expire at the end of this year? (That alone would add $700 billion to the deficit, ja know…)
In the past, spending DID pull us up and out of financial troubles. The problem now is that we no longer have a manufacturing base in this country. So we spend money and that money does not go back into OUR economy, it goes into CHINA’s economy. Why? Because of insane “Free Trade” agreements.
Do you have any idea how many manufacturing plants have closed up shop here and moved to China alone? The figure I’ve heard is that in just the last ten years, the number has exceeded ten thousand. We cannot sustain ourselves this way.
Oops, life calling on line two….
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Okay I only have a minute before the shuttle picks me up…
Gladiator said the following:
Nope. It’s just that I didn’t want to make an inaccurate statement by referring to people here as “mental giants”.
(maybe some of you….)
Alright, have a nice day, and enjoy Constitution Day. I have thirty two hours of work to cram into twenty four, so my break time is over…
Hey DJ, thanks for your response.
True. The math I have seen for large European nations to get out of this hell hole is looking at more like a full generation’s time. I guess America with its fast economic metabolism and higher degree of financial liberty could get it done within a decade.
Again, I agree. It started in the 70ies. That’s when the idea of government taking on more and more social responsibility grew and was generally welcomed across the political aisle. Had either party’s base really opposed the growing role of the state strongly, this spiral of doom would have been cut short. Actually, this was a universal theme across The West.
I disagree on this part. At least to my somewhat uninvolved eye, the reason that a universal American Krankenversicherung did’t pass the lower house was the actual monstrosity of the bill itself. If Obama had really wanted to insure the 40mn uninsured Americans, instead of massively increasing government power over an entire sector, he could have simply done that with a lean and mean bill (something like the mandatory minimum levels of motor liability insurance in some states). Paying for a certain level of minimum coverage for those earning below a certain threshold might have been considered Unamerikanisch by many but would surely have passed the house, wouldn’t it ?
Spending can do that, definitely. Government spending ? Possible, but not so likely. The only thing that a government can efficiently spend large sums of money on and hope to increase aggregate utility by more than it took away by borrowing the money is by building infrastructure. But those things have nasty pitfalls. Most large infrastructure projects need almost a decade of planning and lawyer chasing before the first worker can lift a shovel. The full economic benefit might take even longer to be enjoyed.
If Obama had announced the construction of a national broadband network to allow companies to supply internet services to every corner of the country, that might have been an interesting idea. But even that might have taken a year or two to plan before the digging actually started, I guess. In the absence of such plans, the money borrowed is mostly squandered.
Mate, just two or three thoughts on this:
a) just remember that you are talking about the US of A. Not just any crappy bunch of serfs. If the government were to take off their paws of the economy for a moment, the American spirit would find the next big thing and make money and jobs out of it. Heck, my people don’t even have their own word for making money. With the exception of the tank and the gas chamber, anything of importance in the 20th century was invented in the USA. Wealth is created by liberty and not by government decree. The last best place for that is the US.
b) I fully agree that the loss of manufacturing base in the US is nothing but frightening. But: If China for some (ultimately stupid) reason were to decide to not sell all their American-invented and American-developed goods to you poor Amis anymore, don’t you believe that fridges, TVs, VCRs, computers and tools wouldn’t be manufactured in the US again and hellishly soon ? Of course they would be a lot more expensive and maybe even of lesser quality. But Chinese workers are getting more expensive every year anyway, so that edge is waning quickly.
c) You know how Germany kept its manufacturing base ? By not increasing real wages for the last 10-15 years and by curbing union influence in small to medium size businesses. Only the large companies are union organized. Management at SME’s makes good use of local workers’ councils for maintaining good company-worker relations, but the grubby unions are kept out of the picture by silent agreement.
Emperor Misha I said the following:
Now, now, Kumpel, you should know that that’s just not true. It worked wonders for the Weimar Republic, didn’t it?
I have so many bad things to say about the Weimar Republic, I would be banned from the Internet if I even tried to post half of it. I will only mention two things: the 1928 Law on Firearms and Ammunition
and the inflation which made my great-grandfather to go from a reasonably wealthy man to a disturbed fellow who could only afford a woolen blanket and two packs of cigarettes from his live savings after the conversion. He put a bullet through his skull not too long afterwards. He didn’t care about gun control for some reason.
Gods, how I hate trespasses on liberty…
Emperor Misha I said the following:
Ya’d have ta pay the one brain damaged monkey you use, to have it come out of it’s pay.
Should never have hired a Democrat.
Delta Joker (or whatever youse military types call the J) peeped:
Seeing the original piles of ordure, Teh One™ said, “Let them become mountains.” And it was so.
Of course! Back in the 70s everything was good! We were ruled by the infallible Richard the Crafty, Jerry the Wise, & the amazing Jimmy Neutron®! Under their governance I myself was younger, more confident, & neither fat nor bald. Oh, for the Old Days™..
And Teh One™ decreed that the barn be burned, for it was not big enough. And it was so. And Teh One™ rested and played golf.
Like “Tax Cheat” Tiny Tim, whom Congress & the eeevil Republicans forced–forced, I tell you!–upon his Oneness.
Oh. how good this thread has been.
All of the collapse of our nations economy has been due to increases in government since the 70′s. Well, actually since the 30′s. But we won’t go back that far. If you’ve seen the charts of deficit and employment, the recent destruction has been over the last 3 1/2-4 years. We were doing pretty damn well right up until the left actually took the reins in early 07, then complete comtrol in 09. Even WITH 2 wars, blahblah, etcetera, ad infinitum. Look at the charts compiled by the feds themselves to see those numbers.