Sock puppet Obama to meet with Reid and Boehner today to continue the charade of "negotiating"...

the picture below says it all.  Aren't those items in reverse order?

This is all nothing more than a bunch of political theater - on both sides of the aisle.  I'm sure they'll drag it out until the 17th, which is the date chosen for government default.  There's plenty of tax revenue to pay the interest, but we are constantly threatened with Social Security payments not being made. 

Really?

I haven't heard one politician mention cutting welfare or food stamps.  And it they did do that, consider what just happened in Louisiana when WalMart decided to allow people to purchase with their EBT cards even though the verification system was down.  Never mind "no limit living", how about "no limit shopping?"

This is exactly what this administration wants.  Chaos.  Wait until there's a real emergency.  If you live in a high density area, I highly recommend the following article.

From Natural News.com:

EBT card food stamp recipients ransack Wal-Mart stores, stealing carts full of food during federal computer glitch

Dr. Milton R. Wolf on Obamacare...

My comments:

Why have we heard so little of Obamacare during all the debt "crisis" talk?  Lurking just around the corner is a debt bomb the size of New Hampshire that will be dropped on the country. 

Over the last few days billions of dollars have been flushed down the toilet.  People's life savings have been decimated.  Obama's response?  A multi-million dollar vacay at Martha's Vineyard.

From Dr. Wolf:

Obamacare or America? 
Liberals’ cruel, empty promises hurt rich and poor alike

[...]America is proving true the prophetic words of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher: “The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.” What America’s liberals do not understand is that there is one fate far more cruel than not receiving other people’s money: It is being falsely promised that you will receive other people’s money in the first place. It’s time politicians quit making promises they can’t keep with money they don’t have. It’s time we be honest about the severity of this patient’s condition. read the rest

Michele Bachmann speaks...

Obama plays golf.

You can't fool the markets...



Linked by Larwyn's Linx at Doug Ross @ Journal - and we thank them...

Marco Rubio on fire and speaking truth to power. John Kerry? Not so much...

You absolutely must watch this.  It will cheer you up...




H/T Hot Air

Obama campaigning on our dime...

again.

While perusing yet another debt ceiling article, this one at Fox News,  the following sentence jumped out at me:  Emphasis mine...

The kind of grand bargain that sends thrills up Washington legs was just never going to happen with a deadline eight days away and the most consequential presidential election in a generation already underway. source

My question is this:  Why in hell are these feckless morons in Washington, with Obama being the most feckless of them all, campaigning for an election taking place more than a year in the future?  They are not receiving a rather hefty salary to campaign but to do the job we sent them to do.

Obama took time off today from the ongoing Kubuki theater called negotiating to speak to La Raza, one of the most racist and subversive organizations in the country.  It is this sort of shenanigans that make people so angry.  Listen to this excerpt from his speech:

But we can’t just close our deficits by cutting spending . . .

And that’s why people from both parties have said that the best way to take on our deficit is with a balanced approach –- one where the wealthiest Americans and big corporations pay their fair share, too. (Applause.) Before we stop funding energy research, we should ask oil companies and corporate jet owners to give up special tax breaks that other folks don’t get. (Applause.) Before we ask college students to pay more to go to college, we should ask hedge fund managers to stop paying taxes that are lower in terms of rates than their secretaries. Before we ask seniors to pay more for Medicare — (applause) — before we ask seniors to pay more for Medicare, we should ask people like me to give up tax breaks that we don’t need and weren’t even asking for. (Applause.)

So, NCLR, that’s at the heart of this debate. Are we a nation that asks only the middle class and the poor to bear the burden? After they’ve seen their jobs disappear and their incomes decline over a decade? Are we a people who break the promises we’ve made to seniors, or the disabled, and leave them to fend for themselves?

Exactly what burden are the middle class and poor bearing?  They don't pay taxes and, in fact, in most cases get money back from the government.  Your money and my money.  And exactly who is suggesting we go after the seniors or the disabled?  Not only do we fund his campaigning but he manages to insult us while doing it. 

As Keith Koffler of White House Dossier said in a recent article about Obama's speech to La Raza:

The frightening thing here is not that Obama has gone into a political mode similar to that which we saw just before Election Day 2010, when he resorted to calling Republicans enemies, suggested without proof that foreign money was funding the Chamber of Commerce’s political work, said Republicans don’t want black people to vote and that they had a master plan to keep the economy from improving in order to seize power, and so on.

The frightening thing is that he believes this, in the idea that people with different philosophies than his are evil and un-American. It’s wrong when anyone – liberal or conservative – takes such a position. It’s scary when the president of all of us does.  read it all

Frightening indeed!!

Obama "summons" the other branches of government, "demands" explanation...

while we wait with bated breath for the latest press conference.

Maybe you're waiting with bated breathe, but I think I'll sit this one out.  Listening to the entire 31 minutes of Obama spewing nonsense yesterday has taxed my ability to suffer through even more of his blah, blah.

Allow me to add a bit to my prediction:  

At the end of this Kabuki theater, we will have higher taxes, more spending, no significant cuts, and the debt ceiling will once again be raised.

About that "gang of six" proposal.  Could it have been the plan for them to present a proposal asking for higher taxes, thereby giving Obama the idea to renege on his original deal, giving Boehner the ability to call off the negotiations?  Obama raised his bet after the "gang of six" threw their chips on the table.

I voted for Mike Crapo, one of the "gang", and have had conversations with him.  He didn't appear to be a "raising taxes" kind of person. There is something going on that we don't know.  Actually, there's alot going on we don't know.

T. Christopher, over at Republican Redefined, has the best summary of the debt negotiations I've read today.

President Obama: More Full of Crap than the Hudson River

I hope I'm wrong about my prediction but at my advanced age, I've heard this song and dance for much longer than most of my readers.

If Obamba thought this was such an "urgent matter", perhaps he should have spent less time on the golf course, throwing lavish parties, and taking multiple vacays.  Just sayin'...






More:

New York Post:  Man-made disaster: Debt-fight debacle

Sarah Speaks:

Lame Duck President

by Sarah Palin on Friday, July 22, 2011 at 7:11pm

After listening to the President’s press conference today, let’s keep in mind the following:

This is the same president who proposed an absurdly irresponsible budget that would increase our debt by trillions of dollars, and whose party failed to even put forward a budget in over 800 days! This is the same president who is pushing our country to the brink because of his reckless spending on things like the nearly trillion dollar “stimulus” boondoggle. This is the same president who ignored his own debt commission’s recommendations and demonized the voices of fiscal sanity who proposed responsible plans to reform our entitlement programs and rein in our dangerous debt trajectory. This is the same president who wanted to push through an increase in the debt ceiling that didn’t include any cuts in government spending! This is the same president who wants to slam Americans with tax hikes to cover his reckless spending, but has threatened to veto a bill proposing a balanced budget amendment. This is the same president who hasn’t put forward a responsible plan himself, but has rejected reasonable proposals that would tackle our debt. This is the same president who still refuses to understand that the American electorate rejected his big government agenda last November. As I said in Madison, Wisconsin, at the Tax Day Tea Party rally, “We don’t want it. We can’t afford it. And we are unwilling to pay for it.”

Now the President is outraged because the GOP House leadership called his bluff and ended discussions with him because they deemed him an obstruction to any real solution to the debt crisis.

He has been deemed a lame duck president. And he is angry now because he is being treated as such.

His foreign policy strategy has been described as “leading from behind.” Well, that’s his domestic policy strategy as well. Why should he be surprised that he’s been left behind in the negotiations when he’s been leading from behind on this debt crisis?

Thank you, GOP House leaders. Please don’t get wobbly on us now.

2012 can’t come soon enough.

- Sarah Palin

Obama does his best Captain Queeg impersonation...

the meltdown continues.

Is it possible to lie for 31 minutes straight?

Why, yes.  Yes, it is!

I love the part where he threatens to withhold SS and disability checks again. Yes indeed.  Those seniors are going to be eating dog food.   If he wants to make cuts, how about taking back the 365 million of taxpayer dollars  the first woman is giving away to build grocery stores?  It's a good start.

Lots of talk about the "Gang of Six" plan and not until the end does he even mention anything about Cut, Cap, and Balance.  He invokes the name of Ronald Reagan while talking about "fairness" and brings up the "little people."  You know who they are.  They're the folks that aren't eating Kobe beef, playing golf every weekend, and getting ready to head off for another multi-million dollar vacay.  

Pour your favorite adult beverage if you plan on watching this.



John Boehner manages to sound like an adult.  It's about time.  Good on him!

Breaking: Styrofoam cups to stay in WH cafeteria, the First Woman displays arm pits, and uses taxpayer money to have photo ops...

we are officially screwed.  Really!

The debt ceiling Kubuki theater continues.  But, not to worry.  The house voted 179-234 to keep the Styrofoam cups in the WH cafeteria.  What the hell is wrong with these fools?  We're not paying them a salary to sit around in Washington and debate the merits of Styrofoam vs some other form of cup.  H/T Red Dog Report via Weasel Zippers.

Allow me to remind you of my prediction:

Taxes will go up and the debt will rise. End of story.

Meantime, the secret meetings continue where people who could give a rip about this country are debating about how to spend our money. Once again, my little brain cannot wrap itself around this nonsense.  These people work for us, not the other way around.  How dare them meet in secret?  Is it so we won't know who's screwing us the worse? 

One way they spend our money is to allow the first woman to fly around on our dime to campaign for her worthless husband while she steals the thunder of the people who really did the work of building a house.   In the process, we are treated to images that make us the laughing stock of the world.

Did Ty Pennington just let a whoopsie or was he overcome by the unspeakably beautiful sight of her armpits?  All the excruciating details are at MOTUS - and we thank her. 

I Have Really Smart Friends

Something I learned early on (from someone way smarter than me), was to always surround yourself with the smartest people you could find and to copy what successful people do. 

Yesterday I posted some links on Marxism, and today two of those people had more to say.  Jim Gourdie, of Conservatives on Fire, left a link to an article tying the Cold War and Marxism to the environmental movement from a fine site that is new to me:  The Truth Shall Set You Free:

*The Cold War Lives On: Gorbachev Exposes Global Communist Environmentalism Conspiracy.

Jim also reminded us of this:   Obama’s War Against Americans is Relentless. His Primary Attack Force is the EPA.


Yesterday, Always On Watch posted the Ten Planks of Marxism which I linked to.  Today she has it all wrapped in Agenda 21, the premier United Nations program designed to limit the rights of humans under the guise of designing eco-friendly and sustainable cities:  And The Logical Conclusion Is?

You see folks, none of this has anything to do with "saving Mother Earth."  It has to do with control.  It is the shoving of people into smaller and smaller areas, limiting their mobility with such things as electric cars, and controlling our food and energy sources.  A populace that is kept all squished up together with no real means of escape is an easily controllable populace. 

More:

New Zealand Blog:   Sustainable Development’ Explained

And yet another smart person in my arsenal is Republican Mother, who has spent considerable time vetting and connecting dots (it's what she does best!) about the Forum for the Future in"   Breaking Down Planned - Opolis


Are John Bircher's crazy?


Heck, I don't know.  I do know that in the following video, compliments (ok - I stole it) of SmashABanana (who went to much trouble to retrieve it when it was "removed by user"  - and we thank him!),  I didn't hear anything that couldn't be verified as factual.  It appears the video was made about the end of 2009 or early 2010.  


Watch it in view of what has happened since then.  You will, and should be, alarmed. 



Is the "Religion of Peace" responsible for the bombing in Norway?  

They claim they are and seem mighty proud.  Pigs  (no insult to real pigs intended.)

The Blaze:  Bloodied and Battered: See the Incredible Pictures of the Oslo Blast Victims
warning: very graphic

Confused about McConnel's debt ceiling proposal?...

you're not alone.

I've reached the point of not having a clue as to what's going on with the debt talks.  And why should I?  Everything is hush-hush and secretive.  Aren't you all tired of these elitist bastards in Washington playing games with our money?  Do you get a tingle up your leg when Obama calls you ignorant, tells you to "eat your peas" (what kind of dumb-ass thing is that for a president to say??), and threatens to deprive granny of her social security check when the facts say there is plenty of income and reserves for such an event to not happen?  Pundette puts that little statement in a deep, dark hole:  About those empty coffers

Pat Austin, over at And So It Goes In Shreveport, has a great compilation of what different sites are saying - and we thank her.

Mitch McConnells's National Game of Chicken
 
In the blogging world the advice is to always add something new to the discussion.  Well, how about this? I have nothing to add to the discussion.  I hear these elitist politicians endlessly talking about this cut and that cut, but never do I hear anything about the Department of Education, the EPA (one of the biggest and most dangerous job-killing departments ever dreamed up), or any of the  myriad of pork barrel  spending for bridges to nowhere, new casinos, or the studies of monkeys suffering from PMS.

To add even more insult we get a daily gloat review of the millions upon millions of dollars collected on both sides of the aisle by the different potential nominees to run for president.  It's obscene and should be stopped.

"[T]he sheer incompetence and, in some cases, mendacity, of the current crop of statist politicians in both the legislative and executive branches seem likely to bring on an economic crisis that will actually force Americans to decide between a constitutional restoration and a full embrace of statism. ... This pantomime deficit-reduction process is evidence that those in charge have lost their mental grip on the true dimensions of the fiscal crisis. Once they have lost their mental grip, their economic grip -- and then their political grip -- also will soon slip away, followed, perhaps, by a restoration of liberty." --columnist Tony Blankley  (H/T to Patriot Post via Political Brambles

About those peas?

From Political Clown Parade:

Photoshop™ Of The Day: Eat Your Own Damn Peas

That's all...

It's Sunday...

the sun is shining, the temperature is going to be perfect, and God is still in charge.

Sarah Palin speaks out on Obama and debt:

From her Facebook page:

The Sugar Daddy Has Run Out of Sugar; Now We Need New Leaders

Barack Obama’s big government policies continue to fail. He should put a link to the national debt clock on his BlackBerry. The gears on that clock have nearly exploded during his administration. Yesterday’s terrible job numbers should not be a surprise because it all goes back to our debt. Our dangerously unsustainable debt is wiping out our jobs, crippling our economic growth, and jeopardizing our position in the global economy as the leader of the free world.

[...]But let me tell you where real hope lies. It’s not the hopey-changey stuff we heard about in 2008. Real hope comes from realizing how God has blessed our exceptional nation, and then doing something about it. We have been blessed with natural resources, hardworking entrepreneurs, and a Constitution that preserves the greatest form of government ever devised by man. If we develop those natural resources, allow our entrepreneurs to keep and invest more of what they earn, and adhere to the time-tested truths of our Constitution, we will prosper and endure.

But first and foremost we must tackle our debt. We don’t have the luxury of playing politics as usual. We need real leaders who will put aside their own political self-interest to do what is right for the nation. And if they don’t emerge… well, America has a do-over in November 2012.

 Read it all

I heard a rumor Obama was on 60 minutes...

I didn't tune in.

It seems Timothy Geithner wants to raise the debt limit by 2 TRILLION dollars.  What?  Doug Ross has provided us with the details - and we thank him.

From Creative Minority Report:  

Dead Rat Bounce

When you are the President and something goes right, you get the credit. I don't begrudge that for a second. Most people view the killing of bin Laden as a good thing, and the President has experienced a slight uptick in his polling numbers as a result.

That's the good news for the President. He better enjoy it. read it all

Reaganite Republican, that handsome man, has made me his featured blog this week.  That means I'll have to post some insightful, intelligent, well-punctuated material. Oh, the pressure.

Fantasy Bishball

Meantime, we had our draft choices for Fantasy Bishball this evening.  What is Bishball?  Glad you asked.  Some of you have probably heard of fantasy baseball.  You draft a team and then track their stats.  I understand it can get pretty brutal.

Being the good, solid and devout (whatever that is) Catholics we are, we decided to play Bishball.  Each of us picked three bishops to follow from now until the beginning of Advent.  We earn points for different cool stuff they do, like smiting dragons and hanging heretics.  Ok - maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration.   In reality, we earn points for every good article they write, homily they may give, or any time another blogger or newspaper writes something good about them.   We could earn extra points if they call Pelosi a bad Catholic, or suggest Joey Plugs become an Episcopalian.

We have our own blog set up by LarryD of Acts of the Apostasy (we love Larry) who was the originator of this whole idea ('cause he's a little nuts.)   My team, Mighty Mitres, has a solid lineup of three bishops;  James Conley of Denver, Paul Etienne of Cheyenne, and Salvatore Cordileone of Oakland.  I'm going to kick some Catholic derriere! 

I just may have to hit up Odie the Woodsterman for a team logo...