Weekly Open Thread – “Bring It On” Edition – Bumped

Three Reconstructive surgeons were one-upping each other in the bar at some conference at a tropical location.

SURGEON 1: “I had a case where a young piano prodigy lost a hand in a car accident. I reattached it, and he went on to win the Van Cliburn prize last year.”

SURGEON 2: “One of my patients was a man who lost his sight in Iraq. I replaced his eyes with cadaver eyes in a very lengthy operation, and he sees 20/20 now.”

SURGEON 3: “There was a woman riding a horse, not paying attention, and she was hit by a locomotive. All I had to work with was a wig, some teeth, and the two hindquarters of the horse. And, now SHE’s the Speaker of the House!”

@Aye:

Aye says: 3
@Ivan:

Hey Ivan…

You’ve left crumbs on the carpet here and here.

Hey yapping dog, when will you apologize for your slander? Oh yeah, I forgot, you have no honor.

Never mind, I retract the question.

Obama debate? Without a script or teleprompter? It will NEVER happen!

Alphonso Bedoya, hi,
very funny thank’s

On July 15th Obama seemingly did take his side of the debt issue to the American people.

Charlie P Brannan has found and exposed 36 Obama lies and deceptions among Obama’s short answers to cherry-picked questions from friendly reporters.

Enjoy.

My opinion….
If this was the best Obama could do in ”taking his side to the American people,” we’ve got nothing to worry about.
Just keep blasting away at his lies with these truths.
Maybe a few in the media will pick up on it.

If this really is a debate (fight, whatever you want to call it) between Obama and Paul Ryan, then Paul Ryan is raking up the points!

“I was pretty new when Clinton was president,” Ryan says. “But I learned then that presidents serve themselves well when they say the same thing in public as they do in private, dealing with congressional leaders earnestly and honestly.”

“[Obama] has made it harder to establish trust, which will make it harder to find compromise,” Ryan says. “As much as he wants to come off as a leader, every time he talks about Republicans holding out to save fat-cat corporate-jet loopholes — which he knows is false — or leaks alleged spending cuts to the press, he reduces his leadership. He knows how that damages his credibility up here. Yet he continues to spin.”

“This is, unfortunately, the way he operates,” Ryan says. “This is his pattern of behavior, this is his personality. For the next 18 months, it will probably be like this. It’ll be in-your-face class warfare, with bitter appeals to envy, fear, and anxiety, plus the demonization of the other side’s motives.”

OUCH!

We quickly learned that all of Obama’s promises came with expiration dates.
But now – because of this Obama/Ryan/Cantor blow up – we just learned that even Obama’s hissy fits come with expiration dates!

John Hayward puts it this way in Obama Temper Tantrum Reaches Expiration Date
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~”I will not yield on this.” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Remember last week, when President Obama threw a fit and stormed out of budget negotiations with the House Republican leadership? Do you recall what made him blow a fuse? It was when House Majority Leader Eric Cantor suggested a short-term deal to raise the debt limit a bit, because Democrats and Republicans could use more time to settle their differences.
[Obama’s] response to Cantor’s short-term deal proposal was to snarl, “I’ve reached my limit. This may bring my presidency down, but I will not yield on this.” Then he walked out of the room.

The White House encouraged congressional leaders to reach a major deficit-reduction deal by offering them a little more time……..Obama would accept a short-term increase in the federal government’s $14.29 trillion borrowing limit if congressional leaders reach agreement on a “significant” deficit-reduction plan before Aug. 2 but need more time to pass legislation…

What happened to the mighty lion who gave Eric Cantor a face full of his swishing tail, because opposing short-term deals was important enough to risk his presidency?

A couple of things have changed last week. The big one is that Obama sees the momentum of the debt ceiling battle turning against him. His polls are horrible. The Mitch McConnell plan to give him full control over the national debt provoked outrage. His scare tactics have blown up in his face. Even the media is growing uncomfortable with his performance.

The problem for Obama and the Democrats is that while a distressing amount of the Republican leadership appears willing to cave in and embrace the Gang of Six $20 Trillion National Debt Plan, it won’t be ready for a vote by August 2. It’s only a six-page proposal right now. It takes time to blow that up into 2000 pages of legislation that nobody will read before voting on it.

Hence, the White House is suddenly all in favor of the short-term deal Obama said he will not yield on. Give him a day or two, and he’ll make a speech where he insists, “As I have always said, a short-term agreement is a wise measure to give Congress the time it needs for crafting the best possible legislation.” Then he’ll portray himself as taking the wise middle road between “those who say” Washington should be burned to the ground, and “others who say” Washington should just spend $20 trillion right now, to purchase prosperity and comfort for every single citizen.