FORWARD! [Reader Post]
Barack Obama’s re-election has adopted a new slogan: “Forward”
It has some really interesting historical predecessors:
Say What? May 1, 2012 Edition
George Will: “We have a president who believes, because he says so, that ATMs and airport ticket kiosks cause unemployment. So that gives you some sense of his grasp of how the economy works.“
George Will: “Mr. Obama, the night he clinched the nomination, said this will be the moment when the rise of the seas stop. Well, if he can stop the seas from rising, why can’t he bring down the gas prices?”
Obama’s Plan: Raise Taxes, Spend More, and Pander Even More
Runaway spending is causing our doom, so why not spend a bit more. This time to pander to the youth in our country:
Obama told the students that since they were born, tuition and fees at colleges have doubled.
“And that forces students like you to take on a lot more loans, there are fewer grants, you rack up a lot more debt,” Obama stated.
“Can I get an Amen for that?” he asked the crowd who cheered, “AMEN!”
Obama’s Welfare Nation – EBT Cards Now Being Used For Bail Money
Welfare spending overall has increased 41%, food stamp enrollment has gone up by 70% since Obama has been in office, 5.4 million people have signed up for Social Security Disability payments. Tack on the massive abuse of EBT cards like this heroin dealer:
Say What? April 23, 2012 Edition [Reader Post]
FoxNews’s Greta Van Susteren on Barbara Boxer saying that GSA corruption goes back decades: “I’ll tell what disturbed me…[is] Senator Boxer said that the GSA has a history of misconduct dating back decades, under Republican and Democratic administrations. When I heard her say that, I said, If there’s a, quote, “history,” if it goes back decades, what in the world were you all thinking as this was going on? History and decades? I mean, all these senators have been up there a long time…[and] they’ve known about this, apparently.”
More Liberal Lunacy From Hollywood And The War On Women
A fading actress and empty vessel has exposed more than her genitalia to the public, Cybil Shepherd known for her appearances in “The Last Picture Show” and for a nude photo session in Playboy, launched into a semi-coherent rant on straw men and GOP bullies who plan to take away her “Constitutional” right to abortions and condoms, during an appearance on “CBS This Morning”.
Elizabeth Warren: Higher Taxes For You….Not For Me
Don’t you just love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning?
Having criticized her Republican opponent for voting against a millionaires’ tax measure, U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren said here Friday that she opted not to pay a voluntary higher tax rate in Massachusetts.
Say What? April 17, 2012 Edition [Reader Post]
Economic genius President Obama: “What drags down our entire economy is the growing gap between the ultra-rich and everyone else.”
Press secretary Jay Carney: “[N]o one ever suggested that implementing the Buffett Rule would contribute in large measure to reducing the deficit.”
Obama’s shiny objects [Reader Post]
World English Dictionary
zombie or zombi (ˈzɒmbɪ)
1. a person who is or appears to be lifeless, apathetic, or totally lacking in independent judgment; automaton
Obama supporters do not generally have much will. They lack independent judgment. They are automatons. They are easily distracted by shiny objects and Barack Obama has a host of shiny things he uses to distract them from the real issues facing the nation.
$3.803 trillion doesn’t stimulate growth, but $3.807 trillion will [Reader Post]
Barack Obama is beating the drums for the Buffett rule, which would net about $4 billion per year, but it’s about growth.
Expanding on his reasons to support the “Buffett Rule,” President Obama said it is “not just about fairness” but economic “growth” as well. (Watch in video above.)