Related: 2006 All Over Again
So wherever he shows up he is not helping.
"Obama, panel veer into debate on tax cuts" by Associated Press | October 5, 2010
WASHINGTON — Intending to talk about colleges and worker training, President Obama suddenly found himself yesterday in a spirited, election-year debate with a business advisory group about whose tax cuts should be extended and for how long.
At a meeting of the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board, Harvard economist Martin Feldstein pressed Obama to keep all the Bush-era tax cuts, not just the middle-class cuts the president wants to extend.
Talk about pushing the agenda.
Don't worry; they will do that in the lame-duck after the losses. Wouldn't want to have to use the filibuster later to block the rest. That way Democrats can pretend they stand up for workers and middle-class people.
The fact is we have too many taxes to pay for too much tyranny -- all based on lies.
“That would give a boost to confidence,’’ Feldstein declared. William Donaldson, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, added that an extension would allay business and consumer uncertainty.
Obama replied that his stand would benefit 98 percent of American taxpayers. “You’d think [that] would provide some level of certainty,’’ he said.
Little sarcasm there?
Obama also reiterated his view that top-income tax brackets would do little to boost the recovery, since the wealthy aren’t holding off on buying flat-screen televisions and other big-ticket purchases for lack of a tax cut. Plus, he said, those tax cuts are unaffordable.
“If we were going to spend $700 billion, it seems it would be wiser having that $700 billion going to folks who would spend that money right away,’’ he said.
Did he really say that after the bank bailouts and the stimuloot?
Tell me he didn't really say that.
Please, tell me he didn't say that.
Obama dismissed the notion that the well-off — he included himself — would simply “take our ball and go home’’ if they didn’t continue to get a big tax cut.
Actually, that is exactly what the upper class does; it's called capital flight, and your country goes down the drain quick.
Of course, if we had the government in charge of the money supply like the Constitution says -- and not the private bank, as is the case now with the Federal Reserve -- then the president wouldn't have such worries.
Congressional Democratic leaders have postponed a vote on tax cut extensions until after the November election, but Obama has accused Republicans of holding middle-class cuts hostage by demanding top-end cuts, too....
Yeah, because they were hoping to use it as a campaign issue.
See: Democrats Tax Trap Left Empty
Yeah, nothing they are using or saying is working.
They had their chance and they failed.
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And look who shows up at your door every four years after abusing you the whole time, liberals:
"Obama strains to sway core of liberals" by Peter Baker, New York Times | October 6, 2010
WASHINGTON — With four weeks until congressional elections that will shape the remainder of his term, President Obama is increasingly focused on generating enthusiasm within the base that helped put him in the White House two years ago, from college students to blacks.
But Obama has focused much of his prodding — and not a small amount of personal pique — on the liberals most deflated by the first two years of his presidency.
Yeah, the SCOLDING goes over REAL GOOD after the BACK-STABBING!
See: Obama's Political Panic
He took it all back the next day.
Assuming that many independents are out of reach, White House strategists are counting on Obama to energize, cajole, wheedle, and even shame the left into matching the Tea Party movement momentum that has propelled Republicans this year.
He has SOME NERVE!!!
As he holds rallies aimed at college students and minority groups, sends e-mail to his old list of campaign supporters, and prepares to host a town hall-style meeting on MTV, the president is essentially appealing to his liberal base to put aside its disappointment in him.
He is really a very insulting and distasteful president -- just like the last guy.
Without offering regrets for policy choices that have angered liberals, Obama contends that the Republican alternative is far worse.
Yeah, NO APOLOGIES and NO REGRETS, huh?
“You can’t sit it out,’’ he said on a conference call with student journalists last week. “You can’t suddenly just check in once every 10 years or so, on an exciting presidential election, and then not pay attention during big midterm elections where we’ve got a real big choice between Democrats and Republicans.’’
I never have. Why do you think I have many posts here over the last two years, sir?
As for choices, would you like to chew on cold, dry turd A or a hot, steaming plate of turd B? Maybe you would like to smell them before make your selection, American voter.
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At times the message comes across as scolding and testy, in the view of some Democrats. Obama told Rolling Stone magazine that Democrats “need to buck up’’ because it would be “inexcusable’’ for them to stay home.
The White House might be making progress closing the so-called enthusiasm gap with Republicans, according to Democratic strategists who point to improving poll numbers and fund-raising....
Oh, the SHAMING is WORKING, is it?
That is why I no longer respect Democrats.
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Btw, have you ever notice global warming, 'er, climate change never comes uo as this president leaves a yawning footprint as he gallivants around the country on taxpayer dime?
"Obama on the road to fire up Democrats; Seeks enthusiasm of ’08 campaign" by Charles Babington, Associated Press | October 11, 2010
PHILADEPHIA — President Obama tried to recapture some of the big-stage excitement of his 2008 campaign yesterday, imploring voters not to reward what he called Republican cynicism and incompetence by sitting out the Nov. 2 elections.
The president delivered one of his most stinging indictments yet of the GOP record to several thousand people under blue skies in Philadelphia’s Germantown neighborhood.
Obama acknowledged that many Americans are frustrated, especially about the economy. He said Republicans have decided “to ride that frustration and anger’’ without providing solutions. And he said congressional Republicans deliberately opposed his administration and the Democratic majority on almost every issue....
Except war-funding, aid to Israel, bailouts for Wall Street, etc.
“If I said there were fish in the sea, they said, ‘No,’ ’’ the president said....
That is such hyperbole it dishonors the office!!
Reminding voters of their enthusiasm for his presidential campaign, the president said, “We need you as fired up as you were in 2008.’’
Well, if you and the Democraps HAD DONE WHAT WE WANTED YOU TO DO it wouldn't be a worry!
Obama’s 28-minute speech was the second of four large rallies designed to spur Democratic turnout to dampen what many expect to be big GOP victories in House, Senate, and gubernatorial elections.
The event, before a mostly black audience, was somewhat smaller and less ebullient than last week’s rally on the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison. Still, organizers said more than 18,000 people turned out, including those in overflow lots who listened on speakers.
Obama repeated many of his familiar themes, such as the claim that Republicans drove the economy into a ditch before he took office, and then they refused to help Democrats extract it.
Will someone TURN that RECORD OVER?
But he dwelled on the topic at some length. “The Republicans messed up so bad, left such a big mess,’’ he said. “The hole we’re climbing out of is so deep.’’
So when you going to start digging us out by calling back the empire and behaving like a civilized nation? Or is it just going to be more slavishness on the part of Israel?
Obama said about 8 million Americans had lost jobs before his economic policies could start taking effect. “It’s going to take us a while to get out of this hole,’’ he said.
Excuses, excuses, excuse.
You HAD a FILIBUSTER-PROOF MAJORITY for TWO YEARS and ALL WE GOT was a PoS health tax and toothless Wall Street bill!
Republicans want to increase the debt to continue a major tax cut for the wealthiest Americans, he said, yet they “lecture us on fiscal responsibility.’’
Vice President Joe Biden, who was born in Scranton, Pa., introduced Obama with a three-minute speech. Joe Sestak, a Democratic Senate nominee, also spoke briefly.
Related: Toomey's Time in Pennsylvania
I told you wherever he goes.... just like '06 and the other guy.
It’s unclear whether the president can stir enough Democratic passion to avert a GOP takeover of the House, which would require a net pickup of 40 seats.
If he does this damn thing was rigged.
Democrats confront listless voters who feel this year’s elections are not nearly as exciting and meaningful as his record-breaking election was. They also must cope with liberals who feel Obama and congressional Democrats have let them down.
Big time!
John Duda, 46, a Veterans Administration physician who attended yesterday’s rally, said he thinks liberals are somewhat disenchanted that Obama had to make compromises on major issues such as energy and health care....
And it is NOT JUST THEM and NOT JUST THOSE ISSUES!
“We’re probably better off,’’ Duda said, “but there wasn’t this sea change’’ that people had expected from an Obama presidency.
Better off with Bush's third term?
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Lawmakers are due to reconvene after the elections. But administration officials acknowledged that action on Obama’s infrastructure initiative is unlikely until next year.
Pffft!
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And take my word for it, American tapayers. You don't want it.
FLASHBACK:
"Obama proposes $50b for roads, rails; Plan would create government bank" by Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Mary Williams Walsh, New York Times | September 7, 2010
Shouldn't we already have on per the Constitution instead of the monstrous, economy-destroying Fed?
MILWAUKEE — With Democrats facing an increasingly bleak midterm election season, President Obama used a speech at a union gathering on Labor Day to call for an “infrastructure bank,’’ which would be run by the government but would pool tax dollars with private investment, the White House says....
The concept has lately been gaining traction in policy circles and on Capitol Hill.
And eventually, YOUR TAX DOLLARS will only be for the WARS, Wall Street, Israel, and to fund the lavish lifestyles of the politicians who f***ed you, America.
Indeed, some leading proponents of such a bank, including Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Republican of California; Governor Ed Rendell, Democrat of Pennsylvania; and Michael R. Bloomberg, the independent mayor of New York, would like to see it finance a broader range of projects, including water and clean-energy projects....
All the more reason to NOT LIKE the IDEA!!
Good thing Arnold is leaving.
Related:
"Governor Ed Rendell said in ordering a hiring freeze last September, “In the current uncertain economic climate, we must be especially prudent stewards of Pennsylvania’s resources.’’ Since then, Pennsylvania has brought in more than 1,000 new employees, including a fiscal director making $128,000, a press secretary earning $84,000, and seven clerk typists at salaries from $24,000 to $28,000"
Doesn't have the nickname "Dirty Eddie" fer nuthin'!
Also see: Paying a Mayor's Ransom
He couldn't have put that towards the roads, huh?
They say such a bank would spur innovation by allowing a panel of experts to approve projects on merit, rather than having lawmakers simply steer transportation money back home....
Yeah, that will go over real well in Congress!
And make sure you guys sig heil der fuhrer and his panel of experts, too!!
But the notion of a government-run bank, indeed a government-run anything, is bound to prove contentious during an election year in which voters are already furious over bank bailouts....
Yeah, can we GET THAT MONEY BACK because the BANKS we gave it to DIDN'T NEED IT, KEPT IT, and TOOK IT AS BONUSES!
Oh, right, lying government says they paid us back.
Representative Pat Tiberi, an Ohio Republican who is on a Ways and Means subcommittee that held hearings on the bank this year, warned that “federally guaranteed borrowing and lending could place taxpayers on the hook should the proposed bank fail.’’
How many hooks you hanging on, taxpayers?
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Tiberi, in an e-mail last week, said he agreed that the nation’s road and communications networks needed to be improved but was concerned about creating another company like Fannie Mae that might need bailout....
Related:
“They’ve cleared the decks to use Fannie and Freddie as a vessel for whatever they want.... taking troubled mortgage investments off banks’ books.... Obama’s budget blueprint also excludes the $6.3 trillion in liabilities of government-controlled Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and delays for a second time a decision on restructuring the mortgage finance companies"
Yeah, chew on that for a while as they set up the "infrastructure" bank.
(Update; the number is NOW $45 TRILLION with a capital T)
The outside investors would expect a competitive return on their money, so many of the completed projects would have to charge fees, taxes or tolls....
So WTF, Americans?
You will PUT UP the MONEY for the LOAN and then have to PAY OFF INVESTORS -- a fancy word for Wall Street firms like the Goldman Sachs looters -- through INCREASED FEES and TAXES?
And this is supposed to HELP YOU?!!
The proposal comes after weeks of scrambling by a White House desperate to give a jolt to the lackluster recovery....
And desperate to hold onto Congress.
But if the projects did not raise enough money, the Treasury might get stuck paying back the investors....
And WHO is Treasury in this case, TAXPAYERS?
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Yup, EVERYTHING ALWAYS COMES BACK to SERVING BANKS when we are talking politicians!
So where is the carbon-belching bastard headed next?
"Obama tells Fla. Democrats GOP threatens his agenda
CORAL GABLES, Fla. — President Obama implored Democrats yesterday to remember why they sent him to the White House and told supporters that a Republican-led Congress would prevent him from accomplishing his agenda.
I wish HE WOULD REMEMBER WHY WE SENT HIM THERE!!
And there is ONE MORE REASON to CHANGE CONGRESS!
“I can only succeed if I’ve got help,’’ Obama said during remarks at a high-dollar fund-raiser at an oceanfront estate in South Florida.
He just had a filibuster-proof... awww, what's the use?
Obama said that although he would like to believe that Republicans would work with him, he’s “not optimistic.’’
With unemployment at 9.6 percent, Obama said he knows Americans are frustrated. But he said the Nov. 2 midterm elections shouldn’t be a referendum on where the country is now, but a choice between which party can get the country to where it needs to be.
Relying on a familiar refrain during his campaign appearances this fall, Obama said Republicans have a “lack of ideas’’ and a “fundamental lack of seriousness’’ about how to lead the country in the right direction.
The event at the home of former basketball star Alonzo Mourning was expected to raise about $1 million for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and Representative Ron Klein, who is locked in a tight race to hold his House seat.
(Blog editor just shaking his head at the servitude to that other group that controls AmeriKan politics)
Related: Democrats Caught With Drawers Down
See what they are doing with it, American voters?
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More pants-pulling of the American people:
"Obama says end reward for hiring overseas
WASHINGTON — End tax breaks that reward some US companies with overseas subsidiaries and encourage those businesses to create jobs in other countries, President Obama is telling Congress.
Why were they getting them in the first place?
Related: Congress Chooses to Bully China For Campaign Purposes
This is ABOUT YOU not them!
Yet it’s an idea that has raised concerns even among some lawmakers in the president’s party.
At issue is a bill, now stalled in the Senate, that would do away with some tax credits and deferrals for US companies for operations abroad.
“There is no reason why our tax code should actively reward them for creating jobs overseas,’’ Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address yesterday. “Instead, we should be using our tax dollars to reward companies that create jobs and businesses within our borders.’’
And we also shouldn't be flattening nations so war-profiteers can steal the rebuilding money or sending ungodly sums of tax loot to war-criminal Israel.
Though Obama singled out Republican opposition, the bill also failed to get support from some Democrats, including the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana.
Tired of the POLITICAL FOOLEY yet?
He has expressed concern that the change would put the United States at a competitive disadvantage....
How?
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And look where he ended up, readers:
Thousands of people crowded into the John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center yesterday to hear President Obama urge them to whip up enthusiasm around the state for Governor Deval Patrick’s bid for a second term.
As part of a national effort to help Democratic candidates, Obama arrived in the Back Bay with recent polls showing the gubernatorial race nearly a dead heat between Patrick and Republican challenger Charles D. Baker. The president said Patrick has qualities that make him stand above other candidates who are trying to ride the electorate’s prevailing mood of anger at government into office.
Then this can only help Baker.
“When too many folks bow to the politics of the moment, he represents the politics of conscience and conviction,’’ Obama said of Patrick, who sat on a stool beside the president. “In an age of too much cynicism, he has matched unbending optimism with unyielding effort to move Massachusetts forward.’’
Obama also repeated a critique of Republican policies he has been delivering around the country....
I don't need to read it then.
Later in the day, the president attended a fund-raiser in Newton hosted by Dr. Ralph de la Torre, the chief executive of the Caritas Christi Health Care network, which operates St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center and other Catholic hospitals. The event raised $900,000 for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, officials said.
Also see: Catholic Caritas Makes Deal With the Devil
About 75 people gathered in a room with a vaulted ceiling and a fireplace made of fieldstone. Also speaking at the fund-raiser was US Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts.
“This is a tough year as every single one of you knows and nobody knows that better than the president of the United States,’’ Kerry told the small audience.
That tough year began with another high-stakes effort by Obama to help a Massachusetts Democrat in a difficult race. The president swept into the state in January to make a last-minute appeal for Attorney General Martha Coakley, who was running in the special election to replace the late US senator Edward M. Kennedy.
Despite Obama’s entreaties, Massachusetts voters chose Republican Scott Brown.
Not that it really mattered.
See: Who Bought Brown's Election?
Brown Steps Into Kennedy's Boots
Brown's Nose Buried Deep
The U.S. Senate's Chief Brownnoser to Israel
They ALL SERVE the SAME SET of INTERESTS!
Obama and Patrick, old friends with Chicago roots and Harvard degrees, have campaigned together before....
Related:
"Chicago sources also informed WMR of another past gay partner of Obama, Massachusetts Democratic Governor Deval Patrick."
Why am I not surprised?
The race between Patrick and Baker appears to be extremely close, according to recent polls, with one showing the governor clinging to a narrow lead.
And the rest showing Baker in the lead, you PoS paper?
Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill, running as an independent, is a distant third, according to most polls, with Green-Rainbow Party candidate Jill Stein in fourth.
Baker appeared at a town hall-style meeting yesterday at the Waltham Sons of Italy, where he focused his remarks on Patrick, saying the governor had four years to “right the fiscal ship,’’ but “didn’t get the job done.’’
“Why should we rehire him?’’ Baker said of Patrick. “It’s four more years of what we just had: higher taxes, more spending, fewer jobs.’’
In remarks to reporters afterward, Baker said Obama’s campaigning for Patrick proves he has made major inroads against the incumbent governor.
Related: Globe's Governor's Race: Baker Rising as Patrick Falls
Also see: Baker the Butcher
Love him or not we are going to elect him.
“I just think that the president’s presence here in Massachusetts is an indicator about the fact that our campaign has a tremendous amount of momentum,’’ Baker said. “I just think it’s one more indication about how hard [Patrick is] going to work to hold on to power.’’
Cahill, meanwhile, met with a small group of people attending a 10th anniversary commemoration of Millennium Park in West Roxbury. Despite a modest turnout that included about 15 supporters, Cahill said he will continue his campaign full force until Election Day....
Lame -- just like the Globe coverage.
Among those who preceded Patrick on the stage was musician James Taylor, who sang “America the Beautiful’’ and his classic “You’ve Got a Friend,’’ which he dedicated to Patrick.
Patrick campaign officials estimated that as many as 16,000 people came to the rally.
When the president took the stage, the thousands in the convention center roared with approval and Obama urged them to help turn out the vote on Nov. 2.
“You didn’t elect him to do what was easy,’’ Obama said of Patrick. “You elected him to do what was right, and that is exactly what he has done.’’
Related: Massachusetts Residents Taken For a Ride on the T
That is the right thing, huh? I think Obama is taking you for a ride, Bay-Stater!
At the fund-raiser in Newton later in the afternoon, Obama again acknowledged the difficult political environment, but stressed that voters’ anxiety is fueled by one of the worst economic downturns to hit the country since the Great Depression.
“The country is scared, and they have good reason to be,’’ the president said.
Why, sir? What do you know that we are not being told?
“And that’s why this election is so absolutely critical, because essentially you can respond in a couple of ways to a trauma like this. I mean, one is to pull back, retrench, respond to your fears by pushing away challenges, looking backwards. And another is to say we can meet these challenges and we are going to move forward.’’
Did he deliver that with a bullhorn from a pile of rubble?
As the president spoke inside de la Torre’s home, neighbors on Howland Road gathered outside to witness the spectacle of a presidential visit.
That's what it is, all right!
De la Torre’s next door neighbors held homemade sign addressed not to the president, but his two daughters: “Can Malia and Sasha come out and play?’’ It was signed by “Caroline (10)’’ and “Grace (5).’’
I don't want to play politic anymore.
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