Posted on 10/08/2013 9:32:32 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty
Nothing that happens in politics nowadays is shocking. But the answer is a lot easier and closer to hand. In the Clinton-era shutdown, voters blamed Gingrich and Clinton benefited. Obama's expecting the same thing will happen this time.
The advantage Clinton took was more of a long-term thing. That's to say, it was more that Gingrich looked like a villain to much of the public after the media got through with him than that people were blaming him during the actual shutdown. Obama's counting on a similar propaganda effect this time.
George Bush Sr., though, wasn't able to turn a government shutdown during his term to his political advantage. He didn't have the political skill and didn't have the media of the day on his side.
Ditto that!
The Senate will stick their fingers in the wind,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
That's not where I think they've been sticking them . . . .
Well, I suppose that it's marginally better you guys didn't independently come to the same conclusion.
I still think that my cat herding analogy is appropriate, though. If you ask three FReepers a question, you're liable to get five opinions. To have a number of us (in reading this thread, and others) all moving in the same unpleasant direction, all of a sudden, doesn't bode well IMO.
Heck, as me and I'll give you three by own self! LOL. I've been all over the place, just in this one thread.
LOL, well, Jarrett is Obama's handler, everything out of the White House has her written all over it, because she writes it.
Obama plays golf, reads from the teleprompter, and is never left alone.
That's it.
The one time they let him slip the leash, Osama bin Laden got killed. A mistake that will never be repeated.
Shameless BTTT for the 2nd shift crew....
Even the most lickspittle Obama sycophant would see it as just that; deliberate.
It’s all coming together and how it ends, onlly God knows.....This is what we’ve feared and now we are near.
Please pray God will have mercy on us......
I fear a disruption of the internet, and we can’t communicate.
Oh, yeah! That is a good one.
LOL!!
Why stop at cutting off EBT, SS, et ceteraThere was a "dry run" on the DC-Orlando flight--
Would Hussein send his Muslim Brotherhood fanboys to crash an airframe into the Capitol?
Then leave the Situation Room for cards with Reggie Love. . . .
A regime which uses the IRS to defeat the Tea Party in a presidential election
Which has called for a national security force and ordered tens of millions of rounds
Which has classified constitutionalists as terrorists
And boldly condoned black on white violence
Would not be above the Mother of all False Flags
Missing nukes--we found them--a McVeigh type just blew up (fill in the blank city)
And the party is just getting started. . . .
Your theory makes some sense, given he's threatened to veto the House's Full Faith and Credit Act, in the unlikely event it slips past Dingy Harry, majority leader of the world's scummiest Senate.
Of course, the House's Act merely repeats the 14th Amendment. But then, Barry is known to think the Constitution is flawed.
You say he’s a paranoid, narcissistic psychopath, with delusions of god hood.
I say he’s a lazy, lying piece of shit.
If Obama lived in Holland he would be non stop exploring every possible way to breach the dikes, he would hire minorities to build plants to manufacture drilling equipment that will only work horizontally.
He would bail out the largest water pump business there only to mandate they make it “green” thus insuring the first time they are used in an emergency they all catch fire and explode.
And then all the emergency personnel that are assigned to protect the dikes are then starved by cutting off their paychecks.
God help us!
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