Posted on 01/23/2010 4:45:32 PM PST by Professor Pete
An unbelievable week for poor President Pieface, just in the LAST THREE DAYS.
Since Massachusetts:
1. The December jobs report once more revised down. The bleeding which was declining until the Month of Consumers suddenly swiftened, most ominous projecting forward.
2. A revolt against Bernanke, up for reconfirmation by Jan 31. He needs 60 and he's already lost Boxer, Sanders and Feingold (or so say the senators, on record, if that's worth anything). Any way you look at it---interest rates have been held ridiculously low for a long, long time, and here we are. Now everyone wants to play populist.
3. The TSA nominee withdraws.
4. The Penatagon's Fort Hood report, 86 pages, refuses to utter Hasan's name nor that of his religion. Whatever political correctness within the military still persists which accounts for all those purposeful oversights of unignorable warnings, the transfers and promotions, the sweepings under rugs.
5. HIG's Blair and DHS' Napolitano testify before Lieberman's Homeland Security that they WERE NEVER CONSULTED about the movement of Mutallab before civil venues, they WERE NOT PREPARED for the apprehension of wannabe bombers WITHIN OUR BORDERS, only without, and HIG's status was "not fully operational."
6. Eric Holder's belated, reluctant and mumbled admission that DOJ unilaterally moved Mutallab.
7. The raising of the debt ceiling ONE POINT NINE TRIL, signaling the end of Obamacare.
8. The president's precipitous "pivot" to populism, centered around his bank tax. This, from the same guy whose Treas Secty guaranteed all AIG obligations in full and then directed the bailed out Too Big to dissemble before SEC. This is the populist who bribed Nebraska and Louisiana and SEIU by billions, built "a monstrosity" of a health care in a locked closet and attempted to cram it down congress' and America's gagging gullet, wants to raise the debt ceiling ONE POINT NINE TRIL...
9. The president's vertiginous position on health care in the wake of Scott Brown's truck---yes, no, maybe, yes, no, yes, yes, maybe, yes, no---in that order---we're gonna cram it, hurry it, reconcile it, delay it, do parts of it, merge it, pass it now and fix it later...
10. Unbelievable.
11. His ruminations on the meaning of Massachusetts (in Ohio and in his NBC interview)---he couldn't get the word out, his mistake was believing the "people would get it" as he focused so comprehensively on "policy," his dismissal of more "popular" approaches in favor of his ambitious and exigent measures, his resolve to fight fight fight fight fight, his narcissistic and selfish focus on himself...
12. A wide revolt against leadership on the part of party membership on all fronts, Bernanke, Geithner, Rahm and Napolitano in trouble, house dems trashing Reid's bill, Coakley calling out Nebraska and Mutallab, Hillary's eager and immediate and loud declaration to Tavis Smiley that she would not serve a second term, Pelosi not having the votes, elite opinion (Pulitzer Paul's "about ready to give up on Obama")...
Hillary's outta here, why should she stay and sink with the rest of em when the coming shipwreck makes her the next captain?
13. Mccain-Feingold overturned.
14. Air America bankrupt.
15. Putin tells Iran to go ahead with its nuke in 2010.
16. The UN abandons its climate deadline.
17. The bank tax, centerpiece of the populist re-painting, the Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee, from which GM and Chrysler and F&F are exempt, all operations accountable to Obama.
The president's "pivot" is so improvised, transparently. He's been orating a year a million words on 5 or so Obamite themes and THIS wasn't one of em. He just made it up over the weekend, and he did it cuz the bankers all dissed him at his BANK SUMMIT, Dec 14.
His rationale? He's gonna FORCE EM TO LEND BY TAXING EM.
LOL!
Meanwhile, banks are collapsing all across the country.
He's trying to force his fee on entities which never took TARP, others who paid it back with interest, others who were forced to take TARP.
Geithner, the president's left hand man, ultimate insider and tax cheat in chief at IRS, is OPPOSED to his bossman's measure. So is Dodd, chair of Senate Banking.
Geithner was NOT PRESENT at the president's impromptu pronouncement of his FCRF.
77% of investors polled said they felt Obama was anti business.
The DOW is down 600 points in the 3 days since Massachusetts, since Obama made his bank tax not only #1 but the only component of domestic politics open to him.
The bank tax is going to comprise almost the entirety of Obama's domestic agenda in the coming months, all else it out of reach, and he cooked up his Crisis Responsibility Fee in about 5:00 of hysterical reaction.
His appeal to populism is transparently phony.
And President Obama, today, January 23, 2010, HAS NO FOREIGN POLICY AT ALL, except for his escalation of Afghanistan.
18. Has anything positive developed since the Pilgrim State pronounced?
The Prof
Floyd Brown
Scott Brown
We had a BROWN OUT!
Boxer and Feingold are two of the “endangered” Democrats. And Sanders is just an idiot.
East Anglia’s number fudging came out in ClimateGate emails prior to this week, as well.
It’s been a rough new year for leftists...
Ya just can't make this stuff up...
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