So much great material to work with in August...
When nothing is supposedly going on in DC.
Posted on 08/16/2011 8:22:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Barack Obama launched his Midwest bus tour Monday. Given the gravity of the economic mess the country is in, you’d think he’d be in Washington working every hour to come up with a program to get Americans back to work. Then again, given the disastrous results of what he’s done so far, maybe it’s better Obama is out in the country feeling some of the pain he’s caused instead of sitting at his desk coming up with more bad policies.
The country is paying the price of electing a president who had little experience, no background in the private economy and a 1960s era liberal ideology he wanted to impose on the 21st century.
Obama says the nation didn’t get into this predicament overnight, so it can’t get out of it overnight. No one expects that — though in the past sharp recessions were followed by robust recoveries. Still, it shouldn’t have taken Obama 2&1/2 years into his term to grasp how bad things are. But that’s what happens when a president takes his eye off the jobs ball to pursue ideological goals like ObamaCare, to promote unionism by suing Boeing for building a new plant in right-to-work South Carolina, and to advocate a tax and regulate regime that unsettles business and investors.
Obama’s response has been to say the buck stops somewhere other than the Oval Office. He and his political operatives talk about the “Tea Party downgrade” as a way of trying to divert the public’s attention from a Democratic spending binge that is the actual cause of worries about the soundness of U.S. fiscal health. Voters aren’t buying the finger pointing. The Gallup tracking poll Sunday put Obama’s approval rating for the first time under 40 percent, at 39 percent.
The question: Will the Republicans offer a credible alternative to Obama in 2012? The GOP field is more unsettled with the entry of Texas Gov. Rick Perry into the nomination race over the weekend. Had that not happened, the Iowa Straw Poll on Saturday would have pretty much put Mitt Romney on the road to the nomination.
By giving victory to Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann and knocking former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty out of the race, a few thousand Iowans would have, under normal circumstances, cleared the way for Romney. Bachmann has admirable attributes — she’s smart, principled and in tune with the nation’s economic fears. But she’s also ideologically rigid, prone to gaffes and out of step with another national sentiment — that we need a president who, unlike the current one, is committed to working across the bipartisan gap to get results.
Perry has a lot going for him but is untested in the brutal arena of national politics. He can point to the Texas economy — it’s responsible for 40 percent of all U.S. jobs created in the last couple of years. He’s a gifted speaker — as he proved Saturday in his announcement speech articulating how Obama has put America on a downgrade path in domestic and foreign affairs.
But Perry has yet to face the 24/7 scrutiny of a national campaign. Questions loom about whether voters outside the South and West will accept another politician with a Texas drawl and swagger, one committed to evangelical Christianity, and one who adheres to some right-wing views not in favor with independents. Perry can’t claim George W. Bush’s record as governor of working with Democratic legislators.
Romney will be recalibrating his strategy as Perry and Bachmann duel in Iowa and South Carolina over who will be the pure conservative alternative to him, barring another late candidate entry. Romney wouldn’t be such a weak front-runner if conservatives didn’t fear that, as president, he would accommodate to Washington’s ways.
What Perry offers is a record of job creation, solid conservative credentials and oratorical skills to match Obama’s. That’s why he’s energizing the Republican race. Now we’ll see if he’s the real deal.
Word has it he is bringing along Charlie Sheen.
“Winning!”
No question there. Decades of liberal BS cannot be overcome in the short term, but it can be terminated. That we must do.
It’s a damn shame that no one under 50 knows just how funny “Magical Misery Tour” is.
That bus looks like the DeathMobile that came out of the ‘Eat Me’ cake float in Animal House!!
| The game played by the Marxists is war where the end justifies the means. No matter how it's dressed up, it's an assault on America's freedom. We have a government that grows at 8 percent a year, with unelected czars and departments working to do Zer0's bidding -- writing regulation after regulation.
Barack's working hard for the nation And he's needs another vacation Some golf would be nice And the pie he'll have twice As we endure This reeking Obamanation Countdown until Obama leaves Office: 521 days as of August 17, 2011. |
The real reason for this bus tour? To check out new golf courses, he’s kind of tired of the ones in DC.
MAGICAL MISERY TOUR
Tune: Magical Mystery Tour
Barack, Barack and the Magical Misery Tour! Step right this way!
Barack, Barack and his Misery Tour
Barack, Barack and his Misery Tour
Barack, rolling across the nation
Barack and his Misery Tour
Barack, but this is no vacation
Barack and his Misery Tour
The Magical Misery Tour is wanting to make you all pay
Wanting to make you all pay
Barack, Barack and his Misery Tour
Barack, Barack and his Misery Tour
Barack, he's got everything you need
Barack and his Misery Tour
Barack, even though it's all wee-weed
Barack and his Misery Tour
The Magical Misery Tour is hoping to make you all pay
Hoping to make you all pay
The misery trip . . .
The Magical Misery Tour
Barack, Barack and his Misery Tour
Barack, rolling across the nation
Barack and his Misery Tour
Barack, but this is no vacation
Barack and his Misery Tour
The Magical Misery Tour is coming to make you all pay
Coming to make you all pay
The Magical Misery Tour is trying to make you all pay
Trying to make you all pay, take it away . . .
I found this very interesting site about Odummy.
http://theobamafile.com/ObamaEducation.htm
It explains alot.
The Debtmobile. (You should appreciate that one, Batman11.)
OK FREEPERS, LET’S NAME THIS TOUR: STARTING WITH:
Obama’s More Unemployment Tour (OMUT)
The Disasterous Obama Tour (DOT)
More Americans Under The Bus Tour
Obama’s “Are You Happy?” Tour
Obama’s “More Like This to Come Tour”
Obama’s “You Idiots Voted For Me, Thank You” Tour
Obama’s “Like My Hope and Change” Tour
Obama’s Ruined Economy - “Yes We Did It” Tour
The Freeloaders Tour (off the taxpayers)
The Magical Obama Tour
Obama’s “Coast-to-Coast Tour” (Sorry George Nouri, just couldn’t resist)
THe Run-Over Granny Tour
The Run-Over Medicare Tour
The National Surrender Tour
The “Oh My God” Michelle’s Driving Tour
Obama’s Economic Plan and Missing A Tire Tour
Bernanke’s Bus and Economy Busting Tour
The President’s Nobody’s Driving Tour (which is how he runs the country)
Obama’s “Lost In America” Tour
Obama’s Bus Ran Over A Skunk Tour
You are right in that but Perry has sucked the air out of the room. If the Rasmussen poll is correct and not an outlier, Perry is the Myth killer we all were looking for. I really don't see Palin getting in now. The Rank and File type party Republicans are going to like his safe and steady background. Can you remember the last time the GOP went out on a limb in a Primary? Reagan was the closest and he had the Conservative vote locked up.
Darth Vader bus.
Bump for reading later.
Gee, I’m gonna have to pull that CD out and play it loud.
“The Debtmobile”
Ha! Good one! I wish I’d thought of that!
Yes, she does...but doesn’t have the record Governor Perry has. I think we may end up with a Perry/Palin Ticket.
I wonder what the obama loving McCartney thinks of that one. On the other hand, who give a rats ass what he thinks.
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