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Posted on 11/18/2011 12:08:31 PM PST by neverdem
The Pipeline Sellout
Obama puts politics over nation, again.
In 2008, the slogan was “Yes We Can.” For 2011–12, it’s “We Can’t Wait.” What happened in between? Candidate Obama, the vessel into which myriad dreams were poured, met the reality of governance.
His near–$1 trillion stimulus begat a stagnant economy with 9 percent unemployment. His attempt at Wall Street reform left in place a still too-big-to-fail financial system as vulnerable today as when he came into office. His green-energy fantasies yielded Solyndra cronyism and a cap-and-trade regime not even a Democratic Congress would pass.
And now his signature achievement, Obamacare, is headed to the Supreme Court, where it could very well be struck down, just a week after its central element was overwhelmingly repudiated (2–1) by the good burghers of Ohio.
So what do you do when you say you can, but, it turns out, you can’t? Blame the other guy. Charge the Republicans with making governing impossible. Never mind that you had control of the Congress for two-thirds of your current tenure. It’s all the fault of Republican rejectionism.
Hence: “We Can’t Wait.” We can’t wait while they obstruct. We can’t wait while they dither with my jobs bill. Write Congress today! Vote Democrat tomorrow!
We can’t wait. Except for certain exceptions, such as the 1,700-mile trans-U.S. Keystone XL pipeline, carrying Alberta oil to Texas refineries, which would have created thousands of American jobs and increased our energy independence.
For that, we can wait, it seems. President Obama decreed that any decision...
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This column was a no brainer, but nobody posted it. Why? Krauthammer, a gun grabber, is only really good when he criticizes rats, IMHO.
Charles is a token MSM ‘conservative’ only trying to backtrack the ass-kissing he’s been bestowing on Obama. Screw him.
Kraut-man is a putz, but even a putz can get this one right.
...and to think that I once doubted Rush Limbaugh the first time I heard him of saying that O’Zero Hussien was destroying our economy on purpose.
High treason.
LLS
Krauthammer always discusses “the Kings” faulty pockets and not well designed collar on a “Naked” King..
He never says the friggen King has no clothes..
He might be afraid of “the truth” or afraid to speak “the truth”..
Beck had it right.. from “Rules for Radicals”..- Alinsky..
“Top down, bottom up, inside out”... which is happening as we speak..
Krauthammer is a cabbage merchant.. A KimChi Salesman..
He is a ugly coward.. and a craven one at that......
If we ever get control again, these two and others will go to Idaho, NDAK or somewhere else devoid of the support structures upon which they rely.....
“I’ll never forget election night 2008... barnes and krauthammer acted as if Reagan II had been elected... a real centrist they called obama.”
I think I would pay good money to see that clip.
Don't Hate :)
If we ever get control again, I hope these two and others will be sent to Idaho, NDAK or somewhere else devoid of the support structures upon which they rely.....
Krauthammer: Obama Has “Ill-Concealed Contempt” For America (film at link).
Syndicated columnist and FOX News contributor Charles Krauthammer responds to President Obama calling the U.S. “lazy.”
“Well, no one is asking him to go out there and asking him to be a jingoistic cheerleader. But when you call your own country ‘lazy’ when you are abroad and you call it unambitious and soft when you’re home, I think what you are showing is not tough love, but ill-concealed contempt,” Krauthammer said on FOX News’ “Special Report.”
“Obama is ready to blame everybody except himself for the lousy economy. And the lack of investment. Look, why are people reluctant to invest? We have the highest corporate tax rate in the world, in the industrialized world. Obama has spoken about it. It’s the one issue on which the Republicans would have agreed on lowering that rate, eliminating loopholes. In three years in office, he’s done nothing. He has an NLRB trying to shut down a $1 billion plant Boeing has constructed, as a favor to Obama’s union allies. People look abroad and say this isn’t a place I want to do business. Its his issues, his over-regulation over taxation and all the red tape he has added. And now he blames Americans’ laziness. I think it’s unseemly.”
Tremendous political blunder. Not complicated. Pits two Dem-party factions against each other-unions and greens.
This should be the straw that broke the camel’s back, as far as union allegience is concerned. If the union bosses don’t stand up for these jobs, it will cost them members, and that will cost the Dems mucho dinero.
Then there’s Solyndra, Fast and Furious, Robert Kennedy Jr., OWS backfire, etc. etc.
Perfect storm. How much longer can the media defend him?
Krauthammer: Obama Has “Ill-Concealed Contempt” For America (film at link).
Syndicated columnist and FOX News contributor Charles Krauthammer responds to President Obama calling the U.S. “lazy.”
“Well, no one is asking him to go out there and asking him to be a jingoistic cheerleader. But when you call your own country ‘lazy’ when you are abroad and you call it unambitious and soft when you’re home, I think what you are showing is not tough love, but ill-concealed contempt,” Krauthammer said on FOX News’ “Special Report.”
“Obama is ready to blame everybody except himself for the lousy economy. And the lack of investment. Look, why are people reluctant to invest? We have the highest corporate tax rate in the world, in the industrialized world. Obama has spoken about it. It’s the one issue on which the Republicans would have agreed on lowering that rate, eliminating loopholes. In three years in office, he’s done nothing. He has an NLRB trying to shut down a $1 billion plant Boeing has constructed, as a favor to Obama’s union allies. People look abroad and say this isn’t a place I want to do business. Its his issues, his over-regulation over taxation and all the red tape he has added. And now he blames Americans’ laziness. I think it’s unseemly.”
Robert Kennedy, Jr.? What did 0bama say or do in that regard?
$1.4 billion in DOE grant funds went to RFK Jr. retarded solar-steam project in CA. Yes, $1.4 BILLION!!! To a Kennedy!
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