Posted on 03/04/2013 12:48:36 PM PST by neverdem
Our feckless leaders may be incapable of passing a budget, but, boy, can they pass the buck. The White House spent last week in full campaign hysteria, blitzing online followers with the message that heartless Republicans are prepared to transform America into “Les Misérables” in order to protect “millionaires and billionaires, oil companies, vacation...”...
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When President Obama told us in his first Inaugural Address that our time of “putting off unpleasant decisions” was over, advocates of reforming our fiscal disorder read that as a promise that the new president would go beyond the perennial economic quick fix. After pulling the country back from the brink of depression by pumping some stimulus into the system (thumbs up for that), it seemed plausible that he would make some hard choices to put the promises of government more in balance with its resources.
Instead, the president’s first big initiative was to create an overdue but expensive new entitlement, the Affordable Care Act. I’m not one of those who fault him for putting health care at the front of the line. But Obama emerged from that battle looking like a president who had spent the last of his political capital. And the great fiscal issues remained unaddressed...
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And the president? For weeks he has been playing the game political scientists call “Fireman First.” That’s when scaremongering politicians threaten to cut the most essential services. It’s true, the sequester is a grotesque and hurtful substitute for the kind of reforms the country needs. Bad things will happen. Maybe the furloughs and canceled contracts will stir the public enough to break the impasse. But by the weekend even the president was sounding helpless, if not acquiescent.
Clearly the days of “putting off unpleasant decisions” are not over. And this is where they get you.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Funny that the NY Times is whining about the sequester for the poor, mistreated government workers, when Pinch and his Gay NYT mafia have laid off or bought out nearly 50% of their employees since Obama was elected.
However, far from observing that the emperor has no clothes, they are only claiming that his socks don’t match! Still a long way from reporting the whole truth!
The gist of the article is that this is a bipartisan failure.
“. . . much of the responsibility for our perpetual crisis can be laid at the feet of a pigheaded Republican Party, cowed by its angry, antispending, antitaxing, anti-Obama base.”
Still, it’s remarkable when Bill Keller lays any blame at all on the Holy Liberal Emperor.
If ANYBODY knows about transforming America into “Les Misérables” in order to protect “millionaires and billionaires, , vacations, it is Barrack Hussein Obama the millionaire who is so well known for his vacations——ON OUR DIME.
It sure isn’t what this story is about.
Bammy needs to sell AF1 on eBay.
It is.
I know NYT lifelong disciples. Educated catholics who wouldn’t crack a Catechism for guidance if they had one or knew what it looked like, who follow this muslim rag who will read this like it’s new dogma setting in.
SNL, then this? A week after Mooch overexposed herself and her family at the Oscars?
It’s about trends, too.
We’ll see where it goes.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. (Does the NYT have a spellchecker? If yes, it kinda sucks. Yet another fail.)
Angry?
Wait ‘til they see the next generation, who’s going to have to pay for this stuff, when they realize what they’ve inherited in addition to the college debt no one steered them away from.
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DHS built domestic surveillance tech into Predator drones
Demographic research on lesbians and gays emerges from shadows
DOJ: Children Do Not Need—and Have No Right to--Mothers
Court to review speedy approval of NY gun controls
Friday's court order will require the governor and legislature to prove the message (of necessity) was warranted by March 11.Some noteworthy articles about politics, foreign or military affairs, IMHO, FReepmail me if you want on or off my list.
“...far from observing that the emperor has no clothes, they are only claiming that his socks don’t match!”
Fabulous line!
Thanks neverdem.
The Partisan Media Shills won’t willingly leave the plantation, even though they complain about it — Zero lives like a multimillionnaire on the backs of (present and future) taxpayers, and complains about people who have earned it, and not a peep about that.
Thanks for the ping!
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