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The Emperor Has No Clothes
Townhall.com ^ | May 6, 2013 | Terry Paulson

Posted on 05/06/2013 10:13:19 AM PDT by Kaslin

The magical spell that President Barack Obama has placed on Americans is unraveling. It's painfully evident that President Obama's words no longer match the self-evident facts. His rambling filibusters at press conferences invite more questions than provide needed clarity.  

Because of the stream of broken promises--you can keep the healthcare  insurance you have, healthcare costs will go down, unemployment won't go above 8%, the national debt will be reduced in my first term, using chemical weapons is a "red line" that requires a stronger response--more and more Americans are losing trust in their president. Even once-supportive liberals are no longer enamored by his soaring but vacuous rhetoric.

After 35 years of service in Washington, Montana Democrat Max Baucus is leaving the Senate, but he's not going quietly. After helping to craft and pass Obamacare as chairman of that tax-writing panel, Baucus confessed in March that the health care law is "a huge train wreck coming down." The design and implementation of online insurance exchanges to serve 20 million  people across 34 states is terribly behind schedule and the cost is estimated to be $240 billion more than planned.

With companies cutting employees and work hours to avoid the crippling costs  of the new law, this "train wreck" is going to negatively impact the very  people Obamacare hoped to help! We're experiencing the truth in P. J.  O'Rourke's observation: "If you think health care is expensive now, wait  until you see what it costs when it's free."

The Washington Post, the paper whose Woodward and Bernstein story launched  Watergate, is not a bastion of conservative thought. Their fact-check columnist has already given Obama the dreaded Four Pinocchio rating for  untruthfulness for  "Obama's fanciful claim that Congress 'proposed' the sequester."

Even as he blamed Republicans for the sequester, a bipartisan Congress,  facing rage from their constituents, put an end to President Obama adminstration's politically motivated airport delays. This president talks  "non-partisan solutions" but lives "my way or the highway." Instead of working with Congress to find real savings in a bloated bureaucracy,  President Obama tried scoring political points by fueling a phony crisis.

Bloomberg News reported that there were more than enough air traffic controllers to operate without flight delays if furloughs were only used at overstaffed airports. Even the liberal leaning editorial board of Obama's  Hometown Chicago Tribune slammed the Obama administration for making "a  terrible miscalculation" by encouraging the FAA's "phony crisis." They added, "We'd guess that either ex-chief of staff would have told the president: Don't inconvenience people; try to blame someone else and think you'll do anything but lose."

If an Obamacare "train wreck" and a "phony" air traffic controller crisis aren't enough, he continues to raise taxes instead of taking spending cuts  seriously. After reaching a compromise with Republicans which allowed tax cuts for everyone making less than $400,000 and some spending cuts, President Obama now wants more taxes on the "rich."

With nearly 50% of all Americans paying no income taxes and the top 1%  already paying 30.2% of the load, it's no wonder that even the conservative-bating Bill Maher seems to have had enough. In a recent Friday  night tirade on his HBO show, he blasted, "Rich people - I'm sure you'd agree with this - actually do pay the freight in this country." After noting that California's wealthy carry the vast bulk of the tax burden in the state, he continued, "I just want to say liberals - you could actually lose me. It's outrageous what we're paying - over 50 percent. I'm willing to pay my share, but yeah, it's ridiculous."

Welcome to what conservatives have known since President Obama was elected--he's all hat and no cattle. Talk is cheap except when the president does it. His policies are as bankrupt as his budget. In spite of the liberal  media whitewash, our "emperor" has no clothes, but at least more now know it.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills

1 posted on 05/06/2013 10:13:19 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Obama, all dribble, no jump shot!


2 posted on 05/06/2013 10:19:21 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Kaslin

The brave Benghazi victims will be even greater heroes if the result is a successful impeachment and the squashing of Hilary’s election chances


3 posted on 05/06/2013 10:23:09 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are crimes committed by illegal aliens)
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To: Kaslin

the only question is.....will America notice when they have beer, marijuana, Xbox, Playstation, Internet Porn, WWE, American Idol, football, People Magazine, food stamps, Obamaphones, welfare, disability, etc. etc. etc.


4 posted on 05/06/2013 10:23:34 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: TexasCajun
Obama, all dribble, no jump shot bib!

;-)

5 posted on 05/06/2013 10:28:47 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS
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To: Kaslin

The magical spell that President Barack Obama has placed on Americans is unraveling.

Well its about time.


6 posted on 05/06/2013 10:29:12 AM PDT by True Grit
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To: Kaslin

If you voted for or backed Obama you are either ignorant or evil.
When the ignorant realize they have been duped, they have a choice if they want to go evil or not.


7 posted on 05/06/2013 10:29:28 AM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: Kaslin

Libs wrote obama off as a lameduck immediately after the election and are now focusing on clinton.


8 posted on 05/06/2013 10:34:27 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: Kaslin
this "train wreck" is going to negatively impact the very people Obamacare hoped to help

Correction. Obamacare was not designed to help anybody. It was expressly designed to be a train wreck so the low info voters would demand single payer government care to replace it, i.e., a fully collectivized medical system. That's the goal of this Alinsky strategy.

9 posted on 05/06/2013 10:38:12 AM PDT by Argus
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To: chessplayer

She ain’t got a chance.........


10 posted on 05/06/2013 10:39:58 AM PDT by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
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To: chessplayer

Hillary would actually be worse than Obama. She’s an Alinsky disciple too, but more committed. She’s the Angela Lansbury character in MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE come to life.


11 posted on 05/06/2013 10:41:03 AM PDT by Argus
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To: Cold Heart

Being ignorant enough to vote for Obama is of itself evil. No one could be that ignorant without being WILLFULLY so. The information was easily available, it had to be deliberately ignored for someone to vote for this.


12 posted on 05/06/2013 10:53:16 AM PDT by RipSawyer (I was born on Earth, what planet is this?)
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To: chessplayer

If she gets elected then those are at fault who stay at home, just as it was their fault when the rats took the House in 2006 and the Senate in 2008 because they wanted to teach the GOP a lesson. What did that get us? Rising unemployment, the economy going down, high gas prices after 2009 and 0bama care


13 posted on 05/06/2013 12:19:32 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

“-he’s all hat and no cattle ... our “emperor” has no clothes,....”

Well, no clothes, except for the hat.


14 posted on 05/06/2013 1:12:51 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Kaslin
"After 35 years of service in Washington, Montana Democrat Max Baucus..."

Baucus have been "servicing" the American Public for far too long.

15 posted on 05/06/2013 1:51:54 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Red Badger

She ain’t got a chance.........


She will win in a landslide.


16 posted on 05/06/2013 6:05:08 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer

What difference does it make?...............


17 posted on 05/07/2013 6:02:38 AM PDT by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
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