imho, fixed headline.
Obama The Fag Showing His Its Vindictive Streak.
Jesus Christ: You can’t impeach Him and He ain’t going to resign.
Posted on 10/04/2013 6:59:01 AM PDT by Kaslin
Shutting down the government in an effort to use a budget fight to get rid of Obamacare is not the strategy I would have recommended for the GOP. And while Republicans can be blamed for starting the shutdown, it's increasingly apparent that President Obama and the Democrats deserve the lion's share of blame for not only prolonging it, but for making it as painful as possible.
Obama has always had a bit of a vindictive streak when it comes to politics. I think it stems from his Manichaean view of America. There are the reasonable people -- who agree with him. And there are the bitter clingers who disagree for irrational or extremist ideological reasons.
In his various statements over the last week, he's insisted that opponents of Obamacare are "ideologues" on an "ideological crusade." Meanwhile, he cast himself as just a reasonable guy interested in solving America's problems. I have no issue with him calling Republican opponents "ideologues" -- they are -- but since when is Obama not an ideologue?
The argument about Obamacare is objectively and irrefutably ideological on both sides -- state-provided health care has been an ideological brass ring for the left for well over a century. But much of the press takes its cues from Democrats and sees this fight -- and most other political fights -- as a contest pitting the forces of moderation, decency and rationality against the ranks of the ideologically brainwashed.
What's unusual is the way Obama sees the government as a tool for his ideological agenda. During the fight over the sequester, Obama ordered the government to make the 2 percent budget cut as painful and scary as possible.
"It's going to be very painful for the flying public," Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood warned Americans.
"The FAA's all-hands furloughs managed to convert a less than 4 percent FAA budget cut into a 10 percent air-traffic control cut that would delay 40 percent of flights," The Wall Street Journal noted at the time.
The Department of Homeland Security announced it might not be able to protect the nation's borders, and in an effort to prove the point summarily released a couple thousand immigrant detainees, many of them with criminal records.
Obama, the avowed problem solver, set out to create problems for the American people, just to prove how great government is and how crazy Republicans were for wanting to cut spending -- much of the money borrowed from China -- a little. But don't you dare call him an ideologue!
Now, with the government shutdown and the looming fight over the debt ceiling, Obama's doubling down this ideologically perverse strategy.
The National Park Service, which has somehow become the unofficial goon squad of American liberalism, reversed course and let American World War II vets visit the WWII memorial in Washington, D.C. This is obviously good news. (I was waiting to see if Steven Spielberg would come out with a new Obama-friendly director's cut of "Saving Private Ryan" in which the old guy at the end is dragged off in cuffs before he can reach Tom Hanks' grave.)
Still, it cost the government more money to try to keep WWII vets out of an open-air memorial than it would have to just leave it be. In Virginia, the NPS ordered the Claude Moore Colonial Farm to shut down, even though it's privately funded.
Far worse, Obama told CNBC's John Harwood that Wall Street should be far more panicky about Republican efforts to use the debt ceiling to win concessions from the White House. I don't blame Obama for being annoyed with Republicans for trying to use the debt ceiling the exact same way he did when he was a senator. But normally the president doesn't try to talk down the economy just to win a political point.
Whenever the Bush administration issued terror warnings, Democrats insinuated that it was all a cynical political stunt. But this week, the White House sent out National Intelligence Director James Clapper to whip up fears that national security would be imperiled by a shutdown less than 48 hours old.
When Republicans vote to fund essential or popular parts of the government, the response from Democrats is, in effect, "How dare they?" Nancy Pelosi calls the tactic "releasing one hostage at a time" -- as if negotiators normally refuse to have hostages released unless it's all at once.
In the 17 previous government shutdowns since 1977, presidents have worked to avoid them or lessen their impact. Obama has made no such effort out of an ideological yearning to punish his enemies, regardless of the collateral damage.
Obama loves this shutdown. The repubs have no exit strategy and can no longer even articulate why they are doing it. Obama was never, ever going to back down on Obamcare. Now he’s got the media and the bully pulpit to pound the GOP into submission. Pickets Charge from the get go.
Time to make EVERYONE feel some pain...
If it creates anarchy, all the better. Quicker we get to the bottom, the quicker we can start rebuilding.
Burn this whole thing down..
First American president who is actually anti-American. Do anything to destroy the American ideal. Five hundred years from now Obama will be held in vile hatefulness .... like Caligula of Rome.
no, the repubs in the House will just keep sending over spending bills to fund certain areas. Just like it was before 0bama’s America killing strategy of no budgets and omnibills so big that nobody knows what’s in them.
LOL I think it would be funny for the house to send a 2700 page bill that they say will work for Barry - give him 20 minutes to read it under debt ceiling time pressure. Then we see when we read it that for one thing, 0bamacare is repealed in some random place in the bill. lol
Jonah is a surrender monkey. It’s precisely the perfect strategy because the ‘Rats never expected it. The element of surprise stupid.
Freedom isn’t an exit strategy. Surrender monkeys never win.
Obama is like FDR will the goal of “unconditional surrender.” The difference is that Obama hates the Republicans more than FDR hated the Nazis.
His speech yesterday was characterized with statements from pundits like, “he is in campaign mode.” They commented how happy he seemed to be, laughing, joking and using an accent like a punk rapper. In the few clips I saw, he is, was and always will be a community organizer, an agitator, not a leader. The reason why Ted Cruz did what he did is because he is a leader. He is leading the country to the truth about the progressives and their lies.
In retrospect Nixon was shafted and an angel compered to Obastard the Red.
I’m not enamored with the RINO epithet, I simply identify Goldberg and Ingraham as “wrong.” Whether or not the shut-down terminates ACA, it is the right thing to fight over. Somewhere there has to be a hill you die on. I think this is that hill. If nothing else, a spirited and ruthless contest strikes fear into the hearts of your enemies (and yes, the Democraps are enemies of America). think how well such a strategy has worked on the GOPe. they know that the Dems will come after them relentlessly and take no prisoners. Hence, the GOPe cowers like the Quislings they are.
This “picking your fight” rhetoric and strategy is the posture of losers. Which the Rebuttlikins are. What ever happened to Churchill’s “Never give up. Never give up. Never give up.”
Mean-spirited Democrats and their fellow-travelers in the media......
I said it here before, the republicans are having their message nationalized by the MSM. The Dems and MSM are filling the air with lies, but the real story is leaking out. At this point the House needs to stand their ground.
“In the 17 previous government shutdowns since 1977, presidents have worked to avoid them or lessen their impact. Obama has made no such effort out of an ideological yearning to punish his enemies, regardless of the collateral damage.”
Small man of great evil.
+1!
Obama The Fag Showing His Its Vindictive Streak.
Jesus Christ: You can’t impeach Him and He ain’t going to resign.
“Five hundred years from now Obama will be held in vile hatefulness . . .”
Ophonybama is held in vile hatefulness RIGHT NOW!
I would like to call Ophonybama out for what he really is, but I don’t want to be exiled FRom FReeRepublic for cursing, so I won’t actually print my thoughts.
But you all can guess what I want to say!
Oh, how I hope and pray the American peoples will come to support Ophonybama’s IMPEACHMENT, CONVICTION AND INCARCERATION FOR LIFE!
And, while we are at it, his LIEberal posse as well!
I disagree. You don’t pick hills to die on. You fight to win.
Picking a hill to die on could mean handing over House to Nancy Pelosi.
Obama Showing His Vindictive Streak.....AGAIN.
imho, fixed headline.
Set it up as a secondary headline to EVERY story about Obama, and number them serially.
The guy is off-the-hook full of hate of America, and he fully intends to drive us down into the dirt, then drown us in the mud.
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