Obama Lied; the Economy Died

townhall.com ^ | Wednesday, March 04, 2009 | Tony Blankley

[Yosemitest]

Obama Lied; the Economy Died

I am trying to capture the spirit of bipartisanship as practiced by the Democratic Party over the past eight years. Thus, I have chosen as my lead this proposition:
Obama lied; the economy died.
Obviously, I am borrowing this from the Democratic theme of 2003-08:
"Bush lied, people died."
There are, of course, two differences between the slogans.

Most importantly, I chose to separate the two clauses with a semicolon rather than a comma because the rule of grammar is that a semicolon (rather than a comma) should be used between closely related independent clauses not conjoined with a coordinating conjunction. In the age of Obama, there is little more important than maintaining the integrity of our language against the onslaught of Orwellian language abuse that is already a babbling brook and soon will be a cataract of verbal deception.

The other difference is that Bush didn't lie about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. He merely was mistaken. Whereas Obama told a whopper when he claimed that he is not for bigger government. As he said last week:
"As soon as I took office, I asked this Congress to send me a recovery plan by Presidents Day that would put people back to work and put money in their pockets, not because I believe in bigger government -- I don't."


This he asserted despite the fact that the budget he proposed the next day asks for federal spending as 28 percent of gross domestic product, higher by at least 6 percent than any time since World War II. Moreover, after 10 years, Obama's proposed spending as a percentage of GDP still would be 22.6 percent, nearly 2 percentage points higher than any year during the Bush administration despite the full costs of Sept. 11, the Iraq and Afghan wars and the rebuilding of New Orleans after Katrina.

Consider also this assertion in his not-quite-State of the Union address:
"My administration has also begun to go line by line through the federal budget in order to eliminate wasteful and ineffective programs. As you can imagine, this is a process that will take some time. But we're starting with the biggest lines. We have already identified $2 trillion in savings over the next decade."


But lamentably, a few days later, The Washington Post reported:
"A senior administration official acknowledged yesterday that the budget does not contain $2 trillion in spending cuts over the next decade. Instead, the figure represents Obama's total efforts at deficit reduction, including tax hikes (of more than $1 trillion) on families making over $250,000 a year. It also includes hundreds of billions of dollars 'saved' by not continuing to spend $170 billion a year in Iraq."


Only a big-government man would think of calling a trillion-dollar tax increase a spending cut or "saving." Technically, of course, it is true. A trillion-dollar tax increase would reduce spending by $1 trillion for those private citizens who were taxed. And from the perspective of the federal government, a trillion dollars taxed is a trillion dollars saved from the greed of the taxpayers who produced the wealth and might well want to spend or invest it in nongovernmental activities.

But the foregoing merely are pettifogging numbers compared with Obama's bigger ideas about energy and health care (regarding health care, more in future columns). Our president shares a fascinating idea about energy with most of what used to be known as the "small is beautiful" crowd. It is a curious phenomenon that one needs a very big government to enforce the beauty of small.

Obama's secretary of energy, Steven Chu, said last year that the price of electricity in America is "anomalously low." You see how much smarter that Nobel Prize winner is than you? You probably thought you already were spending enough on electricity and fuel.

And sure enough, Obama explained last week that in order to make alternative energy sources -- wind, solar, perhaps eventually human muscle power -- economically competitive, he intends to raise the price of carbon-based energy until it is so expensive that even solar power would be such a deal.

This level of destructive irrationality cannot be accomplished in the private sector. It would take a very big government indeed to bring such inanities into being. (Disclosure: Being rational, I give professional advice to carbon-based energy producers.)

If President Obama were to try to misrepresent his positions for the next four years, there would be nothing he could say that would approach the inaccuracy of his claim last week that he is not for big government. It is the essence of the man and his presidency. He doesn't like America the way it has been since its founding, and it would take an abusively big government to realize his dreams of converting America into something quite different. If you don't know that, you don't yet know Obama.

[Yosemitest]

God have mercy on us, and upon Obama and the Democrats,

"So shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things..."

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[Tex Pete]

[Tex Pete]

[Fichori]

It didn't die, he done gone and strangled it to death!

Theres a difference!

[Yosemitest]

Change is coming...




And you might want to prepare for it. .308 Winchester 175gr Boattail Hollow Point 1000pk.

[Kickass Conservative]

I have no wish for God to have mercy on Communists who have no value for life and human dignity.

[Yosemitest]

I recommend Luke 19:27 for them.

Jesus said... "But those mine enemies, which would not
that I should reign over them,
bring hither,
and slay them before me."

[South40]

That would make a great tagline! Oh wait...

[InABunkerUnderSF]

Jesus said...
"But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me."

Actually I believe that was said by a certain nobleman whose words were related by Jesus in a parable, not Jesus himself.

Christianity for the most part is not about slaying ones enemies nor the enemies of the faith.

[American in Israel]

Christanity is not, but God Himself is. Justice is coming, but after their measure of wickedness is full.

Then their punishment will be made full, but by God Himself. God is wise enough to give them enough rope to hang themselves. I suspect Obama is going to have an incredible lot to answer for in the end.

Christians need not worry about that, Justice is in God’s hands. We need only to keep our own hands and hearts clean.

[Aussiebabe]

How about “Obama Lied and the Market Dived”?

[cc2k]

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[Yosemitest]

I searched it by title and it didn't show up.
So I posted it.

[Yosemitest]

Luke 19: 9; And Jesus said unto him

Luke 19:12; He said therefore

[InABunkerUnderSF]

11 And as they heard these things, he added and spake a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear.

12 He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.

13 And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, F45 and said unto them, Occupy till I come.

The "He" in verse 12 is clearly Jesus speaking. The "he" in verse 13 is clearly the nobleman speaking to his servants being quoted by Jesus. Christ is NOT instructing his followers to bring His enemies before Him and slay them.

[Yosemitest]

The Nobleman in verse 13 IS Jesus Christ,

and in verse 27 of Luke 19,
after His Second Coming sending those wicked servant's to hell.


(2.) In the sentence passed upon them at his return:
Those mine enemies bring hither, v. 27.
When his faithful subjects are preferred and rewarded,
then he will take vengeance on his enemies,
and particularly on the Jewish nation,
the doom of which is here read.
When Christ had set up his gospel kingdom,
and thereby put reputation upon the gospel ministry,
then he comes to reckon with the Jews;
then it is remembered against them
that they had particularly disclaimed and protested against his kingly office,
when they said, We have no king but Caesar,
nor would own him for their king.
They appealed to Caesar, and to Caesar they shall go;
Caesar shall be their ruin.
Then the kingdom of God appeared
when vengeance was taken on those irreconcileable enemies to Christ and his government;
they were brought forth and slain before him.
Never was so much slaughter made in any war as in the wars of the Jews.
That nation lived to see Christianity victorious in the Gentile world,
in spite of their enmity and opposition to it,
and then it was taken away as dross.
The wrath of Christ came upon them to the uttermost (1 Th. 2:15, 16),
and their destruction redounded very much to the honour of Christ and the peace of the church.
But this is applicable to all others who persist in their infidelity,
and will undoubtedly perish in it.
Note,
[1.] Utter ruin will certainly be the portion of all Christ’s enemies;
in the day of vengeance they shall all be brought forth,
and slain before him. Bring them hither,
to be made a spectacle to saints and angels; see Jos. 10:22, 24.
Bring them hither, that they may see the glory and happiness of Christ and his followers,
whom they hated and persecuted.
Bring them hither, to have their frivolous pleas overruled,
and to receive sentence according to their merits.
Bring them, and slay them before me, as Agag before Samuel.
The Saviour whom they have slighted
will stand by and see them slain,
and not interpose on their behalf.

[2.] Those that will not have Christ to reign over them
shall be reputed and dealt with as his enemies.
We are ready to think that none are Christ’s enemies but persecutors of Christianity, or scoffers at least;
but you see that those will be accounted so
that dislike the terms of salvation,
will not submit to Christ’s yoke,
but will be their own masters.
Note, Whoever will not be ruled by the grace of Christ
will inevitably be ruined by the wrath of Christ.

[phillyfanatic]

Well, the Lord rarely intervenes in our world’s politics and hasn’t for centuries since the rain and sun falls on the just an unjust alike. Too bad too. Obama is full out attacking investors, capitalism, free enterprise to supposedly give our monies to the non-productive. And I see no one stopping him. Surely not the GOP because they do not have enough votes unless they can get the Blue Dogs to help them stop this budget today as we write. Today, BHO is going to destroy our health care system. And no Godly intervention. I simply now pray for Jesus to return!

[Yosemitest]

Basically God is taking a hands-off policy toward man right now, in general. Ponder this...

I saw under the altar the souls
of them that were slain for the word of God,
and for the testimony which they held:
And they cried with a loud voice, saying,
How long, O Lord, holy and true,
dost thou not judge and avenge our blood
on them that dwell on the earth?
And white robes were given unto every one of them;
and it was said unto them,
that they should rest yet for a little season,
until their fellowservants also and their brethren,
that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.

Also ponder this...

If they shall confess their iniquity,
and the iniquity of their fathers,
with their trespass which they trespassed against me,
and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
And that I also have walked contrary unto them,
and have brought them into the land of their enemies;
if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled,
and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob,
and also my covenant with Isaac,
and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember;
and I will remember the land.
The land also shall be left of them,
and shall enjoy her sabbaths,
while she lieth desolate without them:
and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
because, even because they despised my judgments,
and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
And yet for all that,
when they be in the land of their enemies,
I will not cast them away,
neither will I abhor them,
to destroy them utterly,
and to break my covenant with them:
for I am the LORD their God.
But I will for their sakes
remember the covenant of their ancestors,
whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt
in the sight of the heathen,
that I might be their God:
I am the LORD.

[phillyfanatic]

Excellent reminder that in Rev. the saints cry out for relief. If this is that time, we all cry out for relief from the faux Messiah and the tyranny of his socialist pacifist onslaught.

[neverdem]

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