Posted on 02/01/2010 5:46:47 PM PST by Al B.
The newly-released mind-boggling, record-smashing $3,400,000,000,000 federal budget invites plenty of opportunity to debate the merits of incurring more and more debt that will drown the next generation of Americans. Never has it been possible to spend your way out of debt. So... let the debate begin.
Included in the debate process will be opportunities for our president to deliberate internally the wisdom of this debt explosion, along with other economic, military and social issues facing our country. Our president will discuss these important issues with Democrat leaders and those within his inner circle. I would ask the president to show decency in this process by eliminating one member of that inner circle, Mr. Rahm Emanuel, and not allow Rahm’s continued indecent tactics to cloud efforts. Yes, Rahm is known for his caustic, crude references about those with whom he disagrees, but his recent tirade against participants in a strategy session was such a strong slap in many American faces that our president is doing himself a disservice by seeming to condone Rahm’s recent sick and offensive tactic.
The Obama Administration’s Chief of Staff scolded participants, calling them, “F---ing retarded,” according to several participants, as reported in the Wall Street Journal.
Just as we’d be appalled if any public figure of Rahm’s stature ever used the “N-word” or other such inappropriate language, Rahm’s slur on all God’s children with cognitive and developmental disabilities – and the people who love them – is unacceptable, and it’s heartbreaking.
A patriot in North Andover, Massachusetts, notified me of Rahm’s “retarded” slam. I join this gentleman, who is the father of a beautiful child born with Down Syndrome, in asking why the Special Olympics, National Down Syndrome Society and other groups condemning Rahm’s degrading scolding have been completely ignored by the White House. No comment from his boss, the president?
As my friend in North Andover says, “This isn’t about politics; it’s about decency. I am not speaking as a political figure but as a parent and as an everyday American wanting my child to grow up in a country free from mindless prejudice and discrimination, free from gratuitous insults of people who are ostensibly smart enough to know better... Have you no sense of decency, sir?”
Mr. President, you can do better, and our country deserves better.
- Sarah Palin
Wow. Sarahcuda slaps Rahmbo!!
Ping for the Sarahcuda.
Just one look at Emanuel and you can tell he’s a nutcase
I had no idea Rahm had even said this..WOW..what a disgraceful, disgusting comment to make. Good take down by the Cuda..Rahm should resign, he is a giant turd
“Mr. President, you can do better, and our country deserves better.”
No, he can’t. Don’t hold your breath waiting for the scum to do better, either.
Did he ever?
She knows lecturing them gets deep under their skin.
Bravo, Sara!
Decency? They haven’t even a CONCEPT of decency.
3/4 trillion dollars = spending 1 MILLION dollars a DAY back to Jesus’ birth.
1 trillion dollars = spending 1 MILLION dollars a DAY back to the battle of Thermopylae (of “300 fame”)
3 trillion dollars = spending 1 MILLION dollars a DAY back to when the first known Homo Sapiens established villages (+/-).
Remember, this is 1 MILLION dollars a DAY. As another frame of reference, someone who makes $100,000 a year makes 1 million dollars in 10 years.
Emanuel - the nasty ballerina.
I really hate BO and his inner circle...*sigh* I told you I had nothing constructive to say.
Agreed...I’d like to know when this appeared in the WSJ?
Just another man-child in the WH.
Wow, this is the first time I've disagreed with Sarah. I think he's doing his very best, right now.
So calling a bunch of politicians retards or retarded is now off limits and an insult to real retards?
Tugg Speedman: What do you mean?
Kirk Lazarus: Check it out. Dustin Hoffman, 'Rain Man,' look retarded, act retarded, not retarded. Counted toothpicks, cheated cards. Autistic, sho'. Not retarded. You know Tom Hanks, 'Forrest Gump.' Slow, yes. Retarded, maybe. Braces on his legs. But he charmed the pants off Nixon and won a ping-pong competition. That ain't retarded. Peter Sellers, "Being There." Infantile, yes. Retarded, no. You went full retard, man. Never go full retard. You don't buy that? Ask Sean Penn, 2001, "I Am Sam." Remember? Went full retard, went home empty handed...
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