Posts Tagged → Barak Obama
Tax hike twins
What do President Barak Obama and Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton have in common? Quite a lot.
Both are liberal Democrats. Both are faced with GOP-controlled legislatures. (Obama has the Senate on his side, at least.)
And both are willing to go balls-to-the-wall on a government shutdown because they’d rather raise taxes than cut spending.
Huh?
Oh yeah. It’s called the Dance of the one-termers.
Obama is currently losing to just about any Republican a pollster can line up against him, except maybe Gerald Ford, who has the excuse of being deceased. Even Sarah Palin in a Beyond Nice hot tub covers the spread against Obama.
As long as the economy continues to spiral downward, expect his tax-hike insistence to be the final nail in his re-election bid, hung up on the wall of history.
As for Gov. Dayton, if Michelle Bachmann doesn’t end up as the next vice-president of the United States, look for her to be the next Governor of Minnesota, replacing Dayton in 2014. It can’t happen soon enough.
Why Obama is still vulnerable
While many of us were pleased to have our plasma TVs filled with the good news the White House offered up eight nights ago – that we’d finally tracked down 9-11 mastermind Osama bin Laden and sent him on his way to meet Alllah – one myth that popped up is that “this makes Barak Obama unbeatable in 2012.”
Wrong.
First of all, that same line of thinking didn’t work for Bush the Elder; he still fell to Bill Clinton after a wildly successful 100-hour Gulf War. And the very same line of thinking might be the key to his defeat.
As Dem strategist James Carville once scrawled on Clinton’s war room wall, “It’s the economy, stupid.”
Obama’s jobless rates, skyrocketing gas prices, attempt to shift health care into an already-bankrupt and overextended public sector portion of the payroll – it all adds up to such a serious economic morass that even capturing and killing Bin Laden won’t be enough to guarantee him a second term.
Sure, there are ways the GOP could mess up by nominating a John McCain clone; but if they nominate someone who’s a half-decent conservative, Barak Obama remains eminently beatable in 2012.
Obama acts to … stop oil drilling relief
With gas prices quickly heading skyward toward $4 a gallon, and a federal judge ordering the Department of the Interior to get off their lazy butts and approve some deep water drilling permits that would put more oil on the market and bring some price relief, the Obama administration acted last this past week… to halt the judge’s order.
Overstepping the bounds of the executive branch, Obama is disrespecting yet another federal judge to enact his own agenda. The first time has been his administration recent “so what?” reaction to a Florida federal judge declaring ObamaCare unconstitutioonal. Obama’s callous disregard of the ruling caused the judge to put a timeline on the administration’s ability to file an appeal of his ruling – widely misinterpreted by the Obama Media as the judge “backing off his ruling and allowing the administration to enact ObamaCare” when just the opposite was true; the deadline was set and the Obama administration risks being held in contempt of court if the deadline passes without an appeal being filed and they continue to enact ObamaCare.
Now Obama’s administration is hitting America in the pocketbook, hoping to end drilling in the Gulf indefinitely at a time when getting that oil flowing again would provide much-needed price relief at the gas pump. Yeah, he’s just begging to be re-elected, isn’t he?
Guy probably smokes cheap Don Tomas cigars.
Gas up 60 percent since Obama took office
No amount of promotional lip balm is going to make folks feel good about this, but the price of gasoline at the pump is up sixty percent since Barak Obama took office.
When Obama was sworn in, the average US price at the pump was $1.81 per gallon. That was a huge cut from the crisis price of the Bush years, in the summer of 2008, when gas reached over $4.00 a gallon, briefly. But while the price hasn’t crept back to that level yet, the 60 percent increase is starting to cause economic pain.
In the Bush years, the biggest contributing factors to the price hike was unrest in the Middle East over the Iraq War and other political disruptions, as well as out-of-control energy commodity speculation in the market. That’s not entirely the case today.
The Obama Era gas price is inflated for entirely different reasons. First of all, the speculators are back and ruining the market again, but that’s not the biggest cause. The biggest cause at the moment is the weakness of the US dollar.
The weakness of the US dollar is caused by all the out of control spending and borrowing Obama’s indulged in; the US deficit has ballooned under his watch like it has under no other president. Perhaps being forced to work with a Republican-controlled House will be exactly what Obama needs to bring spending under control, allow the economy to rebound, and see prices at the pump deflate once again.
Netanyahu not stymied by political catchphrases
When one compares the moral clarity of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to our current US President Barak Obama, once cannot help but notice the contrast. In a recent exchange over housing in the so-called “West Bank,” that contrast has never been clearer.
While Obama droned on about the peace process, incremental steps, breakthroughs, trust-building and a load of other euphemisms in criticizing Netanyahu’s decision to allow housing construction in Jerusalem after the expiration of a temporary ban, one could have gotten lost and ended up wondering what President Barry was talking about. Special occasion dresses, perhaps?
Netanyahu’s response was morally clear and unambiguous in its meaning. He simply responded, “Jerusalem is not a settlement; Jerusalem is the capital of the State of Israel.”
Guess which leader I wish were my head of state.
Netanyahu forced to deny aide’s comment
I can’t imagine why he would need to, since the statement is pretty much true whether his aide said it or not, but to do some damage control, Israel President Binyamin Netanyahu had to deny one of his aides described President Barak Obama as “Israel’s greatest disaster” in the wake of Israel’s latest meeting with the Obama administration.
Rather than being any kind of friend to Israel, the Obama White House has chosen to treat as an enemy the only stable democracy in the Middle East. (Sure, Iraq and Afghanistan may get there one day, but they’re not there yet.)
Yet President Obama has sided with Palestinian terrorists in demanding that Israel halt all housing construction in Jerusalem in anticipation that it will be given over to Palestine at some point. It’s a childish and ridiculous suggestion, which of course made it too tempting for Obama to pass up.
Some day, America may one day again have a mature President who knows how to keep Americas allies as allies and treat terrorists like terrorists. But clearly this White House is as far from being reliable as they can possible be; they are nothing like a Titan auto insurance review. But that’s what America gets for voting on race rather than policy; what we have today is the direct consequences of white liberal guilt.
Obama playing into GOP hopes
President Barak Obama is playing right into GOP plans with his latest call for congressional Democrats to ignore the negative polls and political consequences, fall on their swords and pass his health care reform plan, “now.” Whether the Dems in both houses, who enjoy overwhelming (if not gripe-proof) majorities, will commit political suicide for their President remains to be seen.
Still, give President Obama credit for getting into the testosterone cream, at least; however unpopular it may be, he believes in his socialization of one-sixth of the US economy, and, like Custer, he’s making his stand on this particular hill.
Time will tell if Obama and his fellow Dems will fare better than good ol’ George Armstrong…
