Obama is telling a half-truth and hoping Americans are too dumb or distracted to figure out the rest of the story.
- MARCH 26, 2009
Obama Points Back to the GOP’s Future
The president has made taxes and spending the big issues again.
By KARL ROVE
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123802235514741871.html
Last fiscal year, the deficit was $459 billion.
For this fiscal year, it was $569 billion when Mr. Obama took office.
Under his proposals, another $1.276 trillion will be added to the deficit this year, for a total of $1.845 trillion.
The CBO says deficits will fall for three years to $658 billion, still nearly 50% larger than any past deficit.
After that, deficits go back up every year, reaching the trillion-dollar a year mark again in nine years.
By 2019, the debt would reach 82.4% of GDP, a level not seen since 1947.
With astonishing candor, even Peter Orszag, the president’s budget director conceded these levels of deficits and debt are “unsustainable.”
(Also, Republicans need to stick to just one way of helping us to understand. The info the CBO put out last Friday stipulated that the deficit for FY 2009 will be 13.1% of GDP, for FY 2010 9.6%. FY 2008, the last year for which Bush is fully responsible, was 3.2%.
Then look at the historical data, look at the Bush and Clinton years. And looking even further back historically, one has to go all the way back to WWII years to see numbers this bad. I know we’re hurting, but things aren’t as bad as they were after Hitler invaded Poland and the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.
There is more than one way to look at these numbers, but if you tell us that 4-5% of GDP is not sustainable, then you tell us 82.4% is not sustainable (should be around 40%). Then Judd Gregg, who is my new hero says 23% is not sustainable (should be around 20%).
YOU’RE CONFUSING THE HELL OUT OF ALL OF US AND GIVING THE OPPOSITION AMMUNITION!!!
Just show them this chart (America can understand a chart) which is from the Washington Post.
http://www.4shared.com/file/94943875/4bf8d65b/wapoobamabudget1.html
Then show them a great big chart which goes all the way back to the 30s and 40s.
Or better yet show them a chart like the following one:
Obama won’t tell us the truth.
Please do a better job of presenting the truth.
March 26, 2009 at 10:12 pm
zenstorm Says:
March 26, 2009 at 9:36 pm
fema camps may be a big fat lie created by someone on the…Internet! How surprising. wow, im shocked. Geez I was really bothered by what I thought to be concentration camps, and now it looks as if it was a lie…totally blown out of proportion. I f I did not get this information from Glenn Beck Id be cautious, but I find that hes an honest guy looking for the truth. We just cant trust the internet either, obviously. I never put too much faith in what I read anyway, especially after the crazy kenyan….oh well
March 26, 2009 at 10:25 pm
zenstorm Says:
March 26, 2009 at 9:36 pm
fema camps may be a big fat lie created by someone on the…Internet! How surprising. wow, im shocked. Geez I was really bothered by what I thought to be concentration camps, and now it looks as if it was a lie…totally blown out of proportion. I f I did not get this information from Glenn Beck Id be cautious, but I find that hes an honest guy looking for the truth. We just cant trust the internet either, obviously. I never put too much faith in what I read anyway, especially after the crazy kenyan….oh well
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When I lived in Austin, Tx., I lived just a few miles down the road from Taylor, Tx. where I have seen one of the camps with my own eyes….It was also featured in a You Tube video in which Alex Jones was confronted by guards at the facility….My best guess would be that Beck was pressured from his higher ups at the Fox Network….The camps are 100% real.
March 26, 2009 at 10:36 pm
Highly Recommend This Podcast – I listened to parts of this live earlier today when I was out and about.
Donovan Campbell with Dennis Prager.
Listen here:
Dennis talks to Donovan Campbell. A graduate of Harvard Business School, he finished first in his class at the Marines’ Basic Officer Course, and served three combat deployments–two in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. He was awarded the Combat Action Ribbon and a Bronze Star with Valor for his time in Iraq. His new book is Joker One: A Marine Platoon’s Story of Courage, Leadership and Brotherhood.
[audio src="http://ht.salemweb.net/townhall/audio/mp3/cb92def0-f7fb-4619-a49b-516e276d0648.mp3" /]
Joker One: A Marine Platoon’s Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood
http://www.amazon.com/Joker-One-Platoons-Leadership-Brotherhood/dp/1400067731
March 26, 2009 at 10:39 pm
Hugh Hewitt is on now:
http://krla870.townhall.com/
March 26, 2009 at 10:42 pm
Or, Mark Levin is on now, as well.
http://www.wabcradio.com/article.asp?id=531472
March 26, 2009 at 10:46 pm
‘I’m having a very good crisis,’ says Soros as hedge fund managers make billions off recession
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1164771/Im-having-good-crisis-says-hedge-fund-manager-1billion-world-plunged-recession.html
March 26, 2009 at 10:50 pm
Has Obama found his Inner Warrior?!
Earth to Obama – You cannot do just one thing; You cannot do everything.
Sources: Obama to add US troops in Afghanistan
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090326/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_afghanistan
March 26, 2009 at 10:57 pm
The Buzz: Presidential birth certificate legislation; Ron Paul rally
http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/1106876.html
And while we’re on the subject
It is safe to say that until last week, Bill Posey was one of Florida’s least-known members of Congress, a freshman Republican who bears a passing resemblance to Mister Rogers.
That changed after Posey quietly introduced a bill in the House that would require presidential candidates to submit their birth certificates to prove they are really U.S. citizens.
Now he’s the butt of jokes on late-night TV. “So, Congressman, what you should do is stop embarrassing yourself and take the Reynolds Wrap off your head,” MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann scolded.
Posey has been portrayed as something of a nut for what is widely seen as an attempt to legitimize the fringe belief that President Barack Obama is not a U.S. citizen.
March 26, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Obama Town Hall – Marijuana Questions Top Birth Certificate Questions
http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2009/03/26/obama-town-hall-marijuana-questions-top-birth-certificate-ques/
March 26, 2009 at 11:07 pm
Thought you’d all appreciate this one:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2213948/posts?page=51#51
To: 2ndDivisionVet; LucyT; Fred Nerks; Beckwith; Calpernia; Candor7; MHGinTN; little jeremiah
Dear God, help me. I agree with Koyaan!
There are no pixel perfect repeating patterns, and to make matters worse, if I understand the directions right, the author’s only cutting out segments of the border without regard to the underlying background that shows through.
Try making a selection rectangle that includes a repeating background pattern to the left and to the right sides of the border. Coy and paste the selection, and good luck trying to match it to any other segment of border and background — it cannot be done.
51 posted on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 8:24:33 PM by Polarik
(I guess you’d have to read earlier comments to make sense of it all.)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2213948/posts
March 26, 2009 at 11:12 pm
More from Polarik:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2213948/posts?page=53#53
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2214741/posts?page=57#57
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2213948/posts?page=54#54
March 26, 2009 at 11:15 pm
I needed a Phil Dragoo moment:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2215468/posts?page=24#24
bbl
March 26, 2009 at 11:22 pm
Check out these AmericanIssueProject videos:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=AmericanIssueProject&view=videos
Like this one:
“Shocked”
bbl
March 26, 2009 at 11:22 pm
Wow!!!….Orly is a tiger!!!
http://defendourfreedoms.us/2009/03/26/letter-to-chief-justice-roberts-032609.aspx
March 27, 2009 at 12:27 am
Let’s see…Orly, Sarah, Michelle…what this country needs is a good firing session and then let the women in to fix things!
March 27, 2009 at 1:22 am
Priceless
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/196975.php
March 27, 2009 at 1:24 am
Katie Says:
March 27, 2009 at 12:27 am
Let’s see…Orly, Sarah, Michelle…what this country needs is a good firing session and then let the women in to fix things!
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I have no problem with that. 🙂
March 27, 2009 at 2:18 am
This might be the best one yet.
http://obambi.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/we-didnt-start-the-fire/
March 27, 2009 at 2:19 am
I just listened to Hillary on GretaV show explaining how we are to blame for the violence in Mexico so now….. “we” need to give the ATF more “authority” to stop the “illegal” sale and smuggling of guns to Mexico.
Not a peep from Greta.
It’s a’ comin’
Another crisis not wasted
March 27, 2009 at 2:32 am
Now Greta has a Washington Post metro sexual “expert on all that is Mexico” on explaining how all we are supplying all AK47’s to Mexico.
Gee I kinda thought it was a Russian model made in pretty much any shady country ever associated with the USSR.
Why do I watch this network anyway!
March 27, 2009 at 2:41 am
Well Greta just wrapped the Mexico thing up with Dick Morris saying ll the violence is a last stand by the drug lords and crooked cops because Calderone has successfully been putting the squeeze on them.
Make sense – overblow and exploit this “crisis” at the border for gun control beofre Calderone solves it permanently. Bo gets to whack our 2nd amendment and then claim credit for fixing the border problem.
Brilliant.
March 27, 2009 at 2:46 am
I would like to dedicate this song to our Congress.
“Push Comes to Shove”
Ill as a hornet, swarming around
Your political correct world is incorrect I’ve found
An angry young man is what I became
The day that you got full of yourself, and now only you’re to blame
Push
Push me on off of the ledge
I’m standing with my toes hanging over the edge
Not worried about a push coming down from above
I’m ready for you
Look in my hands it’s not what it seems
Touch my hands I been around touch the man
Touch the fist that can shatter your dreams
Push
Push me on off of the ledge
I’m standing with my toes hanging over the edge
Not worried about a push coming down from above
I’m ready for you
When push comes to shove
March 27, 2009 at 2:55 am
…and for a finale, I would like to dedicate this song to Obama.
March 27, 2009 at 4:22 am
I’m not usually into rap but this one kinda touched my heart.
March 27, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Glenn Beck is interviewing Michelle Bachman this morning. It’s an incredible exchange.
I don’t have a way to record it, but I’ll be looking for it on youtube later on today.
Is anyone else listening to Beck’s show?
March 27, 2009 at 2:01 pm
I’m not usually into hero worship, but Michelle Bachman is my new hero!
March 27, 2009 at 2:07 pm
LadyTexan Says:
March 27, 2009 at 2:01 pm
I’m not usually into hero worship, but Michelle Bachman is my new hero!
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I want to marry her. 😀
March 27, 2009 at 2:18 pm
LOL…. Troy
March 27, 2009 at 2:31 pm
http://www.puma08.com/2009/03/26/americas-enemies-excited-about-obamas-ineptitude/
March 27, 2009 at 2:32 pm
LadyTexan Says:
March 27, 2009 at 2:01 pm
I’m not usually into hero worship, but Michelle Bachman is my new hero!
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Hey, me too. I find her to be a ‘light’ in the darkness of all this.
March 27, 2009 at 2:33 pm
http://james4america.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/legislation-introduced-to-block-us-change-to-global-currency/
March 27, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Bachman is usually brilliant on most issues. So why is she taking this on? The dollar will be worthless if the rest of the world abandons it as the reserve currency and goes to a global currency? Global currency =we are screwed.
We are going to have a mountain of debt and a worthless currency. But alas if we go the way of Zimbabwe can I pay off my mortgage with my worthless dollars before they send me to be re-educated?
March 27, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Good morning/afternoon. My husband forwarded this to me.
South Park On “Bailouts”
http://patdollard.com/2009/03/south-park-on-bailouts/
March 27, 2009 at 4:15 pm
More Friday Humor
Obama Hits the AIG Spot: Supernews
March 27, 2009 at 4:25 pm
DANIEL HANNAN, MEMBER OF EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT MEMBER
FoxNewsElectionHQ
March 27, 2009
Outcry against Obama agenda heard around the globe
Transcript:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,511011,00.html
March 27, 2009 at 4:39 pm
FoxNewsElectionHQ
March 26, 2009
Battle Lines Drawn — Sen. McCain on opposition to Obama’s budget proposal
March 27, 2009 at 4:44 pm
http://www.WorldNetDaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=92999
Youtube star summond to White House for his “disturbing messages”.
March 27, 2009 at 4:54 pm
CURL: To McCain, budget doesn’t add up
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/27/mccain-on-budget-it-doesnt-add-up/
Stopping just short of calling Mr. Obama disingenuous or dishonest, Mr. McCain said Thursday that the president can’t possibly expand spending – generating more debt in a single term than was created by every president from George Washington to George Bush combined – without making massive spending cuts.
Thus, he said, the president’s plan to cut taxes for all but 5 percent of Americans is mathematically impossible.
Video:
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. at the Heritage Foundation on March 26, 2009:
Although 50 million people voted for me and for Sarah Palin, mostly for Sarah Palin, that there was a sizeable majority of the other party that returned to Congress and elections have consequences.
Elections have consequences.
These consequences we are seeing now in full display.
March 27, 2009 at 5:19 pm
ddlew2 Says:
March 27, 2009 at 4:44 pm
According to a spokesman for Doyle’s show, at the time when Basso was supposed to be calling in for the show, he was unavailable. Basso reached the show several hours later, explaining he had been flooded by media calls and literally was unable to call out.
The result, the spokesman said, was that Basso promised to provide Doyle with the first exclusive interview after he meets with Obama, provided the invitation still stands after the meeting was leaked to the press.
The spokesman said information about the meeting has not been made public, and show producers are waiting to see what develops.
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Listen: 12-3 P PST, M-F & Sat 8-11P PST
http://www.jerrydoyle.com/stationfinder
I think you can listen live here. It did take a while to load, but it did work.
http://www.kdwn.com/index.php?page=16&sid=ovj3ds01ffa4slduc0mq8157l966qrut
March 27, 2009 at 5:30 pm
FoxNewsElectionHQ
March 26, 2009
This Is Serious — Is U.S. really ‘on the road to hell’ as EU president suggests?
March 27, 2009 at 5:33 pm
Glenn Beck
Thought we were done with the politics of fear? Bo Dietl weighs in
March 27, 2009 at 5:35 pm
Rahm Emmanuel linked to failed mortgage giant
March 27, 2009 at 5:56 pm
MSNBC’s David Shuster Again Slams Rove; Obsesses Over Fox News
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2009/03/27/msnbcs-david-shuster-again-lashes-out-rove-obsesses-over-fox-news
March 27, 2009 at 6:00 pm
ddlew,
Do you think Basso understands what a Republic is? The moron has suggested abolishing the Electoral College. Somebody needs to show him the video that explains a democracy as just an unstable transitional form of government headed for oligarchy. Remove the Electoral College and you have MOB RULE! If Basso has no better understanding than that, then he is just a ranter and not qualified to speak to Obama on behalf of anyone. This is probably why Obama ask to meet with him because he recognizes his stupidity.
March 27, 2009 at 6:01 pm
Karl Rove Is Right About Obama’s Coming Banana Republic Economy
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/mary-kate-cary/2009/03/26/karl-rove-is-right-about-obamas-coming-banana-republic-economy.html
As much as everyone loves to hate Karl Rove, it’s hard to argue with his facts, which are right out of the administration’s budget and economic projections.
He’s got a point—how can the president’s budget possibly be called a “save and invest” budget?
Running public debt to a level above 80 percent of GNP is on a par with a banana republic.
As Bill Bennett would say, Where’s the outrage?
March 27, 2009 at 6:01 pm
bbl
March 27, 2009 at 6:15 pm
A law dictionary, adapted to the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, and of the several states of the American union: with references to the civil and other systems of foreign law
By John Bouvier, Daniel Angell Gleason
Edition: 14
Published by J.B. Lippincott and Co., 1874
NATIVE, NATIVE CITIZEN.
A natural-born subject. 1 Sharswoud, Blackst. Comm. 360. A person born within the jurisdiction of the United States, whether after declaration of independence or before, if he did not withdraw before the adoption of the constitution ; or the child of a citizen born abroad, if his parents have ever resided here; or the child of an alien born abroad, if he be in the country at the time his father is naturalized. 8 Paige, Ch. N. Y. 433 ; Act of Congr. of Feb. 10, 1855 ; 2 Kent, Conim. 9th ed. 38 et seq.
NATURALIZED CITIZEN.
One who, being born an alien, has lawfully become a citizen of the United States under the constitution and laws.
He has all the rights of a natural-born citizen, except that of being eligible as president or vice-president of the United States. In foreign countries he has a right to be treated as such, and will be so considered even in the country of his birth, at least for most purposes. 1 Bos. & P. 430. See CitiZen ; Domicil; Inhabitant
http://books.google.com/books?id=2mk8AAAAIAAJ&dq=tHE%20DEFINITION%20OF%20%22NATURAL%20BORN%20CITIZEN%22&as_brr=1&pg=PA205&output=text
Obama, on Fight-the-smears admitted that he was born “an alien”!!
Go to Google Books and search the free or “full view” books. It’s AWESOME to read books from the early years of our nation. This one was published right after the Civil War (1874).
March 27, 2009 at 6:28 pm
Tenacity Says:
March 27, 2009 at 6:00 pm
ddlew,
Do you think Basso understands what a Republic is? The moron has suggested abolishing the Electoral College.
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Ten, I didn’t hear that from the video clips…Did I miss something?…Was it stated in something he wrote?…Everything I heard in the clips was good common sense.
March 27, 2009 at 6:33 pm
Ten,
Oh I understand what you are saying. Onviously he doesn’t understand WHY we have the electoral college and THAT IT IS the basis of our Republic.
My point is that he has been summoned to the layer for speaking his mind. Tell me the last time a President has taken that sort of hands-on approach.
This shit is getting scary bro!
March 27, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Tell me the last time a President has taken that sort of hands-on approach.
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He obviously has struck a nerve and the Obadmistration has noticed how widely his videos are being viewed and the fact that he has made appearances on Fox News and probably other news networks as well…He is a threat!!!
March 27, 2009 at 6:41 pm
Wow, over 13 million voting at MSNBC on the “In God We Trust” issue.
Go vote if you haven’t already.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10103521/
The results must surprise the mush brains at MSNBC.
March 27, 2009 at 6:56 pm
ddlew & Troy,
S/Ob must be sweating to see that his numbers are sinking so fast and so many issues just will not go away. He must believe a face to face will be effective. Maybe he plans to hypnotize the poor sucker. I would tell him I would meet with him if he has his original Kenyan BC. Otherwise, I might meet with him if it was okay to bring my attorney, Orly Taitz along.
March 27, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Lame Cherry makes ominus claims….Supporting links are at the end of the article.
http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2009/03/what-it-all-means.html
March 27, 2009 at 7:22 pm
A message to all of the fans of our new wonder woman, Michelle Bachman….The Obots are already pulling a “Sarah Palin” on her….They are visciously attacking and smearing her….Just Google “Michelle Bachman video”, then click any You Tube link listed and you will see what I mean.
March 27, 2009 at 7:36 pm
I wonder how long it’s going to be before Mr. Smith, Mr. Wesson, Mr. Colt, Mr. Winchester and their associates pay a visit to Washington.
http://www.puma08.com/2009/03/27/obama-wants-us-energy-policy-to-be-under-un-supervision/
March 27, 2009 at 7:53 pm
Just found this link to Michelle Bachmann’s blog. She’s just posted the INCREASE for energy per capita based on the Cap and Trade insanity.
http://michelebachmann.townhall.com/blog
“Much has been made of President Obama’s recently proposed cap-and-trade, energy-tax policy that he would soon like to see implemented as a means to raise revenue for his health care reform and other big spending plans. The graph below, provided by Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI), shows the state-by-state analysis of annual per capita increases in electricity costs that would occur under a 100% auction, as President Obama has called for, to meet his target carbon emission reductions.”
(Oh, and if you live in WY, it’s only an extra $7,000+ per year per person. Don’t worry tho – we can all move to Delaware and be Joe Imbiben’s neighbors. They only get a $22 a year increase.)
March 27, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Please wish me luck! I’m going to need it tonight!
New Thread:
https://rosettasister.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/an-al-green-state-of-mind/
March 28, 2009 at 11:36 am
I am growing to love Ms. Bachman. She is not afraid to stand up for the Constitution in a public forum Did you see little Timmy’s face when she asked him about telling her where in the Const. it gave him the right to do what he’s trying to do? He looked like a 1st grader caught in a lie. Honestly, he should be on stage along with his supreme leader. They missed their calling.
I’d sure like to see a Palin/ Bachman ticket in 2012. Two strong, principled, fearless, real America loving women. Oh did I mention they are both very attractive too? I am going to follow Bachman’s career a bit and keep a close eye on her for the future. The Obots may have their hands full trying to discredit both of these women. Yayyyy, we may have found our leaders.