Ask Obama: 'Good idea, bad idea'

You can never underestimate the ability of Republicans to claim white is black, and do it with feigned sincerity and seriousness. The party of "death panels" and "Obama is a Nazi" really wants to talk about "divisive rhetoric"? The party that is blocking everything in DC wants to talk about "defense of the status quo"? Heck, the whole point of the word "conservative" is a defense of the status quo!

But until Democrats learn to play hardball, and quit trying to work with a Republican party that want's to let the country burn and means only to destroy them so they can return to power, they will suffer at the ballot box.

You see, what voters want isn't rhetoric. They want results. Democrats promised results. They either deliver them, or they don't. And if they don't, the voters will retaliate, and be justified in doing so. All the teabagger questions won't rescue them from that kind of punishment, because a party that gets elected on the promise that it can govern ultimately has to govern.

And if Democrats deliver, then they can run on actual accomplishments. If Republicans want to rail at the Democrats for getting crap done, then let them. They'll find the going much tougher than they think.

ABC BRINGS US THE LATEST INSTALLMENT IN THE HILARIOUS ADVENTURES OF THE FORMER HALF-TERM REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR OF ALASKA

"Sarah Palin has been using her political action committee to buy up thousands of copies of her book, "Going Rogue," in order to mail copies of the memoir to her donors, newly filed campaign records show."

"The former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate had her political organization spend more than $63,000 on what her reports describe as "books for fundraising donor fulfillment." The payments went to Harper Collins, her publisher, and in some instances to HSP Direct, a Virginia-based direct mail fundraising firm that serves a number of well-known conservative politicians and pundits."

"Sarah PAC spent another $8,000 on colorful bookmarks designed by a Nashville-based event branding firm. And her committee paid her publisher $20,000 for what appears to have been the cost of sending her personal photographer and another aide along on her book tour. Those expenses are listed by the PAC as travel repayment to Harper Collins."
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http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/sarah-palin-pac-buy-book/story?id=9718024
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ABC says Palin's office hasn't told them whether she is accepting royalties from these book sales. She'd be a moron to do so..but then again, Palin is a moron. After all, what's the point of having a PAC if you're not going to use it to pump up sales of your own book? Supporting candidates? Hah!
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http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2010/02/palin_pac_spent.php
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While there are certainly plenty of valid reasons to fear Big Government, it is often the beneficial aspects of what a powerful federal government can provide that sends the mainstream media’s cast of Fox super villains into a frenzy. Universal access to health care, social programs for distressed communities, rights to an education, environmental protection and even basic food and water standards have been discussed in somber tones by Glenn Beck as the stepping stones to a Socialist government hell bent on destroying the American Dream.

I watch in awe as Sean Hannity follows at least thirty mentions of the need for small government with the statement that we should not fetter our CIA and military with respect to battling terrorists. As the history of all Big Governments has illustrated in the starkest of terms, nothing feeds the power of the State more than perpetual war. Sean Hannity has absolute trust in the growing Big Government he fears when said government is blowing up towns via remote control airplanes, killing scores of innocents on nothing more than a hunch that a terrorist might have prayed in the local mosque. Sean Hannity sees no reason to mess about with such Pollyanna bullshit as trials or adherence to the Geneva Convention when fighting this amorphous war that was never formally declared.

The same government that is completely untrustworthy on Health Care is miraculously trustworthy on imprisoning those who mean to do us harm. Simply requesting a modicum of transparency on issues relating to the incarceration and murder of potential enemies of the State is tantamount to being weak on defense or even a traitor. Lucky for us, our government never arrests the wrong man or woman. If the government somehow kills a few thousand innocents along the way, that’s just the cost of freedom, the cost of making Big Government even bigger.

Bill O’Reilly gets flustered when the idea that we should not torture people comes up. He sighs heavily when there is a suggestion that there should be proof before we execute someone. He trusts our government unequivocally in such matters. It is only the big governance of Reid and Pelosi that he questions. There is more of a possibility that our government, which has listened in on our cell phone calls and will soon be looking at most of us naked before we board an airplane, would incarcerate and murder us for our opinions rather than carrying out the supposed Death Panels of the monstrous Health Care plans. While I am not a proponent of the bullshit insurance company giveaways of Harry Reid or the slightly less bullshitty but still very crappy plan of Nancy Pelosi, at least they are devoting some energy into the concept that Big Government can accomplish more than murder.

Sarah Palin laughs at the suggestion of any sort of deliberation before we escalate our various wars. She trusts our lightning-fast precision government to make the decisions of life and death, your way, right away.

The right-wingers, who supported the repeal of McCain-Feingold, believe that corporations must be guaranteed the rights of the individual, as long as they are not Gay Corporations. Nothing threatens the sanctity of marriage more than a dreaded Gay Corporate Merger or George Soros with his hand on John McCain’s backside.

Republicans and Tea Baggers alike can sleep well knowing that Scott Brown also has absolute trust in our Big Government when it comes to imprisonment, torture and murder. Scott Brown’s drunken rambling victory speech a couple of weeks ago drew big applause when he spoke of the fact that there is simply no need to protect the rights of terrorists. Again, the problem here is, as patently obvious as it should be, is that without giving suspects any rights, there is no mechanism to assess if they are guilty or innocent. This undermines all of our rights.

To my friends in the corporate media, I am all for reducing the size of government, right after they arrest the lot of you on suspicion of being terrorists. Isn’t "Hannity" the Arabic word for sewer waste?

The two criteria used to determine a good idea vs. a bad idea.

1. Reduce the role of government and the number union employees. Bad idea.

2. Spend money on boondogle projects with paybacks longer than the useful life of the asset. Good idea.

Warmed over ideas from the failed Carter admin. being passed off as new and progressive. Brilliant strategy, if the people don't like what you are doing, do more of it in the hopes they become so dependent they dare not oppose.

Is this incompetent capable of learning anything through on the job training? He's been played by repubs, third world thugs, racist ministers, military commanders and his own super-majority. Back to his comfort zone, "town hall meetings" packed with his dwindling supply of supporters.

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Brilliant strategy, if the people don't like what you are doing, do more of it in the hopes they become so dependent they dare not oppose. Is this incompetent capable of learning anything through on the job training? He's been played by repubs, third world thugs, racist ministers, military commanders and his own super-majority. Back to his comfort zone, "town hall meetings" packed with his dwindling supply of supporters.
Posted by: Hans | February 1, 2010 6:12 PM
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What's wrong, "Hans"?

Not enough right wing tax cuts for doughy white Republican Billionaires in there for ya?

Warmed over ideas from the failed Reagan admin. being passed off as "new" by todays Wingnutters. Brilliant strategy!.....not.

"Elephants are supposed to have long memories but the Republican variety patently does not, judging by the fury over the ‘Obama deficits.’ In the GOP universe, these are the outcome of big-government spending and the only hope of fiscal restoration is to cut taxes. The Republicans appear to have forgotten that this was tried before by Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, with the main effect of sending the deficit skyrocketing"

http://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/ronald-reagan-george-w-bush-and-the-deficit/
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Amazing, the first two posts from demented, delusional, psychotic loons from the left have NOTHING to do with this Swamp item!
Anyway, in regard to the Palin item, what difference does it make if her PAC bought some of the books to be given to donors as a gift? As a member of the World Wildlife Fund, I get their big, beautiful calendar every year -- for free!
Same thing. Big deal!
The fact that a loon would be drooling and having a catatonic fit over this is one of the best examples of how demented, ill, psychotic, weird and completely nuts most of those on the Left are.

Now back to the Swamp item at hand. Here are some questions that would have been worthy of asking Obama and him answering:
1. On several occasions you and members of your administration have said that KSM will be tried, found guilty and executed for being the mastermind behind 9/11. What is the point then of the civilian trial if the administration has already determined his guilt and punishment? And by doing so, won't the defense attorneys say the jury pool in the U.S. has been tainted so it is impossible for KSM to get a fair trial in the U.S.?
2. You have had a super majority in both houses of Congress, but yet the Democrats could not pass a health care reform bill. Does this show a lack of leadership on your part? And do you think you were wrong to let Pelosi and Reid do most of the crafting and not your administration?
3. Since the evidence is piling up that the global warming numbers have been cooked up and fixed and as the weather throughout much of the world continues to show a cooling trend, how can you expect the American people to continue believing the lie that global warming is occurring?
4. When does the statute of limitations run out on blaming the past administration? And since President Bush is helping to raise money for Haiti, isn't it unseemly for you to continue blaming him? And by continually blaming the previous administration, don't you come across as whiney, childish and petty?
5. Since you said in the State of the Union you were in favor of offshore drilling, nuclear power plants and getting more of our natural resources, what is your plan to do so or was it just another line to try and placate people?
6. Why do feel a need to bow before every world leader you come across and why don't they bow back to you?
7. Your administration has said anywhere from 650,000 jobs were saved or created to 2 million jobs. What is it exactly and how again did you folks arrive at that?
8. Consumer spending only increased .2 of a percent in December, far below expectations. How can you say the economy is growing with putrid numbers like that?
9. Wasn't most of the work to save the economy actually done BEFORE you took office with the TARP being passed and implemented in the Fall of 2008 as well as continued low interest rates?
10. Exactly how vain are you? How narcissistic that you would name your dog after you? Carry around a copy of GQ magazine with you on the cover, etc?

Now those are questions that should be asked and answered. And many are issues Mark Silva should address but is either too afraid or too partisan to do so.

YOU SHOW ME A REPUBLICAN WHO SAYS THEY'RE GOING TO FIX THE ECONOMY AND I'LL SHOW YOU A LIAR.

The Historic Failure Of Republican Economic Policy

"Republicans are enamored by "supply-side" economics. Frankly, I have to admit it's a very easy sell. Think about it. "Cutting tax rates stimulates the economy to such a high level that tax revenues increase." However, there are several problems with this theory. The first is Republicans have not implemented the other side of "supply-side economics" -- a corresponding cut in government spending. This has ballooned the federal debt to dangerous levels under their economic stewardship. In addition, the projected increase in government revenues really haven't materialized as projected. In other words, supply-side economics is a great marketing concept, but in reality is a poor national policy."

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hale-stewart/the-failure-of-republican_b_63520.html
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Damn those labor unions, bring back the Gilded Age, says Hans.
http://www.nlcnet.org/article.php?id=556

Who needs government, when corporations will regulate themselves, says Hans.
http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/patients/articles/?storyId=22937

Who needs reform, everything was just fine when we were running the show, says Hans

http://esrati.com/is-america-becoming-a-third-world-country/354/

Okay, Mr. President: No more giving internet kooks free reign to ask questions via YouTube. More Q&A sessions with Republicans. How about that?

http://www.political-buzz.com/

Can anyone name 1 good idea BO has had since getting elected? nope me neither. Worst president ever

***REMEMBER WHEN REPUBLICANS USED TO CLAIM THAT GENERAL PETRAEUS COULD DO NO WRONG???***

***REMEMBER WHEN REPUBLICANS WOULD CALL ANYONE WHO DISAGREED WITH GENERAL PATRAEUS A TRAITOR???***

-CNN JOHN KING:
"If you ask the White House about this, it highlights -- they say it's not just the president, it's not just Attorney General Holder, that General David Petraeus says he believes a public trial at a federal courthouse is the best way to do it so that it's not an al Qaeda recruiting tool.

That Secretary Gates, a holdover from the Bush administration at the Defense Department, also they believes a trial in the federal court system is preferable to a closed trial in the military commission. And that the CIA operatives leading the fight against these guys in Yemen, in Somalia, in Afghanistan and elsewhere, also believe that if you did it in a closed setting in a military commission it would be a powerful recruiting tool. If General Petraeus, Secretary Gates, and the intelligence leaders say, do it in court, why do you say that's a bad idea?"

-REPUBLICAN CHICKEN-HAWK MITCH MCCONNELL:
"I simply disagree and so do the American people."
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http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_02/022183.php
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When Democrats disagreed with Petraeus, Republicans called them disloyal and stupid. Republicans doing it? Well, that's okay, even if they are disagreeing with the Pentagon, with the CIA, and with the very people taking the fight to Islamic extremists everywhere. Because if there's anyone that desperately wants to wet their pants in fear, it's Republicans. They certainly have no clue how to be "brave" when it's their butt that's on the line.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFGit_tZDqs
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Where was Mitch McConnell, John Boner and the rest of what has become the Wingnut Party of No when the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans were made and the phony rationale for the trillion-dollar (so far) Iraq war was being concocted in Dick Cheney's bunker?

Republicans were greasing the skids and cheering on the largest period of deficit-spending in U.S. history.

Suddenly, Republicans all got fiscal religion. Just the way they always do when it's a Democrat instead of one of them sitting in the Oval Office.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2009/03/27/deficits/index.html
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HOW ABOUT THIS...

Good Idea:
Release all your college records and long form birth certificate.

Bad Idea: Stay the course but, the momentum for the release of these records are growing by leaps and bounds...look at the polls.

Who Are You?

Paulo

Is this a joke doesn't the President have more important things to do with his time than make videos on YouTube what's next a sex tape?

HERE'S A BAD IDEA . . . WATCHING KEITH BLOWBERMOUTH. EVEN THE EXECS ARE TIRED OF HIS SCHTICK (LORD KNOWS THE VIEWERS ARE).
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Is America Getting Over Keith Olbermann?
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http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/media/is-america-getting-over-keith-olbermann/19337944/
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Ratings for Olbermann's Countdown have been soft recently, and the 8 p.m. shows on CNN and HLN have narrowed the gap. In the important demographic of adults 25 to 54 -- the group advertisers are looking to reach -- Countdown was down 44% year-over-year in January. It averaged 268,000 viewers in that demo, only 3,000 more than Nancy Grace's show on HLN, and 12,000 more than CNN's Campbell Brown. Fox News's O'Reilly Factor dominated the hour with 964,000 viewers age 25 to 54, and was the only cable news show in the time period to increase its audience, by 55%
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HEY YOU KIDS BEHAVE, DON'T MAKE ME PULL OVER!!!
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.Phil Griffin's Memo To MSNBC Talent: Stop Fighting With Each Other
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/23/phil-griffins-memo-to-msn_n_434117.html
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Hope and change you can believe in???
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Dem. senators spent weekend with bank, energy, tobacco lobbyists
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http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0210/Dem_senators_spent_weekend_with_bank_energy_tobacco_lobbyists.html

I really enjoyed the question from the group of environmentally conscious kids who called Obama out on his choice of energy expansion during the State of the Union. Nuclear? Sure. Clean Coal? Doesn't exist and the Pres is willing to concede that point. But, offshore drilling? Really? That's a disappointment and of course the only option Obama didn't respond to. I'm sure he needs to round up some Republican support, but let's stop with the pandering.

dt, HHH and other defenders of the incompetent in chief. It's obvious you believe government should have the responsibility to coddle the lazy, steal from the successful and neuter our military. That is not progressive, it is elitist fantasy thinking.

If you are so compassionate maybe you could try donating your own money. Your messiah and his plagerizing sidekick donate a smaller percentage of their income than the average repub making 50K. There is something about being a lib that causes them to think it is perfectly fine to sponge off the government their entire life.

Maybe that's why more government = good idea, efficiency, responsibility, fiscal restraint = bad idea.

Maybe someday you libs will be able to explain why doubling down on Afghanistan, tripling the Bush deficits, spending 100's of millions to try someone that hasn't even been read their rights are anything but a sign that the kid in the white house is completely incompetent. Moreover, he is unprincipled, incapable of making a decision without nuancing it to irrelevance and unable or unwilling to grasp the responsibilities of his postition.

That you continue to compare this incompetent to Bush is amazing. By your own definition, the worst most damaging president in history is your new benchmark. All the more curious since he keeps flopping back to Bush positions when his don't work.

What will it take for people to understand that placing economics over justice is terrorism. In order to save money the US Gov't attacked veterans, postal workers and injured employees. This was done Nationally in Executive Order 12871 and the National Partnership Council. Decisionmakers used Collusion to reduce we the people and liabilities. The result continues to be the destruction of entire American families ie. suicides and executions. The result in the laws of the US Constitution not being upheld is Population Control - torture, Deny til you die.

President Obama would be headed towards the most successful presidency ever. And restoring our nation to the great freedom we deserve, after the fascism of the previous 8 years.

But it has been the obstructionist republicans and (yes) cowardly blue-dog dems, that have blocked the meaning legislation necessary to get our country back on track.

There should be a competitive public health care option to compete with big health insurance companies.

Just like FedEx and UPS compete with the postal service.

I believe many people are still under the impression (wrongly) that we (the U.S.Postal Service) are paid by the US government. We are paid by the Postal Service, by the revenue generated by the Postal Service. The Postal Service has not been subsidized by the government for several decades. Nor has the Postal Service been, nor, asked to be bailed out by the government. Even in these difficult economic times, the USPS remains self-sufficient, by become 'leaner and greener'.

Okay you loony liberals I'm about fed up with Obama's lies about the deficit when he took office. Let's look at the numbers that the government uses at the end of fiscal year 2008 the deficit stood at $585 billion. At the start of the fiscal crisis it was that $600 billion. When the fiscal crisis hit the Bush team passed the TARP program ($700 billion) the deficit went to jump to $1.3 trillion. Under federal budget rules a loan or a grant are treated the same and must be added to the deficit. But one thing that Obama keeps failing to report is that of the $700 billion, 500 billion has been repaid. Take that away that from the $1.3 trillion in reality Obama walked into a deficit of $800 billion.

Now let's look at the real numbers. After the payback of TRAP funds (200 billion is never coming back that was money that went to AIG, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac) the deficit from Bush was $800 billion. Now take the $300 billion of spending in Obama's stimulus package and the deficit moves to $1.1 trillion. Now add in the auto bailout, plus more money for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, plus other spending and the deficit moves to $1.4 trillion. So in one years time team Obama and the liberals in Congress added $600 billion to the deficit and tried to blame Bush. Now you loony Libs may have a hard time believing this but take the time and do a little research of your own over at the CBO's website. And you don't think this is not to be used for the midterm elections you got to be kidding yourself. These are real numbers and as Al Gore would say it's "the inconvenient truth". Like another loony Libs said the website is free and open for all to see.