America
Failing
Day 408
We have been quietly watching the Messiah-Wicked-Witchofthe-West-Mortician monster that is trying to ram socialism (in the form of health care deformation) down the throats of We the People. We view this as Government Abuse, and we believe that Obama, Pelosi, and Reid should be taken up to the Washington Memorial, and forced to read, publicly, the Declaration of Independence and the entire United States Constitution two thousand times. Why 2000? One time for each page of the monstrosity they want to force down our throats. When Pelosi speaks, some kind of voice alteration device should be fitted to the microphone so we don’t have to actually hear her in her own god-awful voice.
The Messiah said, at the end of the Health Care Water Torture Session that if the Ds and Rs couldn’t come to an agreement (i.e., if the Rs wouldn’t agree with him), then that’s what elections are for.
All we can say is this: Bring it on, Mr. President. You are the most abysmal excuse for a President we have EVER seen. We think we could probably swap in Hugo Chavez for you and no one would notice any difference from a policy and rhetoric perspective. You have, to date, been responsible for the conversions of 6 people we know who proudly called themselves liberal when you started, who now call themselves Independent – and it’s all because of you and your Witch, Pelosi.
We do not believe it when the lamestream media calls this an anti-incumbent season. But we hope YOU believe it. We hope that you go, excuse the phrase, Off-the-Cliff with your health deform boondoggle. We especially hope you try for the reconciliation tactic. Ple-e-e-ease, Mr. President. Do it. We need as much anger out in the heartland as you can generate. The more the better. And as long as the health deformation effort doesn’t actually get through the House, we will be thrilled to have you go for it.
And tell your friend the Wicked Witch of the West to keep up with the sour potty mouth drivel that she seems to revel in. As she talks about “itsy bitsy spiders,” we can’t help but think of the old movie, “The Fly,” when at the end of the movie, the fly with a human head (that would be the Wicked Witch) is screaming “Help me. Hel-l-l-p me,” as a spider comes bearing down on it. Come November, the American People are going to be spiders to all the flies in the Democrat party.
November cannot come too soon.
- Off-the-cliff.com
America
Failing
Day 380
We are – all of us at O-t-c – so tired of Democrats and the Obama Administration. They bore us to tears. The only reason we follow anything they do is because it’s consequential.
Not once have we heard them say anything remotely interesting, let alone intellectually stimulating. But what can one expect of people who skate through life, rising to the top of the heap through extortion, political correctness, and bullying instead of brains and fair competition? Is there any such thing as a smart Democrat anymore? Really – is there?
Take Chrysler and GM. Please. Take them. Put them out of their misery – put them out of our misery. Ray LaHood, the Transportation Secretary, said that people should stop driving their Toyotas. Tell us how that’s not a conflict of interest. Yeah – we know that LaHood says he’s a Republican, but really – he’s not. He’s a RINO. He really should follow Arlen Specter’s lead and become a Democrat outright. After all, does anyone believe the deception anymore? Just be the jerk you really are, Mr. LaHood and some of us might at least be able to respect that.
Yeah – we know he tried to walk back what he said. But not really. Not in a way that had any impact.
And what he did was so abysmally amateurish and transparent: he wanted people to look at Taxpayer Motors in a more favorable light.
Well, Mr. LaHood – it backfired. At least in these quarters. We now look at Taxpayer Motors in an even worse light than we did before, though we didn’t believe it to be possible.
We can’t think of a single thing – not one damned thing – that this President has done that we like. We’re not going to belabor it anymore. Suffice to say that we’re bored to tears with his and the Democrat rhetoric. We are bored to tears with their efforts to play the race cards, their efforts to propagandize our children, to propagandize us. We’re bored to tears with their insults. We’re bored beyond yawning at their efforts to try to sneak things past us like little kids looking “to see if Mommy and Daddy are looking” as they try to sneak their hands in the cookie jars. It’s cute in a little kid. It’s just unbelievably shallow, trivial, and bo-o-o-oring coming from adults.
We wish we could get a dispensation from God to move November to come after February this year. This would put the Democrats out of our misery.
Boycott the Messiah!
- Off-the-cliff.com
America
Failing
Day 366
It seems appropriate that on this first day of Obama’s second year, the stock market (Wall Street) would go into the tank. As of this writing, the DOW is down nearly 200 points, and the other indices are down sharply as well.
And another number is in the pain-zone, too: the number of first time jobless claims is up.
In the meantime, our country sinks into ever-deeper debt as Congress (that’s Pelosi, just in case you want to blame the Republicans) just authorized the borrowing of another 1.9 TRILLION (WITH A T) DOLLARS.
Our glorious Socialist-in-Chief said that he wants to focus like a laser on jobs. Good – but he’d better understand: jobs mean healthy businesses. You can’t go around, any longer, Mr. President, slamming the business class, or do things that create uncertainty in the minds of the business class and expect anything good to come of it jobs-wise. If Brown’s election serves to wake you out of your hallucinations, Mr. President, you should count it as a godsend. (Actually, we don’t believe this to be the case, but it’s a new year – maybe you’ve wised up.)
Here are a few recommendations:
1 – Tell your entire administration: business people are now welcome in your administration. They can come by private jet. They can come in luxurious rail cars. They are welcome in whatever splendor they can muster. Because happy business people will tend to hire (more jobs, Mr. President) more than unhappy business people. Simple fact. Give it some thought.
2 – Tell the unions to which you’ve been beholden to go to hell. Much of the unemployment mess is because of their intrusion, with your intense help, Mr. President – into the alteration of how business can be done in this country. Tell the unions that the secret ballot will be maintained; that it is a major pillar of democracy, and that the unions have proposed an unamerican idea with their “card check” effort.
3 – Look for ways to make the tax code simpler and more favorable to businesses, Mr. President. Use the bully pulpit to tell Congress that we need a law that gives significant tax breaks to large, Fortune 500 companies (Wall Street) when they open a store or factory inside the United States and keep it open for 4 years. Reduce the tax burden on employers for every new full-time employee that they hire for more than a year. This obviously needs some thinking through, but the overall idea would serve as a great incentive for businesses to be motivated in a positive way by the tax code instead of looking for ways to bail this country and set up shop in Taiwan.
4 – Create REAL public works project, Mr. President. No more funding of small-time research in obscure labs or unimportant (in the jobs context) studies. The American people need bang for our buck. Repairing many of the sagging bridges we have in this country could employ huge numbers of people, and the ripple effects into the private sector would be enormous. That you didn’t do this already indicates that you haven’t been serious about jobs at all. Maybe now you are. This would be a big boost – and it would improve our infra-structure, which would boost safety on roads, etc.
5 – No more global warming crap. Climategate and the flood of new evidence about shenanigans by the Left has got to make any sober person say that climate change is not an emergency. Maybe we need to change how we engage in planetary stewardship. That is perhaps worth looking into. But it is not the emergency that has been hoaxed upon the American people. No more cap-and-trade. No more “green jobs” as a solution for reducing unemployment quickly. We need big-hits NOW, not three years from now when some magical, mythical “factor” will leverage green jobs into full employment.
6 – Jumpstart NASA private-sector technology transfer programs. The bang for the buck that Americans have received from NASA’s operations have been tremendous. You wouldn’t have your Blackberry, Mr. President, were it not for NASA. There would be no iPhone. There would be no broadband internet. There would be far fewer advanced materials. This is one agency that the Federal Government could bring back in a huge way, to the benefit of all Americans.
7 – Get rid of the cost drivers to health care. Tort reform would be a huge lift for the economy. So too would forbidding states from limiting competition among insurers within their borders. This could all be done under the Interstate Commerce clause of the Constitution. It wouldn’t raise taxes, but it would free up money.
In fact – #7 could be used as a template, Mr. President. Look for ways to free up money in the private sector without raising taxes. No more taxes. In fact, start reducing taxes.
You said you were going to go through every line in the budget and get rid of the things that made no sense. Well? It’s time, Mr. President. Stop spending the people’s money on stupid stuff.
One more: #8 – Get rid of the socialists and communists you’ve hired as czars. Enough is enough. No more Van Joneses or Anita Dunnses. These people are blights on the Constitution, Mr. President. They are the antithesis of what this country needs in terms of bringing back the private sector to a robust pink of health.
Finally, Mr. President: stop blaming George W. Bush and his administration. Assuming anyone still believes it, it doesn’t matter anymore. This is on YOUR WATCH now, Mr. President. You’ve had a year and your policies have dramatically altered the political landscape. The buck stops with you; stop trying to pass it off with sleight of hand to George W. Bush.
You said you got the message, Mr. President. We’re waiting to see just what message you think you received.
- Off-the-cliff.com
An Open Letter to President Barak Hussein Obama – mmm mmm mmm:
An AP analysis of your Presidency in 2009 finds you irritated by the fact that people don’t remember”how bad it was” when you took office and how much “progress” you’ve generated for us in 2009. The AP analysis doesn’t analyze much, so we’re here to help. But let’s first begin with what little analysis it does do, because for the most part, it is reasonably well done.
The AP’s Ben Feller says it quite well: “He says “the buck stops with me,” but nearly a year into office, President Barack Obama is still blaming a lot of the nation’s troubles — the economy, terrorism, health care — on George W. Bush.”
And as to why the American people might not be ready to give you the B+ you give yourself? Read more
“All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.” – George Orwell, Animal Farm
America
Failing
Day 345
Get a load of this. The same Federal Government that wants to manage all of our health care, shows what a heavy boot it is ready to place on your throat if you get out of line sufficiently to annoy it. Since Obama’s DHS can’t go after terrorists in a competent way, they decided to sick the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) after – wait for it – bloggers!
As if that’s bad enough, it isn’t! Not only did they go after bloggers because some directive from their Keystone Cops offices was leaked (how is that the bloggers’ faults?), but apparently the directive includes language that lets some travelers off the hook from the inconvenience the rest of us have to put up with.
From the article: “It also listed people who would be exempted from these screening procedures such as heads of state and their families.”
Oh it’s good to be a king or a tin-pot dictator.
We have NEVER seen this level of incompetence and nonchalance with respect to the welfare of We the People; not even during the abysmal misery-indexed Carter years.
We call on President Obama to resign – along with his entire crew – along with every Democrat in Congress. You are all a disgrace to the flag of this country.
- Off-the-cliff.com