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When a pool reporter asked if the Obamacare website can be fixed by the end of November, Obama responded: "C'mon guys. I'm going to church."
Rasmussen Reports: Here, 51 pct disapprove but here 52 pct disappprove. My graph reflects the (slightly) greater rate of disapproval simply because I find it more optimistic.
Either way, apparently, "... 59% of unaffiliated voters disapprove."
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Now, if only he would go back to Chicago - or Hawaii - or Kenya - I don't really care where ... as long as he drops the teleprompter, steps away from the White House, rides into the sunset on his unicorn and fades into historical obscurity as the failure that he is.
I know, I'm dreamin' ... but it beats the nightmare I woke up to. Again. And again.
PostScript ~ My friend Michael Krauss on facebook:
"No one is angrier than me that we were spying on allies."
"No one is more disappointed than me that the ACA website is a fiasco."
"No one is angrier than me that we refused to defend our ambassador and Seal team in Libya."
But Mr. President, this was all on your watch, and is all your responsibility. No one is angrier than we are that you refuse to recognize this.
The bad news is, well, everywhere. The good news is that Obama is going to New York for two fundraisers tonight, so he will not be scolding Republicans in public.
( Hey, what's that 800-number again? )
The Husband sent me to a piece at American Thinker called The Fall of Barack. Sounds like a cheer-me-up.
.... ObamaCare will finish little Barry, because it was designed to punish somewhere around 300 million people to reward 30 million or so voters whom Barry believes can be counted on to vote Barack and his minions.
Karl Marx said history repeats itself -- "first as tragedy, second as farce."
I disagree. While Barry's first term was certainly tragedy, it was also farce. And while Barry's second term has surely been farce, it is assuredly becoming tragedy as well.
I wrote recently that Barack Obama is the most dangerous of morons: the moron who doesn't think he is a moron.
Paraphrasing one of the Godfather movies, Fredo, Michael Corleone's brother, having been discovered betraying the family, tells his sibling, "I'm smart, Mikey. I could be the boss. I'm smart." To which Michael replies, "You're my brother, Fredo, and I love you. Now get in the boat."
Fredo doesn't come back from that boat ride.
Barry is America's Fredo -- without the love.
I'm not so sure. I think there's still LOTS of love out there for Barry/Fredo, but be that as it may it's almost Shabbes... and you know what they say.
"... as much as the Jew has kept Shabbos,
so has Shabbos kept the Jew."
-- Aryeh Kaplan, z"l. Always a Must Read.
Now this is what you call HOT SPIT! Appropriately, by way of YAHOO:
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has no legal right to force a West Virginia poultry grower to obtain water pollution permits for runoff from her Hardy County farm because it is routine stormwater discharge, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
The main headline at Drudge this morning has to do with Hillary Clinton getting heckled at a speech.
.... During a speech at the University at Buffalo, Clinton first ignored the man’s shouts... “Because we can’t move from crisis to crisis, we have to be willing to come together as citizens to focus on the kind of future we want,” she said.
As the shouts grew louder from an upper section of bleachers, she added, “which doesn’t include yelling. It includes sitting down and talking.”
What she means, of course, is that we of the non-Ruling Class should sit down; she'll do all the talking.
#MakeDCListen is anything but a "dumb hashtag." It's the challenge of a lifetime. We have sent Congressional representatives to DC; we have sent the tea party, the bikers, the truckers and the veterans. But the door to the Enemedia Echo Chamber is slammed shut, CLOSED to non-members.
Even such luminaries as former Vice President Dick Cheney cannot break down that door: He asserted on national television that “The extremist in Washington is Barack Obama” and it's not reported in the mainstream?!
ABC News ran four stories on Cheney's risk of assassination by medical device -- one each in their News, Politics, Entertainment (?) and Health sections -- but nothing about his calling Obama an extremist.
NBC News covered the heart device story once -- through their Raleigh NC outlet -- but nothing that I could find about his calling Obama an extremist.
CBS News covered Cheney's criticism of Obama back in 2009 (and in response, actually re-posted a memo from White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer), but nothing about his most recent criticism, that Barack Obama is an "extremist." CBS covered Cheney's revelations about his heart disease, but only on 60 Minutes.
CNN's Piers Morgan interviewed Cheney's cardiologist, but Cheney's opinion that the President of the United States is an extremist merited no coverage that I could find.
... what’s so weird — if you look at the recent focus groups that Stan Greenberg and his colleagues did of the Tea Party, there’s a racial angle to this also where they feel that ObamaCare is really part of some socialist plot to make minorities dependent when the truth is, the biggest percentage of the uninsured are white. You’ve got to be asking, what does a black man in the Oval Office have to do to give affordable health coverage to 25 million poor white workers? It’s crazy.
4MeNoRinos: liars, its the left who is racist,,, and unbelievably so...
One hopes that when the enemedia's incitement to racism subsides, if it ever does, then these folks -and all the rest of us- can get back to taking part in the more tolerant, more civil society that once upon a time elected a black president.
On the other hand, it is my fervent wish that no Democrat/Liberal/Progressive should ever see the inside of the White House -- for the rest of my life, at least.
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PostScript
It turns out that Matthew Miller is not only a "journalist," but also a "senior fellow" at the radical left-wing, George-Soros-founded Center for American Progress.
.... As of February 2011, CAP's single largest department was its communications department, comprised of 31 full-time staffers tasked with spinning the news in a direction favorable to the Obama administration and the Democrats.
“Rare is the day a reporter doesn’t get three or more press releases from [CAP],” said the Capital Research Center, adding:
“[CAP] hosts almost daily conference calls to reporters promoting its policy positions and responses to news events. The staff accommodates the press, eagerly arranging one-on-one interviews and supplying quot- able quotes for news stories. For reporters with deadlines crashing down on them, the Center is well-known as an easy quote machine. Podesta regularly appears on Sunday morning news programs.... Center researchers provide useful talking points for Democratic members of Congress.... To further spin the news, every weekday the Action Fund emails reporters a 'progress report,' a 400-500 word hyperlink-heavy analysis of the issue of the moment. The links often refer back to the Center’s own various blogs and website postings. It is a reliable echo chamber for left-wing conventional wisdom.”
And here's a fun fact, by way of Politico:
Combined, CAP and Media Matters alone had a 2010 budget of $60 million, according to tax filings.
If you hear about any such well-organized, well-funded RIGHT-wing "message machine," please let me know. I'd like to participate.
Finally, although it's presupposed, it's worth noting that the Center for American Progress is decidedly anti-Israel.
*** Doris, Nota Bene: Miller lives in Los Angeles and serves on the board of directors for something called the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools. Maybe you can get him for one of your events.***
The Republican Party is still playing this game
by Washington rules
while Obama is playing it by Chicago rules ...
Daniel Greenfield: Beating Obama
.... The only thing Obama truly cares about is his popularity. It is the one thing he will defend at all costs. The Tea Party has done a good job of wearing down ObamaCare, but its real triumph will come if it succeeds in stealing enough momentum from Obama to make its own agenda into a national topic.
It did that briefly with the national debt. If it can do it again and in a bigger way, if it can win a popular mandate for its own issues, then it can steal Obama’s only real source of power and beat him for good.
FOX News by way of Weasel Zippers:
Soldiers attending a pre-deployment briefing at Fort Hood say they were told that evangelical Christians and members of the Tea Party were a threat to the nation and that any soldier donating to those groups would be subjected to punishment under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
A soldier who attended the Oct. 17th briefing told me the counter-intelligence agent in charge of the meeting spent nearly a half hour discussing how evangelical Christians and groups like the American Family Association were “tearing the country apart.”
Michael Berry, an attorney with the Liberty Institute, is advising the soldier and has launched an investigation into the incident.
“The American public should be outraged...
Yeah, no kidding we should be outraged. We are and we have been. We need CHANGE. We need to Repeal and Replace this Commander-in-Chief.
Divrei Chaim notes the gathering storm clouds:
... [H]ere in the US, we have the Onion, which is admittedly satire, publishing an article with the headline, “Redskins Kike Owner Refuses to Change the Team’s Offensive name.”
The article goes on to refer to the “hook-nosed” and “shifty-eyed” owner as kike multiple times in the story.
It’s just humor, right?
But ask yourself this: would they run a similar article with the word “nigger” in the title, or an anti-gay slur?
You know the answer as well as I do.
Read it all: http://divreichaim.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-gathering-storm-clouds.html
