(2009-02-25) — The First Family has decided the new White House pet will be a Portuguese Water Dog, however, the official naming reportedly has been delayed by administration officials insisting on careful vetting to avoid embarrassing questions about immigration status or taxes.
“With a foreign-sounding name, naturally we’re taking extra precautions to ensure that all the papers are in order,” said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs. “And, of course, with a breed like Portuguese Water Dog, we’ll want to know if entering the country involved any swimming. The standard immigrant dorsal moisture test will be applied.”
Mr. Gibbs added that due to the tax difficulties with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, and the aborted nomination of Tom Daschle as Health and Human Services secretary, “we need to make sure that anyone we let into the White House from now on has faithfully done his duty. Unlike some of the others, we’re going to make sure this one passes the smell test.”
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1 R.A.M. // Feb 25, 2009 at 5:41 pm
That had better be one mean dog if it is going to be able to replace ‘Nan’ Pelosi on Obama’s lap!
OR, any of the other dogs fighting to get on his lap.
2 R.A.M. // Feb 25, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Why all the hub bub about the “status” of the dog, or whether or not it is an “illegal” or has “papers”.
We STILL don’t know if it’s owner is an American or not! He STILL won’t show us his “papers”.
3 camojack // Feb 25, 2009 at 6:14 pm
“The standard immigrant dorsal moisture test will be applied.
Dorsal moisture? Interesting way to say “wetback”…
4 RedPepper // Feb 25, 2009 at 6:33 pm
“You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.” ~ Harry S. Truman
5 JamesonLewis3rd // Feb 25, 2009 at 6:50 pm
So, American water isn’t good enough, eh?
I say, follow the money because it is going somewhere. The Three Card Monty Python skit the Democrat party is performing [panned with prejudice] is going to run out of steam; sooner rather than later-a good thing, imho-thanks to the doom and gloom emanating via ever-increasing spasms of blank stares from The White House.
6 RedPepper // Feb 25, 2009 at 7:09 pm
JL3: Hello there!
I tried to send you an email a couple of days ago (for your birthday). Did you receive it?
7 Left Coast-Right Mind // Feb 25, 2009 at 8:28 pm
I was sure the First Family were going to adopt two Doberman Pinschers, name one Zeus, the other Apollo (ala ‘Magnum P.I.’) so along with Obama we’d have the Greek God Trinity in the White House.
I didn’t know the Stimulus Plan had a “Buy Portuguese” clause.
8 gafisher // Feb 25, 2009 at 9:07 pm
You’re on the right track, LCRM Re#7. The Foisted Family had already decided on the cleverly misspelled “Medea” as the mythically-themed name for their lapdog.
9 Left Coast-Right Mind // Feb 25, 2009 at 9:11 pm
gafisher
Re: 8
Makes sense actually, since Medusa is already there. Can she throw a look that’d turn someone to stone, or what?
10 Libby Gone // Feb 25, 2009 at 9:27 pm
Name it Hussien Osama Gitmo!!!!!
Can’t touch this…….
11 mig // Feb 25, 2009 at 9:38 pm
Well atleast someone/thing in that White House is being vetted. Geesh.
12 onlineanalyst // Feb 25, 2009 at 9:50 pm
When Ackbar steps out of the WH for his cigarette break, he can make sure that the new family pet “has faithfully done his duty.” The Amazing One will be “walking the dog” frequently, one would guess.
13 Left Coast-Right Mind // Feb 25, 2009 at 10:01 pm
Obama bin Barkin?
14 onlineanalyst // Feb 25, 2009 at 10:36 pm
OT He may be the King of Pork, but Robert “Sheets” Byrd knows the Constitution. Byrd is not happy with the power grabbing (on steroids) by Obama in surrounding himself with an unelected, unaccountable shadow government that is making policy without the checks and balances of Congress.
Didn’t the “constitutional scholar” swear to uphold the Constitution at his inauguration?
Ackbar is pushing this nation into a Constitutional crisis, as well as an economic one.
Regarding the latter point, Peter Schiff claims that Obama exhibits “a total lack of undertanding of basic enonomics.” (But we knew that.)
15 simone // Feb 26, 2009 at 12:10 am
Onlineanalyst Re: #14 It’s hard to decide if he really has a total lack of understanding of basic economics or is just seeing what he can get away with. Is he just lacking in common sense or is there an uderlying scorched earth intent? Either way we are fubar.
16 simone // Feb 26, 2009 at 12:13 am
underlying
it’s late
17 Fred Sinclair // Feb 26, 2009 at 12:20 am
R.A.M. #’s 1&2: B.O. should have been “paper trained” ie: trained to show his papers upon request.
As it is, I read about military officers who with more backbone than most, are putting it all on the line by going to court to find out, legally by the Constitution, if they can be forced to obey orders of a supposed CIC who may well be bogus and in fact a usurper. (as many, including myself believe).
18 Fred Sinclair // Feb 26, 2009 at 12:32 am
La. Gov. Bobby Jindal would be a good choice in 2012 for Pres. - he at thirty seven is eligible but I’d like a Sen. Jim Inhofe/Gov. Bobby Jindal ticket with Sen. Tom Coburn as Sec. of State and Sarah Palin as Speaker of the House (bye-bye to San Fran Nan) and a Republican sweep of Congress ala Newt’s 1994 landslide. BHO just might make this scenario a real possibility. I’ve been reading a lot about grassroot’s planned tea parties in dozens and dozens of cities around the Nation. It seems a lot of folks are fed up and aren’t going to take it any more.
God moves in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform.
19 Fred Sinclair // Feb 26, 2009 at 12:46 am
One thing I noted with interest that might escape most others from that ever increasing list of cities - rallies and demonstrations in Washington, D.C., Fayetteville, N.C., Pittsburgh, Penn., San Diego, Calif., Fort Worth, Texas, Tulsa, Okla., Oklahoma City, Orlando, Fla., Omaha, Neb., Atlanta, Ga., and elsewhere in Missouri, Floridians Unite - Orlando Tea Party; Pennsylvania Tea Party. During my 11+ years on active duty (USAF) I was stationed with a large number of guys from Fayetteville, N.C. I learned (a few times, the hard way) that they are almost as tenacious as Missourians (me), those boys are like bulldogs, once they get their teeth into something, you’ve about got to kill them before they’ll let go.
With all due respect to Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C.,the only thing those boys liked better than a beer party with lots of girls and whuppin up on any S.C. boys (especially in basketball and/or football) was a chance to do some real down and dirty whuppin up on ANYBODY trying to do a North/South Carolinian dirty.
The Gubbermint may have bitten off a bigger chaw than they can chew.
Now to be totally fair, it’s a good bet that a bunch of them North/South Carolina men (and their wimmin folks of course) migrated west and homesteaded parts of Oklahoma. Their offspring (a few generations removed) might account, in part for the ferocious reputation held by the University of Oklahoma’s football team. Which is why I think the tea parties in OKC, Tulsa, etc. will be truly memorable events. Some may wear tea bags (or bandoleers for all I know) but I’d give a lot to be able to drive my Hoveround chair down the streets with them.
So if Jim DeMint with his S.C. Troops and the men of Fayetteville are going to be part of “The National Tea Party” - Somebody’s got to bring the crumpets. Those boys may well show up in their pickup trucks with the gun rack in the rear window. I wouldn’t want to be a mush for brains, liberal leftist, that gets in the way of that parade.
Want to bet the MSM tries to ignore the whole thing?
20 Left Coast-Right Mind // Feb 26, 2009 at 1:10 am
onlineanalyst
Re: 14
Now the question I have is, is Senator Byrd upset because Obama is wiping his feet on the Constitution, or because Obama is stepping on the Senate’s toes?
Either way, it looks like Sen. Byrd will need to hand over his DNC-issued bus pass, because he won’t need it while under the bus. Joe Lieberman better scooch over, it looks as though he’s about to have company.
21 R.A.M. // Feb 26, 2009 at 4:50 am
Now that an active duty military Officer, in a combat zone, has challenged Obama to PROVE he is eligible to be President, the Supreme Court CANNOT say he doesn’t have “Standing” to challenge “The usurper” who can order him in life or death situations!
What a brave and courageous man this guy is to stand up to the “fake Prez”!!!
Show us the (non existant) U.S. birth certificate Barry!
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=89837
Will “Nancy the trained Seal” preform for Prez Biden as she does for Barry? It’s gonna be interesting watching then undo ALL the Executive Orders and bills, (including the “Stimulus bill”), that an “illegal Prez” didn’t have the authority to do.
Better start getting some names together for those “new” cabinet posts. Those will have to be redone too.
If the “Supremes” drag this out any longer, it will only get worse for America. “Hussein’s” time has come!
22 R.A.M. // Feb 26, 2009 at 4:55 am
LC-RM #20: I think Byrd, (like a LOT of Demonrats), is just wanting to go back to his “glory days” when he wore that white sheet on his head!
With the looks of MOST of their heads, it would be a big improvement!
23 gafisher // Feb 26, 2009 at 6:58 am
Simone Re#15: Obamanomics is essentially the practice of making the US one giant cash cow, so maybe “udderlying” is what you meant. In any case, we’re definitely B(arack’ed)ubar.
24 gafisher // Feb 26, 2009 at 7:16 am
“The First Family has decided the new White House pet will be a Portuguese Water Dog …”
Millions are relieved to see Obama willing to associate so closely with pork and dogs.
25 onlineanalyst // Feb 26, 2009 at 8:25 am
Rove: Obama cheapens political dialogue with straw men. (That’s a diplomatic way of saying that Obama spews the Big Lie with impunity, and the media latch onto it with uncritical subservience.)
Proof of the pudding? Have Bush or any other Republican assert some of Ackbar’s pronouncements, and the Left (starting with head cheerleaders Matthews and Olberman would be screaming from the rafthers.
26 Hawkeye // Feb 26, 2009 at 8:42 am
R.A.M. #21,
Show us the (non existant) U.S. birth certificate Barry!…
Oh, there’s a birth certificate out there all right. According to World Net Daily…
Hawaii’s Gov. Linda Lingle has placed the candidate’s birth certificate under seal and instructed the state’s Department of Health to make sure no one in the press obtains access to the original document under any circumstances…[emphasis added]
Not only that, but… The director of Hawaii’s Department of Health [Chiyome Fukino], …said she has “personally seen and verified that the Hawaii State Department of Health has Sen. Obama’s original birth certificate on record”… (see HERE)
It’s just that Obama doesn’t want anybody to see what’s ON his birth certificate. He’s clearly got something to hide. My guess is that there is no doctor or hospital listed on the birth certificate. That would only add to the speculation that he wasn’t born in Hawaii at all.
27 Hawkeye // Feb 26, 2009 at 8:52 am
BTW, you crack me up Scott!
28 Ms RightWing, Ink // Feb 26, 2009 at 9:35 am
In this day and age of over indulgence why not just get a water spaniel-a good old American duck hunting dog.
I can see where ducking may help in the days to come, especially for Biden when he makes such stupid remarks.
As for papers, well all puppies need papers when they tinkle, and tinkle they will. All over the White House they will tinkle which will go fine with all the bull ships that dock there now.
29 Left Coast-Right Mind // Feb 26, 2009 at 10:45 am
Won’t this be a turn of events? The President of the United States endorsing a newspaper to be used for ‘potty-training’ the First Canine.
What an advertising bonanza for the failing print rags! The New York Times, L.A. Times and (most recently) the San Francisco Chronicle can put up, in big bold letters: “If you thought our paper was full of [self-deleted reference to fecal material] before, just wait till the Presidential Hound gets done with it”.
America has spoken as to what they think the First Pooch should be named, here are the top 17 vote-getters:
1. Hope
2. Lucky
3. Change
4. Sarah
5. George
6. Maverick
7. Snoopy
8. Buddy
9. Champ
10. Dog
11. Freedom
12. King
13. Liberty
14. Lincoln
15. Martin
16. Saul
17. Yes We Can
I found #16 quite interesting. How Wright, Ayers and Rezko didn’t make the list is a mystery.
30 Left Coast-Right Mind // Feb 26, 2009 at 10:52 am
I’m so ashamed. I left out Acorn…that’d be a great name for the Obama family’s dog. *forehead smack*
31 Ms RightWing, Ink // Feb 26, 2009 at 11:17 am
How ’bout Yo Mama
32 Ms RightWing, Ink // Feb 26, 2009 at 11:18 am
…or Snoop Doggie Dog
33 Laughing@You // Feb 26, 2009 at 11:59 am
R.A.M. (Republican Attack Machine?)
Do you live in Alabama?
On Saturday February 23, 2009, Republican Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama said:
“Well his father was Kenyan and they said he was born in Hawaii, but I haven’t seen any birth certificate. You have to be born in America to be president.”
Shelby was responding to a question from a (half-wit, moron) constituent about whether there was any truth to the rumor that Obama wasn’t a US citizen.
He has since said that it was a “throwaway line” and that HE DOESN’T HAVE ANY DOUBT THAT OBAMA IS ELIGIBLE TO BE PRESIDENT!
Would you bring your drool cup over here, and let me dip a Q-Tip in it? Many of us here would like to discover the truth about your ancestry!
L@Y
34 boberinyetagain // Feb 26, 2009 at 12:19 pm
The “big secret” is that Obiwan is a jewish arab…but we might be able to make that work for us…
Is this economic mess solved yet? He’s had OVER a month…what is the holdup?
35 Maggie // Feb 26, 2009 at 12:35 pm
Mig….re#11……cute
36 Laughing@You // Feb 26, 2009 at 12:54 pm
“So, American water isn’t good enough, eh?”
Do you drink unfiltered American water? If it is clean water (H2O) is water. But then it happens that, I do sell “Freedom Water”, from Liberty Mountains Springs, which is guaranteed to free your mind of the liberal contaminants which according to Brig. General Jack D. Ripper are cutting off the flow of the ” Precious Bodily Fluids” in our people!
General Ripper (Sterling Hayden) went on to say to Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: “You know when fluoridation first began?
Mandrake (Peter Sellers) answered: “I… no, no. I don’t, Jack.”
General Ripper continued: “Nineteen hundred and forty-six. Nineteen forty-six, Mandrake.
Mandrake responded: How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It’s incredibly obvious, isn’t it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That’s the way your hard-core Commie works.”
So you see, JL3
It’s the Fluoridation, Fluoridation, I tell you, Fluoridation, I say …
Don’t drink Liberal Water! Order your Freedom Water today!
Remember: Freedom Water is recommended by Pat Robertson and Dr. Strangelove himself, your own Darthmeister!
L@Y
PS
Fluoridation was once a major issue in the “Conservative Movement”!
37 onlineanalyst // Feb 26, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Obama claims that his economic plans and budget mark “the beginning of the end,” to which I would add the beginning of the end of prosperity for all… except the oligarchs who will be implementing his Five Year Plans.
Check out the graph attached to this link. Do we need any more evidence of how-yes, even within a month- that street thug con artist will indebt our nation. Skin in the game, pal? We will be flayed.
38 Fred Sinclair // Feb 26, 2009 at 1:01 pm
222 years ago……
“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe.
The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States.”
-Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution, 10 October 1787
39 everthink // Feb 26, 2009 at 1:55 pm
“The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States.” Noah Webster was probably right in 1787.
But, things have changed some since then! How many Bradleys, Abrams, Apaches and Predators does the citizenry have.
Is it your notion to set aside constitutional law to achieve a take over of the United States Government?
You continue to advocate for insurrection and violence against the American People and their lawful government. This because you lost an election, and the party now in power properly exercised it’s constitutional right to change course in the interest of the majority of of our nation.
Stop brandishing your weapon, and threatening others!
ET
40 RedPepper // Feb 26, 2009 at 2:32 pm
ola #37: Very impressive graph. I saw a similar one recently, heading in the opposite direction: it was a graph of the expansion of the money supply.
What the heck. The Chinese will have to get something for all that worthless paper we conned ‘em into. Maybe they’ll just foreclose on the Pacific coast ; with their expanding population, they could use the room.
They just better take possession quick before it gets annexed by Mexico …
WV=”everybody MOVETO” ; I swear, I’m not making that up!
41 upnorthlurkin // Feb 26, 2009 at 3:07 pm
Do you suppose Thoughtless is on Soros’ payroll or is he just another lazy, bored gubmint worker?!!
And here’s hopin’ obey-me is allergic and gets his girls a stuffed dog…..no poor puppy should have to put up with that pollution. What?! You believe he really goes outside to smoke??!!
42 upnorthlurkin // Feb 26, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Left Coast - my next pet, be it a dog or a cat will be named Gitmo!
43 RedPepper // Feb 26, 2009 at 3:37 pm
boberin #34: “Is this economic mess solved yet?”
bob, I don’t think how long he’s been in office is what’s important here.
Newsman said something (#31 on the last thread) that is much more relevant: “If people don’t feel there is promise or hope, you can do all the financial manipulation you want and it will not work !”
I think that is exactly right. Now, I also think that maybe Newsman & I might disagree about whether or not Obama is inspiring people to feel that there’s hope … but that is the important issue.
FWIW, the folks in the markets, as I’ve pointed out before, definitely don’t seem to be very hopeful …
44 Fred Sinclair // Feb 26, 2009 at 3:52 pm
How sad this Texas lady had the encroachment on her second
amendment rights so graphically illustrated.
I see the honorable senator from New York was getting a little
uncomfortable in his chair.
The gun banners are absolutely speechless as this little Texas
gal chews them up and spits them out.
She knows what the 2nd amendment is really all about.
Watch it. You will be glad you did. And pass it along.
Here’s a video that I guarantee you won’t forget anytime soon!
She didn’t cry, although she came close.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4069761537893819675
45 boberinyetagain // Feb 26, 2009 at 3:54 pm
red…I see your point. Unfortunately he (or anyone) could stand there (anywhere) spouting messages of hope. But he can’t do it. Know why? He’s privy to some facts that it would not be prudent to share, that we ain’t seen nothing yet, that things will get much, much worse before they get better (if that indeed ever happens).
So, if he went up there spouting sunshine and lollipops right now he’s assured that he will be proven wrong. Given the reality his approach is MUCH sunnier than I’d expect…even while he’s roundly criticised for not being upbeat enough.
Still…a 60% approval rating ain’t too bad for whoever is in charge of “rescuing” us…as if that can be done…
46 everthink // Feb 26, 2009 at 4:12 pm
bober,
It looks like we got you after all! Glad to hear it!
Did they give your picture ID yet? Do you know the secret handshake, recognition code, and password!
Do you have your MyObama Website?
Remember to be careful what you say in front of the Dittobots here.
Tomorrow all states Blue!
ET
47 Laughing@You // Feb 26, 2009 at 5:25 pm
I’m a uniter, not a divider.
-George W. Bush - 05/06/1999
in an interview with Salon magazine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4n7WyrB0G8
L@Y
48 onlineanalyst // Feb 26, 2009 at 6:08 pm
L@Y: That Bush statement was true, admittedly so by both sides of the aisle when W was governor of Texas. He extended that same spirit of bipartisanship when he became president. Let’s not rewrite history or facts like Joe Biden.
The Gaffemaster “Don’t Mess with Joe” criticized Jindal, saying that LA loses 400 jobs a day. The fact of the matter is that LA’s unemployment rate is far less than the national average. In fact, its jobs’ numbers increased because of the diversification of its opportunities. Let’s hear it from an LA news source that isn’t afraid of truth.
When in doubt, make up your own reality is the Dem mantra. The benumbed media will never research the facts
I assume that the secret Obama handshake is similar to the farmer’s handshake: interlace the fingers and let the thumbs hand down, mimicking cow teats. The message is to milk the populace.
Names for the Obama dog? How about
Fo shizzle?
Dude Dawg?
Toto? (Since we’re in Ozland now)
Right now, I’m hankering for some tea. I sense a taxpayer revolt in the making. At the same time, I’m hunkering in my own bunker, readying for Depression II, alternatively known as the Great Society on Steroids.
49 RedPepper // Feb 26, 2009 at 6:48 pm
boberin #45: Hmmm. Nemmind those poor schlubs that invested in the market … you don’t sound very hopeful either, bob.
Just sayin’ …
50 RedPepper // Feb 26, 2009 at 7:24 pm
ola #48: Great Society on crack is probably closer to the truth, imho. I’m certainly not anticipating any performance improvements …
51 Newsman // Feb 26, 2009 at 7:48 pm
WOOF !
52 Newsman // Feb 26, 2009 at 7:56 pm
Gee, you scrapplefacers are so friggin brilliant, at least to hear yourselves talk it seems that way, why don’t you form a committee and offer your services to Obama to get us out of this financial crisis. Be Patriotic and do something constructive for your country !
How about it Darth Boy…step up to the plate instead of sitting in the bleachers moaning and groaning !
53 gafisher // Feb 26, 2009 at 8:07 pm
(Shhh … careful, Newsboy, you’re whining.)
54 onlineanalyst // Feb 26, 2009 at 8:14 pm
Actually, Newsman, the Republicans had a whole package of alternative economic stimulators, proven historically to jump start and sustain economic growth for everyone. They were shut out of the process and/or only given lip service.
Tax cuts and belt tightening/restraint are absolutely necessary. Anyone who is running a frugal household does not go into further credit debt when the money is tight. Spending is not a stimulus. Has this administration not considered having a rainy day fund for addressing unexpected disasters? Or is it still fulfilling some fantasy Democrat wish list?
BTW The majority of Scrappleface posters, as well as those on other conservative sites, have loads of common sense. They actually are closer to what the Founding Fathers had in mind; ie., the common citizen empowers the government, not the other way around. They never envisioned a full-time political class trying to run the nation from the top down.
55 mindknumbed kid // Feb 26, 2009 at 8:32 pm
It would be very simple to fix our economy. Step #1 - Check constitution for what is specified to spend federal dollars on. Step #2 - Immediately suspend all unauthorized spending. Step#3 - Eliminate Income Tax and Capital Gains Taxes.
Unfortunately if you were to actually do these things the people sucking on the teats would storm the White House and suspend your term.
Step #4 - return to a currency backed by precious metals.
56 onlineanalyst // Feb 26, 2009 at 9:07 pm
More fuzzy math from the Obama magical mystery tour of economics and taxation of the “rich”.
I guess that the wealth of Tim “Turbo Tax Geithner, Tom “Limousine Liberal” Daschle, and Charles “Dominican Hideaway” Rangel doesn’t factor into calibrating the tax revenues. Let’s not forget the tax avoidance through trust funds and foundations of Ted “Splash” Kennedy, Jay “Big Earl” Rockefeller, John “Tuh-ray-zuh’s Boy Toy” Kerry. Am I forgetting anyone?
57 Newsman // Feb 26, 2009 at 9:30 pm
AYUH offline anakyst, you repubs have a lot of historical precedents - like big time deregulation under Bush and a history of eight years of Bushism policies that got us into this unholy financial debacle.
I know, know, you are going to say that some Dems were in on it too and you are absolutely on target, but who led the charge ??? GWB maybe ??? Naw, you will never acknowledge that, so it must have been Hoover’s ghost from the 30’s who is to blame for it all.
Hey Darth Baby, where are you when we need you the most here ??? Having a few sips of Repub Depression ??
58 Newsman // Feb 26, 2009 at 9:39 pm
Cmon offline, the Founding Fathers were white landowners who set it all up so the common slob in the street could never have a say in the affairs of the country.
The stuff taught in schools is a big fat myth. They were looking out for their own class and could care less about anybody else.
Does anybody teach you that we slaughtered the Indians because we wanted their land and their ideas of land ownership were in the way?
Democracy Shemocracy…. our Founding Fathers had no interest whatever in what we seem to think Democracy is all about today ! It’s mostly a farce to keep the masses in their place !
59 mig // Feb 26, 2009 at 9:49 pm
Scrolling through again. Hey Newsman, buy some coffee while your panting.
60 onlineanalyst // Feb 26, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Even the liberal Obama voter and economic analyst Cramer on CNBC is calling Obama’s antics communistic. The recognition of the anarchy of Obamanomics is hitting home, and the taxpayers are rising up. Check out the comments.
61 Laughing@You // Feb 26, 2009 at 10:34 pm
OLA,
You must be one of the very few conservatives who still believes Dumbo was a “Uniter”.
“He extended that same spirit of bipartisanship when he became president.”
What! Well, if you believe in polls that is in complete opposition to what 75-80% American voters believe! If you don’t believe in polls look at the election results!
According to polls “the party of no”, is getting ready for another shellacking.
Anyway, did you click the link in the post?
I sure thought it was funny!
L@Y
62 Laughing@You // Feb 26, 2009 at 10:50 pm
“Right now, I’m hankering for some tea. I sense a taxpayer revolt in the making.”
Whose tea are you “hankering” to throw is whose harbor?
Taxpayer revolt? Go for it goonie! I don’t think you’ll like paying the penalties, but I will enjoy hearing you whine, when it’s time to reckon up!
L@Y
63 Left Coast-Right Mind // Feb 26, 2009 at 10:53 pm
mig
Re: #59
Shhh…He’s on a roll, and almost up to the part where he bangs his shoe on a table and says that he’s going to bury us. I’m making popcorn.
64 onlineanalyst // Feb 26, 2009 at 11:10 pm
LCRM: Even Putin is telling Ackbar Ogabe not to go the socialist route. Are we headed toward a Zimbabwe world? or a Hugoland paradise?
The KoolAid® imbibers continue to do their “poll” dances around the shrine to the Dimwit-in-Chief while even the Democrats on Wall Street want to vote The One off the island.
America is experiencing a Great Awakening.
65 Left Coast-Right Mind // Feb 26, 2009 at 11:59 pm
onlineanalyst
Re: #64
Even Putin is telling Ackbar Ogabe not to go the socialist route.
I’m not all that surprised. Recall back to the mid-1990’s when Hillarycare was being touted it was reported that some of our allies, with crumbling socialized medicine systems, were imploring then President Clinton to abandon the idea. The arrogance of how they could do it better and smarter made the warnings ring hollow in their ears, and they pressed forward anyway, to a sound defeat, largely brought about by the citizenry calling their Congressional representatives to task on it.
Flash forward to today, and President Obama is attempting to get his version through a backdoor. The question now is, are there enough people in the electorate to make contact with Capitol Hill against this stepping stone to privacy invasion and Big Brother-ism, or has the ‘five-finger discount’ crowd become too loud to drown out?
The KoolAid® imbibers continue to do their “poll” dances around the shrine to the Dimwit-in-Chief while even the Democrats on Wall Street want to vote The One off the island.
The funny thing is, that at this point in his administration, George W. Bush had a higher approval rating than Obama has now. And according to Rasmussen, 59% still agree with Ronald Reagan’s assertion that “Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” So I suppose there is still ‘hope’. I just wonder how long Obama will keep his lofty poll numbers if the market maintains its downward spiral over the next couple weeks.
66 Laughing@You // Feb 27, 2009 at 12:40 am
“I just wonder how long Obama will keep his lofty poll numbers if the market maintains its downward spiral over the next couple weeks.”
The people know Dumbyah was the pyromaniac, and Obama is the brave fireman! It just doesn’t matter how many oily rags, or how much gasoline you point to, the people know they were planted by the Texas half-wit and the party of “No”.
Then, when does Obama rescues the nation he will be all the more a hero, and the worse conservatives will look.
L@Y
67 R.A.M. // Feb 27, 2009 at 2:00 am
OLA #56, I don’t know if you forgot anybody, UNLESS you are not counting in the filthy rich libs who don’t use loopholes, rather simply do NOT pay their taxes like Geithner, and almost all of Obama’s cabinet picks.
Did you hear that the bank that took bailout money that they just caught giving the big bash complete with a golf tournament, singing stars, etc, was the SAME bank that financed the Obama house in Chicago that had some MORE than questionable “perks”?
It appears Obama and the new lib “Culture of Corruption” doesn’t mind looking like the crooks that they so obviously are.
VERY “Transparent”!
I was not sure until now that this kind of “transparency” is what OBOMBA was refering to on the campaign trail.
Speaking of “transparent”, anyone else notice that et disappears and magically laughing gasbag reappears?
I am not saying they are the same fool BUT, et has been “unusually” quiet for a few threads, they both “sign” their posts at the end of each, and BOTH seem to have Alzheimers as evidenced by this:
“Then, when does Obama rescues the nation he will be all the more a hero, and the worse conservatives will look.
L@Y”
Can you say “Sybil the troll”?
68 JamesonLewis3rd // Feb 27, 2009 at 4:55 am
Seriously: If there’s a dog in the water, is fluoridation really an issue?
Nevertheless, this abstraction exemplifies why I drink coffee or cola almost exclusively and wash my Dodge Pickup with the fluoride.
I suppose Portuguese Water smuggling will probably become all the rage now.
69 mig // Feb 27, 2009 at 8:07 am
Huh. Gallup shows the majestic magnificent ONE has dropped below 60%.
For the first time since Gallup began tracking Barack Obama’s presidential job approval rating on Jan. 21, fewer than 60% of Americans approve of the job he is doing as president. In Feb. 21-23 polling, 59% of Americans give Obama a positive review, while 25% say they disapprove, and 16% have no opinion.
Four in 10 Americans (41%) say they are more confident in President Barack Obama’s plans to improve the economy following his Tuesday night address to Congress.
Just saying…
70 gafisher // Feb 27, 2009 at 9:20 am
Interesting figures, mig Re#69. If 41% are now “more confident” in ?bama then 59% are not, which agrees with the approval rating numbers, but also raises the question of where that 41% stood (besides being less confident) before Brocko’s Delphic soliloquy.
Of course there’s also a question of what “more confident” means — someone dangling from a cliff would be “more confident” in a rescuer who offered to pull them up with kite string than if he dropped them a cotton thread, but that still wouldn’t translate into much actual confidence.
71 onlineanalyst // Feb 27, 2009 at 9:28 am
George Neumayr discusses the sham.gov of Obama. Is the Audacity of Audacity a ShamWow guy? You know, soak “the rich” and then suck all incentive from them.
Mig: If Gallup is giving Ackbar Ogabe those numbers, you know that they have to be worse. Gallup tends to favor Dems in their polls and phrasing of questions. Their technique is to lead the witness… or witless.
72 Newsman // Feb 27, 2009 at 10:03 am
The epitath for the Republican Party:
“Their cause in this time of crisis is to deny expanded unemployment benefits to tens of thousands of jobless workers by saying they would not accept added federal funding for them.”
Tis known as “Suicide”
73 JamesonLewis3rd // Feb 27, 2009 at 10:14 am
One of my covert operatives, upon seeing images of the so-called “dog,” fell prostrate on the ground, said, “Este é um cão de água americano,” and began to weep.
74 boberinyetagain // Feb 27, 2009 at 10:29 am
JL3…RE #68…HUH? You drink coffee and cola to avoid water? I’m confused but if that’s working for you then it explains a lot.
Ah, now the polls matter (since Obiwan dropped 1 point)…interesting. I was told long and loud why polls were worthless when George was in office, good to see they’ve gained credence of late.
the bank sponsored a gold tournament eh? if that was good marketing before it’s probably good marketing now. i’d like to see banks we invest in succeed (i’d rather not have invested but that point is moot) so i can get my money back. it seems like the car companies still sponsor Nascar and few can manage to lose money like Chrysler…30 billion in one year? methinks they need to look into other businesses, cars don’t seem to be a good fit
75 boberinyetagain // Feb 27, 2009 at 10:30 am
golf…rather than gold
76 Left Coast-Right Mind // Feb 27, 2009 at 10:54 am
Laughing@You
Re: #66
So the market has been reacting to Obama’s (and/or his subordinates’) words and actions since (at least) November 2008, and it’s still not ‘his’ economy? “Era of responsibility” indeed. You will be sure to let us know when your guy is going to take some, won’t you?
77 onlineanalyst // Feb 27, 2009 at 11:53 am
I’ll take the liberty of citing a commenter, Baxter Green, to the weaseling charge that Bush never included war funding in his budget and, by that token, Obama is more honest about government spending:
“Bush never hid “war spending”. It was out there for the world to see.Instead of trying to bribe and hide spending like the democrats are doing, war spending was put forth to be voted on (as a separate entity) was completely transparent:
Former Bush Aide Blasts Obama for Budget Criticism
President Bush’s former spokesman calls the Obama administration’s claims of fiscal responsibility the “height of audacity.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/02/26/bush-aide-blasts-obama-budget-criticism/
“Putting temporary war spending in supplemental budgets was done to avoid permanently baking those appropriations into the Defense Department’s baseline budget. That’s good budgeting, not a ‘gimmick,’” Fratto said.
This apparently was not a big problem for Democrats because they continued to vote for it.
Whining about it now is only an attempt to distract from the fact that Obama is breaking promises left and right and sheep like you (Obama apologists) just stay on your knees and say ‘I’ll take it”.
Instead of continuing to whine about Bush, justify the blatant dis-honesty of your Messiah:
“Trying to mask huge spending increases under the cloak of ‘fiscal responsibility’ is the height of audacity,” Fratto told FOX News on Thursday.
Well said.
Heading towards a 10 trillion dollar deficit is apparently no problem for the “smart ones”.
Obama’s trillions dwarf Bush’s ‘dangerous’ spending
By Byron York
Chief political correspondent 2/24/09
http://www.dcexaminer.com/politics/Obamas-trillions-dwarf-Bushs-dangerous-spending.html
Pelosi and Reid called Bush’s budgets “dangerous” and “unpatriotic,” but with Obama, they’ve changed their tune
The new spending guarantees that the problems that so disturbed Pelosi and Reid just a couple of years ago — high interest payments and an increasing number of foreign debt-holders — will get worse. Yet so far, the Democratic leaders have refrained from using words like unpatriotic, irresponsible and dangerous to describe Obama’s budget.
Meanwhile, Mitch McConnell in the after-speech spin points out that in the first month of Obama’s administration Congress has spent more money than it spent on Iraq, Afghanistan, and Katrina relief over the past seven years
Obama has not kept his promise on transparency.
Obama has not kept his promise on no pork.
Obama outright lied about numbers to inflate his “2 trillion in savings”.
Obama probably got his bogus numbers from super smart VP “nobody messes with Joe” Biden who doesn’t know the “number” of his own website and was caught lying on national television about job loss numbers in Louisiana.
Yeah, ,keep whining about Bush so you don’t have to address the corrupt policies and lies coming from Obama’s administration.”
78 Fred Sinclair // Feb 27, 2009 at 12:12 pm
Don’t watch this if you’ve eaten recently - you’ll lose it all!!!
What a crock!!! Nuff said.
Watch ABC TV’s Homeland Security presentations called
racist by MALDEF, ACLU, LA RAZA, and the open borders lobby
http://www.lawatchdog.com/index.html#anchor_2296
79 JamesonLewis3rd // Feb 27, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Yes, well, okay, perhaps, maybe I should attempt to clarify #68: First, the chemicals churning within the cola’s various compounds trump the fluoride. Second, my coffee is brewed with the condensation I squeegee from the surface of my windshield and hood in the pre-dawn hours.
80 boberinyetagain // Feb 27, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Ah the “squeegee” method, I’ll admit I hadn’t considered that. As for the cola…I see your point. Ya got me…
81 upnorthlurkin // Feb 27, 2009 at 3:57 pm
The speed at which O-bey-me, Dumbo, Pinnochio, Barkey, Ack-bar…whatever is taking America downhill, we will be a 3rd world, communist dictatorship in short order. Then will he be satisfied?! Do you O-Bot apologists think Europe and the rest of the world will love us then?!
82 boberinyetagain // Feb 27, 2009 at 4:21 pm
Yes, yes we do…but thanks for checking…we appreciate the thoughtfulness
83 RedPepper // Feb 27, 2009 at 4:31 pm
upnorth: Wait ’till the “rest of the world” tries to redeem the U.S. financial instruments they hold … including the U.S. currency we’ve been buying their goods with! Love? Like you’ve never seen!
But I’m sure they’ll be willing to keep
selling usgiving us their stuff, just to show how much they like our new President!Right. We cool …
84 boberinyetagain // Feb 27, 2009 at 4:51 pm
I’m learning from you “cooler heads” how I should have comported myself whilst George was in office…it’s easy to see why you were upset with me given the level headed approach exemplified here…”3rd world, communist dictatorship”
I see that I most likely was way nicer than I should have been. Point taken
85 JamesonLewis3rd // Feb 27, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Against my own better judgment, I am morbidly intrigued by the methodology employed in the Smell Test. Example morbid query: Who sniffs the sniffers?
I have come up with several great names for the First Canine but they are all far too funny.
86 Newsman // Feb 27, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Seems to me offline anarkyst, that your buddy George W Bush was the Master Of Political Lying !
Just for starters, ever hear of WMDs in Iraq ?
87 gafisher // Feb 27, 2009 at 5:50 pm
“… ever hear of WMDs in Iraq ?”
Ask the Kurds. Or Hillary, for that matter.
88 upnorthlurkin // Feb 27, 2009 at 6:11 pm
…or slick willy…or anybody in Congress with access to the documents….
Gosh these are old, tired arguments.
…and Bob…you did whine and moan and badmouth President Bush at every opportunity….have you forgotten already?! Are you paying any attention to any of the shennanigans the one is pulling?!! His power grabs are unprecidented. Even some in his own party are protesting. I know you think you’re entitled to some of my husband’s paycheck or our house or truck….God knows we don’t deserve any of it…..and I’m sure you hope Ackbar makes that happen. I just want to know how making others suffer is going to make your life better…?
89 RedPepper // Feb 27, 2009 at 6:58 pm
gafisher #87: Ask the Iranians. Iraqi use of poison gas during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war was confirmed by UN study teams and condemned by the Security Council.
90 Fred Sinclair // Feb 27, 2009 at 11:17 pm
Perhaps the new occupant of the Oval Office is jealous of Zimbabwe and is working to surpass them so that America can boast of the world’s highest
inflation rate.
It’s time NOW (today) to begin stocking up on your meds. Don’t stop taking what your Doctor prescribes to save for a later date. Explain to your Dr. that unlike Canada, we won’t have an America to run to. And you want prescriptions in volume to prepare for the catastrophic inflation that is coming, thanks to the new occupant of the Oval Office. Personally I’m mostly stockpiling food. Canned goods by the case or half-case.
When the electricity goes, food in the Fridge and freezer won’t last long. So stock up on meat (like home made beef jerky) can fresh hamburger and sausage.
The unprepared will end up on the street selling apples (what isn’t sold will be your families supper that night).
NEWS AFRICA
Zimbabwe inflation at record level
Zimbabwe is battling with the world’s highest
inflation rate at over 100,000 per cent [EPA]
Zimbabwe’s currency has tumbled to a record low of 25 million Zimbabwe dollars to one single US dollar, while Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s president, continues his campaign for re-election.
One hundred dollars bought nearly 20kg of local currency on Wednesday as Zimbabwe wrestled with the world’s highest inflation rate at over 100,000 per cent.
Analysts say that inflation is likely to get worse as Zimbabwe’s central bank pumps cash into the economy to fund upcoming elections.
There have been reports that the central bank is buying US dollars on the unofficial market to pay for power, petrol and vehicle imports ahead of the election.
Zimbabwe’s black market exchange rate for the US dollar broke the one million Zimbabwe dollar mark for the first time in late October.
Unfortunately only a few older Americans know what poverty is - we’re about to die out, but the younger will learn that as screwed up as Roosevelt was the new occupant of the Oval Office is much, much worse. He’s like Franklin Delano Roosevelt to he 10th (tenth) power! - OR WORSE!!
Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s president is pretty well out - due to the inflation rate, the abject poverty - little kids and babies dying of malnutrition. Perhaps the abject poverty is what it will take to wake America up!
It took a Jimmy Carter to get us a Ronald Reagan. Perhaps Bobby Jindal, Sarah Palin, or Jim Inhofe is our next Reaganesque President?
btw 20kg of Zimbabwe’s currency = 44 lbs.
91 egospeak // Feb 27, 2009 at 11:27 pm
Re: 58
“Democracy Shemocracy…..our Founding Fathers had no interest whatever in what we seem to think Democracy is all about today!” Congratulations Newsman, it seems you accidently stumbled into a true statement. Our Founding Father absolutely had no interest in what you and your liberal/socialist comrades think democracy is all about today… that’s why they gave us a republic. What Obama and Pelosi and Reid are doing is the farce to keep the masses in their place. Idiot.
Regards,
92 R.A.M. // Feb 27, 2009 at 11:28 pm
The opaqueness of the OBOOBA administration is amazing! To ignore “ear”marks in the “Stimulus bill” is to ignore the “ears” that are on both sides of Prez Dumbo’s empty head!
I used to work with two brothers. They BOTH stretched the truth. The difference netween the two was, one was like Scott Ott, he would tell you a whopper and then sit back and laugh, to see if you would believe him,-SATIRE.
The other brother was like Obama. Tell a whopper, then swear it is the truth! Although, “Hussein” actually takes BOTH sides of every issue, so technically, he lies AND tells the truth about EVERY issue!
Obama makes the Clinton’s look like Saint’s when compared to him. Obama, (the “Christian”), should spend more time in the Bible, reading the 10th Commandment, (Obama’s income redistribution), and the part about “ALL liars having their place in the lake of fire”!
Thou shall not steal, and Thou shall not kill are two more “Barry” needs to work on!
P.S.: For “Obama-bot morons” to keep saying, “Give him time, he just took office!”, is like seeing someone setting fires all over town and say, “Give him time, he may quit on his own!”
93 R.A.M. // Feb 27, 2009 at 11:40 pm
To watch Pelosi the other night jumping up and down like a geriatric cheerleader, SHOULD embarrass ANY and EVERY lib out there who constantly worries what other Countries think of America.
The third most powerful person in your party looked/looks like a complete moron!
Oh well, so do the two that are above her.
94 mig // Feb 28, 2009 at 7:50 am
Booby: It was #69 not #68 And I didn’t say that polls mattered to me because they don’t, it was just a nod of interest to the laughing yacks barrage of how great O is and everyone loves him. Much to the same tune that W was horrible and everyone hates him. Swinging of the pendilum. Love Hate Love Hate. I don’t hate O, i don’t like his policies. I am a Captialist, a kinda Darwinist when it comes to the material world. Survival of the fittess. I believe in Pay to Play. I know that the constitution and our Founding Fathers would not agree to a Welfare System funded by the tax payers and dolled out by Congress. Ever. That is glaringly evident even with a sunglasses on.
cc: 1969 ideals = no comment…
95 mig // Feb 28, 2009 at 8:03 am
Obama sounds like Lenin.
and
Obama talks to Babs about dogs.
96 mig // Feb 28, 2009 at 8:08 am
OLA… love the links…
97 MajorDomo // Mar 2, 2009 at 3:17 pm
As the total ecollapse darkens the American landscape, and the total ignoramuses now in power prove themselves to have NOT A CLUE on how to turn it around, I’m getting more and more PO’d. Here’s a suggestion to the cacaphony of liberalism that lurks here: Cease the endless namecalling and regurgitation of tired text and come up with some ANSWERS! My country is going down in flames and all you know is how to blame Bush and engage in childish squabbling! And for Republicans: You’d best read and re-read Limbaugh’s Saturday speech. You are close to driving the only organized opposdition to its complete demise.
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Sheesh! I’m reading up on the Boston Tea Party.
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