Video: Obama Budget Cut Visualization
(written 3/12/2009)
The other day my wife sent me a joke about Obama that went as follows:
The Dept of Defense briefed the president this morning, they told Obama that 2 Brazilian soldiers were killed in Iraq. To everyone’s surprise, all the color drained from Obama’s face.
Then he collapsed onto his desk, head in his hands, visibly shaken, almost in tears.
Finally, he composed himself and asked, ‘Just how many is a brazilian?’
This is especially funny since he obviously has no understanding of billion or trillion either. I got a kick out of it primarily because it’s beautifully timed and because it’s a great play on words.
I sent it to a flaming liberal with whom I am in frequent contact. He responded by saying:
“Neither did Bush…By the way, it is also interesting that the Congressmen on the “Right” who railed against the budget bill made sure that their entitlements were included!!!????? Ain’t Washington fun?”
How could I not take the shot when it’s so beautifully teed up?
This might be a good time for you to stop the childish tact of looking over your shoulder at the trillion dollar deficit (over half of which was TARP) that Bush ran up. It took him and Congress eight years and a lot of hard work to dig that hole. It took this goober less than two months to eclipse Bush’s numbers and the tab is still rising at an exponential rate. The facts show that in less than two months comrade Obama has created greater debt for American tax payers than all of the presidents before him combined and, did I mention it took him less than two months? Heaven only knows where this is going to end up.
At some point you have to face reality about the facts of this mess, such as the fact that since Obama was elected the market has gone downhill so hard, far and fast as to make the beginning of the crash (admittedly during Bush’s watch) look like a gentle ride on a bunny slope. This isn’t about residual fallout; it’s about the biggest vote of no confidence in American history.
He has broken his promise on earmarks.
He has broken his promise on lobbyists.
He has only been able to (or chosen to) fill roughly 30 of the 800+ nominated positions that he has to fill. As the beautifully well spoken Charles Krauthammer said, “It’s impossible to avoid the image of Tim Geitner wandering the halls of Treasury alone at night talking to the portraits of the T – Secretaries that have come before him ala Nixon in the final days.” It’s also impossible to not see Geitner as the quintessential metaphor of the fox guarding the henhouse.
The horrifying diplomatic blunder with Gordon Brown showed that he has no concept of diplomatic protocol or history. To say that he skipped the [traditional] joint press conference with Brown because he was tired is just plain (and typically) disgusting. He’s that tired already? The guy’s got just under four more years left before he gets taken out to the curb and already he’s too tired to observe critical foreign diplomatic protocol with our longest standing ally? Call it what it is; CRAP! He was simply showing England the same contempt he is showing to America and all who would stand by her. But at least he gave Brown the wonderful parting gift of 25 classic and unwatchable movies (which probably ended up in the first trash can Brown’s aids could find after leaving the Whitehouse). (Let us not even begin contemplating the horrific treatment of Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu.)
The amateur hour nonsense that went on between Hilary Clinton and Sergey Lavrov showed that she doesn’t have the common sense it takes to hire a Russian speaking aid before entering into such silliness. Indeed, it shows that she has more hubris than intelligence, believing that she didn’t need a proof reader for a language that neither she nor anyone else on her staff speaks.
Then there is the nightmarish “secret letter” that his majesty sent to Russia promising to leave the Poles and Czechs hung out to dry on missile defense if Russia would help in getting the Iranians to back down from nuclear development. On its face that would have been diplomatically acceptable (to everyone but the Poles and Czechs) as was the same deal cut by Henry Kissinger with China that sold Taiwan down the river in order to create necessary diplomatic inroads. The difference is that Kissinger had the deal locked before he sent the letter. In this case that hobbyist in the Whitehouse didn’t have the deal sealed at all and was told to run along on a global stage.
This showed the whole of Eastern Europe that we have no regard for their well being and it showed every enemy we have how weak spirited, simple minded and ill respected our president is. It showed every country on Earth that if they are our friends, they can no longer depend on us. If they are our enemies they can hit us with impunity as our “dear leader” has no idea how to play in the big league and has made no effort to hide his intention to dramatically cut defense spending.
This will most surely open us up to the “test” that the equally stupid and arrogant “Lunch Pail Joe” predicted. The problem is that they won’t have to pay the price of that test. You, I and our loved ones will have to take that load while the slugs in charge of this catastrophe point fingers over their shoulders at “W” in a failed and insulting effort to deflect responsibility, as is the political way.
Bush is gone, and I am certainly not defending him, but I know that kills you and all of your comrades because you can’t legitimately lay the problems of the country on him anymore. It’s now time to stop drinking the party Cool Aid and start wrapping your head around the buyer’s remorse that is yours to bear. The bloom is off the rose with this rampaging fool for anyone who is honest enough to admit reality.
And now all we can do is wait and see just how bad it’s going to get.
There was no response… except the reality that since this was written it has gotten has much much worse!!
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