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Showing posts with label Europe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Europe. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Barack "Flip-Flop" Obama...
It's tough being a politician. Typically, if you're going to be effective, you have to compromise here and there to fulfill your promises and carry out an agenda.
There is, however, a term for those politicians who will do anything to grab and hold power (or to at least keep their heads above water): flip-flopper.
In a nice little article in the Telegraph-UK, our current Commander in Chief, Barack Hussein Obama, is taken to task for his blatant flip-floppery.
Making those flip-flops work for him...
1. Keeping Guantanamo Open
2. Bringing back military tribunals for terror suspects
3. Continuing renditions of terror suspects
4. Ordering military action in Libya without seeking Congressional authorization
5. Dropping Third Site missile defenses in order to appease the Russians
6. Letting Sudan off the hook for the Darfur genocide
7. Backing a federal Europe after defending national sovereignty
8. Pledging to restore America's standing in the world but lowering it instead
9. Dumping Mubarak in Egypt after calling him a "stalwart ally"
10. Killing the NASA manned space program
That's not all -- but it is enough....
Bonus: video flip-flop evidence...
More Obama flip-flops on display...
Monday, May 10, 2010
California, here it comes...
What could California look like in a couple years? Maybe even the U.S.? Have you seen what’s been going on in Greece, lately? (And just around the bend – Portugal, Spain, Italy, etc.) For now, the “European Aid Plan Propels U.S. and Global Markets,” but it’s just kicking the can down the road…
Coming to a California street near you?
Add Greece: "What we're seeing in Greece is the death spiral of the welfare state, and virtually every advanced nation, including the United States, faces the same prospect."
As Tim Cavanaugh writes: “California: The American Greece -What do Europe’s most bankrupt nation-state and America’s most bankrupt united state have in common, aside from being bankrupt? In what is undoubtedly a coincidence noticed only by free-market fundamentalists, it turns out that Greece, that sun-drenched paradise on the Aegean, and California, that sun-warmed El Dorado on the Pacific, are the worst places to do business in their respective economic zones. . . . The insidious thing about an unfriendly business climate is that it takes a long time for the effects to show up in the government’s inability to pay its bills. So long, in fact, that when the sovereign bankruptcy comes, it’s easy to draw the conclusion that tax rates are too low. Both California and Greece are going through a variety of this type of denial right now. But with the governor of California and the prime minister of Greece both promising to turn over a new leaf, this is a good time to remember that you can’t take people’s money if you prevent them from making money in the first place.”
Speaking of things going badly in California: To no one’s surprise at all, “expect a bad-news budget Friday – [Gov. Arnold] Schwarzenegger's revised plan likely to include ‘harsh spending reductions’ after revenues come in far below projections.”
He's a funny, funny man...
Add Schwarzenegger: "I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend. But with my accent, I was afraid they would try to deport me” (quoted by the Atlanta Journal Constitution, at a graduation speech at Emory University.)
Elsewhere in California: while the state continues to drown in debt, the boondoggle known as the “California High-Speed Rail Project” clips right along – despite the fact it will never roll. The latest news – the director of the effort will in all likelihood be pulling down in excess of $400,000 per year. Meanwhile, state unemployment figures rose last month and the budget deficit is now approaching an estimated $40 billion…
California's High-Speed Rail: look carefully - this is as real as it will ever get...
Meanwhile over on Spring Street (address of the L.A. Times): The newspaper “explains why it will not endorse Jerry Brown, Meg Whitman, Steve Poizner or Barbara Boxer in the primary, saying of the latter ‘she displays less intellectual firepower or leadership than she could.’ Of Poizner, who the paper endorsed for insurance commissioner in 2006, the editorial board writes: ‘Poizner has become an adept baiter of illegal immigrants, state employees, human service recipients and all the rest of the right's imagined evildoers. If he truly believes his new talking points, we're unable to support him now. If he has latched onto them as part of a cynical bid for political advancement, we can't support him now.’”
Meg vs. Steve - clash of the (corporate) titans...
Finally, you've got to wonder where California’s very own Babs has been: “[U.S. Sen. Barbara] Boxer Promotes Wall Street Reform”… (Nothing like a day late and a few billion dollars short, eh?)...
She wants you to call her "senator"....
Hat tip/sources: NY Times, San Francisco Chronicle/SFgate, LAObserved.com, KCBS, Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire, the Atlanta Constitution-Journal, Reason, Instapundit, CBC, Moonbattery.
Coming to a California street near you?
Add Greece: "What we're seeing in Greece is the death spiral of the welfare state, and virtually every advanced nation, including the United States, faces the same prospect."
As Tim Cavanaugh writes: “California: The American Greece -What do Europe’s most bankrupt nation-state and America’s most bankrupt united state have in common, aside from being bankrupt? In what is undoubtedly a coincidence noticed only by free-market fundamentalists, it turns out that Greece, that sun-drenched paradise on the Aegean, and California, that sun-warmed El Dorado on the Pacific, are the worst places to do business in their respective economic zones. . . . The insidious thing about an unfriendly business climate is that it takes a long time for the effects to show up in the government’s inability to pay its bills. So long, in fact, that when the sovereign bankruptcy comes, it’s easy to draw the conclusion that tax rates are too low. Both California and Greece are going through a variety of this type of denial right now. But with the governor of California and the prime minister of Greece both promising to turn over a new leaf, this is a good time to remember that you can’t take people’s money if you prevent them from making money in the first place.”
Speaking of things going badly in California: To no one’s surprise at all, “expect a bad-news budget Friday – [Gov. Arnold] Schwarzenegger's revised plan likely to include ‘harsh spending reductions’ after revenues come in far below projections.”
He's a funny, funny man...
Add Schwarzenegger: "I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend. But with my accent, I was afraid they would try to deport me” (quoted by the Atlanta Journal Constitution, at a graduation speech at Emory University.)
Elsewhere in California: while the state continues to drown in debt, the boondoggle known as the “California High-Speed Rail Project” clips right along – despite the fact it will never roll. The latest news – the director of the effort will in all likelihood be pulling down in excess of $400,000 per year. Meanwhile, state unemployment figures rose last month and the budget deficit is now approaching an estimated $40 billion…
California's High-Speed Rail: look carefully - this is as real as it will ever get...
Meanwhile over on Spring Street (address of the L.A. Times): The newspaper “explains why it will not endorse Jerry Brown, Meg Whitman, Steve Poizner or Barbara Boxer in the primary, saying of the latter ‘she displays less intellectual firepower or leadership than she could.’ Of Poizner, who the paper endorsed for insurance commissioner in 2006, the editorial board writes: ‘Poizner has become an adept baiter of illegal immigrants, state employees, human service recipients and all the rest of the right's imagined evildoers. If he truly believes his new talking points, we're unable to support him now. If he has latched onto them as part of a cynical bid for political advancement, we can't support him now.’”
Meg vs. Steve - clash of the (corporate) titans...
Finally, you've got to wonder where California’s very own Babs has been: “[U.S. Sen. Barbara] Boxer Promotes Wall Street Reform”… (Nothing like a day late and a few billion dollars short, eh?)...
She wants you to call her "senator"....
Hat tip/sources: NY Times, San Francisco Chronicle/SFgate, LAObserved.com, KCBS, Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire, the Atlanta Constitution-Journal, Reason, Instapundit, CBC, Moonbattery.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Truisms...
So true: “Elections have consequences.” – Like the loss of First Amendment rights.
This is what happens when your answers aren’t the same ones the White House expected.
It’s true…because they are not.
“The truth is out there,” as opposed to it being in here.
Why doesn’t the State Department want us to know the truth about Honduras?
Europe used to be part of the West. Now it’s going South – True South.
The truth is, “health-care reform won’t solve the deficit problem.”
Is capitalism truly going the way of the dodo bird?
“I swear there was money in the account when I wrote the check!”
File this one under “strange but true.” I guess she’s eligible to become a member of Congress.
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