Obama sidetracked by fiscal mess, but presses on
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Sarge
"Knocked off balance by the bonuses brouhahha"
Good grief, what's gonna happen when there's a terrorist attack or a major international crisis?
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TexasAggie
Obama will whine about how he inherited those problems.
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IvanCoughalot
You can bet your boots he won't sit, blinking, with "My Pet Goat" on his lap before letting Bin Laden get away, then bankrupt his country on a pack-of-lies war and wipe his backside on the Constitution.
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teleprompter
What a disaster.
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TexasAggie
Obama is the Milli Vanilli of U.S. politics.
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TexasAggie
You're correct. Obama'll just hand our country over to our enemies without any pre-conditions.
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IvanCoughalot
Doubt that very much.
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sailwind
9.3 trillion in red ink. I can't even wrap my head around that amount of debt.
What is this man thinking? At least there is a faction in the Democratic party 'The Blue Dog Democrats', who have a lick of fiscal common sense. They'll band with the Republicans to thwart this budget as it now stands. They'll oppose him for a very simple reason, they represent more Conservative districts then their Democratic counterparts and if they don't oppose it, they will not be re-elected.
Also the mid-terms will be here soon enough and the Republicans will pick up enough seats to prevent the Democratic super majority that we have now.
Then he'll have to Govern from the center. He's gambling he can get this through before the mid-terms and get the 'Blue Dogs' in line to support this generational theft budget plan. The 'Blue Dogs' aren't going to play (thankfully). This budget plan is D.O.A the American people aren't going to tolerate taking on 9.3 trillion dollars in debt (at least I hope so, if not and they do.....heaven help all of us, by the time it comes to pay that bill our children are going to be stuck with it's going to make this recession seem like good times after all.)
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USAFdude
ROTFLMAO! You un-American right-winger types are hilarious! Please keep the comedy coming!
Now, for those of us who actually care about America:
We did, and we are, Mr. President. Thank you from a grateful America, especially those of us in the US military, for your outstanding leadership and the hope you provide us all.
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sailwind
ROTFLMAO! You un-American right-winger types are hilarious! Please keep the comedy coming!
Hey waiter,
Put that 9.3 trillion bill on laughing boy's tab.
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USAFdude
See what I mean? xD
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TexasAggie
Wonder what dirt Geithner has on Obama that he is still in the bus and not under it?
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TexasAggie
Obviously, the Teleprompter of the United States (TotUS) wasn't packed for the trip.
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teleprompter
Canadian Mark Steyn:
"In turbulent times, it's good to know some things never change. After a week in which President Obama thanked himself for inviting him to the White House, compared AIG executives to suicide bombers, and did the first Presidential retard joke on national TV, I was impressed to find that Slate is bravely keeping up its Bushism Of The Day feature."
"Four more years!"
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SushiSake3
The Republican failure-fuelled global recession rumbles on.
And - amazingly - there's STILL some Republicans out there who think Obama is to blame.
BTW, the stock market is trending upwards. :-)
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Wolfpack
Yeah, let's not let the fact that the government has begun an historic peace time debt binge stop America from enacting the Socialist-in-Chief's big public spending agenda. By all means, ignore the fiscal reality of today and spend like nothing has changed since you started running for president two or three years ago. Is this really the same guy that spent the last two years bashing Bush for running up big deficits? Obama is determined to turn a world-wide recession into an American depression.
After Democrats in Congress somehow decided that it is not at all fiscally risky to force banks to give loans to unqualified borrowers and thus starting the dominos falling on the current world wide fiscal crisis, no one in their right mind should believe that Obama and his buddies in Congress have any idea how to manage an economy.
The idea that he shouldn't change his plans for governing despite the long term fiscal mess that he has done much himself to get America into is incompetence bordering on madness. This is a triumph of socialist ideology over common sense.
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teleprompter
"Presses on", with 18 key positions in the Treasury still vacant.
Dollar has hit 25-year lows.
Who will be this week's target of Obama's desperate diversionary tactics?
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Midnightpromise
No one ever accused the USAF of being capable of very deep thought. Who was the latest dem with tax dodger issues?
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goodDonkey
When we reduce our dependency on oil and find alternative energy sources it will greatly improve our economy by allowing dollars to travel circularly more often in this country instead of exiting for energy costs. The conservatives have dropped the ball on this so conservative posters on JT do not understand the positive impact it can have on our economy. The efforts to "green up" our country will produce jobs and end up with a positive sum gain. The conservatives were preaching from the highest pulpit they could find for many years that reducing greenhouse gases would cost Americans jobs. They were wrong then and they are wrong now to oppose spending on such new technology (research, development and implementation - all at once with different technologies). The conservatives obviously did not see the economic value of maintaining infrastructure in the U.S.; or I guess the argument could be made that they knew improvements needed to be made but they were too greedy to not spend the money instead on lining the pockets of the rich. These improvements will both stimulate our economy and improve living standards for everyone.
We must spend money on education. We are not utilizing higher education to our citizens highest potential. We must also improve the education of our kids. Not by some test that is national that was the sole substance of "No Child Left Behind." We need to teach our children more not test them more so the feds can withhold money.
We will get health care reform and it will ease the pressure on small businesses because they will no longer have to worry about losing employees because they cannot offer health care or businesses that are unable to attract the best employees for the same reason.
Prediction: When the economy does better and continues to grow the conservatives everywhere will be saying, "It would have happened anyway." When we end the government spending at this accelerated rate and return to the Clinton days of deficit reduction the conservatives will be saying "We did not need to spend all that money; It would have happened anyway."
The Republicans have been successful in pandering to Americans anger over AIG. I guess that fits well into the conservative plan of "failure of any thing Obama proposes is the best option." Obama's failure is of the utmost importance to the conservatives - the economy and country be damned as long as we show everybody the liberals can fail.
The last thing in the world I want to do is say "I told you so" if AIG fails and our economy spirals down to financial meltdown. I would much rather keep AIG and then everyone can say that I can't prove that AIG's failure would have led to a near, total meltdown. It would have been worse last Autumn I admit; the market has had time to adjust and I am quite sure many sets of contingency plans have been developed as well as opportunists hoping to get a piece of the action if AIG fails. Last Autumn the market was not only not as well prepared but panic had already set in and the amount of stress AIG's failure would have produced would have sent the markets over the edge.
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billj2000
"Most of you Republicans are made up of Blind Obedient followers who are less concerned with the welfare of our country and more concerned the look of the party. Who has for the last 8 years was doing all this crazy spending? Was it Obama? HECK NO! It was Bush Jr! What did HE and HIS admin do for the US and the rest of this world? If any one tries to tell me that Bush left us in a better situation at the end of his last term and that all this mess we are in now is directly caused during the short time Obama has been in office then I would love for you to say that to me and a few of my friends who have mangled children and spouses laying in VA medical centers all over this country. I cant believe you Republicans forgot about the last 8 years like it never happened. Bush is the one who got us into a senseless war and ignored the the country with the real threat(Afghanistan). Oh don't forget about how under Bush's watch that his party and Admin decided to cut record funding to VETS and VAMC's. You cant blame Obama for this mess and I do not see anyone else out there trying to resolves this with any real strategy. Only thing Republicans and people who follow them know how to do is point fingers and blame others. Non of them have enough courage to be accountable or even admit to the slightest mistake. I am sure if any Republican had a real plan that made any sense I am sure the new Admin would listen(unlike the last who refused to see any reason what so ever)!"
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