Christmas colors sure are pretty.
As of this latest Rasmussen poll, Dr. Utopia is now finishing his first year with a lower approval rating than any president in history. That’s historic #1.
Historic #2 is the fact that in just one year, Dr. Utopia has managed to completely switch his “Strongly Approve” and “Strongly Disapprove” numbers. This latest poll actually shows MORE people who strongly disapprove of him today than strongly approved of him on January 20th, 2009, the day The Golden Age of Hope and Change began.
That’s actually stunning.
It’s never happened before.
We used to think there was no way the current president could dip into the 30s in terms of approval rating in 2010, but now we’re not so sure.
The 30s actually seem like a possibility for him.
Which is fitting, because it sure feels like the 30s to the rest of us. The 1930s. No chickens in any pots. No more cars in the garage. No jobs to be had.
Hope!
Change!
Unicorns!
December 23, 2009 at 5:07 pm
Or to put it in terms O himself would approve of: it’s unprecedented.
December 23, 2009 at 5:15 pm
LOL Just what I was thinking.
It’s…..wait for it…..
UNPRECEDENTED!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ta da!
December 23, 2009 at 6:34 pm
I was thinking, “It’s transformational.”
December 23, 2009 at 6:45 pm
LOL
You mean like the “cooking of the books” for the 2010 census if Obama and ACORN get a chance?
Census Results Will Impact 2010 Politics And Beyond
http://yesbuthowever.com/census-results-politics-8136366/
December 23, 2009 at 6:45 pm
It’s . . . HYSTERICAL!
December 23, 2009 at 10:22 pm
“Now let me be clear: This extraordinary turn of events is unprecedented. Transformational. Even historical. For the first time in this nation’s history, we have achieved something that is truly exceptional. There are some who would say that poll numbers ought to continually be on an upward trajectory, while others maintain the need to ignore them altogether, perhaps setting them on fire and dancing around them in one’s underpants. But what I have said is that it is possible to have a middle way, one in which we simply tank the numbers as quickly as possible in an effort to prove to you, the American people, that we are indeed committed to the change you elected us for, even if we get tarred and feathered in the process.
Extraordinary.”
December 23, 2009 at 11:51 pm
I was thinking this is a teachable moment.
December 23, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Merry Christmas, Barry, hope you like this present you’ve made yourself.
December 23, 2009 at 5:19 pm
My Christmas and New Years Goal is to see his plans fail. Some thought I was an “activist” as a PUMA, wait until they see me now; I have kids’ futures to think about.
December 23, 2009 at 5:27 pm
Speaking of, Merry Christmas, my friend. Wishing you and the family perfect health, enormous wealth, and every blessing in the new year.
I know you’ll get your PUMA on big time.
ROAR!!!!!!!!!!!!! And thank you.
December 23, 2009 at 5:39 pm
You too,
God love you dear and get ready for a fight in 2010. I am and know you are too! Merry Christmas to you and your brother, I will light a candle and say a prayer for you both. I only hope I can be a strong as you and the HB fellas!
Merry Christmas HB and to all the readers
December 23, 2009 at 5:45 pm
BTW, we were truly blessed,
I now have a daughter. I am going to be one fighting m—-er f—er. Do NOT mess with my daughter’s future. And yes, her baptismal name was Sarah and guess who that was after . . . .
Love ya Garlic, you are an inspiration to many
December 23, 2009 at 7:44 pm
Kei –
Congratulations!!! I wish you and your Sarah (and the rest of your family, of course!) a Blessed Christmas and all the very best for the New Year!
L.
December 23, 2009 at 11:32 pm
Congratulations on your daughter and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours.
December 24, 2009 at 12:50 am
Congratulations to you! You’re right – you now have her future to think and to contend. It has been that way for us with our three kids. Have a great Christmas!
December 23, 2009 at 7:48 pm
Garlic –
Thank you so much for all the strength, wisdom, and inspiration that you have shared with all of us over the past year.
My thoughts and prayers for you and your dear brother are for all the blessings of this holy season and for every good thing in the New Year!
L.
December 24, 2009 at 12:50 am
Same here Garlic! Your attitude is so contageous!
December 23, 2009 at 5:22 pm
Good job, Barry!! You go, girl!!
/I have a bet on this, and we’re moving along nicely. ;)
December 23, 2009 at 5:30 pm
I feel this uncontrollable desire to send this post to everyone I know who voted for this dangerous moron, but I’m hoping I can resist. Must. Not. Push. Send. Button. Must. Not.
December 23, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Obama – half white, half black, and
ALL Moron!
December 23, 2009 at 6:08 pm
LOL!!! I just about lost what’s left of my lunch on this one!!! Thanks and Merry Christmas to you and the Hillbuzzers!
December 23, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Half Honkey..ALL Donkey. :-)
December 23, 2009 at 6:46 pm
LOL
….and a donkey is a jackass!
December 23, 2009 at 8:14 pm
My husband just laughed louder than I’ve heard in ages when I read him this one!
December 24, 2009 at 1:47 pm
LOL… Black and White and Red all over.
/commie punk
December 23, 2009 at 5:35 pm
Oh no you didn’t!!!!!!
Me and my fellow libtards over at DailyKos have Dear Leader’s approval rating at 56%!!!!!
Of course, we’ve had the Risen Son of God at that number for the better part of 5 months, so there ya have it…
December 23, 2009 at 7:13 pm
Rasmussen polls likely voters, not adults. That’s one of, if not the, major reasons that the were most accurate in the last two presidential races.
Ras also makes a much larger effort to NOT oversample Democrats and left leaners, whereas the large majority of the other pollsters will ridonkulously oversample the left and left leaners, which obviously skews the results.
One can see this by looking at the internals of the polls. That is, when they bother to show the internals of their polling, which happens less and less.
December 24, 2009 at 7:16 am
You’re absolutely right, Skating on glue. Even as independents and some dems are fleeing from the dems, some times the internals of other polls show dems with a 10% advantage when it ma be 5 or 6.
December 23, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Here’a pretty funny tidbit about Ben Nelson’s latest escapade:
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/12/23/we-have-the-actual-roll-call-sheet-nelson-was-for-it-before-being-against-it/
Maybe after 2012 he’ll be hired by John Kerry to mow his lawn or clean his pool.
December 23, 2009 at 5:39 pm
Someone tweeted today that Michelle’s at 55%. Isn’t that low for a FLOTUS ? Wasn’t Hillary in the 70′s during her terms as First Lady?
I tried googling and failed miserably, which is probably Bush’s fault…..lol.
December 23, 2009 at 5:44 pm
I hear the TOTUS is at 67%.
It’s gone up since Barry’s stopped using it this month on all his trips to HopenChangen, Scandinavia.
December 23, 2009 at 8:23 pm
The other day Rush played a clip of Utopia stammering through his “dedication and sacrifice” to stay at the WH as long as it took for the senate to pass its POS legislation. I was almost embarrassed for this jackass. He was speaking without the TOTUS to prompt him along and I am sincere in saying that my 9-year old child could have delivered a better line – on the first try! But this is exactly what happens when none of what he says is heartfelt and sincere. He’s never had to sacrifice in his life because he has always been given anything. If you ever want this man’s tongue to snap off its roller, all you have to do is to get him to give you one example of sacrifice. I also heard former governor, Tim Kaine, say how “proud” he was of this empty suit. You know – when you have people who gush about you so much, I guess you can’t blame him for having an ego that only exceeds the free space in the room.
December 24, 2009 at 7:35 am
i am reminded how scathing and vicious the MSM was to GW Bush when he was in the WH, likening his speech to monkey gibberish.
*shakes head* whatever.
December 23, 2009 at 5:39 pm
Yes, everyone have a very Mary Christmas and an “unprecedented” new decade’s start!
Maybe Obama can use that No-balls Piece Prize (yes, I remember this past January when his minions on Daily Kos, et.al. started promoting his selection – probably suggested by “Teh Precious” himself) to top a very special Astro-Weenie Christmas Tree.
http://www.eatmedaily.com/2009/12/the-astro-weenie-christmas-tree-wtf-xmas/
Oh and FYI…..
From Hot Air this afternoon…..
WH putting health-care off until … February?
“Politico’s Mike Allen and Alexander Trowbridge have some bad news for Democrats, especially in the Senate, where Harry Reid has kept the chamber locked in battle over ObamaCare for weeks in an attempt to hit the finish line by Christmas. Barack Obama plans to put the health-care overhaul on the back burner until after the State of the Union address, pushing any conference between the House and Senate off until February. Instead, Obama plans a “hard pivot” towards jobs and the economy:…
This tells us that the White House has done some legwork in the House and found that the lower chamber is not going to adopt the Senate version as is, as Politico also reports this morning:…”
And…..Video: CBS reports on vote-buying in ObamaCare bill (same source as above)
December 23, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Oh and just in case you get too many fruit cakes this year (ok now stop pointing to your Congress members), do what Pee Wee did and add on a new room.
http://www.eatmedaily.com/2009/12/fruitcake-on-pee-wees-playhouse-christmas-special-video-wtf-xmas/
Hmmmmmmmm…….. I wonder if those workmen come with a certain number of fruit cakes….like sending in so many box tops……..
December 24, 2009 at 1:28 am
Buttered, thanks for the link.
It’s great and I MISS PEE WEE!!
I see what you mean about the hunky guys.
‘Hmmmmmm’….indeed.
December 23, 2009 at 5:50 pm
No Balls peace prize?
OMG I am cleaning diet pepsi from my keyboard. THAT was classic!
December 23, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Oops.
Sorry about that!
At least it’s not Coke or Barry might be paying you a visit!
lol
December 23, 2009 at 5:55 pm
Though it was No(cow)bell Prize
December 23, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Oh and just in case you get too many fruit cakes this year (ok now stop pointing to your Congress members), do what Pee Wee did and add on a new room.
http://www.eatmedaily.com/2009/12/fruitcake-on-pee-wees-playhouse-christmas-special-video-wtf-xmas/
Hmmmmmmmm…….. I wonder if those workmen come with a certain number of fruit cakes….like sending in so many box tops…….
December 23, 2009 at 8:58 pm
“…on the back burner until after the State of the Union address, pushing any conference between the House and Senate off until February. Instead, Obama plans a “hard pivot” towards jobs and the economy…”
With respect to the above quote and Dr Utopia, “I got your hard pivot right here.”
(Grabs crotch.)
December 24, 2009 at 12:55 am
If this is true and that there is time, we’ve got to hammer home our opinion of the possible reconciled bills. We’ve got to lean on the house members as hard as possible.
December 23, 2009 at 5:44 pm
Yes, yes, might as well be truthful about
how “historic” and “unprecedented” Zero is
in a BAD way.
Historic lies
Historic spending
Historic incompetence
Historic bitter half MO, worst FLOTUS also
Historic emperor with no clothes
Historic dislike for our country
Historic propping up by MSM but still tanking
Historic golfing addiction
Historic need to hear his own voice
December 23, 2009 at 6:44 pm
Historic teleprompt use;Stink (per FLOTUS);use of middle finger;naivete;use of uhhmmmmm;Also, historic mis-use of world’s greatest Military; etc…etc…etc… come on, join in folks, the waters fine.
December 24, 2009 at 12:57 am
Historic loss of freedoms
Historic shifts of voters to GOP
December 23, 2009 at 5:52 pm
According to the rassmussen daily tracking poll, he was at an all time low yesterday with a -21. It’s been hovering pretty low for a while and seems stuck. The lower it goes, the happier I get, which makes me wonder about myself? Oh well, it takes so little to make me happy sometimes.
December 23, 2009 at 9:01 pm
..you are in good company, Mitch.
When this clown hits the 30s, you all are invited over to my house. I’ll get a keg, a gazillion quarts of JD Black, and roast a side of steer!
December 23, 2009 at 6:14 pm
MichL – the present I want for this year is Utopia’s failure. Rush was absolutely right – to wish for Utopia’s failure would only ensure America’s success!
December 23, 2009 at 7:40 pm
That’s very true Bill. So, I may be somewhat normal after all!!
December 24, 2009 at 9:11 am
Funny you should mention Rush hoping barky utopia failed, Bill.
I was just thinking about the firestorm Rush summoned back in the early dark days of the obama infestation when he made that statement, and how if he were to say it today it would be lost in a sea of rage and indignation.
Pretty funny- back when Rush said he hoped utopia would fail, I laughed and wholeheartedly agreed, with people around me getting uncomfortable and furtively looking about for the obama gestapo because of my heresy.
Odd how so many are now saying the same thing so vehemently- well not odd, it was inevitable that everyone would start pointing and laughing at the jugeared emperor’s new clothes.
And of course retching at the empress’s new clothes- yeeesh, what’s next, a miniskirt made out of handi-wipes?
To quote the great Roman writer Plutarch: Gackus maximus, vomitorium post haste.
December 24, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Good one!! I’ve got a couple from Cicero that I’ll hold for some serious political jabs. See you then, keep posting.
December 23, 2009 at 6:15 pm
BO putting Healthcare on hold until February?
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/12/23/wh-putting-health-care-off-until-february/
I am skeptical, the way BO says something one day and the opposite the next. But maybe there is more time to speak out against it.
December 23, 2009 at 10:29 pm
I think they are trying to get the resistance off guard so that we won’t harass the returning congress critters.
I say we ramp up the harassment of the congress critters. We can make enough of them bolt from Madam Piglosi’s ranks.
Let’s kill this hellcare bill
December 23, 2009 at 10:50 pm
agree! time to press even harder.
December 23, 2009 at 7:12 pm
Of course it’s on hold. Do you think he’d want to miss his two weeks off at the Winter White House?
(Warning–you may projectile-vomit while watching)
http://news.yahoo.com/video/health-15749655/inside-the-obamas-winter-white-house-17278813
Who the fork is paying for that $4,000-a-night vacation??? Or is it $12,000 a night, given that they’re renting the houses on either side of it for their entourage?
December 23, 2009 at 7:50 pm
And yet he has the nerve to try and make Americans hate rich people. Stay at the WH for crying out loud, and save US some money!
December 23, 2009 at 8:28 pm
MichL – you have to understand the mentality of these people. You have to cut them some slack because afterall, they are serving this nation for the greater good and well, if they need to be exempted from their own criticism, then so be it.
December 23, 2009 at 7:58 pm
Not to mention cost of the planes needed to get the Holy Family and their court over to Hawaii–maybe they’ll offset some of that with carbon credits. . .
December 23, 2009 at 11:48 pm
Remember how the press bitched about Bush going to Crawford? Many of you probably did as well.
Think about it. Bush didn’t go on extravagant vacations. He went home. That home was fully equipped to conduct the business of POTUS while away from DC.
The press hated Bush for many reasons, but one of the biggest reasons was that he went to Crawford, TX – not Hawaii, Hilton Head, Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket or any other place the press would have enjoyed.
He didn’t court the press and spend lavishly on entertaining at our expense. They despised him for it.
Bush didn’t throw parties especially state dinners. I think he had only one – maybe two in the entire eight years he was president. This month, the Obies are having approx. 50,000 people running through the WH. Forget about all the other parties to date.
In the end, Bush was right. There was no point in sucking up to liberals and the press who would spit on him no matter what he did.
Think about Bush as you watch Barry burning up your cash as the media drools all over him and ask yourself who was more sensitive to the public.
We are in a deep recession. All the Obies do is run around living large.
Every day is a party for these fools while millions of Americans are out of work.
December 24, 2009 at 7:18 am
Yep, Bush would chop wood and haul it around the ranch, which he said was his way to relieve stress. And he’d go mountain-biking as much as possible.
Barry frolicks beachside: “Look at me! Look at me! Did you see my unicorn??!”
Man vs. boy. In every way.
December 24, 2009 at 8:17 am
Contrast what Barry and Shelly O are doing their first year in the White House with Sarah and Todd did their first year in the Governor’s Mansion.
Sarah fired the cook. Sarah sold the useless private plane. Tried to auction it off on Ebay! She cut back. And that was before the recession took hold.
Barry . . . partying like it’s 1999. This says something about one’s character!
December 24, 2009 at 9:18 am
“That home was fully equipped to conduct the business of POTUS while away from DC.”
Also keep in mind that Bush’s house in Crawford is extremely, EXTREMELY environmentally friendly. If memory serves, it has a cool water reclamation system that makes use of rain runoff and waste water, and is also insulated for maximum heating and cooling efficiency.
Oh wait- here’s something that discusses it much better:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp
Note the comparison to albore’s house. Albore doesn’t not fare well in the comparison.
December 24, 2009 at 9:20 am
whoops- albore does NOT fare well in the comparison.
P.I.M.F., indeed.
December 24, 2009 at 10:09 pm
Skating – you’re right about GW’s house being environmentally friendly. Whenever Algore speaks, all I can think of is his mansion. I don’t begrudge the man for having it, but where I draw the line is that he tells us that we can’t work for things like that because we’re a pest on the earth.
December 24, 2009 at 10:02 am
What a total security risk, among all the financial foolishness. The fraud in our MAINLAND WH leaves the CONTINENT, OVER AN OCEAN, for two weeks, at a hugely vulnerable time in our national psyche. War, joblessness, depression, “unprecedented” looting of our treasury, Tea Party rumblings which will grow ever bigger, foreign regimes ready to pounce on this puppet’s weakness, easy access to our country, our communities AND OUR WH, for goodness’ sakes–and this clown, as usual, walks away from the fray when a leader would stay, fight, and set an example of thrift and sound policy for the nation.
Add an idiot VP, a vampire Speaker of the House, and a slime dog Senate Majortiy Leader as next in charge, and I feel sick. Wonder how much longer Americans will stand for this.
We must keep educating our citizens on the crimes D.C. pols are committing against us. This is the time to speak up even more. Didn’t the American Revolution start the actual figting in 1775 and we finally got the Constitution in 1787? Time to buckle down and stick with it, America, for America.
December 24, 2009 at 11:12 am
While they’re away, let’s sneak in (like the Salahis) and move them back to Chicago!
December 24, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Imagine if any other president spent money like this during a major recession?
We’ve become a country of Rulers and the ruled. What have we done to ourselves?
December 23, 2009 at 7:43 pm
This will hit his numbers even lower too….The Farce family NOT TO ATTEND CHRISTMAS EVE services!!!
Check it:
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1949879,00.html
December 23, 2009 at 7:53 pm
Maybe they’ll just bring Rev.Jeremiah along with them to Hawaii at our expense, so he can spew his vile venom in a private service.
December 23, 2009 at 7:55 pm
Why would a Muslim go to a Christmas Eve service?
December 23, 2009 at 8:29 pm
Enough said!
December 23, 2009 at 9:14 pm
I just caught a bit of this on the radio in the car:
http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=13534
Crap!
December 23, 2009 at 11:15 pm
KR,
If this is true, we are far worse off than I ever imagined.
Why isn’t this EO being shouted from the rooftops from every corner of the internet with serious calls for impeachemnt proceedings?
Can anyone testify to the validity of this blog’s claims?
Yeah, Merry freaking Christmas America!
December 23, 2009 at 11:26 pm
I first heard it on the Roger Hedgecock Show (radio). Searched the blogs and found the IOwnTheWorld post.
I guess the media is not aware or is ignoring it.
There must be an official gov. site with the info.
December 23, 2009 at 11:51 pm
I saw it listed on the WH website after I read the article you posted. It is also on Hot Air (another commenter here posted it)…
Wonder when Glenn Beck will pick it up? Lord knows the MSM will NEVER print a word of it. Guess it’s time to go purchase the guns & ammo.
December 23, 2009 at 11:35 pm
More links:
http://www.welcomethelight.com/2009/12/arrests-president-obama-reversed-interpols-immunity/
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread528628/pg1
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411476/posts
December 24, 2009 at 11:29 am
Utopia needs the Interpol to function as his Brown Shirts. Hope ‘n Change folks! He knows the military will not go against the American people, but the Interpol sure will…
December 23, 2009 at 9:34 pm
I blame the GOP for this, particularly the Cong. GOP from 2000-2006 when it had a majority and became an embarrassing Dem-lite. It set the stage for Obama to literally con the American public. If the GOP had stuck to rational and secular principles, rather than pushing social issues while not spending a fortune, we’d not be here. Oh, and reigning in the Fannie Mae mess while it had the majority and the presidency would’ve been nice too.
December 23, 2009 at 9:43 pm
All people had to do was look into BO’s background to see who he was.
Not very curious, huh?
Stop passing blame and face your own shortcomings. It is time to stop being so partisan.
Oh, and I remember Pelosi harping on with so many lies about the GOP.
December 24, 2009 at 12:17 am
I didn’t vote for Utopia so I’m not sure what you’re getting at. I knew he was a Hard Left fraud the moment he announced. However, face it, the GOP gave a lot of people good reason to play Russian roulette.
December 24, 2009 at 1:27 am
Only if they believed the hype coming from the media and the leftists.
December 24, 2009 at 8:14 am
Yes, the GOP in Congress (not to mention in the White House) did not effectively lead over the past few years. The GOP got complacent. They were managers, and piss-poor at that. They were not leaders.
Leaders have vision. Leaders set goals. Leaders see a way forward. Leaders articulate the vision and pathway to goals so that followers know what’s going on. Leaders seek buy-in. Oh that we could raise up a crop of good leaders in this country, especially in the GOP!
December 23, 2009 at 9:45 pm
I see this stuff and I fume all over again with the likes of people like Oprah and company.
Like they say, “The bigger they are (or are thought to be), the harder they fall”.
December 23, 2009 at 9:58 pm
Oh. My. God.
PLEASE, check out the latest and greatest about BO’s amendment to Executive Order 12425… it grants Interpol immunity from accountability and FOIA requiremenst… it is truly deeply frightening. THIS, from those who yammered about Bush’s “overreaching” with the Patriot Act and who want to allow terrorists the right to request confidential documents to challenge their combatant status?
I can’t even describe how disturbing this is… no longer is it an exaggeration to say that I’m glad I have guns in my house and I know how to use them.
Please do a post on this! Please! The implications are so threatening to our freedom!
December 23, 2009 at 10:43 pm
I can tell you exactly what this is about. This is about the next election and vilifying President Bush. That’s ALL we are going to hear about. I guarantee you his mafia thugs are storming through every piece of paper they can find to try to vilify Bush. Nothing would make them happier than an international body to “convict” the previous administration. See that’s how they got elected. They didn’t win because Obama was the smartest or wisest or best candidate. They won because they vilified Bush. So they want to keep that crap going. I think people are sick of it though. People are so disgusted with Obama that Bush actually looks pretty good, doesn’t he? Don’t you miss the peace and calm and security of knowing at least if anybody messed with us he would kick their ass? You get that feeling with Obama? NOOOO. I hope they are stupid enough to think they can win again. It will be the happiest day of my life when we see him leave Washington.
December 24, 2009 at 8:12 am
This is also going to allow INTERPOL to charge and arrest American Military members for perceived “war crimes”.
This is a war on our soldiers.
December 24, 2009 at 10:18 pm
Bev – you’re so right. My life is so busy these days, and a big chunk of it has to do with doing what I can to come up to speed on what this government is doing lately to take away my rights. In the past, I could ignore things like that. I have much more important things to focus on. Not anymore!
December 23, 2009 at 10:38 pm
You know…we really should call him Barry because he just does not act like a president, does he? Most presidents give a patriotic feel-good message on Christmas. If he gives an address it all it will just be to say how he was so wonderful to ram down his healthcare bill down our throats and we’re too stupid to know how great he is. Then he’ll probably apologize for having Christmas at all and point toward his Mao ornaments to make the progressives happy. His only concern is conquering the US. That’s what this is…he is systematically destroying our constitution and government……UNTIL we kick his bum to the curb. And trust me…next November he will hear loud and CLEAR the voice of America.
I always thought Jimmy Carter was the worst. Obama is truly a disgrace to this country.
December 23, 2009 at 11:29 pm
Bev,
This guy has no idea what to do – even in his own best interests. In dire times people want someone to *lead* and inspire. All this simpering idiot can do is talk about his fracking health care bill and the “stuff” he might give or get for the Holidays (forget Christmas) while he and his odious wife spend money wildly entertaining. They are so disgustingly nouveau riche that it makes me want to vomit.
He is utterly clueless and emotionally retarded. He’s like a two year old who wants the world to revolve around him.
The media is still trying desperately to prop him up and cover up their complicity in getting him elected. He’s a nowhere man, and we’re left without leadership.
Sorry for the rant, but I simply can’t overlook things as they are.
Crikey! 3 more years of this crap.
December 24, 2009 at 12:39 pm
I honestly don’t think he’ll complete his full first term. He’ll be ousted from office before then if this current anti-Constitutional bullcrap keeps up its pace.
December 23, 2009 at 11:04 pm
Death panels in health bill made permanent. Reid slipped in that any ‘future’ senators voting to repeal said death panels would need a super majority.
W.T.F?
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/12/22/making-the-death-panels-permanent/
December 24, 2009 at 12:19 am
My vague recollection from Constitutional Law class was that no Congress could bind another procedurally.
December 24, 2009 at 9:41 am
You are decidedly correct.
Hopefully the SCOTUS remembers that tidbit, SFGoth.
Given the bizarro world we’re living in, dunno if I’m confident they will.
December 24, 2009 at 12:15 pm
I recall that as well…now let’s see if the Senators recall that and do something about it! This is yet another thing that we need to be calling and writing them about.
December 23, 2009 at 11:34 pm
The problem is to know the republicans score, find Obama’s score and subtract 7 to 10 points.
December 24, 2009 at 12:20 am
You know what’s astonishing? Look at how many *old* people are running Congress. I don’t mean young Boomers, I mean septua- and octagenarians! WTF? They have nothing in common with most of the people who actually make this country go.
December 24, 2009 at 1:32 am
What does it matter? Young or old, they don’t read the bills and vote as they are told by the leaders.
BTW are you in Pelosi’s district?
December 24, 2009 at 9:43 am
Well Robert Byrd might be punch drunk and only vaguely ambulatory but he serves as a clarion call to the ignorant, provincial and bigoted- he IS a former Kleagle from the KKK after all.
December 24, 2009 at 10:48 am
Once a Kleagle, always a Kleagle. Amazing how he gets a pass.
December 24, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Byrd is a big wildlife supporter.
December 24, 2009 at 5:19 pm
Byrd also happily endorsed Barry, and I have to say I’ve been more than curious about this.
December 24, 2009 at 1:04 am
Historic? Well, I do know that Dr. Utopia has had a rough year and needs a vacation… He intends to play as much golf as he can while in Hawaii and has made it known he does not want regular folks coming up to him and taking photos. Now, if he truly wanted to escape (and not create huge traffic headaches), he would stay where former presidents did on the base itself (right on the beach in a large, executive beach cottage with multimillion dollar views, but not the pricetag).
December 24, 2009 at 1:07 am
Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I think that Palin peaked at a disapproval rating of -13…?
Which if true, compared to this number, makes me LMFAO!
Wonder if Gibbs cares about THIS poll?
These guys are circling the drain and it’s going to get uglier. At least with the Clintons their problem with healthcare was the whole idea of it. That idea tanked but their approval ratings were still pretty damnably high until the whole Monica ridiculousness.
Unfortunately for POTUS, the problem with him and the public isn’t just Obamacare. There really is no end to the list of people that he’s pissed off, disappointed or jacked around.
December 24, 2009 at 5:22 pm
The Clintons wanted a second term. I truly think Barry just wants to get his fascist/communist agenda passed, and then be on his way. He will be a martyr for the lunatic left.
December 24, 2009 at 1:10 am
I love the graphic…
X marks the spot!!
December 24, 2009 at 7:22 am
The Senate just voted on the monster, passing it by sixty votes. At least none of the few earlier fence-sitters tried to save themselves by voting against it at the last moment (a simple majority sufficing). Though Harry Reid at first voted against then realized his mistake. How tired he must be right now after his nightly labors through these weeks, poor man. For him I feel such — sympathy.
For a bit of much-needed cheer, Andrew McCarthy has a good summary of where we stand now and an overview of January:
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZWQ1NmY4YzEyM2Q5MTBlZGM0NzE3MTYwYzM1NzA4MmE=
December 24, 2009 at 8:07 am
Harry Reid’s “nightly labors” . . . that’s when the Grim Reaper works the most and the hardest, so “nightly labors” are well chosen words to describe this POS from Nevada.
December 24, 2009 at 8:15 am
The man is truly ghastly … but he has many peers. I caught a glimpse of the Democrats’ press statement after the vote, with Durbin on his right and Dodd on his left, and I thought, My, what a collection of fatheads — literally and figuratively speaking. Then I tuned it out, it was just too ugly to bear to watch.
Let’s not forget that the next Tea Party express is slated to kick off next March I believe in Searchlight, Nevada!
December 24, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Unfortunately, one of the “fatheads” is my senator, Durbin. I cannot stand this man, but there doesn’t seem to be the will to get rid of him.
December 24, 2009 at 9:46 am
“How tired he must be right now after his nightly labors through these weeks, poor man.”
Indeed, it’s hard work spending your grandchildren’s money so give ole Harry a break.
Be sure to make it a minor fracture though, everyone wants a turn.
December 24, 2009 at 8:02 am
I don’t comment often, but I just have to say… I am very upset, disturbed, sickened, outraged after watching this vote go down. There was a tiny bit of hope that maybe there would be some changes of heart, I really didn’t expect that, but I did think it would be great. They are acting like this is a Christmas present to us Americans. It is not. I am one of those uninsured and unemployed under 30 Americans, and I would like to know how they are gonna FORCE me to buy their piece of trash insurance plan. My mom is on medicare, and my dad has no insurance–and is 5 years (as of today) away from qualifying for medicare himself. This is absolutely disgusting, the whole bill makes me mad, but the death panels and mandates are at the top of my hate list. The mandates are simply a way to make young people and healthy people pay into a system in which they don’t use. It makes no sense.
By far, my stand on it is, they should do it in a way that people are NOT forced to buy insurance, but would allow if you don’t buy it, that you pay out of pocket–even if that means setting up a payment schedule. Actually, that is the experience I have had in the 10 years since my mom went on disability and seized to have family medical coverage. On the rare occasion that I am sick enough to go to the doctors, I have gone, either to a family doctor or a clinic, and in all those cases, my parents paid for the visit and any needed prescription(that is, if I wasn’t given samples). The only exception might have been when I broke my ankle 2 years ago while I was away at college, in that case they had to make payments, actually, the largest cost from that came from the <5 mile ambulance ride I had to have, that one did go into collections, but the actual medical bill was paid as quickly as possible.
That is what I don't get about the urgency of this, I think that this is about the government being in bed with the insurance companies, despite the vilification they spew. This is not about uninsured Americans, NOBODY is forced to "get sick and die" in this country… no hospital is going to turn a sick person away, and even regular doctors can be reasonable about payments, especially if you are paying them up front (ie. no red tape!)
Anyway, I'm sure with a lot of my points I'm pretty much not saying anything objectionable here, but I just had to vent my anger here, because I know that I'm not alone in my anger and fear.
I am truly scared for this country, I feel our freedoms slipping away so quickly.
I can't believe that I used to think "universal health care" would be a good thing. After hearing the strings attached and realizing that universal doesn't mean "free", it really scares me. There are things about health insurance that I think need to be changed, but not in the way they are doing it. I am actually for helping people with pre-existing conditions, and mental health issues, actually, mental health is one of the things that has always touch me the closest, from a personal level and from people I know. But that doesn't even seem to be touched in this bill anyway, because it doesn't help the insurance companies.
I bet the insurance companies are jumping for joy right about now.
Anyway, I am hoping that I can calm my nerves and just enjoy my Christmas, it would probably be smart to turn of the news now and not watch again till at least Saturday, but I have become somewhat of a news junkie since I switched from CNN to FOX(October 2008), and since I started reading Hillbuzz, which was around the same time.
I already was absolute that I would be voting straight republican for at least the next two elections, but right now the thought of voting democrat ever again makes me sick. Full disclosure, 04 was my first time voting, and like many others, I voted against Bush(oh how those days are looking better by the second!), and now see how Kerry behaves and think "why oh why did I think he was good?". 2008 was my first time voting Republican, and definitely not the last.
December 24, 2009 at 8:22 am
Oh, the darn media tried their best to make Kerry look like a statesman, but there was no statesman there.
The problem with so many politicians is they all seem to have sold their souls to the devil.
Without souls, they think only of their own advancement and comfort at the expense of the rest of us.
Even Hillary appears to have sold her soul, sorry guys – but:
Source: http://www.therepublicantemple.com/2009/12/23/hillary-clinton-commits-to-un-small-arms-treaty/
If we cannot defend ourselves against obamathugs, we are lost.
December 24, 2009 at 11:24 am
Big thanks for pointing this out. This piece is a little too wild-eyed and information-deficient for comfort, though. I think we need to read more about the details of the legislation before reacting. It’s most likely as bad as it sounds, but we should make sure.
Don’t forget, there’s a lot of misleading crap coming from sources on the right, too. It’s hard work to get accurate details. Too much spinning and foaming out there!
December 24, 2009 at 12:37 pm
It’s not legislation – it is a United Nations initiative that would force certain legislation on countries who agree to the treaty.
Here is the UN’s PDF file – Chapter 3 details how countries are removing small arms from the ownership of civilians – gives examples of South Africa, Cambodia and more. Definitely indicates that civilians should never own small arms,because it is always civilians who are the victims and the perpetrators, don’t you know!
http://www.undp.org/cpr/documents/sa_control/SALWGuide_Legislation.pdf
If you can get through the entire thing, I think you will agree that the USA should not be following the UN’s recommendations on small arms ownership.
December 24, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Did she also promise big $$bucks toward the global warming scam?? Never liked/trusted her and never will. Hope I’m not tossed from HB.
December 24, 2009 at 9:00 am
O/T, and with apologies if this has been posted elsewhere:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30944.html
Unlikely Allies Want Rahm Out
There are few stranger political bedfellows than conservative anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist and liberal blogger Jane Hamsher. But the two joined forces on Wednesday to call for the resignation of White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, in a letter they penned to Attorney General Eric Holder.
The duo contends that Emanuel’s service on the board of the government-sponsored mortgage company Freddie Mac from 2000 to 2001 may have given him some knowledge of alleged financial irregularities at the time…./[click link for rest of story]
December 24, 2009 at 9:57 am
I commented up above but after reading links included by other posters, as well as further thought, I feel compelled to comment again.
Here are some things Obama has brought us within LESS THAN ONE YEAR in office:
- Questionable eligibility for POTUS based around citizenship status
- Doubling of the national deficit
- Nationalization of the auto industry
- Nationalization of the banking industry
- Nationalization of the health care industry
- Promise to “cut costs” by rationing care to the elderly and infirm
- Attempt to tax the very air we breathe with Cap & Trade legislation
- International Police Force endebted to his administration for rights to search and seizure and withholding of accountability towards US citizens
- Bringing terrorists to the US
- Working to allow terrorists access to secret military files for “legal” trials
- Working to take guns away from law-abiding citizens with the proposed Small Arms Treaty
- Openly and shamelessly promoting a culture of corruption, pay-offs, and political power grabs funded by the public’s tax dollars, in blatant bribery
- Covering up a massive scientific fraud while appearing to support science
That’s quite the list and I haven’t even mentioned the international gaffes, bowing, the wild partying, etc. etc.
Hmm… now who else had questionable eligibility for office, nationalized major industries, boasted of cutting costs in health care by neglecting the old and the disabled, and disarmed his citizens?
Frankly, these are becoming dangerous times.
December 24, 2009 at 10:57 am
The bottom line where Obama and senior Dems want to take us? First, let me disclaim myself: 40-something y.o., gothic, pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, pro-weed (recreationally), world traveler, agnostic Jewish lawyer. My “vital stats” scream liberal. (I’m libertarian) Ok, here’s where we’re headed: a world truly run by a shadowy group (the Politburo) that uses nominally-independent state governments to implement world-wide treaties that will outlaw guns, make it impossible for countries to take military action, except to put down freedom revolts, where few people except Friends of the Shadow Gov’t can get rich, most people in developed nations are locked into what we call lower middle class, and the rest of the world just sucks. Criticism is not allowed and “Bread and Circuses” becomes public policy. Few people will be able to afford air travel and many freedoms we take for granted will be gone. There will be rationing of health care and old people will be “helped” along, except for the Politburo members, who, of course, will be exempt from their own tyranny. Thanks for voting in Obama and the Dems guys. Hope you enjoy the fruits of your labors.
December 24, 2009 at 11:33 am
It’s an extremely unappetizing picture.
December 24, 2009 at 12:01 pm
I didn’t say I look forward to it.
December 24, 2009 at 11:17 am
What I find interesting about the polling numbers is the difference between the strongly disapprove (43) and total disapprove (56). There is little middle ground with him. Majority of people that don’t approve, strongly disapprove.
Or maybe this is what he meant when he said he wanted to bring people together.
December 24, 2009 at 10:43 pm
Uh… no, that’s not what he meant! LOL!
December 24, 2009 at 11:29 am
I commented up above but after reading links included by other posters, as well as further thought, I feel compelled to comment again.
Here are some things Obama has brought us within LESS THAN ONE YEAR in office:
- Questionable eligibility for POTUS based around citizenship status
- Nationalization of the auto industry
- Nationalization of the banking industry
- Nationalization of the health care industry
- Promise to “cut costs” by rationing care to the elderly and infirm
- Covering up a massive scientific fraud while appearing to support science
- International Police Force empowered to rights to search and seizure without disclosure
- Attempt to tax the very air we breathe with Cap & Trade legislation
- Doubling of the national deficit
- Bringing terrorists to the US
- Working to allow terrorists access to secret military files for “legal” trials
- Working to take guns away from law-abiding citizens with the proposed Small Arms Treaty
- Openly and shamelessly promoting a culture of corruption, pay-offs, and political power grabs funded by the public’s tax dollars, in blatant bribery
That’s skipping the international behavior, constant blaming of Bush, his FLOTUS, his past, his stifling of religious expression, and his campaign intimidations.
Let’s see… who else achieved office with questionable eligibility, nationalized major industries, boasted cost cuts by considering the elderly and disabled worthless, stifled opposition, had his own police force operate with impunity, forbade free exercise of religion, and disarmed his citizens? Rings a bell, doesn’t it?
Anyone who comes to get my guns, will get them lead first. I am not about to let history repeat itself on MY watch. Hillbuzz, lead the way!
December 24, 2009 at 11:31 am
Tom Coburn, we love you:
December 24, 2009
Voting Against Government-Run Health Care
By Senator Tom Coburn
This vote is indeed historic. This Congress will be remembered for its arrogance, corruption and stupidity. In the year of 2009, a Congress ignored the coming economic storm and impending bankruptcy of our entitlement programs and embarked on an ideological crusade to bring our nation as close to single-payer, government-run health care as possible. If this bill becomes law, future generations will rue this day and I will do everything in my power to work toward its repeal. This bill will ration care, cut Medicare, increase premiums, fund abortion and bury our children in debt.
This process was not compromise. This process was corruption. This bill passed because votes were bought and sold using the issue of abortion as a bargaining chip. The abortion provision alone makes this bill the most arrogant piece of legislation I have seen in Congress. Only the most condescending politician can believe it is appropriate to force Americans to pay for other people’s abortions and to coerce medical professional to take the lives of unborn children.
The president and his allies genuinely believe that expanding government’s control over health care is the way to control health care costs, improve lives and extend life spans. I don’t question their motives, but I do question their judgment. History has already judged this argument and put it in its ash heap. The experience of government-run health care in the United States and around the world shows that access to a government program is not access to health care. Forty percent of doctors restrict access to Medicaid patients. Medicare already rations care and denies medical claims at twice the rate of private insurers. Nations like the United Kingdom with government run health care routinely ration care based on cost, and Canadians flock to the United States to escape waiting lines. Neither nation, incidentally, has managed to control costs as promised.
Our health care system needs to be reformed not because government’s role has been too small but because it has been too big. Since the 1940′s, government’s role in health care has been expanded to the point that it controls 60 percent of our health care economy, according the non-partisan Congressional Research Service. If more government were the answer, health care would have been reformed long ago.
Finally, like many Americans, I’ve been disappointed by the lack of civility in this debate. The backers of the Reid bill, in many cases, have been unwilling argue for what they believe in – a single-payer health care system controlled by Washington. Their hide the ball strategy led them to rush this process and ram the bill through on the eve of the most important Christian holiday when they hoped the American people wouldn’t be watching.
The rhetoric that will be remembered in this debate was not between elected officials but between elected officials and concerned citizens. The clear will of the public was not only ignored, but concerned citizens were personally attacked by politicians in power. The American people were derided as an angry mob, and were called evil-doers and unpatriotic by the leaders of the House and Senate.
The civility double standard in the Senate has been beneath the dignity of this body. Throughout this debate, backers of the Reid bill argued that more Americans will die if we do nothing than if we pass their bill. In their view, those who disagreed were not advancing a different vision for reform but were using scare tactics.
In my 25 years of practicing medicine I’ve treated countless patients who would have had their lives cut short had the Reid bill been in effect. I don’t need to conjure up scare tactics or rely on talking points written by staff. I’ve seen cancers that would have gone undiagnosed, treatments that would have been denied, and care that would have been delayed had this bill been in effect.
On the final day of debate, one of my colleagues said my argument about rationing was Exhibit A in their case about scare tactics before ignoring every substantive argument I’ve made against this bill. I would contend this bill is Exhibit A in the American people’s case against Washington. Soon enough, the American people will have the opportunity to ration the terms of the elected officials in Washington who sought to impose their will on the public.
Tom Coburn, M.D. is a U.S. Senator from Oklahoma.
December 24, 2009 at 11:36 am
Great statement.
December 24, 2009 at 12:34 pm
great great statement by Dr.Coburn
I will contribute to his campaign when it run, that goes for Jim Demnit as well.
2 years I could stand these people, now I understand what conservatism means, and realised I am a conservative. In fact most Americans are conservatives.
Conservative values, such as indiv rights anf freedom to chose, these are AMERICAN values!
December 24, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Dr. Coburn makes me proud to be an Okie. As does Sen. Inhoffe.
December 24, 2009 at 10:46 pm
Amen!!!
December 24, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Merry Christmas everyone. Focus on what is good in life – love and light to you all.
December 24, 2009 at 12:01 pm
You know, we sane and honorable people really need to have an organization that makes Constitution-based challenges to the criminals in D.C. Something like the ACLU, but for the rational and productive and honest members of society.
Here is a short example of the misbehavior that Congress is flaunting:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/12/the_moral_meltdown_on_capitol.html
Anybody have ideas about how to get the ball rolling–who to contact, or whether there’s something like this already that I haven’t found? I will start writing letters to think tanks after Christmas. The health care outrage might be incentive for more conservatives to open their wallets to fund such a protective organization.
December 24, 2009 at 12:32 pm
I would suggest Mark Levin, or Judge Andrew Napolitano. I have no idea if they would be interested, but they definitely have the Constitutional Expertise to help.
December 24, 2009 at 12:54 pm
I emailed Mark Levin’s website, asking for his help, volunteering to help in any way I can. I am one of those who wants to do something, but has no idea how to go about it.
December 24, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Thank you, Gracie! I will follow up on this.
December 24, 2009 at 1:07 pm
It’s an excellent idea, Szoo. Seems as though this effort would dovetail nicely with the Tea Party groups.
Also, the Heritage folks may be able to offer guidance.
Levin and Rush are close. If Levin is interested, perhaps Rush might be as well. Just a thought.
December 24, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Thanks! I’ll approach Heritage as well. I just don’t think tea parties can do much good, other than helping us let off steam and perhaps contribute to a few electoral defeats. We have got to dismantle the monstrosity that the federal government is becoming.
December 24, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Merry Christmas, HillBuzz gents!!!…A lot more people than you realize appreciate all your efforts here.
From a conservative Texan :D
December 24, 2009 at 12:41 pm
I wonder what the 2012 Obama campaign will bring as motivation. Because the Hope and Change hoax is not going to work anymore. Bush used the “Strong, anti Terror and keep America safe” winning formula.
I think Obama might come up with the GOP racist campaign again, but with the GOP nominating the first woman in US history for POTUS, Obama will have fewer cards to play with in 3 years.
December 24, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Even if Obama’s approvals are below 45 in 2012 he can still win reelection if the GOP is so stupid to nominate one of those boring white males or that boring ugly Indian dude from Lousiana.
December 24, 2009 at 2:21 pm
The one who believes in exorcism and creationism?
December 24, 2009 at 3:01 pm
I will not vote for ANY ticket without Sarah on it! Period. Also, a reminder from another blog; Reagan spent Christmas in the WH so that the Security people could be with their families. W spent Christmas at nearby Camp David so as not to disrupt the security and most staff. Class and caring shows.