Will they ever learn?
The Dynamic Duo...Geithner and Obama
As predicted, the stock market is plummeting today….down almost 500 as I write this piece. As also predicted, the Obama administration is blaming everyone but themselves for the disaster (mainly blaming the Tea Party).
Here are just a few Democrat talking points that are appearing today…
1. Howard Dean: “I think they’re totally unreasonable and doctrinaire and not founded in reality. I think they’ve been smoking some of that tea, not just drinking it,”
2. David Axelrod: “The fact of the matter is that this is essentially a Tea Party downgrade. The Tea Party brought us to the brink of a default. … It was the right thing to do to avoid that default. It was the wrong thing to do to push the country to that point.”
3. John Kerry said that the S&P downgrade was “without question the Tea Party downgrade”
One thing they have conveniently ignored? The S&P made it perfectly clear why they downgraded our rating. “The downgrade reflects our opinion that the fiscal consolidation plan that Congress and the Administration recently agreed to falls short of what, in our view, would be necessary to stabilize the government’s medium-term debt dynamics.” The S&P requested a $4 trillion dollar debt reduction. They laid it out for Obama and Congress.
Obama…Reid…and Boehner knew what it would take to keep our AAA rating. The only plan that would have saved our rating was the Cut-Cap and Balance plan which passed in the House but not in the Senate. Our brilliant Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid declared the C-C-B bill “over,done,dead” before it even hit the Senate floor. Nice going Harry. If the bill had passed both houses then the pressure would have been on Obama to sign it. It was the only way to save our AAA rating. It was a very good bill.
Who was the biggest proponent of Cut-Cap-Balance?
The Tea Party.
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Actually, it was the democrats who blocked EVERYTHING that came out of the house of representatives, who as stated above were the only ones to pass anything to curb our spending problems. I also would like to point out that the final bill had democrats(CBC) and republicans(TP) voted against the final bill. And the I will also say that the problem could have been solved the Friday before IF the CBC would not have threw a fit about the lack of revenue.
I agree that the cap, tax and balance bill fits the S&P standard. We need to get out our talking points to overcome the talking points of the other side. Thanks for the great up date. I love this site.
RE: John Kerry's (Herman Munster's) comment about the Tea Party causing the S & P downgrade – that is so completely ignorant! Can't think of the words…
Dynamic Duo – "HILL"arious!
Cartoon of the "Dynamic Duo" [snark]…
[youtube iJPFSNu_QNs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJPFSNu_QNs youtube]
I LOVE the Pinky and the Brain. I used to love all the Animaniac cartoons.
"Think Outside the Box". Brillant metaphor of the victim mentality of the current Congress:
[youtube C1yYB85ArHE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1yYB85ArHE youtube]
I listened to a Rep. of S&P this weekend on Fox. The words were explicit and to the point. If Boehner had pushed the CC&B to the Senate with a,"Take it or leave it", edict, we would not be in this predicament today. I had hoped that Boehner would not turn into, "gutless wonder", as I was so proud when the House passed that bill. Republicans MUST generate a little backbone. Seems the cowardly lion is always lurking around under a desk in the House. They constantly fall for the gloom and doom preached by Dems. I have concluded the Left and the LSM have no idea the numbers they will face in 2012. Take it from this 79 year old Tea Partier, ( terrorist ), the number overwhelms the Dems. Check the latest Gallup poll.
Jesse Jackson on Obama
'Some Layer of the Excitement is Gone'
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,…
I can’t believe this huckster! Look at his quote from Der Spiegel interview: “We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today we are the number one in unemployment, with 16 percent of American blacks out of work. We are number one in foreclosure, number one in short life expectancy, in loan default. Big banks steered their toxic products toward minorities and Congress did not oversee them properly because it is basically corrupted by all the money it is raising on Wall Street. So there is a lot of pain here in our community and this pain must be addressed. ”
The nerve of this man to say that this country is responsible for steering toxic products. The banks were forced to make loans to people, including minorities who could not possibly pay the loans back. It is through this encouragement for them to speculate in real estate that was part and parcel to the real estate bubble collapsing! It was through Congress’s meddling that resulted in what we have today! This is a new low for this race-hustler.
The stunning decline of Barack Obama 2011 edition: 10 key reasons why the Obama presidency continues to melt down
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/10…
Rush reads the “Obama Blames…” diaries
This is an instant classic. I call it the “Obama Blames…” diaries, where Rush reads through six pages of Obama blaming everyone else for the problems during his administration:
http://www.therightscoop.com/rush-reads-the-obama…
Check these unhappy AA's.
http://www.blackagendareport.com/
They've been unhappy with the big Zero since he was running for Present in 2008!
Hotlanta Mike, a BIG Thanks for that link to Nile Gardiner. Those are GREAT articles by him.
Here's another.
The Tea Party is the political movement of the decade
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/10…