The adoration of the Obamessiah

“OH dear I think PrezBO ticked some "nutjobs" off...LOL nothing more fun than watching the "celeb worshipers" when he does not fulfill their dreams.


http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-obama-enviro21-2009jun21,0,5994988.story

Environmentalists baffled by Obama's strategy
The administration is defending in court environmental measures that the president once vowed to roll back. Officials say it is part of a long-term plan, but critics see it as backpedaling.
By Jim Tankersley
June 21, 2009
Reporting from Washington -- As a candidate for president, Barack Obama wooed environmentalists with a promise to "support and defend" pristine national forest land from road building and other development that had been pushed by the George W. Bush administration.

But five months into Obama's presidency, the new administration is actively opposing those protections on about 60 million acres of federal woodlands in a case being considered by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.”

“LOL

The three rules of the PrezBO

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Dodge-facts-skip-details-govern-Chicago-style_06_21-48680137.html

First, Obama likes to execute long-range strategies but suffers from cognitive dissonance when new facts render them inappropriate. His 2008 campaign was a largely flawless execution of a smart strategy, but he was flummoxed momentarily when the Russians invaded Georgia and when John McCain picked Sarah Palin as his running mate. On domestic policy, he has been executing his long-range strategy of vastly expanding government, but may be encountering problems as voters show unease at huge increases on spending.

Second, he does not seem to care much about the details of policy. He subcontracted the stimulus package to congressional appropriators, the cap-and-trade legislation to Henry Waxman and Edward Markey, and his health care program to Max Baucus. The result is incoherent public policy: indefensible pork barrel projects, a carbon emissions bill that doesn’t limit carbon emissions from politically connected industries, and a health care program priced by the Congressional Budget Office at a fiscally unfeasible $1,600,000,000,000.

Third, he does business Chicago-style. His first political ambition was to be mayor of Chicago, the boss of all he surveyed; he has had to settle for the broader but less complete hegemony of the presidency. From Chicago he brings the assumption that there will always be a bounteous private sector that can be plundered endlessly on behalf of political favorites. Hence the government takeover of General Motors and Chrysler to bail out the United Auto Workers, the proposal for channeling money from the private nonprofits to the government by limiting the charitable deduction for high earners, the plan for expanding government (and public employee union rolls) by instituting universal pre-kindergarten.

Chicago-style, he has kept the Republicans out of serious policy negotiations but has allowed left-wing Democrats to veto a measure upholding his own decision not to release interrogation photos. While promising a politics of mutual respect, he peppers both his speeches and impromptu responses with jabs at his predecessor. Basking in the adulation of nearly the entire press corps, he whines about his coverage on Fox News. Those who stand in the way, like the Chrysler secured creditors, are told that their reputations will be destroyed; those who expose wrongdoing by political allies, like the AmeriCorps inspector general, are fired.”

“iT'S AMAZING HOW LITTLE INTEGRITY dEMS HAVE. tHEY DON'T CARE HOW CORRUPT THEIR PARTY IS. hOW DISHONEST THEIR LEADERS ARE...THEY DON'T CARE.

What do you believe in!?!?!?!?”

“Dood, just watch the level of "integrity" the moonbats usually have, even on TT. LMAO”

“Corruption is the main growth element in US politics, didn't congress 1994-2008 prove that without corruption you will have no growth in politics or the economy. The rich do not invest their money in anything but sure things and those come only through corruption. Get used to it or move to Italy - where they admit it and do it outwardly.”

“North Korea and Iran are seriously harshing Obama's "extend a hand," negotiate-first foreign policy mellow

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124562488560735527.html”

“a -1 approval rating doesn't mean anything. in that poll 64% of liberals and 40% of moderates strongly approve of his performance, 61% of conservatives strongly disapprove. big shocker there. i know i am blown away by this... NOT.”

“You know I think the whole "shaking with fear" stuff we are seeing over the North Korea stuff is that there is every real possibility that the Troll could launch one (yes LushO their missiles (courtesy of Loral Aerospace) do have the range). Many American worry that IF we are hit the best we will get out of the PrezBO is the old "sad eyes, and quivering lip" of the Clinton era.

Ya know....I tend to agree. I really think that the PrezBO is so incompetent and so unqualified that he may well let the "WORLD ORDER" solve the problem.”

“LOL..PrezBO is going to hold an "ADORE ME" confrerence where he will explain how "MOVED" he is by the Iran and North Korea stuff.....

Oh while we are at it..The wise and intelligent Neal Boortz has printed up some of the YES WE CAN...translations

Yes we can" make the dumb masses react positively to another focus-group based sloganeering campaign.
"Yes we can" take control of another 20% of the American economy.
"Yes we can" gain even more control over you by controlling your access to health care.
"Yes we can" ration health care.
"Yes we can" make the necessary excuses when this whole thing turns into dog squeeze. We'll blame what's left of the private sector.
"Yes we can" stifle innovation in health care for the rest of time.
"Yes we can" create long waiting lines for seeing a specialist.
"Yes we can" make it seem as if there are only two MRI units in the entire nation
"Yes we can" make the Canadians feel better knowing that misery loves company
"Yes we can" successfully ignore the private sector's role in health care.
"Yes we can" help to bury the people the people who die because their access to health care was limited due to their age.
"Yes we can" run your health care like we've run Social Security and Medicaid.
"Yes we can" fool most of the people in this country ... most of the time.”

“As it happens, a U.S. Navy destroyer is currently tailing a North Korean ship suspected of carrying illicit weapons toward Burma via Singapore. The cargo ship Kang Nam left a North Korea port last Wednesday, and a South Korean intelligence report said it is believed to carry missiles and other parts. This would violate U.N. sanctions, and the U.S. has every legal right to board the ship - XL's article

I thought by law the originating country had to approve of their ship being boarded, which NK is obviously not going to do. Can anyone confirm?”

“By law, North Korea has threatened us and we therefore have the right to defend ourselves.

BLAM!”

“I was overthinking the scope. Here it is.

UN Resolution 1874:

12. Calls upon all Member States to inspect vessels, with the consent of the flag State, on the high seas, if they have information that provides reasonable grounds to believe that the cargo of such vessels contains items the supply, sale, transfer, or export of which is prohibited by paragraph 8 (a), 8 (b), or 8 (c) of resolution 1718 (2006) or by paragraph 9 or 10 of this resolution, for the purpose of ensuring strict implementation of those provisions;

“13. Calls upon all States to cooperate with inspections pursuant to paragraphs 11 and 12, and, if the flag State does not consent to inspection on the high seas, decides that the flag State shall direct the vessel to proceed to an appropriate and convenient port for the required inspection by the local authorities pursuant to paragraph 11;
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“Whatever The One does or doesn't do with NK aggression, the moonbats will still claim it's BUSH's fault.”

“Followed by PrezBO calling a press conference to grit his teeth and say how concerned he was that The two Senators from Hawaii had not consituents to serve.”

“Poor little drunkO.”

“9 of 10 Americans worry about Obama's spending deficits: Poll



Just a few months after congressional passage of the administration's whopping $787-billion economic stimulus plan, a new national poll shows Americans' confidence in its efficacy fading, especially in the Midwest, where Biden is heading.

Just about half (52%) believe the much-touted stimulus plan will or has had any impact restoring the economy, down from 59% in April. The Washington Post-ABC Poll found Obama's personal popularity remains high, in part because his Republican opposition remains in such disarray unable to offer a coherent political alternative.

The poll found:
The shift in public assessments of the stimulus package has clear political ramifications: At the 100-day mark of Obama's presidency, 63 percent of people in states that were decided by fewer than 10 percentage points in November said the stimulus act had or would boost the economy.

Today, in the telephone poll of 1,001 Americans conducted Thursday through Sunday, the number has plummeted to 50 percent in those closely contested states, with nearly as many now saying the stimulus program will not help the national economy.

The new poll confirms other surveys showing the president's popularity dipping slightly, his disapproval rating jumping about 5% and particular unhappiness focused on his handling of the automobile manufacturing crisis and the federal deficit. They add up to a serious warning signal, with unemployment lines (see photo) expected to increase even further.

Currently, 90% of Americans are worried to some degree about the exploding federal spending deficit, a galactic number certain to gain politicians' attention on both sides. And yet the come is the final bill for Obama's healthcare legislation.

-- Andrew Malcolm”

“ITS SOOOOO COOL!

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/24/gop-official-americorp-feared-igs-push-probe-case-involving-obama-supporter/

So we have a man who is violating put near every legal thing he can in taking power. We discover he most likely was going to have a buddy get caught. SO he covers for him.


Former Inspector General Gerald Walpin's determination to investigate further the alleged misuse of AmeriCorps funds may have led President Obama to fire him, a Republican member of the board overseeing the volunteer agency alleged to a Washington newspaper.

If true, the assertion contradicts an explanation provided by White House, which said Walpin, 77, was "confused" and "disoriented" at a recent meeting of the board, exhibited a "lack of candor" and "engaged in other troubling and inappropriate conduct."

Meanwhile, a bipartisan group of officials -- including four former U.S. attorneys, three former federal judges, one former attorney general and a former counsel to President Clinton -- sent a letter to the Senate Wednesday defending the integrity and competence of Walpin.

Walpin's dismissal came after he announced to the AmeriCorps board that he wasn't done with the investigation into the alleged misuse of federal grants by Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, a former NBA star and an Obama supporter who heads a nonprofit education group, according to The Washington Examiner.


Here is a trip down Memory Lane

Five Guys busted for breaking into a political campaign headquarters. The President trys to cover for his associates and donors to his campaign....

Any ideas....Beuller? Beuller?”

“Peps does adore his Obamessiah.”

“*snicker*

The moonbats really HATE this thread.”

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http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/”

“LOL...its gonna happen in the near future, PrezBO will ve called on to "take some leadership" in the world and the "allies who matter" will laugh at him.”

“Awkward moment: Clinton urged Obama to talk tough on Iran...

Hillary! always has had bigger balls than The One.”

“the game plan is that the PrezBO will so screw it up that he will resign in '10 and joe will appoint her as VEEP. Then she gets 10 years to be President (Joe will take the tour of Ft Marcy Park)”

“"If -- all of a sudden -- Obama had hoped for a red carpet and a crazy crowd of fans chanting something like Hollywood-style, 'We love you!', nothing of the kind was awaiting him in Moscow," it reported.”

“ROTFLMAO...Dropping like Bill Clinton's pants at a high school pep rally.


http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll”

“LOL..remember the hissy you libbies raised over the 5 US Attorneys...


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/08/purge-inspectors-general-raises-concerns-political-interference/


WASHINGTON -- The government's top watchdogs are quickly becoming all bark and no bite, say critics who call the recent "purge" of inspectors general a warning about limited transparency in the Obama administration.

"The mounting evidence that there might be political interference with the IGs is disturbing," said Pete Sepp, vice president for policy and communications at the National Taxpayers Union. "The IGs are being emasculated."

"When inspectors general across the administration have roadblocks placed in their way, American taxpayers should worry. A threat to one's independence is a threat to them all," said Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas.

Inspectors general serve as the primary investigator and auditor at federal agencies. They have statutory powers to investigate internal fraud, waste, abuse and mismanagement as well as conduct oversight of the recipients of funds and contractors who work with the individual agencies.

Fewer than half of the 69 inspectors general are hired and fired by the president of the United States. The rest are appointed by agency officials.

A handful of inspectors general are looking for work this summer after being dismissed following the issuance of critical reports about the agencies they monitor.

Among the recent firings are:

--Gerald Walpin, who was fired in June as IG for the Corporation for National and Community Service, which runs the Americorps program. He was one of 30 IGs appointed by former President George W. Bush. Walpin was responsible for a major investigation into the misuse of federal grant funds by St. HOPE Academy, a non-profit founded and run by former NBA star and Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, a supporter of President Obama. Critics say Walpin's firing was politically motivated, while the White House has issued documents suggesting he was unfit for the position.

-- Fred Weiderhold Jr., who announced his retirement in June as inspector general at Amtrak, about the same time he handed Congress a 94-page report claiming that Amtrak lawyers had frequently tried to stymie his investigations by redacting and withholding documents and preventing interviews with Amtrak employees. Amtrak officials say Weiderhold's retirement arrangements came before, not after his damning report. Nonetheless, the top Democratic and Republican members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are investigating.

--Judith Gwynne, who was acting IG at the International Trade Commission, and was fired this month, coincidentally after Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, known as the patron saint of IGs, wrote her boss, ITC Chairwoman Shara Aranoff, a Bush appointee, about potential agency obstruction in Gwynne's investigation into contractor activities. Gwynne had accused commission officials of forcibly removing from her hands procurement files essential to her investigation. An ITC spokeswoman told FOXNews.com that the commission has responded formally to Grassley, but will not comment further on Gwynne, a career employee who was appointed by agency officials in 2008.

Meanwhile, Neil M. Barofsky, the inspector general in charge of overseeing the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program recently expressed concern when Treasury Department officials informed him the department had legal authority over his office. Barofsky said such an arrangement could threaten his independence and ability to access documents relating to the bailout of the financial sector. The matter is currently being sorted out by the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel.

According to news reports in mid-June, the Treasury's assertion of its authority over Barofsky's office came just as he was opening an investigation into the Treasury's decision to approve bonuses for executives at the insurance giant AIG, which received billions in bailout money from the TARP fund.

Observers say it is quite typical for the party in power to "circle the wagons" and attempt to consolidate power and firm up its authority once in the driver's seat.

And Jake Wiens, an investigator for the Project on Government Oversight, a non-profit watchdog group in Washington, D.C., warned against seeing "patterns" in the dismissals. Taken individually, each IG's firing is a distinct case that could be "extremely problematic."

For example, Weins said, the Walpin case is mired in a number of "complicating issues," like documented complaints against Walpin from within the agency and a pending ethics complaint against him by the U.S. Attorney's Office in California.

Walpin is also the only IG in question to be fired by the White House. In the case of Weiderhold, the Amtrak IG answers to the Amtrak board of directors, currently chaired by Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Del.

But critics say without greater protections, the government's internal auditors won't have the independence to do their work.

The "IG office was always sacrosanct," Bradley Smith, who served as a Republican chairman of the Federal Election Commission during the Bush administration.

Smith said the Obama administration may not be setting the right tone, especially after pledging during his campaign to reform government and make it more transparent.

"I think it looks bad," Smith said.

Conservative bloggers also call "IG Gate" the sleeper story of the summer.

"The story may stay below the (mainstream media)'s radar for a few weeks," suggested blogger Robert Stacy McCain, in a posting at HotAir.com on June 28. "But if you've spent years watching how scandal stories unfold in Washington, IG-Gate looks like one that will keep making headlines for months."

Back in 2006, majority Republicans were criticized for seeking to shut down the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction in the midst of the war. The effort, which was eventually halted by Democrats, came as IG Stuart Bowen issued a report claiming the U.S. military had failed to track hundreds of thousands of weapons intended for Iraqi security forces.

Danielle Brian, the executive director for the Project on Government Oversight, said Congress is as much to blame as the administration for the existing problems, which stem from the need to strengthen the role of the IG.

Brian said Congress missed an opportunity to bolster the IGs when it debated the 2008 IG Reform Act. Provisions that would have allowed only the president to remove IGs for good cause "lay on the cutting room floor" and didn't make it into the final bill passed last September, she said. ”

“Big butt”

“It looks like Pelosi might get the last laugh on the Bush Era CIA after all.

Would you like that crow fried or fricasseed.”

“Tilty...might want to reread it

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/08/house-democrat-joins-pelosi-accusing-cia-misleading-lying-congress/

The communique comes as House Intelligence Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, also penned a brief to the top Republican on the panel, Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Michigan. In his letter, Reyes tells Hoekstra that he had concluded "that this Committee has been misled, has not been provided full and complete notifications, and (in at least one case) was affirmatively lied to."

In an interview with FOX News, Reyes said he was concerned that Republicans might try to corner Pelosi on the interrogation flap.

"We all know there have been a number of contentious issues that have been much publicized," said Reyes, who indicated he wrote the letter in an attempt to curb GOP efforts to target Pelosi.

"Let's leave for the moment the politics out of it," Reyes said. "Our national security is about the most serious thing we deal with here on Capitol Hill. And it shouldn't be politicized."

The House Republican leadership has signaled that it intends to make Pelosi and her allegations that the CIA misled her a key part of the intelligence legislation debate.

"The blatantly political nature of the Democrats' letters is revealed by their handling," said Jamal Ware, spokesman for Republicans on the committee, in a statement late Wednesday.

"One was slipped under a staffer's office door late at night, the other was deliberately hidden from Republican members for two weeks and had to be obtained from the press. It is unfortunate that the president's veto threat and the continued attacks by partisans against the CIA are a direct result of congressional Democrats' continued heavy-handed attempts to cover up for Speaker Pelosi."

When libbies start screaming "National Security over politics" it means they are caught with their pants down. (LOL)”

“T*lty doesn't need to READ anything. He and LushO learned everthing they needed to know in the 60s.”

“And Sarko...’e iss such a Frenchman.
‘E knows what zee Zeero ‘s loooking at, but ‘e also knows the cameras are on.”

“She is 16....somewhere Michael Jackson is laughing his ..nose...off.

Hey Stovie, you notice the Boy King (who came to power on the "I will appoint the best to teach me" ) is traveling without the only person with any real government "foriegn affairs" experience?

YEP...her Thighness is left at home with a broke flipper. I heard that she was going to fly over on her own but you need two hands to hold onto the broomstick.”

““It looks like Pelosi might get the last laugh on the Bush Era CIA after all.

Would you like that crow fried or fricasseed.”
Tllt
7:42:16 AM
7/09/09

And now from REALITY bites.....


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124701436661709153.html

The last time the CIA and Nancy Pelosi were in the news together, the House Speaker was accusing the agency of lying about its briefings to Congress on the interrogation of al Qaeda detainees. This week, the Speaker's fellow Democrats are set to block public disclosure of what Ms. Pelosi was really told and when.

Democrats recently marked up the 2010 intelligence bill, and Republican Pete Hoekstra offered an amendment in committee to require the CIA to make public an unclassified version of its records on Congressional briefings. It also would have required the CIA to disclose the information gleaned from those interrogations.

Democrats have spent years demanding a "truth commission" into interrogations, so you'd think such public disclosure would be welcome. Ah, that was when a different guy was in the White House and before Mrs. Pelosi had made her own veracity an issue. Suddenly, she's all for secrecy. And sure enough, Intelligence Committee Democrats lined up to protect their leader and defeated the Hoekstra amendment on a party line vote. This follows Democratic rejection of a resolution by Utah Republican Rob Bishop to initiate a bipartisan investigation of Mrs. Pelosi's accusation.


AHEM...Methinks the Lady doth protest too much.”

“He's keeping Hillary! in a hole in the basement.”

“ROTFLMAO...go to the BOnetwork news..ABC and listen to their take.


GREAT comment on there. "Downtown fire clears way for GLORIUS NEW TRACTOR FACTORY"”

“UH OH...as usual the State Run Media missed it but....

OHIO

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/09/obamas-popularity-plummets-ohio-residents-express-impatience/?test=latestnews

The president's approval ratings from Ohio voters dropped from 62 percent in May to 49 percent this month in a new Quinnipiac University poll, making it the first state in which Obama's job approval has dipped below 50 percent.

Unemployment in Ohio, at 10.8 percent, is well above the national average, and that appears to be having an impact on Buckeye residents.

"Early in the election period, people were very excited about the prospect of dramatic change and I think they were desperate for something different," said Karina Horton. "But now we are in the midst of this change -- it's a little more scary than they were ready for and I sense a noticeable shift with friends and co-workers' opinions about President Obama."

Others suggest that the Obama administration's actions don't match its words.

"Seeing a lot of words come out, lot of promises and I'm trying to do this or trying to do that but I'm not actually seeing it happen," Kathy Hartman said.
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