"What if Obama can't lead?" :o

[OCinBuffalo]

Obama: I’m Not Incompetent, Government Is

 

If those in charge of its implementation are not careful, the principal achievement of our long Obamacare saga will be to be to have reinforced conservative claims about government. As the law has gone from one disaster to another, Obama has flailed a little. He’s said “sorry” — sort of — and he’s allowed that things aren’t optimal, but he hasn’t been prepared to concede that there might be anything wrong with his management style or that this mess is ultimately owned by him. It seems that our progressive president is prepared to defend the many virtues of government right up to the point at which doing so requires admitting that he’s not very good at running things.

 

In his Chris Matthew interview yesterday, Obama pushed back against the idea that this was his fault. Per Politico:

“The challenge, I think, that we have going forward is not so much my personal management style or particular issues around White House organization,” Obama said. “It actually has to do with what I referred to earlier, which is we have these big agencies, some of which are outdated, some of which are not designed properly

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So, it’s the government’s fault, not Obama’s. It’s the design of the agencies, not Obama. Okay, fair enough.

 

But then why isn’t he moving to reform those agencies? He’d certainly have Republican support for that, and, as we all know, he just wants to do “what works” and he’ll “work with anyone” who agrees with him.

Hilarious.

 

Obama has "deftly" maneuvered himself into a logic trap, all by himself. Normally this requires expert skill, and is done by somebody else. A somebody else who is capable of the machinations required to move the target into the trap. So, uh, who is the expert R who "did this" to Obama? Isn't that the question that the Ds wish they had an answer to?

 

But...finding that answer means: another trap. You have to admit somebody is an expert, and that somebody is an R. That entails admitting somebody is a lot smarter than Obama. That entails admitting an R is a lot smarter.

 

Never. Going. To. Happen.

 

In all cases: you can't have it both ways.

You can maintain that Government is Great, but that requires saying Obama = FAIL.

or

You can maintain that Obama is Great, but that requires saying Government = FAIL.

 

Liberals and Progressives: Pick a card, any card. :lol: I don't care which one, because either card has "admit you F'ed up" on it. Since you'll never do that, I will get keep laughing at/toying with you, as you keep trying to play it off/make excuses. That's my "trick". It could end, if you'd just stop lying, then wishing your lie would come true, then more lying when it doesn't, then more wishing the new lies would come true, etc.

 

But you won't. So, the fun never ends.

 

For me.

[B-Man]

Krauthammer on new Obamacare rules: ‘This now approaches banana republic lawlessness’

 

Columnist Charles Krauthammer attacked new Obamacare rules unveiled by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in a late Thursday conference call, saying the Obama administration is “approach[ing] banana republic lawlessness” by issuing the decrees.

Krauthammer spoke with Fox News’ Bret Baier on a panel with Juan Williams and Judge Andrew Napolitano, as the three reacted to Sebelius’ new directives for insurance companies.

 

“This is exactly a reaction to a deep understanding among Democrats that [Obamacare] is a train wreck,” he said. “And it’s a panic reaction. As the judge said, this is utterly lawless. This now approaches banana republic lawlessness. The only difference is that here, when you get presidential decrees, it’s done on a conference call instead of from the balcony of the presidential mansion. That’s the only difference, and nobody sings — Evita isn’t at his side.”

 

 

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/12/krauthammer-on-new-obamacare-rules-this-now-approaches-banana-republic-lawlessness/#ixzz2nMl3mmPR

[Nanker]

http://youtu.be/dkYfmRwryQo

[B-Man]

Attackers...................lol

 

 

 

White House, Center for American Progress plan new moves to counter John Podesta attackers

by Jonathan Allen

Since he founded the Center for American Progress a decade ago, John Podesta has built the liberal think tank into a fundraising juggernaut that rakes in between $30 million and $40 million a year from donors.

 

But as Podesta enters the West Wing in the role of counselor to President Barack Obama, the White House and CAP are being forced to examine the awkward relationship between the donors he’s courted and the public policy decisions they want from the president.

And as Podesta’s fundraising prowess and progressive bona fides become a source of political attacks, CAP and the White House are responding with moves that may help inoculate him from criticism that he’s operating in the shadows to benefit his longtime benefactors.

 

 

 

Read more: http://www.politico....l#ixzz2nN2BeQin

[B-Man]

 

 

Obama the Oblivious ...He doesn’t write code — or bother himself with the tasks of governing.

 

By Charles Krauthammer

 

In explaining the disastrous rollout of Obamacare, President Obama told Chris Matthews he had discovered that “we have these big agencies, some of which are outdated, some of which are not designed properly.”

 

An interesting discovery to make after having consigned the vast universe of American medicine, one-sixth of the U.S. economy, to the tender mercies of the agency bureaucrats at the Department of Health and Human Services and the Internal Revenue Service.

 

Most people become aware of the hopeless inefficiency of sclerotic government by, oh, 17 at the department of motor vehicles. Obama’s late discovery is especially remarkable considering that he built his entire political philosophy on the rock of Big Government, on the fervent belief in the state as the very engine of collective action and the ultimate source of national greatness. (Indeed, of individual success as well, as in “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”)

 

This blinding revelation of the ponderous incompetence of bureaucratic government came just a few weeks after Obama confessed that “what we’re also discovering is that insurance is complicated to buy.”

 

Another light bulb goes off, this one three years after passing a law designed to force millions of Americans to shop for new health plans via the maze of untried, untested, insecure, unreliable online “exchanges.”

 

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Obama’s discovery that government bureaucracies don’t do things very well creates a breathtaking disconnect between his transformative ambitions and his detachment from the job itself. How does his Olympian vision coexist with the lassitude of his actual governance, a passivity that verges on absenteeism?

 

What bridges that gap is rhetoric. Barack Obama is a master rhetorician. It’s allowed him to move crowds, rise inexorably, and twice win the most glittering prize of all. Rhetoric has changed his reality. For Obama, it can change the country’s. Hope and change, after all, is a rhetorical device. Of the kind Obama has always imagined can move mountains.

 

That’s why his reaction to the Obamacare website’s crash-on-takeoff is so telling. His remedy? A cross-country campaign-style speaking tour. As if rhetoric could repeal that reality.

 

Managing, governing, negotiating, cajoling, crafting legislation, forging compromise. For these — this stuff of governance — Obama has shown little aptitude and even less interest. Perhaps, as Valerie Jarrett has suggested, he is simply too easily bored to invest his greatness in such mundanity.

 

“I don’t write code,” said Obama in reaction to the website crash. Nor is he expected to. He is, however, expected to run an administration that can.

 

 

 

 

 

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[Nanker]

B. O. The Selfie Absent President or SAP for short.

[OCinBuffalo]

The Internet is so fun. How's this?

 

Edited December 14, 2013 by OCinBuffalo

[B-Man]

A Government Separated from the People Cannot Stand

by Lawrence Sillen

 

In his 1952 book The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy, Israeli historian J. L. Talmon described a political system in which lawfully elected representatives rule a nation state whose citizens, although granted the right to vote, have little or no participation in the decision-making process of government.

 

The federal government has become such a system, an entity unto itself operating outside of Constitutional constraints and unaccountable to the American people.

 

The United States is now controlled by a Democratic and Republican ruling class that transcends government and sees itself as distinct from the rest of society and as the only element that may act on its behalf.The ruling class considers those who resist it as having no moral or intellectual right, and, only reluctantly, any civil right to do so.

 

Power rests, not with the citizens, but with a relatively small group of politicians and financiers, who enhance their personal wealth and privilege by looting the country through a self-serving legislative process. They maintain their authority by adjusting the levers of government and using the establishment media to manipulate public perception and opinion.

 

Barack Obama, a coffeehouse communist, leads a dishonest and lawless cabal of far-left ideologues, whose goal is to promote socialist policies that can only be implemented at the expense of personal liberty.

 

Republican leaders neither contest that view nor oppose their Democrat counterparts because they do not want to challenge the ruling class, they want to join it. The GOP leadership has gradually solidified its choiceto no longer represent what had been its constituency, but to adopt the identity of junior partners in the ruling class.

 

There is now a sharp division between the bipartisan ruling class and the rest of the American populace, who are considered retrograde, racist, and dysfunctional unless properly controlled by the dictates of central authority.

 

When blatant and outrageous lies are no longer sufficient to soothe the electorate into complacency, such a government must begin to curtail freedom and oppress the people in order to remain in power.

Read more: http://www.americant...l#ixzz2nSlyzveF

Edited December 14, 2013 by B-Man

[B-Man]

Nice Administration..................

 

 

Secretary of State John Kerry Doesn’t Know That North Korea Has Nuclear Weapons.

 

Quick, someone sear it into his memory............

 

 

 

Valerie Jarrett photo-touts Obama interview with ‘Family Feud’ host

 

http://twitchy.com/2013/12/16/valerie-jarrett-photo-touts-obama-interview-with-family-feud-host-inadvertent-truth/

 

 

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[4merper4mer]

Nice Administration..................

 

 

Secretary of State John Kerry Doesn’t Know That North Korea Has Nuclear Weapons.

 

Quick, someone sear it into his memory............

 

 

 

Valerie Jarrett photo-touts Obama interview with ‘Family Feud’ host

 

http://twitchy.com/2...dvertent-truth/

 

 

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Kerry seems aware that NK has the weapon in your link.

[B-Man]

Kerry seems aware that NK has the weapon in your link.

 

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From the link:

 

 

"To have a nuclear weapon, potentially, in the hands of somebody like Kim Jong In — Jun — just becomes even more unacceptable.”

 

Video at the link.

 

North Korea has conducted three nuclear tests. Two of those have occurred since 2009, with the most recent happening February 12, 2013. John Kerry was confirmed as secretary of state on January 29, 2013. The North Korean nuclear test, which occurred a couple of week after Kerry’s confirmation, demonstrated that North Korea has been able to miniaturize its a nuclear weapon to fit as a warhead on a missile. Kim Jong Un had been North Korea’s dictator since 2011.

 

 

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[OCinBuffalo]

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Read more: http://www.americant...l#ixzz2nSlyzveF

"they do not want to challenge the ruling class, they want to join it"

 

Yeah, I hear all that, but, the same thing has been said about the "stupid" blue collar white male since the 80s, and it's usually the Democrats.

 

The problem with this argument is as old as time.

 

At some point in pre-history, there were two villages located on the same stream, one up-stream from the next. The up-stream people urinated and defacated in the stream, causing no end of annoyance to the down-stream people. So, they go to war. And, regardless of the outcome, 6 months later, the stream is still being pissed in.

 

Then some guy comes along, from another village, and promises the down-stream people that he will permanently cease the upstream pissing, provided they swear alligance to him. They do it, and now you have "Federal Government".

 

Today, it's toxic chemicals and one state like Maryland down-stream, vs. West VA, PA, whatever. Same problem, same solution.

 

There's always a role for Federal Government, by definition. Unless we want open war between 2 states. If that's the case, I am all for declaring war on New Jersey. We can take them.

 

However, if we don't, then we have to understand that the need for Federal Government will ALWAYS be with us. Our problem is: We haven't done a good enough job defining EXACTLY what the Federal government role is, and, when we have, and they've breeched the agreement, we haven't done a good enough job correcting them, and/or punishing them.

 

That, and we have 20% of our population who wan't to see the Constiution utterly destroyed. Frankly, since we all take oaths to that Constitution, via military service, law enforcement, public office, it's perfectly logical to classify these people as domestic enemies. I didn't say it was practical, I just said: logical.

[4merper4mer]

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From the link:

 

 

 

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Please stop making me defend this putz:

 

we need to factor that into the urgency of getting China, Russia, Japan, South Korea, all of us, uh, to stay on the same page and to put as much effort into the denuclearization as possible.

 

Tell me how you would denuclearize someone that hadn't already been nuclearized?

[IDBillzFan]

Valerie Jarrett photo-touts Obama interview with ‘Family Feud’ host

 

http://twitchy.com/2...dvertent-truth/

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Does anyone know why in the hell the president is giving an interview to a game show host?

[B-Man]

Please stop making me defend this putz:

 

 

 

Tell me how you would denuclearize someone that hadn't already been nuclearized?

 

 

Lol.............well, between my quote and your quote I guess J.F. Kerry was just covering all his bases.

 

Does anyone know why in the hell the president is giving an interview to a game show host?

 

 

Well, to quote one one of my favorite Bob Seeger songs.................The answer's in the question

 

 

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[DC Tom]

Does anyone know why in the hell the president is giving an interview to a game show host?

 

People tend to associate with others like themselves?

[B-Man]

Just when you think that they cannot act any more foolish...............

 

The White HouseVerified account ‏@WhiteHouse

Student filmmakers: Submit your 3-min film on using technology to learn for the #WHFilmFest.

http://go.wh.gov/oaVSXP, pic.twitter.com/UGbez7PZtC

 

 

 

Seriously? What is the White House thinking with this film festival promo?

 

Apparently, the White House is going for the "We're eerily reminiscent of fascists" style once more.

 

Because that whole “White House Youth” thing wasn’t bad enough.

 

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[Koko78]

Lol.............well, between my quote and your quote I guess J.F. Kerry was just covering all his bases.

 

He was for a nuclear North Korea before he was against it.

[DC Tom]

Just when you think that they cannot act any more foolish...............

 

 

 

 

 

Seriously? What is the White House thinking with this film festival promo?

 

Apparently, the White House is going for the "We're eerily reminiscent of fascists" style once more.

 

Because that whole “White House Youth” thing wasn’t bad enough.

 

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White House Youth? What, was "Obamajugend" trademarked?

 

 

Although honestly, "Join the White House Youth! Here's your Obamacare talking points for Christmas dinner" is more in line with the Khmer Rouge than the Nazis.

[Nanker]

White House Youth? What, was "Obamajugend" trademarked?

 

 

Although honestly, "Join the White House Youth! Here's your Obamacare talking points for Christmas dinner" is more in line with the Khmer Rouge than the Nazis.

Or the Cultural Revolution in 1960s Red China. Now THEY knew how to handle dissidents...