B-Man Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Mike Lee Gives Eric Holder the Grilling of a Lifetime Over Obama’s Use of Executive Orders: ‘I Respectfully, but Forcefully, Disagree.’ Attorney General Eric Holder was unable to explain to Congress why President Barack Obama was within his constitutional limits when he issued an executive order to delay Obamacare’s employer mandate. The nation’s top law enforcement officer said he hasn’t looked at the analysis in “some time” and thus was unsure of where along the constitutional spectrum the order is permitted. The surprising admission came after Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) grilled Holder for several minutes on the constitutional limits of executive orders and the executive branch during a Senate hearing on Wednesday. He doesn’t know, because he doesn’t really care. Laws are for the little people. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdnlng Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 What if the state of the union is a mess? What if the government spies on all of us all of the time and recognizes no limits to its spying? What if its appetite for acquiring personal knowledge about all Americans is insatiable? What if the government uses the microchips in our cellphones to follow us and listen to us as we move about? What if the Constitution expressly prohibits the government from doing this? What if the government has written laws that are interpreted in secret by judges who meet in secret and are applied by federal agents who operate in secret and their secret behavior doesn't even resemble what the laws say they can do? What if the feds have seized the content of every text message, email, mobile and landline telephone call, utility bill, credit card bill and bank statement of everyone in America for the past four years? What if no law has authorized them to capture this? What if when asked by members of Congress, in public and under oath, high-ranking officials, at least one with ribbons on his chest and stars on his shoulders, lied about what the government is doing? Read more at: http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/2014/01/30/a-sorry-state-of-the-union/?subscriber=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanker Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 What if the state of the union is a mess? What if the government spies on all of us all of the time and recognizes no limits to its spying? What if its appetite for acquiring personal knowledge about all Americans is insatiable? What if the government uses the microchips in our cellphones to follow us and listen to us as we move about? What if the Constitution expressly prohibits the government from doing this? What if the government has written laws that are interpreted in secret by judges who meet in secret and are applied by federal agents who operate in secret and their secret behavior doesn't even resemble what the laws say they can do? What if the feds have seized the content of every text message, email, mobile and landline telephone call, utility bill, credit card bill and bank statement of everyone in America for the past four years? What if no law has authorized them to capture this? What if when asked by members of Congress, in public and under oath, high-ranking officials, at least one with ribbons on his chest and stars on his shoulders, lied about what the government is doing? Read more at: http://www.gopusa.co...n/?subscriber=1 I fear it could be even worse than that. He might just be a figurehead put and kept in place by others besides the party that nominated him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdnlng Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 I fear it could be even worse than that. He might just be a figurehead put and kept in place by others besides the party that nominated him. I just watched "The Manchurian Candidate" again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 ‘In what world is this not a complete embarrassment?’ WH’s Obama Super Bowl ego-photo is hilarious @WhiteHouse: ..........................Game day. It's always about ___.................................. oh you know the rule by now.......................lol . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koko78 Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 (edited) I'm sure we'll soon have a photo of Obama watching a Phillip Seymour Hoffman movie tweeted soon to show his sorrow at the actor's passing. RIP Mr. Hoffman. Edited February 2, 2014 by Koko78 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDBillzFan Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 (edited) ‘In what world is this not a complete embarrassment?’ WH’s Obama Super Bowl ego-photo is hilarious @WhiteHouse: ..........................Game day. It's always about ___.................................. oh you know the rule by now.......................lol . That's our president. Not looking downfield at the receiver but rather at how he looks on the Jumbotron. Edited February 2, 2014 by LABillzFan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 That's our president. Not looking downfield at the receiver but rather at how he looks on the Jumbotron. And here I thought he was looking at how far his Hail Mary pass would have to be for him to actually salvage himslef from being the worst president ever. Go figure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 You can't really even parody them anymore....... Everything Is About Obama, Chapter 238,503 The anniversary of George Washington’s election? Like everything, it’s about Obama: Barack Obama @BarackObama19h 225 years ago today: George Washington was elected to be the first president of the United States. pic.twitter.com/qS6b6miIWK 3:52 PM - 4 Feb 2014 · Details Flag mediaFlagged (learn more) Expand Collapse . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Note how the portrait of George is pointedly ignoring Obama and looking at Kerry. Even Washington's portrait is racist. Must be a tea partier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCinBuffalo Posted February 5, 2014 Author Share Posted February 5, 2014 Jesus, some sort of hysteria must be floating around DC. What's with people telling other people exactly how they are making fun of them, and yet, those people ignoring that, and repeating the same behavior? Perhaps it's a form of DC dysfunction? I mean, surely Obama isn't dumb enough to keep walking into the same troll...yet there he sits, with his new selfie? I just don't get it. Perhaps he thinks he's too good to get made fun of? Perhaps he thinks the joke is on us, and not him? That would be confusing, yet...pretty funny, for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koko78 Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 That is some damn ugly wallpaper. Obama should stop acting like he's governing and spend the next few years sprucing up the office a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azalin Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 That is some damn ugly wallpaper. Obama should stop acting like he's governing and spend the next few years sprucing up the office a bit. I didn't even notice until you mentioned the wallpaper that they just papered over that door. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDBillzFan Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 I didn't even notice until you mentioned the wallpaper that they just papered over that door. That's the room they shove Biden in when they want him to disappear. Takes him days to find the doorknob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keepthefaith Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 That's the room they shove Biden in when they want him to disappear. Takes him days to find the doorknob. That is some funny **** right there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azalin Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Takes him days to find the doorknob. and what he does with it when he finds it not a sight for the faint of heart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Takes him days to find the doorknob. 'Cause the room doesn't have mirrors. Ba-dum bum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 "I go to parties sometimes until four. It's hard to leave when you can't find the door." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Statism: the distilled essence of pessimism FTA: Statism is an inherently pessimistic philosophy. Its core assumption is that people will not do the right thing, if left to their own devices. Private workers, investors, and managers are tried in absentia, found guilty of callous greed, and sentenced to life in Big Government’s work-release programs. Government is force. There is no need to force people to do what they would have done willingly. Therefore, the core assumption of activist government is that people must be forced into socially beneficial activities they would not have freely chosen. The much-mocked Pajama Boy ad for ObamaCare was a visual Freudian slip that revealed the truth of how liberals view their child-subjects. Virtually everything the Left says to American citizens is the language of adults addressing children, right down to the new obsession with making sure we eat good food. There is nothing of optimism or respect in a world-view that says the government must grow steadily larger, and the private sector smaller, forever. It’s an old statist trick to phrase every item on its agenda as an “emergency” or the “moral equivalent of war” to stampede voters into compliance. If this rhetoric is taken seriously, and in total, it tells us that our nation is perpetually in crises, eternally in needed of rescue from persistent “emergencies” it can never resolve on its own. What upbeat message can be found in that? In fact, it’s interesting how often Obama and his defenders resort to the grim and gloomy rhetoric of fatalism and hopeless despair. You can never be rid of ObamaCare, no matter what; you’ll never be allowed to vote on your health care destiny again, and neither will your children. Cuts to any government program are portrayed as assaults upon the beneficiaries, which is another way of saying they’re hapless victims who can’t get by unless others are compelled to support them. The food stamp program blew up to staggering dimensions practically overnight, and it’s permanent; the people it benefits will never be able to feed themselves without government assistance again. Liberal class analysis in general is static and rigid – the assumption is that if you’re born disadvantaged, you’ll stay that way forever, and need Uncle Sam’s help to drag yourself forward through your life. Static analysis is a major component of statism. Tax increases are said to have no negative effect on revenue, even though history has repeatedly proven otherwise. No one prospers unless others suffer. Wealth is stolen, not created, which is why politicians must be licensed as thieves to correct the injustices perpetrated by all the freelance highwaymen. The nation is a still photograph; only the government moves. This is implicit in the belief that government action is the only action that counts; “caring” is measured exclusively in billion-dollar government programs. Even “opportunity” is treated like a static resource that must be allocated by the State. Everything the government does is a choice taken away from the individual. Even nominally benevolent subsidies represent the atrophy of choice. You may be led by carrots on sticks, or prodded with a bayonet in the back, but you still aren’t going where you would have freely chosen to go. These subsidies have a way of leading people into poor decisions they would not have made rationally, if they took full responsibility for their own lives, and were given accurate cost and benefit information to plan their actions. A terrible injustice is done when people are persuaded that being given ten dollars is the same as earning ten dollars. More at the link: http://www.redstate.com/2014/02/07/statism-the-distilled-essence-of-pessimism/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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