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

[B-Man]

PRESIDENT NYET: Obama Rejects House Plan.

 

 

UPDATE: More Nyettism from the Democratic Senate: Democrats reject Susan Collins proposal.

Democratic leaders in the Senate are rejecting an offer by Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) to end the budget impasse, arguing it asks for too much in return for too little, senators and aides tell POLITICO.

 

The development comes on the same day that

the Senate voted 53-45 to block a Democratic bill that would raise the debt ceiling through 2014 without any spending cuts or changes to Obamacare.

 

 

The House and Senate GOP should make a “best and final offer,” then leave town if it’s rejected.

[B-Man]

Obama's leadership proves presidency is no place for amateurs

 

“I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have sense enough to do without my persuading them,” Harry Truman once lamented. “That’s all the powers of the President amount to.”

 

As usual, the plain-speaking Truman got it right: presidential power is the power to persuade. Too bad the current occupant of the White House has never learned this basic lesson.

 

Barack Obama’s refusal to negotiate with the Republicans in Congress on the government shutdown is proof once again that he doesn’t understand the first thing about presidential leadership.

 

Strangely enough, this one-time constitutional lawyer fails to grasp the fact that the president of the United States does not obtain results by giving orders.

 

Thanks to our Constitution’s separation of powers, he can’t get action without bargaining with Congress. The presidency and Congress are inextricably linked; one can’t govern without the other.

 

Obama has ignored this simple truth since he became president. With ObamaCare, he allowed Nancy Pelosi and her liberal Democratic cohort to ram through the most sweeping—and flawed—piece of social legislation in more than four decades without a single Republican vote, guaranteeing that the unpopular law will be challenged for years to come.

 

Compounding this mistake, he then handed out waivers and exemptions to the law to politically connected businesses, including restaurants and nightclubs in Nancy Pelosi’s district.

 

Despite his public posturing, he wasn’t at all unhappy about the partial government shutdown, because it allows him to demonize the Republicans in the run-up to the 2014-midterm elections.

 

But now, faced with a prolonged shutdown and a debt-ceiling crisis to boot, he finds that he can’t politic his way out of the mess, so he’s trying to campaign his way out, calling the Republicans every name in the book.

 

But his job is to govern, to lead, to find common ground, to persuade.

 

Unfortunately, Barack Obama is not wired to do that.

 

 

 

http://www.foxnews.c...e-for-amateurs/

[IDBillzFan]

http://www.foxnews.c...e-for-amateurs/

 

You gotta imagine one of the sweetest gigs is getting paid to write something every thinking person already knows.

[TheMadCap]

Tavis Smiley: 'Black People Will Have Lost Ground in Every Single Economic Indicator' Under Obama

 

PBS's Tavis Smiley made a comment Thursday that every African-American as well as liberal media member should sit up and take notice.

Appearing on Fox News's Hannity, Smiley said, "The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category"

 

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/#ixzz2hRQmbEWP

 

 

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Those evil Republicans! If they would just fall in line, everything would be great!

[B-Man]

While you were fretting over losing your doctor look what Obama was doing.

 

 

Lagged

 

by Richard Hernandez

 

In Frank Herbert’s Dune the reader is told that the “world is supported by four things: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous, and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.” He might have added that naught avails a ruler without followers willing to follow.

 

Today Saudi Arabia rejected a seat on the UN Security Council to which it had been unanimously elected in protest against “its long-time patron United States’ overtures to Iran, among other peeves,” according to the Times of India. The Washington Post comes to more or less the same conclusion.

UNITED NATIONS — Just hours after winning a coveted place on the U.N. Security Council for the first time, Saudi Arabia did a stunning about-face Friday and rejected the seat, denouncing the body for failing to resolve world conflicts such as the Syrian civil war.

 

The unprecedented move at the United Nations appeared largely directed at Saudi Arabia’s longtime ally, the United States, reflecting more than two years of frustration.

{snip}

 

The probable answer to the question of why Saudi Arabia waited till the election was in hand before slighting Obama is obvious but unwelcome. The Saudis wanted a glass of wine poured first so they could fling it in Obama’s face.

 

 

As far back as two weeks ago David Weinberg writing in the National Journal saw the Saudi revolt coming when they canceled an opportunity to address the UN General Assembly.

 

The Saudis are especially concerned about Obama’s blunders in Syria, which have made it hard for them to win against Assad. Syria might mark a high water mark for the Sunni militancy followed by the implicit prospect of irreversible decline. Ordinarily it would be just another blunder by president Obama; just another crackup in the alliances he has desultorily attempted to form.

[IDBillzFan]

While you were fretting over losing your doctor look what Obama was doing.

 

 

Wait. You're saying Barack Obama's Sally Fields Foreign Policy isn't making our long-time allies like us more?

 

Wow. Never saw that coming.

[Koko78]

While you were fretting over losing your doctor look what Obama was doing.

Not that I want to give any semblance of defense to that idiot Obama's bungling of foreign policy, but maybe the Saudis should think about taking care of their own region instead of throwing a temper tantrum after their "hands-off backroom dealing let everyone else do the hard work for us" policies don't work.

 

I don't remember the Saudis moving into position to bomb Assad after he gassed his own people, but somehow we're the !@#$s for not doing it?

 

They're nothing but a bunch of spineless immature hypocrites. In fact, they're just as spineless as our immature-hypocrite-in-chief.

[B-Man]

Running to Govern is Much Different Than Running Government

 

 

President Obama employed cutting edge information to get re-elected. He didn’t show as much interest in his implementation of Obamacare.

 

Last year the big technology news was how President Obama’s re-election campaign used technology to beat Mitt Romney.

 

This year’s big technology news is the failure of the introduction of Obamacare’s healthcare exchanges.

[Koko78]

Running to Govern is Much Different Than Running Government

 

 

President Obama employed cutting edge information to get re-elected. He didn’t show as much interest in his implementation of Obamacare.

 

Last year the big technology news was how President Obama’s re-election campaign used technology to beat Mitt Romney.

 

This year’s big technology news is the failure of the introduction of Obamacare’s healthcare exchanges.

Didn't HHS hire Obama's campaign IT firm to do the Obamacare website?

[DC Tom]

Didn't HHS hire Obama's campaign IT firm to do the Obamacare website?

 

No. They tacked it on to an existing contract for an IT firm already doing HHS work, without competitive bid. A-la Halliburton.

[GG]

No. They tacked it on to an existing contract for an IT firm already doing HHS work, without competitive bid. A-la Halliburton.

 

Decent write up on the overall gov't IT mess.

[DC Tom]

Decent write up on the overall gov't IT mess.

 

And that's not just federal government. Google "City Time" - one of the most amazing stories about lack of controls and contractor fraud that you'll ever read. I've personally worked on two systems that, after spending millions of dollars, were declared "pilot projects" ("We've learned what we needed to from them.") and killed because they'd never meet their requirements or go into production. And I've worked on one other system where we were forced to "go live" with a system that was 20% complete, just so a federal CIO could get their six-figure bonus by saying "Yeah, we went live." (Never mind the fact we "went live" with something completely non-functional.)

 

The metrics of government IT success usually have nothing to do with IT, and everything to do with how good the program managers look. Which is usually a matter of "shoot and call whatever you hit the target."

[GG]

And that's not just federal government. Google "City Time" - one of the most amazing stories about lack of controls and contractor fraud that you'll ever read. I've personally worked on two systems that, after spending millions of dollars, were declared "pilot projects" ("We've learned what we needed to from them.") and killed because they'd never meet their requirements or go into production. And I've worked on one other system where we were forced to "go live" with a system that was 20% complete, just so a federal CIO could get their six-figure bonus by saying "Yeah, we went live." (Never mind the fact we "went live" with something completely non-functional.)

 

The metrics of government IT success usually have nothing to do with IT, and everything to do with how good the program managers look. Which is usually a matter of "shoot and call whatever you hit the target."

 

Are you telling someone in NYC to Google City Time?

[DC Tom]

Are you telling someone in NYC to Google City Time?

 

It was more of a general suggestion to the hoi polloi.

 

I still can't figure out how they got away with embezzling about 1500% in cost overruns, and no one noticed.

[B-Man]

Perhaps Hillary will want to address this at her next award dinner, we know Carney won't

 

 

Emails: White House, State Department coordinated with journalist on national security leaks

 

White House and State Department officials cooperated extensively on background with a New York Times journalist during the period that he broke confidential national security information in a series of leaks that prompted outrage from lawmakers, according to unearthed 2011 and 2012 emails.

 

The nonprofit organization Freedom Watch, which obtained the internal State Department emails through a Freedom of Information Act request, believes that the Obama administration carried out the leaks to bolster a tough image for itself on Iran.

 

Then-Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs Michael Hammer and other State Department employees arranged background interviews between New York Times chief Washington correspondent David Sanger and State Department officials between December 2011 and March 2012 for Sanger’s 2012 book “Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power.”

 

 

Read more: http://dailycaller.c.../#ixzz2iY3zHUGw

[IDBillzFan]

Perhaps Hillary will want to address this at her next award dinner, we know Carney won't

 

I can't help but wonder...once HIllary starts bashing Obama in her run-up to 2016, will he-who-needs-reservoir-tip start leaking things about her with things like this, Benghazi?

Edited October 23, 2013 by LABillzFan

[B-Man]

She has already criticized Joe Biden for his "non-support" of the Bin Ladin raid,

 

so I expect that he will leak a few things, but the media has made their decision..........................even Biden's stuff will certainly not be front page stuff (to them)

 

 

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[IDBillzFan]

She has already criticized Joe Biden for his "non-support" of the Bin Ladin raid,

 

so I expect that he will leak a few things, but the media has made their decision..........................even Biden's stuff will certainly not be front page stuff (to them)

 

 

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In fairness, Biden has been relegated to pastry delivery man these days, so no surprise there.

[/dev/null]

I can't help but wonder...once HIllary starts bashing Obama in her run-up to 2016, will he-who-needs-reservoir-tip start leaking things about her with things like this, Benghazi?

 

Let's see, the presumptive Democratic nominee talks smack about the sitting lame duck Democratic President at an event for the guy who head of the DNC when Obama was first elected.

 

Think maybe Hildawg's comments were scripted, edited, and approved ahead of time?

[Chef Jim]

In fairness, Biden has been relegated to pastry delivery man these days, so no surprise there.

 

<searching memory banks> Biden....Biden....Biden.....nope, doesn't ring a bell.