Posts Tagged ‘Politics’

Obama’s Ridiculous Attack On FOX News

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

Blogmocracy In Action

Guest Post by “TypicalWhitey”

Perusing the headlines today, I am finding a common thread among them: Man up Obama!

Instead of engaging his opposition he has decided to demonize it. I have been seeing this and wondering…why in the world is Obama doing this? What can he possibly gain from this? Does he think this will bring more folks over to his side of the issues?

What I have concluded though is this.

Obama has never, in his entire career, run into real opposition to what he has to say. Think about it, what other candidate could attend a racist church, associate with past terrorists, make comments such as “my grandmother reacted as a typical white person” and remain a viable candidate? The MSM allowed him to explain each of the instances away, being in such awe of his ability to read off a teleprompter.

So therefore, Obama thinks that just by using words, that people will automatically believe him. This has always worked for him in the past. What Obama doesn’t understand about the American people though is the fact that you can only baffle us with bullshit for so long before people start noticing that there isn’t much meat on the bone.

There’s only one thing dumber than picking a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel — picking a fight with people who don’t even have to buy ink. The Obama administration’s war on Fox News is dumb on multiple levels. It makes the White House look weak, unable to take Harry Truman’s advice and just deal with the heat. It makes the White House look small, dragged down to the level of Glenn Beck. It makes the White House look childish and petty at best, and it has a distinct Nixonian — Agnewesque? — aroma at worst. It is a self-defeating trifecta: it distracts attention from the Obama administration’s substantive message; it serves to help Fox, not punish it, by driving up ratings; and it deprives the White House, to the extent it refuses to provide administration officials to appear on the cable network, of access to an audience that is, in fact, broader than hard-core Obama haters.”

The rest of the article.

Does he not notice his approval ratings dropping and his disapproval ratings rising? His advisers must be telling him to attack Fox. They must be telling him that by attacking Fox he will discredit them. Because that is what he is attempting to do.

He apparently has no one who will tell him that this is working against him! That all this is accomplishing is through the roof ratings for his “opposition”!

Instead of discrediting them, he is raising them to the level of the Presidency. He is wasting his time on a news channel, simply because they critique his policies!

This makes him look petty and small. He appears to be a thin skinned and weak; and the LAST thing the American people want in a President is a …..whiner

“Creative Wording” Memo Scandal Brewing for New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

Here’s hoping that this is the final nail in the coffin for the re-election campaign of possibly the most corrupt governor New Jersey has ever had (and that’s saying a lot!),

Governor Jon Corzine’s Chief of Staff Mark Matzen recently sent out a memo to state workers that urged them to write borderline false statements in support of the Governor’s failed policies that were supposed to create jobs in New Jersey, but has led to the highest rate of unemployment in New Jersey’s recent history.   This week, in New Jersey, unemployment climbed to 9.8%, but the Corzine campaign team urged state workers to forge ahead with the crafting of “creative” messages.  

The messages, drafted by state workers, to aid the Corzine campaign in his reelection bid are intended to be used as political propoganda to mislead the public into thinking Corzine’s policies are having positive effects on the state of employment in New Jersey.

In the memo, Matzen admittedly confesses “I know that it may be a stretch for some of you, but please be creative”, urging the state workers to write creative marketing material for the Corzine team’s campaign.    All of this is being done at the expense of taxpayers.   While state workers should be working hard to restore jobs, they have been instructed by Matzen to instead figure out ways to make New Jersey’s current financial dire straits seem appealing to voters.

Matzen’s memo suggests a gross misappropriation of state workers and resources and could prove a costly measure for taxpayers who are now funding the Corzine campaign through taxes paid to state workers urged to work on the project. 

Todd Porter said of this memo “It amazes me how low Corzine has gone to garner support. Since he’s unable to create jobs, he’s forcing state working to fabricate stories, or else they might end up like the rest of us, unemployed and clamoring for Jon Corzine’s head.”     Porter represents the Jackson Township Republican Club which has been strongly behind the effort to “Take Back New Jersey”.

Wonderful.  A sitting governor, encouraging state workers to lie about his record, on the taxpayers’ dime.  Unfortunately, this is nothing new.  Democrats routinely lie.  They lie and lie and lie.  How do you know a leftist Democrat is lying?  He’s awake and breathing, because even if he’s not actually saying anything, you can be sure he’s hard at work thinking of a lie to tell.   This is doubly true of the completely and indescribably corrupt Democrat political machine that dominates the state of New Jersey.

New Jersey is one of the most over-taxed, over-regulated, under-employed states in the union – and the governor is spending the peoples’ hard-earned money in a campaign to get himself re-elected by lying.  Classic, truly classic.  Instead of trying to bring jobs back into the state by implementing rational economic policies, we have a pure political hit job in action.  Why doesn’t Corzine just go all the way and send out a memo asking all state employees to get in touch with their mafia contacts about “leaning” on known Christie supporters? 

C’mon New Jersey, time to toss Corzine in N’rk Bay once and for all!

POTUS never misses an opportunity to blame Bush and talk about how bad America used to be.

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

Mr President this shtick is getting really old. A word of advice, you would garner alot more respect if you would drop the shtick. Lets move on Mr President, its time to move on, you are the poor TOTUS reader now. You saved America and you saved the world. So lets move on already.

And honestly Mr President, do you really believe your own rhetoric? Do you really think that over the last few years foreign tourists didn’t feel welcome in America? And only because of Bush?

Don’t You Hate It When a Perfectly Good Meme Goes Down in Flames?

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

As the “vast right wing conspiracy wants to assassinate Obama on Facebook” meme just did?

“The Secret Service has determined that a juvenile was behind the online survey that asked whether people thought President Obama should be assassinated, an agency spokesman said Thursday.

No criminal charges will be filed against the juvenile or the juvenile’s parents, spokesman Edwin Donovan said. Donovan would not identify the names of the child or parents or say where they are from.

The poll, posted Saturday on Facebook, was taken off the popular social networking site quickly after company officials were alerted to its existence. But, like any threat against the president, Secret Service agents took no chances.

The poll asked respondents “Should Obama be killed?” The choices: No, Maybe, Yes, and Yes if he cuts my health care.

After Secret Service agents met with the child and the child’s parents, they determined there was no intent to harm the president.

“Case closed,” Donovan said. “I guess you could characterize it as a mistake.”

Yeah, or something like that. Look, I am in no way applauding or approving of what this little cretin did, but we ought to find this instructive of the way the Left seems to want something bad to happen to Obama. So they can ghoulishly use it to their political advantage. Just like they did with that census worker in Kentucky who, so far as we know to date, wasn’t actually killed by right-wing Tea Partiers acting on orders from Glenn Beck.

Let’s look at this from the standpoint of logic – why would evil right-wing Tea Partiers taking orders from Glenn Beck want to knock off Obama? What, so that we could get President Biden, perhaps the one person in Washington D.C. who is less competent and insightful than the current occupant of the Oval Office? No thanks. Besides, though we may not like or agree with the President, nearly all conservatives (unlike the Left) can understand that the man and the office necessarily go hand in hand. The office is constitutional, and is to be respected, because it is a symbol of American sovereignty and the executive power that represents our nation on the world scene. Harming the man in the office is an attack on our constitutional system – even if the man in office is busy himself attacking that same system. Some things are just too important to leave to the ghouls.

Yet, there seems to be a serious case of martyr-syndrome out there among many on the Left. They need the omnipresent vast right-wing conspiracy to commit some horrible political crime, so that they can ride it for all it’s worth politically. Really sick, when you think about it.

 

The First Snowball in the Avalanche?

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

Remember back in 1994, how there were a ton of Democrat elected officials who switched to the GOP once they realised how unpopular, arrogant, and out of touch the Democrat Party was?  Well, it might be starting again, and in Vermont of all places,

State Auditor Tom Salmon entered the statehouse Tuesday as a Democrat, only to announce he was leaving that party and joining the GOP.

I’m changing my political affiliation to align myself with a party more committed to the realities of our fiscal condition,” he said, “and who I think have the abilities to manage the very real and troubling economic and social conditions which confront us not only today but over the next decade.”

Salmon said last session’s budget process was “rife with deficiencies and dysfunction.” He predicted poor planning would lead to tax increases, which would make the economy even worse.

 ”It was very evident the state was out of balance in trying to respond to its fiscal challenges,” he said. “So let me say simply that today is my fiscal wake-up call.”

Salmon’s father was a Democratic governor in the 1970s. He said the party has changed since then and no longer reflected his values.

In many ways I’m not leaving the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left me and tens of thousands of other people in a reunion with the Progressive Party and their values,” Salmon said, “which are valid values, they just are not my values in relations to operating as a state political leader.”

Butbutbutbutbutbutbut the left wing bloggers told me that the Republicans were out of the mainstream, and were scaring people away, and were dooming themselves to oblivion by opposing Obama’s fiscal program!  You mean they were wrong?

May Tom Salmon be the first of many non-nutso Democrats who wake up and leave the dark side.

Van Jones: Republicans are “Assholes”

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

 

Well he sounds very bipartisan to me.

It sure is nice having these America haters in office.

End Hoplophobia Now!

Monday, August 31st, 2009

A rights movement I can really get behind,

You see this all around us. You can see it in the hordes of hoplophobic suburban soccer moms who won’t let their kids come over to your house to play with your kids if they know that you have a firearm of any sort in the house (even if it’s unloaded, broken down, and stored in a maglocked safe!) You can see it with the people who call the cops if kids in the neighborhood are running around playing with obviously fake pink and green water guns. In many districts, public school officials are trained to drop hints to the kids that only “bad people” own guns. Pediatricians ask parents if they have firearms in the house — presumably so that the local Child Services can be notified about potential “hazards” — and children are encouraged to divulge this information without parents being present. The whole point is to plant in the minds of the next generation the idea that guns are bad, bad guys have guns (except for government officials, of course), and that no good citizen would ever need to own one.

At the same time, hoplophobes seek to suppress any expression of gun ownership or approval of the practice among adults. Many corporations include websites about firearms or firearm accessories in their list of sites to block — right up there with porn and the stuff about making bombs. The media routinely lies about the motivations and intentions of people who choose to carry firearms on their person — as CBS and MSNBC recently did when it peddled false stories about those who were open carrying at some of the townhall protests and other gatherings. In polite society, guns shouldn’t be mentioned, and you shouldn’t let on that you own any — that’s a good way not to get invited to any more cocktail parties or afternoon coffee klatches. Popular culture — the movies, television, and so forth — present a dual picture on guns. Police and military types should have them and do great, heroic things with them, but anyone else who has one is a bucktoothed rube who is likely to either shoot himself with it, or else is some sort of racist moron who intends to do harm to a Person of Color. Again, the idea is to plant the meme in the minds of the people that there’s just something unacceptable — something fishy, if you will — about somebody who does or wants to own a gun. Eventually they’ll probably set up an email address at the White House so you can snitch on people like that.

It’s time that we stand together for the civil rights of ALL Americans and tell the haters that hoplophobia is NOT an acceptable bigotry anymore!

Glenn Beck Scores Top Ratings Spot While Kennedy Coverage Fails To Get Viewers

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

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President Obama might have fulfilled his promise of “Change I can believe in“TM.  Those who voted for him however probably are not going to be all that pleased.

“TV by the Numbers” reports that Fox News’ Glenn Beck has received over 3 million views (just behind Bill O’Reilly).  For those unfamiliar with TV ratings, this is quite a feet.  For comparison, here are the Live and Same Day cable news daily ratings for August 26, 2009

Does this prove that passionate Conservatism works and is what the country wants? Who knows?!  But I would guess that advertising execs all over the Country are probably kicking themselves right now, and feeling very insecure about their jobs.  Maybe next time they wont allow themselves to be coerced by extremist political hacks.

From “TV by the Numbers”:

Last night Glenn Beck had over 3 million viewers at 5pm, second only to O’Reilly for the night.  But, Beck had more 25-54 viewers than O’Reilly (888K to 876K).  I don’t watch or really even care about the cable news wars, but still…wow. Even though Beck airs before primetime,  when there are fewer people watching TV, he had the most 25-54 viewers in the cable news world for the night.

And just to really infuriate all the Fox News haters out there, here are the total views for cable news stations:

P2+ Total Day
FNC – 1,374,000 viewers
CNN – 711,000 viewers
MSNBC –506,000 viewers
CNBC – 217,000 viewers
HLN – 300,000 viewers

In other Television news….

Kennedy Coverage Pulls Low Audience On Nets.  I guess that is what you should expect when you overplay your hand and the people start to believe that the MSM is exploiting the death of Senator Edward Kennedy to promote President Obama’s flagging attempt to overhaul the US healthcare system.


Healthcare reform bill gives billions to the UAW.

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

Washington –The United Auto Workers is urging its members to back efforts in Congress to reform health care coverage, citing a provision that includes $10 billion to defray the medical costs of union members and others in retiree group health care associations.

Obama-Joker


….Section 164, a reinsurance program for retirees, according to a summary of the bill from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office. It sets aside $10 billion to establish a temporary reinsurance program to provide reimbursement to participating employment-based plans for part of the cost of providing health benefits to retirees age 55-64 and their families. A Senate version has nearly identical language.




First Obama gave GM to the Unions, now we all get to pay for their healthcare. Hope and Change my friends, Obummer style.


News roundup.

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

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Obama To Raise 10-Year Deficit To $9 Trillion
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U.S. to Dole Out $1.2 Billion for Health Records Technology
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Obama Underwrites Offshore Drilling – In Brazil
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Dem Leaders Avoiding Town Halls