Brilliant Article: The Great Obama Catharsis

[BarGuy]

Here in Canada, we don't see much of Obama, not even on CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC or their news offshoots.

What we do see a lot of are your various congressional and senate spokespeople and officials, each blaming the other party for a lack of action.

The so-called "washington gridlock" message is the one the your bond-rating agencies and trading partners are seeing, hearing and talking about, fyi.[/QUOTE]


Washington gridlock needs to be eliminated. Part of the issue is the cancer that is "career politicians". Nobody is interested on working together, because they are only interested in running for re-election.

If we have term limits for the idiots that are elected president, then surely we can have term limits for morons like Ted Kennedy, Harry Reid, and Mitch McConnell.

 

[unregistered]

 

[Disgustipated]

^^^^morons can't quote properly.

 

[BarGuy]

Is Ted Kennedy still legislating, from Heaven?

No, but he is nothing more than a human punching bag, so I take my shots where I can get them. He's trying to legislate, but I don't think it's from Heaven....

 

[Disgustipated]

^^^idiot can't quite grasp the quote function.

 

[mercury14]

Or maybe we could just start electing people we respect?

Ishmael

I agree with you but...

Excessive gerrymandering makes this impossible. There are waaaay too many safe districts where extremists and incompetents are easily put into power by a one-dimensional electorate. The solution, as a few states have done, is to use nonpartisan panels to create districts.

The other reason we don't elect people we respect - is because we don't respect the people we elect. The change in how we get our news has given rise to this. People used to get their news from nightly TV news broadcasts or from newspapers, which aside from news bring us commentary from a range of perspectives. Even newspapers that tilt right or left a bit still gave both sides of the story.

But today we have the internet. And instead of getting actual news, people now go directly to partisan sources that tell them what they want to hear in a highly partisan way. People no longer hear the opposing point of view in a rational way and make up their own minds. Instead of getting both perspectives, they just hear that the other side is like Hitler or Stalin and seeks nothing less than the absolute destruction of America.

It's quite difficult for us to respect our elected officials while also believing they want to vanquish America, or that they share traits in common with mass-murdering war criminals. It's difficult for us to respect our elected officials when we also believe that they aren't born in America and are therefore illegitimate. And it's difficult to respect them when partisan sources even the politicians themselves brand each other terrorists.

 

[JohnnySavage]

I agree with you but...

Excessive gerrymandering makes this impossible. There are waaaay too many safe districts where extremists and incompetents are easily put into power by a one-dimensional electorate.

The solution, as a few states have done, is to use nonpartisan panels to create districts.

Here in the great state of Maryland, the gov submitted his redistricting plan. It's designed to get rid of the rest of Maryland Republican representatives by sticking a boundary finger into the urban areas around Baltimore and DC.

Poor ole Roscoe is on his way out.

 

[unregistered]

 

[BarGuy]

Yes, he is dead. Amazing that he lived as long as he did, but apparently, alcohol is a great preservative.

 

[Ishmael]

Here in Canada, we don't see much of Obama, not even on CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC or their news offshoots.

What we do see a lot of are your various congressional and senate spokespeople and officials, each blaming the other party for a lack of action.

The so-called "washington gridlock" message is the one the your bond-rating agencies and trading partners are seeing, hearing and talking about, fyi.

You're fortunate then.

The gridlock is exactly what's needed for now. One party believes you can spend your way out of debt. They pay lip service to paying for it by raising taxes. The fact is that every time congress has raised taxes to pay down debt for the past 50 years, they just spent the money. None of it went to debt retirement.

The other party, for now anyway, wants to unleash the economy to restore tax revenue. In other words create an environment where the business sector takes off, hold spending constant, and allow the revenues to rise to a level that would allow retirement of debt.

Obviously these are two irreconcilable philosophies. Quite naturally the public dialog between the two camps reflects that fact. Point - counter-point give and take. The hold the spending down crowd has captured the public's attention..........today.

What I was referring to was the overwhelming tendency of one party to go before their constituent base and vilify the opposite camp in, in some cases, the crudest words one can conjure up without becoming completely vulgar. It's a trait that seems to be taking a deeper hold in their lexicon. I suspect that that is also one of the reasons that those all important 'independent' voters are drifting away from them.

The tea party has done a fairly decent job vetting the recently elected republicans and they're showing every intention of doing the same in the coming elections. Not all of the candidates will succeed, but statistically the democrats are in a very poor position this cycle even in what might be called a normal election year.

You're right in your observation, but it should be obvious to most that following the European model of attempting to spend your way out just doesn't work. And increasing taxes in a weak economy is a prescription for disaster.

Ishmael

 

[Lancecastor]

"What I was referring to was the overwhelming tendency of one party to go before their constituent base and vilify the opposite camp in, in some cases, the crudest words one can conjure up without becoming completely vulgar. "

That's the part that I find troubling, but we have a british parliamentary style here that poo-poos that sort of thing anyway.

I think the 50% haircut is going to be the way out of the linked/domino mess in Europe....or at least it looks that's their next destination.

When all this Global Economy stuff was being put together, it's interesting that nobody foresaw the possibility that a bad apple economy (like Greece) could spoil the whole bunch.

Or maybe they did, and we didn't listen...don't know.

 

[Ishmael]

"What I was referring to was the overwhelming tendency of one party to go before their constituent base and vilify the opposite camp in, in some cases, the crudest words one can conjure up without becoming completely vulgar. "

That's the part that I find troubling, but we have a british parliamentary style here that poo-poos that sort of thing anyway.

I think the 50% haircut is going to be the way out of the linked/domino mess in Europe....or at least it looks that's their next destination.

When all this Global Economy stuff was being put together, it's interesting that nobody foresaw the possibility that a bad apple economy (like Greece) could spoil the whole bunch.

Or maybe they did, and we didn't listen...don't know.

There is a camp that believes, and with some facts to back them up, that the whole interlocking economy plan was exactly that, a plan based on the notion that countries that economically dependent on others wouldn't engage in hostilities with one another. And let's face it, the EU was an economic union between partners that otherwise had little in common. Like Pauls second marriage, everyone wishes the partners the best but Las Vegas almost immediately starts making odds on the divorce.

Ishmael

 

[Lancecastor]

There is a camp that believes, and with some facts to back them up, that the whole interlocking economy plan was exactly that, a plan based on the notion that countries that economically dependent on others wouldn't engage in hostilities with one another. And let's face it, the EU was an economic union between partners that otherwise had little in common. Like Pauls second marriage, everyone wishes the partners the best but Las Vegas almost immediately starts making odds on the divorce.

Ishmael

I resent the fact that that Greek "workers" have been getting bonuses for going to work on time and now we'll get to pay for it in higher prices and evaporated opportunities.

All bouzoukis should be gathered up and smashed... those lazy mustache growing partying fuckers.

 

[Ishmael]

I resent the fact that that Greek "workers" have been getting bonuses for going to work on time and now we'll get to pay for it in higher prices and evaporated opportunities.

All bouzoukis should be gathered up and smashed... those lazy mustache growing partying fuckers.

That's the down side, isn't it. Like the our federal government attempting to bail out school teachers because the local politicians used the local treasury to buy votes.

Nations, states, counties, communities, the rules don't change...........neither do the consequences.

Ishmael

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Thank you, Miles, for the article. Being oft accused of maximum verbosity, (ZORK), if memory serves, I suggest Hanson kept on beating the horse long after its' demise.

The Catharsis brought about by Obama and his cronies is really a stark realization that statism brings to the surface the very worst of the political class, the true moochers and parasites of Ayn Rand's Novels, for all to see, and it has brought a really distasteful perception of welfare state policies and politics.

When Obama called Americans 'soft', he was using the old socialist trick of berating the people because they weren't good enough to be true socialists or communists, they couldn't make the ultimate sacrifice of self, to the greater good, that socialism requires.

I think among most of the people, the perception is there, but without the comprehension; and there is a need to clarify the degradation that the welfare state brings about.

We have a year plus to uncover the swamp slime of the Left, let us proceed with vigor!



(practicing pomposity)

ami

He must be enamored of the great Russian writers and their chess...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Here in Canada, we don't see much of Obama, not even on CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC or their news offshoots.

What we do see a lot of are your various congressional and senate spokespeople and officials, each blaming the other party for a lack of action.

The so-called "washington gridlock" message is the one the your bond-rating agencies and trading partners are seeing, hearing and talking about, fyi.

"Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock."
Ben Hecht

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Here in Canada, we don't see much of Obama, not even on CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC or their news offshoots.

What we do see a lot of are your various congressional and senate spokespeople and officials, each blaming the other party for a lack of action.

The so-called "washington gridlock" message is the one the your bond-rating agencies and trading partners are seeing, hearing and talking about, fyi.[/QUOTE]


Washington gridlock needs to be eliminated. Part of the issue is the cancer that is "career politicians". Nobody is interested on working together, because they are only interested in running for re-election.

If we have term limits for the idiots that are elected president, then surely we can have term limits for morons like Ted Kennedy, Harry Reid, and Mitch McConnell.

Gridlock is the beautiful part of the grand design to cool the passion of the mob and guarantee that compromise and consensus would rule the land. The Founders knew that the less the Federal Government accomplished, the better off we would be. Those who express the most frustration are those who champion big government and the passions of the moment; those to whom thinking is an offshoot of emotion, the bane of a Republic and the Darlings of a Democracy and maintain a naive belief that government is wise, knowing and better able to manage our lives than we are mainly because the human condition allows them to point to a few unfortunates and begin extrapolating their imaginary costs to society and the benefit of a "safety net..."
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