The Man with No Plan

[4est_4est_Gump]

[A story with no readers, a shooting with no call to gun law... a_j]
Mark Steyn, NRO
August 18, 2012

Americans, according to a Winston Churchill quote of uncertain provenance, always do the right thing after they’ve exhausted all other possibilities. More verifiably, Sir Winston, upon being asked if he had any criticism of the United States, replied tersely: “Toilet paper too thin, newspapers too fat.”

But that was then. Today America is a land of two-ply toilet paper and one-ply newspapers. Being made of sterner stuff than Churchill’s posterior, the eco-Left want to ban two-ply bathroom tissue on environmental grounds, which would devastate the economy of Canada, whence comes most American bathroom tissue, at least until the Canadians, being the House of Saud of toilet paper, start shipping it to China, as they’re now doing with their oil ever since Obama told them to go lay pipe somewhere else.

As for those once-fat newspapers, they’re now so thin that they’ve only got room for the very mostest important news, like whether 30-year-old law-school coeds have sufficient access to federally-mandated contraception and (breaking!) the dog Mitt Romney put on the roof of his car in the early Eighties. You have to be able to prioritize.

That’s the genius of Romney’s vice-presidential pick: It explicitly invites Americans to “do the right thing.” Insofar as he’s known to the electorate at all, Paul Ryan is the man with the plan — the guy who understands that multi-trillion-dollar spendaholic government cannot continue. On that subject, Obama is the man with no plan, and no plans to get any plan. Yet the mere selection of Ryan has already improved the quality of the Obama campaign: Two weeks ago, they were denouncing Romney for killing a woman by cunningly giving her cancer five years after laying off her husband. Now they’re denouncing Ryan for killing off Medicare. The former is the opening scene from the straight-to-video Carcinogenic Zombie Mormon Venture Capitalist Apocalypse; the latter has a very very teensy-weensy gossamer thread of connection to the issues facing the United States. So we should congratulate the Democrats on a modest re-acquaintance with reality. With Ryan on the ticket, the central question facing America can’t be ducked.

As for the other half of that Churchill line — exhausting all the other possibilities — last week a man called Floyd Corkins shot another man called Leo Johnson, the security guard at the Family Research Council, a “conservative” group, according to the muted media coverage, or a “hate group,” according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, who spray that term around like champagne on a NASCAR podium. Mr. Corkins, an “LGBT volunteer,” told his victim, “I don’t like your politics.” In his backpack, he had one box of ammunition and 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches. Had he had one Chick-fil-A sandwich and 15 boxes of ammunition, he might have done more damage. Or then again perhaps not, given that, as bloggers Kathy Shaidle and “the Phantom” pointed out, he reached his target and then started “monologuing,” as they say in The Incredibles.

Be that as it may, Mr. Corkins decided to shoot people because of a chicken-sandwich-chain owner’s position on same-sex marriage. That’s what Floyd Corkins thinks is the most pressing issue facing the United States. Perhaps he saw himself as the Gavrilo Princip of our time. Like Floyd Corkins, young Princip was not the sharpest knife in the transgender clinic — the cyanide pill he took after the assassination was past its sell-by date; to evade capture, his co-conspirator jumped into the River Miljacka, but it was only five inches deep, and a man standing up to his ankles in the middle of a river in a large city tends to attract attention. Nevertheless, Princip’s assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand plunged Europe into war and brought down the Austrian, German, Russian, and Turkish empires with consequences that plague us to this day (not least the post-Ottoman Middle East). History does not record whether Princip embarked on his mission with 15 pieces of wienerschnitzel or Sachertorte in his backpack, but he changed the course of history. Perhaps Floyd Corkins had similar dreams: He would be the flamer that lit the fuse to liberate a continent from the oppressiveness of homophobic waffle fries.

I’m not blaming Floyd Corkins’s actions on the bullying twerps at the Southern Poverty Law Center or those thug Democrat mayors who tried to run Chick-fil-A out of Boston and Chicago. But I do think he’s the apotheosis of narcissistic leftist myopia. He symbolizes that exhaustion of the other possibilities — the dwindling down of latter-day liberalism to ever more self-indulgent distractions from the hard truths of a broke and ruined landscape. Our elites have sunk into a boutique decadence of moral preening entirely disconnected from reality: A non-homophobic chicken in every pot, an abortifacient dispenser in every Catholic university, a high-speed-rail corridor between every two bankrupt California municipalities . . .

No sane man could compete on this turf. Romney declined to come out for Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day, but the other week he did come out in favor of gay scoutmasters — whether just for scouts or for the rest of us too was unclear. But it doesn’t matter. He could announce he was in favor of closing Gitmo and retraining every detainee as a gay scoutmaster, he could declare an amnesty for every undocumented gay scoutmaster north of the Rio Grande — and it still wouldn’t be enough. He’s still Mitt Romney and he’ll put your dog on the roof, your wife in the ground, and your Negro houseboy in the cotton field out back — or, as the vice president of the United States told a mostly black crowd in Virginia the other day, “he gonna put y’all back in chains.”

A few years ago, attempting to impose a “European constitution” upon the Continent, the Eurocrat elite took to warning their dull-witted peoples that if they were impertinent enough not to support their betters they’d be on a one-way ticket back to the concentration camps. “I’ve been in Auschwitz and Yad Vashem,” the Dutch prime minister, Jan-Peter Balkenende, warned the Netherlands before the referendum. “The images haunt me every day. It is supremely important for us to avoid such things in Europe.” The idea that it’s a choice between an unreadable hyper-statist laundry list or the gas chambers seemed a wee bit overheated. But to their credit (not an expression I have occasion to use very often re the Europeans) the Dutch and even the French rejected this ludicrous rationale. And, to be fair, death camps and Nazi occupation are all well within living memory. Now the vice president is telling Americans it’s a choice between Obama-Biden multi-trillion-dollar shop-till-you-drop spend-till-you-end government . . . or 19th-century slavery. Swing low, sweet vice-presidential chariot.

For the record, Obama has already made $716 billion in Medicare cuts to pay for Obamacare. That’s three-quarters of a trillion. The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, was in Ottawa last week asking Her Majesty’s Canadian Government to chip in for the euro-zone bailout. The euro zone includes some of the richest nations in history, but it’s still not enough. And the entire euro-zone bailout is $450 billion — or a little over half the cost of the first Obama stimulus. Under Obama’s no-plan plan, there’s not enough money on the planet.

Underneath the poseur narcissism, the half-wit demagoguery, and the 13-figure innumeracy is bleak reality: a flatline economy, underwater property, declining social mobility, half the population getting a check each month from the government and with minimum-wage service jobs as the only alternative to long-term dependency.

If you seriously think this election is about gay marriage or affordable contraception, you’re about to do to America what Gavrilo Princip did to the Habsburg Empire.

Before you get your precious panties in a wad, I'm voting FOR the man with no plan...

Another four years just might be the thing to make reality real again.

After all, once gays can marry, the economy will recover...,

and free reproductive care creating economic miracle!

That was the same promise as ObamaCare...,

and the Stimulus package!

Economic Viagra...

FREE for all!

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Back in 1976, I think it was, the Tampa Bay Bucs were sooooo awful the chant at every game was GO FOR 0! GO FOR 0! It needs to be our chant for Obama!

GO FOR 0!​

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

He could be a double-naught President...

 

[run_silent]

I look at Obama as a very sincere guy and believes what he believes. What he believes doesn't seem to helping the country recover from the economic downturn.

 

[Nasty_Deeds]

There is no choice for the "White" House this year. Both Obama and Romney will destroy the economy of this country. What America needs is a Hitler in the White House!

 

[phrodeau]

There is no choice for the "White" House this year. Both Obama and Romney will destroy the economy of this country. What America needs is a Hitler in the White House!

This country needs more people like you, willing to lay down and die for their country. You'll be leaving more resources for the rest of us, thanks.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

There is no choice for the "White" House this year. Both Obama and Romney will destroy the economy of this country. What America needs is a Hitler in the White House!

The USA is gonna get its Hitler. And he'll come just like the last one came: Provide paid work for the unemployed and talk of how the Nigga and the Wall Street Jews and the Harvard Homosexuals fucked him by eating the daily bread he toiled and sweated for and earned, and sticking him with the bill.

Hitler v 2.0 will surround himself with angry halfwits and dolts who'll devour the lardass girl deputies who come for him.

 

[Nasty_Deeds]

The USA is gonna get its Hitler. And he'll come just like the last one came: Provide paid work for the unemployed and talk of how the Nigga and the Wall Street Jews and the Harvard Homosexuals fucked him by eating the daily bread he toiled and sweated for and earned, and sticking him with the bill.

You make a good point; why should hard working Americans pay for lazy ass liberals who want to live for free on entitlements? I have to pay for my health care; why should I provide it free for some mooch who is too lazy or too stupid to work. And these poor, defenseless single mothers? I didn't knock'em up, so why should they become my problem? Maybe if they had been a better wife, they would still have a husband providing for them.

Hitler v 2.0 will surround himself with angry halfwits and dolts who'll devour the lardass girl deputies who come for him.

If you need henchmen, angry halfwits and dolts do seem to work best.

 

[mercury14]

[A story with no readers, a shooting with no call to gun law... a_j]
Mark Steyn, NRO
August 18, 2012




Before you get your precious panties in a wad, I'm voting FOR the man with no plan...

Another four years just might be the thing to make reality real again.

After all, once gays can marry, the economy will recover...,

and free reproductive care creating economic miracle!

That was the same promise as ObamaCare...,

and the Stimulus package!

Economic Viagra...

FREE for all!

Show what parts of Medicare were defunded.

 

[Busybody]

Show what parts of Medicare were defunded.

in 2008, then candidate excoriated then candidate for saying he will cut 800 billion.....in 2012, candidate Obama is cutting 700 billion

 

[RobDownSouth]

[A story with no readers, a shooting with no call to gun law... a_j]
Mark Steyn, NRO
August 18, 2012

For the record, Obama has already made $716 billion in Medicare cuts to pay for Obamacare.

This is a lie and Steyn is a liar.

 

[mercury14]

Politifact rates the claim that Obamacare cut medicare completely false.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...mney/romney-says-only-obama-has-cut-medicare/

Why are you lying again AJ? I corrected you on this very thing at least twice over the past two years and you always slinked away with nothing factual to say.

Why so many lies?

 

[Busybody]

This is a lie and Steyn is a liar.

everything is a lie

nothing is real

the only thing real

is what comes from the WH and protects the WH

everything else, must be demonized............Saul Alinkski

 

[Busybody]

Politifact rates the claim that Obamacare cut medicare completely false.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...mney/romney-says-only-obama-has-cut-medicare/

Why are you lying again AJ? I corrected you on this very thing at least twice over the past two years and you always slinked away with nothing factual to say.

Why so many lies?

Politi"fact" is an Obama shill

Please dont piss on us and tell us its raining






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by John Nolte26 May 201217post a comment

After getting caught with its pants down with a wholly dishonest fact-check backing up and attempting to legitimize the absurd claim that Obama is some sort of thrifty spender of historic proportions, Politifact's public humiliation is now complete. Though the Associated Press doesn't mention Politifact directly, it does completely and effectively undermine Politifact's "mostly true" rating:


The White House is aggressively pushing the idea that, contrary to widespread belief, President Barack Obama is tightfisted with taxpayer dollars. To back it up, the administration cites a media report that claims federal spending is rising at the slowest pace since the Eisenhower years.

"Federal spending since I took office has risen at the slowest pace of any president in almost 60 years," Obama said at a campaign rally Thursday in Des Moines, Iowa.

The problem with that rosy claim is that the Wall Street bailout is part of the calculation. The bailout ballooned the 2009 budget just before Obama took office, making Obama's 2010 results look smaller in comparison. And as almost $150 billion of the bailout was paid back during Obama's watch, the analysis counted them as government spending cuts.

It also assumes Obama had less of a role setting the budget for 2009 than he really did.

When left-wing AP and Washington Post fact-checkers, who have shown a willingness to shill for Obama more than once, can't carry this water, you know Obama's Palace Guards at Politifact have really stepped in it.

A site that has the gall to call itself Politifact has been caught red-handed in one of the most egregious and shameless pieces of agenda-driven media bias we've seen in a long time. This act should forever define and undermine its credibility as starkly as RatherGate defines and undermines Dan Rather.

Please join me in never allowing Poitifact to live this down.

 

[Busybody]

the man whose "plan" was an utter failure

and who wants to triple down on it

INSANITY

 

[zipman]

Politifact rates the claim that Obamacare cut medicare completely false.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...mney/romney-says-only-obama-has-cut-medicare/

Why are you lying again AJ? I corrected you on this very thing at least twice over the past two years and you always slinked away with nothing factual to say.

Why so many lies?

Because the truth doesn't support his viewpoint. So he simply lies.

Just like his claim that Obama didn't write his books. The funny thing was he proved Obama did write them while thinking he was proving the opposite.

That's what happens when you try and force facts to fit theories that don't work.

But it's fun to read.

 

[Busybody]

It is incomprehensible that MERC, ADRE, ROB and ZIP do NOT know what Cutter said

IMPOSSIBLE THEY DONT KNOW!

So why do they write what they do?

WHY?

 

[mustang200]

Politifact rates the claim that Obamacare cut medicare completely false.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...mney/romney-says-only-obama-has-cut-medicare/

Why are you lying again AJ? I corrected you on this very thing at least twice over the past two years and you always slinked away with nothing factual to say.

Why so many lies?

So, let me see if I have this straight... If BO cuts the rate of growth in Medicare, its not a cut,.....

But if Romney/Ryan suggests cutting the rate of growth in Social Security, its a cut that will kill babies?????

I think that we have found the cause of your mental illness.

 

[unregistered]

 

[RobDownSouth]

The Vettebigot would rather dismiss inconvenient truths than discuss them.

He showed the same lack of intestinal fortitude in Vietnam.

 

[mercury14]

Hey dingus, show the cuts. Who lost a benefit? And in your analysis make sure you mention all those seniors (aka most people you know) that had their benefits increased.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Hey dingus, show the cuts. Who lost a benefit? And in your analysis make sure you mention all those seniors (aka most people you know) that had their benefits increased.

Who loses anything under Ryan's plan?

 

[mercury14]

Who loses anything under Ryan's plan?

According to nonpartisan analysis that I can link, seniors pay a lot more out of pocket. So... Seniors lose. And the "you can keep your old medicare" option isn't what it seems either.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

According to nonpartisan analysis that I can link, seniors pay a lot more out of pocket. So... Seniors lose. And the "you can keep your old medicare" option isn't what it seems either.

OH! boy, here we go again...

And what a pleasure it was to keep our insurance too!

And our doctor...

And Obama BRAGGED about cutting medicare, and you showed us absolute proof that he didn't calling him a liar...

Fucking moron.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

400 hundred independent economists call you a liar too merc...


We posted that and you could not dispute it.


Instead you went crazy...


Liar.