What Bill Clinton did for fidelity, Barack Obama has done for honesty...

[4est_4est_Gump]

... and is now doing for responsibility. Using generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), I'll explain.


Obama's Shrinking Unit of Account
By Keith Riler, American Thinker
May 28, 2013

Unit of account is a GAAP concept that refers to an entity for which results can be clearly distinguished and accountability logically required. It might be an operating segment, a reporting unit, the whole company, or all of the above. Whether a company comprises one unit of account or several, in the business world, executive management is responsible for them all.

This concept of a large unit of account and broad responsibility for senior executives (with its implications for both credit and blame) is the standard Michelle Obama had in mind when she said, "For the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country." She linked her husband's achievement with the entire country -- a big unit of account. The Japanese would agree with this standard. From hara-kiri to the more modern resignation in disgrace, they have a broad view of responsibility.

Unfortunately, ever since candidate Obama promised receding oceans (a global unit of account) and the new first lady expressed her pride (a national unit of account), the president's actual unit of account has been shrinking.

This shrinkage is highly correlated with Obama's mistakes and has been enabled by the press. For instance, once it was clear that the president was making no headway with the economy and employment, the nation-Obama linkage had to be broken and the president's unit of account downsized.

Shrinkage enablers like Paul Krugman reported for duty and promptly detached we the people, and our economic condition, from the "administration" (by way of Bush-blaming). This has been standard operating procedure for the last four and one-half years. The move from a big unit of account to "administration," an entity separate and apart from the nation and the country, indicated that we were no longer in this together.

You may or may not have noticed, but "administration" will no longer do. The problem is that the State, Justice, Health and Human Services, and Treasury Departments, along with the CIA, are part of the administration -- and they now own the IRS, Benghazi, press wiretapping, and HHS private funds solicitation scandals. And so, more shrinkage was required. "Administration" became "White House" or "Obama campaign," as in, "Pfeiffer said no one at the White House was aware of the situation at the IRS" or Ezra Klein's "There continues to be no evidence that the targeting was directed by agency higher-ups, much less anyone related to the Obama campaign."

Except, due to more recent developments, neither "White House" nor "Obama campaign" now suffices. You see, senior White House staff members were aware of the IRS scandal (we are still waiting to learn about senior staff knowledge and participation in the other scandals). And so, more shrinkage was required. "White House" has become "senior staff other than the President."

"It was the judgment of counsel this is not a matter she should convey to the president," Carney said. "Her opinion that this is not the kind of thing that requires notification to the president."

Things have really changed. The president's unit of account is very small now -- almost undetectable. He could, however, go one step farther and invoke Dualism. He could claim a complete mind-body separation and avail himself of the defense that although he participated in the various scandals, he is innocent. Don't laugh. It's a Gnostic move, but one already in use.

Consider Lois Lerner. Senior IRS official Lerner (in Ezra Klein's words, a "higher-up") recently invoked the separate mind-body defense. She signed the letters targeting conservative groups and claimed both that she had done nothing wrong and that targeting was the work of rogue agents. Likewise, Attorney General Holder signed the warrant naming Fox journalist James Rosen a criminal "co-conspirator" and is very concerned that the investigations could have a chilling effect on investigative journalism. For other examples of the Dualism defense, see Charlie Rangel's tax planning, shovel-ready jobs, Solyndra, and "What difference, at this point, does it make?"

The Lerner, Pfeiffer, Holder, and, by implication, Obama scandal responses have thus far been Gnostic and haughty, undoubtedly self-righteously buttressed by the belief that ends justify means. But these responses also pull back the curtain on the irreconcilable contradiction of modern liberalism, that being an unshakeable faith in the manageability of big government and a demand for non-accountability (usually justified by self-reported good intent).

So GAAP accounting, of all things, shows us that the rest of us are held to and generally abide by significantly higher standards than those of the Obama administration, Obama White House, Obama campaign, Obama senior staff, Obama body, and Obama mind. Said differently, we have bigger units of account.

This rejection of standards is at the core of the modern liberal project, and therefore Barack Obama, with his thoroughly diminished unit of account, is the quintessential liberal man. Although by invoking Dualism the president might eliminate his unit of account altogether, such a move is a bad one. A disappearing unit of account is a symptom of a lack of courage and fortitude. It is neither virtuous nor responsible, and it corresponds to the loss of manhood.

Plus, such a double standard is unacceptable because, despite elite vanity, we are all still humans of the same class and thus must be held to the same standards. Of course, the majority of the electorate may or may not see it that way. A virtuous electorate would demand accountability, but a liberal electorate would shrug, which brings me back to the start.

What Bill Clinton did for fidelity, Barack Obama has done for honesty and is now doing for responsibility. The key to the liberal project is to persuade a majority of voters to join the race to the bottom by adopting similarly unchaste, dishonest, and irresponsible lives -- and by shrugging. Therefore, at the root of the scandals and our responses thereto is the existential question, "Who are we?"

Many of us are hopeful, but frightened, about the answer to that question. Only time will tell.

Let's give 'em something to talk about!

 

[mercury14]

... and is now doing for responsibility. Using generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), I'll explain.


Obama's Shrinking Unit of Account
By Keith Riler, American Thinker
May 28, 2013



Let's give 'em something to talk about!

Translation:

The IRS scandal can't be traced to Obama and I don't like it. But I want him to bear the blame anyway.

When reality doesn't back your narrative you act so dumb.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Don't you have some patients to over-medicate?


Moron.

 

[mercury14]

Don't you have some patients to over-medicate?


Moron.

Why do you hang on AJ's cock so much? I've never seen anything like it here.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Don't you have some patients to over-medicate?


Moron.

I don't think they let physical therapists use a prescription pad...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Why do you hang on AJ's cock so much? I've never seen anything like it here.

That's right, go for the homo comments.


You haven't seen shit here, n00bie, just like you know from shit.


Please, don't chip a nail while fucking off.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Funny how the tolerance and diversity crowd always go to words that are hurtful to the very groups that they purportedly champion...


It is in these moments that they let their guard down and let us know their true feelings.

Jenn14 here thinks that gay is bad and that makes it a great insult.

But, in this area, he has a history...

While you're at it, could you come up with a plan to cancel out America's nigger amnesty policy? And who gave Pocahontas and her drunk-ass tribe citizenship?

 

[Busybody]

The IRS scandal can't be traced to Obama

BULLSHIT!

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Funny how their homo cards are right there, waiting to be played.


Kinda makes a fella want to fist them . . . right in the face.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

You know, it is almost like his staff doesn't trust him...

They keep all real information from him.

Loose lips?



They treat him like some sort of a figurehead.

What was that word they used on Palin?



Token?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Funny how their homo cards are right there, waiting to be played.


Kinda makes a fella want to fist them . . . right in the face.

Well, Kimosabe, I get a lot of the race and incest card too...


They have a lot of these things in their hearts, on their minds and in their words of tin.

 

[unregistered]

 

[Wat_Tyler]

More like, words of single-ply toilet paper.


I have never minded when they call be a barbarian. High praise, considering the source.


I'm still negotiating this paving brick deal. I may have to make a Viking offer.

 

[mercury14]

That's right, go for the homo comments.


You haven't seen shit here, n00bie, just like you know from shit.


Please, don't chip a nail while fucking off.

Well yeah there's a strong homoerotic element to you two meeting up on a porn site every morning and exchanging titilating pics on an unmoderated forum. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, I'm just saying it's a thing.

Of course in my post I was just using a colloquial expression and wasn't actually referring to anything homoerotic but if you're going to bring it up...

 

[Busybody]

didya see this?


Tavis Smiley felt the wrath of Team Obama




Equal opportunity bullies




Tavis Smiley felt the wrath of Team Obama for criticizing Obama’s failure to help the black community.

Via Huffington Post (h/t Gateway Pundit)(emphasis mine):


Tavis Smiley has stood out in 20 years in broadcasting, and he has no intention of changing his style or substance.

He’s the rare black host with national TV and radio platforms, one who sees his job as challenging Americans to examine their assumptions on such thorny issues as poverty, education, and racial and gender equality….

Smiley, 48, also doesn’t shrink from the repercussions that occur when his opinions, delivered on radio and in interviews in his distinctively punchy cadence, strike a nerve. He has drawn the ire of conservatives and, because of his insistent criticism of President Barack Obama’s policies, that of some liberals and African-Americans.

Smiley contends that members of the Obama administration, whom he didn’t identify, have pressured sponsors to drop their support of his projects, including his anti-poverty initiatives. The White House had no comment, said a spokesman, Kevin Lewis.

Smiley declined to identify the companies, saying he wasn’t authorized to disclose their names.

While he said he understands the desire of blacks to stand protectively by the first African-American president, he’s adamant about his right to take Obama to task on rising black unemployment, the use of military drones and other issues.

It doesn’t take much to set the petulant bullies in motion. While Tea Party and conservatives have been the main targets, almost any dissent is treated dismissively and opens one up to retaliation.

Such is the change some people were waiting for.

 

[mercury14]

They're big on accusing you of being gay. If you call them a turd, you have a scat fetish.

The phrase "hanging on someone's cock" doesn't actually mean anyone is being "accused" of being gay. And to me that's not really even an accusation. Because what if the person is gay, so what?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

They're big on accusing you of being gay. If you call them a turd, you have a scat fetish.

More like, words of single-ply toilet paper.


I have never minded when they call be a barbarian. High praise, considering the source.


I'm still negotiating this paving brick deal. I may have to make a Viking offer.

Yeah, it's the new tone of civility they keep clamoring for...

Yeah, this next month will be stimulating to say the least, four sixty-plus hour weeks in a row, maybe five or six.

Oh well, I just spent 30K on a new truck, so it will get the ol' savings account back up to par...

(And yes, that is a golf joke since we're talking abut the President.)

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Did not Tavis get the message when NPR canned Juan Williams?


You do not screw with Chicago City Hall...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Well yeah there's a strong homoerotic element to you two meeting up on a porn site every morning and exchanging titilating pics on an unmoderated forum. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, I'm just saying it's a thing.

Of course in my post I was just using a colloquial expression and wasn't actually referring to anything homoerotic but if you're going to bring it up...

Sure, be all passive-aggressive about it. It's your shtick, lame and weak as it is. Seen a tit in this thread. So, you're stupid to go with it?


Pretty much.


Next time you're crawling around on your hands and knees searching for your self-respect, why don't you suck my thug dick. Home-erotic enough for you, GopherBalls???

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Sure, be all passive-aggressive about it. It's your shtick, lame and weak as it is. Seen a tit in this thread. So, you're stupid to go with it?


Pretty much.


Next time you're crawling around on your hands and knees searching for your self-respect, why don't you suck my thug dick. Home-erotic enough for you, GopherBalls???

*chuckle*

I see you too can do the new civility! Change the tone! HOPE!!!

 

[unregistered]

 

[Wat_Tyler]

*chuckle*

I see you too can do the new civility! Change the tone! HOPE!!!

I have cleared everything but a biker bar with my wit and charm.


Some folks just don't listen to reason.


Especially those who outnumber you.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

At times like this, I like to lean on the Christian Thinkers...


"It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
CS Lewis

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Meh. There is pussy, and there are pussies.


Funny thing is, they're all atheists, but they worship every Worldly Clamor they can find.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

"What Bill Clinton did for fidelity, Barack Obama has done for honesty and is now doing for responsibility...,"


... civility, discourse and the American Way.