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I have been mentioning on every thread and it still has not made it’s way to those who might make a difference, this fact needs to get on broadcast media and to whatever progressives are left who still have a voice;
This supposed “debt ceiling crisis” was created by Obama, nobody else, it was NOT created by Bush, it was NOT created by the republicans.
Obama actively and aggressively extended the right wing’s redistribution of middle class assets scheme (also marketed as “the bush tax cuts”)
That scheme to lift our assets was set to expire, it took NO political capital in refusing extension and actually took political capital extending that scheme
Obama was informed in NO uncertain terms that we needed to stop giving away middle class treasure to the wealthy, he was TOLD it would cause a debt problem.
Obama had NO reason to extend that scheme YET HE INSISTED.
The man is producer of this play, he is author of the script.
There is NO way a republican elected as a republican could dismantle social security, there is NO way a republican elected as a republican could have extended the scheme to steal middle class assets again.
It took a corporatist elected as a democrat to pull off this high jack.
We NEED to lay the blame for this grand theft at the door of the man who deliberately, pro-actively and aggressively a set out to take our assets and give them away
That man is the president who had the “audacity” to bring it off
PRIMARY THIS FAILURE!!!!
UPDATE !!!1
hat tip to wigwam, notice the date, a few days before inaugeration;
Obama Pledges Reform of Social Security, Medicare Programs
By Michael D. Shear
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 16, 2009
President-elect Barack Obama pledged yesterday to shape a new Social Security and Medicare “bargain” with the American people, saying that the nation’s long-term economic recovery cannot be attained unless the government finally gets control over its most costly entitlement programs.
That discussion will begin next month, Obama said, when he convenes a “fiscal responsibility summit” before delivering his first budget to Congress. He said his administration will begin confronting the issues of entitlement reform and long-term budget deficits soon after it jump-starts job growth and the stock market.
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I want to remind everyone of a few facts concerning this president we elected as a “democrat”;
as primary winner and therefore head of the democratic party he had the democrats vote for telecom immunity before he knew what crimes they committed, what assets they stole, from who and what harm they might have done to this country and her national security
before he was president he had the democrats vote for the RIDICULOUS “stimulous” of Bush which we all KNEW was nothing but rewarding the criminals who caused the economic crisis in the first place, a scheme to steal even MORE middle class treasure by awarding our assets to the wealthiest people on the planet, with no strings attached.
in just about every single case, he has promoted “top down” (“trickle down”) “stimulous” which everyone and their pet knows does not work
he has given BANKS money and “asked” them to lend it out, instead of simply lending it out directly
he has made deals with pharma and prevented government from using it’s buying power to lower prices
he sold out “the public option” even while it was clear it would enjoy massive success and popularity.
he begins every “negotiation” at a lower bar then democrats even want to accept, and then winds up at a position even further to the right then the republicans could have hoped.
he hires chicago school of economic “advisors” instead of progressive economic success stories, he rewards those who’s predictions were wrong and slaps down those who’s predictions were correct
He sheds public sector jobs and then complains we are losing jobs
He lowers taxes and complains we do not have revenue
he causes it to rain and then complains about the water
This is not naivety on Obama’s part, this is not being uninformed or getting bad advice, this is deliberate deconstruction of our middle class and our way of life
WE NEED TO PRIMARY THIS TROJAN HORSE
we have put the wolf in charge of the sheep.
PRIMARY OBAMA
please
If there’s another name on the primary ballot next year, it will get my vote. Obama will not.
well said – recommended
It doesn’t matter if there’s another name or not. Obama will not get my vote. I will write in Bernie Sanders, maybe.
I think coming up with a credible primary candidate is a stretch, unfortunately. There’s nobody waiting in the wings as nearly as I can tell. We’re well and truly screwed.
Good post – I was just thinking about Obama not letting the bush tax cuts expire (before the tea partiers were even in power!) as being one primary cause of this impending debacle. And for what? Temporary unemployment insurance extension and some treaty that would have gotten through eventually. It is hard to conclude that he did not capitulate then so he can capitulate now.
Wherein President Obama Holds Himself Hostage
Same here. And I’ll vote third party
if Obummer is candidate.
Great choice that’s what I am going to do.
You should post this at Crooks & Liars and every other place there are Obamabots still left.
The media, mainstream and progressive, has been trumpeting that the Republicans have no viable candidate and what a sorry lot they are. This is true. But what of the Democrats? Where is their Eugene McCarthy? (Full disclosure: I volunteered and worked for McCarthy, that’s how ancient I am.)
So I remember when there were actual Democrats, who stood for something other than their own self-aggrandizement. McCarthy was a poor public speaker by today’s standards; he did not talk down to the American people. But that didn’t stop him from doing what any good Democrat in Congress or governorships should be doing. Making a decision to run against Obama based on the realization that they must challenge this interloper, regardless of the consequences for their political careers.
When Robert Kennedy saw that McCarthy could win primaries, he stepped into the race. He was assassinated and the rest is history.
But I digress. Where are our Democratic McCarthy’s? No Democrat with the requisite credentials is stepping forward and saying Enough. What a lousy bunch of cowards these politicians are.
Is there any *real* progressive left who does not think Obama should be primaried? We got snookered into electing the enemy in 2008.
good idea, I just went over to post it on this thread at c and l’
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/republicans-committing-fraud-refusing-r
Who could run against a Billion dollar election campaign? I question why the President even needs to do anything more than to declare that hes running again. We can see him in the public eye without him spending Billions. We are privy to his issues and his performance.
Seems he would make a better campaign by donating all that money. But thats obviously not his style.
But since no one is challenging him on the Left at this point of the game, we can be assured that no one will.
So I ask everyone thats going to vote ‘green’ whos running on the Green ticket anyone?
Nice point would we have a National Debt crisis if Obama did not extend the Bush tax cuts? Some numbers would help spread this idea.
Next who says we have a debt crisis? Are interest rates going up? If interest rates are not going up then we can borrow more money.
Yes interest rates might go up but we were saying that for 10 years.
Also the fact that Obama refuses to consider other options to solve the debt crisis is telling.
Other options that the majority of voters are in favor of like ending both wars now Ossama is dead. Taxing the rich more (we got polling showing a majority of voters would prefer this to SS and Medicare cuts.
Taxing Capital gains like regular income. Expanding the SS tax to include capital gains and removing the
“The Social Security tax limit is 6.2% of your wages up to $106.800.”
http://hubpages.com/hub/Social-Security-Income-Tax-Limits
We can expand that tax to all income above $106.800
We have options Perris and Obama is refusing to use any of them.
Conclusion Obama wants to take our SS and Medicare.
Obama is the Author and Producer with help from Bush of the Debt Problem but there is no debt problem notice interest rates are at historic lows and well…he wants a Debt Problem so he can steal our SS and Medicare.
The sad thing about the facts from which you speak, I think the Obama team has orchestrated an group of online “groupies” to try and drown us out! So, if I may add another one?
Obama administration has adapted the “Karl Rove” online bully strategy as well!
I think he’s going to cheat his way in office in 2012, that’s the only reason why I think he’s going ahead with this hairbrain ideal?
Because any real politician knows that this is a “NO WIN” situation!
GREAT POST!!!
perris, if I may….another site that is just screaming for a modicum of sanity is “Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire”. An water-carrying-obamabot-apologists lair of a cesspool posing as Democrats if I ever seen one.
Great post and fully agree. Please post it wherever else you can.
If the Obamabots didn’t “get it” with the crapulous BigHealthIns & BigPharma sell out (back room deals, etc) whereby Obama SOLD OUT his alleged “constituents” on single-payer, then the Obamabots really needed to *wake up* and smell the coffee when Obama continued the Bush tax cuts, which I now refer to as Obama tax cuts – much to the consternation of my Obamabot friends. But really: what ELSE are they?? I get the usual bullshit about how mean Weepubwicans “made” Obama extend the tax cuts. Are you EFFEN kidding me??
And now this. Just the other day, an Obamabot friend of mine was about ready to slap me for suggesting that her “hero” would dare to touch Soc Sec & Medicare. I said: don’t say I didn’t warn you, and IF you don’t protest this, then it’s only going to get WORSE.
Frankly I’ve given up on some folks bc they are just as credulous as any dittohead and just as authoritarian and lazy and refusing to really pay attention. And there you have it: just what the PTB want.
Broadcast this as far as possible bc as I’m so sure that Dems in congress will very *willingly* roll over & ENCOURAGE & ENABLE Obama to RIP OFF Soc Sec & Medicare. It’s pretty much a done deal at this point.
This poster is exactly right. a PRIMARY OBAMA IN 2012 movement should be started right away. Sanders, Kucinich, Sherrod Brown, pick one. What’s the downside ? Obama is defeated in the general, so what ? He would just continue his Trojan Horse presidency for more time and utterly destroy what’s left of the democratic base. So, we get President Koch Bros. for 4 years, that will solidify the progressive/democratic party movement more than 4 yrs of Obama. In a primary process, we can reclaim 1/2 of the Democratic Party, and during the next 4 years of Depression II, we get the rest of the democratic party as well as independents and repubs with 100+ IQ’s (I think there’s some), who come to realize by 2016 that United States of Koch Bros. is a freakin disaster. Teddy R and FDR both rose up out of the most dire conditions, and so it will happen again. As long as Dems have Obama as their “leader” we are continually weakened, and eventually will not exist. The states will never allow a third party candidate with their disparate election rules, the Democratic Party must be retaken, that’s the only way. I am available if the DNC wants to contact me, for guidance.
Where are our Democratic McCarthy’s they are all waiting tables for Pete Peterson and the Koch bros and hoping they will a few dollars handed to them…Obama must go!
There is something seriously wrong with Obama as he has lied about eveything and used wordsmithing to get around his BS…I don not trust him at all and there are few if any Dems I do trust…where is Dennis K? Where is the outrage from Hollywood big shots who supported him? Ms Winfrey please say something? Figures they are bought too…
Obama is indeed the Manchurian candidate. He was very practiced at appearing to be liberal, but four days before his inauguration, he announced who he really was:
And BTW he had in mind Pete Peterson to the the keynote speaker at this “fiscal responsibility summit,” which was a bit too much for congressional democrats.
I went to post there but too many hoops to publish without giving out my real email address
The Dems play good cop the GOP plays bad cop both are bad cops trying to steal our SS and Medicare as far as whats wrong with them? We use to think it was stupidity now we tend to think its Evil a desire to harm plus the stupidity of a parasite who kills his host before he can reproduce..
Just make sure your State’s election code allows that your ballot will be counted if you write in someone. Here in CA, the only writeins that are counted are those who have appeared on a ‘primary ballot’:
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate?WAISdocID=24152626648+0+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate?WAISdocID=24152626648+2+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve
“8606. A person whose name has been written on the ballot as a
write-in candidate at the general election for a voter-nominated
office shall not be counted.”
New poster sticker: Barack Hoover Obama, the REAL Republican.
Oh, dang. I gues my write-in vote for Public Option instead of wimpy CPC Co-Chair Woolsey was ignored. Oh, well. Still felt good to write it!
that’s INCREDIBLE documentation, he had this in mind back in 2009!!!
But it did count in another important way: it told the PTB that here was vote they could have had if they had earned it. The ones who stay home accomplish nothing: the ones who cast a “useless” vote do get counted and noticed and (hopefully) will find themselves courted.
wigwam, THANKS for that documentation, I have updated the post with a hat tip
Hacks. Our only options are hacks.
“A professional who renounces or surrenders individual independence, integrity, belief, etc., in return for money or other reward in the performance of a task normally thought of as involving a strong personal commitment: a political hack.”
There is the additional implication that the work performed is minimal in volume and mediocre in quality.
“Who could run against a Billion dollar election campaign?”
There is a theory that it is better to fail in pursuit of a good cause than to succeed in a bad one.
If someone was trying to rape your daughter would you say, “Wow: he’s too big for me to take on”? I doubt it: I imagine you’d go after the bastard with everything you had, and to Hell with the odds.
“they are just as credulous as any dittohead and just as authoritarian and lazy and refusing to really pay attention.”
Having realized this perhaps you can understand why I become somewhat… peeved… when such people snottily proclaim their intellectual and moral superiority?
You and I, onitgoes, may disagree on the most efficacious monetary policy, but you’re a thinker not a bot and I’d rather see more of you than of them (even though you are totally wrong on fiscal issues, of course ;)
Thanks for a great post perris. I know you spend time over at our place and so know that I have your back on this one. Obama is as much to blame for the condition this country is in today as any Republican and when the wind dies down and the crap stops feeding through the fan, people are going to know it.
I get beaten up now and again for jamming Mr. Obama for what I used to think were his failures but now know are deliberate and coldly calculated sellouts based on nothing more than what’s in it for him. Beaten up is not the same as beaten down however and it’s heartening to see more and more people starting to call him out.
Tom B
thanx for the support tom b
your site is in my opinion among the top five for progressive reporting and everyone should visit at least once a day
they gave us a republic
http://www.theygaveusarepublic.com/
Has that “friend” come back, hat in hand, to apologize? Or is he/she bamboozled by the “chained CPI is not a cut” or whatever smoke they’re blowing today?
Hi Perris. Thank you. I’ve been sort of spamming threads with that item from the Jan. 16 2009 WaPo trying to get people to see that Obama was truly a Manchurian candidate.
From what I can tell, he was recruited in April 2006 by Robert Rubin and Peter Orszag to be the keynote speaker at the founding of their Hamilton Project, which turned out to be a government-in-waiting when Obama got elected. And, I suspect that at the same time he was interviewed and recruited by Rubin and Peter Peterson for the presidency. He appears to be absolutely beholden to them.
I could not agree more. Obama as Trojan Horse is the perfect analogy for what this fraud has done. What most concerns me though is the complete lack of objection coming from many who know better. Even Bernie Sanders, when he is criticizing the position Obama is taking, doesn’t come right out and say the truth which is Obama is the tool of the rich and the corporations every bit as much as Bush ever was. If leaders like Bernie and Howard Dean don’t start directly and strongly criticizing Obama for being a fucking corporate whore who’s in bed with the Republicans then people won’t believe he really is the handmaiden to the wealthy and their plans to destroy the stable, prosperous nation we once were all a part of. I have said for a long, long time that his intention was to gut Social Security and Medicare so they can keep playing war all over the world and my otherwise sane and clear headed friends looked at me in disbelief until this week when he has allowed it to become widespread. Even with this clear acknowledgement of his intention of destroying the two central pillars of the safety net in this nation and of the Democratic Party there are an extraordinary number of people in denial who simply refuse to acknowledge what is so clearly printed in the papers and on the net and what is so clearly pointed out on tv and radio. They just don’t believe he’ll do what he’s clearly doing! It’s madness all around.
I keep thinking we need to find someone like the guy who ran against Lieberman in Connecticut who won’t be afraid to stand up and condemn the selloutof the middle class by the DC corporate Democrats.
I ripped off your Trojan Horse theory at both TGUAR and my own place which, if you don’t mind a little blog whoring can be seen here: http://grandpasmad.blogspot.com/2011/07/speaking-of-trojan-horses.html
I think we’re pretty close to being on the same page and I’ve definitely made your site a daily stop.