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Reckless, Feckless, Relentless Incompetence

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  June 3rd, 2010 at 07:02 PM  | 

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Via the Washington Times we learn the National Debt has now surpassed the 13 trillion dollar mark. Yeah, I know…yawn…so what. The problem here is that we just watched Congress barely pass a Bill raising the National Debt ceiling to 12.394 TRILLION dollars. Obama, master of everyone else’s checkbook, signed it into law on December 28, 2009 yet here we are hardly 5 months later with it 600 BILLION dollars beyond even that figure…sans even a modicum of tomfoolery and political cover normally enjoyed via Congressional action.

This Administration can’t manage the Auto Industry, it can’t manage Wall Street, it can’t manage the Health industry or the Insurance industry, and it can’t manage the economy. It can’t manage Foreign diplomacy, it can’t manage fighting wars, and it can’t stop dictators from getting nuclear weapons or sinking its neighbor’s ships. But failure, sadly, doesn’t seem to slow Obama’s lust for spending more money hoping to find that thing he can finally “get right.”

His latest joke of an attempt to manage the crisis 1 mile deep in the Gulf of Mexico only serves to reinforce the notion that this is, by far, the most inept and incompetent President and Administration in recent history. From the Times:

At $13 trillion, that figure has risen by $2.4 trillion in about 500 days since President Obama took office, or an average of $4.9 billion a day. That’s almost three times the daily average of $1.7 billion under the previous administration, and led Republicans on Wednesday to place blame squarely at the feet of Mr. Obama and his fellow Democrats.

Repeat this over and over in your head every time you think Obama needs us to cut him a break… that he’s doing the best he can with what that Bush fellow left behind for him to deal with: in 500 days, Obama has extended our debt almost 5 billion dollars a day as he continues to fail his Country. We’ve certainly seen none of our problems “solved” since he’s been in office…no return on our great-grand childrens’ investment. At what point does this agenda and this Congress, and the incompetent leadership running both, stop the bleeding? OUR bleeding.

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  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

    2 un-precedented budget deficits and a massive government growthulus bills passed. I think he has shot his wad on passing bills though, given the polls his party members are looking at.

    Watch out for more executive overreach at EPA etc on energy taxes and elsewhere, etc. Obama sees himself as above the law.

    • http://www.hickpolitics.com Dave Poff (haystack)

      it’s not in effect yet, we already know how much MORE it’s going to cost by the time it DOES take effect, and we know how many people want to repeal it before it’s too late.

      Getting a thing passed is not fixing a problem (well, except for that sticky little problem of keeping the shareholders…err, campaign donors… happy)

      • izoneguy

        Lunging and jumping and ready to pounce, until she sees a rabbit….

        Lunging and jumping and ready to pounce, until she sees a cat…

        Lunging and jumping and ready to pounce, until she sees a child…

        Well, you get the idea….

        ObamaCare will never be implemented because that will require
        planning and money……something Obama will be short of by the time the date to actually do something is passed.

        Besides that, MediCare will drag the whole of the US health system into the abyss anyway. People will be lucky to get minor
        procedures done by 2014.

        • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine
          • izoneguy

            to manage 16% of America’s economy. They don’t have the chops to run the healthcare system. They can ruin it – but they can’t run it.
            Just look over the pond to the NHS.

          • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine
          • edinnola

            There’s a BIG difference between courage and stupidity. Our problem is that STUPIDITY is in control of OUR country.

          • Tbone

            That’s the real problem.

          • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine
      • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

        and the prospect of ending Bush tax cuts and ObamaCare hurts investment now. He has done grave harm. We will have to be very successful politically for many years to reverse the damage.

    • Scope

      he pushed for bad policy, but, without a complicit Progressive Congress, he would never have accomplished anything on his own. Doesn’t take much coaxing or cajoling when you already have those on your side. He is the CIC only in name only. His Czars and complicit Congress have done the damage. He is only the voice which is why he needs teleprompters to keep him on his pre-written message.

      • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

        since last summer: town halls, NY and VA elections, tea parties and Brown-out in Mass. But he was relentless, as was Pelosi, and they brought out the threats to so-called blue dogs. But one can’t deny that Obama was competent at the “campaign” to keep bringing ObamaCare back from the dead, not once, but twice.

        All he can do is such “organizing”. But now I suspect his capital is spent. Before the BP spill, I thought the ObamaDems might have a chance to pass something else significant this year.

        Not now.

        But ObamaCare’s taxes and fines will be implemented. Doctors are retiring early and students are choosing not be doctors now, because of the fact of its passage.

        • Scope

          his most important legislation in the US to reform it to his socialist ideal. Just because he talked about it incessantly, doesn’t make it the right legislation, and, I know you know that. Look at the deals that it took to get it into law. Look at the Chicago Mafia tactics that he has used for getting his way. I can’t give him credit for arm twisting, or breaking, for putting those in his own party on the line for getting his wishes/wants. When you have to go to the ends that Pelosi and Reid had to go to to get the bill passed, that is not competence. You can call it something else, but, competence is not the correct term. That is unless you think being a successful thug is competence, and then you may be correct, but, not right.

      • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine
        • Scope

          The far left that have been pushing the “socialists” agenda, for the most part, were there long before the O came on the scene. It’s just that all the stars aligned with the 2008 election. They, the media et all have made Bush look like the idiot, bumbling fool, and dangerous. Bush is at fault for not defending his positions, as we all know. 2008 was the perfect storm, brought on by a McCain candidacy, and a tremendously discredited Bush presidency. The O has not displayed any grasp of the issues, but, that has been the plan all along.

          • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

            presumed competence no matter who his aides were. He came to DC to fundamentally change America, and his currency-threatening budget deficits, socialized medicine and GM-union and stimulus-union payoffs do that.

          • Scope

            because the O was able to pass some legislation does not mean any great success for him. Obamacare is growing more and more unpopular as time goes on. Like Pelousy said, you will have to pass it in order to know what’s in it. No-one is liking what they see. What Budget are you talking about him passing? From what I understand, no budget has been passed. The Stimulus surely was passed, but, who considers it successful? Only the Progressives.

            Who’s measure of success are you referring to?

            You make a great argument for the O’s success, based on passing very unpopular legislation. The only people that would consider him successful are the far left radicals. Some of them don’t think he has gone radical enough. Is there any question that the O, and his admin. and Czars would not consider him successful? I think not.

            Also, who is presuming him to be competent? His Gulf Oil spill response has even gotten some of his die-hard supporters to question his competence. Actually Dems and Repubs have been questioning his “competence” for some time.

            Look at his lack of support for the Israel statements and positions. The list is growing longer, amongst the Jewish people, in calling him out on the Flotilia incident. H. Clinton and Biden are also called into question, as being Palistinian supporters.

            Who the hell is considering this idiot successful except the Communists/Progressives? I hope they are the ones you are referring to. The American majority sees the O as a disaster.
            Why do you credit this idiot for being successful in any way? Because he was able to strong arm the D majority of Congress to pass his agenda? They are complicit, and, the O could not have gotten his Socialistic policies through without an already complicit Congress.

          • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

            our supposed great disagreement” is mostly semantics over success defined in context. You seem not to have read every nuanced word that I wrote! smile

            But yes, for the Left, it is a HUMONGOUS, CENTURY-OLD success to get socialized medicine passed.

            I refer to the Left’s measures of success and their successes, in this case are our defeats and America’s great loss.

            The GOP will have to achieve the equivalent of what it did at its onset and win another Civil War to fix the Left’s mess o’ “successes”.

            Scope, if you will go back and carefully read what I have written, I think you will see that we, as usual, agree.

            God bless

  • usadying

    hasn’t he accomplished exactly what he set out to do? In true community organizer fashion, he also has torn apart the country. The last straw for me was Hillary Clinton’s statement condemning Israel before the UN. And doing so before she had all the facts. Obama will use this latest crisis to take one more step towards world rule by the UN thugs.

    He doesn’t give a damn about the BP oil leak and the devastating damage to the coast and people. He sees it only as another opportunity to push cap and tax. He enjoys all the trappings of being president, but could care less about Americans. He is a true narcissist that has no empathy for fellow human beings.

    • mdd1956

      responding to the crisis is to say “I told you so” , and push his stupid no energy agenda.

  • http://www.hickpolitics.com Dave Poff (haystack)

    is not his ability to sign laws that implement his agenda, IMHO, if those bills are the ruin of the country he was elected to lead.

    • usadying

      Ruin is what he wants. He is quite good at it.

    • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

      competent than he is. The last thing we need is a competent liberal president that gets even more of his agenda passed in to law.

      • http://www.hickpolitics.com Dave Poff (haystack)

        .

  • cactusjack

    All the above are excellent reasons for why he should not be returned to office, but in the real world in operational real time what will be the crack in Obama Dam leading to deluge, will be if in the next two months national unemployment rises through 10%. And the layoffs of thousands of engineers and offshore workers coming in the Gulf States due to his actions entirely, will hit that national number quickly, for the worse. Slow, mortal wound to his adminstration, a bleeding of the economy that won’t be forgotten in 18 more months. I believe his administration is so terrified of this problem, they won’t even talk about it, won’t get near the subject , as they haven’t done for at least 6 months now. In that respect they are OK right now with Sestak and BP.

    • cactusjack

      it was bad. Wall Street figured it out quick & dived fast. I dont even Obama’s minions or Gibbs tried to put on a brave face. 41000 real permanent jobs is paltry weak. Obama has springloaded the economy himself to go into real, negative unemployment next couple of months. Estimates are coming in that the immediate loss of good high paying engineer and professional jobs coming from the drilling moratorium, will be between 25 and 80 thousand in TX alone. The numbers for Louisiana could be worse. Caused by Obama’s political moratorium on drilling,mind you, not the oil spill. the moratorium is not necessary but it’s a Socialist’s dream, how can he resist?

  • http://itsaboutfreedom.proboards.com IronDioPriest

    …is giving Barack Hussein Obama the benefit of the doubt. Assigning those qualities to him assumes that he is doing his best to lead this country out of its economic and national security quagmire and back into prosperity and international leadership.

    Hussein Obama seeks none of these things. His goal is to reduce America’s prosperity, standard of living, economic freedom and opportunity, international influence, and to bring us once and for all into the fold of shared misery and mediocrity where America is but one nation among many, no more or less significant than any other.

    No, he is not incompetent. He is malevolent. He is an enemy of the United States.

    • paulrph1

      I agree with you. BO knows what he is doing. He is not a stupid, incompetent maybe/surely. Read his undertones not the stuff on top and you will see the true person.

  • wilfranc

    If it is by his word, or intergity, he falls short.
    If it is by his management, he falls short.
    If it is by example, he falls short.
    If it is by his experience, he falls short.
    If it is by his humility, he falls short.

    (I do not find his speechifying ever meant much, so the great orator label (words) is really kind of a one trick pony).

    I am reminded of the joke I heard Reagan tell of the Republican traveling in farm country and he comes across a farmer and wants to give his stump speech. The only podium the farmer had was a pile of manure, and the Republican said ok, but he usually doesn’t speak from a Democrat platform.

  • Next93

    • http://www.hickpolitics.com Dave Poff (haystack)

      ..

      • qixlqatl

        JEC is probably BO’s biggest fan, since he no longer has to worry about being remembered as the worst president ever…

        • qixlqatl
  • spudsnsuds

    are always relentless. The Dems know they only have a short time frame to ram through all of their dreams to destroy the country so they will, of course, go all out.

  • paulrph1

    We went to a town hall meeting the other evening with Senator Orrin Hatch. While there I was stunned by the fact that he call Obama a moderate. He says, he turns it over to Reid and Pelosi and the rest starts. If he were a moderate he would not turn it over to Reid or Pelosi. He would not appoint cheats, communists, communists lovers as he has done. He would not have wanted to pass all of the things he has passed. He would not have his agenda for change. He would not say I have just started. We need to believe his actions, not his rhetoric. We need someone in office who is not one of the “good ol’ boys”. Someone who will vote the way things need to be voted on. We are losing our country because of compromises.

  • doncorleone

    The one thing the regressives/marxists have in spades is an enormous opinion of their own self worth. It hastens back to the men who wrote their “constitution”. These two “gentlemen”, were never got their hands dirty elitists. Their tome permeates throughout our educational system, in which indoctrination, and self worth, and self esteem outweigh the 3 “r’s”. This contagion spread quickly and easily in the petri dish that was, the spoiled, softminded, children of the people who suffered thru the great depression and w.w.2 (20%of them anyway), the “baby boom” generation. Being a member of this club is saddening, because we are alive in one of the most historic times in our history, and a significant portion of our group (and their offspring) were taught a corrupted, revised version, if they were taught it at all. This is why it is so easy for these bolsheviks to be able to move about, and direct our public, political,fiscal,(socialists taught & still teach, in the business schools of our colleges & universities) policies at will, and without fear of reprisal ( they have been catagorically, and catastophically wrong @ everything they put their hands on). Yet, they have achieved their ends so convincingly that they have convinced themselves, and their offspring that mass murders are heroes of the “people”. That working with your hands building and manufacturing, and providing for your own needs, from clothing to energy is an anathema. Until we all work together, keep educating as many people as possible, & putting money and effort, where our mouths are, and people in elected office, who follow the Constitution, the downward spiral we are riding now, will hit a final, fatal, bottom.

  • realskinny

    The Labor Department controls the numbers. They have already increased the number of “discouraged job-seekers” by millions. Despite increasing population they show a smaller work force than we had 3 years ago. Is looking for work discretionary? How can someone become discouraged and stop looking?

    This month millions of high-school graduates will supposedly enter the work force. Look for them to disappear in the Labor Dept. numbers. The stats coming from this administration are as dependable as those from the Communist Chinese.

  • johnstoirvin

    conjures up another image…..That of a hopelessly hooked gambling addict, spending all his time and money, even down to his last dollar, in the certain belief that the very next bet will exonerate his foolishness and provide the reward he feels he so richly deserves. This exercise of Obama’s ignorance and arrogance could be humorous if it weren’t for the fact he’s wagering OUR money and OUR future and, ironically and deservedly, his own political capital, to feed HIS addiction. Let’s get him enrolled in Gamblers Anonymous.

  • ishkibish45

    many great and good men, sufficiently qualified for any task they
    should undertake, may ever be found, whose ambition would
    aspire to nothing beyond a seat in congress, a gubernatorial
    or a presidential chair. is it unreasonable then,to expect some men
    possessed of the loftiest genius,coupled with ambition sufficient to
    push it to its utmost stretch,will at some time spring up among us?
    and when such a one does, it will require the people to be united
    with each other, attached to the government and laws,and frustrate
    his design. these words were true in the panic of 1837, and they are
    true in the panic of 2010