Comments on: Obama to farmer: ‘Call the USDA.’

By: bethrorie

bethrorie — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:04:49 +0000

That’s what John Hayward called him. I love it because it’s the best fit for his arrogance and cluelessness.

By: evas

evas — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:42:39 +0000

for those pulling the strings behind the curtain. Did you actually believe he was qualified in any way to be the POTUS? Of course he has to delegate. He just “looks good, looks clean and can speak without a Negro accent when he wants to”, remember what Biden said? That’s all.

By: popster

popster — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:02:14 +0000

to vote these bureaucratic nincompoops out. Elect people who have the common sense to read the bills, and at least appoint people who have the intelligence to investigate what they are regulating.

By: hwgood

hwgood — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 09:44:53 +0000

Didn’t Bam-Bam ever have to deal with a problem with his driver’s license or vehicle registration before he became a State Senator? Or does he believe that since it’s different for him now, it’s different for everyone?

By: davesinsanantonio

davesinsanantonio — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 09:12:51 +0000

“bureaucracy at its worst is better than bureaucracy at its best”.

By: phoenix0401

phoenix0401 — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 23:44:34 +0000

… please don’t be too harsh to it.

By: littlehouse18

littlehouse18 — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 21:18:57 +0000

tjexcite asserted that once a regulation is created it can never be removed.

I like contemplating eliminating departments, etc.

By: snowshooze

snowshooze — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:46:26 +0000

http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0811/call_uncle_sam_5c130fdd-0e34-4b04-99e1-3d923ea3919e.html

There is the politico video,
Seemed pretty sincere. Doesn’t know it was an EPA issue.
I wish the Farmer would have simply said…
” Ok, let’s call them right now ”
Now, that would have been reeeely fun.

By: neukm

neukm — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 17:28:12 +0000

also administers the food stamp program, or whatever it is called by now, which is appropriated by the Farm Bill. As a farmer, I get frustrated when people see the size of the farm bill, and assume all that money is going to farmers.

http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=310

But, I see you added the qualifier “legitimate”

By: SoFiMil

SoFiMil — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 11:03:04 +0000

Even among the most arrogant people I gave come across, I have *never* heard someone respond to a compliment in this manner. Disturbingly bizarre.

By: radicalrighty

radicalrighty — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 10:59:14 +0000

for racist thieves like Shirley Sherrod.

By: SoFiMil

SoFiMil — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 10:55:13 +0000

By: spinoneone

spinoneone — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 08:13:49 +0000

and maybe you will get an answer. This is not a USDA rule. It was proposed by the EPA in 2009 and is drawing more fire now.

http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011/02/25/25greenwire-pre-emptive-attacks-on-dust-rules-draw-rebuke-66421.html

By: rightwingmom52

rightwingmom52 — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 07:38:40 +0000

or farming. He thinks corn and tomatoes spring from Whole Foods just like money grows on trees.

By: Adjoran

Adjoran — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 05:11:37 +0000

he was better on policy than all his policymakers, and a better speechwriter than any of his speechwriters?

The guy’s whole strength was supposed to have been his command of details and “neutral” calculation on courses of action, right? Isn’t he the “post-partisan” President, the ultimate policy wonk-in-chief?

But he knows details of NONE of it. He delegated detail work on TARP II, the Stimulua (ARRA), and his signature ObamaCare to Pelosi and Reid, who couldn’t begin to tell you what was in any of those themselves, except that they were “shovel-ready” to “rebuild the infrastructure, roads and bridges” and would “put America back to work.”

So he isn’t a big idea guy, he isn’t a detail guy, and the people he delegates authority to abuse and misuse it and can’t account for any of what they did with it.

Why is he President, again?

Just axing . . .

By: runner12

runner12 — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 04:56:26 +0000

this throughout his Presidency. This man’s arrogance and condescension to the American people knows no bounds.

No wonder a Senator referred to him on a radio talk show as his ” Imperial Majesty.” It seems quite appropriate, don’t you think?

By: Adjoran

Adjoran — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 04:53:34 +0000

They are doing exactly what they were put there to do.

You don’t straighten this mess out by eliminating bad or superfluous employees. You straighten it out by eliminating bad or superfluous divisions, agencies, and departments.

By: phoenix0401

phoenix0401 — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 04:45:58 +0000

… because this was going to be my first Diary post. But, one point above and beyond this: this provides so much insight into his health care plan. Because of how bureaucrats treat him, he is genuinely shocked when people suggest that bureaucrats running health care may be interested in anything other than the best outcome for every American.

By: littlehouse18

littlehouse18 — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 03:55:21 +0000

By: Menlo

Menlo — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 03:32:15 +0000

They analyze and publish a free database of all the nutrients and components of most basic foods. It’s actually a very handy tool, though I don’t know why the USDA does it.

They also do certification for foods labeled “USDA organic.”

Beyond those two things, I’m not sure what they do.