Category Archives: Obamalot

“Middle-class economics”

Posted on February 2, 2015 | 1 comment

LBJ called his plethora of new entitlements “The Great Society.” FDR called his “The New Deal.” Democrats have always specialized in freebies with fancy titles. But only BHO uses double talk.

“Middle-class economics,” Wormtongue says “means making it easier to afford childcare, college, paid leave, health care, a home, and retirement.” Huh?

He’s already crippled the middle class with a rotten economy and new taxes he claimed were for the rich. Plus, the new Republican congress his policies helped elect isn’t likely to be impressed with either new entitlements or double talk.

So who’s he talking to? Himself?

“Unraveling the Obama belief system is a challenge,” says the WSJ’s Dan Henninger, “so let’s take the lower, simpler road and agree with conventional wisdom that ‘middle-class economics’ is mostly about where the votes are.”

The Worm is always looking for distractions. So, while he’s funnelling billions in aid to Iran, he’s setting the Hildabeast’s 2016 agenda for her, whether she asked him to or not. Apparently she hasn’t come up with her own catchy phrase yet.

Via WSJ.

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Obama’s enemies list

Posted on January 30, 2015 | 4 comments

Get on Wormtongue’s enemies list and you’ll suffer for it, even your whole state, as Al Reuters has found in a study of discretionary federal spending:

“Reuters sorted the states into three categories: ‘red’ states, where Obama got less than 45 percent of the vote in 2012, ‘blue’ states in which Obama got more than 55 percent of the vote, and ‘purple’ states where Obama won between 45-55 percent of the vote. As noted, red states sustained a 40 percent cut in discretionary grant spending, but blue states only lost 22.5 percent, just a little over half as much.”

This is the change without the hope, unless you vote the right way. Like what the Democrat IRS did to the Tea Party and other conservative groups.

But it’s as old as Miriam Sawyer’s recollections of growing up in Albany, NY, where Republicans “did not have potholes in their streets fixed or the snow removed (there was a lot of snow)…”

Via Instapundit.

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Three hour speeches and pie in the sky

Posted on January 27, 2015 | 2 comments

Hey, it could be worse, sports fans. Barry could be reading from the teleprompter all evening long on all the alphabet stations. Followed by the usual nodding of the talking heads. He does seem to think money grows on trees, but at least he’s not as verbose as Nicolas Maduro.

So what if Barry chews gum on camera, like some low-rent community organizer? He’s relatively pithy. And he’s still got the rich to fleece, at least rhetorically, while he’s really sticking it to what’s left of the middle class. He knows the poor don’t care either way.

Long as he makes sure their checks ain’t late. And, so far, the feds can still do that right.

Via Wretchard.

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Barry’s billions for Iran

Posted on January 25, 2015 | 4 comments

The Obama administration expects to finish delivering $11.9 billion in cash assets to Iran by the end of June, according to figures released by the State Department.

“That would be the same group of fundamentalist savages who in defiance of international, civilized norms seized our embassy under the feckless Carter administration and have never had to feel the lash since. Barack Hussein Obama: the best friend our Islamic enemies ever had.”

It’s as if FDR gave billions to the Nazis to keep Hitler happy.

Now Barry’s fuming about Bibi’s planned speech to Congress. You have to wonder why. He only gives millions to Israel, and makes up big lies about them.

Via PJMedia’s Michael Walsh. FoxNews and Avner Zarmi.

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Tuning out Barry

Posted on January 21, 2015 | 2 comments

“President Obama’s State of the Union drew just over 8 million viewers on the major cable news networks, suggesting Tuesday’s address may have been one of the least-watched in more than a decade.”

Well that’s refreshing. In a country of more than 300 million people, the vast majority had better things to do than listen to Barry tell lies.

Via Instapundit.

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Peas meet pod: State of the Union and Oscars

Posted on January 20, 2015 | 4 comments

“In Hollywood, people who can’t stand each other pretend to like each other. In Washington, people who like each other pretend they can’t stand each other. In both cases, the goal is to keep the public in the dark about what’s really going on.”

Via Gay Patriot

UPDATE:  Our one-trick pony president wants “more entitlements, taxes and unemployment” while setting the table for the Hildabeast in 2016. One of every six men unemployed ain’t enough for them.

As the WSJ puts it (behind a firewall): “The President has suddenly discovered that middle-class incomes have plunged on his watch, and he’s demanding that Congress address this with more of the same policies that have done so much to reduce middle-class incomes.”

This time a Republican congress may thwart him. May thwart him. Too many of them are just like him. There’s hope, however, in the likes of  Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa. The Democrat media already is trying to turn her into a joke.

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Feds ready to take over the Internet

Posted on January 18, 2015 | 4 comments

The bureaucrats are never happy until they’re regulating something, especially something making lots of money. They want their cut. Comes now the FCC to regulate the Internet. Get ready for higher prices and still more regulations. Many more.

“In terms of legislation, we don’t believe it’s necessary given that the FCC has the authorities that it needs under Title II,” a White House official told Reuters. “However, we always remain open to working with anyone who shares the president’s goal of fully preserving a free and open internet now and into the future.”

“Free and open” has many meanings, as we’re all soon going to learn. Title II would start by treating ISPs like public utilities. Like the phone, water and electric companies. What the FCC would expand into after that is anybody’s guess. A “Fairness Law” for bloggers, maybe? The Worm already hates us.

Via Drudge.

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