Posts Tagged ‘Obama’

Another Idiotic Rethink

Monday, March 1st, 2010

President Obama’s working on a new nuclear policy: one that eliminates thousands of nuclear weapons without declaring that the US would not be the first to use nuclear weapons in a potential conflict.

In itself, getting rid of these useless weapons is a positive step, as is curtailing investments in more nukes. These are a direct reversal from the Bush Administration’s policy and make efforts at nuclear non-proliferation slightly more credible.

It’s difficult to understand what threats the US currently faces that would require the use of nuclear weapons: terrorists are at best a fifth-rate conventional threat, while countries like Iran and North Korea have not yet demonstrated that they have either the capability to do much damage or wish to engage in national suicide to fulfill their need for recognition.

But it’s also difficult to understand why we continue the proliferation of conventional weapons to fight non-existent wars, nor make much effort to convince Israel, India, Pakistan and other nuclear nations to get serious about joining us one day in a non-nuclear world.

There’s too much atmospherics and too little substance in nuclear policy, so rethinking that doesn’t substantively change the approach to proliferation is a waste of time.

Gorilla says: “We don’t want to look soft, but we do want to look the other way!”

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2015 At The Latest

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

That’s when unemployment will be a less than resounding 6%, or so says our President.

He promises to add 95,000 jobs a month. So it will only take 7 1/2 years to restore the jobs already lost in this recession!

Meanwhile, the Congress proposes a “jobs bill” that will add an entire month’s worth of jobs!

Gorilla says: “It’s about being seen to say something, not actually doing something!”

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Time Wasting: Obama Style

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Another day, another summit on an issue that no one wants to lead on!

Over the weekend, the G-7 boys and girls tried to reassure each other that the PIIGS of Europe aren’t going to be a problem.

Today, it’s President Obama, calling on Republican leaders to join him for yet another pointless summit on health care reform.

The facts are these:

1) Republicans will not vote for any Administration proposal on health care reform, or any other major issue, in 2010.

2) Democrats have not yet decided whether they will abandon health care reform, thus guaranteeing they will lose big time in 2010.

So, the President could say to House Democrats: Vote for the Senate bill and we’ll fix it later using reconciliation.

Or he could engage in a time wasting exercise in hopes that Americans will blame a minority opposition party for the failures of this President and his party to tackle major issues.

Gorilla says: “Good luck with that!”

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Barry Is Moved

Friday, February 5th, 2010

Not by unemployment, or by Know Nothing recalcitrance, but by the Governor of Jakarta!

Seems the famous statue “Barry As A Boy With Butterfly” made some Indonesians angry, because our President, although attending elementary school in Jakarta and more popular in the country than he is in America, hasn’t done much for Indonesians so far.

Gorilla says: “Hopefully Barry will stop being a statue and start being a leader!”

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Trapped And Not Hiring

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Deficits, deficits, deficits!!!

It’s so horrible, and so laughable. The President has bought in, lock, stock, and barrel, to the mantra of reducing deficits at a time when the US economy is having its worst performance since the Depression. This is coming from the Know Nothing Party mostly, and no one seems to remember the huge deficits created by their President from 2001-08.

The government, of course, should be running much larger deficits, given that consumer and private sector demand has more or less fallen off a cliff. There’s an output gap exceeding $2 trillion, and what we get from our leaders is fretting about non-existent inflation and miniscule additional stimulus packages.

Much more interesting than the deficit blather is the assumption about employment contained in the President’s budget submission:

If his budget was passed in its entirety, the President assumes the unemployment rate in 2012 would still be 8%!!!

That is, the unemployment rate will not have fallen at all during his Presidency.

Gorilla says: “A surer recipe for one and done you would be hard pressed to find!”

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Guns Mean Butter (Or Something)

Friday, January 29th, 2010

It’s another great day for American exports as President Obama proposes to send $6.7 billion of arms to Taiwan.

Hypocrisy? Of course!

But no more so than say all these supposed Know Nothing deficit hawks refusing en masse to vote for Congressional PAYGO budget rules.

Or not being brave or rich enough, if you’re New York’s billionaire mayor, to have a terrorist trial in the Big Apple, while Wichita manages very nicely to try and convict the domestic terrorist who killed the abortion doctor.

Gorilla sums it all up on a bipartisan basis for a country steeped in ungovernable sophistry: “You can’t spell proliferation without pro-life!”

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Official: The Shark Is Now Jumped

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Farewell, Obama!

Fonz, can you believe it?

A 3-year freeze on discretionary spending, other than the wasteful Pentagon, Homeland Security, Veteran’s spending, guess that’s why they call it the blues…

What’s it all about, Barry?

Trying to be a deficit hawk, trying to be a middle class champion, trying to be anything other than a leader?

It’s certainly not about economics, it’s certainly not about being bold, it’s all about panic, polls, and pandering!

Last week was the worst of this Presidency, followed this week by the beginning of the end of this Presidency…

Reviewing the situation:

1) Republicans will not do anything other than sit back, vote no, and relax.

2) Democrats remain divided, the governing party of the ungovernable.

3) Obama, who’s run a campaign from day one, now starts another one, and he is toast.

Gorilla says: “It’s all over but the shouting, and nobody’s listening!”

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Pastichin’ The Night Away

Monday, January 25th, 2010

    A Bozo Pastiche Song

I heard a young man speaking out just the other day;
I stopped just to listen to what he had to say;
He spoke straight and simple-but I was depressed.
He said, “Once and for all, why not regress?”

He said his name was Barack Obama and he is for now our President
And he laid out a plan of action-which had no past tense!

He talked about the government, but not how it could be for you and me
That’s the way it just isn’t right now:
Once and for all, why not regress?

He spoke like a lawyer and I began to understand
I was listening to the latest polls, talking to me
I began to see…

He’s our Jimmy Carter
He always seems to settle for less
America: Once and for all
Why not depress?

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Middle Class Peanuts

Monday, January 25th, 2010

The Administration’s back with another round of minor, pointless middle class handouts.

We’re all pretend populists now!

A child care tax credit? Great if you have income, not refundable if you’re unemployed.

Allowances for caregivers? Wow, $102 million, less than 20% of a Citibank trader’s bonus, guess we’ll all be better off throwing grandma from the train.

Student loan caps? More people can go to school, graduate, and be unemployed, now that’s an outcome devoutly to be wished.

Meanwhile, things like health care reform, which would immediately benefit millions of people, or aid to the states, which would prevent millions of teachers, police officers, and fireman from being laid off, seem to be stuck in a doom loop of Democratic fear and Republican obstruction.

Meanwhile, the deficit, which should be climbing since the federal government is about the only place left in the economy where demand can be created, has become the latest bugaboo.

Meanwhile, the Fed does absolutely nothing about unemployment, nonexistent inflation is what makes phony hawks fly.

It’s difficult to know what to say about a government that doesn’t govern, leaders who don’t lead, and a citizenry that vacillates between pig ignorance and anger as their dreams, livelihoods, and families are destroyed.

Gorilla says: “There are more elephants in the room than we care to imagine, and the dung will keep rising steadily to the top!”

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Quote Of The Day

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

“I think it is absolutely true that what we did this year didn’t produce the kind of breakthrough that we wanted and if we had anticipated some of these political problems on both sides earlier, we might not have raised expectations as high.”

The speaker is President Obama, but a more difficult task for the casual reader is figuring out which lack of breakthrough and which high expectation raising he’s talking about:

Climate change? Nope.

Health care reform? Nope.

Reining in Wall Street? Nope.

Afghanistan? Nope.

Unemployment? Nope.

Iran? Nope.

Nuclear non-proliferation? Nope.

North Korea? Nope.

Gorilla chimes in: “The correct answer is peace between Israel and the Palestinians, and alas the President’s not any more serious about that than he is about any of the others!”

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