Obama and the lunatic left

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President Obama is politically insane. This is the real meaning of his speech Thursday night in front of a joint session of Congress. Albert Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over, expecting
a different result. By that definition, Mr. Obama is a lunatic leftist.
Much of his speech called for more of the same - government activism; massive spending on infrastructure, bridges and roads; extending the payroll tax cut; and more public aid to states and municipalities. In short, he seeks to perpetuate the dismal policies of Obamanomics. He is a reckless ideologue masquerading as a pragmatist.
Mr. Obama’s presidency has been dominated by one seminal reality - failure. His nearly $1 trillion stimulus; record budget deficits; unprecedented levels of public spending; the government bailouts of the auto, insurance, housing and banking sectors; billions heaped on “green jobs”; Obamacare; Dodd-Frank to reform Wall Street, and huge outlays for food stamps and unemployment benefits - all have failed to restore the economy.
In fact, they have done the opposite. Unemployment is 9.1 percent. Growth is anemic. In August, no new net jobs - none - were created. Consumer confidence is low. Inflation is rising. The value of the dollar plummets. Burdensome regulations are strangling business. America is being buried under a mountain of debt. For the first time in history, its credit rating has been downgraded. The country is not only on the verge of national bankruptcy, but of economic collapse.
Any reasonable person would change course - but not Mr. Obama. He is a big-government liberal who worships at the altar of statism. The fact that we are broke and can no longer afford his borrow-and-spend policies means nothing. Like all fanatics, he is disconnected from reality.
Contrary to popular myth, liberalism is not politics committed to science or rational thought. It is a substitute religion - a secular philosophy similar to Marxism that seeks to replace Christianity and provide believers with existential meaning. Hence, it must be defended at all costs, even in the face of irrefutable evidence or logic. Mr. Obama is not an anomaly among progressives. They share his stubbornness. Reassessment is not possible. If Mr. Obama truly were to tack to the center, it would represent a fatal admission of error. The liberal faith would collapse.
This is why left-wing Democrats are demanding that he defy the Tea Party - and reality. Rep. Maxine Waters of California is urging Mr. Obama to pass another trillion-dollar stimulus. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman argues that Obamanomics has not spent, borrowed or taxed enough. The problem is not Keynesian liberalism, but the lack of sufficient zeal. In Bolshevik Russia, hard-core communists criticized Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin for not completely abolishing private property. They argued that it was Lenin’s “deviationism” from Marxist orthodoxy - not central economic planning and state socialism - that explained the failures of the Soviet system. For liberals, Mr. Obama is now the new Lenin.
Yet, Mr. Obama - like Lenin - cannot escape the consequences of his disastrous worldview. Whether it’s $300 billion, $1 trillion or $10 trillion - no amount of “stimulus” or public spending will provide a long-term cure for the ailing economy. The reason is simple: Government does not - and cannot - create wealth. Only the vibrant free market can.
This is why liberals are now left with only two options: lie about Mr. Obama’s record or engage in dangerous demagoguery. Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is more of a cheap propagandist than a serious party spokesperson. Mrs. Wasserman Schultz insists that Mr. Obama’s stimulus “worked.” The “facts” speak for themselves, she says. They don’t. In 2009, Mr. Obama vowed that if the stimulus were passed, the jobless rate would remain under 8 percent. Under his tenure, America has lost more than 2 million private-sector jobs. Mrs. Wasserman Schultz is the equivalent of a Stalinist-era hack jabbering about the Soviet economic miracle. No one believes her - not even her staunchest supporters.
This leaves political gangsterism. Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa recently said that it’s time for unions to declare “war” on Republicans and Tea Partyers. “President Obama, this is your army,” Mr. Hoffa thundered at a Sept. 5 Labor Day rally in Detroit. “We are ready to march. Let’s take these SOBs out and give America back to an America where we belong.” Mr. Hoffa’s comments were vile, reprehensible and could foment civil violence. Labor unions, such as the Teamsters, have a long history of street brawls and physically intimidating opponents. Once these kinds of furies have been unleashed, it is difficult to contain them.
The Democrats’ hypocrisy is staggering. For days following the Tucson shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and others, leading Democrats and the liberal media blamed conservative talk radio, Sarah Palin and a “climate of hate” for the massacre. Mr. Obama even called for a “new civility” and “tone,” tacitly chastising his critics. Yet, now that a key ally has called for blood to flow in the streets, the White House is silent.
Mr. Obama is a man of the hard left. He deeply loathes everything America stands for - capitalism, limited government, individual freedom and Christian civilization. In particular, he despises our exceptionalism. His stated goal is to create a “post-American world” where the United States is simply one of many countries - no bigger, better or stronger. He exhibits a form of madness, a self-loathing, reminiscent of the late pop singer Amy Winehouse. Mr. Obama keeps injecting the heroin of class warfare and socialism into our national bloodstream. And he can continue to play on the biggest stage and boast a huge audience. In the end, however, it leads to the same result: insanity and death.

Did Marshall hack your eccie account Dali?

President Obama and the Socialist Democrats have run out of ideas and are trying to scapegoat the TEA party. The only thing the TEA party has done is pulled back the curtain to reveal an impotent Wizard.

You do realize that the left wing of the Democratic Party has been furious with the President since he took office because he's a weaseling triangulator who doesn't have any spine and refuses to promote liberal policies, don't you?

No single payer health care bill. A too small, poorly designed stimulus bill that was too heavy on Republican crap tax cuts (which don't stimulate the economy at all and didn't get any Republican votes). All hat and no cattle on ending the civil liberties abuses of the Bush "War on Terror." Not ending the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Doing nothing on the Employee Free Choice Act. No balls on judicial nominations, especially the foot dragging on lower courts. No cap and trade bill. Extending the Bush tax cuts for the rich. Offering to cut Social Security and Medicare benefits with no commitment from Republicans to raise taxes. His recent inexcusable climbdown on EPA regulation of greenhouse gas regulation.

For a Democratic President, he's been a Republican's wet dream. You couldn't find a stronger conservative/weaker liberal Democrat this side of Joe Leiberman.

As a card carrying member of the left wing of the Democratic Party, I can personally say that he's been an extraordinary failure. I don't know of anybody that I talk to on a daily basis in politics that is happy that he didn't draw a primary opponent from the left. We desperately wanted Bernie Sanders, Russ Feingold, Barbara Boxer -- hell anybody -- to run against him in the primary. We'd even take Dennis Kucinich at this point.

You do realize that the left wing of the Democratic Party has been furious with the President since he took office because he's a weaseling triangulator who doesn't have any spine and refuses to promote liberal policies, don't you?

No single payer health care bill. A too small, poorly designed stimulus bill that was too heavy on Republican crap tax cuts (which don't stimulate the economy at all and didn't get any Republican votes). All hat and no cattle on ending the civil liberties abuses of the Bush "War on Terror." Not ending the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Doing nothing on the Employee Free Choice Act. No balls on judicial nominations, especially the foot dragging on lower courts. No cap and trade bill. Extending the Bush tax cuts for the rich. Offering to cut Social Security and Medicare benefits with no commitment from Republicans to raise taxes. His recent inexcusable climbdown on EPA regulation of greenhouse gas regulation.

For a Democratic President, he's been a Republican's wet dream. You couldn't find a stronger conservative/weaker liberal Democrat this side of Joe Leiberman.

As a card carrying member of the left wing of the Democratic Party, I can personally say that he's been an extraordinary failure. I don't know of anybody that I talk to on a daily basis in politics that is happy that he didn't draw a primary opponent from the left. We desperately wanted Bernie Sanders, Russ Feingold, Barbara Boxer -- hell anybody -- to run against him in the primary. We'd even take Dennis Kucinich at this point. Originally Posted by TexTushHog

Then don't vote for him.

I just love it when socialist liberals get up set with their own kind. It makes my day.

Then don't vote for him. Originally Posted by TheDaliLama

If there was a more liberal candidate in the primary, I wouldn't. But to withhold my vote in the general election is just like voting for a Republican.

Hey TTH. Specifically what were you hoping that BHO would 'change?'

I asked this question on ASPD when he looked like he was going to win the general election. Answers like "not be Bush" or "Turn the country around" were not acceptable. You needed to provide a quantifiable, tangible and specific action preferably with a timeframe. "Increase civil liberties" was too general. "Close Gitmo within a year" was along the lines I was looking for.

Guess what. Almost all the ASPD BHO backers, including many on this board, couldn't come up with any answers. They were so caught up in the antiBush hysteria that they let BHO promise nothing but an empty, liberal good feeling.

So specifically, what were you hoping for TTH before the election?

BTW, I thought a cap and trade bill was proposed but it was shot down around the time Scott Brown got into office. When did BHO SERIOUSLY offer to cut Medicare bennies? BHO could have rescinded tax cuts for the Rich when he had control of the House and Senate but didn't.

Face it, your man could have done a lot of things the first two years when he had control of the house and senate but frittered it away to pass his signature piece of legislation that he doesn't even want referred to as Obamacare anymore because of the negative connotations.

What I wanted him to do is outlined in paragraph 2 of my first post. The two most important are single payer health care and more (and better) judicial appointments to lower courts. Repealing the Vush tax cuts and restoring civil liberties woul be a close second.