Debt Ceiling Quotes from Obama

During the debate to raise the debt ceiling in 2006, then-senator Barack Obama had this to say:  “The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure... America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership . Americans deserve better. I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt limit.”
He subsequently voted against raising the ceiling. As president, however, Obama has called opposing a rise in the debt ceiling as dangerous.

A 'present' from Barack

If the "Tea Party causus" can't bring themselves to vote for any increase in the debt limit, then they should just rip a page out of Obama's book.  Can you imagine if EVERY Republican voted "present" on increasing the limit?  The Dimcocrats would own the whole thing, and nothing would make it clearer why we need to put the GOP in charge of government.

Stormy Monday

This is my brother Paul singing Stormy Monday. He and Georgia were on their honeymoon cruise on the Carnival Destiny, May 15, 1999.

American Pie

This is almost 10 minutes long but the mass choreography is impressive. The people of Grand Rapids worked hard to put this together.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPjjZCO67WI&feature=player_embedded

 

The music is good, too.

God Bless America

"The trouble with quotes over the Internet is that you never know if they are genuine."
--Abraham Lincoln

NOBAMACARE at AARP

Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – The AARP, the focus of an investigation by a House subcommittee in part for the role it played in passing and benefiting from President Obama’s landmark health care law, has reportedly received a waiver — making it exempt from the law.   The waiver was revealed by Let Freedom Ring, which has filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Health and Human Services Department.

The AARP was one of 200 organizations that reportedly received waivers in the latest round and conservative critics of the law say that the Obama administration allies are essentially receiving political payoffs for helping push through the new law.

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Nevada (yes, Harry Reid’s state) also got a waiver. 

Newest terror plot.

TEACHER ARRESTED IN NEW YORK - A public school teacher was arrested today at John F. Kennedy International Airport as he attempted to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a compass, a slide-rule and a calculator.

At a morning press conference, Attorney General Eric Holder said he believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-Gebra movement. He did not identify the man, who has been charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction.  

'Al-Gebra is a problem for us', the Attorney General said. 'They derive solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in search of absolute values.'  They use secret code names like 'X' and 'Y' and refer to themselves as 'unknowns', but we have determined that they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country. As the Greek philanderer Isosceles used to say, 'There are 3 sides to every triangle'.  

When asked to comment on the arrest, President Obama said, 'If God had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, he would have given us more fingers and toes.'  White House aides told reporters they could not recall a more intelligent or profound statement by the President - It is believed that another Nobel Prize will follow.

Ain't it the truth?

'Historic' deal to avoid government shutdown

By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent David Espo, Ap Special Correspondent

WASHINGTON – Perilously close to a government shutdown, President Barack Obama and congressional leaders reached a historic agreement late Friday night to cut about $38 billion in federal spending and avert the first federal closure in 15 years.  Obama hailed the deal as "the biggest annual spending cut in history." House Speaker John Boehner said that over the next decade it would cut government spending by $500 billion, and won an ovation from his rank and file tea party adherents among them. "This is historic, what we've done," agreed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., the third man involved in negotiations that ratified a new era of divided government.

Golly, reading this you’d almost think the spending cuts were the Democrats' idea!

March Madness: U.S. Gov't Spent More Than Eight Times Its Monthly Revenue

You don't believe Conservatives when they warn about the fiscal disaster the country's heading toward? Maybe you'll believe Bill Clinton's former Chief of Staff.

Planned Parenthood 'Unplanned'

Rubicon: A River In Wisconsin

By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER 

Posted 02/24/2011 06:05 PM ET

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The magnificent turmoil now gripping statehouses in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana and soon others marks an epic political moment. The nation faces a fiscal crisis of historic proportions and, remarkably, our muddled, gridlocked, allegedly broken politics have yielded singular clarity.

At the federal level, President Obama's budget makes clear that Democrats are determined to do nothing about the debt crisis, while House Republicans have announced that beyond their proposed cuts in discretionary spending, their April budget will actually propose real entitlement reform.

Simultaneously, in Wisconsin and other states, Republican governors are taking on unsustainable, fiscally ruinous pension and health care obligations, while Democrats are full-throated in support of the public-employee unions crying, "Hell no."

A choice, not an echo: Democrats desperately defending the status quo; Republicans charging the barricades.   [more]

Dog day afternoon...

This is Jeff Hammer, brother to my son-in-law Rick.

What's wrong with this video?

Why is it funny?
It makes me want to laugh. And cry.

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
- Henry Fielding

Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances -- it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at the time, or it was so then, and another day would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Glenn Beck takes over!