We’ve heard this before from these idiots

Democratic war tax proponent Obey calls expected troop surge a ‘fool’s errand’

The chief architect of a bill to increase taxes to pay for the Afghanistan war said he didn’t believe adding troops would yield much benefit.

“The problem is you can have the best policy in the world but if you don’t have the tools to implement it it isn’t worth a bean bag,”
Rep. David Obey (D[ouchebag]-Wisc.), the House Appropriations Committee chairman, told CNN on Sunday.

President Barack Obama is expected to announce on Tuesday he will add 30,000 troops to the war effort in Afghanistan to stem the rise of Taliban and to pursue al-Qaeda.

But Obey said supporting a corrupt Afghan government by adding troops amounted to a “fool’s errand.”

If policymakers believe continuing the war effort in Afghanistan was an important public policy, Obey added, then they should be willing to pay for it by raising taxes on higher income levels. The war would likely cost as much over the next decade as the effort to reforming the healthcare system, Obey said.

emphasis mine.

There’s a Czar For That

Won’t someone please call a community organizer?!?!?

9 People Slain In Bloody Thanksgiving Holiday Weekend

And hey, Chi-town, how’s that Culter guy working out for you? LOL

 

Team Obama: Only Statists need apply

The Enterprise Blog: Help Wanted, No Private Sector Experience Required

A friend sends along the following chart from a J.P. Morgan research report. It examines the prior private sector experience of the cabinet officials since 1900 that one might expect a president to turn to in seeking advice about helping the economy. It includes secretaries of State, Commerce, Treasury, Agriculture, Interior, Labor, Transportation, Energy, and Housing & Urban Development, and excludes Postmaster General, Navy, War, Health, Education & Welfare, Veterans Affairs, and Homeland Security—432 cabinet members in all.

When one considers that public sector employment has ranged since the 1950s at between 15 percent and 19 percent of the population, the makeup of the current cabinet—over 90 percent of its prior experience was in the public sector—is remarkable.

 

via Say Anything.

Still, don’t know much about history…

Obama misses the first Thanksgiving Day by 74 years, go figure.

Hot Air: Obamateurism of the Day

“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

The White House’s unprecedented use of ‘unprecedented’

The Obama White House is addicted to the “unprecedented.”

Perhaps it was a sign when President Barack Obama sat down in January to record his first weekly address and announced: “We begin this year and this administration in the midst of an unprecedented crisis that calls for unprecedented action.”

What has followed is declaration after declaration of “unprecedented” milestones. Some of them are legitimate firsts, like the president’s online town hall at the White House in May.

But others the president wins merely on a technicality, and several clearly already have precedents.

What is unprecedented is the damage his spending is doing.

Thanksgiving SUCKS!! (So does America)

I had to steal the headline from the video.

Happy Thanksgiving!

I am thankful for people like PFC Stephen Martin

Via BLACKFIVE: A Soldier’s Home in Afghanistan

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U.S. Army PFC. Stephen Martin cleans his weapon inside a small shelter at an observation post near Combat Outpost Munoz in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Nov. 15, 2009. Martin is assigned to Company B, 3rd Battalion, 509th Infantry Regiment. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Andrew Smith

Community organizers, government health care, perpetual welfare, victimization, and rewarding failure will never improve America.

Only unselfish, hard-working, devoted, self-sufficient Americans can improve America.

Bend over America, there are three more years to come…

Obama Shatters Spending Record for First-Year Presidents

Your country is in good hands…

Quietly, the President Finds That Golf Is No Slam Dunk

But as president, Mr. Obama has neglected the court. He has played only seven known games of basketball since taking office, compared with 25 rounds of golf, a sport he picked up about a decade ago when he was an Illinois state senator. That’s more golf than former President George W. Bush played in two terms, according to CBS White House correspondent Mark Knoller, who tracks presidential trivia.

And Nero fiddled while his empire burned and his people suffered and died…

Big Government owns ACORN

Check out all the posts on the idiots at ACORN being taken down one office at a time by Andrew Breitbart and company. This is beautiful to see stupidity finally rewarded – ACORN document dump

Just like the jobs created or saved and just about everything else….

Economy’s rebound not as strong as first thought

Take some more, Jews. Obama guts Hannakhah party, but throws most lavish state dinner in YEARS for his Hollywood friends

That’s the story we’re thinking of today as we see the White House announce a lavish state dinner with a Hollywood Who’s Who of liberaldom in attendance, at a time when not only most Americans are struggling to keep food on the table and a roof over their heads, but when Dr. Utopia and his fashion icon wife have decided that Jews are not worth spending the normal Hannakhah budget on.

The White House gutted the annual Hannakhah party by half.

They claimed they needed to cut costs and could not afford to throw a lavish party with that many guests.

Yet, the Utopias are throwing one of the most lavish, extravagant, spendthrift celebrations Washington has seen in YEARS to delight the multimillionaire spoiled children of Hollywood (which will have more guests than the Hannakhah party would have). The premise is a state dinner for India; the reality is that it’s an overblown, Mrs. Utopia-inspired, “let them eat curry”, tented bougie affair using India as an excuse to have all of Hollywood fly in on private jets, carbon footprints be damned.

Normally, a state dinner like this would be held inside the White House itself, without a tent. But, what’s a big Hollywood party without a tent? Oprah always has a tent at her parties in Montecito, and that’s just the Muumuu she wears to the breakfast trough hours before the actual party begins.

via HillBuzz

A stain upon Gore et al.

Via Big Government: Global Warming’s ‘Blue Dress’ Moment?

If you’re not a global warming geek, the point of the material is that we have apparent — and I only say apparent at this point — written admissions of cooking the books, among other nastiness, by the leading names in the global warming alarmist movement.

This could be interesting…

Quote of the Day: Change is Novelty

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You have less than 48 hours to contact your senators and tell them to oppose Harry Reid’s Health Care Abomination:

I knew that there is a manifest, marked distinction, which ill men with ill designs, or weak men incapable of any design, will constantly be confounding, that is, a marked distinction between change and reformation. The former alters the substance of the objects themselves; and gets rid of all their essential good, as well as of all the accidental evil, annexed to them. Change is novelty; and whether it is to operate any one of the effects of reformation at all, or whether it may not contradict the very principle upon which reformation is desired, cannot be certainly known beforehand. Reform is, not a change in the substance, or in the primary modification, of the object, but, a direct application of a remedy to the grievance complained of. So far as that is removed, all is sure. It stops there; and, if it fails, the substance which underwent the operation, at the very worst, is but where it was. – Edmund Burke

via Quotes « DPGI – the aftermath.