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Title: Four More Years – of This? [Pat Buchanan]
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URL Source: http://lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan206.html
Published: Jan 8, 2012
Author: Pat Buchanan
Post Date: 2012-01-08 09:19:14 by Capitalist Eric
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Views: 8599
Comments: 23
In what The Washington Post called "a bold act of political defiance," President Obama Wednesday announced the recess appointment of Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Cordray's nomination had been blocked by a Senate filibuster. There was no way he was going to win approval in 2012. Enraged Republicans denounced the appointment as an affront and a usurpation of power, for the Senate had not formally gone into recess. The White House airily dismissed the Republican rage, saying no Senate business is being conducted during the Christmas-New Year break, and to argue that the Senate is still in session is a sham. Obama seemed to delight in his Trumanesque contempt: "I will not sit by while a minority in the Senate puts party ideology ahead of the people they were elected to serve. ... Not at this make-or-break moment for middle-class Americans." Cordray's appointment will be contested in the courts. Yet it will likely stand, though it's in-your-face aspect added appreciably to the bad blood bubbling in this city. The Obamaites seem not to care. Indeed, from year-end reports out of Hawaii, this is the new Obama strategy. He has given up on working with Congress and intends to run a year-long campaign modeled on Harry Truman's 1948 demagogic assault on the "no-good, do-nothing 80th Congress" – the one that passed Taft-Hartley and enacted the Marshall Plan. Details of the Obama strategy were spoon-fed to the Post and New York Times. The Times lead: "President Obama is heading into his re-election campaign with plans to step up his offensive against an unpopular Congress, concluding that he cannot pass any major legislation in 2012 because of Republican hostility to his agenda." The Post lead: "President Obama has a New Year's resolution that will shape his re-election strategy at the dawn of 2012: Keep beating up on an unpopular Congress." Once he gets a year's extension of the Social Security payroll tax cut, said White House deputy press secretary Josh Earnest, that is the last "must-do" item, "the president is no longer tied to Washington, D.C." But if the president is about to barnstorm the nation savaging Congress for a full year, where does that leave the country? If Obama will be proposing nothing to deal with the fiscal crisis – trillion-dollar deficits as far as the eye can see – how does America avert the future that Italy faces? Italy's debt is 120 percent of gross domestic product; ours, at 100 percent of GDP, is not all that far behind. The U.S. fiscal crisis can be simply summarized. Since 2009, the federal government has been spending 24 to 25 percent of gross domestic product, while tax collections have fallen to 15 percent. When his first four years end, Obama will have grown the debt by $6 trillion. And if he is giving up on any solution in 2012, believing he can win re-election by vilifying the GOP as toadies to America's top 1 percent, who are icily indifferent to the middle class, what hope is there for any political cooperation, should Obama win? As of today, Obama is running even with Mitt Romney. He has lost much of the enthusiasm of the young and the minorities that he had in 2008. College-educated whites who had hopes for him seem disillusioned. Assuredly, he may still win. But should Obama win, how, after a campaign like the one he intends to conduct, does he unite the country? How does he work with a Republican Party that will likely still hold the House and will have made gains in the Senate, after he has spent a year castigating that party? And what happen to the nation if we have five more years of political gridlock? If the president failed to broker a budget compromise with the GOP in 2011 and has given up on 2012, how does he work with a Republican House in 2013? How does he, in a second term, resolve this budget crisis when his bottom-line demand for higher taxes is poison to a party he has just trashed for 15 months as a tool of Wall Street? Resolving our fiscal crisis seems today beyond the capacity of the U.S. government, as currently constituted. We appear to be in a crisis of the regime rooted in an irreconcilable ideological conflict between two parties of relatively equal strength. Republicans who refused to raise taxes in 2011 are not going to agree to raise them in 2013 in response to a request from an Obama who defeated them by portraying them as the party of the 1 percent in 2012. If Obama is re-elected, the crisis endures. It will then be resolved when the world realizes that the U.S. deficit and debt are beyond the capacity of this U.S. government to bring under control. At that point, the ratings agencies and world markets will begin to treat the U.S. debt the way they treat the debts of Italy and Spain.
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#1. To: Capitalist Eric (#0)
Pat has been spinning out this same headline since 1992.
I'll believe that a corporation is a person 1 second after Texas executes one...
Another example of NOT reading the article, only knee-jerking to the headline. Your life must really suck, when the only thing you can do is troll.
“Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say 'what should be the reward of such sacrifices?' Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!” -- Samuel Adams --
war ... on the --- short leash !
If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons - question marks are for girlie boys !
I thought war only wore spandex? Is that really him?
Chuckles...I could beat the ever loving piss out of you wearing a girdle. It's not the clothes, Stone.
I'll believe that a corporation is a person 1 second after Texas executes one...
I wasn't interested in knowing what you dress in. Spandex was bad enough.
Whatever it is I'm wearing you'd be looking up at it...if you were able to roll over from whatever puddle you were laying in...
I'll believe that a corporation is a person 1 second after Texas executes one...
Pip squeaks don't scare me. You have little mans syndrome. Have to try to prove your manhood by talking tough on the internet.
Reminds me of Gerbil Man......
Quiz of the Day: Who made the statement "The world would be a better place if only Men were to vote?????? HINT: It was a woman!!!
You need to send a copy of this to lucysmom......
Quiz of the Day: Who made the statement "The world would be a better place if only Men were to vote?????? HINT: It was a woman!!!
Hardly. His goal was to derail the thread, and so far it's looking like he'll succeed. After all, it's what he does. He's a troll, pure and simple. It's why he never directly addresses anything of substance in any thread. Even when he posts something on a new thread, it's to either push the latest state-approved propaganda, or solicit angry responses from other forum members. He's also quite consistent in his approach to derailing threads. He uses the rules of disinformation faithfully. Eventually, he defaults to bitching about spelling and/or punctuation.
“Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say 'what should be the reward of such sacrifices?' Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!” -- Samuel Adams --
That could apply to you just as well.
Economics is a social phenomenon and in no way a “science”, no matter how desperately its high priests would like to have it believed otherwise. It is, instead, a branch of anthropology and the sooner that is recognized and accepted, the better off human-kind in general and the world of academic economics, in particular, shall be proximity1 We probably will see widespread civil disorder in the 1980s, as a direct result of our faltering economic system. Ron Paul
Try me any time Stone. ANY time. Hey...I wear spandex...
I'll believe that a corporation is a person 1 second after Texas executes one...
Hilarious that he *thinks* I have "little man syndrome" eh? As YOU well know...even ghosts don't scare ME... Is "little" a word that you would use to describe me?
I'll believe that a corporation is a person 1 second after Texas executes one...
You make more sense when you use pictures, Junior.
I'll believe that a corporation is a person 1 second after Texas executes one...
You're SO insightful, Junior. It's why he never directly addresses anything of substance in any thread. Considering I just bitch slapped both you and the "writer" of a thread that you posted that's pretty stupid of you.
I'll believe that a corporation is a person 1 second after Texas executes one...
Let's just say if you and Stone ever meet face to face I'd love to be there to watch his reaction.
Economics is a social phenomenon and in no way a “science”, no matter how desperately its high priests would like to have it believed otherwise. It is, instead, a branch of anthropology and the sooner that is recognized and accepted, the better off human-kind in general and the world of academic economics, in particular, shall be proximity1 We probably will see widespread civil disorder in the 1980s, as a direct result of our faltering economic system. Ron Paul
Perhaps, Eric, the problem is you.
Economics is a social phenomenon and in no way a “science”, no matter how desperately its high priests would like to have it believed otherwise. It is, instead, a branch of anthropology and the sooner that is recognized and accepted, the better off human-kind in general and the world of academic economics, in particular, shall be proximity1 We probably will see widespread civil disorder in the 1980s, as a direct result of our faltering economic system. Ron Paul
If you're so retarded that you need pictures to understand concepts, then you should forget about the internet, and read comic-books... I'd suggest something that avoids words of more than two syllables. When adults get tired of your bullshit and beat you like a drum, do you in turn go to your friends (assuming you have any) and tell them, "oh he didn't win, I hit his fist with my face three or four times!!!" What a laugh. What a JOKE you really are... You're just trolling through the various threads, trying to derail any discussion that touches on the statist system. WHY? Because as you've already admitted, you're a parasite living off the system. And if REAL Americans get their way, you'll actually have to go out and get a real job (assuming you know what a real job is). Bottom line: you're a statist, corporate whore. And your days of sucking off the system are numbered. :)
“Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say 'what should be the reward of such sacrifices?' Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!” -- Samuel Adams --
LOL.
“Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say 'what should be the reward of such sacrifices?' Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!” -- Samuel Adams --
Wart secretly want Mitts to be elected so that he can get free Romneycare and a corporate bailout. Too big of an idiot to fail.
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
Neither "Romenycare" nor the so-called "Obamacare" are free. Your level of informity remains in deficit, hongoo.
I'll believe that a corporation is a person 1 second after Texas executes one...
Boy it sure is getting deep in here!!!! Quiz of the Day: Who made the statement "The world would be a better place if only Men were to vote?????? HINT: It was a woman!!!
#2. To: war (#1)
Pat has been spinning out this same headline since 1992.
#3. To: war (#1)
#4. To: BorisY (#3)
#5. To: A K A Stone (#4)
#6. To: war (#5)
wearing a girdle
#7. To: A K A Stone (#6)
#8. To: war (#7)
Whatever it is I'm wearing you'd be looking up at it...if you were able to roll over from whatever puddle you were laying in...
#9. To: A K A Stone (#8)
You have little mans syndrome. Have to try to prove your manhood by talking tough on the internet.
#10. To: BorisY (#3)
#11. To: A K A Stone (#8)
Pip squeaks don't scare me. You have little mans syndrome. Have to try to prove your manhood by talking tough on the internet.
#12. To: A K A Stone (#8)
Pip squeaks don't scare me. You have little mans syndrome. Have to try to prove your manhood by talking tough on the internet.
#13. To: A K A Stone (#8)
#14. To: lucysmom (#12)
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#15. To: Capitalist Eric (#2)
#16. To: Capitalist Eric (#11)
#17. To: war (#14)
Is "little" a word that you would use to describe me?
#18. To: Capitalist Eric (#11)
It's why he never directly addresses anything of substance in any thread. Even when he posts something on a new thread, it's to either push the latest state-approved propaganda, or solicit angry responses from other forum members.
#19. To: war, a k a stone, cz82, jwpegler, hondo68, Get Outta Dodge!, Coral Snake, socalv8, Wood_Chopper (#15)
You make more sense when you use pictures, Junior.
Considering I just bitch slapped both you and the "writer" of a thread that you posted that's pretty stupid of you.
#20. To: lucysmom (#18)
Perhaps, Eric, the problem is you.
#21. To: Capitalist Eric, war, *Ron Paul for President* (#19)
you're a statist, corporate whore.
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#22. To: hondo68 (#21)
Wart secretly want Mitts to be elected so that he can get free Romneycare and a corporate bailout.
#23. To: All (#0)
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