Posted by
RME KRNL on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 8:31:16 PM
Subtitle: Some old, some new, some borrowed, some blue - but all especially just for you!
[This article's mainly opinion for entertainment, with some tongue-in-cheek and a few facts mixed in, so get a cup of coffee, or maybe a glass of wine, or whatever's your poison, and relax and take your time.]
1. Health care reform
Let me get this straight -- we're going to pass a health care reform plan written by a committee whose head says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn't read it but exempts themselves from it, signed by a president that also hasn't read it.....and who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a surgeon general who is chubby, and financed by a country that's nearly broke. Huh! Well, what could possibly go wrong?
2. Gandhi - or not?
Obama recently released a statement regarding Mahatma Gandhi's birthday. In the statement, Obama said, “Americans owe an enormous measure of gratitude to the Mahatma. His teachings and ideals, shared with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on his 1959 pilgrimage to India, transformed American society through our civil rights movement.” There's just one problem; Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in 1948.
Oh well, we know history is not Obama's strong suit, otherwise how could he have gone overseas and declared that we are not a Christian nation but in fact are a Muslim nation? Oh, and then there's that thing about when our 57th state was accepted into the Union, too.
3. Stimulus?
A new study by the National Bureau of Economic Research shows government stimulus spending does not boost economic growth. Well, duh! I think a lot of people, except Obama, his advisors and Congressional Democrats, already knew that.
We can only hope that the expense of this important study was paid for out of the Obama Stimulus Plan. At least that would be poetic justice, as well as a lot of irony.
4. Cash for Clunkers was such a success!
In the aftermath of President Obama’s Cash for Clunkers Program, US auto sales plunged 23%: 47% at GM, 44% at Chrysler, 8.9% at Ford, 16% at Toyota, 23% at Honda, and 11% at Nissan.
5. Who's who in Honduras?
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Senator John "horse face" Kerry (D-MA) blocked Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) from traveling to Honduras on a fact finding mission, while President Obama and Congressional Democrats continue to support the deposed former president, who tried to override the Honduran constitution and become president-for-life, instead of supporting the democratic government in upcoming elections. Maybe Obama sees a "model" in Honduras he would like to emulate here? Just askin' - Just sayin'.
6. You may be Taliban if:
a. You refine heroin for a living, but you have a moral objection to beer.
b. You own a $3,000 machine gun and $5,000 rocket launcher, but you can't afford shoes.
c. You have more wives than teeth.
d. You wipe your butt with your bare hand, but consider bacon "unclean."
e. You think vests come in two styles: bullet-proof and suicide.
f. You can't think of anyone you haven't declared Jihad against.
g. You consider television dangerous, but routinely carry explosives in your clothing.
h. You were amazed to discover that cell phones have uses other than setting off roadside bombs.
i. You have nothing against women and think every man should own at least two.
j. You've always had a crush on your neighbor's goat.
7. Notable quotable
So-called "conservative" David Brooks on Obama's pants, after meeting the president for the first time: "I remember distinctly an image of – we were sitting on his couches and I was looking at his pant leg and his perfectly creased pant -- and I'm thinking (a) he's going to be president and (b) he'll be a very good president." Gee, that's at least close to MSNBC's Chris Matthews' "tingle up the leg," isn't it? Who ARE these guys, and what kinds of measures of who will make a good president do they engage in?
8. What's the hurry?
Rich Lowry, Editor, National Review, on President Obama's "Plan for Health Care Reform," said it best: "As with the stimulus package, Obama's health care plan depends on speed. More important than any given provision, more important than any principle, more important than sound legislating is the urgent imperative to Do It Now. Do it now, before anyone can grasp what exactly it is that Congress is passing. Do it now, before the overpromising and the dishonest justifications can be exposed. Do it now, before Obama's poll numbers return to Earth and make it impossible to slam through ramshackle government programs concocted on the run. Do it now, because simply growing government is more important than the practicalities of any new program."
9. A nook, a cranny, a crook?
In the difference between a nook and a cranny, a nook is a corner and a cranny is a crack. So, why wouldn't that mean that a crack in a corner would be a crook? No, I forgot, the real crook is the Congressman in the corner, making condescending cracks about his constituents.
10. A not very apologetic "apology"
Media Matters, after attributing two "racist" statements to radio host Rush Limbaugh but then not being able to substantiate them, said on October 22, 2009:
You know, in fairness to Rush, those two out of literally dozens of racist things were not necessarily accurate. We were never able to find them. We've had people call us trying to find it. We don't know where they came from. They could just be Internet apparitions. But you know, that being said, anyone who wants to know how racist he is, we're happy to give them other examples.
But then, despite saying "in fairness to Rush" (yeah, like that's what they're all about) and "those two out of literally dozens of racist things" (dozens? -- really?), they ..... um ..... failed to provide ANY of the "other examples." So, with Media Matters, it must be just like it is with the Obama Administration -- "It's so just because we SAY it's so."