The Uncivility of Barack Obama
"We don't mind the Republicans joining us," Obama taunted a few weeks ago. "They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back."
"They're counting on young people staying home and union members staying home and black folks staying home," the fear-mongering agent of hope and change jeered on the campaign trail last month.
"You would think they'd be saying thank you," he sneered last April, when millions turned out for the nationwide Tax Day tea party protests.
"I want them just to get out of the way" and "don't do a lot of talking," he scoffed in response to prescient critics of the federal trillion-dollar stimulus boondoggle.
In addition to labeling GOP opponents of his open-borders policies "enemies" who needed to be "punished" by Latino voters, Obama accused them — that is, us — of lacking patriotism. "Those aren't the kinds of folks who represent our core American values," he told viewers of the Spanish-language network Univision.
And So It Multiplies
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer called regular folks who voiced an opinion regarding the federal health care takeover in the town halls of 2009 "un-American," too. "Astroturf, jinned up". Remember? "Drowning out [voicing] opposing views is simply un-American," Pelosi and Hoyer blasted.
This from the woman who called for a vengeful government investigation of grassroots opponents of the Ground Zero mosque. "Abuse of Power" is what I call it.
Obama's pal Rep. Alan Grayson of Florida, whom the president hailed as an "outstanding" member of Congress, accused Republicans of wanting elderly people to "die quickly" and of presiding over a "holocaust in America." Vice President Joe Biden hailed Grayson as a "guy who doesn't back away from a fight, and doesn't back down from what he believes in" and told him at a fundraiser: "We owe you one, buddy." No mention of Grayson's smear of a female Federal Reserve adviser as a "K Street whore."
In California, entrenched incumbent jerk Pete Stark derided immigration enforcement activists at a town hall by asking: "Who are you going to kill today?" To an elderly constituent who opposed the health care bill, Stark retorted: "I wouldn't dignify you by peeing on your leg. It wouldn't be worth wasting the urine."
As voters who have been maligned by the ruling majority as stupid, unwashed, racist, selfish and violent headed to the polls Tuesday, Democrats released "talking points" attacking Republican leaders who "are not willing to compromise." But "no compromise" is exactly the message that un-American Americans delivered to Washington this campaign season:
No more compromising deals behind closed doors. No more compromising bailouts in times of manufactured crisis. No more compromising conservative principles for D.C. party elites. No more compromising the American economy for left-wing special interests. No more compromising transparency and ethics for bureaucratic self-preservation.
Let us be clear, in case it hasn't fully sunk into the minds of Obama and the trash-talking Democrats yet: You can take your faux olive branch and shove it. Thank you.
– Michelle Malkin
President Obama has a weakness for thinking in categories — compartmentalizing. For someone who provokes swoons among liberals for his great intellect, he has repeatedly evidenced an unsophisticated, one might even say simple-minded, view of the world: Workers good; bosses exploitative. Borrowers good; lenders bad. Patients good; insurance companies bad. Again and again, the president and his spokesmen have justified their expansions of government power as efforts to help those who "through no fault of their own" find themselves in difficulties.
Government Failure
No CommentsJanuary 15, 2011 at 8:37 amCategory:Commentary | Government
Proof the "government" is useless and indeed, dangerous.
Bobby Herring and his wife, Amanda, have been active in providing meals for Houston’s (TX) homeless population.
But two weeks ago, the government shut them down and for a nonsensical reason – not having a permit which requires and "certified kitchen".
Hold on… does this mean we have to shut down every home kitchen because it is not certified by local yokels? My goodness, how have we survived all these thousands of years?
“We don’t really know what they want, we just think that they don’t want us down there feeding people,” Bobby said.
Kathy Barton, a spokeswoman for the Health and Human Services Department, told the Chronicle exactly what “they” are looking for: food that’s prepared in a “certified” kitchen under the watch of a “certified” food manager.
The regulations and permit are essential when it comes to the homeless, Barton told the Chronicle, because “poor people are the most vulnerable to foodborne illness and also are the least likely to have access to health care.”
I guess they are not vulnerable to starvation…. I'm just saying.
I am a certified food manager and I say she is an idiot backing a ridiculous rule.
Another example of government failure.