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Gawd, I hate this guy.

Post 1

Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - 3:23pm

Wow! And you know exactly what he means -- that big government is just fine and should get bigger.

Ron Owens, one of the local talk-show hosts here in the Bay Area, who is a dyed-in-the-wool liberal (aren't they all?) was saying today that, despite having voted for Obama, he was very unhappy with him, and would not vote for him again. Why? Because Obama is hell-bent on expanding government -- this by a liberal (who refers to himself as more a "centrist"). Owens mentioned a recent poll in which 51% thought Obama was a socialist. Owens said that he didn't think Obama was actually a socialist but was definitely moving in that direction.

If our president gets re-elected it will be a miracle!

Post 2

Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - 4:46pm

Pundits are already talking "Lame Duck."

I don't know where he got the figures, but Limbaugh said today that it will take 25 years to correct the damage Obama did in four.

Post 3

Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - 4:54pm

Teresa,

Just to cheer you up a bit....

One day on Glenn Beck's show he was interviewing Art Laffer, Reagan's economic advisor, and Beck was moaning about how long it would take to correct all of things that Obama was screwing up, and Laffer just chuckled and said, I fix all of this a long weekend. He was exaggerating of course, but there is a lot of truth to the idea that when the right people are in place, things get fixed quickly. Lots of bills to be passed that say just one word: "Repealed"

Post 4

Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - 5:30pm

Agree with Steve. Sanction. The marginal increase in the debt adds to the amount the feds have to finance in interest on the national debt, but that marginal increase in interest due is only a couple percentage points worth of federal spending. And, all the legislation Obama signs can be repealed.

I mean, look at Germany, Japan, South Korea, and Hong Kong, all of which started from essentially scratch in the recent historic past and grew vibrant economies.

The problem isn't that all this isn't quickly fixable, the problem is getting enough limited government people in government to be willing to fix it, to hack the federal government back to the minarchy specified in the Constitution. Get to that, and expect stunning, explosive growth and prosperity.

Post 5

Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - 11:34pm

We need to elect people that are gutsy enough to cut government spending by 50% the first year... WHACK!

None of that starting with some small cuts now and maybe more later, and certainly none of that business of cutting the rate of increase.

The new congress should immediately put together a Tea Party Caucus and let anyone in that has the proper credentials - based upon their votes, and based upon the positions they are willing to commit to - with a signature on the line - for things like a balanced budget amendment to the constitution. They should then strive to make that the seat of congressional power - not those hoary old timers with special committee positions, and not the Republican caucus or the Democratic caucus or the Progressive caucus or the Black caucus. And they should advertise, daily, what the caucus is doing, who is in it, who will be kicked out if they vote for big spending like they are threatening, etc.

Out of that caucus the people should get report cards and see concrete proposals.

Post 6

Wednesday, July 14, 2010 - 8:07am