Obama’s new campaign slogan: Yes we did! Seriously:
President Barack Obama has a new campaign slogan.“Yes, we did.”
He didn’t say “Yes, we did take a wrecking ball to the economy and your liberty.” Oh no. He would never admit that. But he did go on to make fun of Republicans.
He was also as partisan as he gets, calling out Republicans by name and having fun at their expense.
“They say no to everything,” Obama said, feigning indignant. “I go and I talk to them, and I say, ‘C’mon we can get something going here.’ No! Don’t want to.”
He again took on House Republican leader John Boehner for comparing Democrats’ financial regulatory reform legislation to killing an ant with a nuclear weapon — “You’ve gotta make a movie: The Ant that Ate the Economy,” he joked. He again knocked Rep. Joe Barton, the Texas Republican who apologized to BP for the administration’s actions during the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico — “When I heard that, I said, ‘Naw, he didn’t say that,’” Obama said playfully.
The audience laughed. So did he.
“The Bartons and the Boehners and the Blunts. They’ve got that ‘No’ philosophy,” Obama said. “That’s the choice in this election: moving backward or moving forward.”
Voters have seen this movie before, he said, “So we know how this movie ends. Right?”
Yeah. It ends with a lame duck one term demagogue and an enormous mess that could take generations to clean up.
Via memeorandum
Update: The organizers of this event were unable to fill all of the seats, so they had to slash the prices. Heh!
Maybe it is “the silly season” or something. Yesterday Rush was blabbering on that Art Laffer has evidence that unemployment assistance causes unemployment. Not quite as stupid as Nancy saying that it creates jobs, but almost. Uh … unemployment is caused by being terminated by an employer. It does not include leaving voluntarily.
Of course – if we put a silly-meter on obama it would explode.
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Hi Physicsnut,
Your point is clear and well said…
Having been unemployed for a time in my life, I can say that the assistance I received was insignificant. I worked hard at finding another job and when I got an offer, I was delighted at the thought of giving up my unemployment ins. and all that stressful “free time”. But that’s just me and I can’t speak for others that may find themselves in the same unfortunate position today.
I considered what Rush said and mentally converted it to “getting something for nothing, tends to reinforce doing nothing”. At a high level, it makes sense, but the variables will increase as you go down to the level of the individual… As such, I would be interested in seeing the evidence.
To me, the greater issue is that we simply can’t afford to continue spending money we do not have. Whether it’s for unemployment insurance, or health care, or what ever, we have to stop.
If we as individuals can’t spend ourselves out of debt, what makes us think that our government, using all the financial tools available on a global scale, can do so? They have been trying to spend us into to prosperity for many decades and where has it gotten us but deeper in debt (thank you, John Maynard Keynes).
What we are dealing with here is an issue of government power and control, not one of economic growth. After all, what’s the point of fiscal restraint when you have a boat load of stolen money at your disposal and the means to continue stealing it… Our government taking something and returning nothing.
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