Stand by Your Man
The headlines on the Drudge Report make it sound worse than it is: "Blacks, liberals flee in droves." And underneath: "Sanders (that's Bernie Sanders, the Independent from Vermont): Obama should face primary challenger." And above: "Obama's Base Crumbles."
The truth is that with Washington still unable to reach an agreement on the deficit and the budget, with the game of chicken continuing to a point that no parent would allow out on a playground, everyone's base is crumbling. Confidence in politicians of both stripes is dropping and understandably so.
On the Democratic side, a Washington Post-ABC News poll finds that the number of liberal Democrats who "strongly support" President Obama's record on jobs has dropped from 53 percent last year to 31 percent today; among African Americans, the number who believe he's helped the economy is down from 77 percent in October to just more than 50 percent now.
The Republicans are actually faring worse. More people (65 percent) fault congressional Republicans for their handling of the economy than blame the president (52 percent). And a majority still blames former President George W. Bush for the country's economic woes.
So with all due respect to Sanders, a primary challenge for the incumbent president would not be a "good idea," at least for those of us who are not yearning for a return to the "W" years. Deserting the president "in droves," if that's how you want to describe it, doesn't help anyone. The blame game goes nowhere. It encourages precisely the sort of no-win politics that is paralyzing Washington during this long, hot summer.
I was talking to a very smart reporter the other day who pointed out — rightly, I think — that at another time, the markets would have stepped in and solved the problems. At another time, the concern that America's biggest companies and biggest employers would suffer if Washington couldn't get its act together would have forced legislators to take action. Nothing like a huge drop in the Dow to get everyone's attention.
But today, these aren't America's biggest companies; they're global giants whose survival doesn't depend on a budget deal in Washington. The bond market won't move when people are concerned that returns could go down, not up. If our rating goes from AAA to AA, that will just mean we're in the same category as Japan and China.
We have to save ourselves, and we won't do it by acting like the children in Washington.
Where I come from, loyalty is not about standing by your man when times are good. That's not loyalty; it's just common sense. It's not the hard thing to do; it's the easy thing to do.
Loyalty is about tough times, tough decisions, standing by your man on the hard days.
I don't like the economy any more than the next person. I'm blessed to be secure, to be able to pay my bills and educate my kids, but believe me, that isn't true for many of the people around me, for family and friends. When unemployment is as high as it is, when housing prices have dropped as low as they have, no one is untouched. But that's not a reason to desert a president who has kept his promises and is struggling to secure a deal that will not betray those most in need.
I don't approve of everything the president has done. Who would? He's not my puppet. But I strongly disapprove of any Democrat who stands up to try to block his re-election because they think that somehow they could do better. If it were easy, we'd all be on the beach, including President Obama.
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"I don't approve of everything the president has done. Who would? He's not my puppet." Maybe not, but what is clear is that you surely are his.
Comment: #1
Posted by: joseph wright
Tue Jul 26, 2011 5:23 PM
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Once I overcame my shock after Obama was elected (HE HAD ZERO EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE! WHAT THE HELL DOES A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER DO!), I realized the silver lining: he would destroy the Democratic Party faster and to a much greater extent than what George W. Bush did to the Republican party. And lo and behold, he is doing just that. Unlike the people who voted for this tool I actually researched (or at least tried to) his hidden past and knew he would cause more damage than Carter. My God, his political career was launched out of the house of Bill Ayers!
Follow the rest of the rats Susan and jump ship. It's only going to get worse for Barry; and for us.
Comment: #2
Posted by: E Ortiz
Tue Jul 26, 2011 5:31 PM
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Yikes Susan! Give it up. He is an ideologue with absolutely no experience in the real world. He has never even had a paper route. Ortiz has it right above this post. I truly feel Barry is a total fraud (education, citizenship, etc.,) and his intent is to destroy America as we know it and turn it into a socialist, Marxist-type state. He has his big bucks now and I think that he dreams of being a dictator similar to Chavez whom he greatly admires. A country that can mobilize and win WW2 in short order and put men on the moon should be able to handle the problems we have today. Makes no sense. Yes, Obama and the czars are very, very scary indeed...
Comment: #3
Posted by: Charlie
Tue Jul 26, 2011 9:25 PM
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It's no longer about Democrats versus Republicans. It's Socialist, Facists, Marxist versus Individualism, Capitalism. Susans has taken her side with the Marxists. It's her choice but it's my country she is helping to destroy.
Comment: #4
Posted by: Early
Wed Jul 27, 2011 4:48 AM
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Susan demonstrates that the left will indeed rally around the most loathsome of actors and actions no matter what. The "man" she would stand by and encourages others to stand by, as I have said before and will continue to say, has shown himself to be an incompetent, race baiting, affirmative action and media created, narcissistic, infanticide enabling, Islam pandering, indolent, Marxist, blame America first, golfing while the world is in crisis, sociopath pathological liar. He is shown himself to be a fraud masquerading as a legitimate POTUS. His Administration is simply Lies and Corruption Inc. He is guided by uber leftist liberal fascists who with other America hating “progressives” like him, who with Sorros and the openly seditious and treasonous former Democratic House and present Democratic Senate, aided by Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac and an incompetent FED, deliberately engineered and deliberately perpetuated the financial meltdown in order to hold power and to push a rabid socialist and redistributionist agenda. He has shwn in this present debt debate that he is truly the “enemy within” determined to ruin America in true “Cloward and Piven” style by overloading entitlement spending in order to destroy its economy through taxation. He is deliberately prolonging the present recession. He is growing Government exponentially. Through ilicit regulation and regulatory czars he has deliberately destroyed job growth. He will redistribute wealth to the parasites and is actively engaged in reparations and in redistributing justice by nominating the worst kind of activist radical liberals to the Supreme Court. He is stealing wealth to socialize healthcare. The State Department, under his watch, funds and panders to terrorist Muslim groups. The Justice Department under has become a hot bed of racism and has its mind closed to the law and to complaints of all save “Holder's” people. He actively seeks to end free speech, to attack the second amendment. He bows down to our enemies, has degraded national security and conceded the war on terror. He is starving and will continue to starve the US of home grown energy and will use the global warming hoax to tax, tax and tax again. Unthinking cult disciples and moronic white guilt ridden negrophiles, Gucci liberals (wearing him like a fashion accessory), nihilist progressives, clueless soccer moms mindlessly aping Oprah and Whoopi, liberal elites and hand out seeking moochers sucking on the taxpayer tit, emoted rather than reasoned and voted for a false messiah with an appropriately a**hole shaped logo and banal slogans like hope and change. They got what they voted for but are now getting what they asked for, to wit, unconscionable crippling debt, rampant corruption, radical socialism, record unemployment, inflation, and a coming great depression. The oval office is no place for Obama and never has been.
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Posted by: joseph wright
Wed Jul 27, 2011 6:14 AM
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I believe President Obama's major difficulty is not the economy; it is that he does not instill confidence. Everytime I accidently hear him speak, I cringe. Just as my liberal friends cringed every time President George W. Bush spoke. President Obama's problem with his base and opposition is not gridlock in Washington; it is that he is not authentic. Neither friend nor foe know what he stands for. For all their faults, Presidents Reagan and George W. Bush appeared to me to be authentic men who instilled confidence.
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Posted by: Motley Wisdom
Wed Jul 27, 2011 6:18 AM
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Re: Motley Wisdom
Wake Up! He's a Marxist!!!
Comment: #7
Posted by: Early
Wed Jul 27, 2011 6:47 AM
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Taking a stand for your country, the Republic and the Constitution by abandoning the enemy within, the enemy foreign and domestic never seems not to occur to Susan nor to any lib. By This article Susan has shown once and for all that for libs and progressives and the left standing by their "man" no matter how loathsome, no matter how incompetent, no matter how dishonest and deceitful, no matter how much hatred he displays for the Republic and the Constitution always takes priority.
Comment: #8
Posted by: joseph wright
Wed Jul 27, 2011 3:39 PM
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Just watched Grover Norquist on TV. With nutjobs like him around, we will never get anything done of importance in this Congress. I thought that the Tea Party types campaigned on their alliegence to the Constitution,,,,,,not to some ideologue whose organization is funded through the back-door by fat cats whose only agenda is to have taxes lowered for them at the expense of every other American. These are the real puppets ,,,these 80 odd tea party types who signed te Norquist pledge and now cower in fear that NorQuist will see to it that they are bounced from office if they don't dance on his puppet strings. In order to dance on the puppet strings they insist that the Bush tax cuts stay in place and that any tax loopholes stay in place. These guys want the fire trucks to come when their house is burning down but don't want to pay any taxes to cover the firefighter's salaries, NO TAX CUT EVER PUT OUT A FIRE. The agenda of these people is simply to bring down this president and they don't care what they do to the American economy to accomplish that goal.....Someone needs to remind them that if Obama does lose the next election, whoever takes over will face the consequences of what they have sown by wrecking the economy again. George W. Bush promised us that the tax breaks he instituted would spike a rise in jobs.....So far after almost nine years of those tax cuts, we have seen no significant job increases. It is obviously a huge MYTH that tax breaks for the rich stimulates job creation. Where??? Most of the rich now invest their money overseas where they get a better interest rate in places like Brazil and God forbid China. The conservative politicians have fooled most of their supporters into believing that they are acting in their best intersts when all they are doing is advancing the interests of that very limited top two percent. When Obama caved in to these guys and extended the Bush tax cuts , he proved that he is not much better than Bush. He has become a closet conservative...and the public has not realized it yet. I did not vote for him the last time and am looking around for someone else to vote for and then I see the line-up of almost crazy Republicans and actually crazy Republicans like Michele Bachmann and Herman Cain and I am just totally dismayed by the choices. Puppets, Loonies, and ethically challenged guys like Gingrich and Santorum , and then the MASTER OF FLIP-FLOP Mitt RomneyyenmoR ttiM.who stands for one thing this week and the opposite a week later>>>> Sorry Susan, but We are in a sad time in American politics.
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Posted by: robert lipka
Thu Jul 28, 2011 7:39 AM
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Just thought I would explain why I think Michele Bachnmann is nutz..... During the Republican New Hampshire debate she proudly told us that she had given birth to five children and also raised 23 foster children. then a few responses later she advocated demolishing the Environmental Protection Agency beacause '...OVERREGULATION OF BUSINESS IS COSTING US JOBA." Ddoes she not remember how the EPA came into being?? The big business interests dumped wo much sludge and pollutants into the Cuyahoga river in Ohio that the river caught on fire ! The images on television every night were burned into the minds of the public and they protested long and loud to Congress. Congress correctly responded by creating the EPA.
I fully expected that the next day, the headlines would be/ WHAT KIND OF MOTHER WOULD WANT TO RAISE HER 28 KIDS IN A POLLUTED ENVIRONMENT? Instead, I read that BACHMANN WINS DEBATE............ HUH???
Comment: #10
Posted by: robert lipka
Thu Jul 28, 2011 7:50 AM
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Re: robert lipka
The EPA with good intentions at it's founding has grown into a monster. It needs to be eliminated and turn air and water regulations over to the states. It's not a federal responsiblility. Read the Constitution.
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Posted by: Early
Fri Jul 29, 2011 5:29 AM
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Re: early
That did not work in the past because BIG BUSINESS simply steamrollered over the small state governments. so your answer is to go BACK to no regulation. ???? Sorry but watching what big business is doing to West Virgina even in the face of EPS regulations is enough to scare anyone. Big Coal just thumbs it's nose at the Federal government in that state and seems to be getting away with destroying that state. At least the EPA is "trying" to slow them down.
In Ohio people are happy with what the EPA did to clean up the Cuyahoga river. In Northwestern Pennsylvania, the EPA is keeping watch over Natural gas drillers who are using the Fracking process to bring up that asset but in the process have been ruining FOR ALL TIME the water supplies of many citizens. TOM RIDGE who I used to respect, is now a paid shill for this industry. Their argument is that they provide jobs but the damage they leave behind is enormous. I know people who can't even take a shower in their homes because the water can now catch on fire. Yes you read that right...the water can catch on fire. Unless and until we have a reasonable alternative WITH POWER to stop big business from ruining the environment , we need the EPA.
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Posted by: robert lipka
Fri Jul 29, 2011 6:28 AM
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Re: E Ortiz
828 Days with no budget and totally controlling the Big Three! Come on. This is Cloward and Piven and the Alinsky game plan! Mutually Assured Economic Destruction. The moochers and looters demanding more sacrifice. The weight of the poor...create a crisis and then 'don't let it go to waste"! If I sense all the 'useful idiots' are still loyally ,blindly bowing to their ruler the GodKing and still have not had enough pain--- in 2012 I will vote for Obama-- again! Why? Because he is going to break everything faster than the slow bleed we have been enduring since Wilson created The Fed.
The gig is up, party loyalty is so ignorant, so yesterday. it is now about answering this question: Are you an INDIVIDUAL, boldly, freely making your own happiness or a scared collectivist huddling with the false security of your 'they think and look like me' herd! As one of Susan's generations leaders and Obama's good buddies, used to say, -"Never trust anyone over 30' ? Come on, get really radical---FREE YOUR MIND THE REST WILL FOLLOW!! You guys used to be so cool. Those darn facts and their unintended consequences are such a buzz kill aren't they?
"This is the Story of Your Enslavement"! Watch it on YouTube
Comment: #13
Posted by: CC McKlintock
Mon Aug 1, 2011 7:16 AM
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Re: robert lipka
Once agian - Read the Constitution!!!
If you want to change do so but don't ignore it!
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Posted by: Early
Tue Aug 2, 2011 8:04 AM
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