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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (85140)	6/3/2010 8:56:34 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 224733

As Oil Slips Away, So Do Chances for idiotOdumbama Published: June 2, 2010 WASHINGTON — idiot Odumbama is supposed to leave Washington in 10 days for Indonesia, Australia and Guam, but with oil still gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, some in the White House are wondering whether the weeklong trip should be scrubbed. For now, the trip remains on the schedule. But as the White House tallies up the spiraling price tag of the largest oil spill in American history, the bottom line extends beyond dollars and cents. Also on the line are the opportunity costs for a president who already had a packed agenda before a rig exploded in the waters off Louisiana. Now that engineers have given up trying to plug the leak and have turned their efforts to containing it until a relief well can be finished in August, idiot Odumbama faces at least two more months of crisis management that will complicate his hopes of advancing his agenda in other areas. Every day he devotes to a spill that seems beyond his control, and every day it consumes attention in Washington, is another day that he cannot focus as much energy and resources on his own initiatives. idiot Odumbama had hoped to spend his summer creating jobs, passing financial reform, promoting his health care program, getting a Supreme Court justice confirmed and an arms control treaty with Russia ratified, pressing for international sanctions against Iran and jump-starting the troubled Middle East peace process. While not abandoning any of those goals, idiot Odumbama now must find ways to continue pushing them while demonstrating to the nation that he is concentrating on a spill he has called “our highest priority.” “This has hijacked his entire legislative agenda,” said Douglas Brinkley, a historian at Rice University who has written about Jimmy Carter, whose presidency was consumed by the Iran hostage crisis. “The White House felt they were on a roll. They were looking to be a new New Deal or new Great Society and they were just getting momentum going. Something this awful has sidetracked the agenda.”

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (85140)	6/3/2010 9:01:45 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 224733

U.S. Was Reluctant to Announce Spill Probe Attorney General Holder disclosed the Justice Department's probes of the Gulf oil disaster after initial reluctance among some subordinates to make the investigations public at a sensitive point in the effort to plug the leaking well. idiot odumba took oil contribution$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (85140)	6/3/2010 9:07:18 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 224733

BY ELIZABETH HOLMES Retail sales in May remained weak following a lackluster April, according to one spending barometer, providing further indication that any recovery in consumer spending is going to be choppy. The slowdown follows a strong holiday season and start to the year, when consumers showed a willingness to spend again and even pay closer to full price. Now, they are revealing their cautious streak. MasterCard Advisors SpendingPulse, a unit of MasterCard Inc. that tracks spending by credit card, debit card, cash and check, said that specialty-apparel sales fell 3.7% in May from a year earlier, the second consecutive month of declines ... how tax cheater and idiot odumba destroy american worker wealth?? only way to make money is to cheat taxes and take oil money$$$$$ like idiot odumba

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (85140)	6/3/2010 10:10:09 AM
From: lorne	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224733

Morris: Obama doesn’t have a clue By Dick Morris - 06/01/10 thehill.com Conservatives are so enraged at Obama’s socialism and radicalism that they are increasingly surprised to learn that he is incompetent as well. The sight of his blithering and blustering while the most massive oil spill in history moves closer to America’s beaches not only reminds one of Bush’s terrible performance during Katrina, but calls to mind Jimmy Carter’s incompetence in the face of the hostage crisis. America is watching the president alternate between wringing his hands in helplessness and pointing his finger in blame when he should be solving the most pressing environmental problem America has faced in the past 50 years. We are watching generations of environmental protection swept away as marshes, fisheries, vacation spots, recreational beaches, wetlands, hatcheries and sanctuaries fall prey to the oil spill invasion. And, all the while, the president acts like a spectator, interrupting his basketball games only to excoriate BP for its failure to contain the spill. The political fallout from the oil spill will, indeed, spill across party and ideological lines. The environmentalists of America cannot take heart from a president so obviously ignorant about how to protect our shores and so obstinately arrogant that he refuses to inform himself and take any responsibility. All of this explains why the oil spill is seeping into his ratings among Democrats, dragging him down to levels we have not seen since Bush during the pit of the Iraq war. Conservatives may dislike Obama because he is a leftist. But liberals are coming to dislike him because he is not a competent progressive. Meanwhile, the nation watches nervously as the same policies Obama has brought to our nation are failing badly and publicly in Europe. When Moody’s announces that it is considering downgrading bonds issued by the government of the United States of America, we find ourselves, suddenly, in deep trouble. We have had deficits before. But never have they so freaked investors that a ratings agency considered lowering its opinion of our solvency. Not since Alexander Hamilton assumed the states’ Revolutionary War debt has America’s willingness and ability to meet its financial obligations been as seriously questioned. And the truth begins to dawn on all of us: Obama has no more idea how to work his way out of the economic mess into which his policies have plunged us than he does about how to clean up the oil spill that is destroying our southern coastline. Both the financial crisis and the oil come ever closer to our shores — one from the east and the other from the south — and, between them, they loom as a testament to the incompetence of our government and of its president. And, oddly, to his passivity as well. After pursuing a remarkably activist, if misguided and foolhardy, agenda, Obama seems not to know what to do and finds himself consigned to the roles of observer and critic. America is getting the point that its president doesn’t have a clue. He doesn’t know how to stop the oil from spilling. He is bereft of ideas about how to create jobs in the aftermath of the recession. He has no idea how to keep the European financial crisis contained. He has no program for repaying the massive debt hole into which he has dug our nation without tax increases he must know will only deepen the pit. Some presidents have failed because of their stubbornness (Johnson and Bush-43). Others because of their character flaws (Clinton and Nixon). Still others because of their insensitivity to domestic problems (Bush-41). But now we have a president who is failing because he is incompetent. It is Jimmy Carter all over again. Who would have thought that this president, so anxious to lead us and so focused on his specific agenda and ideas, would turn out not to know what he is doing?