Do I feel the least bit sorry for the clowns (pick your poison here)? Not one stinking bit. Where was Justice when we had those classified leaks about the cyber worm in Iranian computers? The leak about Seal Team 6 on the bin Laden operation? And so many others. Where has the AP been on speaking out about the “injustices” of this administration? Fast and Furious? Benghazi? Where have any news source been on critical issues? Absent. So now the rats are starting to feed on their own kind while still alive. The implosions are just beginning and I got a new West Bend popcorn maker that I have been using daily for ballgames. Looks like I will be making extra batches from here on out. Carney won’t respond cause it is an ongoing criminal investigation. I’m still waiting for Carney’s head to explode, live on TV, while giving one of his Pinocchio tales. His washer only has “spin cycle” on its dial.
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Others have reflected upon this election with bewilderment. Many of us wonder when the “loose ends” will finally be tied. Reading some good comments and some bad ones also, I bring up lines in a movie called SHOOTER. It is your standard Hollywood fair starring Mark Wahlberg. I like Mark and I liked the movie. It is the normal conspiracy, con, set-up then cover up type of plot but that isn’t what makes the movie. It is the lines in the dialog that jump out at you. They can be used very appropriately for politics of today. With the discussions and issues that have been happening as of late, here are some of the lines that just stand out:
“Howard Purnell: Have you given your official statement yet, ‘cuz I would be VERY cautious about what went IN it.
Nick Memphis: Well, maybe I should wait for the report to come out, read it, and THEN remember.”
“Bob Lee Swagger: I don’t really like the President much. Didn’t like the one before that, much, either.
Colonel Isaac Johnson: You like the idea of the President, living in a free country. Do we allow America to be ruled by thugs?
Bob Lee Swagger: Sure, some years we do. ”
“Senator Charles F. Meachum: There’s always a confused soul that thinks that one man can make a difference. And you have to kill him to convince him otherwise. That’s the hassle with democracy. ”
“Senator Charles F. Meachum: You got any plans after this? You have a rather unique skill set. I’d be interested in offering you a job.
Bob Lee Swagger: Work? For you?
Senator Charles F. Meachum: It’s not really as bad as it seems. It’s all gonna be done in any case. You might as well be on the side that gets you well paid for your efforts.
Nick Memphis: And what side are you on?
Senator Charles F. Meachum: There are no sides. There’s no Sunnis and Shiites. There’s no Democrats and Republicans. There’s only HAVES and HAVE-NOTS.”
“Senator Charles F. Meachum: This is a country, where the Secretary of Defense can go on T.V., and tell the American public, oh, that “This is about freedom! It’s not about oil!” And nobody questions him, cuz they don’t wanna hear the answer, because it’s a lie! There are only so many places at the table, Gunnie. Now, are you on the INSIDE, or are you on the OUT?
And, of course, one of my favorites….
“Senator Charles F. Meachum: The truth is WHAT I SAY IT IS!”
The truth is what I say it is. And if it changes then the change will be the new truth. And so on…. This is what the informed citizen is up against…what is the truth? It is as elusive as a logical progressive. If this were about Bush, over zealous and contrived would be the outcome from every lefty with a soapbox 24/7 for months and even years on end. When it is one of their kind, it dies quickly and mercilessly. The truth is what they say it is. Live with that and just shut the hell up because you can’t win against stupid.
To say that Biden was an ass last night is an injustice. It is an injustice to all the asses of this world. Putting them in the same corner with this clown is patently unfair. The trouble is that this facile thug, masquerading as a serious politician, is beyond the pale. Ryan was respectful of his elder. The trouble is that his elder was soiling himself on stage while conducting a war on women, with Raddatz Biden’s target dejour.
Biden did himself no favors, he was the grin with a body behind it. Red meat for the OWS crowd. Biden interrupted Ryan 82 times, giggling in between and making little sense when he would start shouting. No doubt about it, Chris Matthews had another tingle down his leg. This debate performance will not do well with undecided voters of flyover country. This sort of performance does fine in Philadelphia, but not Des Moines. Still, give the Biden his due, he did fire up the base. Which was a must after Obama’s debate debacle.
Reading the transcript, I would give points to Ryan for Libya, and Biden for Afghanistan. On the home front, Ryan got the better of the Biden overall, but unlike Obama, Biden actually put in a performance. Unlike the Messiah, Biden looked like he wanted to be there. The polls declaring who won are split, and the margins are all in the low single digits. Such a result is the norm. Blowouts like what Romney did to Obama are very rare. It requires that you opponent be a flaccid, clueless, detached, empty-suit in order to garner a 50+ point spread in your favor. Obama, despite protestations of the left, was himself that night. No teleprompter, no script, no prepped-for questions planted in the press pool. Just a clueless, lost, community-organizer in way-over his head.
Biden needs to take a class on Geography; the alleged foreign policy expert does not know the relative sizes of Libya and Syria. More importantly, how is it Biden can in one debate throw the intel community under the bus regarding Stevens’ murder in Benghazi and then pivot, and place absolute faith in their prowess regarding the Iranian nuclear program? Finally, the hard part in making a nuclear bomb is not the bomb assembly, it is the collection if fissile material for the bomb. This is a lie with monstrous implications.
My bs-o-meter finally broke last night when Biden intoned that his Catholic faith defines him; the spring shot out through the glass display and put a hole in the ceiling. There also were the lou-lou’s regarding the Libyan embassy debacle, the meter pegged red so hard it bent the needle. The sorry return to the mythical $5T in tax cuts was another peg-red moment. Still, considering Biden’s handicap, I should not be surprised that he can’t tell the truth even if his life depends on it.
The question then is what does this mean for the upcoming debates? With the bleeding stopped, can team Messiah recapture the lost momentum, and lost voters? The poll aggregates are trending against Team Blue since the first debate. Obama has a tougher row to hoe than Biden. Smokin’ Joe can afford to be a total ass on TV, Obama cannot. Obama, who is admittedly lazy, needs to come prepared, and have something other than a set of campaign-commercial one-liners memorized. This is a daunting mission, as Obama’s work ethic is not up to the task.
Got to love it. The question form the media to the Union Masters is: “Do you pay people to attend?” The answer “Of course not!” We just fine the snot out of them if they don’t!! Bloody hilarious.
Sally Kohn goes on with her lies:
Fact: Though Paul Ryan accused President Obama of taking $716 billion out of Medicare, the fact is that that amount was savings in Medicare reimbursement rates (which, incidentally, save Medicare recipients out-of-pocket costs, too) and Ryan himself embraced these savings in his budget plan.
Now here’s the real kicker. To prove this “fact,” she links to a Polifact article which does not mention Medicare at all!
0bama himself brags about those cuts to Medicare.
Cutting Medicare reimbursement rates is a cut to Medicare.
Another lie attributed to Ryan by Sally Kohn:
While Ryan blamed President Obama for the shut down of a GM plant in Janesville, Wisconsin, the plant was actually closed under President George W. Bush.
This is what Rep. Ryan actually said:
President Barack Obama came to office during an economic crisis, as he has reminded us a time or two. Those were very tough days, and any fair measure of his record has to take that into account. My home state voted for President Obama. When he talked about change, many people liked the sound of it, especially in Janesville, where we were about to lose a major factory.
A lot of guys I went to high school with worked at that GM plant. Right there at that plant, candidate Obama said: “I believe that if our government is there to support you … this plant will be here for another hundred years.” That’s what he said in 2008.
Well, as it turned out, that plant didn’t last another year. It is locked up and empty to this day. And that’s how it is in so many towns today, where the recovery that was promised is nowhere in sight.
He does not blame 0bama for the plant’s closing, and he’s right — the promised recovery is nowhere in sight.
Well, in typical liberal fashion, the liberal lies to call a conservative a liar.
Here’s how it pans out. Sally Kohn of Fox News (proving that Fox really is “Fair and Balanced”) wrote:
While Ryan tried to pin the downgrade of the United States’ credit rating on spending under President Obama, the credit rating was actually downgraded because Republicans threatened not to raise the debt ceiling
Well, to “prove” this “fact,” she links to Polifact. The Polifact article says:
To put it in simple terms, Standard & Poor’s had two main reasons for the downgrade: First, that the size of the U.S. debt is very large and growing, and second, that politicians seem unable to agree on what steps to take to reduce it. It called the political process “contentious and fitful,” and said the firm was “pessimistic” that the White House and Congress would be able to agree on measures to significantly reduce the debt anytime soon.
Well, that’s pretty simple — good reasons for downgrading the credit rating.
But the truth does not suit Polifact, which wants to blame Republicans. So they make up a “fact”:
The report does not say that the debt ceiling should not have been raised. If anything, there’s an unstated assumption that increasing the debt ceiling was necessary.
Yeah. The report did not say “not A,” so A must be true. The reports didn’t say that 0bama was not born in Kenya, either. Thus, the report implies that 0bama was born in Kenya!
It gets worse:
[An] official with Standard & Poor’s, director Joydeep Mukherji, told POLITICO that the stability of American political institutions were undermined by the fact that “people in the political arena were even talking about a potential default.”
The only people talking about potential default were the liberal liars. There was ZERO potential of our going into default on our debt if the debt ceiling were not raised. There was, and still is, more than enough money coming in to service our debts.
Liberals repeatedly accuse conservatives of doing what liberals themselves are doing. Lying to call Paul Ryan a liar is typical of the leftists.
