Barack Obama is still diligently working his way down the GOP’s War on Christmas wish list of giant white corporate castles built from the skulls of welfare recipients and two-headed glow in the dark ponies riddled with toxic-sludge-filled DNA, and oh look, here’s another one: the White House ordered the EPA to withdraw a proposal for tighter smog regulations, so that America’s children might have less oxygen flowing to their brains on their way to school. Merry Lung Cancer Death, everyone! The AP article then gives a little “journalistic context” by listing off the hundreds or possibly thousands of other ways in which Barack Obama’s administration has capitulated to John Boehner’s hollering cabal of corporate-owned Earth rapists in just the last few months, for fun. Did John Boehner at least say thank you for all of America’s presents paid for in human suffering? Â
Haha, of course not.
From the AP:
The withdrawal of the proposed regulation marks the latest in a string of retreats by Obama in the face of Republican opposition. Last December, he shelved, at least until the end of 2012, his insistence that Bush-era tax cuts should no longer apply to the wealthy. Earlier this year he avoided a government shutdown by agreeing to Republican demands for budget cuts. And this summer he acceded to more than a $1 trillion in spending reductions, with more to come, as the price for an agreement to raise the nation’s debt ceiling.
A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, had muted praise for the White House, saying that withdrawal of the smog regulation was a good first step toward removing obstacles that are blocking business growth.
Come on, John Boehner, this was one of the most expensive ones:
But perhaps more than some of the other regulations under attack, the ground-level ozone standard is most closely associated with public health — something the president said he wouldn’t compromise in his regulatory review. Ozone is the main ingredient in smog, which is a powerful lung irritant that occasionally forces cancellation of school recesses, and causes asthma and other lung ailments.
What will Obama give to the GOP next to never win their love? [AP]
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"giant white corporate castles built from the skulls of welfare recipients…"
Damn, now I want some hamburgers.
Sliders?
White Castle
White Kasuls
(Unrelated to this post)
THE RIBS FEAT IS GOING ON THIS WEEKEND AND ONLY 2 BLOCKS FROM BACONZ STY. 72 HOURS OF PORK AND BEER!!!!
EMTs are on standby.
Sacrifice for the betterment of your country and invite Dick Cheney.
I'd push him in the river.
"72 HOURS OF PORK AND BEER!!!!"
You are an American hero, sir.
Seriously Barry, get a f**king backbone, if the GOP hates something, do it! They will never like you, so f**k them.
(okay, I feel better now.)
No kidding. I'm so disappointed with this guy! He just doesn't seem to get the fact that the Republicans don't like him because he's black. He's like the wimpy black dude who's afraid of the badass muthas from the ghetto and seeks the company of smug white boys to feel safe, even when those white boys make fun of him and treat him like shit.
Get a grip Barry: They don't like you and, no matter what you do, they won't like you because you're not like them: you don't look like them, you don't share the same background and you'll never be one of them. They've been telling you that since day one and you just don't get it.
Now go and do the job we, those who voted for you, elected you to do. Confront these motherfuckers, corner them, defeat them, humiliate them, fuck them up until their anuses hurt. Get a fucking spine, man! Jeez…!
Spines aren't very bipartisan.
I don't think he's doing this for the G.O.P.
He's trying to please the same corporate plutocrats that they cater to, which is different (but results in the same long-term destructive policies).
/thinking about stuff
And now back to drinking.
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Thank you nounverb. I asked Senator Jon Tester this very question, "When is our Prez going to man up and grow a spine?" last week. He laughed politely and refused to answer.
what's a nice euphemism for "never"?
Uhhhh…
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Right on, Noun! I say if he's only going to be a one-termer, then GO OUT FIGHTING!__The President needs to man up, get a staff that will stop blaming everyone else for the country's problems (even if it's true, Americans are tired of hearing how everything is Dubya's fault), and just start kicking ass.
the debt ceiling will now be painted with lead-based paint and insulated with asbestos.
Said ceiling dripping with the blood of dead puppies will be optimal.
And we will refuse to pay for the paint, after we use it.
This just proves that President Obama is really a Marxist Islamocommie. See how sneaky he is?
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This is the gist of the comments at WSJ.com… It's part of his "long game" to lure people into complacency, and then as soon as he's re-elected, he can institute his nefarious schemes (see also, gun control).
I hope so.
Once he restores feudal privileges and aristocratic titles to billionaires, we'll know for sure.
The Free Market will prevent pollution! That way our air will be as clean and clear as that of London in the late 1800s.
Or Pittsburgh in the 20s: Hell with the lid off! Good times! Or St Louis in 1929, when the air was so thick with coal smoke they had to turn the streetlights on at 9:00 AM. Or Riverside CA right now, where, because of its growth as a distribution center, particulate matter from Diesel trucks serving all the warehouses is giving kids who live near the freeways a higher incidence of asthma and who knows what future pulmonary conditions.
Take us back, Barry, to the happy days of yore when business was untrammeled by needless regulation.
It's been far too long since Lake Eerie has been on fire!
How else will Cleveland see through the smog?
There was a time not long ago when the air and waters of Detroit were so black that they painted the Ambassador Bridge black so as not to have to clean it too often. Fortunately today, the bridge is as blue as the naturally blue river.
Pretty soon the companies will charge us for breathing in thier pollution. That shit doesn't grow on trees you know.
That's it!!
It is ingenious… Pollution goes way up… and the jobs program is to hire folks to PLANT TREES to combat it.
Awesome!
Then we can cut the trees down to make napkins for our anus burgers. We're on to somthing here.
Napkins?! I have a sleeve thank you…
Actually, according to St. Ronald of Californicate, it does.
Pollution futures.
Isn't it wonderful how the Koch Kabal can get everything it wants from this administration to increase its profits, without actually paying money to the administration to do it?
Now you see that's just unfair. The Kochs are paying lots of money to Dick's Armey and various other superPACs. They should get what they pay for, and in this case they certainly are. "Ozone"–does that really exist? You can't even see it, fer Jeeebus' sake.
Ozone is theory … and there's a hole in it.
Koch should be sending money directly to Barack for his re-election. Everything they want, and they still get to blame him.
Corporations are people, too. People who can now legally go around poisoning children.
We prefer "reducing the surplus population," thank you.
"People who can now legally go around poisoning children."
Most of those lazy children have never even worked one single day in their lives!
Your logic is flawless in a Republican kind of way.
No, corporations are people who can legally poison the air. If children then go and breathe in that air, well that's the parents' fault. And why can't the parents parent properly? TOO MANY GAYS ON THE TEEVEE!
Why doesn't Barry just go to the Republican tactic of saying that opposing anything and everything he does "hurts the troops", without ever having to say why? That worked for about seven years or so.
Yeah, remember the good old days from Sept. 12 2001 to January 21 2009, when Fox news always referred to the president as the "Commander in Chief", no matter what the subject of conversation? I wonder why they stopped?
And it does actually. I mean aside form all the poor fatsos who can't be in the army, I'm sure there are millions whose asthma keeps them out. I personally don't care if anyone ever joins the army again, but Barry really could say this and get away with it.
Oh but he's just totally too lame to do even pull that kind of totally lame shit.
Yay, two more votes for Barry in 2012, from the two independent voters who usually vote republican but will support barry because they are philosophically opposed to human lungs.
Jimmy and Rosalynn high-fiving.
Well spotted! I hadn't even thought about the stake those two have in Obama's ongoing campaign to lose next year. Now I get to be even more depressed.
The Obama admin. should have compromised and said, hey, you can produce as much smog as you want but have to give the cancer gases a lemon-fresh scent, okay?
Your move, Texas… wait…
…Too late.
Think these fuckers know yet about that whole "federal supremacy" dealie? Or did they forget about the war wherein their asses were royally kicked?
Can we please just give the corporations free reign to shit in our porridge until we all die of E-Coli? Please! C'mon, maybe once the Cuyahoga River catches fire again we can all be happy.
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Just curious, but how many times can you retreat before you ran smack up against a mountain or ocean and your enemy slaughters you?
Absent EPA regulations, mountains will be flattened and the oceans will soon be sufficiently polluted that their surfaces will support the weight of a human adult. So he could retreat forever.
My very last hope in this whole sorry episode (by which I mean, of course, "most of the past two years") is that Barry's banking on the earth being round, which means that if he retreats far enough he'll actually be able to sneak up on the Repubs from behind. And then apologize for getting the drop on them, I guess, and surrender anyway.
We'll know soon enough.
The Republicans would be pleased if Lockheed Martin made the smog in question, and sold it to the taxpayer for $1000 per cubic yard.
Perchlorate, the explosive ingredient in solid rocket fuel, has leaked from military bases and defense and aerospace contractors' plants in at least 22 states, is contaminating drinking water, dairy milk, produce and many other foods and plants affecting millions of Americans…
That's my point: it's leaking, a passive process that occurs independent of a financial transaction. Much preferable to sell it, an active process that moves money, against a concentration gradient, from the taxpayer to the military-industrial complex.
It is only fair, as they need to be financially compensated for the loss of their valuable perchlorate.
Obama clearly stopped giving a fuck about anything other than his re-election sometime around, oh, I don't know, maybe January 22, 2010.
You're right, I'm just not sure how anything he is actually doing will help.
If he actually cared about his re-election, however, he'd have long since started playing to his base…
Who needs a base when you've got Wall Street?
To be fair, that is pretty damned important…
I'm not a fan of any Republican, but at least I can count on them to be Kochsuckers. If Barry's just going to roll over, then what's the point?
Again, how in the hell is laxing up on smog regulation going to net even independent votes? How does this make any sense in terms of his re-election besides maybe playing to a handful of amoral political donors? It seems like giving up something significant for so little benefit.
Killing people is an effective way to reduce unemployment.
You are more correct than you might think. One consequence of the Black Plague was a labor shortage in Europe. Maybe the CDC should accidentally let that last sample of smallpox loose so we can get some jerbs.
Good idea, except for the fact that "we" may be reduced to "they."
hey, labor shortage can mean higher wages. TWO cans of hobo beans a day from now on!
The black death in europe sparked a period of great prosperity and ultimately led to the renaissance. Maybe we need some pestilence?
Look at all the famine and wars in Asia, which eventually led to the average person there making almost $1 US Dollar a day in the rice paddy or $50 a day working in a factory sweat shop in a shanty town city.
The renaissance in Europe may not have come from large amounts of deaths of men with jobs, and instead from other factors (guns, germs and steel)….
I think you mean $50/month. $50/day is now good money in the US.
We have to destroy humanity in order to save it.
I think we already have one.
Perhaps this time, a catastrophe with more hawt alien chicks?
Uh, Barry, remind me again why I'm supposed to be supporting you? Because honestly, dude, I've completely forgotten.
You wanna bone him?
Not so much, seeing as I gave up on pussy at around age 5.
I tip my wig, dearie.
Very win.
Priceless.
I gave up on getting pussy at around age 55.
I'll match you and lower you 5.
daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn.
That's good insult.
Maybe Barry could go blow Joe Lieberman for an encore.
"and what do you call this act?"
"you're the aristocrats!"
(applause)
They'll demand anal, but Barry will compromise it down to anal.
At some point you ask yourself, does he really have some kind of misguided belief that he is creating a contrast between reasonable, compromising Obama and the screeching ideologues of the GOP, and that this will win over the "moderate" voters? So once again, he gives the racist tards 99% of what they want and calls it "compromise?" He can't possibly think he is going to win them over, that people like Bachman are going to suddenly say to themselves, "Hey, he's not a socialist after all, he's a pretty reasonable fellow."
Otherwise, I am thinking, maybe he really is just a corporate tool, owned lock stock and barrel, just like the GOP is, and that the partisan fighting is really just a proxy fight between different corporate factions.
Or else he has a nefarious plan that involves making things much worse so that people will revolt and/or accept his communistic agenda.
I used to think I was a moderate. If all of the concessions over the last few years are moderation, then I'm a fucking socialist and would really really really like a little representation here. And no, I'm not saying more Kuciniches. That would be little representatives.
Welcome to the club. We have T-shirts!
T-shirts are fine, but I want the commemorative ammo box, emblazoned with surveyors' marks and the phrase "Nevar Forget!!1!" Preferably lead-free — we prefer to kill with kindness out here.
I do wonder…..what the fuck does he think he was elected to do? Why does he think gutting environmental laws will be either good for the country, or good for his reelection? What the everlasting fuck?
Yeah – the hordes of disillusioned voters who today can finally say, "YES – THAT'S the kind of leadership we've been looking for!!! He DOES understand!!"
Why would it be a good idea to re-elect this guy?
Children playing hopscotch don't create jobs.
Chalk-makers?
can you make chalk out of children?
Lots of calcium in the bones.
Gah! What the FUCKITY FUCK!
John Boehner’s hollering cabal of corporate-owned Earth rapists
That would be a great name for a band if it weren't so long.
Probably best as a one-time concept album, maybe with the Decemberists as backup….
"I have been to the mountain top, and it's been striped".
Stripes are out this year for mountaintops….
only after Labor Day
Those girls are playing jump rope with Obama's spine.
First time in days I have laughed audibly.
ROTFLMAO!
Hey y'all, see how five NASCAR drivers turned down Obama's invite to the White House? Said they are busy, they have to wash their hair that day. NASCAR, bunch of sister-fucking toothless shitbags.
And Obama is such a racest he won't even let drivers from NASCAR into the white house. He's the first president since NASCAR started not to have drivers come there, But don't take my word for it. Look into it yourself.
-Glenn Beck-
I had not seen this, but this utterly confirms that I am leaving this fucking country for Mexico, if they will have me. Murderous gangs of drug lords seems at least RESPECTABLE compared to these douchenozzles.
Just so you know, Greg Biffle, Kurt Busch, Carl Edwards, Kevin Harvick and Tony Stewart, another reason to hate NASCAR and all it stands for…
Well, it's all over, now. I mean, he's done up and lost the NASCAR vote.
Psh. What has "oxygen" ever done for me?
Smog goes in, asthma comes out. You can't explain it.
They didn't even discover oxygen until 1772! Before that, people got along without breathing it just fine.
The Founding Fathers subsisted on nothing but snuff, gunpowder smoke, and phlogiston, and so that is what I do.
I can't hire anyone for the graveyard shift with all the regulatory uncertainty surrounding night humors.
Well basically, oxygen rusts you from the inside out.
Every breathe you take, every fork of food creates oxidants, which damage your body.
Without oxygen, we wouldn't have this problem.
TO THE MOON, AKBAR!!!!
What's wrong with ozone? It's naaatural! [with partial credit to Michele Crazyeyes]
Basically, Obama sucks. That is a true thing.
I'm sure there's jobs to clean the soot off of the corporate overlord's Mercedes and Porsche's.
“The president’s decision is good news for the economy and Americans looking for work. EPA’s proposal would have prevented the very job creation that President Obama has identified as his top priority,” said Jack Gerard, president and CEO of the American Petroleum Institute.
Thank goodness the GOP and our industrial lobbyists realize what the real issue is — I can't tell you how many of my friends have applied for work only to be told 'We'd love to hire you, but the uncertainty created by the president's forthcoming smog regulations are just killing us right now.' When will the oppression of our patriotic job creators end, I ask you?
Americans looking for work may not find any because of the smog.
My god, no kidding. Corporations should start a revolution to "take back America" so that all corporations can live free (but never die.)
Hey, wait….it's already happened.
I think the time is ripe to put all your money in personal respirators and filters.
Aha, so that's why we had such good news on the jobs front today.
What? You mean jobs weren't magically created YESTERDAY by the President's capitulation on every single platform of his 2008 platform? Gee, I thought in the new Tea Party theory of economics, trends would magically start occurring overnight instead of taking eons to form! Silly me.
Until corporate monopolies are allowed to meter and bill us for air consumption, America will never be free.
You said it, edgy.
Total Recall FTW.
"Come on, Cohaagen! Give those people air!"
Has a prezinutt ever pulled an Arlen Spector and switched parties? Cause Barry might as well. He should also change his name to Doormat or Boehner's Bamboozled Bitch.
When the Boner isn't happy, nobody is happy, folks….
Have you somehow forgotten Teddy fucking Roosevelt?
Horrors, no! But switheroo while in office, poodle, while in office!
Aiiiiiiieeee Boner Hedorah!!!
Barry should take a drive through West Virginia this weekend. About every thirty feet on the interstate is a giant billboard paid for by the "American Citizens Who Suck The Cock of Coal and Energy Corporations" that says "Don't Let Socialist Nobama Ruin Our Awesome Jobs In The Coal Mines! PS He's Black!"
For topless mountain travesties
Above the fetid plain…
As I look out at the forest fire smoke rolling into the Montana valley where I live, I think, "Gee, isn't that healthful?"
Time to double up on drinking. Celebrate "Labor Day" and all that.
Confession time: I lobby regulatory agencies. And I gotta say, it is possible that there is an innocent, sound reason Obama may have done this. You see, the regulation may have been stupid. half the regulations in effect right now are stupid, butt-stupid, idiotic, impractical things crafted by useless Ivy League lawyers who have no practical experience of the activity or industry they are trying to regulate, and then twisted by the lobbyists into knots of impracticality. Yes, the majority of regulations I deal with are just fucking straight out retarded. The Privacy Rule is a compromised, stupid exercise in futility, crafted to ensure you have no privacy, for example. The new Risk-Based Pricing Rule (yes, I deal with finance regulations a lot) is also a fucking abortion of a kludge of useless, pitfall-strewn red tape, useless in conception, useless in practice, just fucking stupid. Don't get me going about the idiocy that runs rampant in regulatory agencies, prestigiously degreed, impressively intellectual, meticulously crafted idiocy, but idiocy nonetheless.
You lobby?, … do they really have free buffet tables?
It consists of kissing the asses of low-level bureaucrats and gently, gently, carefully, diplomatically suggesting that the soundest policy would be A, rather than B. Its very wierd and nerdy. Career bureaucrats are skittish, take years to make a simple decision like whether to take notes with a black pen or a blue pen, and wouldn't accept a basket of cookies from me, so afraid are they of being accused of corruption. Noone, noone wants to be responsible for any decision, ever, you see, because no matter what the decision is, someone, some where, is going to be pissed off, and there will be letters to the editor. God, they fear letters to the editor.
I'm fairly well convinced that one of the problems the president, any president, faces when he comes into office is moving the bureaucracy in the direction he wants it to go. Sure, he can snap his fingers and direct an agency to work towards a goal, but the career bureaucrats who don't agree with him or think he doesn't know what he's talking about will do everything in their power to slow the process down or undercut it, knowing there aren't really any consequences to them personally.
If I'm not mistaken, one initiative Obama announced early on was a top-to-bottom review of all federal regulations in order to weed out some of the dumber ones that were outdated or particularly egregious. But I don't think that's the case here, as from what little I just read on Google News he's overruling the EPA on this. And I'm the one who just last week was arguing the EPA has expanded power and a larger voice in this administration than in the last one.
On the other hand, as you and James Curley seemed to be saying on another thread, this seemed to be one regulation that was pushing the burden of implementation down the food chain to the smaller businesses that could least afford it. So maybe it's not a bad thing to take a step back and re-evaluate it.
EDIT: I should add that I have no reason to think he pulled this move in order to step back and re-evaluate this regulation, I'm just trying to look on the bright side. Mostly I don't have the energy to be outraged on a daily basis.
Ah yes, I believe it was you who explained to me that State's pipeline EIR wasn't anything to worry about, because, inter alia, the EPA hadn't weighed in yet.
Can I be a little worried now?
As I recall, what I was objecting to were the cheap shots being aimed at Obama in that particular post, the nihilism of writing the headline "Fuck This Guy," and the intellectual dishonesty of flipping out without apparently reading past the first paragraph of that Politico article. I also objected to the defeatism and the lameness of people losing their shit on an internet comment board when there is still time to make their voices heard, in a variety of forums, and tried to say it would be better to do that than to just sit in front of their computer monitors getting themselves all worked up.
The EPA had judged State's first two EIRs on this subject as inadequate, which I believe is why State even had to do a third pass, and there was no reason given in the article to assume this EIR would be judged any more competent than the first two. This is a different case. So yeah, I still stand by what I wrote last week, that State releasing that EIR does not have to be the last word on the pipeline, no matter what the events of today might say about the EPA's clout within the administration. But if sitting in front of the computer and getting yourself worked up is your thing, knock yourself out.
I just read a pretty good article on this at WaPo, and I am more convinced than ever in the past three years that Obama has jumped the shark. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/po...
He can kiss my asthmatic ass when he comes looking for $ for his campaign – or my feet on the ground ringing doorbells.
Gah. I guess we can definitely kiss goodbye the dream of "science-based regulation".
Thanks for the look behind the curtain. But now I have to take into consideration the possibility that lobbyists are not all craven bloodsuckers seeking to destroy any shred of decency that may still survive in this NoGod-Forsaken nation. Fuckin' ambiguity…
Just because someone posts on Wonkette does not mean they aren't a craven bloodsucker seeking to destroy any shred of decency that may still survive in this NoGod-Forsaken nation.
I, myself, hold a valid license to practice law.
My Prommie is a …lobbyist…sob.
These fucks already sold bottled water to us. Next up is bottled air – with lemon scent!
I hear they already sell Oxygen in bars.
Just say no to O, kids….
You ever try to kick an oxygen habit, man? It kills ya.
Does that mean I have to give up the Big O, too?
Are you suggesting we should steal the atmosphere of Druidia?
I have the combination.
Oxygen Bars can be a regulated public utility, like cable tv and sexting.
Oxygen Bar guests will pay about one U.S. dollar per minute to inhale an increased percentage of oxygen compared to the normal atmospheric content
That comes to only $1,440/day for breathing privileges!
The fucking marketing brilliance of convincing people to buy Coke-free cokebottles, filled with the same water that Coke would have used to wash the bottles before filling them with coke, and charging the same amount, it boggles the mind.
now that you mention it… http://youtu.be/SiabeNR_q0U
Wow. I'm hoping for open coal fires and a boatload of tax breaks to decrease mine/factory safety. Once there are no more regulations…..100% employment and all our trouble are over!
Ozone sounds like something you might buy in a head shop.
The kids should be happy Obama is saving them money on buying drugs to inhale…
No dude, that was Ozium™. It worked OK…
THE FIRST STEP?!?!?! Every thing he did and that's all you can say. Shit if Obama was a Republican (which I suspect he is) you'd be calling him the best president since zombie Reagan. Cutting the programs for the many poor so you can keep your tax cuts for "job creators" AKA robber barrons. Ingratefull bastard.
Yeah, but he'd still be black.
He's got a clever plan. He's secretly issuing oxygen masks to everyone but Republicans. You wait…any day now, they're gonna start gasping for air and just out and out *begging* for regulations! You wait…you just wait…are you waiting?….Keep waiting….any minute now….(whistle, whistle, whistle)
I'm not only waiting, I'm going to hold my breath.
What about all those jobs upgrading diesel emission control equipment that this regulation was going to create? Huh? Hey, I owe my job to government rtegulation, I would be out of work if the GOP has its way and we go back to a state of anarchy, with no rules of any kind and the government laying dead and drowned in a bathtub. Why, in that society, only the strongest, most boneheaded knuckle-dragging brutes would survive, while highly educated and sophisticated people would become their prey. hey wait a minute, thats what they want, isn't it, and thats why there are so many fucktarded, knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing morons in the GOP, oh shit!
And with that, I begin my labor day weekend. hah! There ain't no "capitalists day," fuckers.
Christmas, Thanksgiving, Halloween, Valentine's, New Year's, Birthdays, and Fourth of July.
…besides the other 364 of them.
Uh, have you noticed how, lately, EVERY day is Capitalist Day?
All of them, Katie.
EVERY day is capitalist's day!
Shheesh. Obama caves faster than a mine in Venezuela.
Folds like an origami.
Quits faster than Sarah Palin
Surrenders like France.
PS Helmut and Weegee are my favorite photographers. Many up fists for the avatar alone.
Fights like the French
Collapses faster than my hope for this country.
Barry hides in the ceiling, watching everything Republicans doing to destroy America, not wanting to get involved, like Ceiling Cat…
Obama caves faster than a mine in
VenezuelaKentucky/West Virigina.Did Obama even pretend to get anything in return for this huge gift to corporate Amerikkka and their lackeys?
a moment of praise from the Chamber of Commerce, and probably a pot of money from Republican donors who are scared shitful of the crop of potential presidents their own party has foisted on the country.
What will Obama give to the GOP next to never win their love?
Dead puppies? Children with cancer? Fuck, somebody name something heartbreaking, and he'll give it to them.
He has the same relationship with the GOP as I had with my ex-wife.
"What will Obama give to the GOP next to never win their love?"
You never bring me dead brown people, anymore….
I hope Barry never actually used that fancy law degree in court, because he would be one shitty-ass attorney. 'Your Honor, although I maintain that my client is innocent, the prosecution makes many excellent points, and I sincerely hope the jury takes them into consideration. Murder is seriously business, and we need to look at all the sides of the issue.'
Advocacy: you are doing it wrong.
He was a fucking professor, they form committees and hear from all the stakeholders. Never ever put a professor in charge of anything, ever, anywhere.
Hey! I resemble that remark!
Shit, and I was thinking of voting for Elizabeth Warren if she runs here in Taxachusetts.
Now if we can get rid of the laws that prevent “Job Creators™” from coming to our house and ripping the head off our toddler’s puppy we will get our country back.
As a small business owner, that's my #1 concern when I consider expanding my workforce.
So his plan is to implement all the worst Republican ideas, and when they make things worst, he takes the blame. The ol' rope-a-dope. Open up the tar sands and tear down the EPA. People won't know why they're sick, but they'll be mad as hell at the guy in charge.
Time for Barry to announce that he is not running for re-election. Let someone with some balls, like Hillary, take on the 'tards.
We need to do that for him. I would vote for ANY Democrat in a primary challenge. Any Democrat. How could they possibly be as gutless as this little coward. I have never, no, no one has ever seen somebody give in like this. I defy anyone here to name a President that was this much of a chickenshit coward. Fuck, WHAT IS NEXT? I bet he will propose new additional tax cuts for billionaires. Fuck you Barry. You fucking liar.
Well, President Gore probably would have fought States Rights for Medical Marijuana, because he's too conservative to realize that the weed he smoked in college didn't stop him from becoming Vice-President.
At least, we can semi-legally, toke up now…
I know, let's start a petition!!!1!! (I'll bet we can get 5,000 signatures!)
Hillary just approved the TarSands poison pipeline ahead of Barry. so, no, not seeing this happening.
Hillary sucks. God, she was on the fucking Wal-Mart board of directors.
All of these fucking fuckers fucking suck.
If they're not a complete corporate tool, their cheating on their cancer wives by fucking pregnant women on film or are sending cock shots to 22 year olds on Twitter.
Unless Bernie Sanders has like, 25 divisions of well armed marxist guerillas hiding in the mountains of Vermont, its just "Checkmate, America". We're completely fucking screwed.
How do you spell capitulation? O-B-A-M-A.
Yes We Cave.
America is looking more like China every single day.
Except without the investment in manufacturing and infrastructure.
Agreed. In fact i was recently in a flame-war with some teatards about that Cali solar panel biz that went under because China out-invested us in the technology, which they dubbed 'useless crap' along with the over 1000 jobs lost. Freedom!!!
Yeah, one of my facebook friends from my red state childhood made a similar comment. I told him that this country of ours doesn't have the balls to make a real investment in the future, and we're losing to countries that do. We made a pussy little loan guarantee — really just a 4pt insurance policy — and that's why we lost. Compare to the billions that China invested in 5 competing companies. Manufacturing is a race to drive production costs down, whoever makes the biggest upfront investment winds up owning the market.
Totally. This country is just going to sit back and let the invisible hand of the market fist us.
and smelling like it too
To save time, I've created a new headline template for all Hopey stories from now on:
"Obama Capitulates On _____".
Another bold, new idea!
THANK YOU AMERICA!!!!!
maybe Obama has heat stroke from the fuckin' record high temperatures in DC this summer
Just remember, it's not "climate", it's "weather".
I feel like the Republicans are Hyman Roth, and the Obama administration is the Cuban government.
Good point. And the Koch brothers are the partners that Hyman Roth always makes money for.
I swear to fucking God, he is taking phone calls from the Koch brothers as we speak. Fuck this Trojan horse.
He's more than likely taking phone calls from stooges from General Electric ( a bigtime donor to the Democratic Party which also pays $0 in taxes as we already know).
I wouldn't put Koch-sucking past him, either, though.
May I point out oxygen is explosive. Before we can breathe it in, it needs to be cut with some carbon mon-oxide.
Thank you., Barry.
And if you cut it with some carbon di-oxide, you can keep warm in the winter and your houseplants will grow bigger, too….
Ozone is the problem. It makes holes in the sky
This is pro-kid, pro-family…
Kids should be inside ordering pay per view cartoons and playing video games – not outside where they are subject to terrorists flying jetliners into playgrounds as well as transvestites and pedophiles.
More ozone = more asthma = more fat kids. I hope Michelle kicks his sorry ass out of the bedroom when he goes to go to bed tonight.
I really want to take people like Boehner and Bachmann (and even BHO) on my tour of eastern China, where there's really no such thing as environmental protection. I can show them rivers of styrofoam in the Yangtze, smoke-belching factories covering an entire plain all the way to the horizon in Zhejiang, chemicals pouring out of unfiltered pipes into streams and rice paddies, and any number of other environmental horrors. What I probably won't be able to show them, however, is the Forbidden City from Beijing's Jade Hill, because even though it's just a couple hundred yards away, it's often completely obscured by choking smog.
Rivers of Styrofoam sounds like either a new age artist or one of those new waterpark attractions at Great Adventure.
All of these things are signs of a healthy, jerb-creatin' economy.
True. I hope one day, America can also have China's staggeringly impressive $3,700 per capita GDP. Only then will we know who the real world economic superpower is, again.
I am so going to build my own coal fired power plant now.
"I am so going to build my own coal fired power plant now"
Make sure your neighbors are all Republicans and Libretarians.
If they complain, just tell them that soot smothering their vegetable garden and landscaping is Freedom Soot….
I think we need a primary is there still time for one? Because our guy is playing for the other team.
I think the GOP has found its perfect candidate; one who literally takes the sitting president out of the race: they should nominate Obama. He supports all of their most cherished policy initiatives AND they can blame the inevitably disastrous outcomes on that damn socialist in the White House.
Is there ANY reason to re-elect this guy?
There are a few: ACA, HITECH, ARRA, and Michele Bachmann.
Here's the good news: When Rick Perry is elected President, Texas will get a new governor!
Given their downward trajectory, their new governor will be Noelle Bush.
At least her and Limbaugh would have things to talk about when he was giving her marching orders.
only the Supreme Court nominees left at this point. Although he is suing the banks right now.
Sotomayor is completely pro-business.
We live in the ozone because Obama lives in the Bozone.
Obama thinks he can keep the mad dog at bay by tossing it a steak. He will soon run out of steak. It being a mad dog, will never love him for the steaks.
Anybody want to buy some beautiful land in Love Canal?
Obama is must really be wanting me to vote for the other Republican next year.
Two words: Hillary Clinton
If the president is going to be somebody's bitch, let it be a REAL bitch. Hillary 2012
"Small and mid-cap industrial stocks fell on Friday after US President Barack Obama unexpectedly asked the Environmental Protection Agency to withdraw a plan to limit smog pollution."
Even greedy Wall Street salesliars are smart enough to know that more pollution ain't good for America's future profits….
"WSJ: Obama Burns Gas Drillers On Ozone"
Shorter WSJ: Dance Faster for Us, You Crazy N***r…
At this point, I think even Obama has given up on the "placating Republicans" thing. He knows that no matter what he does, it'll never be good enough.
So now, the REALLY scary question is: WTF Barry?
(I used to come here for the funny, but now I'm trying to understand why he's doing this stuff. Some of you Wonketteers are all over this topic. Help me out here.)
Good question. My best guess (and it pains me to say it) is that he was always in WAY over his head. He just let himself get bullied by the GOP, the Pentagon, Wall Street, big business, etc.. And now he has no clue what to do next.
Give that blockhead GWB this, he was just aggressive enough to, when people challenged him, stand up and just yell "I'm the decider".
Barry just seems completely passive. Someone has told him that he is President, right? Hey Barry, just in case you didn't notice: You're the most powerful person on the fucking planet.
I keep thinking he does this to create a huge outcry to see if the GOP can be moved to the center. or WTF?
Ugh. So here's the really upsetting thing about this -more upsetting than the fact that our labor practices and environmental standards are rapidly starting to join our human rights record in their resemblance to those of the Peoples' Republic of China:
He just gave them this. It wasn't a compromise; it wasn't even a concession: it was a full and absolute capitulation. Obama literally gave them something they weren't even asking for all that hard, in exchange for nothing, and then endorsed the right-wing economic position -that the economy is sucking because all those companies with record profits, paying their executives record salaries, and funnelling money to right-wing causes in record amounts, have too many regulations that are impeding their business, and if their already-record profits that were a little bit bigger, they'd start creating jobs (never mind the fact that most actual small businesses -the ones that do most of the hiring- actually benefit from regulations relative to their larger competitors)- as his own. He is literally adopting the Republican party's perspective on the economy here, and that's why Republicans are saying, "It's a decent first step: DO MORE OF THIS AND MAYBE WE'LL LIKE YOU" And of course they never actually will, they'll just adopt positions in favor of more and more extreme deregulation, as Obama adopts more and more of the Republican platform.
Yeah, sorry, this is pretty much the point where I start calling Obama the moderate Republican in this race. And frankly, I'm starting to think that comparing Obama's handling of the economy to Hoover's might be starting to look unfair… to Hoover. After all, Hoover's main mistake was taking too much economic advice from his own party.
I keep tapping my red shoes together hoping that this is what he is giving them in exchange for nixing the Keystone pipeline. I am an idiot
Wow. Right on. Just like he concedes that the debt is the most important problem. It's astonishing how completely he shares their worldview.
I think that's what he's aiming for – the votes (and cash) of the Republican donors who are horrified by the candidates they are faced with in their own primaries. Obama wants to be the capitalist shill of their dreams.
This is the defensive crouch, writ large. Get some fucking balls.
Obama new motto: Dont reload, Retreat!
Due to the smoke Barry has blown up my ass, I don’t notice the smog.
It's time to focus on your city councilpersons and county commissioners and state rep and senators, 'cause the government is just totally fucked up top. Utterly and completely fucked. This guy was in the Illinois state senate how many years ago? And he's already forgotten that quickly what it's like to live in the real world?
I hope Obama doesn't lose, not for our sakes necessarily. I just don't see how he could go back to fuckin' Chicago of all places, after this debacle. Hell, he couldn't even go back to Chicagoland. He keeps this shit up and he might as well put his presidential library in Texas Station and retire to fuckin' Lubbock.
Angered and demoralized by the bad policy and politics of this self-inflicted wound. I'm returning your checks, DNC!!
I am only comforted by the fact that Politicians and Corporate Shills alike have to breath the same air I do, and most will have to breathe it a good deal longer than I will. WIN!
giant white corporate castles built from the skulls of welfare recipients and two-headed glow in the dark ponies riddled with toxic-sludge-filled DNA,
KBJ, this statement is pure poetry. It made me a little weepy. Or was that the vodka?
We got 'em on the run, now.
I am sitting on some world-class pussy and the intended recipient is 3,000 miles away.
I'm 1300 miles closer.
Win….
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