Dig Barry, dig.

Faster, deeper.

We'll know when he's done like dinner when he blames all his failures on bad people who are racists.

Coming soon to a NYT's headline near you.

Sounds familiar. From Season 1 of "The West Wing" (1999), we have this priceless little exchange:

-----------------

DONNA
What's 'Take Out the Trash Day'?

JOSH
Friday.

DONNA
I mean what is it?

JOSH
Any stories we have to give the press that we're not wild about we give all in a lump
on Friday.

DONNA
Why do you do it in a lump?

JOSH
Instead of one at a time?

DONNA
I'd think you'd want to spread them out.

JOSH
They've got X column inches to fill, right? They're gonna fill them no matter what.

DONNA
Yes.

JOSH
So if we give them one story, that story's X column inches.

DONNA
And if we give them 5 stories...

JOSH
They're a fifth the size.

DONNA
Why do you do it on Friday?

JOSH
Because no one reads the paper on Saturday.

DONNA
You guys are real populists, aren't you?

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And THAT was with a "President" who was not only a compelling speaker, but also a Nobel Prize-winning economist!

Of course, Stockard Channing didn't have Michelle's toned arms or anything...

Kind of a "transparent" attempt, eh?

now we have "looking forward to fridays" having an entirely new meaning...

Like somebody said about Obama, his response to everything is the same "Let's put on a show!" This time though it's "Let's put on a show trial!"

[quote]This time though it's "Let's put on a show trial!"[/quote] tim in vermont

This aggressive offence against the CIA would suggest that Obama & Dems are attempting to suppress damaging CIA information. It’s a form of intimidation

It's foolish in the extreme to tangle with the CIA, they have access to global inter-agency intellegence on the activity of Americans abroad...The CIA are not stupid

Something is not right

And apart from the lunatic fringe, how many Americans care at this point in history if the CIA and Cheney allegedly abused protocols of interrogation? They're more likely to thank them, but obozo and his crew are too stupid to know that, or perhaps too desperate to care. Sadly, they'll be able to do untold damage with this despicable attempt to distract the public.

"I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but I'm not a child. It's not a coincidence."

Well Kate, yes you are a conspiracy theorist; isn't that what SDA is all about. Before you can go onto coincidence you first have to prove happenstance beyond a reasonable doubt. I don't see that at all.

Just because Vitruvius has bought into your rants doesn't make them noble!

Boo-hoo!

But Phillip, you are operating on the assumption that Obama and the Dem's AREN'T stupid/inexperienced/seeing clearly or sober.

Isn't that a dangerous assumption to make?

Taking a page right out of Harper's book.

You folks did go on about the big influence Harper had on Obama.

First it was using effectively using take out the trash day. Then it was spending more than we can pay back by our great-grandchildren's time without any plan to pay down the deficit other than more "borrow and spend" policies. Then it was grossly and incompetently undermining the deficit.

What's next? Watch for Obama to arbitrarily cancel Congress for a month in order to save his own job, keep his grip on power and gear up his propaganda machine against the insurance company "coalition".

"Sleight of hand", cheap magical trick used by pedestrian wannabe magicians. Of course A equals B - when in trouble use misdirection. Obama ain't David Copperfield. Cheers.

Typo: that should be "it was grossly and incompetently underestimating the deficit." It is the democracy these "borrow and spend" Democrats/Conservatives are undermining, not the deficit.

Hey stirred too much, you seem to be having trouble parsing things.

Things said by other people are indented.
Things said by Kate are not indented.

This public service announcement was brought to you by common sense.

Ted, you are full of shite.The Conservatives had been paying down the debt to the tune of 35 billion dollars before the left forced their hand by demanding that they go into deficit spending.The separatist coalition then claimed that we were not spending enough.The Harper govt then said as a result of this deficit spending, we would run a controlled deficit.

The left then claimed that Harper was incompetent because we were going into deficit!!

If the PM had not asked parliament to be prorogued, Canada would have been stuck with a coalition of the left led by a trio of Marxist inspired leaders, including one which had just guided his party to one of its most historic defeats in modern times.Only by giving a veto to the Marxist separatist Duceppe, could this cabal of losers hope to govern, as any two parties could not match the vote totals Canadians had given the Conservatives to govern on their behalf.

You should be on your knees thanking God that PM Harper and the Conservatives maintained control and have led us through this recession.Canada is now poised to be one of the first G8 countries to emerge from this recession healthy and thriving.

Canada has nothing to learn from an administration that tells its people 'the big lie', suppresses dissent, has Gestapo like snitch lines, cowtows to dictators, encourages thugs to break up political rallies etc. ad nauseum.

Where there is smoke there is fire, and your hero Barry one term is about to go down in a firestorm that will rival Dresden after is over..

BTW, the Conservatives also paid down this debt the good old fashioned way, not by criminally raiding the EI fund, cutting social transfers or gutting the military (which the Liberals did, to create their artificial 'surpluses'..)

Jonathan Adler knew that the vilification of those town hall citizens who stand in the way of the shining path, and the movement to prosecute former political opponents, are two sides of the same coin: Obama considers that the mandate he was given was a deeply-bowing nod to HIM and his magic powers.

In this (truly superb, I hope everyone reads it) piece in today's online WSJ, Fouad Ajami describes exactly what it is that Americans as a whole understand - historically and currently - far better than Obama and his hard-core supporters do:

"American democracy has never been democracy by plebiscite, a process by which a leader is anointed, then the populace steps out of the way, and the anointed one puts his political program in place. In the American tradition, the 'mandate of heaven' is gained and lost every day and people talk back to their leaders. They are not held in thrall by them. The leaders are not infallible or a breed apart. That way is the Third World way, the way it plays out in Arab and Latin American politics."

That,'s what's disturbing about Obama, to anyone who knows what time it is: he not only thinks, but in effect announces at every moment his intention to assert that his mandate is about Him: "Our new president wanted a fundamental overhaul of the health-care system—17% of our GDP—without a serious debate, and without 'loud voices.' It is akin to government by emergency decrees....Health care is the tip of the iceberg. Beneath it is an unease with the way the verdict of the 2008 election was read by those who prevailed."

It's all about the Democrats' willful arrogant misreading of the nature of the mandate they've been given. It's now as plain as day that when the American left-side was bleating during the Bush years about abuse of power they were in truth just complaining about *them* not having the power. Now that they have it, the attitude seems to be "get out of the way, America."

There may be a silver lining to their unfettered, jaw-dropping behaviour, though: If the Dems get thrashed in the midterm elections, and Obama is turfed in the next presidential election, their behaviour will have been the best thing to happen to America in a long, long time. Obama is doing enormous harm to the brand, as seen in current opinion polls about the trustworthiness of Congress.

Oooh look at the puppy while I am on vacation. The bad news comes out on Friday but the blogs go on through the weekend. It doesn't 'die' the way it used to. It just gives a chance to fact check and stuff I'm thinkin'.

DN: "Of course, Stockard Channing didn't have Michelle's toned arms or anything..."

'Better legs, though. ;-)

"I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but I'm not a child. It's not a coincidence."

Those words are from Krauthammer, not the host blogger.

Thank you all for allowing me rant about commenters that don't read the articles before they rant about the host's rants.

"Harper came to power and Canada had a huge surplus created by the Liberals, and he whittled it down to the point where there was no margin for getting through tough economic times..."

A "huge surplus" means that more taxes were taken from taxpayers than was required. Whittling it down meant giving our money back to us.

Dimwit.

Yeah, the Libs did a great of fiscal management, running surpluses on the back of the taxpayer. Thank god they at least got rid of the GST as they swore to do. Dolt.

Ulianov,

As Eeyore stated, government surpluses is from over taxation.

Plus, what did the Liberals so with the budget surpluses? How much went to pay down debt and how much went into black hole "foundations" over with the AG has no power to check up on. (hint anything more than $0.01 to the later is too much)

"Harper came to power and Canada had a huge surplus created by the Liberals, and he whittled it down to the point where there was no margin for getting through tough economic times without getting into a multi billion dollar deficit situation."

Ah yes. Because if the Liberals were still in power they would've kept that surplus around for a few more years until the economic downturn hit. Yeah right.

The leak is this:
CIA identify who is good people in world
Pentagon give bad and good direct and indirect weopon to fight and main to destroy good
when all bad exist not need to worry dealing with them

who is not made uup story of how to destroy them and their family and their business
and who ever talk ban htem to talk
they are talk what they like to hear

and all poltiican party are helping mass murder of innocent people and laugh to all of us

by bring win up saying who care

all trillion dollar money does not spend to peopel indirectly go to mexico bank to go to undertable money and few spend for poor people and rest stay hungry ask african christina tv to shwo them how to beg for thie children for bread on table and made them all crazy end most of black go to jail for not have job and

thier brain wire mix togeher still no job for you
as all signe said
unless come and dance like biyonce and take your cloth or be joker or do what they ask them to do then may be drop them some money like drop money before dog for them

call all above said
Discrimination
this discriminaiton done by intentionaly to made you made and busy and take money over you by laugh at you holding vancover prestitut next to them give them any thing but not talk at all
call it dirty money for dirty busienss of thme son of god who run million of dollar in west

I nominate new for next leader of the Liberals.

The US doesn't need to worry about the swine flu it is nothing compaired to the OBAMA FLU epidemic the economy is in.

Pete - Too late, clearly New is the most recent past leader of the liberals. The poor english is a dead giveaway.

Don't be silly. Fire can't melt steel.

Krauthammer is right; the Obama administration's three-step strategy of: deny, evade and divert is quite obvious this weekend.

Rather than deal with the health care problems in the US of inability to move policies, and tort reform, Obama used the theme of health care to instead attempt to set up a massive governmental take-over of American governance. He's using health care as a false front to insert a radical socialism in the US.

He begins, as usual, with misinformation and emotional manipulation. He misinforms us of the 40-50 millions (depends on the speech) of Americans who are uninsured.

This ignores the millions who choose not to buy insurance but to pay up front for regular health care costs - a choice which can be dramatically cheaper than insurance. It ignores those who are illegal aliens and who instead use the emergency room of hospitals as their primary care. It ignores the young who also choose not to buy insurance. Obama's merger of all of these Sets and his redefinition of them, in an emotional manipulative tactic as 'too poor to buy insurance' is an outright lie.

The public is rejecting this restructuring of the American system and recognizing it as a trojan horse - and so, Obama is turning to smearing and denigrating the public. He won't tolerate questions, criticism or dissent, and his minions are calling Americans every malicious name in the book.

Obama's polls are dropping; and, it's the same with other Democrats. The rank and file are beginning to worry about re-election.

Then, there are Obama's other policies. His so-called stimulus was nothing but pork to Democrats...and Obama's polls reflect American dissatisfaction. His other policies, of cap and trade, his exponential deficits - all of these are driving his administration into free fall.

So, in true Obama style, which is to move into accusations against others, he's turned to his usual Blame Bush strategy. The problem is, he's done this so many times that people are getting tired of it. It's time for Obama to stand up and accept responsibility himself.

This is something he will never, ever, do. Never. He'll flash his Teen-Smile, make a Teen-Joke, and expect that you (or his grandmother) will collapse and do whatever he wants. It won't work.

August is International Compassion towards Terrorists Month

Barry will probably follow Scotland's lead and let all the terrosists go - including the ones who master minded 911 - on compassionate grounds and then charge the CIA as terrorists and put them in jail and see how they like it.

After all, the Americans were so mean to these poor terrorists - they need to do more than just apologize to the world for America's actions on just about everything - as Barry has already done. Its time to admit that America was too tough on terrorists that bombed the Trade Center on their own turf, killed American citizens, and it does not matter that America is still in their crosshairs - everybody just has to be nice (Kill em with kindness strategy) to each other and then these poor misdirected terrorists will feel bad and not be terrorists anymore - they will see the spanking given to the bad CIA boys and repent.

Barry wishing them all a happy Ramadan (August 21st- you tube) will certainly encourage radical muslims to love America and they will decide to take the Americans out of their crosshairs because America is so sorry for everything it has done and has now seen the light. Certainly, they will turn their weapons into plow shares. Group Hug Time Everyone! I get weepy just thinking about it.

""""Don't be silly. Fire can't melt steel.""""

did you have to!!!?

I WAS just going to eat
a pork sandwich

testing

The CBO has been telling us these nuymbers for weeks.

Now Obamasiah agrees because he knows the CBO is going to release new numbers next week and they will be much worse than these numbers.

And so Obama can live in denial for another news cycle.

Dig Barry, dig. Faster, deeper.

On track to being the worst POTUS ever. He's on track to making Jimmuh Cartah look presidential.

Kursk @ 3:21 & 3:26. thats telling him.

How come we're always wishing them a Happy Ramadan (which seems to come every three months or so) but you never hear them wish us a Happy Easter, or Merry Christmas?
Why is that?

My seat of the pants view has it that this past week is the week that BO's honeymoon with much of the MSM - and I mean mainstream, not the Joel kliens - ended. The majority of columns at RCP now are either skeptical of BO or downright anti BO. Pulling politics as usual stunts like the Friday Saturday shuffle - done delibrately to avoid the MSM reportage of it whilst over the weeekend the blogs feasted on it was the last straw for many.

Inside the WH the rant of panetta - a guy widely liked by theMSM - and the leaking of the incident demonstrates that many moderate dems are now off the socialist reservation.

The CIA has lots of allies in the dem camp and this is going to get ugly.

Apologies for repeating myself, but not only is BO the first black president but he is also the worst black president and on his way to becoming the worst since US grant perhaps.

There is a more obvious "crisis" handy that can be exploited by an unpopular administration stalled on socialist reforms, to utilize as a focused distraction.

Ten bucks says the swine flu is hyped to epidemic status and the quasi-martial law of a socialist nation under public health emergency will be invoked to 'control' it.

On the other side of this manufactured plague both socialist martialism and single provider health care will come off like Red messiahs when properly spun by the MSM

Voila! - plunge in Dem polling numbers solved without the cost or fuss of cranking up a new war. A war on flu virus is cheaper, pays off your pals in big pharma, and gives you the same domestic martial powers.

Er Friday Monday shuffle

Top of mind when I read about the CIA/Owebama, "I wonder what the CIA has on Owebama that Owebama is scared of?"

EBD:

""American democracy has never been democracy by plebiscite, a process by which a leader is anointed, then the populace steps out of the way, and the anointed one puts his political program in place."

I know you didn't write this, EBD, but the Wall Street Journal writer who did 1) doesn't know what a plebiscite is, and 2) doesn't know much about American history. Look at GWB after 2001 - love him or hate him, he had majorities in the House and Senate and did pretty much what he wanted. What's amazing about BamBam is he had very good approval ratings, a majority in the House, and a filibuster proof majority in the Senate, but after serious miscalculations in bailing out Wall Street while failing Main Street, he is now struggling to have his health care mish-mash turned into a coherent and passable plan.

"I nominate new for next leader of the Liberals."

I do believe new has been in Canada longer...

ulianov: "... Harper came to power and Canada had a huge surplus created by the Liberals ..."

What's your problem? Can't you reason or read?

The Liberal$' "$urplu$" was ill-gotten gains by their raiding the EI fund, cutting social transfers, gutting the military, and appallingly overtaxing Canadians.

Posted by: DN at August 25, 2009 1:51 PM

"JOSH
Any stories we have to give the press that we're not wild about we give all in a lump
on Friday."

Bang on DN - Friday will become known as Lump day in keeping with Hump day.

I wonder what the strategy is for the newly named, National Service Day, remmebrance or celebration? for 9/11. Perhaps it will be a kick off for the April bill that was signed by Obama for a rather large budget increase for the National Service Corps - those who sign up can recieve a stipend btwn $1000 - $5000. Given the economy, I can see people being desparate enough to voluntarily sign up, or there just might be another home grown terrosit attack that the MSM has been reporting lately as the real terrorist danger to Americans. Who knows.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/23/national-service-corps-bill-clears-senate-hurdle/

Krauthammer is right yet again.

My fearless prediction:

In their eagerness to put Cheney behind bars and distract the public from Obama's floundering armada of legislation, the Democrats will cripple the CIA. As a result, America will be left far more vulnerable to terrorist attack.

...America will be left far more vulnerable to terrorist attack.

but at the same time the dimitude-ness of the West is great. The Progressives are folding to islam like a cheap Arabian tent. Why mess with that?

"Harper came to power and Canada had a huge surplus created by the Liberals."

This is bullshit and I am tired of the Liberals taking credit for it.

Mulroney put the GST in. Chretien got in power by promising to dismantle it, then rode the GST money to surplus after surplus. Martin did not 'wrestle down the debt' he was fortunate enough to be there while the GST money was rolling in.

The fact that we had all those multi-billion dollar Liberal scandals and still showed a surplus, shows just how over taxed the population was with the GST at 7%.

Sure the ever righteous lefticles are going to love this ... seeing the great opportunity to return to the comfort of their BDR and paranoia.

Pretty pathetic isn't it?

Completely predictable as well.

It is no coincidence that all the pet peeves of the lunatic left hanging over from the Bush admin. have been quietly ignored. Just kept on the back burner simmering by the strategists and the Obama team in case they needed to bolster their roots.

Alas ... those roots are still just as nuts as ever and still not the ones they need to win over (or back).

With the Democretins from the house working overtime in the background to harrass American business and the White house stewing over how to impose their wills on every level of government, the floundering of the current big show vis a vis taking over health care .... something had to give. The Washington Dems have managed to make just about every middle class American their enemy by calling them thugs, a mob, terrorists and nazis. They are bullying the business community at every step.

It's going to take a lot of heavy hauling by the MSMers to take on the CIA as criminals myth and use it to change the subject at this point.

There's already too much of the Obama admin involved in this teapot. Big name Dems were on the oversight committees all along and some of them are in the White house team now. They won't get away with claiming to have been lied to.

There will be outbursts from this bunch of ill mannered and ill tempered adolescents and those outbursts will solidify the resolve of what remains in the Democrat's ranks to distance themselves from the brat pack.

All the while the supposed great uniter and his gang of screw ups are simply doing what they do best and creating destruction all around.

Liberals do not build or create anything ever.

They only know how to use and abuse ... and when frustrated thrash and smash.

Come to think of it perhaps the BDR will be their undoing. They will become ever more shrill and really ... the only people they are railing against are the American people. Will the American public sit for this?

P/S ... how long till Hillary trots out the VRWS?

Rob, the "Progressives" are using Islam a a bat to beat up the people they are -really- afraid of, conservatives. AKA normal people.

After "progressives" beat what they want out of the silent majority in the USA, Muslims will be under the bus so fast they won't have time to say holy cr@p.

That's their plan anyway, looks to me like Barry is pretty much ruining all the work they've done these last 30 years. I mean, this propaganda machine of his is clumsy! Compare this to the Slick Willie blue dress bob and weave.

C ... the VRWC !!!!

[quote]It's going to take a lot of heavy hauling by the MSMers to take on the CIA as criminals myth and use it to change the subject at this point.[/ommag]

One of reasons is that the defense Lawyers may challenge the evidence as inadmissible (obtained under threat of torture) and that would give Obama political cover to free them.

If you read the "Friend of the Court" brief filed in Canada (RE: Canadian Terrorist) you would find that the lawyers are worried about the evidence obtained by Canadian investigators. A "friend of the court" is not the lawyer for the accused, & in this case makes some admissions to the Court that should concern Canadians. They basically want to suppress the Canadian evidence of a guilty terrorist, and the Canadian Judge agreed!

Obama has been made a wimp by the Scottish Court, (Hell Bush would have shot the plane down). I expect that Libya's Gaddafi will soon “summon” Obama to get the apology & have his feet kissed...

Look, I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but I'm not a child. It's not a coincidence.

We all know it as well. It won't work this time.
Coincidences are conspriacies little smelly farts.

"I'm looking forward to the Cheney/Rumsfeld/
Bush war crimes trials. It will take my mind off of the economy."

So Obama is giving us the circuses, but not the bread. I am not sure it will work.

Well, now they got their distraction, and an emotional push toward fulfilling Ted Kennedy's lifelong dream, universal health care. Ted himself, meanwhile, is at this moment explaining to St. Peter "And when I returned... Mary Jo and the car were gone."

Well,, Kennedy is gona rot in hell now.

God Bless Mary Jo Kopechne, may she rest in peace.

Perhaps Obama should take a page from Bush and just raise the terror alert

now that is a bullshit distraction

Right of Centre,
What's your source for that? Is it a misquote from Tom Ridge's book? Just curious.

BTW, Bush is not president anymore. The more the left invokes him, the lower Obama's ratings go. Obama's choir already believes. I don't know who you are trying to convince.

"since more people voted for these parties they have the right to form a coalition, look at the ridings of most elected officials and notice how very few of them won their riding with a clear majority"

I just happen to have those numbers handy.

Seats won / by majority
BQ 49 / 13
CPC 143 / 79
LPC 77 / 17
NDP 37 / 7
Ind 2 / 1

To be consistent, most of the Lib, Dip and BQ MPs should give up their own seats to a coalition of losing candidates.

Well, there's dumb, and then there's dumber.
And then there's willfully ignorant, in a small dead-minded, birther/death panel, trailer park trash sort of way.
The GST was introduced, ostensibly, to replace the Manufacturers Sale Tax, and was indeed touted as being revenue neutral.

More people having voted for the opposition parties does not give the coalition a right to form government, but having a majority of seats in the H of C does.

Adler called it perfectly. Something else did drop Monday or Tuesday, and its name was Ted Kennedy