Back in the day the fumblerooski was a play made famous by the University of Nebraska against Miami in the 1984 Orange Bowl. Basically the quarterback deliberately places the ball on the ground, technically fumbling it. He then fakes like he is handing off to a back who will run to the right, and the right guard will pick up the ball and run to the left. It's misdirection at it's best.
Obama's attack on the AIG bonus's is his version of the fumblerooski. While he acts indignant and says they had no idea this was going on he is going for the real score in the other direction. This "change" we were supposed to have gotten has been more of the same but worse. "No earmarks" was his cry but 9000 went through. Now he says there won't be any more. "Bipartisan" was his promise to the republicans who voted for him but he has just pushed through the largest spending program ever without discussion or a vote. He beat up McCain for saying the fundamentals of the economy were strong. Obama said he had no economic sense but now Obama himself is saying the fundamentals are strong. His cohort Pelosi just had a meeting with illegals telling them that enforcement of existing immigration laws, as currently practiced, is "un-American." Government funded stem cell research, financing abortions overseas and a proposal to cut Veterans health benefits are all part of his change.
While Obama fakes the handoff and has everyone looking at the running back the real play is going the other way and no one seems to care. Where are the Conservatives!!!!!!!????????
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Most of the conservative are afraid of Obama’s high approval rating. Once that sinks below 50% approval they will be out like a pack of wolves. There are those who aren’t afraid and are speaking out now but not many of them are doing it openly. Sad to say, most of the news media doesn’t cover it.
ReplyDeleteMy father always told me never judge a person by what he says; judge him by what he does. For over forty years, the liberals have said that they were going to do away with poverty, create a better educational system, end racism, etc. etc. The only thing that they have done is put more liberals in governmental jobs that take away personal freedoms.
When Clinton first ran against Bush, the democrats came out with the slogan, “Are you better off now than you were for years ago” and “It’s the economy stupid” Many voters voted for Clinton because they believed that they weren’t and he was going to make life better for them. The quickest way to loose your freedom is for people to elect politicians on the promises they make and not on what they deliver.
America has a major revolution every four years and a minor one every two. For over two hundred years, these have been bloodless revolutions done in the voting booth. It is my hope that they continue to be done that way. However, when I see the anger building against a controlling and unresponsive Washington DC I start to worry.
During the next presidential election, the opposition’s question might well be, “Are you as free as you were four years ago? And “It’s the constitution stupid”.
The House passed a bill taxing the AIG bonus's @ 90%. The vote was 328-93. Once again where are the Repubilcans? How can you pass a law after the fact that affects only some people? Isn't the rule of law to treat people alike and that they know the law so they can plan their lives?
ReplyDeleteJames Madison wrote in Federalist 62, “It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws . . . undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be tomorrow.”
We're on a slippery slope and our representatives better speak up or the people will.
"Once again where are the Republicans? How can you pass a law after the fact that affects only some people?"
ReplyDelete- Terri Schiavo case. Both side try and pass laws that only affect some people.
- For the record: crying about the AIG bonuses when we gave them billions of dollars is like crying about someone taking a penny out a quarter jar.
For once Pook I agree with you.
ReplyDeleteNeo-Brown Shirts
ReplyDeleteAs Bill Cosby used to say, your don’t know about parenting if you only have one child. When you only have one child, there isn’t anyone for that child to pass the blame on when something gets broken. You never have to drive down the highway with one child yelling at the other child to “stop touch me” or “get on you own side”. He adds, if your only child is saying those things, you have a problem.
Watching the event of the last few days play out causes me to think about Congress and the White House as a bunch of children. Something has gone wrong, and something is broken. The first reaction of a child is as Bart Simpson always says, “I didn’t do it”. Then no one say me so you can’t prove it.
When the anger of the parents (the citizens) continues to grow and they want to know the truth, children start to point fingers in the direction of other people. Congress is now saying that it’s the Treasury’s fault. The Treasury Department is saying it’s something that Congress did. The President is playing Sargent Shultz, “ I know nothing!! I see nothing!!”.
I am so surprised by the Democrats lack of electronic media savory. They seem to feel that they can say anything that they want today and then deny it tomorrow. Don’t they realize that video and audio recording last forever? They should ask Richard Nixon about denying something that been retained on tape.
C-Span broadcast and then keeps copies of what goes on in the House of Representatives. Today, Rush played an audio selection from last year of the Secretary of the Treasury being grilled by a congressman. The congressman asked him about the fifty plus million in bonuses going out to AIG employees last year, the one hundred fifty-six million during 2009 and the two-hundred plus million scheduled in bonuses for 2010. He asked him a direct question to which the secretary replied. How can he say he just learned about it two days ago and keep a straight face?
Senator Dodd denied having anything to do with the amendment to the bill that gave the AIG employees these contractual bonuses. When he was confronted with the fact that it was called the Dodd amendment he had to come clean. It wasn’t his idea; it was the big bad treasury department that made him do it. At least that’s how he thinks it happened, No, he didn’t remember who from the Treasury Department strong-armed him into doing it.
The funny thing is that the entire republican congressman and three of the republican senators have perfect cover for this. They voted against the bill. They can say with straight faces, if the President and the Democrats had given us more time to read the bill, we would have caught it and changed it.
The sad part is if you study the history of Pre-WWII Germany you would find a charismatic speaker working the popular into a lather. Then his listeners (Brown Shirts) would go out and terrorize the general population, especially whichever group he decided to demonize in his speech.
The President and his lackeys are stirring up the people and there is a danger of violence occurring because of it. Stir up the people against citizens who are the scapegoats for the errors that Congress, the Treasury and the President made. Remember that Obama promised to read every line of every bill that came across his desk. American citizens have been demonized by elected officials. Those same citizens are having busloads of angry protesters showing up on their front door screaming bloody murder. Are these the modern day Brown Shirts in action?
If any action is taken by these neo-Brown Shirts, the responsibility will be theirs. It will also be those elected officials who lied to and enflamed them with false information.
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"For once Pook I agree with you"
ReplyDelete- I would like moment of silence for this historic event. ..LOL