Business-as-usual Obama: Ok, now “let’s end to the old way of doing business”
What a laughingstock.
He signs 8,500 earmarks into law (out of camera’s view), sinks American deeper into a gazillion-dollar spending hole, then faces the public to declare that now, now, now he’ll clean up Washington, D.C. I smell swine odor!
Acknowledging it’s an “imperfect” bill, President Barack Obama said he will accept a $410 billion spending package but insisted it must signal an “end to the old way of doing business.”
The massive measure funding federal agencies through the fall contains nearly 8,000 pet projects, known as “earmarks” and denounced by critics as pork.Obama defended earmarks when they’re “done right,” allowing lawmakers to direct money to worthy projects in their districts — but added they’ve been abused, and he’ll work with Congress to curb them.
“I am signing an imperfect omnibus bill because it’s necessary for the ongoing functions of government,” Obama declared. “But I also view this as a departure point for more far-reaching change.”
This is his last drink, he promises. The last time he lights up. Really:
But he acknowledged that earmarks have bred “cynicism”, and he declared, “This piece of legislation must mark an end to the old way of doing business.”
Obama did not sign the bill in the presence of cameras and reporters, however.
Aw, no hero shot!?
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What does it say about our intrepid superhero president — Mr. JFK/FDR/Lincoln all rolled into one — that he didn’t have the courage to sign omni-pork in public?
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8Blood boiling. To angry to post anything else*
Obama lied, the economy died.
Was there ever any doubt this poor fellow was a moron.
*Blood boiling. To angry to post anything else.*
Old way of doing business?… What the heck has changed?…. Are we really the only ones who see this for what it is….. we really are screwed , more so than in November.
“If any Bill comes across my desk filled with earmarks I will Veto it!”
Backadoodle Odopey 08′
lol 30, do you have any Blood left?
On the contrary, I believe he knows exactly what he is doing.
Nothing has changed and nothing is going to change. He will continue signing bills with earmarks because he feels he must make his Dem cronies happy. He doesn’t care what anything costs and he doesn’t care about the people who are having to pay for it. He won’t be happy until everyone in America is making minimum wage so we can all be dependent on government. Socalism at its best.
Much respect for General Robert E. Lee; however, he too was known for making requests instead of giving orders. OBAMA weak on leadership, strong on rhetoric.
We’ve progressed (ha!) from cleaning up Washington to there are no earmarks in this bill and then defended earmarks when they are “done right.” Way to go. Bravo!
I think there’s a medical term to describe Barack Obama:
Everything he says is a lie, or a perversion thereof. Nothing he says is honest, except for maybe when he described unborn children as “punishments.”
HA! A lil’ sumthin’ sumthin’.
Every time I see Jug Head it makes me think how much better a Sock Puppet would do compared to him. If I have to watch this one man clown act turn his head from left to right with his chin jutting up one more time, I am going to fling the TV out the window.
defending… not defended.
Lying bastage.
How can anyone take anything that comes out of his mouth seriously? He’d be a joke, except jokes are funny. Absolutely pathetic.
His last drink? He quit drinking when they invented the funnel!
I’ve decided that anyone who can still support and defend Obama at this time, must have battered-wife syndrome. “I promise honey, that’s the last time I ever beat you, so help me Gaeia.”
If you can’t beat them, join them.
We better beat them.
Only 51 days in…what will the next 50 bring? methinks another trillion in spending and only 7000 earmarks.
Even the EuroSocialists think Obama and company are idiots and the Porkulus was a waste.
Ready to blame on day !
… with a 8 lbs. cluebat.
In all fairness, he can’t pass gas without a teleprompter, so it’s probably more accurate to say that it’s Axelrod who’s lying and the affirmative action dunce is merely parroting.
Then bring back the Line Item Veto or require that all “amendments” must pass at least a separate vote.
The addict. Nicotine, drugs, money, self-guilt.
Unfortunately, just like many in the general population. One example: too lazy to even roll the garbage cart out to the curb. (no disability, no excuse)
Stop! or I’ll say ‘stop’ again.
Just one more hit… honestly…
“I’ll sign for stem cell research, but don’t you dare ask for cloning!”
Obama said the earmarks going to public entities will ‘trickle down’.
Huh, I thought ‘trickle down’ didn’t work?
More like a money shot.
Do you mean “put and end to the old way” or maybe just “end the old way”?
Sorry. I see you were quoting him directly. Doesn’t quite flow thoug.
Are you kidding me? You are trying to make this an issue? Way to hi-jack a thread. You are making atheling’s point for her. What are you drinking?
No I was just trying to point out what I thought was a typo, as many posters here do (or broken links) and which MM often is grateful for and corrects.
Jeez.
This just in…
Cheap Vodka sales up…
Pelosi parrot with a telepromter
Trickle down TAXES work just fine…
I heard an interesting thought this morning.
There was discussion that Obama’s so overwhelmed.
Then it was thrown out that Dead Fish Emanuel is the de facto President and Obie’s just a mouthpiece.
That’s why he has to have the telepromter.
Makes some sense to me.
Unless I’m mistaken, does the omnibus bill not contain an earmark or two that Obama supported when he was a Senator.
Yes and they scrubbed his name from the earmark.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/02/airbrushing_obamas_name_off_ea_1.html
FIRST 50 DAYS
Great report card eh Chap?
Will not sign this bill in camera shot.
Plausible deniability?
Moreover, that he didn’t have the courage not to sign it. Or at very least, use his line item veto to cut out the pork. Or ANY of it.
This is payback. He owes congress for his blank check.
Back to:
“That depends on what the definition of “is” is.”
Chap,
I see you went after typo’s (or the flow of the text).
When do you go after the meat of how bad your Chosen One is screwing things up or just flat out being dishonest?
NeroBama got rolled by SanFranNan Porklosi.
Translation:
Obama – All earmarks must flow from and through my office. I have assumed control.
Idiot, not Moron.
I wasn’t “going after” the freaking typo, soap. I was pointing it out because it is obvious and is in the title of the post, on the chance that she would read the comment and want to change it. As dozens of other posters have done in the past.
Chap,
That is part one – and nobody cares.
Try part two.
Is anyone surprised that the former “community organizer” is now only good for “organizing”? Now, instead of organizing his radical minions in only Chicago, he is trying to do it on a national level. That is his agenda…his only agenda. Radicalize the country and give us NO CHOICE. The rest of the stuff he is supposedly doing is just puppeting what his overlords tell him to do. They put it on the teleprompter and away he goes.
Off topic, but interesting fact…In 1931, the Red Cross turned down a proposed federal grant of $25 million, arguing that it had all the money it needed and that such government grants to private charities would, to a large extent, destroy voluntary giving.
Hey, guess what big fella? Wasn’t posting it for your benefit or edification. You can ignore it if it offends your sensibilities.
Further, I am not going to play this silly game you always try to goad me into about defending every misstep, real or imagined, of the Obama administration. If I feel like posting on something I will.
Obama is like a kid with a new toy.
Dont’ look now, but Obama is going to meet with the Chinese tomorrow about the “ship” incident. For.Crying.Out.Loud. Somebody shut him up!
Annual Kiss Me I’m Imus, coming up March 17th St Patrick’s Day. Also the annual gift giving of the Bowl of Shamrocks from the Irish Representative to the President of the USA, let’s hope this goes over better then the visit from Gordon Brown and the 25 DVDs, and O’Bama’s Irish Roots.
Mulch the garden and mulch it again then top dress it with coco-bark. As with our President Obama’s tidy hiding the coco-bark hides the ugly, stinky mulch. Keeps the fly’s down too. That mulch should help the roses, not pork. Close the screen door Mr. President-flys you know.
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Keep the change-I’ll keep my guns
And he’s holding himself out there exposed. If he renegs on this, he’ll have to spend the entire 2011-12 election explaining himself. He’s a smart politician if nothing else. I’ll take him at his word, and bash him appropriately if he does it again in the future. It’s not like there’s a modern presidential precedent for NOT signing an appropriations bill loaded in earmarks. It HAS been the way of doing business, and we can’t afford it in the near future. If it HAS to be done now, so be it. BTW, republicans in congress need to get their own “house” in order when it comes to requesting earmarks. I see a lot of hypocrisy going on on the Hill, though not from John McCain who has always been strong on this issue.
Nothing assuring. But like Rachel Maddow, he’ll find some broad-brush w/ which to paint it over – in his favor!
Same stupid liberal talking point. The republicans did it, so why can’t we? Yeah, from someone who voted for Obama because he promised he was not a re-run of the Bush administration and He, The One, with be different. CHANGE! You walked right into that dumb reply. Don’t you feel ridiculous now?
He’ll be so busy explaining why he reneged on earmarks that there’ll be little time to explain much of anything else in 2011-12.
He keeps trying to quit…
Is there an Earmarks Patch he can wear on his lobes that will help him get over the spending cravings?
Yep, that’s what I thought.
Not offended – have to care.
This one needed a splurt alert. Too funny.
Consider that BHO means an end to old ways of doing business the Republican way.
I have not read anything from anyone in the BHO administration talking down tax and spend!
David
Same stupid conservative tactic. Either can’t read, or acts like she can’t read.
Get it? Good.
If you think “CHANGE” means EVERYTHING will CHANGE, you’re hopelessly stupid. If you can’t look at his appointments and executive orders and see any CHANGES from the previous administration, I have a friend who happens to be a Nigerian Prince in exile I’d like to hook you up with. Please post me your routing number to your checking account and I’ll send your dumba$$ 50 gs and a sign.
FT.com:
If only the Democrats would adopt this policy, and not bankrupt future generations w/ new entitlement programs that must be perpetually refunded!
Obamatron, the robotic teleprompter reader, has spoken.
All is well, earthlings.
Nothing to see here.
You are too funny! I actually agree on that point. His appointments and executive orders definitely ARE different from the previous administration!!! Practically every appointment Odimbo has made has been corrupt, or has had to back out because of corruption. Executive orders? You mean the ones he is making that are going to bankrupt our country? Yeah, that is change from the previous administration. But when a lib uses the argument that “republicans do it” as a reason for doing something dumb, it is a very bad debating tactic and makes them look dumb.
Sorry. Thanks.
Agreed, and any objective look at my posts makes the point that excessive pork/earmarks need to stop. Democratic and Republican presidents have signed pork filled appropriations bills. It’s plainly clear that I’m against excessive earmarks, and will hold Obama accountable if he renegs. If he has to follow a long tradition of doing business now for funding purposes and avoiding a fight, so be it, but it has to stop and I’m taking him at his word.
I suppose you’re taking this quote and inventing a phony point to attack. I don’t care if you’re talking both Bushes, Reagan, Carter, and Clinton, it has been the way of doing business. Your desire to defend all things republican makes you look foolish in reinventing or misinterpreting my clear post.
This is a fact. Look at current republicans requesting earmarks while at the same time your party tries to ride the high horse in opposing the same. That is hypocrisy. It’s NOT saying ya’ll do it, so we can do it too. Your replys are in response to a premise or point that doesn’t exist.
It’s emjemlight to completely create a phony scenario on a thread. I type “light” because I don’t think you’re blatantly lying, but you are dead wrong here:
Is the “lib” you speak of related to Harvey the Rabbit or Santa Clause?
I’m done. The words here are clear. Reinvent if you will.
peace
Obama signing this bill is no different than paying ransom to terrorists.
Congress is holding our nations finances hostage and the ransom is the crap they stuff into these bills.
what spineless behavior.
I suppose this is a symbolic example of Adolph Obama Voting “Present” on his own policy of No earmarks and no lobbyists.
On March 11th, 2009 at 2:41 pm, undresiege said: . . . I’ll take him at his word(referring to Obama).
What, in that man’s past and/or present actions or words would lead you to take him at his word. Has he kept any of his campaign promises? Can you provide any statements or campaign promises that he made that he has not either done just the opposite or backed down significantly from?
Seriously, I can not think of anything he has done that hasn’t been a clear departure of what he promised. I suppose there might be one or two, but I can’t think of them right now.
He has, at least twice.
When you put a pig in the White House, it’s still a pig.
LGM
RSS
undreseige
huggybear
to name a few. But thier ideas seem to relate to magical thinking kinda like Harvey the Rabbit or Santa Clause.
Yeah, or unicorns. Say, I was just thinking about another troll who used to post a lot…Mistressjustice. Whatever happened to it? Does anyone know if it got kicked off?
Quite famously. It was a sight to behold.
When was that, Chap? Do you know what it said to get it banned? Michelle allows a lot of garbage on here before her patience runs out…I mean, she lets you stay on, doncha know. (I’m kidding!)
I wish I could recall the thread.
It was either in November or December.
Well, there was this thread where “mistressjustice” posted that she/he was a sockpuppet.
Were we able to determine if this was the real mistressjustice or if the moniker had been open for someone else to post under it?
There’s no mention of Michelle banning mistressjustice in the thread that I could find, so maybe I have the wrong one.
That’s the one I was thinking of. A bit later someone mentioned she had been banned.
I can see where it would have been banned after that thread. Creepy! Thanks for the information…I was just curious.
to all my liberal friends out there…it was a republican congress which passed a line item veto law to curb the abuses of the system we now have, and it was a democrat senator who challenged it in court where a left leaning supreme court found it unconstitutional. i rest my case. “if you have the facts, pound the facts, if you don’t have the facts, pound the table”
What… if we don’t see it , it didn’t happen?
This guy’s really p’ing me off.
Have you noticed how…well…black Obama is in that picture above? I mean, he isn’t really that dark, is he? Or is he pulling a Michael Jackson on us? Nah…His Blackness wouldn’t do that, since being black is the only way he got elected.
Cause it’s sooo easy to get elected president as an inexperienced, half-black guy named Barack Hussein Obama. Talent had nothing to do with it, huh?
No, you are right…he is very talented at reading a teleprompter too. That did it.
If a bill’s got imperfections you find strongly objectionable, you don’t sign it. Apparently, He (capitalization intended) thought the thousands of imperfections were not objectionable enough when viewed as a whole. All those imperfections he once found unacceptable are now just minor onesie-twosie imperfections, allowable in order to pass the stuff he wants now. Supastah politician, yet so typical a politician in many ways.
But this is it, this is the last time this’ll happen. This “old way of doing business” must end, He says. He should have vetoed the thing and sent it back for revision. The old way should have ended before signing the bill. Changes, shmanges.
Yeah, about the best I’ve ever seen.
Yep, Barry’s going to have one last gigantic piece of peach pie before going on a diet tomorrow (and he is convinced we believe him).
And it would have been a good badass “presidential” move. Unfortunately, he’s still a politician who wants to keep the other leaders happy with a bunch of goodies, and maybe pay back some debts. He’s holding himself out there with his statements now, and will look like utter crap if he renegs on what’s he’s saying.
No class:
Obama sat slouched in his chair with his hand over his mouth when meeting with PM Brown last week.
Nice. Rapper wannabe in the White House.
Also a prediction:
Dow 5000 on April 15 (that’s tax day, Obamakins). Geittner beats himself to death with Michelle O’s guns!
“end to the old way of doing business.”
Now they are going to rape the country the New Chicago way?
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Keep the change-I’ll keep my guns
I tried to think about all the reasons obama didn’t go for the photo-op when he signed this “screw-us-again” bill. Was he so gleeful at the power of his “pen” that he knew we’d all be so PO’d seeing that $&*% eating grin on his face, he didn’t want to hear about it for the next two days?
I once had a boss who would flat out lie to your face. I realized that as long as I never forgot that, I’d be okay whenever I had to deal with her.
Never forget he’s a a gutless liar.
Excuse me? Could you provide some evidence of where I’ve done this? Nah, didn’t think ya could.
If you’re so “sure-footed” in your defense of Obummer earmarks, then why do you need to use my name? Seriously.
I see that you still can’t treat any woman on this blog with any respect. Not surprised. That’s the direction the weak-minded take when their insubstantial arguments go down in flames.
Obummer is a liar and a thief. That’s a fact…. get used to it.
Take your “respect me, I’m a woman card and shove it.” I love women. I just can’t stand you.
You accused me for attacking, debasing you for challenging my viewpoint on a prior thread. That’s a lie.
I attacked/debased/insulted you for being a piece of crap hypocrite who critiques jokey posts from chap and undresiege(underwear), while BLATANTLY IGNORING THE ASSASSINATION CRACKS UNTIL I CALLED YOU ON IT. You never challenged my “viewpoint” You’re a liar.
It’s funny mr/mistressjustice(whatever) justice was brought up on this thread because, I’m still waiting to see your PROOF that he/she was anti-gun, when he/she repeatedly stated the opposite. The most golden act of lying was on a thread when he/she called Obama a typical politician, when you on the very same thread accused him/her(whatever) of calling Obama an extraordinary, atypical politician. You’re a liar. You are simply shameless with your lying. It’s amazing to see.
Whenever Rusty used to intellectually kick you in the teeth, you’d just use or tried and true psychobabble of accusing him of projecting. You’re lame and lazy-minded. I know, I know I’m projecting now. LOL. Tool, learn a new word.
I’m in awe of the time you asked nyk(a woman of mixed race, not that it matters) to answer for all of your perceived generalizations about the failings of the black race. That was rich. Of course that’s the same nyk, that people like AlohaGuy defended against racial taunts. What do you do? You defended the racial taunts because nyk can sometimes be insulting to other members. OK, I’ll wait while you find some nyk posts where she personally insulted someone’s heritage, race, ethnicity, or religion. Seriously, they aren’t there. You have zero problem with white racists, but you’re too phony to fully admit it. Folks like usa-usa and Rob deserve much more respect for their honesty.
I’ve been reading this blog off and on for over 2 years, and it’s the best reality show I’ve seen. I wish I could have joined before the election when things were more fun, but hey, whatever. You are the biggest lying, phony, disingenuous, piece of garbage on this blog. You’re the Omorossa.
I’m not going to edit this post for typos or grammar miscues, because you’re simply not worth anymore of my time on this post. You’re lying scum. Feel free to email MM again, and beg her to get rid of me, cause I could care less. It was worth it to tell you about yourself.
p.s. Your Obummer line is played, soo plaaayyyyyyed.