So now Obama can’t even keep his party together with him and they’re revolting on the tax issue. I guess most Democrats just find the idea of some rich person not having more of his money confiscated so abhorrent that they’d rather sink the whole economy than see it happen. Thus I’m actually forced to pin my hopes on Obama to see this tax deal through so I’m not personally out thousands of dollars.
Pay attention to politics right now. You’ll be asked about it when historians are trying to determine when Obama went from FAIL to Epic FAIL.
They’ve always been revolting on tax issues.
I don’t think there’s any savings coming in this, Frank. This all looks to me like posturing. It’s made to sound like the Republicans are getting everything they wanted, but it’s just a 2 year extension, not making them permenant. Small businesses will still be holding onto their money, the economy will still suck, and Obama will try and ride it in 2012.
I’m guessing the other part of this is that he almost hopes his Dem buddies shoot it down. They really do want all the Bush tax cuts to expire. That would “make things right” in their goof ball world.
So, the plan as I see it is to throw up a lot of smoke, let the tax cuts expire because they couldn’t come to agreement, and then start the blame game. Republicans will be painted the fall guys.
Obama is so ineffectual he can’t even please the stinky old hippies anymore. The democrats are so greedy they would rather crash the economy than leave people’s salarys alone. Maybe Obama has spare buckets for his freinds in the House and Senate.
When has Obama ever just been FAIL? I was under the impression he’s always been EPIC FAIL.
Obama is a Super Nova Epic Doofus Awesome Sucking Failure!
A quiz by historians?
“You can thank God that twenty years from now, when you’re sitting around the fireside with your grandson on your knee and he asks you what you did in the war, you won’t have to shift him to the other knee, cough, and say, “I shoveled sh!t in Louisiana.””
How do Democrats think? So some rich guy pays more in taxes. How is my life better for it? All the government is going to do is p!ss it away anyway! It doesn’t affect me one bit! It’s class warfare and we have become a nation that believes that being successful is evil and should be punished…unless of course you were a penniless democrat who came to the Senate 10 years ago and are now a multi-millionaire. Nobody has ever explained that one to me?
0bambi went from FAIL to massively intense crappy EPIC FAIL at 12:01 p.m. on 20 January, 2009.
Me too, but I want Pelosi to gum it up just long enough for me to refinance my house.
Ummmmm, the maintenance of current tax rates for two years comes with spending increases that’ll prolly last until the sun ‘splodes.
I’d like to say that this isn’t your father’s Republican Party, but this is your father’s Republican Party.
Absolutely correct, Jimmy!
Of course I am, Marko. But ussjimmycarter, quit mincing words and tell us what you really think!
Exactly HOW big an EPIC failure is Barack Obama?
“He’s such an EPIC FAILURE that…”
“…Guam tipped-over by itself.”
“…black holes in the galactic neighborhood have turned white and exploded.”
“…the sun has ceased producing neutrinos and is trying to leave the solar system.”
“…Mother Nature has said “F U” and rewarded us with a mini-ice age.
“…wolverines are migrating south across Canada expecting to eat north-migrating Obama voters.”
“…Glenn Beck is sh!tting bricks and you can actually buy an autographed one with his book.”
Is this the final straw?
Have we reached ground zero because it looks like the first string President just got replaced by the second string President (not that string number represents ability).
This is totally new territory for me, I don’t think I’ve ever seen this done before. I would think that it undermines the very office of the President when the office holder can’t do the job that the office requires…..but hey that’s just me.
Oh and which one of our Presidents now has the nuclear football? Obama is such a narcissist that he reminds me of one of those, “If I can’t have the world no one shall” kinda guys. Which is bad for us.
I can’t really figure out what’s going on any more. It seems like everyone in Washington is committing political suicide as fast as they can. Is it going to far to kinda hope it’s not the metaphorical variety.
The real question is Can Clinton Save Frank J’s Income? Which reminds me I need to start my own government. Watching how it functions convinces me that I need to be on the receiving end of the cash flow and not the other way around.
I don’t know what it’s going to take to keep money in our pockets but I do know it will involve triangles and cigars and not berries.
In a ‘Redistribution’ society, no one prospers except whoever is in charge of of the redistribution.
We’d be better off with an automated roulette wheel deciding winners and losers.
It might not always seem fair, but at least the wheel isn’t paying itself $175,000+ per year.
When Obama goes from FAIL to Epic FAIL
When the targeted, hated, evil rich
aren’t people making $50,000 (as Candidate Bill Clinton said)
or people making $250,000 (as Candidate Obama said),
but people with jobs and private property ( as BHO’s long time mentors and friends teach) .
More thoughts on the Roulette wheel:
Suppose you have a lot of people standing around a roulette wheel.
Everyone picks a number and bets a dollar.
If your number comes up, you win all the money on the table, and everyone else loses a dollar. (I know real casinos don’t operate that way, but go with me on this.)
If someone else picks the same winning number you do, everyone else’s loss remains the same, but your profit is cut in half because you have to split it with the other winner.
If you’re really good at picking winning numbers, the other players will notice and more and more of them will play the same number, hoping to ride on your luck.
So when you lose your loss is always the same, but when you win your profit becomes smaller with every other extra person you have to share your winnings with.
Eventually you’ll say, “Scr*w you moochers, I’m going to play Blackjack instead!”
The other players don’t want you to quit so they out-law Blackjack.
As a political and economic parable, it needs work …