Obama's Spokesman Gibbs: We Just Don't Have the <i>Time</i> to Patrol the Stimulus for Wasteful Spending<br>Update: Obama's Inaugural Promise to Spend the Public's Money Wisely Already Broken

Obama's Spokesman Gibbs: We Just Don't Have the Time to Patrol the Stimulus for Wasteful Spending
Update: Obama's Inaugural Promise to Spend the Public's Money Wisely Already Broken

Do something, even if it's stupid as fuck. Obama and the Democrats have a plan for the economy: They're going full-on retard on it, coming at it like a whirlwind of badly-aimed punches and tapioca-studded drool. Giving it their full retard strength.

Thanks to CJ.

A Forty-Year Wish-List: Democrats are wasting no time wasting all the money they were prevented from wasting since Reagan.

This has probably already been linked, and it repeats most of what you know. But still. Repetition is sometimes useful.

In selling the plan, President Obama has said this bill will make "dramatic investments to revive our flagging economy." Well, you be the judge. Some $30 billion, or less than 5% of the spending in the bill, is for fixing bridges or other highway projects. There's another $40 billion for broadband and electric grid development, airports and clean water projects that are arguably worthwhile priorities.
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Add the roughly $20 billion for business tax cuts, and by our estimate only $90 billion out of $825 billion, or about 12 cents of every $1, is for something that can plausibly be considered a growth stimulus. And even many of these projects aren't likely to help the economy immediately. As Peter Orszag, the President's new budget director, told Congress a year ago, "even those [public works] that are 'on the shelf' generally cannot be undertaken quickly enough to provide timely stimulus to the economy."
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This is supposed to be a new era of bipartisanship, but this bill was written based on the wish list of every living -- or dead -- Democratic interest group. As Speaker Nancy Pelosi put it, "We won the election. We wrote the bill." So they did. Republicans should let them take all of the credit.

Not only is the money being pissed away now, the bill commits us to pissing away future dollars, too. The nice thing about fixing a bridge is that once it's fixed, there is no ongoing demand for additional federal dollars every year.

But the crap the Democrats are spending your money on are, of course, intended to be -- and will become -- permanent additions to the federal budget. And will increase every fucking year.

All Obama Promises Come With an Expiration Date, Part 427: From his inaugural address:

And those of us who manage the public's dollars will be held to account -- to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day -- because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government.

That was a week ago.

Thanks to Slublog for that.

And Fish wonders if this gives him the license to go full-on Geithner on his tax returns:

[GIBBS:] "If we get focused on this number and that number, and two-one-hundreths of one percent of the spending...
Right on Gibbs, and when I complete my 1040 this year, I will also not focus on this number and that number. It's just not important as you so in-eloquently stated. Gibbs, you unconscionable prick.

It's not that they lack time. It's that Obama lacks balls, leadership, and executive experience. And anything resembling a Clintonian impulse to hug the center.

Posted by: Ace at 03:28 PM

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1 So even though 90% of it is complete and utter waste, akin to tossing bushels of cash into an incinerator, it's full steam ahead into a looming ice berg with O! and co. the first ones into the life rafts, while feeding the hoi polloi to the sharks.

Posted by: ECM at January 28, 2009 03:32 PM (q3V+C)

2 Gibbs is full of shit. They wrote it, they better know what is in it.
One week or one month won't make any difference. I can tell you now. Just pass the tax cuts and we will look at your list of democratic handouts after that.

Posted by: izoneguy at January 28, 2009 03:34 PM (3k9TU)

3 Akin to walking into a Bangkok whore house and stating that you have no time to go find a condom cause you need pussy now. And then blaming the STD on Bush.
(every once in a while even a dumbass like me stumbles into a good double entendre)

Posted by: pendejo grande at January 28, 2009 03:35 PM (AsiRQ)

4 Actually, passing tax cuts now and waiting on the rest of it for more study is a very good idea. A compromise, even. Well said.

Posted by: Popcorn at January 28, 2009 03:35 PM (ov1oJ)

5 [left arm tingles]
[pupil blows]
[drools]

Posted by: dog at January 28, 2009 03:36 PM (t9pKb)

6 I was just at congressdotorg and sent a letter to my Representative and Senators. I would urge everyone else to do the same. Also, the action poll on that site has 79% of people opposing the stimulus....

Posted by: Jo at January 28, 2009 03:36 PM (r4ULk)

7 Well that didn't take long.

From Obama's inaugural speech:
And those of us who manage the public's dollars will be held to account
-- to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light
of day -- because only then can we restore the vital trust between a
people and their government.

Posted by: Slublog at January 28, 2009 03:37 PM (qjKko)

8 I just don't have the time to patrol my 1040 for errors.

Posted by: EC at January 28, 2009 03:37 PM (mAhn3)

9 WASHINGTON – Looking beyond expected House approval of an $819 billion economic stimulus plan, President Barack Obama said Wednesday the nation is at a "perilous moment" requiring swift and decisive action.
"We don't have a moment to spare," Obama said in the East Room of the White House, just hours before a crucial House roll call vote.

So we don't have a moment to lose on something that won'tgo intoeffect for a couple of years? Got it.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 28, 2009 03:38 PM (1Jaio)

10 Hey, hey, heeeey, guys, maybe you oughtta slow down with the money-printing, don't ya think? I'm asking as a friend.

Posted by: Robert Mugabe at January 28, 2009 03:39 PM (t9pKb)

11 "If we get focused on this number and that number, and two-one-hundreths of one percent of the spending...
Right on Gibbs, and when I complete my 1040 this year, I will also not focus on this number and that number. It's just not important as you so in-eloquently stated. Gibbs, you unconscionable prick.

Posted by: Fish at January 28, 2009 03:39 PM (CG+cG)

12 Obama today:

And we will launch a sweeping effort to root out waste, inefficiency and unnecessary spending in our government.

Posted by: Slublog at January 28, 2009 03:40 PM (qjKko)

13 They'll use 1/3 billion$$$ to slaughter the unborn.
Snowe, Collins, Specter and ALL the DemocRATS.

Posted by: torabora at January 28, 2009 03:41 PM (ROpbq)

14 I wonder how long this Federal system would last if corporations ceased withholding taxes from employee's paychecks. But then, I don't know how to spell "TAX REVOLT."

Posted by: Jimmy at January 28, 2009 03:48 PM (/Ft4q)

15 Right on Gibbs, and when I complete my 1040 this year, I will also not focus on this number and that number. It's just not important as you so in-eloquently stated. Gibbs, you unconscionable prick.
Shut your noise-hole, you rethuglikkan profitmonger. This conversation isn't helping my kids.

Posted by: jdub at January 28, 2009 03:48 PM (t9pKb)

16 This is becoming a kindergarten school play in which everyone will be told to sit up and applause because they are children but they aren't, tthey are slick agenda driven dirtbag politicians of both the D and the R flavor, who are either robbing us blind to secure their political fortunes or worse yet...selling out their supporters to quietly ride the Obama wave, so they can last a year or so more.

Whereas, I'm glad to hear the Republicans are voting in mass against this stinking robber baron bill, I fear they don't have the backbone to stick it out until something that even ressembles a stimulus package hits the table.

Republican elected officials need to simply state their side of how this should take place and vote NO, NO, NO on this garbage until it reaches a 10% pork filled bill (which is still unacceptable) and all funds are releases instantly as to ....stimulate.

Make this Obama's bill, make it the Democrats bill, do NOT give them any cover what so ever....please.

Regardless of what either party does, I will be an Independent until the Republicans can get their acts together and keep them together.....we are watching.

Posted by: Drider at January 28, 2009 03:49 PM (lwt+p)

17 You mean Henry Waxman is suddenly all busy and shit?

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at January 28, 2009 03:49 PM (IJ/GK)

18 And just you wait until 2010 when Pelosi andReid are back in the minority (or back home, jobless, which would be better) and the Democrap minority starts whining about the eevvviiilll budget cuts the GOP will make.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 28, 2009 03:51 PM (ZGhSv)

19 17 You mean Henry Waxman is suddenly all busy and shit?
Yeah. what happened to THE INVESTIGATOR(tm)?
I always wanted to write a comic with him as the superhero, wielding his mighty powers of congressional investigation. One nostril would administer a powerful truth serum, the other chilled champagne.

Posted by: jdub at January 28, 2009 03:52 PM (t9pKb)

20 I heard that only 6% of this money is spent in the first year.

And that the only money relevant to true stimulus, is whatever is spent in the first year.

If this is correct, why can't republicans focus like a laser beam on the fact that this isn't a stimulus bill at all? It has nothing to do with stimulus!

Posted by: Village Idiot at January 28, 2009 03:54 PM (pflbj)

21 It's not that they lack time. It's that Obama lacks balls, leadership,
and executive experience. And anything resembling a Clintonian impulse
to hug the center.

That's my general feeling too - Clinton would never have let any stimulus bill reach the light of day with this unbelievably embarrassing level of Democrat pork. My God, the only thing that they left out of the bill was the 400-foot gold statues of FDR and JFK.

Posted by: chemjeff at January 28, 2009 03:55 PM (wy+AE)

22 Hey, BackwardsBoy, you think the Republicans are going to remember how to cut spending? I mean, they forgot for the past eight years or so. I hope so, but I am not convinced. I want to see them stand the fuck up in defense of some kind of principles.

Posted by: huerfano at January 28, 2009 03:56 PM (knHvu)

23 Ruh-Roh.
DRUDGE reporting CIA officer in Algeria accused of raping muslim women and making video tapes.
Thisll result in a riot or two.
After all- only Muslim men are allowed to rape their own women!!!!

Posted by: Mr. Happy at January 28, 2009 03:58 PM (waaUg)

24 After all- only Muslim men are allowed to rape their own women!!!!
The CIA agent in question is a Muslim Convert. It's true.

Posted by: robtr at January 28, 2009 03:59 PM (uJzOr)

25 The main issue is that the Democrats think they have to do something because Dear Leader wills it to be so. No matter how much money government throws at something, the only thing you get is waste and fraud all the way down the line.

I'll say it again and again: The TARP funds should have gone to retire/pay down as many mortgages as possible. That's some real stimulus, with real continuing results.

The government should be out of the mortgage business, the housing business, the education business, and anything else that isn't specifically stated in the Constitution.

Posted by: Smokey Behr at January 28, 2009 04:04 PM (QyeW7)

26 What about the muslim guythat's raping our wallet? Are they gonna make a movie of that?

Posted by: Max Power at January 28, 2009 04:04 PM (q177U)

27 Five months ago, most people in the US would have said that the national government was not in private enterprise and should not be in private enterprise.

Four months ago, the national government told us that it would use tax dollars to suck the poisonous bad loans out of the financial markets and eventually turn them into a profit for the treasury.

Three months ago, the national government told us that it preferred to use the money to purchase or prop up financial institutions.

Two months ago, the national government told us that it had to give our money to nearly bankrupt automobile manufacturers without requiring any specific operating changes beyond the curtailment of the use of private jets by company executives.

One month ago, the national government told us that they needed to spend another 800-plus billion dollars on projects that would create new jobs, have a net positive return on investment, and otherwise "get economy moving again."

Last week, we learned part of this stimulative injection envisioned by our representatives was to take the form of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of government rubbers.

To recap, in four months, the people in private business have gone from generally believing that the government only affected them through regulations and taxes to now seeing that they could at any time suddenly be in competition with a four-trillion-dollar, retardedgorilla.

All the flailing about that the retarded gorilla is doing -- all the ever changing plans to do something and do it now; all the ever changing suggestions about what the new tax policy will be; all the clear signaling that the road to financial success has been re-routed to pass through Washington; and especially the statement that this trillion-dollar-deficit state of affairs will likely prevail for years -- all of that has made it impossible for private business people to predict what next week is going to bring, let alone next quarter and next year.

Rational businesses do not take risks without having a reasonable expectation that the risk will result in profits. At this point, no one has any idea which areas of the economy the retarded gorilla is going to trample next.

When people cannot evaluate the risks; they cannot make plans. When they cannot make plans,they just hold what they got.This will continue until the gorilla calms back down.

Posted by: Troll Feeder at January 28, 2009 04:06 PM (3QVkA)

28 I never thought I would be saying this but Thank You Henry Paulson!
Thank you for making the whole TARP process so needlessly fucking scary and end of the world shit that now Congress and the President pretty much have to actually trot out one of the 4 Horsemen to get people to believe it's the end of the world.

Perhaps that was the plan all along. Ask for what in the past seemed like a huge damn number, 750 BILLION, and scare the shit out of people with it. This way when the Democrats ask for the TRILLIONS when they control Congress and the White House they end of America would be off the table.

Or maybe it was just Karl Rove.....YMB!

Posted by: Rocks at January 28, 2009 04:07 PM (Q1lie)

29 O is gonna fuck us in the ass...with no reach-around. The clock is running, and it's a matter of time before those that voted this jackass in start getting despondent 'cause they have gotten their bills paid and magic unicorn sent to them....

Posted by: Buck Naked at January 28, 2009 04:07 PM (utes0)

30 I wish these pork-addicts could OD. Sadly their habit makes THEM feel better. It's the rest of us that pay the price.

Posted by: right at January 28, 2009 04:08 PM (EquV1)

31 Dude.....next to the UN workers that CIA chief looks like an Eagle Scout.

Posted by: Rocks at January 28, 2009 04:08 PM (Q1lie)

32 Sorry about the length of the previous post.

I been holding that one in for a long time.

Posted by: Troll Feeder at January 28, 2009 04:09 PM (3QVkA)

33 "If we have to keep after wasteful spending, we'll never have any time to even come up with a bill..."

Well, good!

Posted by: t-bird at January 28, 2009 04:09 PM (FcR7P)

34 What's amazing is that they don't seem to have any real desire to actually stimulate the economy. You'd think they would consider that just for the sake of saving their own tails when the economy is still tanking 2 and 4 years from now. I guess we'll see how much mileage they can get out of continuing to blame Bush for all of our woes.

Posted by: Jim Digriz at January 28, 2009 04:10 PM (/Mtjv)

35 The government should be out of the mortgage business, the housing business, the education business, and anything else that isn't specifically stated in the Constitution.

It's pretty clear that the government has muscled into the pimp business, because they're spending money like a pimp with a week to live. And you know what that makes the taxpayers.

Posted by: kelly at January 28, 2009 04:10 PM (TIomG)

36 How long did it take for Clinton to screw up this badly? At least Obama didn't have his wife write the bill. If we had smart GOP leadership, 2010 will make 1994 look tame.

This bill is a promise broken, a terrible idea, and helps only the politically connected.

Worst President Ever. say it, repeat it, wallow in it.

Posted by: joeindc44 at January 28, 2009 04:10 PM (QxSug)

37 The Republican Senators need to dust off their filibuster manuals. A shovel maybe required.

We've pissed that the fuck away too. There are far more than the 2-3 spineless fucks necessary to effect cloture -> meaning "Override the filibuster."

Posted by: Al at January 28, 2009 04:11 PM (CyBUS)

38 Typical for the dems and Rinos. Have a problem? React, don't think, throw the taxpayer's money at it. When the problem gets worse, find someone/something else to blame it on. But whatever you do, don't fix it!!
After all, if you fixed it, what would you spend money on next year?
Fucking assholes. No wonder they don't have real jobs. They'd all fail miserably.

Posted by: sixpckr at January 28, 2009 04:12 PM (jyGLF)

39 #28 - Good post, Troll Feeder..

Posted by: IC at January 28, 2009 04:12 PM (jZNCU)

40 Is this going to effect our tax cuts?

Posted by: 95% of the the American Public at January 28, 2009 04:16 PM (PD1tk)

41 Their money for the “smart grid” is another bullshit boondoggle so that they can demand that we wheel power from the midwest and the southeast to the far west and the northeast because the nimbies will not build plants in their own area. This is total bullshit people and the money they are dedicating to it are far short of the amount needed.

So where is the remaining money going to come from? The individual utilities will have to provide the money which means the ratepayers in those regions will have to provide it. A nicely hidden tax so that power can be wheeled hundreds of miles to green turds who want the power but not the plant.

This entire bill is a worthless POS.

Posted by: Vic at January 28, 2009 04:16 PM (f6os6)

42 Repost, since it's more applicable here:
NY Times:
The economic stimulus plan that Congress has scheduled for a vote on Wednesday would shower the nation’s school districts, child care centers and university campuses with $150 billion in new federal spending, a vast two-year investment that would more than double the Department of Education’s current budget.
This is an utterly dishonestway to implement funding he could not otherwise implement. Americans supported an “economic stimulus” plan because they wanted to hire more teachers and day care workers? Of course not.

He’s using a crisis for fundamentally changing how the country funds education – forever. (Thanks W. for opening the door to this with your unprecedented trashing of Reagan’s view of education and the federal government.)

Barry is overreaching. This is not what Americans signed up for. We can beat him on this.

Posted by: CJ at January 28, 2009 04:17 PM (9KqcB)

43 For the first time I actually see how a 3rd party might be viable.

As hinted at by Backwards Boy in the previous thread, if some enterprising group of people were to suggest tax cuts, environmental deregulation, tort reform, and cutting 1/3 of all government offices, we'd have ourselves a Greater, New Party. And our mascot could be the manticore...or chig..or a puppy with big wet eyes.

Posted by: adamthemad at January 28, 2009 04:19 PM (kIjlp)

44 Fuck hobo hunting, I'm going Obama Voter hunting...

Posted by: Unclefacts at January 28, 2009 04:19 PM (M+Vfm)

45
Why are you people so dense? Get out of the caves, you troglodytes and introduce yourself to the 21st century. Obama and the Democrats know exactly how to fix the economy -- by going Green.

Obama is going to spread prosperity, save the planet, and end war in the middle east by investing in green technology. Obama has many supporters. And Obama has a plan.

Posted by: stupid typical fucking moonbat at January 28, 2009 04:20 PM (oMRjp)

46 I guess they figure they have 2 years at best before the GOP get's their shit together and work on taking over the House...

so spend like the alcoholic on a bender making up for lost time

(I only mentioned the house, I'm trying to be realistic and not even worry about the Senate.. and I think I'm still stretching it)

Posted by: Dave C at January 28, 2009 04:21 PM (a7WVT)

47 Icebergs sighted in the vicinity? Good Lord! Well, we have to do something. Immediately! No time to think. 52% of our passengers demand action, of any kind.

/cachunk cachunk

RAMMING SPEED!

Posted by: Captain Edward J. Smith at January 28, 2009 04:23 PM (cIX2T)

48 Ditto on the good post there, troll feeder. Too bad you're here and not ripping new assholes with dull chainsaws in Washington. They need it. You 'betcha.

Posted by: former mayor of wasilla at January 28, 2009 04:27 PM (yStT3)

49 Adamthemad, I'm still waiting for the party we have now to begin thinking about these things. Third parties haven't worked in my memory. In fact, I'm pretty sure that's how Clinton got elected (remember Ross Perot?).
Still, having the balls to stand up and actually propose concrete ideas to stimulate the economy could only benefit the GOP. If only they would...

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 28, 2009 04:36 PM (ZGhSv)

50 So it's going to be a mix of Hoover, FDR and Jimmy Carter's presidencies. Great.

I'll be in the bunker. Last one in better lock the door tight.

Posted by: wherestherum at January 28, 2009 04:36 PM (jToqn)

51 Never go the full retard.

Posted by: Flea at January 28, 2009 04:37 PM (rRYz4)

52 And, what's a chig? I've seen a manticore on an old ELP album.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 28, 2009 04:38 PM (ZGhSv)

53 Don't you realize that the PRESIDENT is smarter than you. Please for the sake of the children - LET IT PASS!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Matt Damon at January 28, 2009 04:38 PM (zqzYV)

54 Obama is making Bush look like an advocate for laissez-faire economics.

Posted by: '80sBaby at January 28, 2009 04:39 PM (a1BsN)

55 How long did it take for Clinton to screw up this badly? At least Obama didn't have his wife write the bill.

If she had, there would be $129.7 billion for the brocade upholstery industry. To supply the First Lady's gowns, over the next eight to ten years.

Posted by: George Orwell at January 28, 2009 04:39 PM (AZGON)

56 Excellent post, Troll Feeder!

Posted by: ErikTheRed at January 28, 2009 04:40 PM (erlfI)

57 I know we talk and talk about calling our congresscritters, but this time please actually do it. I've called mine, have you?

Posted by: ErikTheRed at January 28, 2009 04:41 PM (erlfI)

58 To recap, in four months, the people in private business have gone from generally believing that the government only affected them through regulations and taxes to now seeing that they could at any time suddenly be in competition with a four-trillion-dollar, retardedgorilla.

Bam!

Posted by: Max Power at January 28, 2009 04:41 PM (q177U)

59 It's been almost thirty years since the Democrats were last in this position. That means that almost half the people in America have never seen what Democrat dominated government looks like.
They are in for a very nasty shock.

Posted by: flenser at January 28, 2009 04:42 PM (d4P19)

60 chig..

cross between a chicken and a pig..

if you ever wanted an all in one bacon omelet

Posted by: Dave C at January 28, 2009 04:42 PM (a7WVT)

61 51
So it's going to be a mix of Hoover, FDR and Jimmy Carter's presidencies.

Dude, anyone who lived in NYC knows it's the return of David Dinkins - this time it's BAD, it's NATIONWIDE!!!

The "gorgeous mosaic" of New York's diverse communities

The 1991 Crown Heights Riot and the boycott of a Korean-owned grocery in Flatbush. He was accused of restraining the police during the Crown Heights Riot.

The tax evasion charge - "I didn't break the law, I just didn't follow it" logic.

May GOD (not BHO) have mercy on us all!!!

Posted by: MikeH at January 28, 2009 04:42 PM (zqzYV)

62 Troll Feeder.

that was over the fence

Posted by: Dave C at January 28, 2009 04:43 PM (a7WVT)

63 Mmmmm, bacon.
And kudos to Troll Feeder, very astute.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 28, 2009 04:45 PM (ZGhSv)

64 54
Don't you realize that the PRESIDENT is smarter than you. Please for the sake of the children - LET IT PASS!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Matt Damon at January 28, 2009 04:38 PM (zqzYV)

Right on, Matt -- you tell them!!!

Posted by: Ashley Judd at January 28, 2009 04:46 PM (Tq7Eu)

65 Still, having the balls to stand up and actually propose concrete ideas to stimulate the economy could only benefit the GOP. If only they would...

http://tinyurl.com/c9w78x

Freddoso at the Corner says they at least proposing some alternatives, and pointing out just how vast the pork is. Too bad those points aren't being more widely reported on by the media. Instead, it's all "Obama says we have to blow our brains out RIGHT NOW, and when he speaks it makes me lactate".

Posted by: Waterhouse at January 28, 2009 04:46 PM (cIX2T)

66 DRUDGE reporting CIA officer in Algeria accused of raping muslim women and making video tapes.

It's cool. He had converted to Islam first.
No, I am not making that up.

Posted by: flenser at January 28, 2009 04:47 PM (d4P19)

67 Yet another plus one for Troll Feeder. The problem may be even worse than he suggests. People will sit on their money during uncertain times in uncertain places. Formerly, capital in other countries could take flight here, given our usual stability. But now? We're not likely to see any capital invested anywhere, anytime soon. Just lots of gubmint waste and stagnation.

Wilderness, ho!

Posted by: George Orwell at January 28, 2009 04:48 PM (AZGON)

68 Hmm, told you so?

Posted by: joeindc44 at January 28, 2009 04:52 PM (QxSug)

69 When people cannot evaluate the risks; they cannot make plans. When they cannot make plans,they just hold what they got.This will continue until the gorilla calms back down.

You recall that story about record numbers of private jets flying into DC for the coronation? Don't think that Americas rich are not on board with all this. The gorilla is on their chain.

Posted by: flenser at January 28, 2009 04:52 PM (d4P19)

70 So how come none of the house republicans get together and produce their own little YouTube video? What do they need? a desk and a bookcase for a backdrop? do they not have that in one of their offices? And a little handi cam?

If a drug addled porn star can figure out how to use her camera for a live show, then why can't the fucking members of congress make their own 'Weekly Address'?

a three minute clip with a pie chart and show how absurd the bill is. all it takes.

Posted by: Dave C at January 28, 2009 04:52 PM (a7WVT)

71 In case I haven't said it recently: AAAAAARGHGHG!

Oh, by the way, I just can't endure 4 years of having to listen to the Obama enucnciations: abillldy, communnndy, and Uniiiied States. I wish someonewould train him to enunciate "T's".

doug

Posted by: doug at January 28, 2009 04:52 PM (dxxkS)

72 I hope everybody on here has also instructed their local Congresscrook to vote 'no' on the Money Wasting Act of 2009.

Posted by: bgates at January 28, 2009 04:55 PM (69+xi)

73 Troll Feeder, I agree. Currently, I'm sitting pat and watching the markets with interest...why they were up today?....(ostensibly on Obie's remarks about 'creating banks to soak up bad assets') -- you just can not make this shit up!

I'm not spending and am hoarding every dollar I can possibly find, and I'm keeping my business lean for exactly the reasons you mentioned.

Posted by: billygoat at January 28, 2009 04:57 PM (Tq7Eu)

74 Jeez. Did you people actually believe him about the fiscal responsibilty and transparency stuff? He's a Chicago fuckin' politician, fer crissakes!

Posted by: ginsocal at January 28, 2009 04:57 PM (6hw4x)

75 I know that the immigration bill was a lot of conservative's political Rubicon and if it passed they would have abandoned ship no matter the consequences.

A big part of the reason we are in this hole and sinking deeper all the time is immigration. According to a post at NRO, if Americas ethnic composition was the same today as it was in 1992, Obama would have lost.
I wait with dwindling patience for people like you to grasp the direct connection between immigration and bigger government. If you care about the latter you'd damn well better start caring about the former.

Posted by: flenser at January 28, 2009 04:58 PM (d4P19)

76 #76, you must mean fiscal responsibillldy...

Posted by: doug at January 28, 2009 04:59 PM (7k/CU)

77 By they way, they've made it about race.
http://tinyurl.com/b6zpua
A bit early for that card. Fuck'em.

Posted by: CJ at January 28, 2009 05:00 PM (9KqcB)

78 The Government enacts Sarbanes Oxley to hold Corporations accountable; yet they don't hold themselves to such standards.

Posted by: Captain Good Hope at January 28, 2009 05:01 PM (0eJbm)

79 The One doesn't have TIME to check a $870 billion or whatever-the-fuck-it-is spending bill for waste?

But... but... but... I thought he was going to go over the ENTIRE federal budget, line by freaking line???

Posted by: CoolCzech at January 28, 2009 05:02 PM (iafWn)

80 Oh, by the way, I just can't endure 4 years of having to listen to the Obama enucnciations: abillldy, communnndy, and Uniiiied States. I wish someone would train him to enunciate "T's".

doug
_______

I hate his hissing "S's" even more. I honestly cannot listen to him.

Posted by: Jo at January 28, 2009 05:03 PM (r4ULk)

81 Do something, even if it's stupid as fuck.

I know where President Cypto Muslim Fascist learned this- from war protest banner that entertained us all: Just Poop.

Posted by: shibumi at January 28, 2009 05:04 PM (tZB/c)

82 46
Why are you people so dense? Get out of the caves, you troglodytes
and introduce yourself to the 21st century. Obama and the Democrats
know exactly how to fix the economy -- by going Green. Obama
is going to spread prosperity, save the planet, and end war in the
middle east by investing in green technology. Obama has many
supporters. And Obama has a plan.

Do you know my libtard co-workers?

BTW, it is a waste of time to explain to these people that green technology is just another scam, and that no, in most places, wind and solar energy are not as effective as natural gas and electricity. Sad, but true.

Posted by: shibumi at January 28, 2009 05:07 PM (tZB/c)

83 Why is Gibbs in such a hurry? Is the Recession almost over?

Posted by: Captain Good Hope at January 28, 2009 05:07 PM (0eJbm)

84 Give us just a little cash for remediation, Lord Obo
And by remediation I mean the Two Tarp Protocol
One tarp protects the wall, preferably stone, and the other is used to wrap up the trash that's been "remediated" If their "esteemed colleagues" wish, they may claim the trash. Since we always think "green,"the wall tarp likely will enjoy a lifespan over the remediation of dozens of the Trash
Line them up two at a time, shoulder to shoulder to facilitate expeditious trash-handling. Mmmm !.... HopeyChangey visualization !
Two Tarp Protocol©

Posted by: OhioDude at January 28, 2009 05:10 PM (3RbaN)

85 Obama is going to spread prosperity, save the planet, and end war in the middle east by investing in green technology. Obama has many supporters. And Obama has a plan.

Landru! Landru! Guide us!

Posted by: George Orwell at January 28, 2009 05:11 PM (AZGON)

86 #58: I know we talk and talk about calling our congresscritters, but this time please actually do it. I've called mine, have you?
C'mon, man! Haven't I suffered enough over the last year? You want guys like me to contact Juan McLame, as if he would actually acknowledge and/or listen to his, you know, constituents? I've been flipped the bird enough these past months. At least in my case, you're fucking cruel even for asking, Erik....

Posted by: Paulie in AZ at January 28, 2009 05:28 PM (8sSFK)

87 This is just like that 1st bailout that started it all- we were told we had to 'act now' or the economy would collapse and asteroids would hit us and cats would start living with dogs. Then the Gummint promptly lost track of $300B. Now we have another crisis and we're told there's no time- we have to throw a shitpile of money at it RIGHT FUCKING NOW because 53% of voters I guess means a STONE COLD MANDATE for change and lies and pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!
I can't write my Rep or Senator because they're all Democrats- hell, they took one of our senators and made him Interior Secretary Tree-hugger-In-Chief. But we have to impress on the Republicans that if they vote for this shit, we will do everything to see to it that they lose their fucking seats next time around.
MORONS ASSEMBLE!

Posted by: Jones in CO: Typical White Person™ at January 28, 2009 05:45 PM (VkNlv)

88 Visit my new blog- "Dude- where's my unicorn?"

Posted by: Jones in CO: Typical White Person™ at January 28, 2009 05:47 PM (VkNlv)

89 83 Oh, by the way, I just can't endure 4 years of having to listen to the Obama enucnciations: abillldy, communnndy, and Uniiiied States. I wish someone would train him to enunciate "T's".

doug
_______

I hate his hissing "S's" even more. I honestly cannot listen to him.

Fuck All of You Crackers-s-s-s!

Posted by: Former President-elect Barak Obama at January 28, 2009 05:48 PM (iafWn)

90 We should have a mega-moron meetup Friday morning in D.C.

With pitchforks and torches and other things.

Posted by: Greg Toombs at January 28, 2009 06:01 PM (URFAu)

91 >Also, the action poll on that site has 79% of people opposing the stimulus....

Jo, I went to congressdotorg and couldn't find the poll. Where is it located?

Posted by: Twinks at January 28, 2009 06:25 PM (KGbOi)

92 The greedy Democrat Congress is going tosink the Messiah's presidency.

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Obama's Spokesman Gibbs: We Just Don't Have the Time to Patrol the Stimulus for Wasteful Spending
Update: Obama's Inaugural Promise to Spend the Public's Money Wisely Already Broken