Hard Times (3/20/09)

See what happens when the Little President leaves his teleprompter in his other suit?:

President Barack Obama might have rolled a gutter ball on NBC's The Tonight Show.

Toward the end of interview on Thursday, Obama told host Jay Leno he's been practicing at the White House's bowling alley but wasn't happy with his score of 129.

Leno complimented Obama on the score, but the president quipped, "It was like the Special Olympics or something," which prompted laughter from the audience.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, that was Barack Obama, the god of the Left, ridiculing the disabled - and his drooling zombie worshippers laughing at his despicable attempt at humor per their programming.  Let George W. Bush have ever gone on Leno and said the same thing (which, of course, would never have happened) and the Secret Service would have had to keep the audience from storming the stage.

Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton said the president's offhand remark was not meant to disparage the Special Olympics, only to poke some fun at the commander-in-chief's bowling skills.

"He thinks that the Special Olympics are a wonderful program that gives an opportunity to shine to people with disabilities from around the world," Burton told reporters flying back to Washington with Obama aboard Air Force One.

I'm sure that's what Lucifer wants us to think.  Of course, if that were true, I'd have thought he'd have not tossed off the witlesscism in the first place.

Then again, why would he have followed up that howler by reassuring the audience that, "I love the mentally handicapped, but don't ever let them take your rectal temperature"?

Red Barry's 2012 conquerer didn't let this bow-shot opportunity pass:

“I was shocked to learn of the comment made by President Obama about Special Olympics,” Governor Palin said.  “This was a degrading remark about our world’s most precious and unique people, coming from the most powerful position in the world.

“These athletes overcome more challenges, discrimination and adversity than most of us ever will.  By the way, these athletes can outperform many of us and we should be proud of them.  I hope President Obama’s comments do not reflect how he truly feels about the special needs community.”

Perhaps this rebuke from the best of his many betters is what grudged an apology out of him.  Doubtless to be accompanied by a multi-trillion dollar federal program to fund Special Olympics kids going all over the fruitless plain to give every American regular, mandatory enemas.

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Speaking of the forty-fifth President of the United States, her approval ratings appear to be quite a bit higher than False Messiah's:

Alaskans aren’t fazed much by the ongoing Sarah Palin-bashing taking place in the Lower Forty-Eight -- a new poll indicates the governor’s popularity remains sky high among voters in her home state.

Anchorage-based pollster Hays Research Group says its March survey shows 61.3% -- nearly two out of every three Alaskans - feel either “very positive” or “positive” about Governor Palin.

Could that not be in part due to her decision to "accept only money without strings that will bind the state later" like several other of her fellow conservative Republican governors across the country?  An indication of how much more responsible a steward of the taxpayers' finances she will be as opposed to the neoCommunist petaQ'pu who are plundering and squandering them now?  And because she's nice, good, kind, decent, and tough-as-nails, completely unlike the incompetent, lying, strutting, narcassistic piece of baktag she has to wait three and a half years to displace?

Oh, sure, that's just Alaska, and the Golden Child has only been in office for two months.  But after several years of unrelenting bumbling, finger-pointing, crisis-mongering, and extremist scheming, Americans will be clamoring for REAL change that REALLY works.  And Barracuda will be just what the doctor ordered.

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Crazy Nancy on the enforcement of existing immigration law:

No, you worthless, addled old hag, YOU'RE unAmerican.  You and your whole party are the ones who should be deported, before you damage this country beyond even its considerable capacity for self-repair.

I'm sure your Syrian friends could put you up for a while.

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Sometimes I wonder: has the whole world gone Obamunist, or has America finally succumbed to this terminal ideological disease?:

Investments of $750 billion could create a "Green New Deal" to revive the world economy and protect the environment, perhaps aided by a tax on oil, the head of the U.N. environment agency said on Thursday.

Achim Steiner said spending should focus on five environmental sectors including improved energy efficiency for buildings and solar or wind power to create jobs, curb poverty and fight climate change.

"The opportunity must not be lost," Steiner, head of the U.N. Environment Program (UNEP), told Reuters of a UNEP study that will be put to world leaders meeting in London on April 2 to work out how to spur the ailing economy.

The UNEP report said investments of one percent of global gross domestic product, or about $750 billion, could bankroll a "Global Green New Deal" inspired by the "New Deal" of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt that helped end the depression of the 1930s.

Except, of course, that the New Deal did not "end the depression of the 1930s," but deepened it and lengthened it to a full twenty-five years' duration.  How?  By taxing and borrowing debilitatingly high levels of resources out of the private sector and wasting them, and punishing that same shrunken private sector for its "sins" with stratospheric tax rates and punitive, punishing, suffocating government controls and regulations.

Or precisely what UNEP is urging.

Brief refresher primer for Herr Steiner: You cannot tax the world rich; you cannot borrow the world rich; you cannot spend the world rich; and you cannot fabricate markets by government diktat.  Particularly if you also expect the United States - aka the world's Golden Goose - to continue to serve as the warp core of the global economy.

You can, however, tax, borrow, and spend the world into a reich.  Which I cannot somehow but think is what you really have in mind.

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First Chris Dodd was lead demagogue against the infamous AIG executive bonuses.  Then he denied he had anything to do with the loophole in Hogzilla that specifically endorsed them.  Then he admitted that he lied the day before, that he did author the loophole, but only at the insistance of (natch) Red Barry.

And now, it seems, the five-term U.S. senator may not be getting a sixth:

Democrats may want to start thinking about a bailout for Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, whose political stock has slipped amid the financial meltdown.

As a five-term Democrat who blew out his last two opponents by 2-1 margins in a blue state that President Barack Obama won handily, Dodd, D-CT, should be cruising to re-election in 2010. Instead, he's feeling heat from a Republican challenger eager to make him a poster boy for the tumult in the housing and financial markets.

A recent poll showed former Representative Rob Simmons running about even with Dodd, a former national Democratic Party chairman.

As head of the banking panel, Dodd, 64, has become a convenient target for voter anger over the economic crisis.

Because he is one of its primary architects, interference-runners, and generous beneficiaries.  In short, he's a crooked, hypocritical plutocrat.

Or, even shorter, he's a Democrat.  And perhaps the unwitting architect of a three to five-Senate seat GOP rebound next year anchored in states (Illinois being another) ordinarily bluer than an old Eddie Murphy stand-up routine.

If I'm a Donk PTB, I'm doing everything I can to bulldoze Senator Countrywide into retirement as fast as humanly possible so that a fresh lib replacement can have the time and resources to hold onto that seat.  Ned Lamont, perhaps?

If I'm a Republican - and I am - November 2nd, 2010 cannot get here fast enough.