Response to Obama’s Debt Limit Campaign Speech … Charles Krauthammer: “I Thought I Was Cynical Until I Heard Obama’s Speech”

The Barack Obama debt ceiling speech … At a time when leadership should have been the call of the day, instead President Obama used the prime time audience to do a political speech blaming others as the buck stops elsewhere.

So what was the reaction to Obama’s speech? It was purely partisan and meant as a campaign speech pandering to Independents with poll tested buzz words like balanced approach, compromise and even going so far as to make a comparison to Ronald Reagan. Charles Krauthammer went so far to say, I thought I was cynical until I heard that speech.” Do we really need a President who is going to make a prime time speech and just use poll tested words to pander and beg for support to a plan he does not even have?

Charles Krauthammer Nails Obama on what was a terrible, partisan speech

VIDEO Hat Tip: The Gateway Pundit

How comical and pathetic is it that Obama would say that Americans should not be made collateral damage when that is exactly what the Obama Administration has done for the last 2+ years.

Everyone, including those Independents who Obama was pandering to last night need to remember one little factoid, Obama originally wanted a clean debt limit increase with nothing attached. In other words, he wanted a blank check with no mention or caring for any decrease in the United State’s debt. That was reminded to all during Speaker Boehner’s rebuttal speech last night as he stated, “that ain’t going to happen”. The results of last nights competing speeches … BOEHNER 2 – OBAMA 0.

In the end, the debt limit debate will be decided by the American people in 2012.

Same Old Tired Obama Failed Talk … Barack Obama Blames Bush, Wars, Tax Cuts and Those Pesky Corporate Jets for Debt Problems

BARACK OBAMA … THE DIVIDER IN CHIEF. WHAT A SMALL, LITTLE MAN.

Prior to President Obama’s speech I was going to write a cynical post that said the following, why should anyone listen to Obama regarding the debt ceiling debate? He is just going to saying the same old, same old of blaming GWB and playing class warfare. But that would have been cynical.

GUESS WHAT … I was correct. Here is a synopsis pf Obama’s speech … GWB is to blame for the debt, blah, blah, blah, rich people are evil and need to have more of their tax money taken away even though 40-50% of Americans pay no taxes and have no skin in the game … blah, blah, blah … I am just like Ronald Regan … blah. blah. blah. Dude, first of all you are no Ronald Reagan. Second, how can this President not take any of the blame for the out of control spending and debt?

Here is the TEXT of Obama’s actual speech.

As the President repeatedly said the “B” word, balanced, as it was obviously poll tested as being worthy of being said 7+ times in an all but partisan and pandering speech. This was only outdone by Obama continually using the “C” word. Obama stated, “Americans are most fed up with a town where compromise has become a dirty word.”

But wait … BALANCED?  Did Obama just say that anything but a balanced approach was a Republican Congress and Tea Party thing? REALLY? Has Barack Obama been paying attention or was this speech written the other day? Is Obama saying that Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s proposal is garbage as well? Reid’s plan was all cuts and no tax increases. I guess Obama thinks Reid is a Tea Party member as well. Why would Obama support Reid’s plan, its not balanced in the least.

The only reason this balanced approach isn’t on its way to becoming law right now is because a significant number of Republicans in Congress are insisting on a different approach — a cuts-only approach -– an approach that doesn’t ask the wealthiest Americans or biggest corporations to contribute anything at all.  And because nothing is asked of those at the top of the income scale, such an approach would close the deficit only with more severe cuts to programs we all care about –- cuts that place a greater burden on working families.

What a sad excuse for a President. Obama literally offered nothing new and played the same old games of blaming everyone else. Obama has no plan of his own and can only act as the “President of No”. It’s not very often that the opposition response is better than the initial speech. Tonight was the exception …

Liz Cheney on FNS: Obama Is Out of Step With History & America … What Obama Is Proposing Is Not What America Needs nor Capitalism

This morning on Fox News Sunday, Liz Cheney states the obvious and can explain why President Barack Obama finds himself with a 42% approval rating. Barack Obama is out of step with America and what he is presenting to the American people, is not capitalism.”

This president is completely out of step with history and out of step where most American people are. he does not fundamentally believe that the private sector creates jobs.

He [Obama] doesn’t think that he ought to be able to keep more than  he needs from the government. The notion that the government some how decides what the American people needs and ought to be able to keep is not any type of recipe for economic hep and certainly is not capitalism.

VIDEO Hat Tip: Gateway Pundit

What Barack Obama is presenting to ‘We the People” is an insatiable appetite for government spending that is taking the car from the ditch and driving it off the cliff.

OBAMANOMICS … Unemployment Rate up to 9.2% for June 2011, Only 18,000 Jobs Created

UNEMPLOYMENT RATE FOR JUNE 2011 … 9.2%, ONLY 18,000 JOBS CREATED!

Welcome to the failed economic policies of Barack Obama … the US added 18,000 jobs in June 2011. The unemployment rate for June 2011 went up .01% to 9.2%. OUCH!!! Take a look at the dismal unemployment numbers from the DOL. The unemployment rate is headed in the wrong direction and President Obama and Democrats talk about tax increases. Really?

Nonfarm payroll employment was essentially unchanged in June (+18,000), and the
unemployment rate was little changed at 9.2 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics reported today. Employment in most major private-sector industries
changed little over the month. Government employment continued to trend down.

Household Survey Data

The number of unemployed persons (14.1 million) and the unemployment rate (9.2
percent) were essentially unchanged over the month. Since March, the number of
unemployed persons has increased by 545,000, and the unemployment rate has
risen by 0.4 percentage point. The labor force, at 153.4 million, changed
little over the month. (See table A-1.)

Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult men (9.1 percent),
adult women (8.0 percent), teenagers (24.5 percent), whites (8.1 percent), blacks
(16.2 percent), and Hispanics (11.6 percent) showed little or no change in June.
The jobless rate for Asians was 6.8 percent, not seasonally adjusted. (See tables
A-1, A-2, and A-3.)

Is it any wonder why just the other day Senior Obama political adviser Plouffe made the comment that the people will not vote based on the unemployment rate, trying to spin in advance these terrible economic numbers.  It’s time for all to admit that Barack Obama’s policies on the economy are a complete failure.

The Number of Government Owned Limos has Skyrocketed under Barack Obama

Limousines Liberal Hypocrisy … It Ain’t Easy Being Green, Especially When One Doesn’t Try.

The LEFT tells “We the People” to do with out. They tell is to buy green. President Barack Obama said we should get used to high gas prices and even went as far to say, “If you’re complaining about the price of gas and you’re only getting 8 miles a gallon, you know,” Obama said laughingly. “You might want to think about a trade-in.”

But that of course is for “We the People”, those that the LEFT want to eat cake … while they ride in gas guzzling luxury on the tax payers dime. During a time when government spending is at an all-time high and they continually tell us how we should run our lives, it should come as a surprise to no one that under the Obama Administration, the number of government-owned limos has soared.

Limousines, the very symbol of wealth and excess, are usually the domain of corporate executives and the rich. But the number of limos owned by Uncle Sam increased by 73 percent during the first two years of the Obama administration, according to an analysis of records by iWatch News.

Most of the increase was recorded in Hillary Clinton’s State Department.

Limos up 73%, too bad job creation could not say the same.

More from the Lonely Conservative discussing Liberals who ask the age old question, Ask not what your country can do for you, but how many taxes can be extracted from you and wastefully spent, by adding in a dash of hypocrisy as well.