But They're Good Excuses!

Even the Obama apologists at the AP are straining to keep Hope and Change alive:

AdWatch: Ad Says Obama Makes Excuses on Economy

...

KEY IMAGES: A female narrator says, "America's jobless rate is still too high" as the screen shows a long line of workers, presumably unemployed and applying for jobs.

"Barack Obama's got lots of excuses for the bad economy," the narrator says as a photo shows Obama pointing a finger. A string of brief Obama sound bites follows, including "Headwinds coming from Europe", "We've had a string of bad luck", "An earthquake in Japan", "An Arab spring", "Some things that we could not control" and "We've been a little bit lazy, I think, over the last couple of decades." Large text of Obama's words amplify the message.

The narrator concludes, "But Barack Obama never blames Washington's wild spending and skyrocketing debt. Tell Obama: for real job growth, cut the debt."

So, is Obama full of excuses or is he a Man With Plan? It's complicated!

Because the ad relies on a jumble of sound bites strung together, there's scant context for what Obama was trying to say in each case. Europe's economic struggles and upheaval in the Middle East, for example, do at times impact the U.S. economy.

The ad also oversimplifies the role of federal debt in the broader economy. And it doesn't tell the full story about presidents and the limited power they have over the economy, particularly on federal spending and the deficit.

Because Congress controls federal spending, presidents must work with lawmakers on cutting the federal deficit. That puts much of what can be done about deficits beyond the sole control of any president. A great deal depends on which party controls the House and Senate.

It's difficult, too, to blame the economy's weakness on the sheer magnitude of the debt. The economy is weak largely because it is still staggering from the Great Recession, which officially ran from December 2007 to June 2009.

Many economists put it the other way around, saying the debt is high because of the weak economy. Businesses and families are saving more these days, and the government's spending of borrowed money is one way the economy has been propped up.

The growing debt problem existed before Obama came into office, and the economy itself bears much of the blame. The debt grew under tax cuts enacted by former President George W. Bush and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan paid for by borrowing. The emergency financial bailout begun by Bush a few months before he left office added to the red ink, as did Obama's 2009 stimulus package.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yike.

 

 

Comments

[Gus]

They're Commies. We need to understand that.

TAX THE RICH!!!

[Thomas Collins]

Gus, you're being unfair to the Commies. The Sovs never would have let an incompetent such as Obama become General Sec'y of the Sov Commie Party! Same for Red China.

[Sara]

They’re offensive.

Islamic Spring.
Several Islamic clerics called on Muslim Brotherhood President Mohammad Morsi to destroy the great pyramids and finish the work of Mohammad companion Sahabi Amr bin al-As.

[dublindave]

They're Commies. We need to understand that.
TAX THE RICH!!!

The rich have made it abundantly clear they've no interest in helping this country rebuild it's middle-class or pay down it's national debt.They want the poorest members of society to do that by giving up essentials like bread,milk and life saving medicine.

Fine.

However,much to the chagrin of very wealthy people and their sycophanatic Republican regular folk(who continually vote against their own economic interest IE;being on social security and voting for a party intent on dismanlting social security)when you park your money in a dummy Corporation on the Cayman Islands then you're A)going to be investigated or B)going to release a larger portion of your tax returns,not just the ones you were embarrased into releasing which forced you to place said dummy corporation in wifes name or c)cast a shawdow of doubt on your own legitimacy and therefore the legitimacy of your vision for this country.

Let me be very clear when I say this.......Americans like to know what,if anything, a Presidential candidate is hiding.It's painful and uncomfortable,or as the GOP has recently articulated,"disgusting and mean"...but there it is.

O B A M A 2 0 1 2

Remember Bush?

[MarkO]

It's all too easy. He's a liar. Sing with me children, he's a liar.

[Melinda Romanoff]

Squirrel cowboy.

Riding the lawn herding squirrels.

Some tourist trap ya got there, pardner.

[Dave (in MA)]

"America's jobless rate is still too high", but President Obama is doing the best he can. He invented the probably-coal-powered Volt. He's trying to raise taxes on "millionaires and billionaires" making $250,000 or more. What more can a man do?

I lost internet access for a day and a half, and I come back and Drudge is all monochrome. Any idea why?

[Melinda Romanoff]

Save on printing costs, I imagine.

Oh, wait....

[Jane - talk is cheap!]

The rich have made it abundantly clear they've no interest in helping this country

Dudu,

Congrats! You have now admitted to being in this country and that you have no idea about economics. You really should have made it a triple play.

[lyle]

You really should have made it a triple play.

Admitting he eats his own boogers?

[Neo]

President Obama: “This will be my last political campaign, no matter what.”

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) July 10, 2012

Best news of the day, but we knew this already.

[Jim Ryan]

1. Smoke a lot of weed and do a lot of blow.

2. Make nothing of yourself, even by age 46.

3. Get elected president.

Sounds like a plan. Americans actually voted for that. But wait, give him another term!

[Porchlight]

Hmm, "political campaign" sounds like weasel words. What other kind of campaign might he have in mind?

[Jim Ryan]

Let's see. He's "this dude who used to hang out and get baked" and he never got anywhere in life.... Give him a second term as president after he fell on his face in the first while the country teeters at the brink? Sounds like a good idea. Sure beat hiring an accomplished turnaround artist.

[Porchlight]

National Journal's Josh Krashaar agrees with Jay Cost (and GMax!) that the Bain attacks aren't working and that Obama is stuck below 50%:

http://decoded.nationaljournal.com/2012/07/despite-bain-attacks-obama-sti.php

For all the attention paid to the effectiveness of President Obama’s Bain-themed attacks, it’s remarkable how Obama has been stuck right around 47 percent for a very long time. As the Washington Post‘s Chris Cillizza documented, the president’s team has handily outspent Romney and his allied super PACs, pouring in $91 million into eight swing states in an early spending barrage intended to make Romney seem an unacceptable challenger. But for all that effort, the numbers haven’t moved much at all: The latest ABC News/Washington Post poll out today shows the race deadlocked at 47 percent. Yesterday’s USA Today/Gallup swing state poll showed Obama statistically tied with Romney, the exact same result the survey showed one month ago.

[Clarice]

OT: How long before the Egyptian military murders Morsi and throws his party's leaders in the clink?

[Enlightened]

1. Smoke a lot of weed and do a lot of blow.

2. Make nothing of yourself, even by age 46.

3. Get elected president. Eat your own shit

Sounds like a Dudu's plan.

[lyle]

2. Make nothing of yourself, even by age 46.

Au contraire, JR. He made himself into a hardcore, USA-hating, Marxist, good-for-nothing. If his dad, whoever he was, were white, we'd have never had heard of him.

[Gus]

Seriously. Who reads WeeWeeDouchebagDave's nonsense. The guy is a pathetic pussy.
Why waste your time. Same shyte different day. DouchebagDave is a 1%er. Loser that is.

[Jim,MtnView,Ca,USA]

Funny.
It was never so complicated when AP wanted to blame Bush for anything.

[Melinda Romanoff]

Clarice-

I'll throw a date out there.

Nov. 6, 2012. (back up date, Sept. 2, 2012)

[Danube of Thought]

"And it doesn't tell the full story about presidents and the limited power they have over the economy, particularly on federal spending and the deficit."

Did the AP ever mention this when Bush was in office? How fastidious they've suddenly become.

July 10 and DuDa is unaware that Obama will be removed from office this fall.

[Tonto]

The color quiz -- more (or less?) accurate than astrology!

[LouP]

"Senior White House adviser David Plouffe on Tuesday accused wealthy Mitt Romney supporters of trying to "purchase the White House," one day after the presumptive GOP nominee announced a $106 million June fundraising haul that stunned the Obama campaign."

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/236895-senior-obama-adviser-romney-backers-trying-to-purchase-election

Those dastardly, evil Repubs - don't they know that only the Dems can do that? It's in their contract! Is Obama behind in the fund-raising department because Dems are parking their money in Cayman Island dummy accounts?

[Danube of Thought]

"The rich have made it abundantly clear they've no interest in helping this country rebuild it's middle-class or pay down it's national debt."

Other than pay a larger share of the total tax burden than the rich of any other country in the OECD, what would you like them to do? And why do you think anyone on earth would be interested in helping you? You're an ungrateful whiner, and I would go out of my way to make your life worse.

[sailor]

Yes, DoT.

[Janet]

the Bain attacks aren't working and that Obama is stuck below 50%:

Sara linked this on the last thread. Very good.

Hilarious: John Sununu Just Laughs At MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell

[Danube of Thought]

Conn Carroll:

"So how is Obama doing now, at the height of his incumbency advantage? At best, he’s treading water. A new ABC News/Washington Post poll shows Obama tied with Romney among registered voters at 47 percent. But Obama is far weaker than that top line number suggests.

"Romney is actually beating Obama among independents by 14 points, 53-39 percent. The only thing keeping Obama close to Romney is the poll’s heavily pro-Democrat sample. In 2008, a Democratic landslide election, Democrats enjoyed just a 7 point turn out advantage (39 percent of the electorate to 32 percent). But in this poll, Democrats enjoy a 9 point advantage (36 percent to 27 percent). In both 2004 and 2010, turnout between the parties was even."

[Jim Ryan]

It's comforting to know that if the majority of the electorate votes for Zero, then at least the majority of the electorate will deserve the collapse of the country. It's a pity about the innocents (children, those who tried to vote for spending cuts, and so forth) but at least there will be some modicum of justice in the collapse.

[centralcal]

The "rich" in the Obama White House (per Free Beacon):

Jarrett’s net worth is between $3.3 million and $13 million. Lu is worth between $2.3 million and $5.2 million. Plouffe is worth as much as $3.6 million, Carney as much as $3.2 million, and Pfeiffer as much as $2.1 million.

[Porchlight]

But in this poll, Democrats enjoy a 9 point advantage (36 percent to 27 percent). In both 2004 and 2010, turnout between the parties was even."

Anyone who says Dems will have a 9 point turnout advantage in November is stupid or lying. The ABC/WaPo poll has always been suspect but this tops anything I've seen recently.

He's tanking and they're desperate.

[Danube of Thought]

She just won't stop giving:

"Disclosure forms reveal that Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a member of Congress from Florida, previously held funds with investments in Swiss banks, foreign drug companies, and the state bank of India. This revelation comes mere days after the Democratic chair attacked presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for holding money in Swiss bank accounts in the past."

(WS)

[Gus]

Why does Obama want more money to spend. What is he spending it on, and can't he just put it on SATCHMO and SOMALIA'S tab??
Obama was going to cut the deficit in half. WHAT HAPPENED??

[NK]

DD-- I've figured out who he is. He's the 20yo in NH who got the sales clerk fired because she refused to accept his electronic cash card to use Welfare $$ to buy cigarettes. That's our DD, he's a 20yo smoker who feels no shame using welfare $$ to buy butts... and porn (but not soap or toothpaste.)

[Gus]

NK, you're probably not far from the truth. Commies has no moral and no shame. You think what you pointed out was absurd. It is not. Libtards are sick. I mean psychologically ill.

[dublindave]

Still waiting for those tax records for the last ten years.

If the President of the United states can produce his birth certificate to placate one of the dumbest conspiracy groups in America(the GOP),then surely Swiss Mitt can produce the same number of tax returns that his father did.

Jesus,why is this guy so secretive?

What's he hiding?

He's running to be President of the United states...he's got his money parked in dummy corporations all over the Caymen Islands ...he's got secret swiss bank accounts and other secret bank accounts(and yes they are "secret" because we had to pry this information from him)......and to top it all off he doesn't want people looking at his tax returns prior to two years ago.

Even daddy Romney acknowledged that anyone anticipating a Presidential bid could premptively fix their tax returns for the last few years to hide the true nature of their financhial dealings.Which is why he released 10 years worth.

Why won't his son?

What is Mitt Romney hiding besides Dummy corporations in the Cayman and Swiss bank accounts?????

O B A M A 2 0 1 2

(don't change horses mid-stream)

[Gus]

Still waiting for the Passport Records, and why Obama has a CONNECTICUT social security number.

[Janet]

Why does Obama want more money to spend.

I think it was Pops who wondered why Obama doesn't just borrow millions & billions & trillions for his campaign. That's the game plan for America...so he should follow his own advice. Borrow your way to victory, Barack!

[Jim Eagle]

Me? I am still waiting for all the sealed transcripts, college records, selective service registration records, passport applications and usage, financial applications for aid to college, who the co-signers were, etc.

There is no obligation on the part of any candidate to release IRS returns. There is not one scintilla or evidence or even smoke to believe that any transaction or banking relationship Romney has is illegal, immoral or unethical. You can smear all you want but you have nothing except slander, libel and bullshit.

[Has Obama stopped leaking National Security secrets? Has he stopped beating Michelle? Has he stopped molesting his kids? Has Obama renounced his homosexuality and drug usage? Has Obama stopped giving Vlad Putin his unsworn loyalty? Has Obama told King Saud that he has to be more careful where and when he kneels toward Mecca everyday because too many people are catching on?]

[NK]

Today really is a good day-- first Gallup shows NOBODY trusts the Legacy Media, so they don't swing votes to the Dems like they used to. Now, the Dems attack Romney the investor, putting money away around the world, just like Debbie Wasserman or union pension funds. HOW DARE HE. He's Rich?-- not a problem, thanks to the OWS schmucks last year, voters aren't into class warfare. DD-- just keep using that welfare cash card to buy butts and porn-- for now. After the election, we'll tighten up those welfare rules.

[Sue]

I'm still waiting on John Kerry's military records. ::sigh::

[Gus]

Why did Obama leak National Security Secrets to the NEW YORK TIMES? Anyone know?
And why have Obama and Holder HIDDEN from their responsibilities vis a vis the death of hundreds of Mexicans with guns OBAMA and HOLDER supplied??
Why?
And what about Brian Terry?? Isn't there anyone in Obama's administration that has balls. I mean besides Mooochelle??

[pagar]

"How long before the Egyptian military murders Morsi and throws his party's leaders in the clink?"

I wouldn't be surprised if Obama didn't send the US military over there to protect
Morsi.

[Extraneus]

The first pic ever posted on the web.

[Gus]

What passport did Opie the Kenyan dimwit use when he went to POCKEEESTAWN??

It wasn't American.

[Extraneus]

The rich have made it abundantly clear they've no interest in helping this country rebuild it's middle-class or pay down it's national debt.

Fact check: True

[NK]

"Excuses" -- as my High School football coach said about exceuses: 'They are like ...holes, eveybody's got one.'

[Danube of Thought]

Reality:

"Wealthy Americans earn about 50 percent of all income but pay nearly 70 percent of the federal tax burden, according to the latest analysis Tuesday by the Congressional Budget Office — though the agency said the very richest have seen their share of taxes fall the past few years.

"CBO looked at 2007 through 2009 — the latest years data are available, but enough to include the early effects of the last recession — and found the bottom 20 percent of American earners paid just three-tenths of a percent of the total federal tax burden, while the richest 20 percent paid 67.9 percent of taxes.

"The top 1 percent, whom President Obama has made a target during the presidential campaign, earned 13.4 percent of all pre-tax income but paid 22.3 percent of taxes in 2009, CBO said. When tax burden is figured in, the top 1 percent took in only 11.5 percent of income."

Sorry, DuDa--we're not going to pay any more. You Eurotrash will have to learn to live with that.

And with President Romney.

[Clarice]

Mel, I just splurged and ordered emergency survival kits for us to keep in our cars. Just saying.
I think your Sept backup date looks closer to my estimate.

[Carol Herman]

The answer is: Nigel Farage.

Gosh, the man stole my heart. He's gone viral with clips from the European Parliament. Where he's been targeting (for more than a decade), the LOSS OF SOVEREIGNTY TO THE BRITISH PEOPLE. And, others.

While he's pointed out that over in England ALL the major parties contain the same type of politicians. Who HATE THE PEOPLE! And, who are only happy tossing away sovereignty for a chance to "party" on the EU's dime.

We don't have such a politician in America! So it set me to wonder.

I also live in a very small town. Where the right wing bullies are the politicians. And, they certainly don't mind trampling freedoms. Instead? They share a small pie among themselves. And, they terrorize small businesses. And, anyone else who submits plans to upgrade their residential properties.

What has this got to do with Romney?

Well, Romney's not out to give me your freedom. The Romney's, the Bush's, and the Rockefeller's just want to become "monarchs." "The Little People aren't on their agenda."

If Romney loses in November?

Well, then, I expect Karl Rove comes out ... and some new plan to hold primaries will emerge for 2016. And, Jeb Bush will be forced down the throats of any group that so far, instead, is sold on Jesus. And, reducing the availability of contraception.

At least I now think I know why Romney can't get a leg up. Obama? He won against McCain. It's as if the powers that be within the republican party have no idea how to pick someone personable.

Imagine a party that learned nothing from picking the loser, McCain.

And, NOTHING from all the years they stuck Reagan out in the cold. (Starting in 1964, when Goldwater thought Reagan a lightweight. And, to gain stature Reagan, in California, ran against the democratic family machine of the Brown's.

Moonbeam's a Brown. Remember the lady from eBay who ran against him? She proved you couldn't buy California.

Reagan, however, proved you could win it. If you kept a twinkle in your eye. (Yeah. He was once a democrat. But he couldn't get a leg up on their platform. The rest, as they say, is "history.")

Obama? As soon as he reached the senate the deal makers (Ted Kennedy and John Kerry) ... treated him the way you treat a candidate who can reach the gold.

[Clarice]

More people should treat that idiotic partisan Mitchell the way Sununu did. She deserves to be treated with contemptuous laughter.

[Extraneus]

Leave dd alone!

He tells us what they're thinking, and I, for one, appreciate it. Today they're thinking that all is lost if they can't pin some kind of Monopoly top-hat on Romney before people learn about all of his boy scout do-gooder family-man antics.

[Jane - talk is cheap!]

Tonto,

I took that quiz and the results bore no resemblance to me at all. It couldn't have been more off.

Weird huh?

[NK]

"Contemptuous laughter"-- Romeny and his campaign spokesmen should do the same to Obami attackers. 'Bam and his crew are full of themselves, and like most self-important prats they cannot tolerate being mocked. Mock all of their nonsense, they'll become more enraged and make more mistakes.

[dublindave]

"Me? I am still waiting for all the sealed transcripts, college records, selective service registration records, passport applications and usage...."

Only a Republican could experience anxiety over the Presidents refusal to release his 'selective service registration records'.Dear God,what shall we call it,'Selective service registration record release-gate'?The Long National nightmare that tore at the very fabric of the nation.

The 'Passport applications and usage scandal' that ripped the country apart,where brother fought against brother over correct passport applications and usage policy?

Sigh.

Just get "Cayman Mitt" to release his tax returns for the last 20 years.

[Ignatz]

--She deserves to be treated with contemptuous laughter.--

That comment caused me to conjure three words that gave me a horrible, indelible image;

Alan, Andrea, foreplay.

Where's the arsenic?

[Carol Herman]

Things Obama can do with a win, in November:

Change the supreme court, and replace a few with liberal judges. (Meaning? Anyone in law school. Or looking at the politics of becoming sitting judges ... write opinions along liberal lines.)

Cut the budgets of the State Department, the military, and the CIA. Maybe, even cut what we provide to NATO and the UN? The zombie Euro (which is a Ponzi scheme to Nigel Farage) ... will have europe on the ropes for a long time. Violence is going to swell.

Nigel Farage has gone on record to point out how violence rises among the masses of people who lose rights they took for granted.

The bigger question is why does Obama want the job? After awhile it has to be very tiring living in a fish bowl.

[NK]

Ig@5:50- MY EYES, MY EYES... I just mentally imaged 2 corpses making out... where are those hot darning needles....

[Jane - talk is cheap!]

JIB,

That was spectacular!

"Disclosure forms reveal that Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a member of Congress from Florida, previously held funds with investments in Swiss banks, foreign drug companies, and the state bank of India. This revelation comes mere days after the Democratic chair attacked presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for holding money in Swiss bank accounts in the past."

That just made my day. Plus aren't both of her parents in jail?

[Gus]

Maybe he's a blithering imbecile like you Carol.

[Carol Herman]

HA HA HA ... that the soviet union ran on competence! Stalin was without an education. (He may have toyed with idea of becoming a priest. But he was surrounded by drunks.)

About all you need to know about russia is they have no middle class. NO management skills! And, the nation lives on cheap vodka and bread.

When you look at systems that are undemocratic, the biggest ingredient for those who rule is FEAR! Scare people enough with fake trials ... and "disappearances" in the middle of the night ... And, who is going to argue with you?

Putin is KGB!

And, whomever is running China, they prefer to remain "grey" ... and unseen. While China is without courts to protect any money you invest over there.

America was (and hopefully still is) a unique pledge to the people guaranteeing life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Romney can't model this!

And, Obama? The Black Man Won! How? He has a likable personality. Putin has zero on that scale.

[NK]

MelR-- I know I'm slow, but the Euro is now <$1.23. Is the ECB/EuroZone QEing their way to reducing debt levels with a debased Euro? Have ze Germans agreed to the debasing because there is no threat of inflation, and the debasing helps their exports to Asia/NA?

[centralcal]

Plus aren't both of her parents in jail?

No Jane. Turns out they were not her parents and not even related to her.

[Random]

I suspect DD is the former 'daveyboy' from Don surbers' much missed site. Just a cut-and-paste dork, doing what he can to derail any serious discussions.

[Carol Herman]

50/50

Anyone who has studied American history has become familiar with our two party system.

Now, if you take FDR, in all his 4 contests, he won by LANDSLIDES!

Yes, we were in the DEEP DEPRESSION.

When FDR won out over Hoover, in 1932, I don't think Hoover achieved even 50 Electoral College votes.

In 1936, when the GOP ran with Alf Landon, FDR won by a wider margin: Alf Landon maybe got 7 electoral college votes.

When McGovern lost to Nixon, in 1972, McGovern won only his own state. He was asked about this loss. And, he said "I can't cry (in public). But it hurts too much to laugh."

Yeah. Sometimes the democrats lose.

Back in 1956, (and I remember this story) ... a woman was thrilled to shake Adlai Stevenson's hand. As she was doing so, she gushed: "Every bright person is America is going to be voting for you." To which Stevenson replied: "Alas, then I'll lose."

What SHOULD HAVE the republicans done for 2012? Iowans should have been pummeled! There should have been a republican voice that developed that would have been akin to Nigel Farage!

"What do you mean you want to stuff your religion down other people's throats?" What do you mean you want to deny women access to safe abortions?"

The 1950's won't come back!

And, both major parties see no need in improving on what they're doing ... even though we're getting elections, now, that take place at the edge of the cliff!

50/50

And, you're not running the candidate that is more likeable.

[narciso]

A little cleansing image, it's 3;13 in California, so it's in the LUN

[NK]

We're #44, We're #44!! CNBC ranks Ct 44th worst state for business. Thank you drunken Dan Malloy. Rhode Island worst, Florida shockingly bad, Illinois at #26 not so bad, BUT Wisc and Indiana much better-- they'll eat Illinois's economic lunch soon enough when Illinois's pension costs bite hard.

[Carol Herman]

The benefit of reporting Obama "lags."

Because then people will think this is "not in the bag." And, you up the margin of people willing to vote.

Sure. If people get enthusiastic about a candidate, they're more than likely to vote.

But Obama? His advantage is to make the race look more exciting than it is.

And, to do that people have to think "it's so close he can lose."

Now, on election night, there's gonna be a lot of focus on watching results. Which start to occur on the East Coast. And, over a 3 hour period, travels West.

Florida and Pennsylvania will be the first two states up to the announcement plate.

Yes. There's a reason the media will play the night "as tight." BECAUSE IT HELPS BRING IN MORE AD MONEY!

When it's a close race, all eyes turn to the track. Some people watching won't even have bought a ticket.

And, yes. Obama is gonna make it look like a close race.

Was John Roberts an insider's signal?

[NK]

narc@6:21-- wow.....

[NK]

Here's the CNBC state ranking link: http://www.cnbc.com/id/46413845

[narciso]

So, the notion, that the Washington Post is putting forward, that Obama is more popular than in 2008, what are they drinking?

[Melinda Romanoff]

NK-

Yes, they're debasing and Germany agreed to none of it. The ECB can't print but boy's howdy the individual central banks sure can. The ECB now has as large a balance sheet as the Fed, and they did that in under a year. Look up the TARGET2 payments system, when you get home, that's the vehicle, but the minutiae will make your eyes roll back in your head, as you try to keep all the moving parts straight.

[Jim Eagle]

What the hell has happened here? We have dueling but out of tune banjos in Carol Herman and DuDa.

Can someone please find a remediation? Clarice, where the hell are those pistolas when we need them.

[Extraneus]

After narc's cleansing link, did everyone see the buxom bandit?

Australian Woman Robs Gas Station At Knife-Point

[Danube of Thought]

The Andrea tape is hysterical. Her sleep will be troubled tonight.

[Gus]

I'd like a candidate that was really nice, but not a moron like Carol.

[pagar]

The vapor thickens.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/pfgs-chairman-was-forging-bank-documents-years-even-cftc-gave-all-clear

Unbelievable!

[narciso]

This is a better link than Flopping Aces,

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/07/10/john-sununu-laughs-andrea-mitchell-defending-obamas-use-bogus-romney

[NK]

MelR@6:38, thanks-- the national CBs are printing, but the ECB is facilitating with the LTRO, no? (or does the LTRO simply Ponzi around the SAME money the national CBs orinted?) Germany agreed to none of it? -- so why is Germany along for the debasing of THEIR currency when ze Germans don't want inflation for all sorts of economic and cultural reasons?

[MoodyBlu]

DuDa,

This election was always going to be about 2 things; class warfare and racism. Bill Whittle made an excellent video that illustrates just how weak the Eat the Rich argument is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=661pi6K-8WQ>

Please refute any of the facts presented.

[Melinda Romanoff]

The non-captain CH infestation is periodic and definitely dissappears with repeated non-response. I witnessed the same thing at smalldeadanimals awhile back.

[NK]

There is only one CH ... and that CH is Captain Hate!

[narciso]

In other news, the Huntsman gals are the svelter version of the 'skin crawling one'

[Jim,MtnView,Ca,USA]

"NK, you're probably not far from the truth"

I would guess DuDa is from Dublin CA. Maybe we can get together some time for a beer :)
I can tell him my Billy Ayers stories and he can tell me...well, however it is that he is making the world a better place?

[narciso]

Well Steinhauer, already looks like a character out of sNL played by Bill Heder;

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/07/10/CNN-Hits-Romney-With-Phony-Fact-Check

[Clarice]

The pistolas are on the wine rack just behind where DoT is sitting.

[Clarice]

Putin smacks Obama in the face with his glove--sends warships to Syria.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9390177/Russia-sends-warships-to-Syria.html

[Clarice]

He also treats Annan with the disrespect that phony deserves.

[Jane - talk is cheap!]

I suspect DD is the former 'daveyboy' from Don surbers' much missed site. Just a cut-and-paste dork, doing what he can to derail any serious discussions.

Hmmmmm, that makes sense. These weird liberals who try and haunt conservative sites and simply prove how stupid they are. It's an odd and masochistic hobby.

[NK]

Ruskie frigates to Syria?... Hmmm.. maybe this is some of that 'flexibility" 'Bam was talking about with "mini-Vlad".

[Extraneus]

James Earl Jones: I understand racism, so I think I’ve figured out the tea party

Threw his own grandmother under the bus. Tsk tsk.

[dublindave]

"Please refute any of the facts presented."

I would if you linked to anything.

[narciso]

One thing one discovers from Mann's somewhat
conflicted hagiographic take, is that Obam's chief advisor on Russia, McFaul, was one that seriously considered working for Edwards, we're in the hands of Top Men, or however that translates in Russia,

[centralcal]

Remember the Daily Caller reporter (Munro) who had the audacity to shout out a question to Obama in the Rose Garden? There was all sorts of media angst and calls that he should be kicked out of the White House Correspondents Association.

Well, the WHCA met, they briefly discussed it, issued a general call for decorum, and did nothing.

[centralcal]

Earlier today, I posted a tweet that suggested JJJr had attempted suicide. I see Drudge has picked it up now.

MelR - are you hearing anything?

[bgates]

Congress controls federal spending

That's true. A President's opportunity for control over the government's fiscal condition comes on the revenue side, since he can unilaterally set tax rates, as in

tax cuts enacted by former President George W. Bush.

Also,
Because Congress controls federal spending, presidents must work with lawmakers on cutting the federal deficit. That puts much of what can be done about deficits beyond the sole control of any president. A great deal depends on which party controls the House and Senate,
yet
The emergency financial bailout begun by Bush a few months before he left office added to the red ink.

[centralcal]

Twitter speculation that Romney may announce VP selection sooner than anticipated:

Robert Costa ‏@robertcostaNRO
From what I hear, the pick could be announced before Romney flies to Europe... http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/10/us-usa-campaign-romney-idUSBRE86419K20120710

Romney will be in London for the Olympics and visiting Israel.

[narciso]

Apparently not, it would be a sad circumstances regardless, something some
on twitter don't understand.

http://twitchy.com/2012/07/10/rep-jesse-jackson-jr-unconfirmed-rumors-of-suicide-attempt/

[dublindave]

Disclosure forms reveal that Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a member of Congress from Florida, previously held funds with investments in Swiss banks, foreign drug companies, and the state bank of India. This revelation comes mere days after the Democratic chair attacked presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for holding money in Swiss bank accounts in the past."

They understand that a pawn taking a Queen is an excellent move EVEN if the pawn comes takes fire.In fact anything that supplies fuel to this fire and keeps it going for as long as possible is a positive.As long as the conversation stays on Romney's swiss bank account and foreign dummy corporations it undermines his legitimacy........4 months before an election.

What's so brilliant about Romney is that he's a walking talking poster child of the very financhial system that betrayed so many people over the last 5 years.

He reminds us why we are where we are.It's fucking beautiful.

O B A M A 2 0 1 2

(you don't change urinals midstream-why would you change presidents?)

[narciso]

When is your piece on Provence, be published,Clarice.