O: ‘Let Me Be Clear As Mud’ –Click to view.
In other news the sky is blue.
WASHINGTON POST REPORTER: Just to be a 100-percent clear, would you sign a budget that continues to fund the government, even at lower levels than the sequester, even if you don’t prefer to do that?
OBAMA: I never want to make myself 100-percent clear with you guys, but I think it is fair to say that I made a deal for a certain budget, certain numbers, there’s s no reason why that deal needs to be reopened.
Straight from the horse’s jackass’ mouth…
“I am saying that everybody is going to have to do something, and the one key to this whole thing is trying to make sure we keep in mind who we are here for. We’re not here for ourselves, we’re not here for our parties. We’re not here to advance our electoral prospects. We’re here for American families who have been getting battered pretty good over the last four years, are just starting to see the economy improved. Businesses are just starting to see some confidence coming back, and this is not a win for anybody. This is a loss for the American people.”
@velvethammer Obama left out “thanks to my incompetence and socialistic, job-killing policies.”
— The Stiletto (@TheStiletto) March 1, 2013
Indeed.
Reporter to Obama it sounds like you are “ducking responsibility”
Delusional detachment:
Money left over after taxes biggest plunge since 1959
President’s [sequester] plan: $1 trillion in new taxes
The $6 Trillion Man–Debt Up That Much Under Obama
Related: Flashback Video 2009: Obama: ‘Folks say this is Obama’s economy “That’s fine. Give It To Me.”
Jobs…smobs. Sovereignty…smovereignty. Obama daddy knows best.
(Family Security Matters) —Besides President Barack Obama’s executive actions regarding illegal aliens and U.S. immigration policy, without much notice by the GOP and news organizations, drastic reductions are expected within the Department of Homeland Security’s immigration enforcement-related bureaus, said a top protective intelligence and assessment specialist on Monday.
“Required budget reductions for the DHS [directorates] will seriously undo much of the progress made over the past few years to secure our borders” said Dr. Lyle J. Rapacki, a consultant at Behavioral Analysis and Threat Assessment.
Dr. Rapacki claims there also will be a noticeable negative impact on aviation and maritime safety and security as well as an increase in potential infrastructure vulnerability. The budget reductions will also hamper disaster response time, and totally eliminate cyber security infrastructure advances made in the last couple of years, he added.
Over 24,500 jobs associated with Homeland Security, Border Patrol, Customs and Immigration will be lost, said Dr. Rapacki.
More than 3,000 Border Patrol agent positions will be lost, a reduction to below FY 2009 levels which will leave about 17,900 agents, claims Rapacki.
In addition, up to 3,400 Customs and Border Patrol personnel will be cut. Besides a negative impact on national security, this reduction will significantly increase wait times at our nation’s ports of entry.
The important Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will lose more than 930 special agents in the next DHS budget. “A reduction of this size will significantly impact efforts to investigate crimes involving terrorism, transnational threats, especially from cartels, and international child pornography,” Dr. Rapacki warns.
And that is not the half of it. Border security radar will soon be off of the radar…permanently:
Budget could deflate USAF border blimps
On March 15, the Air Force may have to pull down key surveillance blimps lining the U.S. southern border if the federal budget crisis is not resolved, according to more than a dozen concerned members of Congress from border state districts who were recently briefed by the Pentagon.
In a letter sent on January 31 to the White House, the Pentagon, and the Department of Homeland Security, alarmed lawmakers said the two agencies needed to fully fund the Tethered Aerostat Radar System (TARS) program for fiscal 2014 and finish shifting control from DOD to DHS “without any disruption or degradation in its services.”
Without the blimps, one month from now the U.S. could lose critical over-the-horizon radar capabilities on which federal counternarcotics officials rely to track low-flying aircraft.
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There are eight TARS sites: two in Arizona, three in Texas, and one each in Florida and Puerto Rico. “Our concern,” the lawmakers wrote, “is heightened by the fact that TARS is an important surveillance and command-and-control resource, particularly with respect to the detection, monitoring and interdiction of suspicious low-flying aircraft.”
(Kyle Becker) –Give this video seven minutes and then go pull the level for Obama on November 6th, if you can…
Via Independent Journal Review H/T Dave Blount at Moonbattery
Update:
HUGE: Romney Wins All 4 Major Iowa Newspaper Endorsements
Romney has had 9 newspaper endorsement reversals, compared to Obama’s 1
What the U.S. sorely needs is a Vice President who takes serious issues seriously.
A court jester posing as a VP we can do –without.
Via @BenHowe
Ouch, that’s gonna leave a mark…
Obama’s 2008 election “firm” campaign “pledge”:
“I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.”
–Candidate Barack Obama, Sept. 12, 2008
In lock step with Obama during the 2008 election, Joe Biden made the same promise:
“No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama’s plan will see one single penny of their tax raised whether it’s their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.”
–Joe Biden, Vice-Presidential debate in St. Louis, Oct. 3, 2008
That was then; pre-ObamaCare, this is now; post-ObamaCare. As recently as last month looooong after the passage of ObamaCare, Obama continued to repeat the lie.
“So if your family makes under $250,000 — which, by the way, 98 percent of Americans do — 97 percent of small businesses do, you will not see your income taxes increase by a single dime next year. That’s my plan.
– August 8, 2012 Grand Junction, CO
“Now, if your family makes under $250,000 — which, by the way, is 98 percent of American families and 97 percent of small businesses — under my plan, your income taxes would not increase a single dime next year. (Applause.) That’s my plan.”
– August 9, 2012 in Colorado Springs, CO
“So if your family makes $250,000 a year or less — like 98 percent of Americans — you won’t see your income taxes increase by a single dime next year under my plan. Not one dime.”
– August 13, 2012 in Boone, IA
ObamaCare is in DIRECT VIOLATION of Obama’s oft repeated pledge/promise:
The Congressional Budget Office on Wednesday announced that six million American families will be forced to pay the Obamacare individual mandate non-compliance penalty tax.
The six million families who will be forced to pay the tax understates the true compliance burden of the looming Obamacare individual mandate scheduled to take effect in 2014:
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The non-compliance penalty tax will hit middle-income Americans, a violation President Obama’s “firm pledge” not to raise “any form” of tax on families making less than $250,000 per year. There are at least seven Obamacare taxes that directly hit families making less than $250,000.
The Supreme Court, by a 5-4 vote, ruled Obamacare was constitutional because it was a tax and, in so doing, ensured one of Obama’s central promises from 2008 was broken.
On election day; Tuesday, November 6, 2012 REPEAL Obama so that his Obama Care crap sandwich filled with MASSIVE tax increases WILL also be REPEALED.
Via Heritage
Obamacare imposes numerous tax hikes which total more than $500 billion over 10 years. Obamacare’s higher tax rates on income and investment will slow economic growth, leaving hardworking American families and businesses worse off.
One of the most alarming taxes — a new payroll tax on investment income — goes into effect in January 2013. It was cited by Americans for Tax Reform as one of the “top five worst Obamacare taxes coming in 2013.”
Also see:
Jay Pharaoh’s portrayal of Obama as a bullshit artist extraordinaire is satirically delicious.
(Mediaite) –In the second installment [Sept. 27, 2012] of SNL‘s special Thursday night shows, Jay Pharaoh‘s President Obama got a chance to speak to a big crowd of supporters in Ohio, with his tradition of rolling up his sleeves “like a weatherman on Friday.” Obama took questions from the crowd, and although the people in the audience complained about their current economic situation, the president spun all of them as truly American success stories.
Obama was awkwardly confronted by a woman who doesn’t like Romney, but kind of expected more in the past four years. The president said that real change takes time, so it’s possible he “might be long dead” before anything actually changes. Obama was bullish about the economy, paraphrasing The Sixth Sense to say “I see employed people.” [...]
