The Obamanation

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

Do you're own research, get back to me when you have something of substance to contribute.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

Prove it.

If you're not going to look at, say, the OMB's budget projections, inflationary deficits and all, Spexx, you're living in Childish Land. You could actually become informed, you know.

Disbelief because you're putting all your trust in princes isn't going to help you. Instead, it could make your retirement plan worthless. If you can't see proof here, well, how bad do you want to live through that proof?

[Clodfobble]

At the IRS office.

[classicman]

zzzzzzzzzzzzing!

lol

[Shawnee123]

I think the shovels are firmly embedded in someone's ass. I won't say whose ass.

[classicman]

MY chair feels suddenly uncomfortable. I think Shaw thought I was a hobo.

[Shawnee123]

[TheMercenary]

Unemployment challenges Obama's economic narrative

WASHINGTON – Even as he touts his efforts to put more Americans to work, President Barack Obama faces a public increasingly skeptical of his ability to bring jobs back to Main Street.

During stops in Iowa, Illinois and Missouri, Obama will try to convince voters that his economic policies are working, despite an unemployment rate that's expected to remain at painfully high levels for months if not years.

Those voters - many of them crucial independents - will be key to Obama's re-election prospects in 2012. And his fellow Democrats, facing a tough political climate in the November, need their support even sooner.

"The bottom line is that the Democrats are almost certain to be campaigning in economic circumstances that will not be politically favorable," said William Galston, a former domestic policy aide in Bill Clinton's White House and now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

The latest economic forecasts do show signs of progress: The nation added jobs at the fastest pace in three years last month; the manufacturing industry is growing at a steady pace; and new claims for jobless benefits have declined.

But the unemployment rate - it may be the most recognizable economic indicator - has held steady at 9.7 percent for the past three months, and 15 million Americans remain out of work. By the White House's own estimates, as well as those of many independent economists, that rate isn't expected to fluctuate more than a few tenths of a percent through the end of 2010.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100427/...re_us/us_obama

[TheMercenary]

Gibbs Evades Question About Obama's Use Of "Teabagger"

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/vid...teabagger.html

[TheMercenary]

President Barack Obama, known for his lectures to others on civility, saw fit to use the obscene and derogatory term “tea-baggers” in a book interview with author Jonathan Alter.


Below is an excerpt from Alter’s new book The Promise: President Obama, Year One, to be released May 18:

“Obama said that the unanimous House vote against the Recovery Act ‘set the tenor for the whole year’: ‘That helped to create the tea-baggers and empowered that whole wing of the Republican Party to where it now controls the agenda for the Republicans.’ For Obama this was the greatest surprise of 2009.”

http://biggovernment.com/johara/2010...nt-gets-dirty/

[TheMercenary]

Obama Gives NO BID Contracts

http://www.businessweek.com/news/201...-update1-.html

OH, MY, Fucking, GOD, to......

Wait for it....

KBR Inc.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/201...-update1-.html

Liberals would also know it as HALIBURTON....

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Obama Gives NO BID Contracts

http://www.businessweek.com/news/201...-update1-.html

OH, MY, Fucking, GOD, to......

Wait for it....

KBR Inc.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/201...-update1-.html

Liberals would also know it as HALLIBURTON....

Hang on there, Merc: is Wikipedia all wrong about Halliburton divesting itself of KBR as of 2007?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halliburton

[TheMercenary]

Funny, I have heard this complaint from somewhere in the past...

KBR to Get No-Bid Army Work as U.S. Alleges Kickbacks (Update1)

May 6 (Bloomberg) -- KBR Inc. was selected for a no-bid contract worth as much as $568 million through 2011 for military support services in Iraq, the Army said.

The Army announced its decision yesterday only hours after the Justice Department said it will pursue a lawsuit accusing the Houston-based company of taking kickbacks from two subcontractors on Iraq-related work. The Army also awarded the work to KBR over objections from members of Congress, who have pushed the Pentagon to seek bids for further logistics contracts.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/201...-update1-.html

[classicman]

There was some rich irony at the White House today -- President Obama signed the Press Freedom Act, and then promptly refused to take any questions.

The new law expands the State Department's annual human rights reports to include a description of press freedoms in each country. It seemed a good opportunity to showcase press freedom in this country.

Recall that last Friday the president refused to take any questions after delivering his angry statement on the oil spill in the Rose Garden. And he has not held a prime-time White House news conference in many months, despite much pleading from pundits and members of the media.

So after he signed the bill, and as the press "wranglers" began aggressively herding us out of the room, I asked if he still has confidence in BP. He ignored the question so I tried this: "In the interest of press freedom, would you take a couple questions on BP?"

That did elicit a smile, and he told me I was free to ask questions. Someone else shouted, "Will you answer them?"

He said he's not holding a press conference today as we were escorted out the door.

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Any questions?

[TheMercenary]

Visualization of the $100 million cuts planned by the Obamanation.

http://www.wimp.com/budgetcuts/