Hopefully the Real Bad Luck for Obama Starts Nov 2012

"BAD LUCK" BARACK

Posted by DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN August 17, 2011 on DickMorris.com



On his "listening tour" of the Midwest, President Obama can mainly listen to the sound of himself complaining about his "bad luck."  In Iowa yesterday, Obama said "in the past six months, we've had a run of bad luck.  He cited the Japan earthquake, the Arab Spring, and the European debt crisis.  He also said, incredibly, that "we've reversed the recession, avoided a depression, and gotten the economy moving again."



In our book Fleeced, we warned that "pessimism is the bodyguard of liberalism."  Liberals are always saying that the consequences of their own bad decisions are just the inevitable result of factors beyond their control.  Times are tough and will continue to be, they say, we had better get used to it.  








But Obama's bad luck (Japan excepted) is his own doing.  It was his misguided and naïve welcoming of the popular rising in Egypt that triggered the chaos of the Arab Spring and is now giving rise to Islamist regimes in countries once both loyal to the U.S.
and at peace with Israel.  Instead of stability in this oil rich region, he has helped to usher in war, chaos, and uncertainty that are driving up the price of oil.


Nor is he innocent in the Euro debt crisis.  It has been his insane borrowing to fund his stimulus spending that has stretched global capital markets to the breaking point, making lenders nervous and less willing to accept debt from risky countries.  If the United States had not increased its debt from $10 trillion to $14 trillion in two and a half years,the capital community might be more willing to cut Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal some slack.

But it is his comments about the economy that leave one truly breathless.  He has "gotten the economy moving again?"  He has "reversed the recession?"  On what planet is he living?  Economic growth has slowed to 0.8 percent in the first half of this year.  Unemployment remains at 9.1%.  He actually told his Iowa audience that "the economy is better off than when I took office."  Really? Back then unemployment was at 7.6%.

Continuing with his litany of accomplishments, the president said that he had moved closer than ever before to universal health care.  Really? Has he read the Eleventh Circuit court decision striking down the individual mandate that lies at the heart of his health care law?  Written by a Democratic judge it heralds the likely overthrow of his misguided legislation by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The paucity of achievements he can cite was evident to all who heard or read his remarks on the tour and who witnessed the muted reception he received.  He literally has nothing to run on.  Despite controlling Congress for two years - and the Senate with sixty votes for one year - he has passed no energy bill, no immigration reform, no program to cope with foreclosures, no real jobs program, no environmental legislation, and no real curbs on Wall Street excesses.  His tenure is a nullity. All he has succeeded in doing is driving us further into impossible debt.    
It's not him.  It's 
just bad luck!

Possibly the Last Opportunity to Turn Lemons Into Lemonade

My opinion is that the Republicans lost the battle for the budget because of Boehner's lack of leadership.  The only real chance we had for REAL progress, was the Cut, Cap, and Balance Act, and we stopped pushing for it after it passed the house, and Senator Reid refused to allow a vote on it in the Senate.  All other budget proposals and plans, with the singular exception of Representative Paul Ryan's plan, were "feel good" plans with no guaranteed controls to insure that they would do ANYTHING, except for the IMMEDIATE raise of the debt ceiling, and stopping the crisis discussions until after the 2012 elections, which was the only real bargaining power the Republicans had, in order to negotiate guarantees for Republican inclusions in the budget.  The so called "triggers" are simply "koolaid" for the Republicans who bought into the fake "fear factor" that they have caved in to, so many times before, from the Obama Democrats.  Triggers are simple "proposals" in a bill which guarantee NOTHING!  America would have been much better off if we had held tightly to our advantage, stood behind the Cut, Cap & Balance Act, and if the Democrats refused a voto, let the Democrats cause the budget default, and take the credit for it.  This would have been the Republican guarantee to win the November 2012 elections.  This is what Obama was fearing most and why he refused any plan which did not implement stop crisis talk until PAST the 2012 election date.  But the Republicans caved in.


So now we find ourselves in a horrible situation, having agreed to a budget which fails America while promoting Obama's re-election chances.  Once this bill passes, both the budget and the November election will be out of our control, and no guarantees from either.


ENTER DICK MORRIS WITH A PLAN THAT JUST MIGHT TURN LEMONS INTO LEMONADE


"If the Republicans, led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, opt for a deal with the Democrats to aim for big spending cuts, in two phases, but to raise the debt limit so it is out of the way until after the 2012 elections, how do we make Obama agree to cuts?

The current discussions focus on triggers which would automatically impose cuts in programs near and dear to both party's hearts -- Medicare for the Democrats and Defense for the Republicans -- if the spending cuts are not realized.  But these triggers mean next to nothing.  What a Congress passes, another Congress can repeal.  One can easily see Congress not coming to agreement on the second wave of cuts and then passing a resolution to suspend the trigger-mandated cuts.

The blunt fact is that once the debt limit is raised until after the election, Obama can get out of town and not worry anymore.  He won't make any cuts.  We'll get the cuts we are implementing right now -- about a trillion OVER TEN YEARS -- and no more.

But there is a trigger which can work -- the budget itself.

If the Continuing Resolution passed in the spring was battle one (which Obama won) and the debt limit was battle two (which the GOP has won), the budget for 2011-12 is battle three.

The Republicans should refuse to pass a budget but just pass a new Continuing Resolution funding the government through January 1, 2012.  If the recommendations of the spending cut commission are not passed or some other cuts have not replaced them, the House should refuse to extend the Continuing Resolution and should trigger a government shutdown.

The looming threat of a shutdown will terrify Obama and will force his hand just as the debt limit has done.

We have gotten half a loaf in this current battle over the debt.  Let's not disarm until we win the rest of it.  What we haven't gotten in the debt deal, we can get in the budget deal.

That's the trigger which will work."


Thats the ONLY trigger with any teeth!  Dick Morris returns the power back to the Republicans, ensuring the return to budget crisis discussions for almost a whole year before the 2012 elections, and offers us what might be our last opportunity to stop this madness.  Now the question is, will Boehner just see this as another OPPORTUNITY to cave in to Obama/Democrats, or will he demonstrate the cajones necessary to turn this lemon into lemonade?  At some point we MUST say NO, and Boehner seems to prefer avoiding the fight now, and putting it off for someone else to handle.  Maybe he is thinking of retirement soon, or could it be just another mistake from him and he is NOT thinking of retiring soon?  No Boehner - No brainer.  Implement this plan with him if he has the cajones, or do it without him if he does NOT.


This post was sent as a two page fax including images, to POTUS, Senators Cornyn, Hutchinson, Rubio, Snowe, McConnell, Reid, Feinstein, Reed, Murray, Representatives Boehner, Cantor, Ryan, Poe, Levin, Pelosi, and various Conservative and Liberal media outlets.

Republicans Want to Kill Social Security & Medicare??

More Liberal lies from Obama and other Democrats to distract voters from the fact that Obama and the Democrats have proposed NO budget for FY-2010!  The only two proposals have come from Republicans.


The Democrats also passed no budget for FY-2009, even though they were in control of all three branches of the federal government AT THAT TIME!  Now THAT should be real cause to scare anyone!

The budget bill just passed by the Republican house and passed to the Senate for approval, imposes caps on federal spending as a percentage of GDP.  It also allows for an INCREASE in the debt ceiling by $2.4 trillion IN EXCHANGE for both the Senate and House approving a balanced budget amendment.  So pay no more attention to liberal lies which try to scare you by saying that “Republicans will not compromise and refuse to allow a rise of the debt ceiling”.

Watch Dick Morris's video below, repeating what I have been saying in my last few posts, that Obama is only using his disgusting scare tactics when he says that Military pay, Social Security, and Medicare "might not" get paid if we don't raise the debt ceiling!  More lies from the "liar in chief".  As I said earlier, if he actually tries to refuse essential payments in his quest to destroy America - his destructive "new world" prioritizing would GUARANTEE his defeat in 2012, because of the UNNECESSARY pain he would bring to MOST of his own supporters.  Most of his supporters are on the dole of handouts from the federal government.  The only supporters of his that would not be affected by his irrational prioritizing would be the relative small numbers of his "dead" voters.

These are all the programs below, that the new Republican House has proposed cutting in the “Cut, Cap and Balance” budget bill they just passed (234 to 190), and sent it to the Democrat controlled Senate.  Notice that military, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are not in the Republican cuts, as was falsely accused by Obama and the Democrat threats and scare tactics!


Take a look at each cut, and see if you think any of them are “ESSENTIAL” to prevent the destruction of the USA as we know it.  Couple these OBVIOUSLY non-essential cuts with the Republican bill, and you have one out of only two proposals (both from Republicans) to turn our country around!

 Corp. for Public Broadcasting Subsidy.  $445 million annual savings.

 Save America’s Treasures Program.  $25 million annually.

 International Fund for Ireland.  $17 million annually.

 Legal Services Corporation.  $420 million annually.

 National Endowment for the Arts.  $167.5 million annually.

 Nat.  Endowment for the Humanities. $167.5 million annually.

 Hope VI Program..  $250 million annually.

 Amtrak Subsidies.  $1.565 billion annually.

 Eliminate duplicate education programs.  H.R. 2274 (in last
Congress), authored by Rep. McKeon, eliminates 68 at a savings of $1.3 billion annually.

 U.S. Trade Development Agency.  $55  million annually.

       

Woodrow Wilson Center Subsidy.  $20 million annually.

 Cut in half funding for congressional printing and binding.  $47  million annually.

 John C.  Stennis Center Subsidy.  $430,000 annually.

 Community Development Fund.  $4.5 billion annually.

 Heritage Area Grants and Statutory Aid.  $24 million annually.

Cut Federal Travel Budget in Half.  $7.5 billion annually.

Trim Federal Vehicle Budget by 20%.  $600 million annually.

Essential Air Service.  $150 million annually.

Technology Innovation Program.  $70  million annually.

Manufacturing  Extension Partnership (MEP) Program.  $125
million annually.

 Department of Energy Grants to States for  Weatherization.
$530 million annually.

 Beach Replenishment.  $95  million annually.

 New Starts Transit.  $2  billion annually.

Exchange Programs for Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and
Their Historical Trading Partners in Massachusetts.  $9  million
annually.

Intercity and High Speed Rail Grants.  $2.5  billion annually.

Title  X Family Planning.  $318  million annually.

Appalachian Regional Commission.  $76 million annually.

Economic Development Administration. $293  million annually.

Programs under the National and Community Services Act.
$1.15  billion annually.

Applied Research at Department of Energy.  $1.27 billion
annually.

Freedom CAR and Fuel Partnership.  $200 million annually.

Energy Star Program.  $52 million annually.

 Economic Assistance to Egypt .  $250 million  annually.

 U.S. Agency for International Development.  $1.39 billion
annually.

 General Assistance to District of Columbia .  $210 million
annually.

Subsidy for Washington Metropolitan Area Transit  Authority.
$150 million annually.

Presidential Campaign Fund.  $775 million savings over ten  years.

No funding for federal office space  acquisition.  $864
million annually.

End prohibitions on competitive sourcing of government services. Repeal the Davis-Bacon Act.  More than $1 billion annually.

IRS Direct Deposit: Require the IRS to deposit fees for services it offers (such as processing payment plans for taxpayers) to the Treasury, instead of allowing payments to remain as part of its budget.  $1.8 billion savings over ten years.

Require collection of unpaid taxes by federal employees.  $1 billion total savings.

 Prohibit taxpayer funded union activities by federal employees.  $1.2 billion savings over ten years.

Sell excess federal properties the government does not make
use of.   $15 billion total  savings.

Eliminate Mohair Subsidies.  $1  million annually.

Eliminate taxpayer subsidies to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.  $12.5  million annually.

 Eliminate Market Access Program.  $200 million annually.

 USDA Sugar Program.  $14 million annually.

 Subsidy to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).  $93 million annually.

Eliminate the National Organic Certification Cost-Share Program.  $56.2 million annually.

 Eliminate fund for Obamacare administrative  costs.  $900 million savings.

Ready  to Learn TV Program.  $27 million  savings.

 Eliminate death gratuity for Members of Congress.  HUD  Ph.D.  Program.

Deficit Reduction Check-Off Act

TOTAL SAVINGS FOR HOUSE BUDGET:  $2.5 Trillion over Ten Years

Obama promised to end the "pork" if he was elected POTUS.  So look at the list below and then leave me a comment about how you think he is doing:

President Obama can breathe a sigh of relief. The Senate voted way back in March to keep all those porky earmarks that "don’t exist" in his $410 BILLION spending bill.

GOP Sen. John McCain’s amendment stripping the omni-pork package of an estimated 8,500 pet pork projects worth roughly $8 billion was defeated this afternoon. You can find a database of all those teeny, tiny pork projects here.

Here’s the roll call vote:

Looks like quite a few Democrats didn't want McCain's bill to chop 8,500 "pork" projects in order to save about EIGHT BILLION DOLLARS ??  They cast most of the "nay" votes.  Guess they didn't get Obama's campaign message?  God save us from "bipartisanship", and help us get more Republicans into the fray.

Time To Make Obama Cry

Post by AWR Hawkins on Andrew Breitbart’s BIGGOVERNMENT

"In 2006, every Democrat Senator (including Senator Barack Obama) voted against raising the debt ceiling. Among the reasons Obama listed for voting against it was that doing so would be “a sign that the U.S. government can’t pay its own bills” and “a sign that we [were dependent] on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies.”

Of course, that was under George W. Bush. But now that Obama is president, and the debt ceiling of $14.3 trillion is about to end the spending spree Democrats have been on since January 2009, Obama has reversed course [AGAIN]. Now, he not only favors raising the debt ceiling but also talks as if our nation’s very continuance depends upon doing so.

The truth, of course, is that Obama’s legacy and re-election are on the line and he knows it.

Thus everything we’re hearing from him about raising the debt ceiling is nothing more than the cry of a president who has spent his country into oblivion and is looking for a way to avoid the blame for doing so.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (who also voted against raising the debt limit in 2006) is doing his best to lie to the public to save Obama from the consequences of reckless spending by pressuring Republicans into supporting the idea of raising the debt limit. To do this, he is giving them a fictional narrative of what life will be like if we decide to live within our means instead of continuing to spend money as fast as we can print it:

“Default won’t just roil the financial markets, pushing interest rates higher, and tank the stock markets; it will affect every American’s wallet as well. Here are a few things that will happen. Social Security checks and veterans’ benefits and paychecks to our troops would stop.”

Folks, think about it: This is a grand slam for Republicans. They can win by simply saying “no.”

And this is why all eyes are on House Speaker John Boehner.  If he can rally the Republicans in Congress to oppose raising the debt ceiling he will literally end any chance Obama has of being re-elected. That’s how big the stakes are in the current debt ceiling talks.

By the way, Obama knows this is true. And that’s why he’s pressuring Speaker Boehner and the rest of the Republicans to come his way.  (It’s also why he’s making outlandish claims about how “80%” of the American people want to pay higher taxes.)

Pay attention: Obama’s entire economic team has left. “A bunch of czars have left,” and Defense Secretary Gates left. Although it’s normal for a few members of an administration to move on and pursue moneymaking opportunities in the private sector, Rush Limbaugh accurately described the defections from the Obama administration as “a greater exodus than is common.”

In other words, Obama’s people have decided to jump ship rather than to go down with it.

Look folks, we literally have Obama right where we want him. Not only is he beatable, he has actually already beat himself by spending this country into the ground. Now is no time to do him a favor by raising the debt ceiling and letting him off the hook.

Speaker Boehner has the power to sink Obama’s ship, and he needs to go ahead and sink it right now by voting “no” on raising the debt limit."

I faxed the text in this post to Speaker Boehner, Senator McConnell, Senator Cornyn, Senator Hutchinson, Senator Pelosi, Senator Reid, and Representative  Poe.