Posted by
ApolloSpeaks on Saturday, July 16, 2011 5:42:13 AM
Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Obama threatening to blow up the US economy if Republicans don't surrender to him.
The gist of what Obama said at the press conference yesterday was this:
"If you Republicans continue to childishly oppose me and don't agree to do the unpopular thing and raise taxes on a weak economy (soaking the rich like Hoover did in the 1930s) then I'll be forced to do the unthinkable: I'LL OPT FOR ARMAGEDDON and blow up everything. I warn you GOP if I don't get my way on tax hikes to cut the huge deficit (caused by my reckless spending) I'll default on the debt and plunge the nation into a second Great Depression (the one I saved you from with my stimulus); and it will be on your heads."
This was the message of a president who said in the same breath that his "50th birthday was next week" when it's three weeks away*; and that 80% of Americans (including most Republicans) support his "balanced" approach to solving the debt crisis (though he's against balancing the budget). Should we fear what Obama said and take him seriously? HELL NO! What we saw was empty fearmongering by a weak man ready to cave. It's like the Freudian Slip that he made to Eric Cantor when he walked out on him Wednesday, "Don't call my bluff.....," he said. Because that's what he's doing, HE'S BLUFFING**.
*Hat tip Greek Fire.
**Hat tip Right On Ruddy.
Postscript I: What "Ought" and "Should" Be
When Obama says that 80% of the American people (and most Republicans) support his tax hikes and balanced approach to solving the debt crisis, once again his childish idealism is getting the better of his immature judgement. What he means is that most Americans and Repubs "ought to" and "should" support him. That if they were rational they'd rally to his flag and carry him to victory over Boehner and Cantor and the reactionary GOP. Indeed, in the best of all possible worlds Obama would have no opposition. In such a world he'd have absolute power; he'd be king; he'd have no one to stop him from completely wrecking things. Thank God for the anti-radical, conservative Constitution (what's left of it) and the separation of powers. In 2013 we'll be rid of this freak.
Postscript II: Soak The Rich Tax Hikes
If you ask the American people under any president in good or bad times whether the rich should pay more in taxes, most will say yes. But when they're asked how to fix Obama's exploding, reckless, bankrupting deficits overwhelmingly they choose spending cuts over soak the rich tax hikes. Unfortunately for Obama and the Dems the public can't be fooled or deceived on this one. They are too well informed. Obama has made sure of this with his bailouts, failed stimulus spending and Bernanke's overworked printing press (Obama reappointed Bernanke Fed Chief and owns him and all his failed QEs). As with healthcare reform so too with taxing the rich to bring down the deficit "Obama," as Dan Rather said, "can't sell watermelons."