President Obama will be one of the top liberal, big government, high tax leaders at the upcoming G-20 Summit. For example, he'll be to the left of:
- The Swedes, who, sometimes called European Economic Socialists, last week announced that they would not rescue Saab because 'they weren't in the business of running the auto industry'
- The French, who also announced this past week that they weren't going to have a big-spending stimulus package because it would be 'fiscally irresponsible"
BTW, that cartoon should say 'bail' not 'ball' ;O
Obama certainly has moved incredibly left, and is getting more inconsistent with his campaign pledges every day. Consider that Obama has proposed and planned to:
- create a 34% increase in spending in ONE year
- take the national debt to 82% of our GDP
- double the size of our national debt compared to our economy
- create a $645 Billion energy tax increase for consumers
You think he could have got elected on that platform? Doubt it.
Worse? He promised that every bill would be visible on the inernet for five days on the internet so that every citizen could read it before he signed it. Yet the $787B, 1100 page stimulus bill was forced through in 24 hours, without even giving time for Congress to read it before voting on it.
I am afraid that the first black president will be remembered more as Quixotic than wise.
I predict, to the chagrin of the Left, that GW Bush will be remembered mostly for keeping us safe from domestic terrorism, and perhaps for starting an upopular war in Iraq, but Obama will be remembered for being a stooge of disastrous leftist economic policies, and for running the economy into the ground, into record inflation and long term depression that could have been avoided if sound conservative economic policies, like some of the alternatives being presented by the GOP, were employed.
This is not my desire, but my fear. The writing is on the wall, but we can't read.
Republicans and Obama.
Ha Ha Ha! Louis, that's the perfect response.
The irony is that you don't see the hubris, if not outright foolishness of the US acting like the world's savior, while our own national economy is sliding into chaos. But when your man is seen as carrying the hopes and dreams of the world, and as messianic, of course you see the booing as Obama heroically carrying on while his critics sit by doing nothing but criticizing.
But that is how you see the world, not as it really is. The GOP has put forth some really good budget options, but the Obama machine is only interested in spending us and taxing us into oblivion.
I find it mind boggling that you can out of one face complain that we spent ourselves into this problem, but out of the other say that the way out is to spend 20x as much, all the while killing our engine of wealth creation through taxes. It's like watching the circus clowns trying to put out a fire with gasoline.
I think the Dems have gone mad with their current power, and thrown both restraint and reason out of the window. Give money to Africa while our own economy is in ruins. In fact, send them money to kill their children, courtesy of the US Taxpayer.
George Bush will look like a genius compared to Obama. Not in his actual intelligence or ability to speak, but in the outcome of his policies. Obama is taking us where no one has before – European socialism. If I didn't believe in God I would despair while all the happy liberal idiots parade about celebrating their freedom from morality and their false hopes in the proven failure of the socialist economic model.
Long live capitalism, freedom, and true virtue, and blessed be the nation whose God is the Lord.
"The GOP has put forth some really good budget options"
GOP budget #2: New and improved! We used numbers this time!
I'm beginning to wonder if stinker is retarded.
The "funny" thing about the Oliphant cartoon is that it would work just as well with G.W.Bush under the globe and the Dems in the peanut gallery.
Except that Bush would be standing on the globe planting an American flag.
Actually, I think the cartoon posted by Daniel would also work just as well with Bush as with Obama. Curious. I have the impression that this should not often be true of political cartoons.
I am also of the opinion that G.W. Bush will be remembered by history in a much more favorable light than he is seen presently. It still is a bit early to know what Obama's legacy will be.
Yes, I suppose it is a "bit early" to tell (barely over 2 months in office).