I’m gonna shoot ’em in the cheetos
Who is running our country? We’ve got a CIA Director sharing security info with his mistress using an unsecure gmail account. We’ve got the delusional Susan Rice blaming the death of an ambassador on a Youtube video. We’ve got Iran firing on one of our drones a week before the election. We’ve got the White House either ignorant of or covering up all of this. Who is minding the store? Everywhere we look we see the rank incompetence or corruption of the people who are supposedly running our country and our major institutions. Let’s hope that responsible reporters at Obama’s press conference today ask the right questions Americans deserve answers to.
Here’s my question for the president: As our nation’s chief executive you claim to be unaware of the most important and tragic situations we’re facing; so, as a former chief executive, I’d like to know how long it takes for your staff to tell you things like: “Sir, your CIA Director is under investigation”?
– Sarah Palin
Go get ’em, Sarahcuda!
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I’m done for the rest of the afternoon. Going in for a minor med procedure – anything to get some peace from work. lol
good luck!
I hope everything is all right.
Hopefully you’ll get some good meds. Take care and a speedy recovery.
My minor med procedures are basal cell skin cancer removal thingys. Hope yours is as simple and non-life threatening as that. {hug}.
Thanks everyone. I hope so too, Denise. So far so good. And so far no drugs. . . .
if only it would work, but holder’s dept of crime would stop it
The internet is for porn, but the FBI is for blackmailing.
Clearly Petraeus never watched a 007 movie.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/nov/12/obamacare-taxes-mean-obamacare-layoffs/
would it be mean to wish that the ones who voted for backtrack , be the ones to pay the price??????
No. Elections have consequences, and it’s only fair that the people who “won” the election enjoy the fruits of their votes first.
Not really but we all know that everyone outside the inner circle will end paying for this disastrous ‘bill.’
If I were in the WH press corpse:
Total waste of time. 2 questions about Petraeus which he sidelined by saying he won’t talk about an ongoing investigation & then they let him filibuster about the economy.
Ed Henry & Jake Tapper are the only reporters in the room…and he hasn’t called on Tapper yet.
Silly – hookers are always paid in advance.
cj — Tapper said on FB that he wouldn’t be able to make it to this presser.
Summary of Obama presser so far:
We are coming for your money.
Romney did a good job of running the Olympics.
I won.
And entitlements are suddenly on the table. What a shock.
I saw a tweet asking if Hollywood tax breaks are on the table.
I know that many consider Social Security to be an entitlement but people actually paid into this program which was solvent until Johnson administration decided to count SS monies in the general fund.
Found this on Wiki – verified on other sites.
“The monies in this fund are managed by the Department of the Treasury; they are not, nor have they ever been, put into the “general operating fund.”
However, the Social Security Act specifies that the monies in the fund may “be invested in securities backed by the full faith and credit of the Federal government,” such as treasury bills, treasury notes, and treasury bonds, as well as special issue bonds. So, essentially, the government can “invest” Social Security funds by lending them to itself, then spending that money on programs not related to Social Security (e.g., defense, foreign aid, education). This has always been the case.”
Mitt called this fraud in his book – he said if this happned in the private sector, fund admins would be in jail. But congress just gets re-elected.
I still can;t get over what a great President the USA let slip away.
Precisely.
Piper, SS is an entitlement program. An entitlement program is one you are guaranteed to receive because it’s not a means test or a form of welfare. You pay into it and you are entitled to receive funds out of it when you retire base on what you pay into the fund and your retirement age. This is different from assistance programs such as welfare, which you may received funds from regardless of your prior history of payment in to welfare funds. It is just the meaning of that term entitlement has morphed in the vernacular and taken on a negative connotation, such at “the entitlement generation” to describe millennials who feel like they have earned a 100k starting salary because they have graduated from college and still have a pulse.
And I agree with Votermom, its just sleight of hand to say the SS funds aren’t part of the large budget process because the governement borrows against them to pay for the rest of the budget.
Erin– thanks for the clarification. I am aware of the “borrowing” of the SS fund, but not the diffs btw entitlement and assistance program.
Entitlement shouldn’t be a dirty word. SS is your money and you get it back when you retire.
Thanks for watching. And what a jerk.
I try to never watch this shit. But I do small businiess taxes and have to know wtf is going on.
It’s making me sick. I had to eat chocolate just to get though it.
LOL…..That’s what I just did. If I watched, the Halloween candy would be wiped out. Chocolate does work. 😉
Just saw this statement today from small business group:
http://www.nfib.com/press-media/press-media-item?cmsid=61454&fb_action_ids=4971225964993&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_ref=.UKQAUBTzw1Y.like&fb_source=timeline_og&action_object_map=%7B%224971225964993%22%3A367095050048796%7D&action_type_map=%7B%224971225964993%22%3A%22og.likes%22%7D&action_ref_map=%7B%224971225964993%22%3A%22.UKQAUBTzw1Y.like%22%7D
You’re stronger than me, catarina. I had to eat chocolate just reading about it!
EXACTLY , a little gloating session disguised as a press conference
Defending Susan Rice. If McCain & Graham want to go after somebody, they should go after me.
I hope to god they do, Barry.
If they have any guts, they will.
That crap about Susan Rice not being involved in the Benghazi situation is stunning, She is the one who went out and sold the lie, she is the one who smeared her own career are we all just supposed to look the other way. She lost her integrity and credibility with that stupid excuse.
Why aren’t the feminists mad about this? Rice is the Freaking USA UN REP, why does Preezy have to defend her? And why have I never heard him go to bat for Hillary in such a “male dominant dog” way?
Otherwise, Preezy’s still in campaign mode, and NO I won’t get over it 😛
Yay, Ed Henry asks about the families.
He’s delusional.
No clue about how the economy works.
He won’t let the top earners get a tax cut *at the expense* of the middle class.
Asshat, those business owners you’re preparing to rob ARE the middle class.
And they EMPLOY the middle class.
We are so fucked.
I don’t want to hear a fucking word from people who voted for him when they continue to suffer economically. YOU OWN IT!
Never ask a vampire his/her age:
kristie whats her name just had an orgasm. spare me the giggling-bucket please!
Porn should only be watched in the privacy of one’s cubical/office.
I AM in my office.
😈
Don’t you love it when the WH press corp gets all cute & giggly like that? I especially like how they let him use their questions as a launching pad for a series of self-serving monologues.
Makes me proud.
Thank you for watching as well. Just reading these are brutal.
Believe me, it’s hard not to throw up.
Catarina has a solution….chocolate. It really does work. I guess I should be thankful we didn’t get as many kids this year. Who knew it would come in handy for just reading about a WH press conference?
I’d be half-way through my 2nd bag at this point, but I put my overweight self on a damned diet. 😦
HONK
O on tax increase-whats the big deal, the wealthy will still wealthy.
More of the plan:
invest in education and green energy, because, polar bears and shit.
….. shut up!
well….. I’ll share with you what happens… since you obviously don’t understand where YOUR pay check actually comes from…. I AM one of those who worked my BUTT off for over 35 years to become a person who wanted to have some of these luxuries for all my hard work…. And I AM one of those that own a large company who GAVE YOU a job. Well…. let me know who you work for, and I will give that owner a call and share how YOU are NOT working for their gain and let’s see if MY INFLUENCE as a large business owner with INFLUENCE can have you fired…. but make it look like they ‘have to let you go’ so that they DON’T have to pay you for actually firing you !!!!!!!!!!!!
You are a dolt…. and deserve what OBAMA has coming down the pike….. don’t EVER let me hear you complain on the internet.
calm down, catarina is just reporting what Obama’s spewing.
none of the commenters here are obama supporters
How did you get “wealthy” with such poor reading comp skills?
Quite a trick if you ask me.
LMAO!
get a grip you asshole, I’m on YOUR side.
oh, and btw-I own the fucking company.
have a nice day.
on second thought, i take it back-that’s an insult to assholes.
clownfool.
For someone who worked their butt off you sure are a giant ass.
workedmybuttoff — you are misreading her comment. We are complaining about Obama. I don’t know anyone here who supports him because he will screw the middle class.
kirsten powers@kirstenpowers10
Why does Obama think GOP sees rice as “easy target”? Is she some helpless damsel in distress? His defense was a little paternalistic
Spare me — despite her tough stance on Middle East/Libya (which, btw, is because she’s married to a Coptic) she did everything she could to sell the “economy is fine!” & “Romney is out of touch” bullshit to help get Obama reelected.
She shoots…….she scores!!
Yep, that was sickening , and if she had nothing to do with Benghazi why send her out there ? What a fucking misogynist idiot
bwahahahahahaha
Now I must wash my eyes out with bleach.
That’s genius.
Climate change, votermom. 4 Americans dead, 2 scandals revolving around the head of the CIA, and someone asks him about climate change.
war underway in Israel / Hamas
Have to admit Bibi does have impeccable timing. Start bombing just prior to Obama’s first press conference in 8 months. 😉
And where oh where is that Libyan retaliatory strike Obama kept rumoring to do anytime Romney got traction on the subject? I guess he finally realized drone bombing himself would hurt. /s
Didn’t you just want to slap the shit out of the climate change guy?
Not exactly, but what he he DID admit is that HE (the WH) sent Susan Rice as their representative, and she said what she was told ( or what she was allowed to know).
votermom — you are the queen of posting questions & hashtags. ~just sayin’
They made a movie about Dandy Tiger:
True story
an hour of my life I’ll never get back.
will find out which tax clients voted for Obama and dump them
Nah- slap a stupidity surcharge on em and tell em it’s an obamacare requirement.
I love love love our Leader, Sarah Palin! 🙂
https://twitter.com/CFlyJuice/status/268798014053826560
That’s a great cartoon. I read somewhere that the press isn’t satisfied with getting him reelected, they want to make sure he goes down in history as a GREAT president.
That would be quite an accomplishment.
This is feeling more and more like a Banana Republic.
Except we can’t even afford the bananas.
Word.
Yes, we have no bananas.
We have no bananas today!
I want a free T-shirt and sunglasses before they take away my house
See ya in the bread lines!
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As someone who was vocally against GWB & just about every.single.one of his policies, even I’m getting tired of this “Blame BUSH!!” shit.
Maybe they need to take their own advice and MOVE ON.
Votermom,
May have to learn to twitter – your snarcs are absolutely delicious.
Myiq,
Please no more vampire jokes or photos. Mad at netflix so I’m on a streaming marathon watching Barnabas vamping on Dark Shadows.
Barnabas is much better looking than Nancy although I understand that he had difficulty learning his lines relying on teleprompters. Have to wonder if she ever read the entire bamabill or was told speaking points.
Sarah’s such a breath of fresh air in the world of gutter politics. And she still has a thicker binder of experience than Bronco.
Funny thought of the day, this is the face of feminist Sarah-Haters…..
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/13/janeane-garofalo-was-married-20-years-boyfriend-didnt-know-it_n_2123369.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl22%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D234231
BTW, I heard that Lena Dunham, orgasmic woman for Obama, won Glamour Magazine’s “Woman of the Year”.
I will boycott Glamour. Along with Vogue. All those fashion mags suck.
Fashion bloggers that worship Obama? Boycott. F8ck them too.
Go Palin!! I’m so grateful for her leadership and her willingness to go rogue.
It cracks me up, she asks the simplest questions, but because nobody has bothered to even ask them, she comes out sounding like a radical. In a normal world, asking the president what he knew and when he knew it would just be a matter of routine, not some great revolutionary concept.