Hahvahd Economics Professor Greg Mankiw (via Legal Insurrection):
Back in 2008, when President Obama was running for his first term, he promised to be a post-partisan leader. While a Democrat, he said he would accept good ideas when they came from Republicans. At the time, I believed him, at least to some degree. And I wrote about it in this NY Times column.
Sadly, I was wrong. The short version of the story is this: As a candidate, President Obama campaigned on a platform of raising taxes on the rich. Yet he and his economic advisers also said they wanted to raise dividend taxes only slightly, from 15 to 20 percent. For reasons I explained in the Times article, keeping dividend taxes low was a position bolstered by good economics. Now, however, the president wants to raise dividend taxes to ordinary income tax rates (plus, for high-income taxpayers, the new tax of 3.8 percent that is part of the Obamacare legislation).
To put it another way, he campaigned as a moderate, willing to concede that the other party had some good ideas on tax policy. Once in office, he gave up on those ideas.
A similar thing happened with Bowles-Simpson. During his first term, he appointed a bipartisan panel, which concluded we could address our long-term fiscal problem with lower tax rates and a broader tax base. Now, the President goes around the country lambasting that approach.
Reasonable people can disagree about whether President Obama is a good or bad president. But the claim that he has tried to transcend partisanship and find a middle ground is just impossible to square with the facts.
I didn’t go to one of those fancy-schmantzy ivy-covered colleges like Hahvahd. I went to schools covered with weeds and pigeon droppings. I can barely do math let alone economics. But I figured out that Obama was a phony-baloney piece of shit SCofaMF before he got elected the first time.
Maybe in five or six years the rest of these morons will be willing to admit the truth.
Not holding my breath. Delusion is a hard habit to break.
http://www.reagancoalition.com/articles/2012/20121205004-nyt-wright.html
tell me what college this guy went to???
do not eat or drink before reading
Because I couldn’t resist looking it up – Colgate and Harvard Divinity School
I have to run out again but just saw this story on my browser so I want to share it before I forget. What do you think of his clown get-up. Forgive me if someone already posted this.
http://www.wisn.com/news/south-east-wisconsin/milwaukee/Man-makes-court-appearance-in-clown-gear/-/10148890/17668046/-/10hygvg/-/index.html?absolute=true
sorry video doesn’t show him in full court regalia.
It doesn’t matter what I think. I’m guessing the guy discovered that judges have no sense of humor.
It’s when the judge shows up in clown suit that you know you’re in real trouble
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/twitter-white-house-similar-wapo-andrew-sullivan-paul-krugman-nbc-and-chris-cuomo_665075.html
oh oh outed
Funny. Can’t argue with their algorithm.
Q: Why did Osama Bin Laden have so many children? A: He used the algorithm method.
I have no rithm
More like a logarithm
Someone needs to unplug the kool-aid IV.
What??! Say it isn’t so!! President Obama would never do something harmful to the economy and he certainly would never create hostile partisanship in Washington!
“But the claim that he has tried to transcend partisanship and find a middle ground is just impossible to square with the facts….”
Don’t be silly! Just start mainlining hopium and the facts be damned. Your pony is in the mail, too.
On the tv they showed backtrack telling people that those big bad republicans want to take away deductions for charities.
but the government is going to take care of people from the cradle to the grave, just ask JULIA., so why will we need charities????
http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2012/12/05/new-dem-rep-arrested-for-second-time-in-two-weeks/
a new democratic hire.
I got one for my district that protested for a cop killer. Gee I feel so safe
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/05/us-usa-tax-irs-idUSBRE8B41GW20121205
IRS finalized medical device tax to go into effect in Jan
They’ll tax heart valves, but they’ll never touch HFT or derivatives trades.
http://www.kentreporter.com/news/182266431.html
holder;s dept of crime tells states NO WAY on POT
It’s kind of funny, suddenly liberals in Washington state are getting all conservative and talking about state’s rights and getting rid of the Feds.
http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/the-big-list-of-vote-fraud-reports/
list of voter fraud that no one is talking about.
what the hell votes do not mean anything now
Thanks for the link, Helen. It’s so infuriating that no one is talking about the “surprising” election results. I guess the only explanation is that Obama was waaaay more popular than could have been measured by mere mortals and their polls.
You know, maybe during Bam’s first term I would have embraced an msm “journalist” or a drool bucket “journOlist” saying “I was wrong” and that POTUS really is a POS. Too late for me, they can all just STFU. Not forgiving any of them.
Just like the same media types who are going “Hey, Hillary 2016 sounds pretty nifty” when they destroyed her in 2007-2008. They can eat sh*t and die now.
Don’t get me started on the aholes who are now suggesting “Romney’s Future”. Suck it and I hope they all lose their jobs for selling us out.
So, there’s our new mission, No Apologies, No Forgiveness. Could be fun :D
I agree. There’s no excuse now. They are liars and manipulators and fraud is rampant, just look at the article Helen posted about vote fraud. It’s sickening and repulsive, and personally I blame Obama and the electioneers he rode in on.
Whew, you got me Erica. Rant’o’venting isn’t my strength. ;)
I’m in a place right now, I don’t blame Obama at all, just his ass kisser supporters, which may or may not include the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of our government. The fourth estate is already on my last nerve, I mean, how bad can that be if Pravda’s calling them idiots ?
Then you’re a more generous woman than I! Obama, his supporters, the DNCers who rigged the primary, the media, the people pulliing the strings, yep, basically I’m down (and not in a good way) on all of them.
I didn’t go to one of those fancy-schmantzy ivy-covered colleges. I went to ones covered with weeds and pigeon droppings. I can barely do math let alone economics. But I figured out that Obama was a phony-baloney piece of shit SCofaMF before he got elected the first time.
Well, I did go to on of those Ivy-covered colleges, and I knew he was a phony-baloney piece of shit the first time I heard him bluff his way through a debate too. If it walks like a phony and talks like a phony…
https://twitter.com/TheAngieNC2/status/276484182543323136
Of course not, dahling!
OFF TOPIC
per Fox news
Syrian military just mixed the ingredients for sarin gas. It must be used with 60 days
here is a link
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/12/05/syria-mixes-chemical-weapons-into-bombs/
This is Obama’s fault , for doing fucking NOTHING about Syria all this time , now Assad can wipe out 5,000 to 20,000 people with one bomb
Sounds like Christmas time at the DT ship.
I knew you’d like that. Except for the Courtney Love part.
Courtney scares even me.
Her response should be the end of it: “In the 1970′s, I identified as a lesbian and wrote about it. In 1991, I met the love of my life, married him.”
Actually, he *kept* his promise to accept ideas from Republicans. He accepted their 1994 “health plan”. He accepted unlimited domestic surveillance. He accepted unrestricted drone warfare. He accepted unlimited detention. He’s going to accept massive entitlement cuts (just watch him). He’s already cut food stamps and Pell grants.
He even added some ideas of his own, like extrajudicial assassination of US citizens.
He’s not bipartisan, he’s the most successful Republican since Ronald Reagan.
Honk x infinity!