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Post by HiTemp on Oct 10, 2014 6:51:23 GMT -7
I'm loving every minute of these candidates who, a couple months ago, were voting for what the President wanted legislatively and are now trying to pry Obama off their ship with a crowbar. And he just won't go.
Pretty bad when you're a president stuck doing fundraisers, basically party cash collection, and have to be more watchful in your speech than Joe Biden. In fact it seems that Biden's "comment defense" team has been pulled off the Veep to work offense for the prez, making sure he doesn't say anything else until after the elections. If he does manage to blurt something out, they rush in to walk it back. They may even have some consulting going on with Kerry's State Dept. spokespeople who are experts at saying on Thursday that he didn't mean what you thought he said on Tuesday.
You know you've hit rock bottom when Jimma Cahter is saying your foreign policy is a disaster.
The candidates, though, are hilarious in their attempts to shovel leaves over their obvious support for this administration and their goals. Some of them like Grimes has nearly stripped out a transmission trying to shift into reverse while moving forward at a good clip. I think it's great; they deserve to do a lot of squirming for trying to hide the positions they really hold. Too bad we don't do this with all our politicians. If we only had a free press in this country instead of the collection of hemorrhoid creams masquerading as real reporters!
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Post by Grug - American Neanderthal on Oct 10, 2014 12:42:39 GMT -7
Heheh, subzero in fact, but at least he can smile before he goes completely senile, he was not the worst president after all, not for lack of trying, but that someone was actually elected even more incompetent mad traitorous than he ever dreamed of being.
Its so bad that not only can any dems running a campaign not claim any affiliation with any policy or legislation, they can't even admit to voting for the guy.
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Post by HiTemp on Oct 10, 2014 16:52:22 GMT -7
I expect any day now the NYT will run a story that, should the Senate fall into Republican control, the R's intend to revise the Constitution to allow a third presidential term so that Bush can run again in 2016. They really do need an October surprise but with this President, everything he does is a surprise and causes everyone to be "shocked" that it doesn't work out like he planned. They're fresh out of surprises and now have to stand in front of the voters and account for what's happened under their (and Obama's) control. They can't pass this one off on Bush or the House, and no one is buying the R's are obstructionists when Harry Reid is using nuclear options and flat out refusing to act on any bill he doesn't like.
If the R's do take the Senate, and it's looking that way now, I hope they remember how ugly they were treated under Reid and give him office space in a janitor's closet somewhere in the bowels of the Senate Office Building. If they really had some sack, Reid wouldn't be able to pass a salute to the troops without severe compromise somewhere. Even better would be to look into his shady economic situation. How do you get a net worth in the high single digit millions when your government salary is just north of a hundred and a half? He hasn't been a Senator long enough to earn 3 million, so where is his wealth coming from? For all we know he might have invested in Romney's Bain Capital or Cheney's Halliburton. Wouldn't that be a lovely bit of revelation?
More than likely it's kickbacks from a lot of people on the receiving end of federal monies connected to operating federal facilities in Nevada. That or a piece of the casino pie.
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Post by HiTemp on Oct 10, 2014 17:03:42 GMT -7
Just heard from my son the other day; he's on the G H W Bush, the carrier that's operating now in the Persian Gulf, the one launching all the F-18 Super Hornet strikes against assorted camels and small pickups in NW Iraq/Eastern Syria. You haven't heard about any air strikes this week because there haven't been any. Apparently it's taking our genius-in-chief a while to do all that personal target selection he talked about. For OpSec reasons he can't give me much by way of details but he did say it's turned into "a real clusterf*k over here."
I'm sure that's not the message the admiralty would put out, but that's the feeling on the deck plates. Pretty much either kick their asses or don't, but don't play at it, you'll only get someone hurt.
That's how operations go when a Dem is in the WH. It was that way with Jimma Cahter, that way with Slick Willie (Kosovo ring any bells?), and now the data is trending along the exact same line with Mighty Muslim calling the shots.
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Post by zrct02 on Oct 10, 2014 17:46:16 GMT -7
I'd prefer a water closet.
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Post by Grug - American Neanderthal on Oct 11, 2014 5:52:49 GMT -7
Yeah, they had a news report of command complaining they are so restricted in targeting, i.e micromanaged from the whitehouse, they are doing very little, and it can hardly be called a campaign. This was just a political move to look like doing something and to avoid the CIA HQ in Erbil from having a Benghazi moment that would have probably caused his impeachment by his own party for doing nothing, like he really wants to do.
This goes so far beyond appeasement it truly does border on treason, his actions are not matching his words and his words do not even promote American interests. But hey, he still has Gwyneth Paltrow to marvel at the emperors new clothes, so nothing is wrong in the world, it must be good.
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Post by HiTemp on Oct 11, 2014 8:59:39 GMT -7
Once Mooshell finds out the supernymph is fawning all over her man I suspect she'll be less welcome than transfat in a school lunch menu. Would be interesting though to see a good WH hair-pulling cat fight.  |
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Post by Stetto, man... on Oct 13, 2014 3:18:07 GMT -7
The military has announced that the investigation into Bowe "jihadi turncoat" Bergdahl has concluded, but findings will not be released until the second week of November. What possible damning information could they release that isn't already obvious? This isnt a report that requires any "channels" be gone through, it is being withheld til after the midterms. Gotta wonder how many "enthusiastic supporters" got their peckers caught in this one...
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Post by Grug - American Neanderthal on Oct 13, 2014 6:44:13 GMT -7
You can't trust govt in any form.
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Post by HiTemp on Oct 13, 2014 7:13:35 GMT -7
This is really not too far off the scale for the DoD. They never want to release anything that could be controversial before an election and with the prez having an inverse Midas touch, no one can ever really tell whether something will work for him or against him.
I predict what they're going to find is exactly what his fellow soldiers have said; that he was disgruntled and ideologically confused, that he willingly left his unit (they won't use the term "deserted" because that locks everyone's hands), that they were uncertain as his to his long-term intentions, whatever his reason for going he ultimately changed his mind and wanted back, and thankfully the Prez negotiated with terrorists worked out a deal for his release. No other soldier deaths will be directly blamed on him, meaning the ones who were killed during the various searching expeditions trying to find him and bring him back.
The report won't address the legality of the prisoner swap. Another thing that's only illegal if someone is willing to step up and enforce it, and we don't have anyone in government except maybe Cruz and Lee who would.
It will be a total waste of time and paper as these things usually are. Were it anyone else, they'd be doing ten years in Ft. Leavenworth, but they're not going to do that to someone the Prez expended political capital on. He's going to be free as a jay bird, with full back pay instead of getting kicked hard in the Qu'ran as he deserves.
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Post by HiTemp on Oct 13, 2014 17:01:16 GMT -7
Upon some further thought re: the unauthorized absence of Sgt. Bergdahl, I suspect that nothing legal will happen to him, at least nothing more than some slap on the wrist. He'll get all his back pay and allowances except for month or two, maybe. The DoDPCP (Dept. of Defense Political Correctness Police) will see to it that no active duty people say a bad word about him. They'll be sure to say he paid enough for his bad decision by being kept in captivity for so long.
Both desertion in a time of war and aiding the enemy carry a possible death sentence. But let's face it, they aren't going to shoot anyone that the Prez used his superpowers to get back. He might even be a featured stand-up "lookey-here" at the next State of the Union address.
I think he's going to be relegated to the ranks of people like those who go around pretending to have a Congressional Medal of Honor, or those who pretend they are part of elite units like SEALS, Delta, Green Berets, etc. Once they are found out, nothing legal happens to them but they are forever branded on the forehead with "douche nozzle" as far as the real CMOH/elite folks go, and will be treated much the same by anyone who holds the CMOH/elite troopers in high regard.
So, basically, free to go but a real sh*thead in the public eye.
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Post by Grug - American Neanderthal on Oct 15, 2014 6:00:51 GMT -7
Seems like everyday the crowd not just distancing but running from Obama and his policy is getting larger and more vocal. As if lying they did not support him will work. In CO they are running radio ads with sound bites of Udall contradicting himself, it would be hilarious if these people were a movie, unfortunately they are why this country is in serious trouble.
Nationally everyone left of McCain is setting the stage to rewrite history so Hillary was not involved with anything since 94, yet has the plan to make us into post WW2 America again. Unfortunately their own media is going to be the downfall, they spent so much time propping her up, that its going to be used in the campaigns.
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Post by Stetto, man... on Oct 17, 2014 6:59:52 GMT -7
Well, the polls don't lie, according to "they".
I notice how the O's "enthusiastic supporter" numbers never dip below the high thirties. We all know who those fools are, and that number will never change. Anything out of a dem mouth is fact, period. Even when it contradicts a statement from the previous day, it is fact. The senate race in MN is a prime example (as if one were necessary); AlFranken's cheating machine has been spewing boldface lies in their campaign ads, declaring challenger Mike McFadden's company and funds are ALL offshore...McFadden has disclosed his documentation, proving that not only are his businesses firmly established in MN, but the entirety of his financial holdings are US-invested. But in the dem world, the truth doesn't matter. As with Galvin's Messiah. That 30-some percent will go to whatever lengths needed to make His incompetence, ineptitude, unethical-unconstitutional-treasonous behavior justified and, as ludicrous to the sane it may appear, good works.
The denial by dim candidates of their support for this humiliation in the WH is only natural. They know that the 30-some percent will simply accept it as fact. Unfortunately for them, 30-some percent has never won an election that I can remember, not without a strong 3rd and 4th and 5th party presence, which we're seeing UKIP achieving in Britain. If the Tea Movement had established that replacement party the year that McMilquetoast ran for president, that "3rd" party wouldn't be 3rd by now.
BTW, I don't plan to vote for McFadden. He's running as a repub, and I now seek more sentient beings than that...
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Post by Grug - American Neanderthal on Oct 17, 2014 17:55:13 GMT -7
I see the shift happen even locally as the base is leaving the GOP. The dems base will vote fora dem no matter how bad they are if for nothing more than because they are not a republican. The GOP has a good percentage of business people who will vote for anyone GOP so long as they are beholding to the chamber of commerce, but they are quickly losing the conservatives from the party whether they are religious conservatives or limited govt the GOP really hold no platform for them anymore. I think this coming election is going to be lot tighter than people think, with a lot less participation in some regions.
Seems like its a race to the bottom for both parties.
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