Obama, Econoramus

Obama promises 'bottom-up' economic growth

June 19, 2008

FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Democrat Barack Obama told union leaders Thursday that he will pursue economic policies that benefits workers if elected president, but he also will seek input from corporate leaders.

‘‘The economy is not working the way it should be, and that’s going to be the goal of an Obama presidency — to make sure we’ve got bottom-up economic growth instead of the kind of tired, worn-out, trickle-down ideologies we’ve been seeing for so many years,’’ Obama said as he gathered with about three dozen leaders in a Capitol Hill hotel. Reporters were allowed in to cover his opening remarks.

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There's so much in these remarks that requires rebuttal, but the 4th season of "The Odd Couple" awaits so we'll address the most egregious bit of flapdoodle:

" ... make sure we’ve got bottom-up economic growth ... "

Bottom-up economic growth?!

What exactly does that mean?

People decide they want jobs and, mirabile visu, they appear?

To paraphrase Frasier Crane: What color is the sky in Obama's world?

The "tired, worn-out, trickle-down ideologies" Obama calumnies have sentenced America to 25 years of growth with only two short and shallow recessions since the Reagan tax cuts went into full effect.

"Working families" have stuff their counterparts in 1979 could never have imagined possessing.

And how should the economy be "working"?

The economy is 300 million people making decisions based on self-interest.

Obama knows how this should work?

Hubris is one of the most unbecoming of vices, especially from someone with so little knowledge of a topic.

Only a person who's never worked in the private sector could believe in a "bottom-up" economy.

Amateur hour.

Boumediene for kids

Court quashes dad's grounding of 12-year-old daughter

A father plans to appeal after a Quebec court ruled that he didn't have the right to punish his 12-year-old daughter by barring her from a school trip.

Quebec Superior Court Judge Suzanne Tessier ruled Friday that the girl should be allowed to attend the three-day trip within Quebec this week.

Initially, the father forbade his daughter from going online after the Grade 6 student posted photos on a dating site, the Globe and Mail reported in its Thursday edition.

The girl's parents are divorced, and after she had an alleged row with her stepmother, her father barred her from going on a school trip to mark the class's graduation from elementary school, the newspaper reported.

"When he said, 'OK, it's final. You're not going,' she smacked the door, left and went to live with her mother," the father's lawyer, Kim Beaudoin, told CBC News.

Last Wednesday, the father received a motion petitioning the court to overturn the punishment.

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Here's a father trying to avoid becoming a grandparent at a young age -- chances are he also forbids her to dress like a tramp -- meting out exactly the sort of punishment all of us past a certain age received once or twice.

In steps some know-it-all judge and, voila, this budding Britney is on her way to Quebec.

Hopefully she doesn't return in a family way.

Maybe there's a place for Hillary in the Canadian judiciary.

Simply amazing.

Baby steps for McCain

Sen. John McCain called yesterday for an end to the federal ban on offshore oil drilling, offering an aggressive response to high gasoline prices and immediately drawing the ire of environmental groups that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee has courted for months.

The move is aimed at easing voter anger over rising energy prices by freeing states to open vast stretches of the country's coastline to oil exploration. In a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, nearly 80 percent said soaring prices at the pump are causing them financial hardship, the highest in surveys this decade.

"We must embark on a national mission to eliminate our dependence on foreign oil," McCain told reporters yesterday. In a speech today, he plans to add that "we have untapped oil reserves of at least 21 billion barrels in the United States. But a broad federal moratorium stands in the way of energy exploration and production. . . . It is time for the federal government to lift these restrictions."

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We've scratched our heads bloody over McCain's reluctance to jump on this issue where the "Drill Now" position is a clear boon to the GOP.

Perhaps he will soon visit that pristine vacation tourist hotspot at ANWR, admit he was wrong, and take the sensible position on drilling there.

Baby steps, followed, predictably, by baby talk:

Representatives of several environmental groups criticized him for backing an idea they said would endanger the nation's most environmentally sensitive waters.

"It's disappointing that Senator McCain is clinging to the failed energy policies of the past," said Tiernan Sittenfeld, legislative director for the League of Conservation Voters.

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Democratic Sen. Barack Obama joined the criticism, calling the idea of lifting the ban the wrong answer to out-of-control energy prices. "John McCain's plan to simply drill our way out of our energy crisis is the same misguided approach backed by President Bush that has failed our families for too long and only serves to benefit the big oil companies," Obama spokesman Hari Sevugan said.

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Someone please educate us here: How can a policy NOT in place be characterized as "failed"?

Isn't the no drill, no nuke policy what has truly "failed" America's benighted "families" at the oil spigot?

As for alternative energy sources -- the free market will provide them (this development will enrage insect rights types) far before Government does.

The ethanol fetish has truly been a "failure", driving food prices up as it diverts corn and the foods it helps produce away from the World's dinner table.

And could the disloyal opposition PLEASE end it with this "failed" nonsense.

You'd think people who congratulate themselves on their superior intelligence could make their points without resorting to focus group-tested buzzwords and catchphrases or at least admit that the Great Society "failed" -- miserably, no less -- America's poor?

Our kingdom for a statesman!

Unfit For Command, 2008

Mr. Obama issued a statement calling the decision “a rejection of the Bush administration’s attempt to create a legal black hole at Guantánamo” that he said was “yet another failed policy supported by John McCain.”

“This is an important step,” he said of the ruling, “toward re-establishing our credibility as a nation committed to the rule of law, and rejecting a false choice between fighting terrorism and respecting habeas corpus. Our courts have employed habeas corpus with rigor and fairness for more than two centuries, and we must continue to do so as we defend the freedom that violent extremists seek to destroy.”

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Let us get this straight: a policy that keeps un-uniformed ILLEGAL enemy combatants from appealling to screwball judges like Anthony Kennedy for the exercise of a right ensured to AMERICANS and others apprehended and imprisoned by our LEGAL system, a policy that has prevented these savages from returning to the battlefield to kill AMERICANS is a failed policy?

We shudder to think what Obama would have considered a successful policy.

These are not prisoners in the county pokey awaiting trial for mopery.

They are soldiers in a WAR, a war against Civilization.

Were this child-like lack of understanding not coming from a man who could -- perish the thought -- become Commander in Chief of the Free World it would be funnier than the Doobie Brother's double episode of "What's Happening"!

Except in this case it's "Which Doobie you be?" followed by the explosion of a dynamite cumberbun and dead servicemen.


This reminds us that the nominee's puerile notion of the ideal Supreme Court Justice is equally fatuous, expressed here in blathering Oprah-esque fashion:

"We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what it's like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old. And that's the criteria by which I'm going to be selecting my judges."

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The Boumediene debacle certainly illustrates Justice Kennedy's penchant for empathy -- for Jihadists.

Happy Father's Day ...

... to all fathers and all boys lucky enough to have a father.

Big kudos to the architects of the "Great" Society for ensuring that so many boys grew up fatherless.

The Fatal Conceit kills.

The nominee on ANWR

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MTU0YjExOWMzMmI4ZTQ2YWEwZTM1M2NiZGRkM2UyY2I=

Larry, I'm with McCain at a town hall meeting in Philadelphia today where the senator was asked for his position on drilling in ANWR and elsewhere. He wasn't happy the subject came up. "I knew I should have ended this [before that question]," he said.

He said that he opposed drilling in ANWR for the same reason that he "would not drill in the Grand Canyon... I believe this area should be kept pristine." (Proposed oil and gas exploration in ANWR would only affect 2,000 of its 19 million acres, or 0.01 percent.)

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This is the sort of vapidity we've come to expect from "liberals".

Sadly, though, this drivel comes not from Senator Obama but Senator McCain.

Surely you all remember that wonderful three-part "Brady Bunch" epic wherein this group that had somehow become a family piled into the paneled station wagon and set out for the pristine playground we now call ANWR.

En route they were temporarily imprisoned by Jim Backus, who feared they'd befoul the breathtaking landscape with carelessly discarded Kitty Carryalls and expired trading stamps.

After escaping his crusty clutches and after a harrowwing mule ride, Bobby and Cindy got lost chasing a swarm of exotic mosquitoes but were directed back to camp by a kindly old caribou.

Perhaps this is where Senator McCain got his misperception of ANWR?

Yikes, we're in trouble!

Congrats to the majority ...

... for their brilliant decision in Boumediene.

In a non-Bizzaro world the Jihadist bastards being coddled at Gitmo would be freed to roam about the neighborhoods of the educated fools who have just granted them the rights assured by the Constitution to American citizens, not to un-uniformed foreign savages.

Americans, mostly the brave men and women who defend us, will surely die because of this judicial jackassery.

How long till the Court extends Miranda rights to these Mohammedan beasts?

The Constitution died a little more today.

Yeah, The Ponderosa is back in business baby.

Thanks to the majority, al Qaeda, the Taliban and their affiliates are too.