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		<title>By: Will</title>
		<link>http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/obamas-shock-and-awe-spending-campaign/comment-page-1/#comment-229455</link>
		<dc:creator>Will</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 07:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The sheeple voted for a sheepdog and got a wolf in sheep&#039;s clothing. Trouble is they&#039;re too ignorant to know it.</description>
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		<title>By: Eric Florack</title>
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		<dc:creator>Eric Florack</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@ Turfmonster:

&lt;blockquote&gt;Well done, Mr. Florack. &lt;/blockquote&gt;

Thanks. 

&lt;blockquote&gt;We need to start the process of recalling Democratic Senators as well as the three RINOs - they voted for the damn bills in the first place - and then to remove as many of them as possible. The remaining ones will get the message that we are irate with what is going on and will not tolerate this for a moment longer.
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Careful, here. There are a lot of landmines around. While I tend to be sympathetic to the proposal, I have some problems with criminalizing what amounts to simply a differing political position.

Granted that a case could be made of voting for this nonsense being criminal malfeasance, but this is a complex case to make, and I suspect that way lies a foothold for Democrats criminalizing OUR politics.  

There is certainly enough criminal activity to kneecap some of the sitting senate just now. Those with their hands in the Fannie and Freddie thing... Dodd, and Barney Frank among them. That said, eliminating that problem for their criminal behavior is not so easy, either.  

The situation with Illinois should give us a clue of how much success we will have with recalling Senators. Granted, that resistance varies somewhat by state, but in each case the troublemakers are the most liberal, and are supported by the most liberal of voting districts.  

Barney Frank, for example.  Does anyone think for a moment that he&#039;s going to get recalled for his part in the current financial fiasco?  

Chris Dodd. He’s got even more serious and more obvious ethics issues in this thing. Yet, at the moment, I don’t even see him being recalled by the voters of his state, barring some very vocal movement taking hold there. There’s a lot of anger down there at him, but nothing quite so focused.  A criminal investigation might start the pyre burning, but frankly, I don’t see that kind of investigation happening. He’s got too many political chips to call in,  in that state. He’ll be there until Election Day. 

(Aside: I’m hearing chatter from State Democrats there, suggesting that the best thing they could do is get Dodd to resign, or they haven’t a hope in hell of keeping that seat from going Republican in the next election. I don’t know if it’ll get to anything on the surface,, but that’s the undercurrent. ) 

And look; there&#039;s something else that&#039;s starting to surface that may impact on all of this; Fatigue. 

People have been hit with so much, so fast, since the first of the year, that the level of political fatigue is on a level that I’ve not seen since the end of the Clinton administration.  I have to wonder if that won’t be to the advantage of incumbents… even the ones who oughta be out on their butt for their actions.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@ Turfmonster:</p>
<blockquote><p>Well done, Mr. Florack. </p></blockquote>
<p>Thanks. </p>
<blockquote><p>We need to start the process of recalling Democratic Senators as well as the three RINOs &#8211; they voted for the damn bills in the first place &#8211; and then to remove as many of them as possible. The remaining ones will get the message that we are irate with what is going on and will not tolerate this for a moment longer.
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<p>Careful, here. There are a lot of landmines around. While I tend to be sympathetic to the proposal, I have some problems with criminalizing what amounts to simply a differing political position.</p>
<p>Granted that a case could be made of voting for this nonsense being criminal malfeasance, but this is a complex case to make, and I suspect that way lies a foothold for Democrats criminalizing OUR politics.  </p>
<p>There is certainly enough criminal activity to kneecap some of the sitting senate just now. Those with their hands in the Fannie and Freddie thing&#8230; Dodd, and Barney Frank among them. That said, eliminating that problem for their criminal behavior is not so easy, either.  </p>
<p>The situation with Illinois should give us a clue of how much success we will have with recalling Senators. Granted, that resistance varies somewhat by state, but in each case the troublemakers are the most liberal, and are supported by the most liberal of voting districts.  </p>
<p>Barney Frank, for example.  Does anyone think for a moment that he&#8217;s going to get recalled for his part in the current financial fiasco?  </p>
<p>Chris Dodd. He’s got even more serious and more obvious ethics issues in this thing. Yet, at the moment, I don’t even see him being recalled by the voters of his state, barring some very vocal movement taking hold there. There’s a lot of anger down there at him, but nothing quite so focused.  A criminal investigation might start the pyre burning, but frankly, I don’t see that kind of investigation happening. He’s got too many political chips to call in,  in that state. He’ll be there until Election Day. </p>
<p>(Aside: I’m hearing chatter from State Democrats there, suggesting that the best thing they could do is get Dodd to resign, or they haven’t a hope in hell of keeping that seat from going Republican in the next election. I don’t know if it’ll get to anything on the surface,, but that’s the undercurrent. ) </p>
<p>And look; there&#8217;s something else that&#8217;s starting to surface that may impact on all of this; Fatigue. </p>
<p>People have been hit with so much, so fast, since the first of the year, that the level of political fatigue is on a level that I’ve not seen since the end of the Clinton administration.  I have to wonder if that won’t be to the advantage of incumbents… even the ones who oughta be out on their butt for their actions.</p>
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		<title>By: Gene Lalor</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gene Lalor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Know what?  I&#039;ve really had enough of these attacks on &quot;our president&quot; who may very well be a very sick man!

Barack, a Product of His Syndromes?II 

“Some kids just never catch a break.  Some get so warped by their early lives that the rest of their days are so haunted and taunted by the ghosts of their upbringing that they end up as twisted human beings hooked on drugs or with other addictions, their minds so disturbed by the experiences of their youth and childhood that they spend their dysfunctional lives harming themselves and everyone around them.”

Thus began Part One of this very mini series which attempts a pop-psych analysis of what makes President Barack Hussein Obama tick.   There are more than a few indicators that suggest he suffers from ACS, Abandoned Child Syndrome, and from what could be called ICS, Interracial Copulation Syndrome, either of which could affect a child well into adulthood.  In combination, they could make the next four years a harrowing four years should President Barack Hussein Obama truly be suffering from these syndromes.

With Part One, we described those syndromes and made a general case for Obama’s affliction(s).  With Part Two we examine what he has already done, and said, which supports that theory.

Much has been made recently of what people are calling just one more gaffe oozing out of this administration, Obama’s already infamous ridiculing of the Special Olympics, thus ridiculing the hundreds of physically- and mentally-challenged athletes who compete in that annual olympiad for the disabled.

For a replay and transcript of that ”gaffe” see http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/03/obama_american_idol_special_ol.html.  For additional Obamian/Bidenian flubs, replete with videos, see Toby Harnden’s view on the Telegraph.com: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/toby_harnden/blog/2009/03/20/top_10_gaffes_by_barack_obama_and_joe_biden_.

The gaffe-meister himself, Vice President Joe Biden, is not the subject of the present study.  He merits his own mini-series, or a multi-season-long study, to adequately cover his penchant for inane and simply stupid actions and slips of the lips.  For now we will center our focus on the president and how he has demonstrated his possible ACS and ICS affliction.

As mentioned in Part One, Obama has sought to over-compensate, feasibly as a method of concealing those ailments.  Ridiculing others, especially the defenseless such as Special Olympics’ participants, is a transparent sign of the insensitive bully who seeks to hide his own weaknesses and insecurities by demeaning those who can’t fight back.  It can also reflect the defense mechanism of passive aggression.  

He laughed as he joked about his bowling ability, “like the Special Olympics,” and Jay Leno,   being the obsequious Democrat sheep that he is, failed to call him on it.  Obama also babbled on about “moral and ethical concerns” in a different context, AIG bonuses.  However, both host and guest failed to see the incongruity when they both laughed at Obama’s yuk regarding the Special Olympics after he spoke about morals and ethics.

Obama employed that same laughter on 60 Minutes...

(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com/.)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Know what?  I&#8217;ve really had enough of these attacks on &#8220;our president&#8221; who may very well be a very sick man!</p>
<p>Barack, a Product of His Syndromes?II </p>
<p>“Some kids just never catch a break.  Some get so warped by their early lives that the rest of their days are so haunted and taunted by the ghosts of their upbringing that they end up as twisted human beings hooked on drugs or with other addictions, their minds so disturbed by the experiences of their youth and childhood that they spend their dysfunctional lives harming themselves and everyone around them.”</p>
<p>Thus began Part One of this very mini series which attempts a pop-psych analysis of what makes President Barack Hussein Obama tick.   There are more than a few indicators that suggest he suffers from ACS, Abandoned Child Syndrome, and from what could be called ICS, Interracial Copulation Syndrome, either of which could affect a child well into adulthood.  In combination, they could make the next four years a harrowing four years should President Barack Hussein Obama truly be suffering from these syndromes.</p>
<p>With Part One, we described those syndromes and made a general case for Obama’s affliction(s).  With Part Two we examine what he has already done, and said, which supports that theory.</p>
<p>Much has been made recently of what people are calling just one more gaffe oozing out of this administration, Obama’s already infamous ridiculing of the Special Olympics, thus ridiculing the hundreds of physically- and mentally-challenged athletes who compete in that annual olympiad for the disabled.</p>
<p>For a replay and transcript of that ”gaffe” see <a href="http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/03/obama_american_idol_special_ol.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/03/obama_american_idol_special_ol.html</a>.  For additional Obamian/Bidenian flubs, replete with videos, see Toby Harnden’s view on the Telegraph.com: <a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/toby_harnden/blog/2009/03/20/top_10_gaffes_by_barack_obama_and_joe_biden_" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/toby_harnden/blog/2009/03/20/top_10_gaffes_by_barack_obama_and_joe_biden_</a>.</p>
<p>The gaffe-meister himself, Vice President Joe Biden, is not the subject of the present study.  He merits his own mini-series, or a multi-season-long study, to adequately cover his penchant for inane and simply stupid actions and slips of the lips.  For now we will center our focus on the president and how he has demonstrated his possible ACS and ICS affliction.</p>
<p>As mentioned in Part One, Obama has sought to over-compensate, feasibly as a method of concealing those ailments.  Ridiculing others, especially the defenseless such as Special Olympics’ participants, is a transparent sign of the insensitive bully who seeks to hide his own weaknesses and insecurities by demeaning those who can’t fight back.  It can also reflect the defense mechanism of passive aggression.  </p>
<p>He laughed as he joked about his bowling ability, “like the Special Olympics,” and Jay Leno,   being the obsequious Democrat sheep that he is, failed to call him on it.  Obama also babbled on about “moral and ethical concerns” in a different context, AIG bonuses.  However, both host and guest failed to see the incongruity when they both laughed at Obama’s yuk regarding the Special Olympics after he spoke about morals and ethics.</p>
<p>Obama employed that same laughter on 60 Minutes&#8230;</p>
<p>(Read the rest at <a href="http://genelalor.com/.)" rel="nofollow">http://genelalor.com/.)</a></p>
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		<title>By: TurfMonster</title>
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		<dc:creator>TurfMonster</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well done, Mr. Florack.  

What we need to do right now is cripple the Senate.  We need to start the process of recalling Democratic Senators as well as the three RINOs - they voted for the damn bills in the first place - and then to remove as many of them as possible.  The remaining ones will get the message that we are irate with what is going on and will not tolerate this for a moment longer.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well done, Mr. Florack.  </p>
<p>What we need to do right now is cripple the Senate.  We need to start the process of recalling Democratic Senators as well as the three RINOs &#8211; they voted for the damn bills in the first place &#8211; and then to remove as many of them as possible.  The remaining ones will get the message that we are irate with what is going on and will not tolerate this for a moment longer.</p>
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		<title>By: Войска ПВО</title>
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		<dc:creator>Войска ПВО</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>2. David Thomson writes:

&lt;i&gt;&quot;There is only one way sure way the economy can improve: Barack Obama must be a political loser.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;

..hope for his failure indeed. But I disagree that an improvement in the economy will yield a failure of Obama. I realize that you are talking that a priori marginalization of Obama would force him to keep his commie/pinko/socialist mitts off the levers and our economical engine would heal itself.

But I think that the idiot and his gang that couldn&#039;t shoot straight have mucked up things so badly that if they take a powder and the economy rights itself, he and the sycophantic MSM will all be out there proclaiming his business prowess.

By the way, anyone heard from that ditzy broad who&#039;s running the House recently? She must love Obumble for causing the blowtorch to be redirected from her buttocks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>2. David Thomson writes:</p>
<p><i>&#8220;There is only one way sure way the economy can improve: Barack Obama must be a political loser.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>..hope for his failure indeed. But I disagree that an improvement in the economy will yield a failure of Obama. I realize that you are talking that a priori marginalization of Obama would force him to keep his commie/pinko/socialist mitts off the levers and our economical engine would heal itself.</p>
<p>But I think that the idiot and his gang that couldn&#8217;t shoot straight have mucked up things so badly that if they take a powder and the economy rights itself, he and the sycophantic MSM will all be out there proclaiming his business prowess.</p>
<p>By the way, anyone heard from that ditzy broad who&#8217;s running the House recently? She must love Obumble for causing the blowtorch to be redirected from her buttocks.</p>
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		<title>By: M.</title>
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		<dc:creator>M.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Obacalypse OR Barackalypse? which is better?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Obacalypse OR Barackalypse? which is better?</p>
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		<title>By: Kevin</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>When the consequences of the One&#039;s actions finally hits us.....  People who think it&#039;s tough right now, you ain&#039;t seen nothing yet.  For those who can remember, sing with me.
&quot;Welcome back......&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When the consequences of the One&#8217;s actions finally hits us&#8230;..  People who think it&#8217;s tough right now, you ain&#8217;t seen nothing yet.  For those who can remember, sing with me.<br />
&#8220;Welcome back&#8230;&#8230;&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Craig</title>
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		<dc:creator>Craig</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>4. Floradora:
Question is…can they attribute this coming Obacalypse to Obama &amp; the Dems?

Obacalypse?? EXCELLENT!

I&#039;m bogarting that one.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>4. Floradora:<br />
Question is…can they attribute this coming Obacalypse to Obama &amp; the Dems?</p>
<p>Obacalypse?? EXCELLENT!</p>
<p>I&#8217;m bogarting that one.</p>
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		<title>By: Eric Florack</title>
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		<dc:creator>Eric Florack</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>No, Cindy, I didn&#039;t. But now, I wish I had...

LOL!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No, Cindy, I didn&#8217;t. But now, I wish I had&#8230;</p>
<p>LOL!</p>
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		<title>By: RV</title>
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		<dc:creator>RV</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The maount of money here is staggering, to say the least.  However, all of these programs and policies are nothing new, as each thing that president Obama has done and is doing is nothing more than what former-president Bush did.  President Obama is using more money than Bush, but the concepts are the same, from bailouts to government expansion, it is just a continuation of what was being done.  Just with more money, and far too much mone for my liking.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The maount of money here is staggering, to say the least.  However, all of these programs and policies are nothing new, as each thing that president Obama has done and is doing is nothing more than what former-president Bush did.  President Obama is using more money than Bush, but the concepts are the same, from bailouts to government expansion, it is just a continuation of what was being done.  Just with more money, and far too much mone for my liking.</p>
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