Do what exactly?
National Review's Jim Geraghty sums up Obama's America thus: "Unsustainable is the new normal." Indeed. The other day, Douglas Elmendorf, director of the Congressional Budget Office, described current deficits as "unsustainable." So let's make them even more so. The president tells us, with a straight face, that his grossly irresponsible profligate wastrel of a predecessor took the federal budget on an eight-year joyride, so the only way his sober, fiscally prudent successor can get things under control is to grab the throttle and crank it up to what Mel Brooks in Spaceballs (which seems the appropriate comparison) called "Ludicrous Speed."
Obama's spending proposes to take the average Bush deficit for the years 2001-2008, and double it, all the way to 2020. To get out of the Bush hole, we need to dig a hole twice as deep for one-and-a-half times as long. And that's according to the official projections of his Economics Czar, Ms. Rose Colored-Glasses. By 2015, the actual hole may be so deep that even if you toss every Obama speech down it on double-spaced paper you still won't be able to fill it up. In the spendthrift Bush days, federal spending as a proportion of GDP average 19.6 percent. Obama proposes to crank it up to 25 percent as a permanent feature of life.
But, if they're "unsustainable," what happens when they can no longer be sustained? A failure of bond auctions? A downgraded government debt rating? Reduced GDP growth? Total societal collapse? Mad Max on the New Jersey Turnpike?
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Palin: Obama could win votes by playing 'war card'
AP
1 hr 18 mins ago
WASHINGTON ââ¬â Sarah Palin says that if President Barack Obama "played the war card," he could improve his chances of being re-elected.
Palin says that declaring war on Iran or showing stronger support for Israel might convince voters that Obama is tougher than they think on national security and doing all he can to protect the U.S.
Otherwise, according to Palin, Obama won't be re-elected if he continues on his current path.
Palin was interviewed on "Fox News Sunday" ââ¬â the network where the former GOP vice presidential nominee is a paid commentator.
I agree on both counts. Not that I am a big fan of Romney since I have a more liberal bent, but he would be a contender among thinking conservatives. He wouldn't likely be an embarrassment to his country whereas Palin most certainly would be, and already is.Quote from CaptainObvious:
This tube clip is what I see when watching Palin. Makes me want to gouge my eyes out and stick pencils through my ear drums. I've had enough of this broad and her awww shucks routine. The Repubs put up anybody other than Romney they're nuts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4mTTigqTSA
The US was founded on separation of church and state, rather than on god fearing. If anything, the founding fathers demonstrably feared god getting in the way of state.Quote from nutmeg:
Our country was founded on the god fearing and greedy mofo business's. The demise correlates to the tearing down of the two.