The Consequences of the Blame Game
An overcast sky hangs over the Scranton, PA area right now, which would usually darken my mood somewhat, but not today. I narrowly escaped having to make a run into Brooklyn with an 18 wheeler this afternoon. After days in the NYC/NJ area,...days of being cut off, flipped off, nearly run over, blocked off, and spat on (the latter almost leading to a fisticuffs in New Jersey yesterday), I prevailed on my company to spare me a load assignment that would have been my undoing. So as far as I'm concerned, the weather is great, which it better be if the jobs situation is going to improve in the foreseeable future, since earthquakes in Japan lead to economic catastrophe in America.
I was just wondering: The Good Book says that we reap what we sow, …but the Teleprompter says that the awful economy is the fault of the earthquake in Japan, or the Arab Spring, or ATM machines, or Oil Speculators, Corporations, Rush Limbaugh, or the fact that Dorothy didn't click her heels earlier in the movie,…anything, everything except the President's actual policies. In short, the state of the economy is due to factors outside President Obama's control. That being the case, I wonder how he can realistically propose anything to ease the situation. By his own logic, he would have to roll back the earth quake and insure there will be no reoccurrence, reinstall Mubarak and put the Arab Spring genie back in the bottle, ban ATM machines along with oil speculators and corporations, repeal the First Amendment, and hire EJHill to remaster The Wizard of Oz.
In short, if he can't undo the culprits he's identified, then he ought to be powerless to address the situation according to his own admission. This ought to be some speech!
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Aug '11
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I find your logic sound and compelling!
Jun '10
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Was he wearing that outfit when he took out Bin Laden single-handed?
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I thought maybe it was the caffeine. Thanks.
Aug '11
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I also like the construction you used:
"The Good Book says __________, but the Teleprompter says ____________."
I'm sure our fine, clever Ricocheteers can provide a lot of variations to fill in those blanks, and I hope some will oblige me and entertain me for the afternoon.
Apr '11
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I like the logic, unfortunately the administration's narrative has been: "Anything bad is the result of the previous administration, the GOP House, or acts of God. Anything good is the result of our policies."
Feb '11
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Welcome to northeast PA. You're about 30 miles south of our farm in Susquehanna County. Barry lost Susquehanna 55% to 43.5%. He won't do even that well next year. Maybe this time the rest of the country will follow our sensible lead. Meanwhile, watch out for the cows.
Jun '10
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DrewInWisconsin: I also like the construction you used:
"The Good Book says __________, but the Teleprompter says ____________."
I'm sure our fine, clever Ricocheteers can provide a lot of variations to fill in those blanks, and I hope some will oblige me and entertain me for the afternoon. · Sep 2 at 10:39am
"The Good Book says "blessed are the meek,", but the Teleprompter says "blessed are the Greek," for they shall inherit Germany's revenue surplus."
Jun '10
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You wrote the other day of sliding backwards downhill in Yonkers with an empty trailer. Was that a prescient metaphor? If so, Dave Carter for prophet! We'll have to take up a collection to buy you some sandals and sack cloth though.
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I'll pass, Cas, thanks very much. We already have one guy walking around thinking he wears a halo. That's quite enough, I think.
Jul '11
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Oh, my. How soon they forget. You didn't even mention G.W. Bush or Ronald Reagan. Brings a tear to my eye.
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Good point. But if GWB and Ronald Reagan rank in the same category as an earthquake, that would make them acts of God, right? I wonder how deep into THAT territory the President would like to wade? Rush, after all, has talent on loan from God.
Jul '10
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DrewInWisconsin: I also like the construction you used:
"The Good Book says __________, but the Teleprompter says ____________."
I'm sure our fine, clever Ricocheteers can provide a lot of variations to fill in those blanks, and I hope some will oblige me and entertain me for the afternoon. · Sep 2 at 10:39am
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. / We are the ones we've been waiting for.
Jul '10
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Bungling Barry has created the worst business climate since the Great Depression. ObamaCare, with its farcical fiscal assumptions and its assault on the health care market throwing benefit costs into extreme uncertainty is only part of the problem. In order to create thousands of jobs for unaccountable unionized bureaucrats who will decide whether our parents and children live or die from a safe, disinterested distance, he has thrown millions out of work.
And that is only the tip of the iceberg. The plight of Gibson, the legendary guitar makers, at the hands of the same Justice Department that facilitates full gun suffrage for Mexican drug cartels, is emblematic of the fate of the private sector under Democrat rule.
But bumbling Barry will not come out Thursday in support of the repeal of ObamaCare, nor announce the cessation of hostilities in his war on Gibson. He will call for more federal spending and more taxes. He will lament the prosperity of the shrinking class of American millionaires, and rededicate his presidency to coercing the goose that laid the golden egg to the slaughter house so that little Mustafa can enjoy a federally funded school lunch of fresh butchered goose. For fairness.
Jun '10
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The ball joints are worn out, the shocks are shot, and the tires are worn down to the cords. Time to realign the front end and rotate the tires! Is anyone still listening?
Aug '11
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Sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of my Slurpee.
Oct '10
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DrewInWisconsin
Sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of my Slurpee. · Sep 2 at 1:23pm
Cash for Clunkers...
Jul '11
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Dave Carter
Good point. But if GWB and Ronald Reagan rank in the same category as an earthquake, that would make them acts of God, right? I wonder how deep into THAT territory the President would like to wade? Rush, after all, has talent on loan from God. · Sep 2 at 11:06am
You mean Ronald Reagan wasn't an act of God? Who knew?
Jul '10
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"Let me be clear.... the buck passes through here...."
Jul '10
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"The Good Book says,'Love Thy Neighbor,' but the Teleprompter says 'if They bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.'"
Mar '11
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The Good Book is: A sluggard does not plow in season; so at harvest time he looks but finds nothing; the Teleprompter says "Fore".