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Obama Supporters Deserve The Money

Feb 12, 2010 Political

Barack Obama and his Democrats took over where George Bush left off and bailed out banks and other financial institutions to the tune of billions of dollars. These entities were “too big to fail” and were spared the consequences of their bad decisions, decisions fueled by greed. Fueled by greed and knowledge that they would be bailed out if they made bad mistakes.

The financial giants reap huge rewards when they make investments and then get taxpayer money to save them when they gamble and lose. Ann Coulter has a great piece this week laying this all out. In it she describes what happened with regard to Goldman Sachs and other institutions that packaged bad loans and then insured them through AIG which could not cover the losses. Taxpayers bailed out AIG which was the same as bailing out Goldman.

During all of this, Obama went on the blame the bankers tour and discussed the greedy guys and how their salaries needed to be capped. There were tours by the homes of AIG executives, Congress worked on legislation taxing bonuses at 90% and the citizens of America were worked into a frenzy over the greedy bankers.

But these people helped put Obama in office. Obama received huge sums of money from the financial industry and they have been friends of the Democrats for a long time (as Coulter points out, Clinton bailed them out during his presidency). So it came as no surprise this week that Obama said he did not begrudge the bonuses of savvy bankers (particularly the ones who are his supporters):

Whatever Obama has in mind for punishing the financial industry, I promise you, he won’t punish his friends. After JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon took a $17 million bonus this week, and Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein got a $9 million bonus, Obama said he didn’t begrudge them their bonuses, saying, “I know both those guys.” Ann Coulter Human Events

What happened to people not getting huge bonuses? What happened to Barney Frank and his desire to cap salaries and bonuses of all of them even if they took no TARP money? What happened to the outrage generated by Obama and his minions over these greedy bankers?

I have no problem with bankers (or any private business people) making huge sums of money for doing a good job and I have no problem with huge bonuses. I did not have trouble with the AIG bonuses particularly because the Obama administration knew about them and people worked for a dollar a year in salary on the promise of the bonuses (which the administration then reneged on). I also have no problem with a business failing if it can’t make money and that includes financial giants and auto makers. If they can’t cut it then they can fail.

However, I am not the one who ran around whipping the country into a frenzy over greedy bankers. How dare Obama call these people greedy and rail against them last year and then step up to defend their huge bonuses this year? How can he do this and remain consistent?

He can’t, but he does not have to. If he says it is good his base will blindly follow. They will ignore Obama’s words and deeds of the past and focus on what the messiah says now. They will not draw the connection between Obama and the campaign dollars he gets from these people.

When Obama said he knows these people he meant the bankers but it could apply to his base.

Interestingly, David Reilly at Bloomberg has a piece that basically says Obama needs to man up and knock a few heads to show people who is in charge (note to Reilly, coequal means that he is not in charge of Congress). He writes about several issues which are better saved for another time but he does address financial regulation. Reilly spells out a number of tactics that Obama can use to threaten the banking industry into submission. The tactics look like something one would expect from Tony Soprano and not the leader of the US but Reilly is encouraging the kinds of tactics the left would scream fascist or Nazi over if a Republican did them.

The government owes the private sector about 7 trillion dollars. Suppose the banks called those markers all at once? Suppose the banks stopped lending for a week. I imagine if they tried hard they could send the economy in the Great Depression range so perhaps the mafia style tactics would be a poor idea.

Then again, Reilly is like typical supporters who decry strong-arm politics when Republicans use them but espouse them in order to push the Democrat agenda. This is typical of the left and we see it in Congress whenever they are in charge. We can’t knock heads of terrorists or it is torture but we can do what we want to those who oppose us…

I think the hypocrisy of Obma has been exposed in the past and it is very clear in his latest support of the huge bonuses. I also think we have a number of leftists in the media calling for him to get tough because they are worried about a Palin presidency.

Whether she will run or not or could even win is not the point.

Just the idea of that drives liberals and the progressives nuts.

And that is a joy to see.

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Ann Coulter Meets The View

Jan 13, 2009 Political

Ann Coulter was on The View and the sparks were flying. Ms Underestimated captured the video.

Be sure to visit her site for the full scoop and while you are at it go vote for her in the weblog awards.

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Ann Coulter Banned From NBC

Jan 5, 2009 Political

Ann Coulter is a feisty conservative who believes in no holds barred politics and she is spot on in her analysis nearly every time she speaks. She understands the liberal mind and she knows what makes it tick as well as how to pluck its last string. She has more testicular fortitude than some of the so called men in the Republican party and she is fearless. I admire her intelligence and her talent to tweak the left. The fact that she is nice looking is a plus as well.

Coulter was supposed to go on the NBC Today show tomorrow to discuss her new book; Guilty: Liberal “Victims” and Their Assault on America. She was unceremoniously dropped from the show with the cowardly claim that it was overbooked (though they booked her months ago). The overbooked show then went out and got Perez Hilton who will appear and hawk his new book. Hilton is openly homosexual and true to his pansy ways, he once offered $1000 to anyone who would throw a pie at Ann Coulter (according to Drudge). A real man would have thrown the pie himself but I guess it is hard to keep from dropping the pie when one has a limp wrist.

Insiders at NBC say that Coulter has been banned from the network permanently because:

“We are just not interested in anyone so highly critical of President-elect Obama, right now,” a TODAY insider reveals. “It’s such a downer. It’s just not the time, and it’s not what our audience wants, either.”

They are not interested in someone critical of Obama? This makes sense since none of the MSM has been critical of him since he walked across a pond to become the messiah. God forbid anyone should be critical of Obama.

This is, of course, the same network that had no problem in bringing people on who were critical of George Bush. For the past eight years NBC has had one Bush basher after another on to be “highly critical” of him. This is the network that employs tingly leg Chris Matthews who I don’t believe has ever had a kind word about President Bush and Keith Olberman who is nothing more than a rabid idiot who spews vile from his mouth every time he opens it. He has insulted President Bush every time he has been on the air and he makes no bones about his hatred for the president. So NBC has no moral high ground when it comes to talking critical of a president (or in this case the president elect).

Now NBC did say that it is not what its audience wants. I imagine that is correct. The people who watch NBC are a bunch of losers who sit around all day eating bon bons. The only exercise they get is walking to the mailbox to see if their welfare check has arrived. The people who watch Matthews or Olberman are mental midgets who could not empty a bucket if the directions were written on the bottom. These are the kind of people who are so slow it would take them an hour and a half to watch 60 minutes. Anyone who gives Olberman any credibility is not mentally capable of being out in public alone. He is a moonbat on acid and should be thrown in a room with Perez Hilton on a Viagra overdose.

Ann Coulter has six New York Times best sellers. If NBC wants to exclude her from appearing it will not affect sales. In fact, the publicity will probably help them.

However, NBC has demonstrated why most people (except the morons who drool while watching NBC) do not trust the MSM.

I don’t watch much, if anything on NBC. I will continue to avoid that network. If we are fortunate it will go bankrupt and disappear. Just say no to NBC.

I will, however, be buying Coulter’s new book.

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Ann Coulter Mentions the Dog

Jul 17, 2008 Political

I have always enjoyed reading Ann Coulter’s work. I think she is witty and relevant and her items are well reasoned. I particularly like what she wrote this week because she gives this blog a mention right up in the first sentence:

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, or as she is called on the Big Dogs blog, “the worst speaker in the history of Congress,” explained the cause of high oil prices back in 2006: “We have two oilmen in the White House. The logical follow-up from that is $3-a-gallon gasoline. It is no accident. It is a cause and effect. A cause and effect.”Townhall [emphasis mine]

So, if any of you folks reading this blog made your way here from Ann’s post, welcome. If you are a regular reader and have not seen her post yet, head on over and give it a look-see. It is very good, as usual.

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The Holy Trinity; In the Name of the Father…

May 30, 2008 Political

Something is absolutely wrong at Trinity United Church, the church where Obama spent 20 years oblivious to the racial hatred spewed from the mouth of Pastor Wright. It might be something in the Holy Water or maybe they put crack in the wine but whatever it is it seems to affect those in the pulpit. The newest inflammatory (and non religious) remarks came from Father Michael Pfleger who used his time in front of the congregation to make a political statement about Hillary Clinton and her feeling of entitlement. Not entitled because she is Hillary but entitled because she is white. Hillary was the white person who looked up and saw that a black man was stealing her rightful position as the next Democratic presidential nominee. As Michelle Malkin said:

It’s one thing to ridicule Hillary’s sense of political and ideological entitlement as part of the Clinton dynasty. But the demagogic emphasis on her race from this hate preacher on the pulpit is quite another thing.

The You Tube video at Malkin’s site states it is no longer available but you can still see it (at least for now) at Political Kudzu.

Father Pfleger is introduced as a friend of the church who needs no introduction. Immediately he goes into a rant about the past and how if we white folks reap the benefits of what our ancestors did for us then we must also accept responsibility for what they did (presumably to black people). This is an illogical argument and compares to unlike things. People are able to enjoy the fruits of labor of their ancestors (as in inherited wealth) without being responsible for what people did to others a century and a half ago. If Pfleger wants to take this route it might have been nice if he would have stated that we whites also get the benefit of all those in our families who died in the Civil War.

The issue I have is his political statements from the pulpit. He is a supporter of Obama and has endorsed him. Until recently, he was listed as a spiritual endorser of Obama. It is amazing how many of these kinds of people keep popping out of the woodwork and it is amazing that Obama is just now realizing how racist and inflammatory they are. The more these kinds of people appear the more disingenuous Obama appears when he says he had no idea what they were about and says their views are not his own. Birds of a feather and all that.

Does the Trinity United Church enjoy tax exempt status? If so then the IRS needs to look at the tape of this sermon and determine if Father Pfleger violated the law. It certainly seems to me that he did especially when one considers he endorsed Obama, is in a church in Obama’s home town, is preaching to a congregation that supports Obama, and he made it appear that Obama was the best choice over white entitlement.

The IRS really needs to look into this church and see about taking away any exemptions it enjoys. How many more lunatic preachers have to appear before someone takes notice?

While the government is at it, the DEA might want to check to see if the preachers are using drugs before the sermons. The Pope might want to look at this guy as well. He has child molester written all over him.

Ann Coulter was on Hannity and Colmes last night and they asked her about Pfleger. She said he was the white pastor Wright, that he was Eminem. I thought that was hysterical.

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