en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/315121 Comments by TaxedRUs http://bigjournalism.com/fross/2010/09/18/we-hold-these-truths-to-be-self-evident-er-whatever/#IDComment99689322 Gee, would that "someone" who is going "to keep" those "promises" be a politician? Are these inalienable rights, er, sorry Obama, let's pretend they are "promises to be kept" like you would like to call them, are those "promises" something like, you know, political "promises" made to us by some, ugh, politician? Very, very sneaky. Thanks, but I'll keep my "inalienable rights" that don't come from politicians, but from the Creator, and Obama can just keep his "promises" to himself, for all they're worth -- like any of those other political lies, er, "promises" that he "promises" to "keep." Very slippery with his words, this guy. Kind of like the Mad Queen trying to bamboozle Alice. Only worse. Sun, 19 Sep 2010 01:12:49 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/fross/2010/09/18/we-hold-these-truths-to-be-self-evident-er-whatever/#IDComment99689322 http://bigjournalism.com/fross/2010/09/18/we-hold-these-truths-to-be-self-evident-er-whatever/#IDComment99689271 And it gets even worse with Obama's transformation of Americans' rights. He mischaracterizes those rights as promises "to be kept" by whoever it is that he wants us to believe made those "promises" to us. Hey, but what happened to those little words in there that Obama glosses over with his "promises to be kept" constructions? You know, the two words "inalienable" and "rights" -- which have nothing to do with somebody making "promises" to us that are "to be kept" by someone? Those rights don't need to be "kept" for us because we are never without them -- they are "inalienable" rights. But, King George, er, Obama would have everone believe that "someone" out there made those "promises" to us, and that unknown entity will be the what or who that "keeps" those "promises" as made to us? Sun, 19 Sep 2010 01:12:21 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/fross/2010/09/18/we-hold-these-truths-to-be-self-evident-er-whatever/#IDComment99689271 http://bigjournalism.com/fross/2010/09/18/we-hold-these-truths-to-be-self-evident-er-whatever/#IDComment99689045 Not only does Obama delete the Creator as the source of our "inalienable rights" in this speech, he goes on to "fundamentally transform" those rights by calling them "promises to be kept." He'll just redefine those "inalienable rights" endowed by the Creator to Americans, and reduce those "inalienable rights" to mere "promises" that some yet undisclosed source has made to us? Sun, 19 Sep 2010 01:09:46 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/fross/2010/09/18/we-hold-these-truths-to-be-self-evident-er-whatever/#IDComment99689045 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9I3B9U00&show_article=1#IDComment97551527 To paraphrase Popeye the Sailor Man: "It is what it is; that's all that it is. And Gibbs is Bozo the Clown." Wed, 8 Sep 2010 02:49:41 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9I3B9U00&show_article=1#IDComment97551527 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.0cc727e46b1073555e0393d1d4bad64c.61&show_article=1#IDComment97068581 The demwits are going to learn the hard way that, "It's the economy, stupid!!!" And that demwit who likes Twain's witticism about his death being wrongly reported should also note Twain's views on crooks, er politicians. To paraphrase, I repeat myself. Sun, 5 Sep 2010 08:14:41 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.0cc727e46b1073555e0393d1d4bad64c.61&show_article=1#IDComment97068581 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GKJAVG1&show_article=1#IDComment82922605 Hot dog!!! Another speech by our president! Will it be a "major" speech? Maybe he'll drag those styrofoam columns out of the closet and use them again. Can't wait!!! And all this hoopla is for what? Amnesty? Again? With a promise of REALLY, REALLY enforcing our immigration laws . . . this time? Again? Just like thirty-some years ago when that was the same old song with the same old words of "amnesty with immigration law enforcement" -- a real song-and-dance, that was. How about this for an idea. If what we need is REAL comprehensive immigration reform, lets finish the job right now. We've already done the amnesty half (30+ years ago), so now let's do the other half and enforce our immigration laws -- starting with REAL border security. Start with a fence, and take it from there. Let's hear about that in this BIG SPEECH by Obama. For a REAL change, SECURE OUR BORDERS and ENFORCE OUR LAWS!!! YES, WE CAN!!! Do it NOW, or Americans will elect politicians who CAN and WILL. Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:24:06 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GKJAVG1&show_article=1#IDComment82922605 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GJUJR00&show_article=1#IDComment82671947 Obama keeps shoveling out his typical, tired old BS. For example, there's his always false "straw man" arguments, yet Obama trots out more of that same old crap with something like this: " 'There's a difference between restraint and willful blindness to consistent problems,' Obama said" Yep, that's sure profound. Here's a comparison that's true, though: there's a huge difference between being a "community organizer" (whatever that is) and actually having the ability to competently fulfill responsibilities of the president of the United States. Obama was elected president, but he sure does not have the ability to BE president. Wish Obama would take a leave of absense for the rest of his term -- indeed, most Americans would probably be willing to give him a big bonus to just do nothing but play golf until he officially retires after the next election. Mon, 28 Jun 2010 05:04:41 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GJUJR00&show_article=1#IDComment82671947 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9G4QCFG1&show_article=1#IDComment78610190 "Reckless aggression" sounds like an oxymoron. Probably a product of trying to talk tough and conciliatorily at the same time, as in out of both sides of the mouth. Is Gates the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of State? Sat, 5 Jun 2010 03:17:14 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9G4QCFG1&show_article=1#IDComment78610190 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9FPOUE80&show_article=1#IDComment76133047 Mr. Fournier writes in the above article: "And Democrat Richard Blumenthal, the Connecticut attorney general running for the Senate, disputed a newspaper report that he once lied about his Vietnam record. " Blumenthal "once" lied? Are you kidding!!! Once??? Come on, now. Are you an actual reporter? Or are you Blumenthal's campaign shill? Even Blumenthal grudgingly admitted today that he made his false claims (i.e., "misstatements" and "misplaced words" per Blumenthal's characterization) of combat service in Viet Nam on a "few occasions" -- which itself plainly appears to be a gross understatement based on what was reported in the NYT's article. Shame on you --- and on AP. Wed, 19 May 2010 08:30:54 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9FPOUE80&show_article=1#IDComment76133047 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9ECKUM03&show_article=1#IDComment61530373 Blaming the "faulty system" or "lack of authority" is a pretty sorry, and lazy, excuse for not addressing the primary issue of accountability of the people who are charged with administering and enforcing the existing regulations. Full accountability, not more government red tape and power, is exactly what is needed -- for starters. It's the people running the regulatory agency that make the system work or allow it to fail --- not the system. Personal responsibility means doing the job with what you have, or get out and let someone who can do the job take over. Knee-jerk whining, crying, and blaming the "system" as "broken" or "inadequate" doesn't cut it. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:19:16 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9ECKUM03&show_article=1#IDComment61530373 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9DJ99O80&show_article=1#IDComment54790148 "The question now for Democrats is if Obama will call in a winning play." Winning play? Here it is: Kill the bill. Drop it. Work on the economy and jobs. Any HCR that gets rammed through this year is "health care" destruction that will be tied up for years in litigation -- and mooted when the entire cancer is excised by the coming elections that puts dems in the closet for decades. But go ahead, dems, take a gamble. Call that "suicide" play of trying to ram through "health care" destruction over the objection of the vast overwhelming majority of Americans. See what it gets you this fall. Mon, 1 Feb 2010 09:30:05 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9DJ99O80&show_article=1#IDComment54790148 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9DFOMEG1&show_article=1#IDComment54019937 (. . . continued) Were they all just shooting hoops on Obama's basketball court in all those closed-door meetings? Or maybe playing cards? It sure "looks like" they were doing just what they now refuse to admit they were doing. "Looks like" indeed! Dems have a lot "issues" to resolve -- and the biggest is to convince the American public that they can be trusted to tell the truth. This time around, politicians will get the voters they deserve. Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:30:39 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9DFOMEG1&show_article=1#IDComment54019937 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9DFOMEG1&show_article=1#IDComment54019828 (. . . continued) What was happening all those weeks with Harry hiding out to cobble together a bill, and shuffle it "into shape" to "satisy" COB, after two Senate committees had "completed" their work? What was happening when deals were made with senators from Nebraska and Louisiana to "bribe" their votes to get 60? What was happening when Obama himself conducted marathon sessions with democrats, the unions, the pharmas, the insurance companies, the AARP, and who knows who all else -- and all behind closed doors? What was happening with all those back-room discussions among Obama, the dems in the House, and the dems in the Senate after the Senate rammed its bill through on Christmas Eve and before the roof fell in with the election in Massachussets almost four weeks later? You know, those discussions that were done to avoid having a "public" Senate-House conference committee have to meet out in the open -- on CSPAN -- to come with the "final" bill. (continued . . .) Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:29:33 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9DFOMEG1&show_article=1#IDComment54019828 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9DFOMEG1&show_article=1#IDComment54019745 (. . . continued) Unfortunately, Dems and Obama are still operating as though the American public is totally clueless about what's been going on: "It looks like there are a bunch of back-room deals," the president said in an interview with ABC News. It "looks like" there are a bunch of back-room deals? What's with this "looks like" business? (continued . . .) Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:28:41 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9DFOMEG1&show_article=1#IDComment54019745 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9DFOMEG1&show_article=1#IDComment54019653 "Democrats now have four options, Hoyer said: No bill, a scaled-back measure designed to attract some Republican support, the House passing the Senate bill, or the House passing the Senate bill with both chambers making changes to bridge their differences." What about that 5th option: throw all current bills in the trash can and start over with all negotiations conducted on CSPAN with all interested parties at the table -- including even the Republicans, who after all represent nearly half of all Americans? (continued . . .) Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:27:39 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9DFOMEG1&show_article=1#IDComment54019653 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.5ea1ea655f7bc23e07f902559e88ec3f.291&show_article=1#IDComment53727631 " 'No bed-wetting,' the Democratic strategist [Plouffe] wrote. " 'Instead of fearing what may happen, let's prove that we have more than just the brains to govern -- that we have the guts to govern,' he said." One thing is clear. They have plenty of gall. Brains? Guts? No so much. Otherwise they'd know that their total lack of credibility is what's killing their agenda, and have the courage to admit it. Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:29:32 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.5ea1ea655f7bc23e07f902559e88ec3f.291&show_article=1#IDComment53727631 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.5ea1ea655f7bc23e07f902559e88ec3f.291&show_article=1#IDComment53725534 Plouffe in the Post: "In future elections, it will be clear to all that instead of another Great Depression, Democrats broke the back of the recession with not a single Republican vote in the House." Uh, thought the TARP was enacted under Bush? With bipartisan vote of Congress? With half of it paid out under Bush to stabilize the crash that started in fall of 2008, before Obama took office? With the other half left for Obama's use in continuing the stabilization? So, how is it fair for Plouffe to say that the "Democrats broke the back of the recession without a single vote of the Republicans in the House"? Maybe Plouffe is "puffing" the Democrat's stimulus bill in February 2009. But a claim that that Democrat stimulus bill "broke the back of the recession" is too much to believe since it didn't stimulate the economy but rather allowed the unemployment rate to soar ever since. Wish these folks would cut the spin. And just talk straight. Guess they are too committed to their false ideological creed that Americans are stupid. Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:18:50 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.5ea1ea655f7bc23e07f902559e88ec3f.291&show_article=1#IDComment53725534 http://biggovernment.com/bjacobson/2010/01/23/you-decide-dems-level-of-grief/#IDComment53606436 They are hard-wired to wander in the wilderness of steps 1-4 since their mental gear box is stuck in stupid. This is certainly one crisis that will not go to waste as the voters finally get their chance to wade in. Since Obama and his dem cohorts can be counted on to make it even worse, might mean zero dems in the House this time next year. Nah, Pelosi will be back. Alone. Oh, the audacity of it all!!! Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:55:38 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/bjacobson/2010/01/23/you-decide-dems-level-of-grief/#IDComment53606436 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9DDBE2O1&show_article=1#IDComment53541423 Last week, they were lunging for the goal line. Now, they're laying flat on their backs in the upper deck, removing their teeth from the back of their thoats, where they got kicked to by the Mass election. And they're still trying to figure a way to ram their health destruction bill thru? These folks either want real bad to get dumped this fall, or they are insane. Their antics should be tallied as a trillion dollar political contribution-in-kind to their opponents in their coming elections. But that's OK. They're entitled to exercise their Constitutional right to display limitless stupidity, er free speech. Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:27:39 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9DDBE2O1&show_article=1#IDComment53541423 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9DCUJAO0&show_article=1#IDComment53470675 Hope the first order of business (heh) after this fall's elections is for all the new congress people to ramp up hearings -- with subpoenas and perjury prosecutions to follow as appropriate -- into the role that politicians and lefty organizations played by ramming (their favorite tactic) subprime loans into the financial system, providing the fodder precipitating the catastrophic collapse we inherited (another concept popular with these idiots) from those idiots' insane notion of enacting into law what "they know" is best for everyone else. They all ought to be required to disgorge their ill-gotten gains, pay restitution for the financial ruin they caused to America and Americans, and perhaps do a little jail. We can do without any more of their "community service" though. Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:56:56 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9DCUJAO0&show_article=1#IDComment53470675