COMMENTS:
For several years now, the Obama Administration has been
claiming that their methods of dealing with the economy are the only proper and
correct ones and they have summarily shut out any input from the Republicans or
conservative economists. Now that the
bottom is starting to fall out again, they blame the Republicans for it? They
are the ones whose condescending positions continue to lead us into trouble. How they can blame Republicans for the
defense cuts, I’ll never know; can you believe Pelosi’s unmitigated gall to
suggest that it’s the Republicans fault because they caved in on the Democrats demands
for reduced defense spending? The fact
that the economy shrank at all, combined with much lower consumer confidence
reported Tuesday, may raise fears about the economy's durability in 2013. The automatic spending cuts which were
delayed in the latest fiscal crisis deal -- will cut into domestic and defense
programs starting in March unless Congress reaches a deal to avert them.
And Americans are coming to grips with an increase in Social Security taxes
that has begun to leave them with less take-home pay. I can react to all of this using only two
letters of the alphabet… B.S.
TODAY’S QUERIES & ANSWERS:
Q. What did you think of Gabby Gifford’s’ appeal yesterday
that too many children are being killed by gun violence? (Liz ~ Mesa, AZ)
A. I presume then, that it’s okay to kill adults and senior
citizens? Really, the Giffords
acknowledge that they own guns and their remarks were directed more at violence
in general as opposed to gun violence in particular. I think they would agree with me that
background checks and the investigation of sociological and mental problems
should be highest on the list of things to do.
However, mental issues are a tough nut to crack, pardon the eloquent
play on words.
Q. I think Al Gore is a sleazy character for selling his
network to Al Jazeera. What’s your
opinion? (Tyrone ~ Denver, CO)
A. Looking at it objectively, if you owned a big business
that was losing money because nobody wanted to buy what it was selling, and
Vladimir Putin came along and offered to buy it for $100 million, would you
sell it to him or would you stand on American principles and refuse to sell
it? So, we’ve established that he’s not
that strong an American, that he’s not a principled man and that he’s
opportunistic. We already know that when
it comes to global warming, he’s full of hot air.
Q. What do you say about Hillary Clinton’s already setting
up an exploratory committee for the 2016 Presidential election? (Georgia ~ Redding, CA)
A. I told you so. And,
in the back rooms of Washington, the Republicans are probably gearing up to run
Jeb Bush or Colin Powell.
TODAY’S QUOTE:
“A president who breaks the law is a
threat to the very structure of our government.” ~ Al
Gore (Do we take it that he didn’t
vote for Obama?)
TODAY’S VIDEO:
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