Reviewing Obama's Economic "Plan"

If you blinked Monday afternoon, you would have missed President Obama’s brief – very brief – comments on the deadly mass shooting unfolding just down the street from where he stood to give a previously scheduled speech that turned into a brutal attack on Republicans over the economy.

And later, a clueless Jay Carney came out to say that not only did the White House never once consider cancelling the president’s speech as people lay dead at the Navy Yard and a frantic man hunt was underway by every law enforcement agency in town, but he defended the president’s GOP bashing, complete with a backdrop of Americans who are hurting while Americans were being shot just down the road as "entirely appropriate today for the president to talk about.”

But then it was a pivot to the more important news for the Obama administration: the looming budget showdown with the GOP who are threatening a government shutdown. Using this forum as an opportunity to once again not rally support for his proposals within congress, but rather to raise support for his lack of a vision from the masses of the people by wagging his finger at Republicans. Below are some of the lines of attack and general confusion that Obama used;

"...And in our personal lives, I think a lot of us understand that people have tightened their belts, shed debt, refocused on the things that really matter..." Because that's what smart people do when times are tough.
"...we put in place tough new rules on big banks, rules that we need to finalize before the end of the year..." New rules put in place before they were finished?

"Because even though our businesses are creating new jobs and have broken record profits, the top 1 percent of Americans took home 20 percent of the nation’s income last year, while the average worker isn’t seeing a raise at all." Classic class warfare, implying that when rich people make money, it's not possible for you to better your own situation.

"...the trends that have taken hold over the past few decades of a winner-take-all economy, where a few do better and better and better, while everybody else just treads water or loses ground..." In case there was any doubt of the previous point. Does he really believe everyone else is stagnant because the wealthy are doing well? He already has the most progressive tax system in decades.

"And as Congress begins another budget debate, that’s what Congress should be focused on." Not Benghazi, Syria, Putin, the IRS, the NSA, but the budget.

"The problem is, at the moment, Republicans in Congress don’t seem to be focused on how to growth economy and build the middle class." Democrats questioning Syria and the NSA don't count.

"...I am still hoping that a light bulb goes off here." That's it, win them over with kind words.

"So far, their budget ideas revolve primarily around even deeper cuts to education, even deeper cuts that would gut America’s scientific research and development, even deeper cuts to America’s infrastructure investment -- our roads, our bridges, our schools our energy grid. These aren’t the policies that would grow the economy faster." The Republicans obviously didn't get the memo about the deceit magically stopping, so why are they still so worked up over reducing government spending when it's so obvious that all this spending is making everything so awesome?

"So I do believe we should cut our programs that we don’t need. We need to fix ones that aren’t working the way they’re supposed to or have outlived their initial mission. We’ve got to make government faster and more efficient." Interesting, that's the way some people would describe the Department of Education.

"But that’s not what is being proposed by the Republican budgets. Instead of making necessary changes with a scalpel, so far at least, Republicans have chosen to leave in place the so-called sequester cuts that have cost jobs, harmed growth, are hurting our military readiness." Again, way to win some friends and support, I also thought the only reversal of sequester cuts that passed was proposed by.... wait for it... Republicans!

And top independent economists say this has been a big drag on our recovery this year. Our economy’s not growing as fast as it should, and we’re not creating as many jobs as we should because the sequester’s in place." Are these the same economist that predicted the 'Recovery Summer' of 2010 with employment falling to 6%?

"So, if Republicans want the economy to grow faster, create more jobs faster, they should want to get rid of <the sequester>. It’s irresponsible to keep it in place." Everyone get that? Sequestor bad and it's the Republicans fault! Can we get to the 2014 election now?

"After all the progress that we’ve made over these past four-and- a-half years, the idea of reversing that progress because of an unwillingness to compromise or because of some ideological agenda is the height of irresponsibility" Translates to 'This economy will fail if we stop spending $4 Trillion dollars a year in Washington, and the only solution is to spend more.'

"These folks standing behind me, these are people who are small business owners; people who almost lost their home; young people trying to get a college education. And all of them went through some real tough times during the recession." And if you look behind them, you may see some of the slaughtered people that are dying just down the street as I speak.

"Having said that, I cannot remember a time when one faction of one party promises economic chaos if it can’t get 100 percent of what it wants. That’s never happened before. But that’s what’s happening right now." Says the guy that gets what he wants from congress over 97% of the time.

I could go through the entire speech and get really nit picky, but suffice to say the only plans he proposed are 1.) cancel the sequester and 2.) spend more on domestic initiatives, namely education and infrastructure. Basically get us back to the hay day to the Keynesian spending spree of 2009 that arguably made things 'not as bad as they could have been' because apparently 5 years of trying to climb out of this mess can be derailed as something as simple as a maxed out credit card. 

In case you missed the real intent of this speech, it was to lay the entire blame of all the countries problems at the feet of the Republicans in the ramp up to the 2014 election. The idea that the issues with this country are far exceeding funding for school lunch programs and budget deadlines seems to elude this President about as broadly as the Oscar for Lindsey Lohan.

White House Scandals Explained!

In just one week, President Barack Obama’s political machine has switched from endless campaign to survival mode. And for the first time in Obama’s presidency, the damage to his regime may be permanent. How is this hapless blogger to process this head spinning plethora of scandals  The only way he can, by making one big joke out of the whole thing.

What else is there to do? We can no longer take anything that Jay Carney says seriously, whether it's sarin gas in Syria or tea-baggers getting steeped in an audit nightmare, this administration has zero transparency zero credibility, and zero accountability

To this point, I lend my vast imagination to the administration. I have concocted the perfect explanation that cover the White House's hind quarters from any of the blame that is inevitably heading his way...

"We have taken every one of these actions in concourse to prevent the outbreak of the ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE." -Barrack Obama 5/15/2013

THINK ABOUT IT! Everything fits! Lets go down the "facts":

Operation Fast a Furious - The scandal in which the Department of Justice (DOJ) is funneling weapons to Mexico and then 'accidentally' loosing track of them. Of course it has to look unintentional, any attempt to expose the impending zombie apocalypse would be met with a huge public panic. It's no coincidence that the Council on Hemispheric Affairs was investigating the possibility of a zombie outbreak just a couple years ago. If we are to protect America from zombies that originate in Central America, we will need to have a well armed Mexico between us.

Solyndra - It was never meant to be a profitable capital venture, it was meant to design and develop portable solar generators to assist the last vestiges of mankind in a time when society collapses. Were are these generators then, you ask? Well, we can't come out and say, because then the well armed Mexicans would get dibs. Also, Solyndra spelled backwards is Ardnylos! (There is no point to this, but Ardnylos sounds like a secretive government project type word, doesn't it?)

TEA Party targeting by the IRS - If Secretary Carney came out and said we had secret intelligence supporting a theory that there is a group funneling money that is actually trying to bring about the zombie apocalypse, that could explain this scandal.He would continue by revealing that intelligence points to a group called the "Terminal Ethological Apocalypse" or T.E.A. being involved, this provoked a thorough examination of possible revenue sources by the IRS, it was an honest mistake that other 501c4's that had TEA in their name were targeted as well.

Benghazi - This is where everything starts to go awry in this vast cover-up, I mean protective action on behalf of the American public, because it is the first documented case of a full blown Zombie attack, when the White House called the YouTube video outrageous  they thought that it was a video of actual zombies being leaked out and they where still trying to avoid a public panic. Their had was forced to run with the lame narrative they had concocted when they realized that the evidence of real life zombies hadn't hit the mainstream, but I found the original video here.

AP Phone Records being seized secretly by the DOJ - Ummmm... see, this was because.... ummmm.... the press was.... ummm... when the AP is talking to people, you see... ummmm.... oh screw it, this administration IS the zombie apocalypse. They act without rational thought, upon their most primitive of political desires, to destroy their opponents at whatever cost. They attack their enemies vicariously, lie and cover up their involvement while the blood drips from their lips. The best case scenario is that we have an executive branch that, much like a brain in a zombie, has no idea what is going on in the government body they sit atop of. They say they read notes from the CIA that turn out to be wrong, that they say they have no control over what the DOJ does in it's investigations, unaware of practices in the IRS, that if it's not Bush's fault, it's Rush's fault.

I'm sick of it. Most people can't stand working under a boss that lies, cheats, and throws people under the bus every time something goes wrong, which seems to be frequent with 'leaders' that use these tactics. But this isn't just some job that you can quit, this is our country. We are living under this incompetency.

Perhaps we'd be better off if there really was a zombie apocalypse.

So Who is Lying?

“So there was a clear indication there that everyone who had something to say was welcome to provide information to the accountability review board. But, again, with regards to these stories, to our knowledge we’re not aware of any agency that has blocked an employee who would like to appear before Congress." Jay Carney, May 1st, 2013

“I was instructed not to allow the RSO [Regional Security Officer], the acting deputy chief of mission and myself to be personally interviewed by Congressman [Jason] Chaffetz [of Utah],” Gregory Hicks, May 8th, 2013 in reference to a contact made by top Hillary Clinton adviser Cheryl Mills.

“What happened in Benghazi was in fact initially a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired hours before in Cairo, almost a copycat of the demonstrations against our facility in Cairo, prompted by the video,” Ambassador Susan Rice, Sept. 16th, 2012

"The YouTube video was a non-event in Libya.” Gregory Hicks, May 8th, 2013

"The White House didn't deny any requests for assistance. Period. Moreover, what the entire government did – the White House, State Department, Intelligence Community, Department of Defense included – was to work to mobilize all available assets and move them into the region as quickly as possible. That’s what the President ordered the Secretary of Defense and Chairman to do the first time he was briefed about these issues." National Security Council Spokesman Tommy Vietor, Nov. 11th, 2012

"As a result of not having (real time) information, the commander who was on the ground in that area, Gen. Ham, Gen. Dempsey and I felt very strongly that we could not put forces at risk in that situation." Secretary of Defense Leon Penetta, Oct. 26th, 2012

Why was General Ham dismissed from his post?

Why is the Director of the infamous YouTube video still in jail?

Why can't the 4th whistle blower's lawyer get her security clearance reinstated?

Why did 12 revisions to the talking points memo occur before going public?

So many questions...

And for some reason raising questions about this whole this is just being a Right Winged Conspiracy Theorist. "Bin Laden is Dead..." was the first half of the newly minted campaign slogan Joe Biden used just weeks before. Is it such a stretch that this president needed the war on terror to be behind him. That escalations in the region caused by Al-Qaeda linked groups would put a huge dent in his campaign at a time that the race was tightening up?

"..and General Motors is alive." was the other corner stone of the Obama campaign going into September, but hiring was slowing down and the economic picture was still pretty bleak. In a white house that had a campaign staffer at every corner, is it so hard to see this scenario play out that Obama needed to maintain the perception that he had vanquished our enemies for good.

Incompetency? Denial? Lies? There has to be an explanation  Until someone comes out and answers these questions, conspiracy theories and speculation is all we have.