You Can't Lead From Behind

Governor Christie on National Debt Talks: The Need for Bipartisan Compromise

President Obama should watch this video and learn.

"There is no substitute for Executive Leadership and that means taking risks"

"I only believe it happened because I took the risk first... I put a plan out there in writing"

"But you can't 'lead from behind'"

"I will put up our record of bipartisan accomplishment in divided government with bipartisan work together over the last 18 months against anyone's in the country. I think we'll do really well"

WOLF: GOP’s unfounded Obama fear: President’s credibility on economy lies in tatters

Good article on why the Obama halo disappeared 2 years ago and nobody should be afraid to call his bluff.

Life is full of mysteries. Why did kamikaze pilots wear helmets? Why are there no B size batteries? Who would pay good money to see a Michael Moore movie? More mysterious still, why should Republicans be scared to call Barack Obama’s bluff?

Republicans hold the winning cards in the debt debate, but too often in their recent past, they have surrendered quicker than a French battalion. Wait, that’s not quite fair to the French. Too often, Republicans have surrendered more spectacularly than Steven Slater - you remember, the JetBlue flight attendant who set a new standard in quitting when he escaped down the plane’s emergency chute onto the tarmac, leaving behind a plane full of befuddled passengers.

Am I understating the amount of calcium in the GOP’s spine? Consider the continuing-resolution debacle from earlier this year. Republicans campaigned in the 2010 elections on $100 billion in spending cuts and had just delivered President Obama the largest midterm “shellacking” in 72 years. Resounding Republican victories spread like wildfire from statehouses to dogcatchers. The $100 billion spending-cut mandate was compromised almost immediately down to $60 billion before the final $38 billion, which, after the accounting gimmicks were discovered, amounted to a minuscule $350 million, and still the Republicans patted themselves on the back and declared victory. If anything, I may be overstating the GOP’s backbone. At least Steven Slater had the guts to tell everybody off before he caved.

 The time has long passed to defer to Obama:

The president has nothing to offer but fear itself. His predictions du jour of economic Armageddon sound eerily similar to his dubious 2009 claims that led to his failed stimulus package. So desperate is the president that he has issued a thinly veiled threat to cut off Social Security benefits for grandma if he doesn’t get his way. Let him try. It’s time to call his bluff.

What in the world are the Republicans scared of? If they can’t muster the courage for this fight, when will they ever? Of course, the Obama cheerleader media will go into hyperdrive GOP attack mode. That’s a given. Brace for it. But it hasn’t helped them so far. In fact, the public opinion trends are moving in the Republicans’ favor.

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Barack Obama’s pants on fire

President Obama's cousin Dr Milton R Wolf's article  describes a few of the Shovel Ready whoppers Obama told to gain sympathy for his health plan:

“Thus he wrote in ‘Dreams from My Father’ that he lamented seeing his mother ‘suffering because of a broken [American] health care system.’ But he ignores the fact that in her hour of need, Stanley Ann, an intelligent, highly educated woman then living in Indonesia, chose America’s health care system above all others. And it wasn’t the system that failed her. In fact, she was quite fortunate to receive the best of care at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York (and later the Straub Clinic in Hawaii).”  

And despite Obama's stories to the contrary:

Recent revelations by author Janny Scott in “A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother” (Riverhead Hardcover, 2011), show that Stanley Ann Dunham, the president’s mother, was in fact well-insured and, what’s more, her health insurance company - those evil corporatists - never attempted to deny payment for her health care.Stanley Ann’s out-of-pocket expenses amounted to “several hundred dollars a month.” A year after her cancer diagnosis, Stanley Ann applied for disability insurance, for which she was understandably denied. Again, it was disability insurance, not health insurance.

Wolf shows it is a pattern

"The president’s mother wasn’t the only poor soul who was reduced to an emotional blackmail pawn used in the dismantling of America’s health care system. Journalist Michelle Malkin brilliantly cataloged similar phony sympathetic stories peddled by Mr. Obama and his Obamacare proponents, including Otto Raddatz, Robin Beaton, John Brodniak, Natoma Canfield and Tiffany Owens (whose young son, Marcelas, stood beside Mr. Obama at his health care signing ceremony). Each of these poor soul’s heartbreaking stories of a failed system were just that - stories - fabricated by Team Obama and his co-conspirators in their zeal to nationalize our health care system at any cost.

Dishonoring the dead with deception, as pathetic as that is, barely scratches the surface of the Obamacare falsehoods. You can keep your current doctor: Lie. You can keep your current insurance: Lie. Hearings will be made public: Lie. The deficit will be reduced: Lie. Four hundred thousand jobs will be created immediately: Lie. There are no death panels: Lie. Taxes won’t be increased on families earning less than $250,000 a year: Lie. And all of this comes before the first Obamacare waivers exempted the White House’s best friends from the rules that you must follow."

And what is the Purpose of these Obama lies?

"This degree of dishonesty is not merely taking a mulligan on the back nine or fudging a couple of pounds on your driver’s license. There’s something far more sinister at work here. America is being “fundamentally transformed” by deception, and the explanation is simple: demographics. In America, self-proclaimed conservatives outnumber liberals by a ratio of 2-to-1, according to Gallup, or, more recently, almost 3-to-1, according to Rasmussen. How else is a power-hungry ruling class to pry ever-more liberty from the people, other than to prey on Americans’ higher angels of compassion with the demon of deception?

Health care is, of course, but a single - albeit critical - front in the deceptive battle for your liberty. The Earth hasn’t warmed in nearly 15 years, yet global warmists demand you surrender even more energy freedom to them with the “cap-and-trade” scheme. Government, not Wall Street, spawned the subprime mortgage implosion of our economy, yet regulators demand you surrender even more financial freedom to them with the Dodd-Frank Act.

Now America is in slow-motion death throes because of an unfathomable $14.5 trillion federal debt, plus another $62 trillion in unfunded federal liabilities. Your individual share? $245,000. That’s not a typo. Unless you can cough up a cool quarter-million, you might consider supporting the Republicans’ “cut, cap and balance” proposal. Or, if you believe him, the president - who previously claimed that “raising America’s debt limit is a sign of [presidential] leadership failure,” whose own mother’s death is not too sacred for use in his wanton deception - has now found a more suitably sympathetic, emotional hostage: your grandma. If the debt ceiling is not increased, if the president is not allowed to continue his wild orgy of spending, then he claims he cannot guarantee Social Security checks will go out on time. That is, if you choose to believe him."

Shovel ready!