Unemployment to rise for six days in wake of Obama's re-election
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Unemployment to rise for six days in wake of Obama's re-election
It's true -- after a well-deserved vacation day today, I'll be joining David Petraeus on the unemployment line for three days, get re-hired for a day next Sunday, then get laid off again for three more days. Or, as some would call it, unpaid furlough. Where was Obama on this one? Banks got bailed out, newspapers got sold out.
So, while I'm gone chew these matters over:
1) The weird thing about Petraeus os that he's such a political Rohrchach test that makes everyone see what they want to see. Is it the downfall of a conservative icon, or the downfall of an Obama administration official? The only thing I know for sure is that what the conjoined Petraeus scandal/Benghazi issue WON'T do is a prompt an "adult conversation" about what we're doing in Libya and elsewhere in the Middle East and, since we're there, how can we do it better? Instead,, conservatives will salivate over this as a way to hurt Obama (it won't) while the Obama administration will try too hard to make it go away (they shouldn't), Regarding Benghazi, let Petraeus testify and tell the truth. America has nothing to fear.
2) Who won the 2012 election in one word? Science.
3) Occupy Wall Street isn't dead. While you were wasting your time watching the Eagles, those "urine soaked moochers" (not) are working their butts off trying to save Staten Island. God bless them.
4) Also, God bless America's veterans as we honor them this weekend. We should be in awe of their service and their sacrifices:
See you briefly on Sunday.
Comments (112)
- TPS better stay away from any type of spark or ignition. With so many straw men, he's awfully flammable.
@General Turgidson - Some of thoughts in response to your last comment:
I agree that in hindsight, the appointment of Patraeus to CIA Director looks bad now. Who would have known? I always thought of him as a viable presidential candidate. I looked at his appointment by Obama as a political manuever to keep him out of the race. Maybe Obama thought he was the best man for the job. Maybe Patreaus' rewriting of the military's counter insurgency manual made him seem like a perfect fit.
While I understand the difficulty of removing a General in charge of all operations in Afghanistan - during the initial phases of leaving the theatre, no less - I'm concerned about leaving a man in charge who somehow found he time to send anywhere from 20 to 30 thousand love letters (emails). I think the President might be wise to look at other options.
Netanyahu has always worried me. Today's strike on Hamas should come as no surprise to anyone who has followed this man. He is extreme even by Likud Party standards. He makes Ariel Sharon look like a dove. I believe America's best hope to avoid being into another regional conflict is for Israel to vote him out of office and replace him with a pragmatic, diplomatic leader from the Labor Party.— wokmaster- ///While I understand the difficulty of removing a General in charge of all operations in Afghanistan///
Problem for Obama now is that he lost his #1 guy for Afghanistan, his #1 selection for head of NATO, AND his #1 CIA guy, all in one week! And this is just at the point where he desperately needs good intel and military strategy in the middle east. One can't fault Obama for the actions of either General, however there is a difference between being responsible and accountable. And Obama is accountable -- that's part and parcel of the whole "buck stops here" thing of the presidency.
//I think the President might be wise to look at other options.//
No disagreement there.
//Netanyahu has always worried me. Today's strike on Hamas should come as no surprise to anyone who has followed this man.///
The strike should come as no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention to the Syria for the past 6 months. This is a policy failure, pure and simple. Assad was considered a "reformer" who the US could work with (Sec of State Clinton's own words) and now his fallen regime looks like it will trigger an explosion. I don't blame Netanyahu for defending his citizens from rocket attacks. If drug cartels in Mexico suddenly started lobbing mortars into Texas border towns, we'd probably want to respond in the same way. Never mind the fact that all of Israel's neighbors want to wipe it off the map, and its biggest ally, the U.S., has sent mixed messages of support. Pragmatic and diplomatic has been tried already. - Where I disagree:
Fast and Furious; Sorry, never bought into the "scandal surrounding this matter.
The fiscal cliff; I sense a compromise coming between the President and John Boehner. I believe Boehner read the results of last week as a mandate to compromise. I could be wrong, but every indication tells me he will strike a bargain. Besides, I'm sure Boehner is concerned about the stigma attatched to being the Speaker of the House during an economic catastrophe (which he can more likely than not get the votes to prevent).
Benghazi; This will not go away, if Fox "News" has anything to say about it. It is strting to look to me hat what Susan Rice told the morning shows was a cover story. Not from the President. From the CIA. But since when does the CIA have to start disseminating it's secret ops and sensitive intel immediately after we are attacked overseas?
I do think it was a cover story, just not for any underhanded reason. Post-mortems can take a long time, and I think the public is generally more amenable to a story than a flat "that's classified" statement.
The news outlets don't have any brilliant insight or unknown sources here - we can get the same info from the WH that they can. Any conclusions they reach are speculation at best.
What really disturbs me, though, is that all of this anger from the right is directed at the Obama administration and not at the terrorists who killed our citizens. We should be spending at least as much energy on finding the culprits as we are on the who-knew-what-and-when game.
— wokmaster 
Bucky left out the major issue for Obama being that he is a sekrit Kenyan Muslim— Talking point sleuth- Nothing says "intellectually vapid" in an argument like bringing up a completely unrelated conspiracy theory to counter.
- I'm looking for RG's petition to secede himself. I'd sign it, seeing how safe and painless it is in upholding his "principles".— montani semper liberi
- MSL -
RG left for Somalia weeks before the election. He couldn't deal with the choice of facing Obama's tyrannical taxes or Romney's interventionist foreign policy.
They have good private international schools in Somalia - very safe with big walls and armed guards - and his children wouldn't have to interact with "parasites" and grazing ungulates.— Talking point sleuth - RG decided it was the only "principled" thing to do.— Talking point sleuth
- "How does one determine if the time for gloating passes..." . . . . For as long as it keeps batty off this board, lol.— montani semper liberi
- "While I understand the difficulty of removing a General in charge of all operations in Afghanistan - during the initial phases of leaving the theatre, no less "
So if you wanted to remove such a man from command, how would you do it? I'm starting to think MSL is, somewhat, on to something (although the motives might have been different - or maybe they weren't).— Hamlet - "So if you wanted to remove such a man from command, how would you do it?"
I don't know and I'm thankful I don't have to make those decisions.— wokmaster - Bucky makes another great point. Drug cartels in Mexico and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict = same/same. Brilliant analogy.
Oh, yeah - and another good point is that the Syrian situation with Assad indicates the failure of Obama's policies.
— Talking point sleuth - ///Bucky makes another great point. Drug cartels in Mexico and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict = same/same. Brilliant analogy. ///
Oh yeah, that's EXACTLY what I said. That they're the same thing.
You're so obsessed with me that you continue to just make stuff up, right? - And the president's defense of Susan Rice was also a harbinger of things to come. Any Republican that underestimates him from now on will be in for quite a surprise.
"I'm Barack Obama and I *AM* the president!"— Hamlet
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