{"id":4407,"date":"2009-03-17T13:44:25","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T18:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4407"},"modified":"2009-03-17T13:44:25","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T18:44:25","slug":"just-say-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4407","title":{"rendered":"Just Say “No”"},"content":{"rendered":"

…but not to That One That Won<\/strong>, comrade.<\/p>\n

The captain of the USS Jimmy Carter II is painting opponents to his plans to Socialize America with a broad brush as if Republicans are the villains in pointing out the flaws in his plans for the bankrupting of America<\/strike> Federal budget.<\/p>\n

President Barack Obama<\/a> said he won\u2019t scale back his plans to revamp the health-care and education systems in his proposed $3.6 trillion budget and challenged Republican critics to do more than \u201cjust say no.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They should say “Thank You.”<\/p>\n

Thank you Mr. Obama for demonstrating to America so quickly and efficiently why we don’t usually have Democrats in power during an economic crisis and thereby restoring America’s short memory.<\/p>\n

Thank you Mr. Obama for making George W. Bush look like a fiscal conservative by comparison.<\/p>\n

Thank you for making me forget about my athlete’s foot fungus by starting my hair on fire.<\/p>\n

Obama, gearing up for a fight in Congress over his fiscal 2010 spending blueprint, met privately with the chairmen of the House and Senate budget committees before issuing a public rebuttal to Republicans who have criticized his plan as including too much spending at a time when deficits are ballooning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Silly Republicans. You picked a fine time to grow some cojones. Quit worrying so much about fiscal responsibility and living within our means and focusing on the crisis at hand rather than thirty years of pent-up liberalism.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Just say no\u2019 is the right advice to give your teenagers about drugs. It is not an acceptable response\u201d to economic policies \u201cproposed by the other party,\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…unless their timing is monumentally assenine and most Americans are against them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe American people sent us here to get things done and at this moment of enormous challenge, they are watching and waiting for us to lead,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…and they will be waiting a long time it appears. Picking up where the last liberal majority left off is not leadership <\/em>– especially given the current environment.<\/p>\n

I think our junior President might be surprised to find that those “things to get done” didn’t include a much larger government, policies that amount to kicking the can further down the path and a crippling national debt.<\/p>\n

So stay out of the way Republicans. It’s Barack and his posse’s turn to screw our kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…but not to That One That Won, comrade. The captain of the USS Jimmy Carter II is painting opponents to his plans to Socialize America with a broad brush as if Republicans are the villains in pointing out the flaws in his plans for the bankrupting of America Federal budget. President Barack Obama said he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-socialism","category-the-great-recession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}