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Obama's "You Shut Down That Government" Speech - Live Webcast
The first speech by a standing president in 17 years to address a government shut down is certain to be full of sound, fury and lots of blame. Look beyond the traditional platitudes for any mention of the real danger to the US, the debt ceiling, which will hit in just over two weeks and if the shutdown is any indication, the preceding "negotiation" will hardly be smooth and by the numbers. Also, it will finally be disclosed if the teleprompter is a critical government service.
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The US has become the joke of the world. Obama and Kerry are determined to attack Syria and then look like fools. Now Obama on the podium looks like a fool.
LOL, car-note. Will he call a home a crib?
The sooner you go back to Chicago and take your gang with you the better!
l'etat c'est moi
Hey LIAR....when will you learn to NEGOTIATE???
I WILL NOT NEGOTIATE ...
Just busted my giggle box. This weasel mofo just called TEA Party - DEADBEATS!
Don't want to hurt other people??? Then REPEAL your Obamacare.
Grow up and take your corporate welfare like a man....
Think of the insurance companies.
This is just fucking stunning. The hubris of this cocksucking motherfucker is beyond comprehension.
We're better than this.
No, that's simply not true.
Yeah... but it wasnt always that way....
I'm not that old; I'm only about a half century.
Right there with ya on the half century. Shocking what's taken place in that time, isn't it??
The hell was that thing behind Obama? I bet he ate the teleprompter!
If listening to this pole smoker doesnt make you realize this country is totally just fucked beyond repair I have no idea how to help any of you. USA...Fucked beyond repair!
But see, Obomba....We The People don't have the option to "routinely" raise our personal debt ceilings whenever we need to pay our mortgage or car payment. Why do you insist on comparing government to a household?? YOU CANNOT RELATE BECAUSE YOU'VE NEVER WORKED A REAL JOB IN YOUR ENTIRE LIFE!
The country is in this postion because of politicians like YOU who create huge things that forces the Treasury to pay these bills you speak so flippantly about not defaulting on. Maybe you personally didn't create these bills but you're sure in full court press mode on one of the most expensive in our country's history that BEARS YOUR FUCKING NAME.
...and there he goes without taking questions like the ignorant coward he is. What a joke of a man....and this is our President? What an absolute embarrassment.
That group standing behind of Obama is in charge of Obamacare? They look like they couldn't figure out how to run a bath.
A deep fryer, on the other hand...
Is the "Tea Party" a party, or a wing? Shouldn't they be called the Tea Wing? T-Wing?
That sounds like something form Star Wars.
They drink tea and eat cookies
They are a wing, as in wingnuts...
Petulant children would be another apt description...
Harry Reid, is that you?
So tell us all, what does Ted Cruz's cock taste like?
the only petulance I'm seeing is from the WH and Reid, et al.
"Anarchist," he keeps using that word. I do not think it means what he thinks it means.
Inconceivable!
Being an actual Anarchist, I can't see how he equates those Tea-Party folks that seem to be statists as one of mine friends. I doubt I would get along with any of them for any real length of time.
non-essential often?
Petulant children? It seems to me that the petulant child is the one throwing the tantrum because people are saying no more about .gov reaching into their back pocket and stealing them blind.
Oh, come on, Doc - who's saying that?
Doc,
You obviously don't relate to the modern progressive family. I will assume that in your family as in mine, the kids want to go for ice cream every day and want all of the latest stuff, and I as the parent must teach them about budgets and credit, etc. In the modern progressive family it is exactly the opposite. The parents are selfish and want all of the latest stuff and their petulant children try to explain to the parents that they need a future.
Progressive households do not have children. They are lucky if they can typically manage one child, because global warming and over-population scares them.
I'm not sure, but I have my Red Wings.
+1 for the Star Wars reference.
Whenever I do drive back into the District of Colombia I'm going to make sure I have the "Imperial March" cued up on the car stereo to blast.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNv5sPu0C1E
Would be funny if we could hack in to he's teleprompter and give him a new text.
Yeah, like, "So in conclusion, I'd like to fuck all ya'll....er....wait, I didn't say that! I didn't build that!"
Did I hear one of the press corp shout 'Where's my Obamaphone'?
I hate the trend of politicians bringing 'regular people' on stage and referring to them on a first name basis, as if we ever factor into their real thinking.
"Johnny, Joe and Susan just want what you want: a good job, health care for their families and a chance at the American Dream."
" ... and wouldn't say no to a donut either."
How does he know what I want? (Pesky NSA looking at my network forays again!) I want to free is what I want - he knows nothing of that.
That those tactics work tells you everything you need to know about the electorate (i.e. = retards).
What a legacy....
Obama Phone
Obama Car (GM)
Obamacare
Obama Lunch
Obama Dildo
republican anarchists y u no liek parks & recreation?!
Mikhail Bakunin keeps rolling over in his grave.
The Greeks were Anarchists well before him.
What a snarky asshat. Way to "lead" a nation.....
We shut down the government, yay.
Now, can we just cage the monkey with a grenade and send him back?
Sounds like Foodstamp realizes that the Free Shit orgy will be ending sooner rather than later.
The free shit orgy is just about the last thing they will shutdown.
They ever do, the "shutdown" theater gets real-fo-reelz and reality is the last thing they ever want to confront.
GOP leadership will cave in two weeks. They are in same bed with obamacrats, just setting up the team they all hate and want to kill off. Now to jin up public perception so when they stick the knife in they hope to have public support to make it stick for good.
It won't take 2 weeks. In 2 weeks, they get to vote on raising the debt limit......the real important issue.
Eric Cartman has nothing on TOTUS. He sounds like a belligerent little 4th grader that just got his way, and wants to rub his enemies face in it.
Waste of valuable beer drinking time watching that speech.
Here's a thought:
His hands are completely tied - as are those of the Senate and the Supreme Court. If there was anything any of them could do, they'd be doing it instead of standing on television whining about it.
What this means is that the most powerful man in the world has a few "anarchists" holding him hostage and there's nothing he can do about it...
Kind of begs the question: Just how powerful is he anyway?
If only those few "anarchists" would not cave like they always do....then, perhaps, we would be getting somewhere.
That is just about the size of it.
Same applies to Janet Bernanke, in spades.
And the IMF, and the European central bank, and the Papal bank, and the Bank of East Biggs in rural Backwater County. Everyone is clinging to the edge of a cliff and about to go over. One good push -- or any miscalculation anywhere -- and the entire global house of cards crashes down and it won't take months or even weeks for it to do so. We'll get 24 hours of warning, 24 hours of crisis, and then it will be gone mo'fo's. Just gone.
Ok, pick a county in the US that is fairly representative and try running Obamycare in that environment for a year, but DON"T you dare try to foist that shit on the entire nation, you fucking, feckless freak.....
Clearly Obamacare is more than health care; it is the greatest, most massive transfer of personal wealth in the history of the American government.
Katie Green of San Francisco’s KSFO proves it by two salary comparisons on a California Exchange website that opened today for Obamacare applications. Here is what she found:
A 30-year old single woman with one child making $43,000 a year ends up with monthly insurance payments of $248 or $2976 annually.
But a 30-year-old single woman with one child making $63,000 a year would pay $471 monthly or $5652 annually.
If the 30-year-old single women each had two children the $43,000 a year mother pays only slightly more per month.
But if the $63,000 a year mother with two children gets a raise where she is now making $79,000 a year, her monthly insurance premium is $640 or $7680 annually.
There are different levels of coverage available; this was the silver plan. Not only is this wealth destruction but it is a takeover of the private sector by the welfare state. Not the welfare state? In California the exchanges are operated by Democrat interest groups such as Planned Parenthood, Acorn, the NAACP and union organizers who not only receive grant money from the Exchange but whose primary objective imeeting the applicants is voter registration.
And here's the other rub - Obamacare is supposed to provide poor people with healthcare insurance so a medical condition won't bankrupt them. But guess what? It still will because the gold-silver-bronze packages (if I understand correctly) require a 20-40% copay. So, the poor person will still be bankrupted by an expensive medical condition.
One price tag on a premium being bandied about that I heard mentioned by a talk show host this morning for a pre-condition Obamacare policy (not verified he said) was $33,000. Try a 20-40% copay on that one.
I'm not understanding the point you're trying to make. I've run the numbers here and they don't match yours:
http://kff.org/interactive/subsidy-calculator/#state=ca&zip=94611&locale...
This chimp just gave a speech less than 24 hours ago.
The rulers of America need universal socialism to control the middle class and they need a paid mouthpiece to lead their monopoly media to overcome any objections.
Obama is no longer a president of the people; he is a cutout advertisement used by the media. Sound bites from this "speech" will be used ad nauseam every half hour on the hour for the next three days by all the major media outlets - just as was yesterday's.
He wants to be worshiped.
"America will have Commofascism before I leave office and you will also come to worship me. Or else.
"Some proceeds of Deathcare will go towards statues of me in every home. You must burn incense and worship each day. The TV camera in the statue will keep track of your devotions!"
Big Brother didn't actually exist, he was just a fictional frontman for The Party.
What a disgusting puppet. Not even a hint, a suggestion, that gov't might be spending a wee bit too much in every imaginable way, and that it cannot last, and that it will destroy the lives of millions of people in the near future.
When the "market" tanks when Barack Bernanke announces even more QE, bailouts, and debt issuance then things will change. Until then, it's just more of the same.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BdpOBnoiSU
Nothing more to say.
NRBQ Accentuate the Positive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YubAfn_qPok
I hate the Republican Koch stooges. Koch put them up all. Ted Cruz is going to be picking bananas soon.
No need to pick bananas when he can sign up for as many of Foodstamp's 40+ welfare schemes as he wants. You didn't build that... BITCH!
Democrats like Pelosi and Reid and Republicans like McCain and Lindsey Graham are like thieves who care zero for the people they steal from. But they are not all alike, and one of those exceptions is Ted Cruz. He fights for the 26,000,000 Texans he represents.
we don't do the "Koch Bros." here.
You seem to be on the wrong site.
All of you guys must get the same e-mail every day, just like TOTUS.
Unfortunatly the masses have no idea what is going on....and the MSM will ffed their minds with the Democratic talking points...to where they will blame the Republicans for this and the failure of Obamacare in the near future....when the deficit goes to two trillion a year because of Obamacare it will be blamed on consertatives....but it will tank the country....goodbye US dollar...world currency no more....and now that has moved up a few years I think..
when the deficit goes to two trillion a year because of Obamacare it will be blamed on consertatives
Who's in charge of the insurance company? Who sits on the boards? Who are the CEOs? Can't we blame them, instead?
Did the insurance company mandate that the single guy buy a policy with pregnancy care benefits?
Do they bennefit from it?
When he goes into labor, I'm sure he'll send Foodstamp a big thank you card.
There’s no end to it. If you’re forced to go part time and your employer cancels your health insurance, without health insurance your automobile insurance premium some say (from experience) will go through the roof.
He's not even worth hating, he's a fucking clown, pathetic
Not just a clown, a Rodeo Clown, wearing a monkey suit, with a grenade!
COLLEGE FOOTBAL GAMES THREATENED (CNN)
Shit just got real.
YADDI-YADDI-YAH-YAH.
BLAH...BLAH...BLAH.
NEXT DISTRACTION, COMING UP!
Why don't they just show the teleprompter so we can just read this horseshit ourselves.
We don't need to pay extra for a rodeo clown to read it off to us, and besides, this guy really sux. He looks like he's on drugs.
Anyway, the govt is shut down. Should not this clown be on furlough?
It always annoyed me in school when the teacher would hand us some paper and then sit there and read it to us.
If the Washington D.C. president can be replaced by a teleprompter then the Federal Government can just as easily be replaced by open source software based on the Constitution of the United States of America and run by the 50 states
The Republican strategy ought to be to develop a nuclear weapon, announce that they want to eliminate Israel and foment Shi'a jihad around the world.
BHO won't negotiate with with fellow citizens who want to uhold the constitution, but will negotiate with a notorious Iranian wolf in sheep's clothing who plays him like a cheap ukelele.
This narcissistic administration will go down in history as the worst ever in every respect.
Just wait for the next adminstration.
People on ZH are way too optimistic.
Wolf? And your evidence for the Iranian wolf is what? But evidence, fortunately, does exist for the other interview Obama had three days after his phone call with the Iranian president. That wolf? The notorious warmonger, Benjamin Netanyahu. The interview could hardly be called negotiation, however, since the prime minister of Israel was in Washington, not to deal, but to command.
Too bad Netanyahu’s trip was ill-timed in that Congress was a little busy with other matters and could not be treated to his lecture again and thus able to give even more standing ovations to the real wolf (in wolf’s clothing).
Here again is the warmonger who when asked September 12, 2001, what the 9-11 attack meant for relations between the United States and Israel replied, ''It's very good,'' playing the U.S. media for the cheap player piano that it is.
Two Hours ago: Netanyahu: Iranian president is 'wolf in sheep's clothing'(CNN) -- In back-to-back speeches Tuesday to the U.N. General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, of seeking to obtain a nuclear weapon, and the Iranian representative insisted that Tehran's nuclear program was intended solely for peaceful purposes.
Rouhani, whose demeanor has been more moderate than that of his predecessor since he took office in August, is "a wolf in sheep's clothing, a wolf who thinks he can pull the wool over the eyes of the international community," Netanyahu said.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/01/world/meast/israel-netanyahu-iran/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_allpolitics+%28RSS%3A+Politics%29
I hope all the gas stations run out of fuel and the national power grid crashes.
Be patient, Sheik Hussein Alabama is working on it!
Healthcare: the only solution is to do everything you can to take care of your health and stay away from it. The 6th leading cause of death in the US: adverse drug reactions - not overdoses, mind you, just adverse reactions to prescribed and properly adminstered drugs. Add in hospital infections, malpractice errors, accidental overdoses and the healthcare system is probably in the top 3 causes of death.
But no, just keep indulging yourself in your learned comfort food comfort zone--it's your RIGHT! And the doctors will help you out when you get sick because that's what's FAIR! Infantile.
Notice they don't include such things in the statistics:
Number of deaths for leading causes of death 2011http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/lcod.htm
"I think the large problem is (and these estimates are probably at the low end), there are a 100,000 people killed every year in the United States from adverse drug reactions, and an additional 2.1 million seriously injured enough so that they have to go to the hospital in most of the instances."
Dr. Sidney Wolfe, Director of Public Citizen’s Health Research Group
just 1% of the population accounted for a whopping 21.4% of total health care expenditures with an annual mean expenditure of $87,570. Just below them, 5% of the population accounted for nearly 50% of all healthcare spending. So 6% of the population account for 61+% of all health care expenditures!
I think we need to take a serious look at that 6% and have them move in with Obama!
Contentment isn't an attitude that motivates people to spend money.
If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool. - Hippocrates
A few more from Hippocrates:
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”
"Walking is man's best medicine"
“The natural healing force within each of us is the greatest force in getting well.”
Number of deaths for leading causes of death 2015:
And...what makes you think you will get any "health care" under BlowBamaCare?
An excellent speech by Obama. In fact, one of his better public performances. And of course, he is 100% correct on all the facts he cited. It's not normal to defund government to accomplish a legislative action that has failed so many time before.
ACA: Campaigned on it. Won the election on it. Passed both houses. SCOTUS approved it.
Facts.
Meanwhile, this is NOT your father's GOP. This is a totally different animal. Everyone knows 10 people that would easily vote for GOP candidates more habitually if the party had not gone to crazytown. The only people who don't understand this are like 25 years old.
Bring back a moderate GOP.
GG
GOP isn't crazytown, the Dems are crazytown. Every ridiculous ponzi scheme has come from the dems and parties just like them for the past 80 years. They are why the Western world is a basket case and heading for ruin.
Obama is smarter than all of us and knows better. Chris Matthews said so.
You sound like a user of the wheel and have the stench of oil about you!
And electricity...
You realize that most of the people here would vote for the Tea Party retards if given a chance, don't you?
Hell, Obama is to the right of Eisenhower....
Pretty sure the majority of people here would vote for Ron Paul, but otherwise do not vote at all.
Left-Right policy distinctions do not mean a damn thing if the asshole is still an Authoritarian prick. A dictator doesn't stop being a dictator because he decides to force a healthcare plan on everyone.
Left/Right distinction? There is one?
I am not in the Tea Party but I certainly agree with their premise that less government is better as the government has proven time and time again that they can do one thing and one thing only well: spend money we don't have and do it very inefficiently for the benefit of special interests. I don't care what side or party you are in, if you don't agree with the premise of fiscal sanity and that debt DOES matter in the long run, than you simply cannot do basic math. Government does not solve problems or create sustainable jobs. Their very existence is only due to the overburdening of the private sector....which they constantly antagonize and thrwart via crony capitalism, unsound and overbearing regulation, and malinvestment. For what? To make people believe they are much more important than they really are. They have done more to increase the inequalities of the population and reduce the quality of life of more people (foreign and domestic) than the most corrupt conglomeration of corporations in the history of the world. They are NOT accountable to voters because voters mostly have to choose between the lesser of 2 evils since you basically have to be rich to run in the first place or supported by a party apparatus that owns you once you get elected because of the financing they have and will provide you.
Yea I support Ted Cruz. At least he has the guts to tell the truth about our fiscal situation...as does Rand Paul and a few others. You go to USdebtclock.org and look at the unfunded liabilities and you tell me how to make a 127 T shortfall work when the aggrgate wealth of all US citizens is just over 73T.....all of which doesn't include the 10k people retiring a day and the cost of Obammacare that has yet to be added. Much like Greece, when the rubber hits the road and it comes time to pay the ferryman, it will be the public sector workers who will be striking and rioting in the streets because they are the ones who will take the most drastic drop in quality of life when the money runs out. Us middle class private sector slobs have been dealing with the financial repression for years and have at least adapted our lifestyle. So support unlimited printing and spending without budget or restraint. Support entitlements that can't possibly be paid for unless you think it's possible to tax income and assets at 200% of their worth. And when it all blows up....and it will, i want you to go look in the mirror and ask yourself why you didn't ask anyone how there were going to make the math work and at that moment you may of a small degree of appreciation of what those crazy tea party people and other fiscal conservatives were talking about because it's painfully obvious that what has happened in Europe etc has had no effect on your thinking.....just don't come to my private sector workplace looking for a job.
And the House needs to appropriate the funds for it. Or not. dumbass.
"Crap ... You shut down MY government" ... Emperor Barry
Pls - lick my ballsack, and dont pay attention to the other crap ok? Pls - rly?
I was going to write something racist - but I see y'all got that covered.
Blaming the "TEA PARTY" for all of the ills of government just reinforces the argument that the Obama administration was and is targeting them.
Trying to marginalize the ones pointing out how out of control government has become.
Blaming them for everything that the opposition can (scapegoating).
Sicking the IRS and MSM on them.
You sure have used a lot of straw there...
I see no straw here. Although I see you are still posting after you said the site has no more purpose.
"My plan to destroy America is working to perfection!
"How about a big lollipop to suck on in celebration, big boy?
"Sure Reggie! You know how I like it! MMMMM!"
slurp slurp slurp etc.
Its King George II fault, and Bush, and the tea party. Congress needs to act so I can veto something.....
Why does nobody tell this fuckwit that he only needs to do one thing to prevent a gov. shutdown and that is to STOP FUCKING SPENDING?