Obama Screws the people who elected him. Guarantees he will not be reelected.
Paul Krugman

And then there are the reported terms of the deal, which amount to an abject surrender on the part of the president. First, there will be big spending cuts, with no increase in revenue. Then a panel will make recommendations for further deficit reduction — and if these recommendations aren’t accepted, there will be more spending cuts.

Republicans will supposedly have an incentive to make concessions the next time around, because defense spending will be among the areas cut. But the G.O.P. has just demonstrated its willingness to risk financial collapse unless it gets everything its most extreme members want. Why expect it to be more reasonable in the next round?

In fact, Republicans will surely be emboldened by the way Mr. Obama keeps folding in the face of their threats. He surrendered last December, extending all the Bush tax cuts; he surrendered in the spring when they threatened to shut down the government; and he has now surrendered on a grand scale to raw extortion over the debt ceiling. Maybe it’s just me, but I see a pattern here.

The pattern I see here is Obama has, again, kissed Boehner and McConnell’s ass, lied to his supporters, and has no balls when it comes to sticking up for the people who put him in office.

“The president didn’t give one inch,” Gene Sperling, the director of the National Economic Council, said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “The president didn’t give one inch. the president made clear, while he was willing to compromise, he was not willing to allow anyone to hold our economy or government hostage by using the threat of default.”

Sperling is right. Obama didn’t give one inch, he gave all 3,600 inches of the football field and laid them in the laps of the Republicans. He just gave the majority of Americans the middle finger up their ass hoping, I suppose, we will all think it felt good by 2012.

Watch this video from Current’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann, broadcast Aug. 1, 2011.

New rule: Not all of the teapartiers are teabaggers. The rest are KOCH SUCKERS.

What in the world are they talking about?

The DNC put out a web video this morning highlighting what was not said in last night’s battle of the Republican stars. What was said, Democrats say, was less than impressive.

Click here to view the embedded video.

New rule: Not all of the teapartiers are teabaggers. The rest are KOCH SUCKERS.

Palin is a hoax and the biggest fraud perpetrated on the American people since the Republicans foisted Bush-Cheney and their oil-buddies in the mid-east, starting a war for oil, causing skyrocketing oil prices and a mortgage and economic mess beyond belief. Vote for McCain-Palin and you get what you deserve – a declining America that will be polishing the shoes of the Saudis and the Chinese. A McCain/Palin administration will make the Bush administration look like they were actually competent.

• 1. Palin’s anti-abortion position is too extreme for America in that she opposes abortion even in cases of rape and incest and would FORCE this view on the rest of America.
• 2. Palin and her husband flirted with succession from the United States as “affiliates” of AIP party.
• 3. Palin attempts to ban library books she doesn’t like and fire the city librarian if she doesn’t go along.
• 4. Palin fires police chief of Wassila because he wants the bars to close at 2am rather than 5am and this upset Palin’s bar owner campaign contributors.
• 5. Palin fires her chief public safety officer, the former police chief of Anchorage, because he doesn’t want to be used in her family feud in firing the ex-husband of her sister.
• 6. Palin’s car wash was “involuntarily” shut down after she skipped out of paying her taxes and fees, and failed to file required financial statements.
• 7. Palin’s pastor of 30 years thinks political opponents of Bush won’t go to heaven and that Jesus is some kind of war general that kills people that don’t believe in him.
• 8. Palin stripped funds from Passage House, a group that helps teen moms, LIKE HER DAUGHTER, get skills and lead productive lives after pregnancy.
• 9. Palin hired an Abramoff lobbyist to get earmarks that even McCain objected to.
• 10. Palin SUPPORTED Bridge-to-Nowhere, and only opposed it after public exposure.
• 11. Palin inflates her foreign policy experience by claiming a refueling stop as a “visit to Ireland”.
• 12. Now trying to block ethics investigation in Alaska that was approved by the Republican legislature.
• 13. Has lied numerous times in speeches about selling state jet on ebay.
• 14. Again lied in her speech when she said “I fought to bring about the largest private-sector infrastructure project in North American history. And when that deal was struck, we began a nearly forty billion dollar natural gas pipeline to help lead America to energy independence.” “Nothing could be further from the truth.”
• 15. Palin has an environmental policy so toxic it would even make George Bush blush.