Patterico's Pontifications

Here’s why we fight Obamacare. Because its a massive tax increase on the middle class.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/10/03/Obamacare-s-2015-Provisions-To-Seize-10-More-Of-Median-Worker-s-Paycheck?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

SPQR (768505) — 10/4/2013 @ 7:18 am

I thought I was the only one that thought Obama on verge of a temper tantrum but I see others making that observation.

SPQR (768505) — 10/4/2013 @ 7:22 am

My infection resolved overnight, and I think it’s like the glitch in my IE that went away earlier this week — THE GOVERNMENT WAS CAUSING IT!

nk (dbc370) — 10/4/2013 @ 7:33 am

Before the shutdown, on the newsgroup soc.culture.israel, someone calling himself “The Revd” called me a “gook” and spread Judenhass.

During the shutdown, the Revd still calls me a “gook” and spreads Judenhass on soc.culture.israel.

Michael Ejercito (b371e1) — 10/4/2013 @ 7:39 am

SPQR, I suspect Obama is a sociopath. Which shouldn’t be too controversial a statement, given that quit a few sociopaths are capable of functioning in society and certain professions tend to attract them. But how does Obama not fit this profile?

http://www.mcafee.cc/Bin/sb.html

Profile of the Sociopath

This website summarizes some of the common features of descriptions of the behavior of sociopaths.

– Glibness and Superficial Charm

-Manipulative and Conning
They never recognize the rights of others and see their self-serving behaviors as permissible. They appear to be charming, yet are covertly hostile and domineering, seeing their victim as merely an instrument to be used. They may dominate and humiliate their victims.

– Grandiose Sense of Self
Feels entitled to certain things as “their right.”

– Pathological Lying

Has no problem lying coolly and easily and it is almost impossible for them to be truthful on a consistent basis. Can create, and get caught up in, a complex belief about their own powers and abilities. Extremely convincing and even able to pass lie detector tests.

You’re stretching, Mr. George Stephanopolous, when you quote the dictionary at me about what constitutes a tax. My individual mandate is not a tax. Unless it needs to be to get Chief Justice Roberts onboard with the program. Then I’ll tell my solicitor general to argue it’s a tax. Then the next day I’ll lie to your face that it’s not a tax.

– Lack of Remorse, Shame or Guilt

A deep seated rage, which is split off and repressed, is at their core. Does not see others around them as people, but only as targets and opportunities. Instead of friends, they have victims and accomplices who end up as victims. The end always justifies the means and they let nothing stand in their way.

– Shallow Emotions

When they show what seems to be warmth, joy, love and compassion it is more feigned than experienced and serves an ulterior motive. Outraged by insignificant matters, yet remaining unmoved and cold by what would upset a normal person. Since they are not genuine, neither are their promises.

– Incapacity for Love

The guy who voted against providing just basic care for infants born alive if an abortion was botched so they could die cold and alone in a utility closet tried to accuse people of not caring about the children of Newtown.

– Need for Stimulation
Living on the edge. Verbal outbursts and physical punishments are normal. Promiscuity and gambling are common.

– Callousness/Lack of Empathy

Unable to empathize with the pain of their victims, having only contempt for others’ feelings of distress and readily taking advantage of them.

Bobby Jindal marvelled in a distress way that that Obama thought if “I give them” (Obam-me; to the iBama it’s always about himself) unemployment and food stamps the gulf oil workers he was putting out of business had nothing to complain about.

-Poor Behavioral Controls/Impulsive Nature

Rage and abuse, alternating with small expressions of love and approval produce an addictive cycle for abuser and abused, as well as creating hopelessness in the victim. Believe they are all-powerful, all-knowing, entitled to every wish, no sense of personal boundaries, no concern for their impact on others.

– Early Behavior Problems/Juvenile Delinquency

Usually has a history of behavioral and academic difficulties, yet “gets by” by conning others. Problems in making and keeping friends; aberrant behaviors such as cruelty to people or animals, stealing, etc.

– Irresponsibility/Unreliability

Not concerned about wrecking others’ lives and dreams. Oblivious or indifferent to the devastation they cause. Does not accept blame themselves, but blames others,

It’s Bush’s fault. There was a tsunami in Japan. Blah, blah, blah.

…even for acts they obviously committed.

– Promiscuous Sexual Behavior/Infidelity

Promiscuity, child sexual abuse, rape and sexual acting out of all sorts.

– Lack of Realistic Life Plan/Parasitic Lifestyle

Tends to move around a lot or makes all encompassing promises for the future, poor work ethic but exploits others effectively.

– Criminal or Entrepreneurial Versatility

Changes their image as needed to avoid prosecution. Changes life story readily.

Other Related Qualities:

1. Contemptuous of those who seek to understand them

2. Does not perceive that anything is wrong with them

3. Authoritarian

4. Secretive

5. Paranoid

6. Only rarely in difficulty with the law, but seeks out situations where their tyrannical behavior will be tolerated, condoned, or admired

7. Conventional appearance

8. Goal of enslavement of their victim(s)

9. Exercises despotic control over every aspect of the victim’s life

10. Has an emotional need to justify their crimes and therefore needs their victim’s affirmation (respect, gratitude and love)

11. Ultimate goal is the creation of a willing victim

12. Incapable of real human attachment to another

13. Unable to feel remorse or guilt

14. Extreme narcissism and grandiose

15. May state readily that their goal is to rule the world

(The above traits are based on the psychopathy checklists of H. Cleckley and R. Hare.)

NOTE: In the 1830’s this disorder was called “moral insanity.” By 1900 it was changed to “psychopathic personality.” More recently it has been termed “antisocial personality disorder” in the DSM-III and DSM-IV. Some critics have complained that, in the attempt to rely only on ‘objective’ criteria, the DSM has broadened the concept to include too many individuals. The APD category includes people who commit illegal, immoral or self-serving acts for a variety of reasons and are not necessarily psychopaths.

Sure, Barack Obama doesn’t meet every criteria but I am sure not every sociopath does.

Steve57 (234b9e) — 10/4/2013 @ 7:49 am

That was not an exhaustive fisking.

Steve57 (234b9e) — 10/4/2013 @ 7:51 am

The not-really-a-shutdown may be taking a toll on the White House and Obama. Not only is Obama having to cancel trips and make do with reduced staff, his ability to leave the White House may be limited. This may be cramping Obama’s style more than anyone in Washington, and I’m not sure if he is emotionally equipped to handle it. We may see some lashing out soon if the GOP can hang on a few more days — especially if the media decides to cover his weekend golf game.

DRJ (a83b8b) — 10/4/2013 @ 8:02 am

Obama is a sociopath? Given his utter arrogance and mendacity of inculcating things like the following — which is reminiscent of what happens when deranged tyrants are in charge of a society (hello, Hussein!) — he perhaps is closer to being a full-blown psychopath.

weeklystandard.com via drudgereport.com, October 4: On Tuesday morning, seven National Park Service employees were seen erecting and tending to a barricade around the World War II memorial in Washington, D.C. One NPS employee was operating a forklift. There usually aren’t any NPS employees working at the World War II memorial.

A couple hours later, when an Honor Flight of World War II veterans arrived, accompanied by Democratic and Republican members of Congress, the fences blocking the memorial were easily moved away, allowing the veterans to enter.

But the barriers are still at the memorial, and they’ve been reinforced. This morning, I walked by the memorial and noticed that wires had been used to tie the fences together…

Mark (58ea35) — 10/4/2013 @ 8:05 am

6. Impressive nonetheless.

Sufficient cause being son of teenage floozy and adulterous pederast. Deserted by mother on her transfer to college in WA, she abandoned him altogether at 10. He is then mentored in adolescence by his Communist poet of a father, the sire of 5 legitimate children.

His father’s drinking buddy is his ne’er-do-well grandfather who brought the pederast into his home to impregnate and corrupt further, his teenage daughter.

Not a stable beginning to a nihilists life.

gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 10/4/2013 @ 8:10 am

From DRJ’s link … the culinary options are limited. No soup for you.

nk (dbc370) — 10/4/2013 @ 8:10 am

Speaking of the National Park Service, they’ve apparently shut down Skyline Drive in the Shenandoah National Park.

Jiminy Christmas. I was being sarcastic when I said that I expected the next step in Obama’s jihad to involve throwing up barricade’s and employing armed guards to prevent me from using the interstates.

But, nooo! This Preezy is beyond parody. They are literally working overtime to prevent access to things they don’t normally staff. But now that the gub’mint is partially shut down, they’ve got extra staff to make sure you can’t use stuff you can normally use without government help.

I’ve noticed that reportedly the NPS has wired their barricades at the WWII memorial. So that now vets who used to be able to drive their wheelchairs down the sidewalk to visit an open air memorial once open to the public 24/7/365 because it didn’t need anyone to run it and besides they paid for it can’t get there.

Just a couple of days ago you could have shoved the barricades aside. Due to the government shutdown, the NPS has deployed troops to make sure you can’t shove those barricades apart without wire cutters, and no doubt they’re making overtime patrolling to make sure anyone with wire cutters gets arrested.

Only Barack Obama and his Koock Kounty Klown Kar Krew would think this is going to make Americans flock to his POV.

Steve57 (234b9e) — 10/4/2013 @ 8:18 am

But the barriers are still at the memorial, and they’ve been reinforced. This morning, I walked by the memorial and noticed that wires had been used to tie the fences together…

Sorry for being redundant. But in my defense some things are so gobsmackingly idiotic they certainly deserve to be pointed and laughed at more than once.

Steve57 (234b9e) — 10/4/2013 @ 8:22 am

The thing about Obama is, he lies a lot – about public issues mainly – in fact his whole career might come close to consisting only of lies of one sort or another, although some probable feelings about a few things comes through, which he rareky cares enough to do anything not politically expedient about. He probably does care about preventing nuclear bombs going off.

But he tries to avoid turning that lying into personal hatred, with the partial exception of election campaigns, and even there he struggles to avoid his lying stimulating personal hatred.

Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 10/4/2013 @ 8:22 am

But he tries to avoid turning that lying into personal hatred…

Since when? If you look at what he does and listen to what he says, as opposed to what Tingles Matthews and his other apologists try to tell you, he gives full rein to his personal hatred.

Steve57 (234b9e) — 10/4/2013 @ 8:28 am

ACORN affiliates are still active in Texas trying to stop the new voter ID laws. Fortunately the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals hasn’t quit either.

DRJ (a83b8b) — 10/4/2013 @ 8:30 am

Does anyone doubt that every foreign government which cares has a comprehensive psychological profile of our Magical Mau Mau? That they have his number? That they have the aliases that he’s been living under? That they know his strings and how to pull them when they want to unravel them? This Rama Lama Ding Dong is coasting on the strength of the American people and America’s institutions. Empty suit? An ad poster of an empty suit.

nk (dbc370) — 10/4/2013 @ 8:32 am

The nicest thing I can say about Obama is that he feels pity for people who disagree with him. But pity like that is cruel because it undermines respect.

DRJ (a83b8b) — 10/4/2013 @ 8:36 am

16. Does anyone doubt that every foreign government which cares has a comprehensive psychological profile of our Magical Mau Mau? That they have his number? That they have the aliases that he’s been living under? That they know his strings and how to pull them when they want to unravel them? This Rama Lama Ding Dong is coasting on the strength of the American people and America’s institutions. Empty suit? An ad poster of an empty suit.

Comment by nk (dbc370) — 10/4/2013 @ 8:32 am

You’re a sharp guy, nk, and I hope I never gave you the impression I ever thought differently.

What do you think was the objective of former KGB agent Putin’s mocking NYT Op/Ed?

That’s a rhetorical question.

He used to turn these Obama types against the US for mother Russia, and the thing is those KGB types had nothing but contempt for the Western leftists they could turn against their country.

He had that Op/Ed published because not only is he wielding the pimp hand, he wants the world to know it.

Steve57 (234b9e) — 10/4/2013 @ 8:41 am

“I wish I knew Obama had this much fence lying around during the immigration debate.”

SPQR (768505) — 10/4/2013 @ 8:46 am

If there ever was a more complete misread of Obama’s character than what Sammy has posted in #13, I don’t want to read it.

Colonel Haiku (01ad4d) — 10/4/2013 @ 8:48 am

Two sides of the same coin, coronello. On the one hand we have have people like Sammy who insist on misreading Obama. On the other hand we have former Soviet operatives (not just Russians) who read him like the open book he is because of the decades of practice.

No offense, Sammy, because I don’t think you’re ill intentioned. But you need to stop doing what you do.

Steve57 (234b9e) — 10/4/2013 @ 8:55 am

So…under orders the NPS has tripled down and has added wire (barbed wire even?) to waste money blocking the WWII memorial?

Start tweeting pictures, please.

MD in Philly (f9371b) — 10/4/2013 @ 9:22 am

Not only more security than Benghazi, but more barbed wire and barricades than the border with Mexico.

Boy, if this was under Bush just think what the media and the comedians would be doing.

MD in Philly (f9371b) — 10/4/2013 @ 9:24 am

Clarification-
No barbed wire, just wire linking the Barry-cades together.
One Tweeter suggests that by clipping the wires they can arrest you for destroying government property.

We need a Neil Young song.

MD in Philly (f9371b) — 10/4/2013 @ 9:34 am

No Obamacare enrollment numbers coming from the White House.

That means that no one is enrolling.

Obamacare is tanking, and Obama is shutting down the Federal government to protect a failure.

SPQR (768505) — 10/4/2013 @ 9:36 am

17. Comment by DRJ (a83b8b) — 10/4/2013 @ 8:36 am

The nicest thing I can say about Obama is that he feels pity for people who disagree with him. But pity like that is cruel because it undermines respect

I don’t think he fells pity. He’s lying most of then time. he knows he saying thinsg that aren’t true, if not the main point, teh way he develops it.

It’s rather he wants to avoid stimulating hatred so invariably he suggests some other reason other than his opponents being evil.

Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 10/4/2013 @ 9:45 am

The NHL season has started. And of course The New York Rangers cannot score goals. Not sure it has anything to do with the shutdown, but it’s infuriating anyway. Day 4 of White People Type Problems-America Held….Whatever?

Bugg (ddac6e) — 10/4/2013 @ 10:00 am

Didn’t get enough sleep. At first I thought it was because I stayed up too late, but then I realized that it was the Tea Party’s fault.

Hey, come on, put blame where it belongs, it’s mostly Ted Cruz’s fault. He just wouldn’t stop talking, you know…

😀

Smock Puppet, Gadfy, Racist-Sexist Thug, and Bon Vivant All In One Package (afdedb) — 10/4/2013 @ 10:10 am

The nicest thing I can say about Obama is that he feels pity for people who disagree with him.

It’s pity mixed with contempt, as if he can’t believe that you don’t see the brilliance and infallibility of his gracious presence. But you are right, it undermines respect and allows him to feed his massive ego.

JVW (93c84b) — 10/4/2013 @ 10:16 am

We need a Neil Young song.

Well, it’s not Neil Young, but close, it’s Graham Nash… Yes, I know I messed up the meter in some of the song, that wasn’t so much the point…

So your park is barred and locked and they’ve closed it for a lark
Won’t you please come to DC just to sing
In a land that’s known as freedom how can such a thing be fair
Won’t you please come to DC for the help that we can bring

We can change the world
Rearrange the world
It’s dying
To get better

Politicians sit yourselves down there’s nothing for you here
Won’t you please come to DC for a ride
Don’t ask Barry to help you ’cause he’ll turn the other ear
Won’t you please come to DC or else join the other side

(We can change the world)
Yes we can change the world
(Rearrange the world)
Rearrange the world

(It’s dying)
If you believe in justice
(It’s dying)
If you believe in freedom
(It’s dying)
Let a man live his own life
(It’s dying)
Rules and regulations who needs them
Open up the door

Somehow people must be free I hope the day comes soon
Won’t you please come to DC to show your face
From the bottom of the ocean to the mountains of the moon
Won’t you please come to DC no one else can take your place

(We can change the world)
Yes we can change the world
(Rearrange the world)
Rearrange the world

(It’s dying)
If you believe in justice
(It’s dying)
If you believe in freedom
(It’s dying)
Let a man live his own life
(It’s dying)
Rules and regulations who needs them
Open up the door

What I found most interesting was how LITTLE of that song I changed. Mostly the first line and a few words at random, plus, obviously “DC” for “Chicago”.

Smock Puppet, Gadfy, Racist-Sexist Thug, and Bon Vivant All In One Package (afdedb) — 10/4/2013 @ 10:22 am

Very good, SPGRSTaBVAiOP,

I thought of adding or CSN, to the comment.
But, what I really want, is something that deals with the dispute over the WWII Memorial.

FWIW- I did lyrics to the same tune titled “Wisconsin” when the dem state legislatures ran from the state.

Maybe something like:

Park rangers and Obama’s coming,
don’t leave the vets on their own
this fall I hear the drumming,
move the barriers, let’s go, let’s go!!

MD in Philly (f9371b) — 10/4/2013 @ 10:30 am

Here you go, guys. http://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/1nq5yh/so_to_celebrate_the_halloween_season/ On topic, safe for work if you don’t work for Congress.

nk (dbc370) — 10/4/2013 @ 10:31 am

Obama is a sociopath? Given his utter arrogance and mendacity of inculcating things like the following — which is reminiscent of what happens when deranged tyrants are in charge of a society (hello, Hussein!) — he perhaps is closer to being a full-blown psychopath.

Psychopath, sociopath… either way, he’s a world-class douchebag, surrounded by slightly less douchy douchebags.

Smock Puppet, Gadfy, Racist-Sexist Thug, and Bon Vivant All In One Package (afdedb) — 10/4/2013 @ 10:36 am

Comment by Steve57 (234b9e) — 10/4/2013 @ 7:49 am

He passes the “Duck” test.

askeptic (b8ab92) — 10/4/2013 @ 10:36 am

So far, the Collective seems to be careening from blow to blow.

http://jenkuznicki.com/2013/10/no-peace-for-the-obstinate-squish/

Unfortunately, we’ve seen mostly bad endings before to these skirmishes, its hard to engage in unbridled enthusiasm.

gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 10/4/2013 @ 10:38 am

Comment by DRJ (a83b8b) — 10/4/2013 @ 8:02 am

DRJ, with his mobility limited, he might be forced to play all of his golf at Camp David….easy Marine-One access to and from the South Lawn.

askeptic (b8ab92) — 10/4/2013 @ 10:39 am

Way to go, Smock Puppet!

Colonel Haiku (a6bc62) — 10/4/2013 @ 10:42 am

Psychopath, sociopath… either way, he’s a world-class douchebag, surrounded by slightly less douchy douchebags.

Not to split hairs, but I think that Axelrod, Jarrett, Plouffe, Carney, and that gang are even douchier than the douchebag Dear Leader.

JVW (93c84b) — 10/4/2013 @ 10:43 am

It’s time to rerun “Convoy”!

askeptic (b8ab92) — 10/4/2013 @ 10:45 am

And the sad thing is that I think we all know who’s side CSNY would come down on today. They have become who they once railed against.

Colonel Haiku (a6bc62) — 10/4/2013 @ 10:45 am

Guys and gals, we have a serious problem here. Day 4 of the slowdown, and I’ve been charting the sunrises, and, brace yourselves…

…the sun’s been coming up later each day.

I’m SERIOUS, this is bad! The world will freeze without the sun! Please, PLEASEE call your congressmen and tell them they need to capitulate! We’re sorry Emporer O, please don’t take the sun awaaaaaayyyy!!!!

rtrski (b47753) — 10/4/2013 @ 11:58 am

Meh, you ain’t the only one been “charting” things, rtrski!!!! Below’s an actual email that landed in an actual person’s spam in-box.

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As seen in ELLE Magazine, CNN, and CNBC, Yogi Akal has been helping people achieve optimal wellness and success since 1973 – with his expertise on alignment and relationships based on NUMBERS.

Well, I would like for you to feature Yogi Akal – (as with only a birthdate, he can chart individual maps of life).

We would love to get him featured in your outlet to showcase his expertise to your audience, and give your audience the insight on the government and world of politics.

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elissa (b42da4) — 10/4/2013 @ 12:17 pm

Was scheduled for an IRS audit this week. I am informed by the telephone answering machine of my lovely auditor that she and the entire IRS audit division are deemed “nonessential”, so no audit until this is over. At a loss how the people collecting revenue,what ever you think of them,
are nonessential. Only an economic idiot like The One would think such people were nonessential.

Go long, my friends.

Bugg (ddac6e) — 10/4/2013 @ 12:24 pm

elissa, that email would have been much better if it had been signed by “Lamont Cranston”.

askeptic (b8ab92) — 10/4/2013 @ 12:28 pm

Maybe the world has come to an end.
After all, with Thursday night’s victory over Buffalo, the Cleveland Browns have won three games in a row.

Elephant Stone (6a6f37) — 10/4/2013 @ 12:53 pm

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/04/white-house-congress-find-elusive-common-ground-on-paying-federal-workers/

This Cruz idea for one bill at a time is working out great.

vor2 (61972e) — 10/4/2013 @ 1:01 pm

Things are getting so bad, that the poster boy for Obamacare enrollment hasn’t actually enrolled yet.

How…how DARE those Republicans!!! Aztec god of stickiness, please please tell me how many 1000’s of people have “enrolled” with your CTAccess links, restore my faith in the world!

rtrski (b47753) — 10/4/2013 @ 1:02 pm

I wish I had the skill/talent to take the meter of the Les Miz song “Do you hear the people sing …” to create a National Parks version – my instincts suggest it would make a great song for storming the Barry-cades …

Alastor (26a7b8) — 10/4/2013 @ 1:03 pm

omment by Elephant Stone (6a6f37) — 10/4/2013 @ 12:53 pm

Hugh will be insufferable today.

askeptic (b8ab92) — 10/4/2013 @ 1:05 pm

There shouldn’t be back pay if they’re not working. For those that are working (I know the hospitals don’t close), pay them.

Stashiu3 (e7ebd8) — 10/4/2013 @ 1:05 pm

Comment by Alastor (26a7b8) — 10/4/2013 @ 1:03 pm

Yes, that would be an appropriate anthem.

Of course, Alastor, they could reenact Normandy and have a piper lead the charge.

MD in Philly (f9371b) — 10/4/2013 @ 1:07 pm

Comment by askeptic (b8ab92) — 10/4/2013 @ 1:05 pm
maybe, but then he was quite bummed about the Indians losing their sudden death playoff game and was wondering if he would even come back to the microphone if the Indians loss would have been followed by losses from the Browns and Buckeyes.

So maybe he’ll be only borderline insufferable.

MD in Philly (f9371b) — 10/4/2013 @ 1:09 pm

SNAFU!

askeptic (b8ab92) — 10/4/2013 @ 1:12 pm

BTW, anybody know what went on with the WWII memorial today?

MD in Philly (f9371b) — 10/4/2013 @ 3:26 pm

here you go, MD;

http://www.whbf.com/story/23603265/honor-flight-not-being-turned-away-from-memorials-so-far#at_pco=cfd-1.0

narciso (3fec35) — 10/4/2013 @ 3:28 pm

Yes, it is working, vor2. I’m glad you agree.

DRJ (a83b8b) — 10/4/2013 @ 3:34 pm

Thanks, narciso, but that is dated yesterday, before they added the wire.

MD in Philly (f9371b) — 10/4/2013 @ 3:46 pm

I think this is the update’

http://www.whbf.com/story/23612726/honor-flight-prevails-despite-obstacles

narciso (3fec35) — 10/4/2013 @ 3:47 pm

Because of the evil GOP Shutdownpocalypse …

Killer Hornets

SPQR (768505) — 10/4/2013 @ 3:54 pm

Who’s winning? 🙂

The Emperor (5647ed) — 10/4/2013 @ 4:28 pm

So far, Obama is making a fool of himself with the Shutdown Theater.

Notice that the WWII Memorial is getting its visitors.

SPQR (768505) — 10/4/2013 @ 4:30 pm

And its hilarious that the sole person that the White House trumpeted as enrolling in Obamacare … turned out to be an OFA volunteer …. and didn’t actually enroll in Obamacare.

SPQR (768505) — 10/4/2013 @ 4:31 pm

I thought it was the Republican congressman who made a fool of himself trying to rail on that female guide and later saying he was misunderstood. But generally its not looking good for both parties. No one really cares about that now. They just need for this immpasse to end.

The Emperor (5647ed) — 10/4/2013 @ 4:46 pm

Emperor,

The Congressman in that incident was Randy Neugebauer of Texas and I don’t think he apologized for what he said to the Park Service employee. I don’t see why he should.

DRJ (a83b8b) — 10/4/2013 @ 4:54 pm

And its hilarious that the sole person that the White House trumpeted as enrolling in Obamacare … turned out to be an OFA volunteer …. and didn’t actually enroll in Obamacare.

Comment by SPQR
That’s gotta hurt the Obama team. This Chad fellow is mendacious. I blame Romney.

The Emperor (4efdcc) — 10/4/2013 @ 4:55 pm

@DRJ. I don’t think anyone said he apologized. Just that he had to move from making it about the female officer to the entire service she was representing. Even though he did tell her “you should be ashamed” to which she answered “I am not ashamed”. She was just doing her job and he had to change the way it looked. Maybe getting into a public spat with an officer didn’t look good on his image.

The Emperor (fc6588) — 10/4/2013 @ 5:04 pm

Cruz and Lee have allowed the progressive george bush to escape blame of late. Bush could be the republicans Jimmah Carter of bleeding heart retired presidents.

mg (31009b) — 10/4/2013 @ 5:11 pm

All the Obamacare exchange websites to be taken down for “improvements” this weekend.

By who? How are they “essential”?

Obama’s Shutdown Theater coming apart at the seams.

SPQR (768505) — 10/4/2013 @ 6:08 pm

Frankly, I think that the House of Representatives should hold hearings on the Federal operations during the shutdown. I think I’ve seen a lot of criminal anti-deficiency act violations so far.

SPQR (768505) — 10/4/2013 @ 6:09 pm

I think I’ve seen a lot of criminal anti-deficiency act violations so far.

Holder will hop right to it. Not.

Maybe the press will call him on it. Oh. Not that either.

Obama is really saying that he can do ANYTHING and they have to impeach him to stop it.

Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 10/4/2013 @ 6:34 pm

Dodgers lose game 2 4-3

Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 10/4/2013 @ 6:39 pm

Obama is really saying that he can do ANYTHING and they have to impeach him to stop it.
Comment by Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 10/4/2013 @ 6:34 pm

Agreed. And being lawless and flaunting the laws that govern the function of the federal government will not be sufficient cause.

MD in Philly (f9371b) — 10/4/2013 @ 7:23 pm

There is an extraordinary amount of criminal conduct in this administration. Many of the statutes of limitation are not going to expire before January 20, 2017.

SPQR (768505) — 10/4/2013 @ 8:06 pm

Government shutdown you say? Then why are the lights still on at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? Stop wasting all that CO2-producing electricity, turn off the lights, and slink away into the darkness…

WarEagle82 (2b7355) — 10/4/2013 @ 8:12 pm

Lockheed Martin is furloughing employees on military contracts but the Obamacare website contractors are working this weekend to fix the broken Obamacare website?

Criminal conduct by Obama.

SPQR (768505) — 10/4/2013 @ 8:41 pm

It’s supposed to warm up tomorrow due to the Santa Ana winds.

Is it okay if we blame things on the Iced Tea Party this weekend?

malclave (1db6c5) — 10/4/2013 @ 8:47 pm

Here’s a question for you-
Would Obama claim to increase the debt ceiling by ~~executive order~~ ~~imperial edict~~ doing it himself, no matter what it is called?

Who would stop him?

MD in Philly (f9371b) — 10/4/2013 @ 9:06 pm

Who would stop him?

Well, right after the GOP declared that such bonds were and would always be worthless, everyone.

Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 10/4/2013 @ 9:25 pm

Criminal conduct by Obama.

Should there be a next Republican President, he should furlough 5 or 6 Departments on Jan 21st. To save money.

Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 10/4/2013 @ 9:27 pm

All the Obamacare exchange websites to be taken down for “improvements” this weekend.

Translation:

All three operators have reservations at the Jersey Shore.

askeptic (2bb434) — 10/4/2013 @ 11:42 pm

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That is funny askeptic.

There is something weird though. This should not have been such a mess given a prep time of a few years and a billion dollar budget. Filling out forms is one of the oldest roles that the web provided. Furthermore, the traffic loads must have been anticipated. Yes, this was gov, but even for them, it is just strange. None of this is cutting edge technology.

Pons Asinorum (8ce71a) — 10/4/2013 @ 11:58 pm

president louse is a far cry from winning this battle.

mg (31009b) — 10/5/2013 @ 3:36 am

These govt. low lifes complaining about bills and daycare can suck my well dry. Welcome to the struggle club, morons.

mg (31009b) — 10/5/2013 @ 3:38 am

The last eight years many people have been doing odd jobs, shitty jobs and any job that puts food on the table with no whiney t.v. spots to voice their position. But govt. workers seem to have the media covering for them. These hacks will get eventually get paid.
Total b. s.
Tar and feathering should be an olympic sport.

mg (31009b) — 10/5/2013 @ 3:46 am

sorry for too many gets. This cup of Sumatra has me speeding.

mg (31009b) — 10/5/2013 @ 3:47 am

The republicans should run some t.v. advertisments against the dems. On football sunday when most yahoos are watching their team.

mg (31009b) — 10/5/2013 @ 4:08 am

Was that lady shot obama’s girl friend?
Is the child Obama’s?
If it were Bush, thats what the left would be planting.

mg (31009b) — 10/5/2013 @ 4:13 am

59. Because of the evil GOP Shutdownpocalypse …

Killer Hornets

Comment by SPQR (768505) — 10/4/2013 @ 3:54 pm

Durn it. I wanted to be the first to blame Bush, the sequester, the evil GOP, and their gub’mint shutdown for the Chinese hornets.

61. So far, Obama is making a fool of himself with the Shutdown Theater.

Notice that the WWII Memorial is getting its visitors.

Comment by SPQR (768505) — 10/4/2013 @ 4:30 pm

It’s like this Koock Kounty Klown Kar administration thinks we’ll never figure out how parking lots work.

If you don’t have a bureaucrat getting a six figure salary due to the defunding, parking lots must close. Then the parking lot that is normally entirely untended will be staffed by bureaucrats with guns making five figures, to set up barricades and use force to keep you from entering a formerly open space.

You don’t see these government workers at these places when the government is open. But defund the government, and they crawl out of the woodwork.

This makes someone want to put these same people in charge of health care, how?

Steve57 (234b9e) — 10/5/2013 @ 4:52 am

http://www.rappnews.com/2013/10/03/leaf-season-shutdown-could-hurt-economy/124925/

Leaf-season shutdown could hurt economy

Is that a headline you ever thought it was possible to see?

Barack Obama is shutting down nature until he can interrogate you about your sex life and put the information on a federal database.

Steve57 (234b9e) — 10/5/2013 @ 5:10 am

Professor Jacobson:

It’s way too early to know how this plays out in electoral terms down the road. Don’t worry about that. Stay strong.

It’s all about moving the ball down the field in a long game over the future of the country. You don’t need a touchdown or even a field goal on this drive. Field position matters for what is to come.

gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 10/5/2013 @ 7:06 am

I heard from a source, they have restore the cancer trials at the NIH.

narciso (3fec35) — 10/5/2013 @ 7:32 am

90. I heard from a source, they have restore the cancer trials at the NIH.

Comment by narciso (3fec35) — 10/5/2013 @ 7:32 am

I earlier linked to a YouTube vid in which Rand Paul were caught on a hot mike discussing how awful it was for Obama to keep bragging about how he’s not going to negotiate. And by awful they meant politically for the President, because Rand Paul mentioned it couldn’t possibly have been poll tested. Because had they poll tested it, team Obama wouldn’t use it because like his health care law it sucks. Apparently they didn’t poll test it because they just assume a majority of Americans share their contempt for the country they want to fundamentally transform.

Because they hate it. That’s why they want to change it into something else.

Anyways, Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell went on to agree they’re confident they’re going to win this because Obama has responded to the defunding of Obamacare by acting like a total Richard Head.

And they’re not the only ones to notice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_7Wslgo5Rw

Sure, dismiss this if you want because it’s Fox and Lou Dobbs. But the fact is, as Dobbs points out, you can’t make this up. The tantrum Barack Obama defies all reason.

Steve57 (234b9e) — 10/5/2013 @ 7:47 am

Leaf-season shutdown could hurt economy

Is that a headline you ever thought it was possible to see?

I don’t know how to react to this. Laughter, I guess. Are our taxes really going to the National Park Service so some “San Franciscans” will travel to Vermont/New England to see the leaves change color?

nk (dbc370) — 10/5/2013 @ 7:53 am

And something really funny. http://i.imgur.com/z2RTsHH.jpg

nk (dbc370) — 10/5/2013 @ 7:58 am

Get to know your mailman!

Colonel Haiku (e0bf0c) — 10/5/2013 @ 8:02 am

Notice that the WWII Memorial is getting its visitors.

Sarcasm and quips aside (from me or anyone else), the way that property has been handled in the most brazen way imaginable by government officials over the past few days, combined with the notorious Eric Holder still sitting pretty as Attorney General, combined with the ongoing shameless, corrupt nature of the IRS (eg, the recent example of Dr Ben Carson being audited), combined with all the dishonesty (including manipulative waivers) surrounding Obamacare — not to mention issues like Benghazi — truly go beyond the pale.

This is all possible because of us, the American electorate. It’s best symbolized by one very telling sign: The idiotic, immature emotions, attitudes and biases behind things such as their continuing to blame George W Bush (over 5 years later) for current economic problems. That and a majority of Americans continuing to express in polls overly positive opinions in general of Obama.

We have met the enemy and (regrettably) he is us.

Mark (58ea35) — 10/5/2013 @ 8:02 am

teh leaves turn golden
dew on lily turns to frost
this old house feels it

Colonel Haiku (e0bf0c) — 10/5/2013 @ 8:05 am

92. Leaf-season shutdown could hurt economy

Is that a headline you ever thought it was possible to see?

I don’t know how to react to this. Laughter, I guess. Are our taxes really going to the National Park Service so some “San Franciscans” will travel to Vermont/New England to see the leaves change color?

Comment by nk (dbc370) — 10/5/2013 @ 7:53 am

Speaking of San Franciscans, I was trying to make a connection through SFO after teh sequester took effect.

I got there in the morning early enough to figger I’d breeze through TSA security. Then they started closing lanes and walking off the job.

I can only conclude just to make Obama’s point.

They made the point alright. The less Barack Obama is in charge of, the better.

Steve57 (234b9e) — 10/5/2013 @ 8:05 am

eRICO Holder
his Department of Just-Us
criminal bidness

Colonel Haiku (e0bf0c) — 10/5/2013 @ 8:06 am

“Redskins should change their name”… watching as 0bama tries to distract attention away from the smoking hole of a presidency he has… why it’s just too precious.

Colonel Haiku (e0bf0c) — 10/5/2013 @ 8:11 am

“0bama should resign and get the eff outta Dodge.”

– me

Colonel Haiku (e0bf0c) — 10/5/2013 @ 8:12 am

When he targets the military, even the supernumerari (sic), he is targeting Republicans. When he goes after the latte and brioche crowd like with the turning leaves thing (or even the colonial tavern), he’s going after mostly his iBambibots.

nk (dbc370) — 10/5/2013 @ 8:14 am

I wish I could tell a story about security theater and how New Zealand cops are nice about understanding mistakes and let you off with a warning and signing a form forfeiting the property while the TSA are a bunch of ****s that couldn’t find their own arse with both hands who I’m not all that upset about being defunded.

But I’m not sure about the statute of limitations.

Steve57 (234b9e) — 10/5/2013 @ 8:21 am

Day 5: Feds close ocean

Not The Onion.

“…the National Park Service informed charter boat captains in Florida that the Florida Bay was “closed” due to the shutdown. “

Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 10/5/2013 @ 8:24 am

Well, didn’t he basically promise to shut down oceans when he claimed he could prevent them from rising?

Steve57 (234b9e) — 10/5/2013 @ 8:31 am

“Grand Tetons Closed Due to Lack of Federal Funding; News at 11.”

That was once a headline you knew a few years back was complete BS.

Now you’ve got to look.

Yeah, progress!

Steve57 (234b9e) — 10/5/2013 @ 8:36 am

When I point out the sentiment expressed by good portion of the public regarding issues like who’s most responsible for current economic weakness (and they blame Bush instead of Obama), the left-leaning idiocy behind that is a weakness of human nature that politicians like Obama know they can exploit for all its worth.

The following article, posted to a left-leaning website, loves to give a very ambiguous slant to who or what is truly behind the manipulation of the WWII memorial, and fools like interviewee Gary Gillhest eat it up (dollars to donuts that guy is of the left).

Politico.com, May 5: “I think it’s trashy politics if a politician is coming down to get publicity at a memorial that they have closed. I’m talking about both sides,” said Colonel Al Appling, a Vietnam War veteran visiting with his wife, Joan, from Miramar Beach, Fla.

D.C. resident John Aucott, who was at the memorial Tuesday when the first veterans moved the barricades, agreed that the political visits to the site and photo-ops are in bad taste.

“I’m so disgusted with that,” he told POLITICO. “I think the politicians who showed up here have some audacity.”

“I’m being silent. I’m not shouting,” he said, explaining that his intention was not to disrupt the veterans’ visits. “I just want to send a message to Congress, since they’re here, that they have a responsibility to fix this.”

“Oh yeah, they’re going to show up, they want to make themselves look like they care and they’re doing something. What are they doing?” said Gary Gillest, a Vietnam veteran who has visited D.C. several times with his friends in the Charlie Company 25th Infantry Division. “And look, there are tea party activists over there! I mean, they’re idiots.”

“They just want to get re-elected,” said Thomas Lepisto, who was traveling with the same group as Gillest.

Current opinion polls indicate a modest majority of respondents hold Republicans and not President “Goddamn America” and Democrats responsible for the shutdown, so, again, the idiocy of left-leaning bias is turning the US into a Banana Republic, sort of a northern version of Mexico and Argentina.

Mark (58ea35) — 10/5/2013 @ 8:36 am

Chicago cops confiscate switchblades all the time without even a form or a warning. The nice ones keep it for themselves, the cruel ones prop it on the curb and break it in two with their heartless jackboot in front of your eyes.

Disclaimer: Your mileage may vary, past experience is no indicator of future expectations.

nk (dbc370) — 10/5/2013 @ 8:38 am

Thanks to the miracle of Lord Obama, it’s possible now to spend 60 bucks filling up a Toyota Corolla and shut down Florida Bay.

Are you not fundamentally transformed?

Steve57 (234b9e) — 10/5/2013 @ 8:38 am

glassy-eyed Nanski
Fric to Harry “Scrote” Reid’s Frac
goes down on teh mic

Colonel Haiku (eacb1f) — 10/5/2013 @ 8:49 am

Obama is to leadership as John Gotti was to law-abiding citizenship.

Colonel Haiku (a8bbc8) — 10/5/2013 @ 8:59 am

Obama is to leadership as Nixon was to ethics.

And, actually, Obama is to ethics what Nixon was to ethics, so Nixon comes out ahead, 1-0.

Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 10/5/2013 @ 9:04 am

iBambi is to the Presidency as dog poop is to a sidewalk.

nk (dbc370) — 10/5/2013 @ 9:10 am

Water rinses off dog poop from a sidewalk, nk. I’m thinking this is going to take more than a good rain to clear up.

Steve57 (234b9e) — 10/5/2013 @ 9:26 am

ebony and ivory
yes 0bama’s gone nuts
he’s closed the sea
side by side Reid Pelosi
Oh Lord… loose sword
why can’t we?

Colonel Haiku (e0bf0c) — 10/5/2013 @ 9:27 am

He closed the monuments down, which has never been doon before, and the people who are actually paying to keep it open get the blame.

narciso (3fec35) — 10/5/2013 @ 9:31 am

killing the babies
persecuting the Christians
Dems are good at it

Colonel Haiku (e0bf0c) — 10/5/2013 @ 9:33 am

Hagel has called most of the defense employees back to work. Either this is the start of the Obama Administration doing whatever it wants — who cares about separation of powers? — or this isn’t going as well as the Democrats hoped.

DRJ (a83b8b) — 10/5/2013 @ 4:55 pm

Did someone repeal the anti deficiency act when I wasn’t looking?

SPQR (19047b) — 10/5/2013 @ 4:57 pm

Retroactive pay passed 407-0 so might as well get some work out of them.

nk (dbc370) — 10/5/2013 @ 5:03 pm

DID YOU HEAR THE OCEAN SINGING BABY DID YOU SING ALONG I BEEN LOOKING FOR ELISSA I BEEN LOOKING ALL WEEK LONG

oh wait the ocean’s closed

This is just terrible.

happyfeet (8ce051) — 10/5/2013 @ 5:09 pm

Apparently the Democrats are redefining “emergencies involving the safety of human life or the protection of property” so they can argue the Antideficiency Act doesn’t apply. It works as long as you own the DOJ, but anyone who isn’t a high-level political appointee should be worried. This Administration likes to sacrifice vulnerable employees in the name of protecting the 1%.

DRJ (a83b8b) — 10/5/2013 @ 5:32 pm

And the Obamacare website software developers are “emergencies involving the safety of human life or the protection of property” … how?

I’m still astonished at how many brazen illegal acts the Obama thugs are committing in broad daylight.

SPQR (19047b) — 10/5/2013 @ 5:35 pm

Some might think the dog walker at the White House is non-emergency staff that should stay home, but apparently that’s not happening.

DRJ (a83b8b) — 10/5/2013 @ 5:49 pm

Oops. Here’s the link for the dog walker report.

DRJ (a83b8b) — 10/5/2013 @ 5:50 pm

My linking skills are not working. Link.

DRJ (a83b8b) — 10/5/2013 @ 5:51 pm

An allegory.

http://www.tubechop.com/watch/1532238

He does remind me of leonard a little.

Sarahw (b0e533) — 10/5/2013 @ 5:52 pm

Someone passed the mental deficiency act, surely a Dimocrat…

Colonel Haiku (5417ae) — 10/5/2013 @ 5:53 pm

ouch you’re on my hand cut it out or I’ll tell

happyfeet (8ce051) — 10/5/2013 @ 5:54 pm

I guess federal workers are prohibited from working for free, especially since it could be abused by management encouraging them to “volunteer.” It wouldn’t bother me if political appointees were allowed to volunteer but I guess it would be too easy to abuse it.

DRJ (a83b8b) — 10/5/2013 @ 5:59 pm

federal workers is an oxymoron

happyfeet (8ce051) — 10/5/2013 @ 6:08 pm

you know like professional journalist

happyfeet (8ce051) — 10/5/2013 @ 6:13 pm

I wonder if the Obama Administration is considering minting premium bonds? It seems like something that might appeal to Obama. It lets him do what he wants and it looks oh, so clever.

DRJ (a83b8b) — 10/5/2013 @ 6:14 pm

Obama explains what he thinks Republican politicians should do in Washington:

When Obama got to the Senate, he said, “my attitude was I should just keep a pretty low profile in the Senate and just do the work.” While the media did seek him out, “I didn’t go around courting the media.”

Nice try but, of course, he did court the media.

DRJ (a83b8b) — 10/5/2013 @ 6:31 pm

The media was already gushing over Obama in 2006 but that’s different, isn’t it?

DRJ (a83b8b) — 10/5/2013 @ 6:35 pm

Obama must think that no one is going to examine the details of his directives in the shutdown.

Someone evidently never learned what “qui tam” means in law school …

SPQR (768505) — 10/5/2013 @ 6:49 pm

An interesting about Al Liby, the latest guy nabbed, he was living in England, for about a decade, after he tried to assasinate Kadaffi, something they got us to do a decade later, he’s also been living in Iran, for the better part of a decade.

narciso (3fec35) — 10/5/2013 @ 7:10 pm

the whole internet is morreybun nobody cares about stupid government shutdown

happyfeet (8ce051) — 10/5/2013 @ 7:11 pm

It’s Miley Cyrus, pikachu, it’s old news,

narciso (3fec35) — 10/5/2013 @ 7:17 pm

she’s been growing as an artist huh

it’s hard to believe this was her last year

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOwblaKmyVw

I was sincerely charmed

I still think she’s super-talented

also I think she’s better off without liam

he looks like a momo

happyfeet (8ce051) — 10/5/2013 @ 7:20 pm

here is a picture of momo trying to formalize the synaptic patterns into a For Reals Thought

http://wallupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Liam-Hemsworth-Wallpaper.jpg

happyfeet (8ce051) — 10/5/2013 @ 7:22 pm

i’m playing that miley again

did you know Miss Dolly Parton is her godmother?

that is a true fact that actually happened in real life

happyfeet (8ce051) — 10/5/2013 @ 7:25 pm

I know musing on the 47% really revs them up:

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/10/05/Exclusive-Palin-Rips-Establishment-Financiers-For-Not-Knowing-What-Precinct-Captain-Is

narciso (3fec35) — 10/5/2013 @ 7:31 pm

did you know Miss Dolly Parton is her godmother?

Comment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 10/5/2013 @ 7:25 pm

Yoda can only imagine the disappointment that Miss Dolly is caused by the little tramp!

Yoda (c1890a) — 10/5/2013 @ 7:31 pm

Mr. Yoda how is that a nice thing to say Miley isn’t an actual tramp per se and frankly before she started her latest

adventures

she wasn’t really a very interesting person in many ways

she was sort of failing to launch actually

kind of like what happened to all the spice girls except for posh

happyfeet (8ce051) — 10/5/2013 @ 7:36 pm

piano key smile
so clean and articulate
caveat emptor

Colonel Haiku (879b60) — 10/5/2013 @ 7:44 pm

Mr. Yoda how is that a nice thing to say Miley isn’t an actual tramp per se and frankly before she started her latest

adventures

Comment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 10/5/2013 @ 7:36 pm

Truth is not always nice, Mr. Feets! Hannah Montana she is no longer!

Yoda (c1890a) — 10/5/2013 @ 8:24 pm

It’s all fun and games until you realize we’re lost:

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

Please continue, though.

Ag80 (eb6ffa) — 10/5/2013 @ 8:50 pm

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