By Henry Lamb ——Bio and Archives--June 30, 2011
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"The fact that we're here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign -- is a sign of leadership failure. Leadership means the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt limit."
"If you are a wealthy CEO or a health — hedge fund manager in America right now, your taxes are lower than they have ever been."This statement is factually incorrect, of course. The highest tax rate has been lower than the current rate twice in recent years, as much as seven percent lower than the current rate. Watch the Bachman/Palin media hounds jump on this one. When asked if hostilities in Libya is a violation of the War Powers act, Obama refused to answer. Instead, he went off on a tirade about how the wicked Muammar Qaddafi murdered Americans, and how he was acting under a U.N. mandate, and what a glorious thing it was he was doing that was not really a war, but simply providing humanitarian protection. Then, in a feeble attempt to ridicule Republicans, he says of the War Powers Act question: "And this suddenly becomes the cause célèbre for some folks in Congress? Come on." Attention Barack: President or not, you cannot bully, ridicule, misstate, teleprompt, or perform your way around your obvious disdain for the U.S. Constitution, free markets, and the idea of limited government. You fooled the electorate once. Never again. You have displayed your true colors unmistakably. You may count on the people who share your socialist philosophy to vote for you again. You can rely on big labor, GE, NBC, MSNBC, Time, the New York Times, and other admirers of Marxist thinking. But you can no longer deceive the vast majority of Americans, who have now seen through your snake-oiled rhetoric. Your ineptitude, inexperience, lack of judgment, and apparent allegiance to Alinski's "Rules for Radicals," all of which combined to produce the national disaster that now shrouds the nation, is so abundantly clear that even the blind will find a better candidate to receive their vote in the next election. The bully pulpit is no place for a bully president. America has now suffered through nearly three years of both. Surely, there is hope on the horizon. It's almost certain that a change of any sort in the presidency would be an improvement, and a definite step up from the current level of incompetency.
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Editor’s Note: Henry passed away in 2012. He will be greatly missed.