He wants to go over the cliff badly to insure his legacy. The uneducated masses will blame the GOP instead of Obama's failed policies. He knows he can't, and probably doesn't want to, fix this countries financial mess within his 8 years.
OBAMA THREATENED SPEAKER: I'll use inaugural address, State of the Union speech to tell nation Republicans at fault...
:bigcry: Both sad and funny at the same time. Watch.
Maria Bartiromo Goes Rick Santelli On ‘Incompetent’ Dem Sen. Cardin
Posted by: MacAoidh on Wednesday, December 26, 2012, 10:47
Ben Cardin is a relatively nondescript Democrat senator from Maryland, whose claim to fame so far has been a narrow victory over Michael Steele in 2006. He’s generally to be found on the back bench with little to say, and when it’s time to vote he does whatever Harry Reid tells him.
There’s a reason for this. Namely, that when Ben Cardin shows up on TV he makes an ass of himself. So when Ben Cardin goes on CNBC to vomit Democrat talking points about the fiscal cliff and Maria Bartiromo gets in a bit of a cranky mood, it’s like watching a pelican eat a pigeon – complete with robust applause for her takedown of Cardin by the traders on the floor…
http://thehayride.com/2012/12/maria-bartiromo-goes-rick-santelli-on-incompetent-dem-sen-cardin/
That was enjoyable.
Sidenote:
BBC News anchors reactions are some of the best things on TV.
About time that happened to one of theirs.
It happens every day to the republicans, with the assumption being that either they either capitulate entirely to the socialistic POS or they are complete obstructionists. It is rare to see a media outlet actually questioning a dem at all.
I love CNBC. Watch it all the time. Sometimes I have it on at my office too. Brain-dead democraps have no chance on CNBC. Their ridiculous rhetoric only works on their low-information constiuents (sp?).
3 more days 'til we return to Clinton-era taxes and big military cuts. Liberal paradise.
He wants to go over the cliff for one reason. He wants the credit for massive faux tax cuts. He will get tax rates re-set to before the cliff and the bill will be known as the Obama Tax Cut...The largest tax cut in American history. He simply can't stand Bush's name being used, as in the Bush Tax Cuts.
But, in reality, it would just be re-instituting the current tax rate. I will still pay the exact same amount of taxes in 2013 that I did in 2012, but, the media will trumpet all the taxes I was saved due to Obama's tax cuts.
Orwell had nothing on these guys.
WOW!!
Obama to Boehner: 'We Don't Have a Spending Problem'
by Ben Shapiro
In an interview with Stephen Moore of the Wall Street Journal, newly re-elected House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) opened up about President Obama’s utter unwillingness to cut a single dollar from federal spending. In a stunning admission, Obama reportedly told Boehner, “We don’t have a spending problem.”
Boehner added that President Obama continues to maintain that America’s federal deficit is caused not by governmental overspending but by “a health-care problem.” Said Boehner, “They blame all of the fiscal woes on our health-care system.” Boehner told Obama, “Clearly we have a health-care problem, which is about to get worse with Obamacare. But, Mr. President, we have a very serious spending problem.” Obama eventually replied, “I’m getting tired of hearing you say that.”
Obama may be tired of hearing Boehner talk about a spending problem, particularly when Obama has been re-elected on the basis of ignoring government spending. Nonetheless, America does have a spending problem, which Obama is steadfastly ignoring. “He’s so ideological himself,” Boehner explained, “and he’s unwilling to take on the left of his own party.” That’s why Obama refused to raise the retirement age for Medicare after agreeing to it. “He admitted in meetings that he couldn’t sell things to his own members,” said Boehner. “But he didn’t even want to try … We could never get him to step up.”
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http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...tired-spending
http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/20...-them.html?m=1 This is worth it for the graphic but also is a pretty good synopsis.