Time to consider "Worst Administration Ever"?

[TheMan WhoFell ToEarth]

yes it is bellgab, where rational thought by its members is as scarce as noory making it through a show without cue cards...

Sometimes you just have to agree to let crazy do as crazy does and have a little fun with it.

[Quick Karl]

yes it is bellgab, where rational thought by its members is as scarce as noory making it through a show without cue cards...

Pot, meet kettle. Kettle, meet pot.

Noooo, not the kind of pot you smoke...  :

[wr250]

Pot, meet kettle. Kettle, meet pot.

Noooo, not the kind of pot you smoke...  :

i dont smoke pot for starters, im just naturally stupid.you may now return to bringeth forth the light(eth)

[Quick Karl]

i dont smoke pot for starters, im just naturally stupid.you may now return to bringeth forth the light(eth)

I do NOT believe you are stupid.

THE LIGHT SHINETH UPON YOU.

[Jackstar]

BestBetter when vaporized, remember that.

[Stellar]

This is Barack Obama's Week From Hell. http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/244122/a-flood-of-scandals-engulfs-obama

He has not one, not two, but three, count 'em, three major scandals blowing up on him. And here's the elephant in the living room:each one could be impeachable. And if evidence mounts, the sheer quantity of filth, corruption and abuse of power could be so offensive to Americans that impeachment is demanded. A lot more has to happen. But the thing is, it will. There's plenty of fire already found behind the smoke which is all over the city of Washington, D.C. It will be a very long Summer for Obama and company, and a lot of stuff will come out. But it's not too early to consider, is Obama's The Worst Administration Ever?

It could have vied for the title before now: governance by executive fiat; the invention of an entire new segment of cronyism in which corporate giants are extorted by executive orders and acts of administrative power to become massive contributors to the President in order to get executive waivers of devastating statutes and rules; shameful nepotism and revolving door politics in which journalists simply waltz into the White House and vice versa, plus we have three major news networks which (secretly) have had relatives working as paid advisors to the President. Then there's the systemic theft in the financial Stimuli programs, in which trillions of dollars have simply disappeared, making the looting of post-Saddam Baghdad look like it was nothing more than kids going through a Brooklyn candy store after a fire. All of which has been aided and abetted by a news media's open pro-Obama partisanship, in which Obama was at all times protected and his programs pushed, negative stories spiked, and true grassroots movements like the Tea Party mocked and derided in efforts coordinated and directed by and through the execrable Journolist. Obama didn't need any more than this to run Jimmy Carter a close race for worst President of the last 50 years, perhaps the worst going back to Harding.

But now Obama has had the worst week of a President since Nixon's resignation week. It's truly awful, and it portends a horrible Summer and Fall for him. Things are so bad that the Democrats nationally can only hope to hold on to a bare majority in the Senate, and that is all. Of course they've lost the House and will lose more seats there, but they had actually hoped to take it back. They've lost most states, as governorships and state legislatures are now majority Republican, with more to follow. The best Obama can hope for is hanging on by his fingernails to a bare majority in the Senate, and even that is now in play.

Because Obama failed to heed the wisdom of the (ancient) Greeks*- hubris is sure to bring on Nemesis. Barry O, the Golden Boy, the kid who never worked for a thing, the kid who literally had someone looking out for him and taking care of him since he reached pubescence, the guy who never in his life has had a real job, who was always the darling of the press, has finally seen them bare their teeth at him. He makes a good candidate as the most personally arrogant and narcissistic man we've ever had in the Oval Office - and that's a breathtaking statement. Hell, Bill Clinton's bodily fluids still stain the carpet. But Obama is a different class entirely. Which makes him unequipped to handle truly tough times. And he's got 'em now.

Because we're finding out the IRS - his IRS and his IRS Administrator - used the IRS to punish, harass and intimidate those who displeased the White House in a way which Nixon only dreamed he could have done. And it's getting worse every day as we find out how long the program went on and how long his people knew about it - at a minimum knew about it. That's just one problem which, let's face it, is impeachable if facts come in the wrong way for him

Next is the Benghazi mess. Hilary Clinton is looking like the bullesye for the moment, but there's plenty of exposure of Obama. These hearings won't even be the end. Besides, Hilary will claw Obama before she lets the White House paint her as the target. She's getting positioned to be the designated fall girl already.

And now we have the revelations that the DOJ spied on the AP. Now, the media will yawn all week if Tea party members were actually dragged into the street and burned at the stake, but if you even boot the car of a member of the media, well by God they will not stand for it! A media shitstorm will come down on this. Rest assured that Deval Patrcik already has a functionary fitted with the fall guy jacket. But the media may well start with Patrick's hide and still not be satisfied on this. Developing.

Like a say, a terrible three to 6 months are coming for Barry O. I of course will enjoy it as the fruits of hubris.




*There's an entirely new breed running things in Athens now, as the modern Greeks do us the favor of showing us what happens when you insist on ignoring warnings that a financial disaster is coming. What can't go on forever, won't. These Greeks have shown the world what happens when you treat government funds as if they were The Fountain of Eternal Money - you destroy your economy and have over 1/4 of your working force unemployed. Riots to follow.

I follow you, I think his next executive position was set upon the premise of taking this country down this road as ordered by his puppet masters.  He will find away into the U.N. as President via a McDonald's application sent over from the Denver Airport snail mail of course including a copy of his Kenya Birth Cert.  I agree Barry's life has been one fantasy after another without picking up a shovel of real work.

[NowhereInTime]

I follow you, I think his next executive position was set upon the premise of taking this country down this road as ordered by his puppet masters.  He will find away into the U.N. as President via a McDonald's application sent over from the Denver Airport snail mail of course including a copy of his Kenya Birth Cert.  I agree Barry's life has been one fantasy after another without picking up a shovel of real work.

Thanks for coming 13 months into the future to reassure a poster who no longer trolls here!

HEY STELLA, "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951)

[albrecht]

If Sardondi was the Sinatra of Bell Gab, who is the Frank Zappa? I would like to think of myself as the Barry Manilow of Bell Gab. 

Have not considered that. I'm leaning towards Jackstar as the Capt. Beefheart of Bellgab because though I, sometimes, like their stuff; they are incomprehensible and incoherent many times.

[bigchucka]

Best Better when vaporized, remember that.

"Whip" style (ya know, like a hookah...) or "Bag" style (Volcano is the top of the line in this style).. which do you prefer?

[albrecht]

"Whip" style (ya know, like a hookah...) or "Bag" style (Volcano is the top of the line in this style).. which do you prefer?

Does nobody do "gravity hits" anymore? Or is that so 80's?

Granted I haven't been partying in a while but the kids these days with their e-stuff, vaporizers, super hybrid weed etc. What is so wrong with multiple shotgunning beers and gravity hits? Cheap. Gets the job done. (Or so I'm told.)

[TheMan WhoFell ToEarth]

Does nobody do "gravity hits" anymore? Or is that so 80's?

Granted I haven't been partying in a while but the kids these days with their e-stuff, vaporizers, super hybrid weed etc. What is so wrong with multiple shotgunning beers and gravity hits? Cheap. Gets the job done. (Or so I'm told.)

80s?  What are those?

[bigchucka]

Does nobody do "gravity hits" anymore? Or is that so 80's?

Granted I haven't been partying in a while but the kids these days with their e-stuff, vaporizers, super hybrid weed etc. What is so wrong with multiple shotgunning beers and gravity hits? Cheap. Gets the job done. (Or so I'm told.)

"Cheap"...  I'm going to have to disagree with in the long run.  A nice vaporizer saves you money due to it's higher efficiency.... and no water splashing all over the kitchen or bathroom.

[Quick Karl]

94-years ago...

"As democracy is perfected, the office of the President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and complete narcissistic moron."

---H.L.  Mencken, the Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920   <--- THAT mother-f'er had some SERIOUS ESP!

That should be etched into a granite monument and placed at the entrance of the future Obama Presidential Library.

I Snopes'd it and struck the apparent edit.

[PB the Deplorable]

... the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and complete narcissistic moron."...

Carter?

[Quick Karl]

Carter?

Shit, Carter was a Godsend compared to Obama...

[Quick Karl]

Here is the complete quote:

The larger the mob, the harder the test. In small areas, before small electorates, a first-rate man occasionally fights his way through, carrying even the mob with him by force of his personality. But when the field is nationwide, and the fight must be waged chiefly at second and third hand, and the force of personality cannot so readily make itself felt, then all the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre â€" the man who can most easily adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.

The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/whitehousemoron.asp#DuhKDB0mmuIE5wc4.99

[TheMan WhoFell ToEarth]

Quick Karl for Prez.

[Quick Karl]

Quick Karl for Prez.

I do not have an evil enough heart for the job. But thanks for the sentiment.

[NowhereInTime]

I do not have an evil enough heart for the job. But thanks for the sentiment.

No, really, it would be great to have your irrational ass in the White House; I've never seen a President perp-walked before...

[albrecht]

Carter?

Way worse because it is not simple incompetence but an outright agenda at work with this character Obama, or whatever name he is using this decade. Carter at least was an American, a Christian, and wanted what he thought was good for the country- even if they were misguided policies or just wrong or bad. All of those statements about Obama can't be said, or really even proven, but especially the last one. I'm fairly convinced that this character Obama really wants to destroy the country (at least as it was known in terms of freedom, culture, etc.)

[PB the Deplorable]

Way worse because it is not simple incompetence but an outright agenda at work with this character Obama, or whatever name he is using this decade. Carter at least was an American, a Christian, and wanted what he thought was good for the country- even if they were misguided policies or just wrong or bad. All of those statements about Obama can't be said, or really even proven, but especially the last one. I'm fairly convinced that this character Obama really wants to destroy the country (at least as it was known in terms of freedom, culture, etc.)

I'm with you 100% on that.

I was joking about it being Carter because the 'downright fool and complete narcissistic moron' comment would not be out of place in describing him, Clinton, or Bush II as well. 

Although certainly to a far lesser extent than to the current Occupier of the White House.

[NowhereInTime]

I'm with you 100% on that.

I was joking about it being Carter because the 'downright fool and complete narcissistic moron' comment would not be out of place in describing him, Clinton, or Bush II as well. 

Although certainly to a far lesser extent than to the current Occupier of the White House.

And you guys are still frightened by the ghost of Jimmy Carter.  When Art comes back, I going to suggest he has President Carter on to explain this mysterious hold he has on the (admittedly dense) conservative mind.

[Quick Karl]

When I read "downright fool and narcissistic moron," I concluded, immediately, that the author was talking about nitwit.