As the wheels come off for Obama: the impacts and the reasons. #1? Joe Biden and Clinton were right.

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For those with selective memories, Benito Obama was characterized thusly by Joe Biden and Bill Clinton during the campaign:



As I may have mentioned... repeatedly... over and over again... the one thing that a president MUST have to sway the people... the one element that is required... and that Obama no longer has (Even to much of his base) is believability.

And the president doesn't have any left.

Like our local versions, Tim "The Liar" Leavitt and Steve "The Liar" Stuart,  lies and misleading statements to get elected kill your credibility.

Obama lied repeatedly to get elected.  And once elected, he lied repeatedly to get programs passed that have buried us under a mountain of debt that will take generations to repay... if it's repayable at all.

Within the past few weeks, he's lied about such mundane matters as Social Security checks and the like.

Combined with his weekly White House parties, multi-million dollar vacations and golf, what we seem to have acquired in a president is nothing so much as a re-incarnated Marie Antoinette.

So, when he grabs his bully pulpit and preaches to us about the fake impacts of  "defaulting," his shattered credibility keeps him from making any difference.

In the various military Leadership Academies I attended, as well as during my officer's training, we were taught that the basic underpinning of the art of leadership includes the requirement that, as a leader, you must never, ever, promise what you can't deliver.

That impacts at every level, both in the military... and in government.

Obama never served his country in the military.  He, apparently, never attended any school that taught the tenets of leadership, or if he did, he's long forgotten or ignored what he learned.

The result?  Last night's speech accomplished nothing. 

I didn't listen to Obama's speech.  I know, at a cellular level, that every time this guy talks, he's lying... so why bother, particularly when I can get the highlights in a few minutes and avoid wasting my time?

It was, as many believed it would be, a campaign speech.  Obama's trouble is that his verbiage rings hollow.

He's lied so much on so many things, he's hung so many people out and tossed so many under the passing buses that he can no longer move the population to his position merely because he says so.

He's lost the most important ability a president must have.

And he's got no one to blame but himself.
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Wu Who? FOX reports Wu has resigned.

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Just another Weiner, only bigger. And it took this long for these people to get rid of this psycho?

Sheesh.
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The truth seeps out: Stark Admission: Democrat Congressman Admits Debt Limit Debate Is a 'Charade'...

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Gee.  Ya think?


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Memo to the scum shilling for the Yakima Millionaires: you've got "alternate plans?" Feel free to use any one of them and leave us alone.

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The arrogant scum who own the Yakima Millionaires most likely killed any chance they had, no matter how small it was, to see their gigantic rip off through to fruition, Tim "The Liar" leavitt's bogus "perked up" fantasy notwithstanding.

The money part of the article showing them to be arrogant, scum-sucking slime?

Councilors Larry Smith and Jack Burkman said they wanted to hear alternatives to an admissions tax. They didn’t get any.

After the workshop, co-owner K.L. Wombacher said the team does have alternate plans, but they don’t involve the city of Vancouver.

“This is our first choice,” said Wombacher, whose team nabbed exclusive negotiating rights to a market that opened up after the Beavers left Portland.

The Portland-Vancouver market is the largest metropolitan area in the country without a professional baseball team.

“Baseball will return to the area,” Wombacher said.

But the team might be in Beaverton, Milwaukie or Portland, he said.

“There isn’t a stadium in the country that didn’t use some type of public financing,” Wombacher said.

Which excuses and justifies nothing.

That every other community in the country with one of these cess polls was stupid enough to go that route is meaningless here.

You left out the part where most every "public financing" project in the country ALSO had a VOTE.  But then, when it comes to raping us, facts aren't real big on your agenda.

Clearly, slimeballs like The Liar Leavitt and The Liar Stuart made assurances to you that precluded any other plan but taxing hundreds of thousands to get your crap pile built... and now they can't deliver.

Arrogance isn't an endearing trait.  Once again you and those shilling for you have been shown we don't want you here, we don't need you here and if you think that threatening to go somewhere else will do anything but help us to show your arrogant ass out the door, you've got another think coming.

Leavitt is the quintessential liar.  Harris is a psycho.  When they tell us that baseball would "enhance" the ghetto known as Vancouver, they're speaking with a voice lubricated by hundreds of thousands of people who will have to pay their fricking tax but who do not live in the Sewercouver and who will not have any benefit from this scam of any kind.  And how easy it is for the Bobbsey Twins of government to spend OUR money striped off the backs of small businesses here depending on those funds.

The only "opportunity" this is consists of an arrogant liar like Leavitt and Stuart doing all they can to rip off the people of this county so they can get a stadium built in their backyard at OUR expense.

Temple Lentz summed it up while bitch-slapping her former candidate:

Vancouver resident Temple Lentz, Leavitt’s former campaign manager, echoed many concerns of speakers, asking if a baseball stadium was the highest or best use of public money. At a time when public services are being cut, a fire station closed, federal grants used to keep cops on the street and the city lacks money to fill all its potholes, she questioned the rationality of raising a tax for a stadium.

She referenced an email Leavitt sent to Clark County Commissioner Steve Stuart about the odds of the city council supporting the tax.

“The terms political will and vision were used as qualities to make this happen,” she said. “But giving $20 million of other people’s money to the first guy who comes up and asks for it is not political will or vision.”

This entire concept is insane. The figures, which will likely be ignored with the study the Yakima Millionaires have bought and paid for, because, like the rip off of the CRC scam, these scum don't want any of the facts to interfere with their conclusions.

Kill this thing.  Let these arrogant assholes use their "alternate plans" and get the hell out of here while leaving us alone.  And they can take The Liar with them.
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Congrats to Tim Eyman. I-1125 gets certified.

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Leftist heads are exploding... again...  as Tim Eyman's work takes another step towards fruition with the likely outcome of both passage... and a stake through the heart of the organized crime known as the Columbia River Crossing.

Jim Moeller's probably having a cow.  The Liar's Leavitt and Stuart are hoping against hope this fails so they can continue their despicable games with those they're SUPPOSED to be protecting, instead of those who own them.

Voters to decide tolling initiative

Eyman measure qualifies for fall ballot

By Washington Secretary of State's office

Monday, July 25, 2011

Secretary of State Sam Reed on Monday certified Initiative 1125 to the statewide fall ballot. The measure, sponsored by initiative activist Tim Eyman, deals with transportation tolling.

The measure was the first citizen initiative to secure a place on the Nov. 8 ballot. State Elections Division crews began a random-sample check of I-1183, submitted by Costco and other supporters of a plan to privatize liquor sales in Washington. A third measure, a home care-worker initiative submitted by SEIU, I-1163, will follow in order.

The certificate signed by Secretary Reed said I-1125 backers submitted 328,632 signatures, enough to allow a 3 percent random sample of 10,012 signatures. Checkers rejected 1,051: Registrations were not found for 940 signers, a signature verification from the voter’s home county was still pending for 27 people, 71 signatures did not match the one on file, and 13 pairs of duplicates were found. All told the error rate was calculated at 14.63 percent.

The measure easily qualified for the ballot. It takes 241,153 valid signatures to win a spot. The full text is here.

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