[News24] President Barack Obama couldn't bring two battling political parties together to forestall steep budget cuts on Friday, but he did manage a feat of more cosmic proportions. His midiclorians were acting up.
The president brought two universes together, and he did it by boldly going where no politician should ever go: confusing Star Wars and Star Trek. "Dammit, Jim! I'm a president, not a dictator!"
Obama's mixing of science-fiction metaphors crossed a final frontier, setting the nerdiest corners of the Internet ablaze. "A tempest in a teapot it is!"
The president was answering reporters' questions on Friday in the White House briefing room, shortly after a last-minute meeting with the Democratic and Republican leaders of the House of Representatives and Senate. "Aye. The haggis is in the fire for sure!"
The meeting failed to ward off automatic budget cuts that will begin carving $85bn of government spending by day's end. "Help me, Obi-Wan! You're our only hope!"
Obama rejected the idea of using burly Secret Service agents to keep lawmakers from leaving until everyone agreed on a budget. "Luke! Luke! I am your grandfather!"
"I am not a dictator. I'm the president," he said, explaining that he wouldn't do a "Jedi mind meld" with Congress' top two Republicans to persuade them "to do what's right." "May the farce be with you!"
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Wonderful inline Fred!
All that is missing is a reference to Scotty "givin' it all she'll take but i canno' say how much more the ol' girl will take, Cap'n."
[THEHILL] The White House is coming under pressure from liberal Democrats in the House and Senate to press for a minimum wage hike as high as $10.10. Pikers! Go ahead and make it $20!
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) argues President Obama "missed the mark" in calling to raise the minimum wage to $9 in his State of the Union address, and his staff met with White House staff last week to argue for a higher number. Wotta cheapskate.
The veteran senator, who will retire at the end of this Congress, is working with Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) on legislation that would raise the minimum wage to $10.10 over three years and then index future increases to inflation. That'd be the snake of cause and effect gnawing at its own tail.
"Well, we're going to introduce our own bill on it," Harkin told The Hill on Tuesday. "I'm going to be in discussions with them because I think they missed the mark, but people make mistakes." "What's a few bucks here and there? It's only money!"
Besides Harkin and Miller -- a confidant of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) -- Democrats backing a higher minimum wage hike include Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.) and Rep. Charles Rangel (N.Y.).
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You know that if you lock down the border and ship home much of the unskilled illegal 'imported' labor, the wages of the entry/low skill Americans would rise naturally. Of course, where's the graft and patronage in that approach?
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Might as well make it a $1,000/h. Everything will cost more to cover the increased salary so go for the fucking sky dudes. The net result will be the same. $1.29 "dollar" burger will cost $2 at $10.10. $100 at a grand an hour. It is just a simple math equation to see how much things will cost.
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No problem g(r)om. Following Champ's fake press conference yesterday, we now realize the sequester is to blame for the economic downturn which began last November 5th.
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I call my plan "50-50" (trademark applied for), that is, the 50% that don't pay income tax now get $50/hour. See it's a win-win situation. They get their money that they deserve and money flows from the unicorn's butt into the taxman's hands.
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Following Champ's fake press conference yesterday, we now realize the sequester is to blame for the economic downturn which began last November 5th.
And It's ALL BUSH'S FAULT, (Of course)NEVER Oblahblah's.
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[Real Clear Politics] PRESIDENT OBAMA: "I am not a dictator; I'm the president. So, ultimately if Mitch McConnell or John Boehner say we need to go to catch a plane, I can't have Secret Service block the doorway, right?"
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But, but, but I'm not going to play the blame game.
[Prop 8, Prop 8 .... who has the question on Prop 8, where is she...]
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The Latin word Imperator was originally a title roughly equivalent to commander under the Roman Republic. Later it became a part of the titulature of the Roman Emperors as part of their cognomen. - wiki
Because of their history, the Roman tyrants couldn't use the word for King (Rex) for their position and office, so the term emperor was adopted from the existing lexicon to fulfill the same purpose.
White House press corpse fawning, diapered, dimwits [I hate you, you disgusting white preppies]. Wat am I to do? They hate me because I am black right. They are clueless, the Amerikan people must intervene, when they themselves awaken and become less clueless. That's all I have, no more scripted questions. I must go, Moochelle must be tucked.
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Dictators have a hard time getting traction when all the peasants have guns. The US has enough of them that we don't worry too long about Dictatorships.
The US is kinda a Cool place. The ideologues can argue about politics but the common ordinary citizen even if he has a Walmart mind...still knows about the Second Amendment and Habeas Corpus. And too many people have been through the USMarines and out on the street again for some cheap ass bitch to think he can be Dictator.
There is such a thing as American character. Don't push people around and don't try to step on snakes. Plus there are a lot of us who don't like to get bumped while we finish a beer.
Obama won't last forever. He has shown he is incompetent. That will be his legacy. And the plumbing still works.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] resident Obama signed an order Friday night to begin automatic budget cuts across most federal departments.
The White House released a copy of the order at 8:31 p.m. Friday, directing federal agencies to reduce spending in various accounts by percentages calculated by the Office on Management and Budget.
After failing to reach a deal with congressional leaders to avoid $85 billion in automatic "sequester" budget cuts, President Obama on Friday blamed the crisis squarely on Republican lawmakers.
"They've allowed these cuts to happen because they refuse to budge on closing a single wasteful loophole to help reduce the deficit," Mr. Obama said at the White House after a Friday morning meeting with top congressional Republicans and Democrats that broke no new ground. "Many middle-class families will have their lives disrupted in significant ways."
But neither side showed any signs of yielding Friday, and Republicans said the reason for the impasse is Mr. Obama's insistence on more tax increases.
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Of course, It CANT be HIS fault, he's GOD. (You know.)
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..and the whole idea of sequester was the One's idea. In Obamaspeak 'impass' mean they won't agree to all his dictates.
While a state appointed non-machine emergency manager would have the power to cut spending by consolidating city services, privatizing services and assets, and canceling contracts, he or she could also declare the city bankrupt. Could be a model for the White House and the national level. Stand-by for further instructions Willard.
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Conflicted here; glad that the adults are now moving in to take charge, but sad that three of my siblings, still living in Michigan, will probably be tapped to pay off the bills...
[DETROITNEWS] Medicare paid billions in taxpayer dollars to nursing homes nationwide that were not meeting basic requirements to look after their residents, government investigators have found. You can tell a decent nursing home by sniffing when you walk in the door. If it smells like poop don't leave Grandmaw there.
The report, released Thursday by the Department of Health and Human Services' inspector general, said Medicare paid about $5.1 billion for patients to stay in skilled nursing facilities that failed to meet federal quality of care rules in 2009, in some cases resulting in dangerous and neglectful conditions.
One out of every three times patients wound up in nursing homes that year, they landed in facilities that failed to follow basic care requirements laid out by the federal agency that administers Medicare, investigators estimated.
By law, nursing homes need to write up care plans specially tailored for each resident, so doctors, nurses, therapists and all other caregivers are on the same page about how to help residents reach the highest possible levels of physical, mental and psychological well-being.
Not only are residents often going without the crucial help they need, but the government could be spending taxpayer money on facilities that could endanger people's health, the report concluded. The findings come as concerns about health care quality and cost are garnering heightened attention as the Obama administration implements the nation's sweeping health care overhaul.
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[Real Clear Politics] PRESIDENT OBAMA: "I am not a dictator; I'm the president. So, ultimately if Mitch McConnell or John Boehner say we need to go to catch a plane, I can't have Secret Service block the doorway, right?"
[WASHINGTONTIMES] resident Obama signed an order Friday night to begin automatic budget cuts across most federal departments.
