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2013-03-01 Government

Hell freezes over as MSM Turns Against Obama's Sequester Narrative

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Posted by Besoeker 2013-03-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Despite the Woodward thing, the leftist press will now be unrelenting in their attempts to aid Obama in blaming conservatives of all stripes for this, even though he proposed it and signed it into law. Every iota of perceived suffering and deprivation that happens in the U.S. for any reason will, for the foreseeable future, be blamed on the sequester and believers in limited government, by the usual goon squad at NPR, PBS, the alphabet networks, NYT, etc. They will go full court press with this from now until forever.

The administration has always known that a double dip recession followed by high inflation, and an ultimate need to cut the size of the federal workforce, was in the cards and now they think they have something they can use to blame all of that entirely on the Republicans. Every LIV and pseudointellectual in the country will swallow that notion whole because they tune in to information streams run by reporters and editors who will carve out the facts before they go to copy. Every public sector employee and rent-seeker and grant recipient will now experience the one thing they thought they could avoid by taking a public functionary or NGO job - anxiety - and because of the personality type they predominantly represent by being in those industries in the first place they will freak out, and be pushed into voting Dem (if they don't already) despite whatever other ideas they have on issues.

This has, therefore, been a gamble by the Repubs, too. If that number of individuals is large enough they will lose the House in 2014. It may be that the fear machine this administration is running, abetted by a sycophant (outside of a few brave souls) press, will unlimately work in the Dems favor for the 2014 elections. The fearmongering ultimately ran out of steam in the '90's when the Clinton administration lied and continuously ran on the idea that the center/right would kill children and starve old people and bring back Jim Crow if they got their way. That propaganda strategy ultimately didn't work because times were good economically and a Republican house eventually was able to get things like welfare reform and international labor market reform and a more reasonable, almost balanced budget. Times are tough now, though, and vast swaths of people will vote on one issue and one issue only; keep the magic government checks coming no matter the ultimate collateral damage to the country, to avoid the anxiety of the dreaded private sector. This applies also to foundations and "charities" and the like who subsist on government grant largess. The private donations are drying up and the bolt-hole of the public sector monies is now threatened, and the howling has only just begun.

The truth is that America will recover and be on the right path again when the wealthy suburbs around D.C., filled with people making high five-figure and six-figure salaries as functionaries, bureaucrats, regulators, lawyers, and lobbyists, gotten by stealing tax money from productive private businesses, are reduced to impoverished ghost towns, and that money is back out circulating in private industry. The administration and their backers aren't really interested in the nation as a whole doing better, they are merely interested in making sure the fantasy of perfect income stream security backed by the power of the state continues for their constituent base of public workers, private unions, NGO's, and welfare recipients.

Posted by no mo uro 2013-03-01 05:59|| 2013-03-01 05:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Spot on NMU. The irony appears to be, we have the pen of our very own master of obfuscation, the unfailingly odious Barack Hussein Obama to soon thank for a miniscule reduction in the rate of government spending.

The first question I now ask when any of these beltway scandals beset someone like Mr. Woodward; is he by chance writing a book ?

One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled them.
¯ Ben Carson, Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

Posted by Besoeker 2013-03-01 07:35|| 2013-03-01 07:35|| Front Page Top

#3 This is an excellent analysis of Obama and his motives.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2013-03-01 07:40|| 2013-03-01 07:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Thanks Deacon! Excellent indeed.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-03-01 07:47|| 2013-03-01 07:47|| Front Page Top

#5 Maybe this is the beginning of a media rebellion. Obama or his proxies have given veiled threats to Lanny Davis, Bob Woodward, and Ron Fournier. The few times Obama has had a press conference, they are saccharine affairs, which are a complete waste of time. If a reporter does have the audacity to ask a real question of substance, Obama flashes anger and dismisses and puts down the questioner.

Posted by JohnQC 2013-03-01 08:09|| 2013-03-01 08:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Good article Deacon. However I think the center of the ObamaUniverse is none other than the lightbringer - Obama himself. Public Spending is simply the live-giving sunlight which the shining one blesses us with - and the Evil Republicans are the clouds which threaten to block that sunlight and starve children and force the elderly to eat dried catfood.
As for the media - the vast majority will back the president, echo his outright lies as the one truth forever and ever, and never report anything 'bad' - except to blame it on the evil repubicans.

Posted by CrazyFool 2013-03-01 08:31|| 2013-03-01 08:31|| Front Page Top

#7 Obama looked constipated when he was speaking this last week and the press has just had a major bowel movement over Woodward's commentary on the President's performance as President and on the economy.

Anyone with 1/8,1/4,1/2 of a functioning brain sees that this administration runs on lies, fabrications, misinformation, in short horse shit.

Very few thinking people are buying the administrations latest brand of hallucinations regarding the economy after sequestration goes in effect.

A definition: A hallucination is a perception in the absence of a stimulus which has qualities of real perception.

Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus possibly lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or uses loaded messages to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented.

Unfortunately, the administration still has 46 months to go, and more narratives to invent.

Posted by Your Name Here 2013-03-01 08:52|| 2013-03-01 08:52|| Front Page Top

#8 The truth is that America will recover...

..when it finally comes to rest in the Big Crash. The ruling class is unable if not just unwilling to acknowledge that the engine of the American economy is the middle class. No amount of 'pumping', 'priming', or manipulation can move it. Those actions by government can guide it or hinder it, but never make it run. As long as the middle class perceives that any effort it makes will just be wasted away, stolen, or rendered useless, it sees no value in altering the current economic stasis situation. This is a class of Americans who can plan a future beyond the immediacies of the next welfare or government check or issue of food stamps, that other 49 percent. They're going to hold on to their assets as long as possible. That means they're only going to buy, spend, or invest what is necessary. The ruling class problem is that they can convince the takers to vote for them, but they can't force the makers to produce. Remember, a slave only works hard enough to avoid punishment. And the masters up in the plantation house can complain, moan, and curse as much as they want. It's not going to change the situation other than drive the lot of us deeper into the hole from which we have to climb back out of.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-03-01 09:27|| 2013-03-01 09:27|| Front Page Top

#9 Look at it this way, Oblahblah IS NOT getting it HIS WAY so he's pissed.

Well good, about time he's pissed and can't do squat.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-03-01 09:34|| 2013-03-01 09:34|| Front Page Top

#10 Very true P2k. Another hopeful sign is the continued growth and successes now taking place among American firms in the global market. Berkshire-Hathaway's recent $ 72.50 per share offer for Heinz (HNZ) is a good example. Warren doesn't chase dogs. I can only imagine the economic recovery we could be realizing if it were not for current regime.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-03-01 09:40|| 2013-03-01 09:40|| Front Page Top

#11 Media won't rebel. They made Champ. They own him. Till death do they part.

But if Champ catches enough headwind he might be dead in the water. The sooner he becomes a lame duck the better. How about right now?

Posted by Iblis 2013-03-01 10:26|| 2013-03-01 10:26|| Front Page Top

#12 There is very little real growth in the country. Unemployment is still about what it was during the past four years ~ 8%. The real (uncooked) unemployment rate is much higher. I still see many companies that are stagnant and a number of others that are still laying off. The stock market is propped up by the Fed, hedge funders, institutional investors, and speculators. The average person (the middle class as P2K says) is staying away from the market after the 2007-2008 crash. There is no trust by the average person for the stock market. Maybe, I'm a doom-merchant, but it seems like the stock market is just another bubble to break. It is a bubble to break just as was the real-estate sub-prime loan fiasco that robbed so many middle class people of their wealth.

Posted by JohnQC 2013-03-01 10:26|| 2013-03-01 10:26|| Front Page Top

#13 6 years of Obama and it's still the republicans fault...

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2013-03-01 12:20|| 2013-03-01 12:20|| Front Page Top

#14 ..well at least they can pin a name on the 'devil'. The old Marxists blame 'counter revolutionary saboteurs' for the failures of the regime.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-03-01 12:31|| 2013-03-01 12:31|| Front Page Top

#15 The attacks on Woodward have started. Andrew Sullivan (spit) called him a liar.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2013-03-01 12:45|| 2013-03-01 12:45|| Front Page Top

#16 Obama's turn in the barrel ? Prolly not yet.

Posted by junkiron 2013-03-01 13:25|| 2013-03-01 13:25|| Front Page Top

#17 6 years of Obama and it's still the republicans fault...

I think in 2014 it will be the fault of the House Republicans. It will be interesting to see how many of them survive that onslaught.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-03-01 14:04|| 2013-03-01 14:04|| Front Page Top

#18 We could actually have a really good 2014. Off year election usually goes against the party in power. Throw in growing Obama fatigue. Finally, we won't have a RINO at the top of the ticket suppressing turnout.

Posted by Iblis 2013-03-01 15:30|| 2013-03-01 15:30|| Front Page Top

#19 If we have a good 2014, but Boehner stays Speaker, there will be real, not imagined, threats of "Civil War" in the GOP. I'll also be shocked if he doesn't face a primary challenge.

Note McConnell is getting threatened, but Boehner? Well useful idiots need to be kept.

Posted by Charles 2013-03-01 19:39|| 2013-03-01 19:39|| Front Page Top

#20 The MSM is historically on the side of the DemoLeft - as a general rule, however imperfectly the GOP-Right will always be held or deemed at fault no matter the issue.

The GOP-Right will be blamed for the deficits + sequester, just as it will be blamed iff Israel attacks Iran or a China-Japan shooting war breaks out in NE Asia, just as it will be blamed iff the Bammer decides at the last moment NOT to militarily back Israel or intervene on the side of Iran.

A STRONG AMERICA IS NOT IMPORTANT TO THE DEMOLEFT AS EXPANDING THE DEBT + PROTECTING THE US WELFARE-NANNY STATE [read, free $$$], SOON TO BE THE US GLOBAL WELFARE-NANNY STATE.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-03-01 20:58|| 2013-03-01 20:58|| Front Page Top

#21 As per LUCIANNE, the Bammer is repor asking the White House Press Corps for tips on how to communicate + deal effectively wid the Republicans.

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