President Flimflam

Flimflam as defined by Dictionary.com:

Flimflam on Signing Statements

 

You may have heard that, under the Constitution, "Congress controls the purse strings."

This means funding, and defunding, of programs, agencies, initiatives, and even personnel is controlled by Congress. This has always granted a certain amount of security to Americans. It's comforting to know that, if a president goes off the deep end (say, to start an undeclared war in Libya), Congress could always reign him in by defunding the effort.

Of course, the president may veto a bill that funds or defunds a federal initiative. However, he cannot do a "line item veto" of a specific provision of a bill he doesn't like. (The Supreme Court ruled on this in Clinton versus New York City.)

Historically, when the language of a bill is ambiguous, the president may add a signing statement to indicate his interpretation of a bill's ambiguous language. That's fine. But if the language is not ambiguous, the president has no constitutional authority to ignore a provision of a law he simply dislikes.

Well, President Obama ("the annointed one") transcends the quaint notion of separation of powers as outlined in the US Constitution.  According to Talking Points Media, On Friday, 15 April 2011, in a despicable betrayal of the budget deal Obama heralded just one week before, President Flimflam overruled Congressional defunding of four Czar positions.

No, he didn't veto the bill he helped negotiate; instead, he simply issued a signing statement saying he  (as king?) would simply ignore that part of the law. His signing statement could have been headlined:

To Congress: Damn The Constitution! Full Speed Ahead! (PS. Screw You)

Hey Independents: Are you going to be stupid again in 2012 and fall for President Flimflam's rosy rhetoric and glib generalities? Or, will you finally believe what you can see with your own eyes?

Just watch the video below and you'll see why Obama is one person who's word is not to be trusted in budget deals. He will lie straight to your face, and when you call him on it, tell you that you must have misunderstood.

 

Where Have I Been

Busy - and overwhelmed by the numerous flimflams of the Obama Administration. From closing Gitmo, eschewing wars of choice, to vetoing bills with earmarks to transparency, nothing President Obama says can be trusted.

How do you know when President Obama is lying? His lips are moving.

I'll try to do better at keeping the catalogue of his flimflams up to date.

President Flimflam On Healthcare

To believe President Flimflam is telling the truth about his health care plan having a public option that will co-exist with other private insurance options, you have to be a complete moron.

Watch this to see the flimflam he's putting out:

Breaking News From The AP

Just heard a news report from the Associated Press ...

They devoted nearly 30 seconds on a report that President Obama took decisive action and killed a fly.

My God! Our Republic is truly doomed.

Air Force One Flimflam

President Flimflam thought it would be cool to send pictures of Air Force One buzzing Manhattan. Of course, his narcissism blinded him to the fact that New Yorkers have a tragic history with low flying jumbo jets over their city.

As everyone knows by now, President Flimflam wants to be loved by all people as much as he loves himself. So he sent his Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs (shortened from Goebbels, then Gibbels?), out to tell his media water boys "The One" knew nothing about this.

The media water boys (and girls) dutifully went out into the country to sell us the hogwash all that some low level staffer commissioned this foolish flight. To Gibbels, we should all believe it's completely plausible a clerk would have authority to send a 747 flying low over Manhattan with an F-15 fighter escort. Yeah, right.

Once the reality of the situation sunk into the Narcissist-In-Chief's numb skull, the White House threw some poor military liaison under bus to divert responsibility from President Flimflam.

Maybe the White House should have just used Photoshop to get the image they wanted. The folks over at Citizen Direct apparently know how to do it:

Flimflam Is An Old Presidential Artform

President Flimflams Veterans

During the campaign, President Flimflam promised veterans he would be their ally, even dedicating a part of his campaign site to woo, and deceive, the vets. They even published a slick PDF touting their support.

Now comes the flimflam.

In an article on the American Legion web site, we've learned that President Flimflam intends to charge the private insurance held by veterans to cover the costs of their wartime injuries.

Many active duty and guard members keep private insurance to cover themselves and families for expenses not covered by their military medical coverage.

What do you think will happen if this fool gets his way?

Insurance companies, facings $Millions in losses for wartime injuries, will simply raise rates on veterans to the point they can no longer afford private insurance for their families. Or, they'll exclude more illnesses, like psychological services. Or, they'll charge everyone else for what is morally a government responsibility.

Small business owners, already struggling under President Flimflam's anti-business policies, will face a sad choice: hire a wounded vet and watch their company premiums skyrocket or do the safe thing and don't hire the wounded vet.  Even worse, to be extra safe, they may just choose to avoid hiring anyone in the Guard or Reserves.

Even the ultra-socialist, New Dealer Roosevelt didn't try this nonsense. What do you think the reaction of the American people would have been if he had done this in WW II? Honestly, I don't think revolution would have been too strong of a word.

How much does President Flimflam hope to gain by all this?

How much money does this guy plan to raise from the wounded vets insurance premiums after already wasting trillions of dollars on bank bailouts and phony stimulus, hundreds of billions of dollars in a bill with nearly 9,000 pork-filled earmarks, and many trillions more in wasteful spending promised?

Exactly what fortunes does he plan to generate out of blood and sacrifice of our wounded veterans, their families, and employers?

Oh, a measly $540 million. After wasting trillions of taxpayer dollars, President Flimflam will raise only about 1/2 of a $Billion.

Joe Biden wasted nearly three times that subsidizing his government-run railroad, Amtrak. Harry Reid wasted 16 times that amount with his $8 Billion earmark for a rail line between Disneyland and Las Vegas that reid slipped into the Spendulous bill in the dark of the night. (Still, President Flimflam assured the nation there were no earmarks in the Spendulous bill.)

No matter.

President Flimflam has an insatiable appetite for spending - even if it means taking the money indirectly from wounded warriors.

That is big money out of the pockets of our wounded vets, but small potatoes to the power hungry, big spending politicians in Washington, D.C.

Can He Sink Any Lower?

To pile any additional burden directly or indirectly on the proud men and women who have already sacrificed so much is a grievous shirking of our nation's duty to these heroes and a moral abomination.

President Flimflam must really hate our troops. Or perhaps he merely loves bailing out banks and dishonest home buyers more.

Maybe the severe physical and mental injuries suffered by men and women in combat just don't seem all that significant to our nation's Community-Organizer-In-Chief?

This man is pathetic and dangerous to core principles of our nation.

My God! I thought it was impossible despise President Flimflam and his administration today more than I did yesterday. It's not impossible; today I do.

Mr. President, I Present Your Tracking Poll

President FlimFlam says he doesn't want to bother keeping his eye on your savings and retirement 'cause the stock market is just like a political tracking poll:

Well, Mr. President, here's the tracking poll on your economic programs for the week so far:

  (Chart courtesy of E*Trade at etrade.com)

Even Mad Money's Jim Cramer finally recognizes you are destroying American with your radical agenda:

Meanwhile, While Rome Burns...

However, this must not be bothering you too much given that you and your ilk are dancing the night away at your weekly White House parties.

Obama is President Flimflam

One week, President Obama explodes the federal deficit with a pork-laden Spendulous bill. (I first heard that term for Obama's grotesque pork bill from Michele Malkin.) It will add more than a $1,200,000,000,000 (that's 1.2 trillion dollars) to the debt when short term interest is included. The flimflam comes the next week when he convenes a sham panel to discuss fiscal responsibility.

During the campaign, Obama promised to eliminate earmarks from the budget. Now, he says he will sign a $410 Billion Omnibus spending bill to fund the rest of FY2009 - a bill that contains 9,000 earmarks. The flimflam is revealed when you learn some of the 9,000 earmarks were co-sponsored by members of his own cabinet. Even more flimflam is revealed when you learn that some of the earmarks were co-sponsored by Senator Obama himself. Yet, those are but minor acts of flimflam and hypocrisy. The real flimflam is now underway.

An article in the Washington Post reveals that Obama's cronies on the Senate Appropriations Committee will ensure the American people are completely deceived by removing Obama's name from earmarks in the bill. When President Obama signs a bill with 9,000 earmarks, after promising to eliminate earmarks, none of these pork rinds will carry his name. Obama has truly elevated flimflam to an art form.

He proposes a nearly $4 Trillion annual budget for FY2010, greatly growing the size of the federal government and setting a record $1.2 Trillion deficit. (That number was pulled out of... well, somewhere... by his crack economists when they assumed a rosy 2010 economic growth rate.) But in a speech to Congress the same week, Obama  pledges to cut the federal deficit in half by FY2013 - but not half of what it was last year. First, he more than doubles the deficit, then smiles while telling you he's going to cut the deficit in half in four years. But under his own, rosy-scenario budget, the deficit goes to half of his bloated deficit figure for only one year and then begins increasing again and rises to 3/4 of his FY2010 $1.2 Trillion deficit  Folks, this is pure, unadulterated flimflam.

Even the left is not spared from his cons.

In the campaign, Obama pledged to withdraw US troops from Iraq within 16 months of becoming President, mocking Senator McCain for saying we may need to keep some troops there as long as Iraq will allow them to stay. Now he says he'll keep combat troops engaged for 19 months and leave 50,000 troops there as long as Iraq will allow them to stay.

It gets even better.

While trying to secure the Democrat nomination, Obama promised, "No more warrantless wiretaps if you elect me." The left was elated. Once the nomination was sewn up, Obama did a complete flip-flop reversing his position on the issue. This week, an appeals court rejected President Obama's legal moves to kill a lawsuit on the issue.

(We happen to love the warrantless wiretaps. With terrorists launching attacks with a one-time use of a disposable cell phone, it's ridiculous to think law enforcement should have to get a warrant for each and every phone line owned by the terrorists. When lives are at stake, it should be sufficient to make a case against a terrorist and then have free reign to tap any phone or computer line the bastard uses.)

Of course, ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN journalists ("Obamalists"), nearly every on-air personality at MSNBC, including "Tingles" and "Butch", will continue to gush over President Obama.There's simply no cure for these always predictable, Obama sycophantic zombies.

Everyone else, including many who voted for him, now recognize Obama richly deserves the title of President Flimflam.