Screaming Goat's Reaction to Obama Arguing Against His Own Idea

[PapaG]

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[PapaG]

Egypt's gift from the US of $1 billion in military aid won't be touched, of course.

 

[PapaG]

"These cuts are wrong. They’re not smart. They’re not fair. They’re a self-inflicted wound that doesn’t have to happen," Obama told the crowd.
- Barack Obama February 2013

“Already, some in Congress are trying to undo these automatic spending cuts. My message to them is simple: No. I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts – domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off-ramps on this one.”

 

[jlprk]

Congtatulations. A goat. You have found some incontrovertible evidence. I wouldn't touch it with a 10-foot smelly pitchfork.

 

[Shooter]

Egypt's gift from the US of $1 billion in military aid won't be touched, of course.

Nor will the billions we give to places like Jordan, Pakistan, Colombia, Peru, and Brazil. I've never understood why more Americans don't care about the vast amounts of money we give away in foreign aid, especially when the country is in such enormous debt.

 

[MARIS61]

Nor will the billions we give to places like Jordan, Pakistan, Colombia, Peru, and Brazil. I've never understood why more Americans don't care about the vast amounts of money we give away in foreign aid, especially when the country is in such enormous debt.

We could at least give it to honorable, peace-loving countries instead of to the vile mass murderers we always support.

 

[jlprk]

Was Screaming Goat a great Indian leader?

 

[maxiep]

It is a really interesting situation. Usually, the President wants to help improve the lot of the average American. However, in this case, President Obama is politically incentivized to make the sequester as painful as possible. After all, as one Democratic operative admitted, the worst thing that could happen is that the sequester occurred and no one noticed. If that circumstance happens, then increasing the size and scope of government becomes a much harder argument.

The Chinese curse of "may you live in interesting times" seems to be coming to pass.

 

[Denny Crane]

Was Screaming Goat a great Indian leader?

What have you done to make a goat scream lately?

 

[PapaG]

It is a really interesting situation. Usually, the President wants to help improve the lot of the average American. However, in this case, President Obama is politically incentivized to make the sequester as painful as possible. After all, as one Democratic operative admitted, the worst thing that could happen is that the sequester occurred and no one noticed. If that circumstance happens, then increasing the size and scope of government becomes a much harder argument.

The Chinese curse of "may you live in interesting times" seems to be coming to pass.

Yeah, when you exaggerate the consequences of some sort of doomsday, emails such as this one occur, and get leaked to the press.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/5/email-tells-feds-make-sequester-painful-promised/

The Obama administration denied an appeal for flexibility in lessening the sequester’s effects, with an email this week appearing to show officials in Washington that because they already had promised the cuts would be devastating, they now have to follow through on that.

In the email sent Monday by Charles Brown, an official with the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service office in Raleigh, N.C., Mr. Brown asked “if there was any latitude” in how to spread the sequester cuts across the region to lessen the impacts on fish inspections.

He said he was discouraged by officials in Washington, who gave him this reply: “We have gone on record with a notification to Congress and whoever else that ‘APHIS would eliminate assistance to producers in 24 states in managing wildlife damage to the aquaculture industry, unless they provide funding to cover the costs.’ So it is our opinion that however you manage that reduction, you need to make sure you are not contradicting what we said the impact would be.”

Meanwhile, thankfully the TSA basically told Obama to shove delays up his ass, because I flew yesterday and today for a quick trip, and the long lines threatened at LAX just weren't there.

 

[PapaG]

Congtatulations. A goat. You have found some incontrovertible evidence. I wouldn't touch it with a 10-foot smelly pitchfork.

The goat makes more sense than you do at times, old friend.

Plus, come on, it's funny.

 

[jlprk]

Meanwhile, thankfully the TSA basically told Obama to shove delays up his ass, because I flew yesterday and today for a quick trip, and the long lines threatened at LAX just weren't there.

Give the furloughs time. But with machines looking through clothes, and little rooms where they put on gloves and make you bend over, you have worded an apt metaphor for the TSA.