Let Us In! We Are Purple!

From a FireDogLake post entitled: Worst. Inauguration. Ever. Evidently a great many ticket holders never did get an opportunity to join in the festivities.

Might this not serve as a parable of sorts of what a great number of people experience whenever they put their full faith, propserity and well-being into the hands of a large and growing Federal Government that will and can never meet the needs of everyone? Yes.

Will the lesson be learned? I have my doubts.

I'm also confident that if you affirm to vote for Obama in 2012 ... he'll promise to do better.

But there was no escape--no chance to leave my area. I was boxed in. I couldn't join the line of latecomers.

People chanted, "Let us in." People chanted, "We have tickets." People chanted "we are purple," waving their precious 4x6 inch tickets in the air.

And then they just started begging and shouting. Let us in. We have tickets. We've been here for hours. Let us in.

And then it was noon. And everything stopped.

And then a 21-gunner of deafening percussion.

And then, shear, crushing disappointment descends over the crowd. Unlike the smiles on all the faces you walked by on, say, election night, or in the metro last night, this crowd had to summon up all they had left after multiple hours in the cold to give a tepid ovation to the inauguration of a new president.

Comments

[mark l.]

funniest moment of the night-

megyn kelly on fox, after describing troop enthusiam for w,

there's one guy with a "purple heart on".

[SacTownMan]

Imagine the nerve of those hopey/changey common folk fools.

I bet if you were a hollywood celebrity sitting in those front row chairs you could see everything!

Proof positive it ain't what you know, it's who you blow!

Suckers!!

[Lala]

More private jets flew into Washington then ever before. What does that tell you?
My daughter's roommate went to the Huffington party, I can't wait to hear the skinny on it.

[jharp]

You're right. It should be contracted out to private industry.

I hear that the promoters from the 1980 "The Who" concert in Cincinnati are able to guarantee everyone who has a ticket gets in. No matter how big the crowd is.

Disclaimer. No guarantees you won't crushed to death.

[jharp]

Oh, and by the way. Mrs. jharp had the time of her life. Unbelievable crowd and unbelievable enthusiasm.

To the victors go the spoils.

[ET]

so, how's this for irony...

Obama inherits a stable Iraq, thanks to George Bush's ability to overcome democratic calls for surrender.

Obama also inherits the worst banking crisis in the nation's history, thanks to barney frank, chris dodd and their friends at fannie and freddie.

This leads to the WORST inauguration day stock market in HISTORY.

Thanks for doing your job, GWB. With friends like these democrats, Obama doesn't need any enemies.

[ET]

Good Morning, Mr. President. I hope you enjoyed the ball. Here's a little something to go with your national security briefing.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aOYw.awwsNSg&refer=worldwide

[Lala]

You would think that some of the 170 million Obama spent would have been used to take care of the people who love him so much.

[jharp]

ET,

"Obama inherits a stable Iraq"

And all it's taking is 150,000 U.S. troops and $12 billion U.S. taxpayers per month. And while our economy is in critical condition. Some priorities you've got ET. And we don't even get a thank you. (though we do from time to time get a few of our guys blown up)

You guys are wearing me down with the stupid. Especially ET and Anon.

[jharp]

You would think that some of the 170 million Obama spent would have been used to take care of the people who love him so much.

Posted by: Lala | Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 11:00 PM

It was you birdbrain. $120 million of it was spent to keep people safe. And here all this time I thought safety came first.

Good Lord. You idiots can't even keep your talking points straight.

[North Dallas Thirty]

"And while our economy is in critical condition."

That's funny, jharp, especially since the Congressional Budget Office just released this:

"The government wouldn’t be able to spend at least one-fourth of a proposed $825 billion economic stimulus plan until after 2010, according to a new report that suggests it may take longer than expected to boost the economy.

A Congressional Budget Office analysis of President Barack Obama’s plan found that most of the approximately $355 billion in proposed discretionary spending on highways, renewable energy and other initiatives wouldn’t be spent before 2011. The government would spend about $26 billion of the money this year and $110 billion more next year, the report said. ........

The analysis suggests that much of the stimulus may not come until after the economy has begun to recover. The CBO has previously said it expected a “slow” recovery to begin later this year and that the economy will expand by a “modest” 1.5 percent in 2010."

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aJAoR5GECKWo&refer=home

In other words, the Obama Party insists the economy is in "critical" condition, but refuses to spend the money it's demanding this year, instead waiting until AFTER the economy recovers to release it.

And what's even funnier; the Obama Party's chief researchers admit that the New Deal spending was not effective and that massive tax cuts would be more effective and cost less than the so-called "stimulus", but put ideology first.

"Now, though, Romer and other Obama advisers are betting that the $825 billion package under consideration in the House will be big enough to alter the history that they've all studied.

They are also betting on the fact that a package divided between $550 billion in spending and $275 billion in tax cuts will be the right mix, even though Romer's research also shows tax cuts to have a larger multiplier effect on the economy than spending."

http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/20/news/economy/obama_inauguration.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2009012008

In short, the Obama Party and its tax-dodging syncophants like yourself are screaming about how we need to "save" the economy now....but have no intention of actually spending the money to do so, and are deliberately neglecting the most effective way to stimulate the economy in favor of ideology-based government spending.

[ET]

--You guys are wearing me down with the stupid.

Coming from jharp, that is hilarious! The poster of the most ignorant, inane and insulting posts is worn down? By all the effort and thought he puts into making sound arguments based on facts?

hahahahahahaha!

You are a clown.

[North Dallas Thirty]

Oh, and jharp, what do you think of the latest from the Obama Party?

http://wweek.com/editorial/3510/12093/

Then again, I suppose you don't see anything wrong with having sex with minors, lying about it, ordering the other person to lie, and then orchestrating a coverup by giving jobs to people who have no qualifications other than knowing about the sex.

[Neo]

Some how, this reminds me of the White House tour .. you wait forever in line, you go in, you walk through, it's over.

[SacTownMan]

"you go in, you walk through, it's over."

This sounds like the horror the "wifey" must go through to have sex with Harpo!

[mark l.]

"And all it's taking is 150,000 U.S. troops and $12 billion U.S. taxpayers per month."

12 billion is a lot of money?

obama is going for back to back trillion dollar deficits, which would pay for another 14 years in Iraq.

the cost of the war, even were one to use the stiglitz numbers, still would account for only 14% of obama's proposed deficit, if he can hold it to a trillion. A two trillion hit, is far more likely, which would make Iraq less than 7% of his budget over run. Pretend he gets the troops out tomorrow, he just has to come up with 800 billion to provide for his spending increases, at minimum.

[mark l.]

jharp-
here's some sites for scoring obama daily...

http://icasualties.org/Iraq/index.aspx

http://icasualties.org/oef/

still waiting for the timetable, exit strategy on Afghanistan.

[jharp]

still waiting for the timetable, exit strategy on Afghanistan.

Posted by: mark l. | Wednesday, January 21, 2009 at 02:47 AM

Me too. Let me know when you hear of something.

[DJM]

So we had a SURPLUS in 2000 and now have a deficit in 2008.
Obviously, conservitive ideas have consquences as much as liberal ideas. However, can we acknowledge that Obama is doing a little more than nothing? Ideas aside, things are not working and actions are needed. Time will tell as time did....

[supernintendo chalmers]

"the Obama Party and its tax-dodging syncophants"

style points for 'the Obama party'

bonus points for posting without a hint of irony

"Then again, I suppose you don't see anything wrong with having sex with minors, blah BLAH BLAH"

probably not the road you want to go down, 22 percenter. it could get awfully littered with G-reasy O-ld P-edophile scandles.

[mark l.]

"So we had a SURPLUS in 2000 and now have a deficit in 2008."

here's a budget table to help you out...

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2009/pdf/hist.pdf

unfortunately, if you click the link, you now receive the message...

"The page you requested wasn't found at this location. The Obama Administration has created a brand new White House website, and it's possible that the page you were looking for has been moved."

first day on the job, and obama has removed fiscal records which are property of the public.

technically, isn't this illegal?

he may provide another source, but to redact existing budget info, day one, is not a good sign.

[mark l.]

one can google-

"budget of the us by year"...

the first hit...

http://www.whitehouse.gov/404/?aspxerrorpath=/omb/budget/default.aspx

"Page Not Found
The page you requested wasn't found at this location. The Obama Administration has created a brand new White House website, and it's possible that the page you were looking for has been moved."

funny, becuase the link offered the following address,

"www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/"

and despite the report of a brand new site, there is no link to the imaginary site.

my advice for watching the new administration?

screen capture and print everything. In four years, there is not going to be anything left to see.

[mark l.]

"Let me know when you hear of something."

30k troops to augment existing forces, from a guy who does not believe surges work. I can accept that the label 'surge' is too broad, but there is a remarkbale absense of any goals to accompany the increase in troops.

pretty soon, obama is going to start bragging about how many taliban he has killed in Afghanistan.

[DJM]

Clinton left with a surplus; well known fact.
Bush left the country in the worst possible sense exception holds: Hoover.

All I'm saying....

[DJM]

http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=9957

[jharp]

30k troops to augment existing forces, from a guy who does not believe surges work. I can accept that the label 'surge' is too broad, but there is a remarkbale absense of any goals to accompany the increase in troops.

pretty soon, obama is going to start bragging about how many taliban he has killed in Afghanistan.

Posted by: mark l. | Wednesday, January 21, 2009 at 01:09 PM

It's so confusing reading you incoherent babble.

Is this a good thing? Really, just what in the hell is your point?

[North Dallas Thirty]

"probably not the road you want to go down, 22 percenter. it could get awfully littered with G-reasy O-ld P-edophile scandles."

Go right ahead and try it. :)

What you'll see really fast is how those GOP folks get thrown out of office, and how the Democrats don't.

One party gets rid of pedophile criminals, and the other re-elects them. Big difference.

[citizen b]

Can we first acknowledge that the issues you are so happy to put on Obama's plate the very first in office were inherited by the previous administration? Can we let the man settle in for a week before we start critizing his ability? I think Bush got at least a month. And the market was headed in it's current direction long before Obama was considered a front runner in the Presidential race. Because if you didn't know the sub-prime mortgage situation was a bomb waiting to explode you're just as naive as some of you believe Obama is.

There is no panacea for the crisis we're experiencing. Why don't you send some of your great ideas to Congress, be productive.

[joeb]

I guess the cops did not get the message that this is a "New Era of Responsibility". Otherwise they would be apologizing for the Security screwups in DC yesterday instead of patting themselves on their backs.
Go to washingtonpost.com and read some of the comments by real people who experienced this "Security" nightmare.

[North Dallas Thirty]

"Because if you didn't know the sub-prime mortgage situation was a bomb waiting to explode you're just as naive as some of you believe Obama is."

I would imagine your tune on that will change once you see the Obama Party's take on matters.

First, the Bush administration recognized the danger of the subprime mortgage market and proposed regulations to significantly defuse the majority of it via tightening down on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122091796187012529.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Of course, the Obama Party rejected it because doing so would put lowering the companies' market risk ahead of Obama Party ideology.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A58839-2003Oct7?language=printer

Also because Barney Frank, like other Obama Party members, puts his need to reward his sexual partners ahead of the country's welfare.

http://www.businessandmedia.org/printer/2008/20080924145932.aspx

And because the Obama Party put a higher priority on making loans based on skin color than it did on creditworthiness and ability to pay them back.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE7DB153EF933A0575AC0A96F958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1

[North Dallas Thirty]

"There is no panacea for the crisis we're experiencing. Why don't you send some of your great ideas to Congress, be productive."

With pleasure.

First, remove Barney Frank and Chris Dodd from their respective chairmanships.

Second, dismiss Timothy Geithner for nonpayment of taxes and initiate prosecutions against Al Franken and Charlie Rangel for the same.

Third, instead of creating a trillion-dollar spending package that even the CBO admits will not take real effect until after the economy has already recovered on its own while skyrocketing the deficit:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aJAoR5GECKWo&refer=home

immediately cut taxes, which will immediately put money into the hands of working people and businesses and which even Obama's leftist economic advisors are forced to admit provide more bang for the buck than would government spending while costing less.

http://northdallasthirty.blogspot.com/2009/01/so-much-for-science.html

Fourth, remove requirements that banks make loans based on skin color and require loans to be made on the basis of creditworthiness.

Fifth, attack the rampant waste and fraud in government-run healthcare.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22184921/

[citizen b]

Great ideas I hope you forwarded this to your Congressperson. That is how change is made by offering your perscpetive on how things should change. This is a nice forum but doesn't accomplish much beyond bickering and catty comments.
This needs to go beyond the blame game, Democrats and Republicans had a hand in this mess we are in. And if you are going to list the no-nos of Dems please do so for GOPs also. A lot of the legislation that led to this economic crisis was passed through both Republican and Democrat-led congresses. Maybe things can get done once we take off our "party" hats.

[mark l.]

"Clinton left with a surplus; well known fact."

George Bush increased spending over his term in office, 8 years, by a trillion dollars.

The dx of a surplus is revenue-spending=deficit or surplus.

If you aren't happy with spending, are you happy that the new admin has already promised not to do anything to correct it?

[Marie LeVeau]

Oh, and by the way. Mrs. jharp had the time of her life. Unbelievable crowd and unbelievable enthusiasm.

To the victors go the spoils.--jharp

So who did she blow??

[Marie LeVeau]

sorry..,couldn't resist ;-D