{"id":2406,"date":"2013-10-09T19:21:02","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T02:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=2406"},"modified":"2013-10-09T19:27:47","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T02:27:47","slug":"withering-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=2406","title":{"rendered":"WITHERING HEIGHTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obama began by insulting World War II vets with idiotic decision to block them from their own memorial. \u00a0Next he poured salt in the wound by making a personal exemption for illegal aliens to hold a rally at the National Mall. \u00a0This is not just wrong, it is incredibly stupid.<\/p>\n<p>Then the Department of Defense refused to pay the burial benefits for military personnel killed in action. \u00a0Secretary Hagel tried desperately to blame Republicans, but no one bought that. \u00a0The military pay legislation had passed in the House with strong bi-partisan support. \u00a0It was specifically designed to fund the military. \u00a0The outrage was instant and overwhelming. \u00a0Congress voted 425 to 0 to authorize the funds. \u00a0Now Obama is pretending he knew nothing about this. \u00a0Even the standard Kool-Aid drinkers are having trouble choking that nonsense down.<\/p>\n<p>Now, at the worst possible time, Moody&#8217;s delivered a public rebuke to Obama:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/news.google.com\/newspapers?nid=1338&#038;dat=19460525&#038;id=etlXAAAAIBAJ&#038;sjid=ffUDAAAAIBAJ&#038;pg=7186,5229338<\/p>\n<p>The following e-mail, being circulated on Capitol Hill, speaks for itself:<\/p>\n<p><strong><i>\u201d We believe the government would continue to pay interest and principal on its debt even in the event that the debt limit is not raised, leaving its creditworthiness intact,\u201d the memo says. \u201cThe debt limit restricts government expenditures to the amount of its incoming revenues; it does not prohibit the government from servicing its debt. There is no direct connection between the debt limit (actually the exhaustion of the Treasury\u2019s extraordinary measures to raise funds) and a default<\/i><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Moody&#8217;s is the most respected financial analyst in the world. \u00a0It is impossible to overstate the importance of this e-mail. \u00a0They came, they saw, they listened to President Obama and responded with a BS warning.<\/p>\n<p>This should have been obvious.\u00a0 The debt ceiling has nothing to do with defaulting on our debt. \u00a0The only reason we would default on our debt is if President Obama made a deliberate decision to default. \u00a0The United States has more than enough money to pay our debt, with or without raising the debt ceiling.<\/p>\n<p>Obama is now hinting that he won&#8217;t be able to pay social security checks. \u00a0He has now moved from stupid to suicidal. \u00a0That would\u00a0backfire faster than his decision to decline paying for the military funerals. \u00a0He would immediately be confronted with bi-partisan legislation ordering him to pay social security checks. \u00a0Obama has, once again, made a threat he is unwilling and unable to carry out.<\/p>\n<p>If Republicans remain united and strong they will score a major victory. \u00a0There are signs of seething anger toward Obama. \u00a0When you combine that with the disastrous roll out of ObamaCare this is a political tsunami. \u00a0Even CNN recognizes that ObamaCare is a huge failure. \u00a0Today Blitzer recommended that Obama agree to a one year delay:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"guEnplkzdH\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/cnns-blitzer-obama-should-accept-gop-advice-delay-obamacare-over-glitchy-websites\/\">CNN&#8217;s Blitzer: Obama Should &#8216;Accept GOP Advice, Delay Obamacare&#8217; Over Glitchy Websites<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;CNN&#8217;s Blitzer: Obama Should &#8216;Accept GOP Advice, Delay Obamacare&#8217; Over Glitchy Websites&#8221; &#8212; Mediaite\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/cnns-blitzer-obama-should-accept-gop-advice-delay-obamacare-over-glitchy-websites\/embed\/#?secret=GZuFkR5Qqi#?secret=guEnplkzdH\" data-secret=\"guEnplkzdH\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>\u201cA week into it, still a lot of glitches,\u201d CNN correspondent\u00a0Brian Todd\u00a0reported to Blitzer. \u201cPeople not able to create accounts, just to get information to possibly enroll, much less not being able to enroll in the plan.\u201d<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>\u201cWe\u2019re also hearing now that the administration was warned about these potential problems months in advance,\u201d Todd continued. \u201cWe spoke to a health care consultant who has clients who are insurers. He says his insurers, who dealt with the administration in the months ahead of time, had contentious meetings with people at [Health and Human Services] and other health care officials who were in charge of this, warning them, \u2018This isn\u2019t working, it\u2019s not going to be smooth, don\u2019t do it.\u2019 He says those warnings were ignored, they went full speed ahead, and said we\u2019ll work these problems out. There\u2019s been a bit of pushback from the White House, we\u2019ll hope to get more later from them.\u201d<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>\u201cIf they had three years to get this ready\u2014if they weren\u2019t fully ready, they should accept the advice that a lot of Republicans are giving them, delay it another year, get it ready, and make sure it works,\u201d Blitzer said. \u201cThere are government health care-related websites that work great. Socialsecurity.gov, a whole bunch of others. They know how to do it. But if they didn\u2019t get it ready on time, then maybe fix the problem, make sure people don\u2019t have to worry about it.\u201d<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The only thing we have to fear is RINO Republicans riding in on clouds of political correctness to once again snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. \u00a0Even if one believes that Ted Cruz chose the wrong battle at the wrong time over the wrong issue, the simple fact is that he has Democrats on the run.<\/p>\n<p>While the main stream media is pretending that Republicans are losing their resolve, it is actually Democrats who are showing signs of weakening. \u00a0Senator Manchin, Democratic Senator from West Virginia personally called the Fisher Foundation to intervene and pay those funeral benefits because he was outraged by the failure of this administration. \u00a0He didn&#8217;t call President Obama, he didn&#8217;t call Chuck Hagel and he didn&#8217;t call Harry Reid. \u00a0He called a private foundation because he wanted results, not excuses. Harry Reid endured a humiliating encounter with the Mayor of DC who pointed out, correctly, that the irresponsible actions of this administration were preventing DC from spending its own money.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/dc-politics\/dc-mayor-gray-confronts-reid-on-capitol-steps-over-shutdowns-impact-on-city\/2013\/10\/09\/02577428-3103-11e3-89ae-16e186e117d8_story<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, President Obama apologized, for the despicable Republicans who are forcing him to be irresponsible.<\/p>\n<p>So the question to ask is very simple. \u00a0Is this as bad as it seems? \u00a0If the answer is yes, then President Obama is in deep political trouble. \u00a0Perhaps Republicans did blunder into this battle, but so far it is Obama who is blowing it big time. \u00a0No President has received such lofty treatment from the main stream media. \u00a0They refused to even consider the remote possibility that he was anything other than the \u201cAnointed One.\u201d But the higher you rise the farther you have to fall. \u00a0There are strong signals that Obama is on top of withering heights.<\/p>\n<p>TDM.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama began by insulting World War II vets with idiotic decision to block them from their own memorial. \u00a0Next he poured salt in the wound by making a personal exemption for illegal aliens to hold a rally at the National &hellip; 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