Poll at LP.org, with current (not final) results:
What should Barack Obama’s teleprompter tell him to say in his next scripted press conference?
I agree with Libertarians and will stimulate the economy and create real jobs by cutting taxes.
20% (154 votes)
I agree with Libertarians and will call for an audit of the Federal Reserve.
13% (101 votes)
I agree with Libertarians and will repeal my wasteful “stimulus” package, along with its record-shattering debt.
32% (243 votes)
I agree with Libertarians and will end all corporate welfare and billionaire bailouts.
23% (170 votes)
I agree with Libertarians and will drop my crippling “carbon taxes” on air, which will eliminate 3-4 million jobs by 2030.
11% (85 votes)
Total votes: 753
Posted to IPR by Paulie.
Maybe, but this is still funny…
http://delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com/2009/03/like-obama-or-not-these-are-funny.html
What the hell is wrong with you people? Obama is at least intelligent when he’s reading his speeches. Bush didn’t even manage that. I’d like to see you guys go without speech notes, would you like to risk backlash if you accidentally misquote a statistic because you’re going without notes?
Seriously, morons need to get off the ‘Obama’s Teleprompter’ meme.
note to self; take spelling class.
What a silly non-poll. You’re forced to agree with the LP whether you do or don’t.
Anyone not already in the LP cult will laugh at it.
Write your Congress person or U.S. Senator an demand in the spirit of openess proclaimed by President Obama that the American paople be given an accounting of what we spend annually to deploy troops to other nations around the world and an accounting as to how much has spent on the deployment since the end of WWII
MW
What, your appeal to authority?
rhetoric vs. reason
Yes, but they are at least of some use when their party isn’t in power. The same is true of the Democrats.
#18 – Sometimes it is necessary to remind others who the opponent is, Chuck. As far as I’m concerned, Michele Malkin and Rush Limbaugh and the rest of the hypocritical, unprincipled, partisan Republican Party hacks are just as much the opponent as the Obama administration!
I’m sorry to hear that you intend to cherry pick the Constitution.
Why be sorry?
The constitution is of some limited usefulness insofar as it is a tool to make government smaller.
If it is being used as an excuse to stop money from being demonopolized, or stop any other act to curtail government, why should I side with the constitution against liberty?
My highest value is liberty, not the constitution.
Given today’s politically reality, the two are mostly in agreement.
Chuck just brought up a case where they aren’t.
I suggest that if you need to name your opponent to make your point, then you have already lost. The “End The Fed” movement is morphing into the “Audit The Fed” movement, backed by Ron Paul’s bill H.R. 1207. After President Obama’s promise of ‘transparency’, all whom I encounter have nothing but agreement for this bill. And once audited, it WILL end.
paulie…I’m sorry to hear that you intend to cherry pick the Constitution. I will likewise, I am sure, cherry pick your solutions.
…and I agree that the Tea Parties, and the ‘We Surround Them’ movements are to help people let off steam, with no direction. Like applying leaches… they will express their anger, not identify with the other ‘more crazed’ attendees, and stay home. Maybe some will update their passports. But they will not become part of the process to press for accountability.
Awesome!
Let us know how it goes…
@14 – We’ll see. My signs for the Tax Day Tea Party will say, “Blame the Republicans; They started it!” and “End the Empire; Save Trillions!”
Phillies is not a moron. Neither is Obama.
It’s not a sign of intelligence to claim that anyone you disagree with is a moron.
I think it’s the other way around – Republicans are trying to grab that energy. Libertarians should, too.
It’s the same with communists and the antiwar rallies; they may be the organizers, but the energy is spontaneous and the vast majority of people there are not communists.
It’s always interesting to see Phillies spout of points in defense of Fuhrer Barry that are so stupid not even the White House tries them. Anyone following politics knows Obama is more dependent on the prompter than any previous pres(id)ent… he’s wheeling it out for two-minute press statements now…
PS. They had earpieces during the debates; moron.
Paulie@#11 – That’s true, but it seems that the energy of the End the Fed movement is being sucked out by the Republican/Neo-con “Tea Party” movement. Which is the whole point of these hypocritcal, unprincipled partisan hacks to begin with.
And, yeah, the problem with Obama’s stimulus (according to the Republican/Neo-cons) is that it isn’t configured to “save the banking system”, but to reward political allies. Pot-black!!!!
It’s always interesting to see that the LP National HQ has nothing better to do than to echo the less brilliant points of the Republican Party of Stupid.
Yes, but I don’t think auditing the fed and ending corporate welfare are Republican points.
No, it’s not. Free market money is prosecuted as “counterfeiting.” Only monopoly money is allowed. When the government steps in to prevent competition, that is not a free market.
Exactly the problem. Government roadblocks to a real free market, including in money, need to be removed.
I’m only interested in the constitution so far as it can be used to make government smaller.
It’s always interesting to see that the LP National HQ has nothing better to do than to echo the less brilliant points of the Republican Party of Stupid. Anyone who watached last year’s Presidential debates will have noted that Barack Obama and his opponent were both — especially by comparison with the now-former President–able to speak effectively on their own.
As an amusing critique of one party or the other, note that the Texas branch of the Republican Party of Stupid through its control of the state board of education is launching a new attack on evolution.
the quote unquote ‘free market’ is doing it now. (and aside from the balck market, there IS no free market, but rather politically installed subsidies, tariffs and TREATIES.)
The Constitution calls for Congress to issue currency, and NOT fiat currency…
It should delegate it to the free market.
No more monopoly money.
Paul
answer…YES it would cause inflation, and it WILL cause inflation. But the Interest, owed the Federal Reserve is never printed, and so causes foreclosures. It’s bad enough to ‘borrow’ from the future, but to do so, while a private company makes huge profit off of you is ridiculous. We are borrowing 40% more, because Congress has delegated the Constitutional responsibility to issue currency to the private corporation called The Federal Reserve.
Massive inflation is the only way to pay back the Chinese, etc. There’s no COLA on those t-bills. It’s likely been the plan for a long long time. The banksters’ next big bubble will be in the carbon credits laid out in the Obama budget plan. Obama’s teleprompter will be talking about “global warming” a lot more in 2010-11.
Wouldn’t that just result in massive inflation? Printing more currency without producing anything of value…that’s been tried before, not very successfully. For example, Zimbabwe today or Germany between the wars.
“I have talked to Tim, (pause for effect) Geitner…and as you know, he ran the N.Y. Branch of the Federal Reserve. He tells me we can do this, you know, cut the corner, get out from under the Interest aspect, and issue currency, ‘in house’, so to speak. And I seem to recall, that the Constitution will back us up on this. That will save folks about forty percent overall. So, have faith, we can..do this. (big smile)
He should introduce Ashton Kutcher, take off his Obama mask to reveal George W. Bush, and say “Change? Punk’d!”
How about:
“The Democrats and Republicans are corrupt and I can’s deal with them anymore, so I’m asking all Americans to vote in third parties into Congress to REALLY cause ‘change’ in Washington.”