Don Surber has some other quotes which lambaste President Snippy Pants.

And So It Goes In Shreveport eviscerates (whoops, sorry, uncivil word) Obama’s class warfare scaremongering blamestorming 5 year old tantrum presser.

Then we get to the Washington Post. Other than slightly to the right Jennifer Rubin, it’s a love fest. Here’s Chris Cillizza: Cool Obama meets hot Boehner in dueling debt ceiling speeches

President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, the two men at the center of the ongoing debate over whether to raise the debt limit, both addressed the country on the topic tonight. And that’s where the similarities between the two speeches ended.

Obama was all cool reason — making a case for why passing the debt ceiling is necessary to keep the economy on firm footing and quoting the likes of Ronald Reagan and Thomas Jefferson to argue that compromise is part of being American.

Boehner was all white hot passion — blasting President Obama for his “business as usual” approach to governing in Washington and repeatedly insisting that it was the president not the Congress who was standing in the way of debt limit deal.

E.J. Dionne: Obama talks to the middle, Boehner rallies the right

President Obama made clear tonight that the debate over the debt ceiling is not left vs. right. It’s center vs. right. There was nothing remotely “left” in this speech, unless you count higher taxes for corporate jet owners and a few other populist bits.

David Nakamura: Obama changes tone in public debate over debt ceiling. I actually can’t boil the lovefest down to a quick excerpt, except perhaps this line which is its own paragraph: Obama smiled.

Let’s face it, there was nothing new in the speech (Wizbang has the full transcript by Obama, along with Boehner’s). Well, there was this bit

Now, what makes today’s stalemate so dangerous is that it has been tied to something known as the debt ceiling -– a term that most people outside of Washington have probably never heard of before.

Got that? Typical Obama condescension, essentially calling the American People stupid. For a man who has no executive experience and apparently hasn’t learned anything in his current job, a man with little business experience, a man who passed an $800 billion pork laden giveaway, a man who has added more debt in his short time than Bush did in 8 years, and a man who laughed about “shovel ready jobs not being shovel ready,” well, he shouldn’t be calling other people stupid.

More from Ed Morrissey:

….Anyone listening to Obama’s fifth foray in front of the cameras this month — by far the most intense public-relations campaign Obama has conducted in more than a year — could be forgiven for wondering why the President didn’t spend at least some of that time actually developing and presenting his own plan.

The simple answer: Obama doesn’t want the responsibility for raising the debt ceiling, cutting spending, and/or raising taxes. This is what passes for leadership in the era of Hope and Change — voting present.

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Apparently, a lot of people consider President Obama to be bumblingly inarticulate. “The guy can’t talk his way out of a paper bag!” a reader wrote to me recently. “Sarah Palin is a brilliant speaker. It’s the president whose sentences are undiagrammable,” said another in response to a column I wrote about Palin. It’s not just my readers, nor is it exclusively conservatives, who hold this view. A Google search of “does Obama have a speech impediment” turns up several pages of discussion among the president’s supporters and critics alike.Admittedly, the president is given to a lot of pauses, “uhs” and sputtering starts to his sentences. As polished as he often is before large crowds (where the adjective “soaring” is often applied to his speeches), his impromptu speaking frequently calls to mind a doctoral candidate delivering a wobbly dissertation defense.

But consider this: It’s not that Obama can’t speak clearly. It’s that he employs the intellectual stammer. Not to be confused with a stutter, which the president decidedly does not have, the intellectual stammer signals a brain that is moving so fast that the mouth can’t keep up. The stammer is commonly found among university professors, characters in Woody Allen movies and public thinkers of the sort that might appear on C-SPAN but not CNN. If you’re a member or a fan of that subset, chances are the president’s stammer doesn’t bother you; in fact, you might even love him for it (he sounds just like your grad school roommate, especially when he drank too much Scotch and attempted to expound on the Hegelian dialectic!).

See! It’s so easy. He’s so super-duper awesomely mega-brilliant that he can’t actualize an coherent sentence. Yeah, that’s it. That’s the ticket.

President Barack Obama made his debut as a candidate for reelection on Thursday night by urging hometown supporters to “take ownership” of his infant campaign while he continues his “day job.”

He does the same thing in his day job: make a speech, tell Someone Else to do the actual work. Because it is tough to be the king, attending all the parties, hitting the links, vacation, launching wars while flying to the Southern hemisphere, taking a strange victory lap at the Lincoln Memorial to tell us that a doorless building wouldn’t close its doors….

The campaign’s main message in these early days is that supporters need to generate the opening wave of grassroots excitement, without relying on the president to fire up supporters personally, as he was able to do in 2008.

Don’t you feel fired up, Obamanuts? I’m sure you’re thrilled by the new Lybian war, we’re still in Iraq, he expanded Afghanistan, Gitmo’s still open, he’s tried to expand “warrentless wiretaps,” we still have Rendition Lite, he’s in bed with Big Business and Big Wall Street, no single payer, extended the “Bush tax cuts for the rich”, not pushing globull warming legislation….really, what has the extreme left gotten from Obama? Sure, massive government spending, but not as much as they wanted. ObamaCare, but, they see it as giving too much to Big Pharma, Big Insurance, and Big Medicine. And….well, is there anything Obama’s done, other than insult Republicans, that they left is happy that Obama has done?

Speaking of His Imperial Majesty, he had a message for the Gang Of 6, too

White House to Gang of Six: Wrap up work on deficit-reduction plan

Says the man who has an inklining of a notion of a draft of a plan to fix the deficit.

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U.S. foreign military intervention shouldn’t be taken lightly, and the current one in Libya deserves a full debate. But Libya’s case is exceptional — in more ways than one.

Both U.S. national interests and its values come together here, and Arab support is unprecedented. In addition, the interests at stake extend far beyond Libya’s borders.

Well, Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense, has said that Libya was not a vital national interest. Interesting.

That the intervention is moral is not a hard case to make. Libya is an exceptional case. Qadhafi’s brutality was matched by his chilling threat to “purify” Libya “house to house,” using his military and foreign mercenaries.

Had Qadhafi been allowed to overtake Benghazi, with possible massacres, no one could have pretended surprise. The pressure to act would have only increased when it would have been too late and too costly.

And, somehow, because Gdaffy is reviled throughout the Arab world, it’s different from the massacres in Yemen, Syria, Somalia, Darfur, etc and so on? That’s funny, because so many Liberals were dead set against any military action against Afghanistan, and the Taliban and al Qaeda, after the horrid events of 9/11, when 3,000 of our friends, neighbors, and loved ones were killed. Remember, Obama preached restraint and empathy with the murderers just a few days after September 11th. But action in Libya is somehow “moral?” You know, the more liberals try and hem and haw to defend Obama, the more they make me think that I am wrong to support Obama’s Great Kinetic Operation.

For those who ask what the U.S. national interest in Libya is, the correct question is about broad U.S. regional interests. Had the Libyan crisis emerged before the Arab uprisings, intervention would still have been the moral course — though it would have been harder to make the case about U.S. interests. But there is a link among the revolutions sweeping the Arab world that cannot be denied.

Shibly goes on to discuss the mostly peaceful (Syria, Yemen, even some parts of the Egypt uprising were violent. And what about the Green Uprising in Iran, Shibly?), and an anti-dote to “militant extremists.” Good thing the Muslim Brotherhood isn’t involved in Egypt, and al-Qaeda in Libya. And then 6 more paragraphs which pretty much ignore any sort of answer as to why this is in the US national interest, till we get

But one test of the intervention is what would have happened without it. Aside from the moral issue, the empowered millions of Libyans would have had to turn to militant means — leading to prolonged civil war and opportunities for Al Qaeda. International public opinion would have dictated isolating Qadhafi, leading him to become an international menace. And his will to meddle in the transitions of Tunisia and Egypt would have increased.

Let’s see: Saddam Hussein and his minority Bathist regime brutalized the Iraqi people, murdered them, tortured them, displaced the Marsh Arabs, mass murdered the Kurds, a Jordanian doctor did a study that said 50,000 Iraqi children where dying in Iraq each year, Hussein paid families $25k for their children to go blow themselves up in Israel, there were numerous terrorist training camps in Iraq, he was a threat to regional stability….but, obviously, there was no moral or national security interests there. Or, it was simply a case of Bush being a Republican?

And, again, don’t forget that so many Liberals were against action in Afghanistan, where there were quite a few moral and national security reasons, not to mention 3,000 dead, and all the injured.

But Libya is somehow different to the anti-war kumbaya Left. At least some of them. Most of the rest who are against this action have mostly been silent, in order to protect their Lightworker.

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The battle in Wisconsin over public employee unions has left President Obama facing a tricky balance between showing solidarity with longtime political supporters and projecting a message in favor of deep spending cuts to reduce the debt.

Really? Well, it would have been nice if the Times’ article had discussed that latter part. Instead, they proceed to tell us that “the White House is barely involved” with getting all their political supporters to travel from all over the country to protest in Wisconsin, not to mention other states. SEIU plans protests across the country over the next few days (instead of, you know, working.)

Over the weekend, the White House and Democratic Party officials pushed back against criticism from Republicans that Mr. Obama and his political network were meddling in the Wisconsin dispute.

Administration officials said Sunday that the White House had done nothing to encourage the demonstrations in Wisconsin — nor was it doing so in Ohio, Florida and other states where new Republican governors are trying to make deep cuts to balance their budgets.

Well, that’s good enough for me! The WH said so. That’s all we need.

And, officials and union leaders said, reports of the involvement of the Democratic National Committee — specifically Organizing for America, the grass-roots network born of Mr. Obama’s 2008 campaign — were overblown to start with and were being inflated by Republicans sensing political advantage.

Grass roots? It was a professional agitator group put together by Tream Obama for the 2008 elections.

“This is a Wisconsin story, not a Washington one,” said Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director. “False claims of White House involvement are attempts to distract from the organic grass-roots opposition that is happening in Wisconsin.”

That’s from Mr. Astroturf himself. But, um, you see

Before Mr. Obama complained late last week of an “assault” on the unions by the Republican governor in Wisconsin, Scott Walker, the Democratic Party had alerted its volunteers in Organizing for America to support the protests there and elsewhere, seeing an opening to show solidarity with the labor movement and rev up the party’s liberal base ahead of the 2012 elections.

By the weekend, national party officials were taking credit for encouraging the protests, especially through the use of Twitter and other online social networks.

The WH says they weren’t consulted on the use of what is essentially Obama’s organizing baby, OFA. Sure. Right. If you believe that, you’ll believe that Obama was qualified to be president and has done a good job.

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The Egyptian dictator, Hosni Mubarak, has resigned, finally relenting to weeks of massive protests. Is he the latest casualty of climate change?

This is a provacative question, but I believe one worth discussing. Obviously, there are always many factors in a people’s uprising, the precise balance of which will always be subjective and varied from protestor to protestor. But that doesn’t mean said factors can not be isolated and examined each on their own.

Like any extreme hot weather event, it is not possible to attribute this directly to a change in global climate, but like said weather event it is possible to identify contributing global factors, increases in probabilities, consistency with expectations. Political unrest is in fact an expectation of a rapidly changing climate, at least according to the US pentagon, and the chain of circumstances is not implausible or hard to follow. Erratic local climates lead to difficulties in food production, global or otherwise, which drive up the cost of living, which causes unrest in populations. When these populations are already restless due to poor economic conditions and inadequate human rights, this can trigger violent and non-violent popular uprisings.

See? It’s so easy! It was all the fault of globull warming. So much so that the author, coby (is that like Beyonce or Madonna?), actually has to tell us “This is not a laughable notion in the least, it is a very legitimate topic for conversation.” If you have to tell us it’s not a laughing matter, it pretty much is.

And our “rapidly changing climate” has decimated Mexico’s maize crops, and the globull warming induced cold has destroyed approximately 16% of the harvest. Could “climate change” cause a revolution in North Korea next? The globull warming cold has them worried about food security. And on a different note

U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-9) today reintroduced legislation that would save taxpayers millions of dollars by prohibiting the United States from contributing to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an organization fraught with waste and engaged in dubious science.

Furthermore, the GOP spending bill would cut the EPA funding for “climate change” programs, and prohibit spending on the same.

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The Obama administration will seek to reinstate the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004 during the Bush administration, Attorney General Eric Holder said today.

“As President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons,” Holder told reporters.

Yet, with a clear majority in the House and Senate, Obama and the Dems failed to pass even bring up a re-authorization of the assault weapons ban, which would have banned the extended-capacity clips Loghner used.

And let’s not forget that “H.R. 45: Blair Holt’s Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009 (Introduced in House)” in January 2009 went axactly….nowhere, with only a few Dems even signing on. Actually, make that 1, Donna Christensen (Democrat, and non-voting delegate from the Virgin Islands), to go with Bobby Rush (D-Il), who submitted the legislation.

So, obviously it is the fault of President Obama, Eric Holder, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and all the Congressional Democrats. And their leftist base, for not pushing them to pass the legislation.

See how easy it is to place blame, liberals?

Barack Obama became president by brilliantly telling his own story. To stay president, he will need to show he can understand our story.

At first it was exciting that Obama was the sort of brainy, cultivated Democrat who would be at home in a “West Wing” episode.

It starts well, but, after only two paragraphs, you get the feeling that Mo kinda snapped and let the anger out

But now he acts like he really thinks he’s on “West Wing,” gliding through an imaginary, amber-lit set where his righteous self-regard is bound to be rewarded by the end of the hour.

Hey, dude, you’re a politician. Act like one.

I know where she’s going with this, namely, that he should stop being a “celebrity”, yet, Obama is still the consummate politician. He just acts like he’s still running for the 2008 general election. Perhaps, instead of acting like a politician, he should act like the President of the United States of America.

Reductio ad absurdum: After two years of taking his base for granted, the former Pied Piper of America’s youth had to spar with Jon Stewart to try to get the attention of young people who once idolized him.

Mo’s teeth are gritted.

Obama still has the killer smile, but he’s more often sniffy than funny. When Stewart called White House legislation “timid,” Obama got defensive and offered a less-than-thrilling new mantra: “Yes, we can but …”

We understand your expectations for the Obama presidency were a bit higher, Mo, yet, if you had actually understood the guy pre election, you would have known he did not have the comportment to be POTUS, much less act as POTUS. Well, president of the USA. He would be fine as president of ACORN or the SEIU. Though he didn’t have the experience to get hire for those jobs, either.

His arrogance led him to assume: If I build it, they will understand. He can’t get the gratitude he feels he deserves for his achievements if no one knows what he achieved and why those achievements are so vital.

Again, Mo, you should have known that someone who had no executive experience, never had to run a business, never had to be “The Man”, would have no idea what he is doing. The waves washed over his head long ago.

We want the best people to govern us, but many voters are so turned off by Obama’s superior air that they’re rushing into the arms of disturbingly inferior pols.

She got part of that right: Obama was unquestionably one of the best campaigners ever. Yet, campaigning is not governing, and Barry has been a miserable failure at that, and did show on the road that he should always be on a pedestal. That worked, for the most part, out on the campaign trail. It doesn’t translate well as POTUS. Slamming legislation through that We The People despise doesn’t help

But who defines what’s “right”?

With the exception of Obama, most Americans seemed to agree that the “right” thing to do until the economy recovered was to focus on jobs instead of getting the Congress mired for months in making over health insurance and energy policy. And the “right” thing to do was to come down harder on the big banks for spending on bonuses instead of lending to small businesses that don’t get bailouts.

Yet, at that time, Mo and most of the other elite Democrats and their supporters were thrilled that Obama was pushing healthcare and simply mouthing platitudes about jobs being #1. Now they see the aftermath, and they are thinking perhaps Obama should have done something different. Though they would have been unhappy campers had Obama and the Donkeys not pushed ObamaCare. He really was in a lose-lose with his moonbat base.

Without O’Care, though, Democrats would probably not be looking at the electoral loss tsunami approaching their way, and them with their feet stuck fast in the sand. They all over-read their so-called mandate. They thought they had free reign to implement their massively far left progressive agenda, despite most of the Democrats campaigning as Blue Dogs, including Obama. American’s are great at sniffing out bull fritters, and got a big whiff early on with the passage of the Generational Theft Act.

Good news for you, though, Maureen: you have a bit over two years to watch Obama implode even further, which should make some fun and angry writing material for ya. Don’t expect him to pull a Clinton. In fact, I bet he moves more to the left, and gets more snippy, angry, paranoid, etc and so on, as the assuredly GOP House pushes him. God help him if the GOP retakes the Senate. The mental breakdown of The One will be epic.

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Admonishing his own party, President Barack Obama says it would be “inexcusable” and “irresponsible” for unenthusiastic Democratic voters to sit out the midterm elections, warning that the consequences could be a squandered agenda for years.

“People need to shake off this lethargy. People need to buck up,” Obama told Rolling Stone in an interview to be published Friday. The president told Democrats that making change happen is hard and “if people now want to take their ball and go home, that tells me folks weren’t serious in the first place.”

Or, it could be that the base knows you are, in their words, a hack who isn’t pushing everything he promised as he made god like oratory, and the middle ground voters see an incompetent who is destroying the US economy, blames everyone else, ….. well, you’ve heard it all before.

What emerges in the magazine story is a stern, lecturing tone from Obama.

Clinton, Reagan, and Bush 43 were successful because they spoke to people, not down to them. The condescension may have worked on the campaign trail, but doesn’t work so well in the actual job.

At a fundraiser in Manchester, NH, (Monday), Vice President Biden urged Democrats to “remind our base constituency to stop whining and get out there and look at the alternatives. This President has done an incredible job. He’s kept his promises.”

The remarks, made to roughly 200 top Democratic activists and donors, recall comments President Obama made last week to “griping and groaning Democrats…Folks: wake up. This is not some academic exercise. As Joe Biden put it, Don’t compare us to the Almighty, compare us to the alternative.”

The lefty base is not amused, as you can well imagine. How’s that hopey changey thing working out for ya?

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I confess that when I initially heard of it, I thought Bill McKibben’s drive to return solar panels to the White House was essentially a waste of time: of all the things to ask the president, it seemed like the smallest, most insignificant, and easiest. It certainly wouldn’t solve the climate crisis. And it would allow President Obama to cloak himself in a symbolic green action that let him cover a rapidly worsening environmental record.

I realize now that its very simplicity made the solar panels a masterstroke that clearly exposed, more than any big policy ask ever would, President Obama’s unwillingness or inability to confront our great planetary crisis. Because even in this smallest of disappointments, Obama responded in a way that was a caricature of his failure-by-committee administration: sending mid-level officials to tell the greatest American environmental activist of our time that the president was rejecting their request out of hand in favor of a continued “deliberative process.” Huh? It’s a solar panel, not the Afghanistan war strategy. Politico, in the course of its daily “mind-meld” with top White House officials, probably captured the truth behind the White House’s craven response when they wrote that “the White House won’t like the symbolism” of anything associated with Jimmy Carter.

Of course, what Glen means is that climate alarmists need a new president. Unfortunately, almost every real environmental issue has been subsumed under the mantle of global climate OMG WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE disruption. No longer do we push for cleaner vehicles because of smog, carcinogens, and filth, we do it because of CO2. We no longer worry about ocean pollution killing sea life, we worry about CO2 causing coral bleaching (despite coral having survived numerous periods of higher warming over the hundreds of millions of years they have been around). We no longer worry about despeciation due to habitat loss, we worry that CO2 might turn them into zombies or something. OK, make them migrate elsewhere, which has certainly never happened in the history of the Earth, right?

After going on (and on and on and on) about Obama’s problems with helping out with economy destroying AGW rules and legislation, as well as his other non-climahysteric issues, we get

So what to do? As enthralled as environmentalists and progressives once were about Obama’s promise, we cannot ignore that for all his fine rhetoric, his accomodationism and reserve are allowing the planetary crisis to deteriorate and leaving America behind in the race for a clean energy economy. It pains me to say it, but success will require a new president — and that means that after the midterm elections, we need to start looking for a primary challenger who has the heart and soul required to save the planet from catastrophe and rescue American from its economic morass — even as we throw ourselves into grassroots action to do what we can to save the planet despite the president’s interference.

Ouch. But true. In reality, what is needed is a president who actually wants energy independence and clean energy (and by clean energy, I’m not talking about CO2) and will actually push for wise legislation that actually incents the creation, along with nuclear power and digging for our own oil. Too often, Dems push their plans that are more about political payback, which have so many restrictions that nothing actually gets done.

However, I bet Obama is more worried about what the United Nations thinks of his climate alarmist performance (and others) than what the American voters think.

BTW, last winter was the snowiest on record in North America. Some blame it on……can you guess?

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