Smoking Gun: Democrat Insider Says "Obama Has Secret Plan to Fund a Patronage System"

[4sarge]

Absolutely Shocking

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THE STIMULUS AS PATRONAGE SYSTEM? “It’s a job-capturing system, the same one they have in Chicago…..
Published 2 days ago by Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit
... THE STIMULUS AS PATRONAGE SYSTEM? “It’s a job-capturing system, the same one they have in Chicago… everyone’s asking ‘why isn’t that money being release until 2011 and 2012?’ Because it needs to be released at a time that’s close to the election.” ...

Obama Predicts Doom If Trillion Dollar Spendulus Is Not Passed to Counter 1.9% Dip In GDP
Published 2 days ago by Gateway Pundit (noreply@blogger.com) at Gateway Pundit
... Maybe there is some truth to this report that the Spendulus Package is really just a plan to fund a permanent Democratic patronage system.

Only One-Tenth Of Stimulus Package Will Be Spent in 2009
Published 48 hours ago by Gateway Pundit (noreply@blogger.com) at Gateway Pundit
... without the stimulus anyway. That means nearly a trillion dollars will be spent in 2010 and beyond on Democratic pet projects. There are even reports the spending is to provide funding for a permanent Democratic patronage system. ...

The Stimulus: Pork Or Patronage?
Published 46 hours ago by nicedeb at Nice Deb
... Doug Ross heard this interesting tidbit from “Chicago Bob” calling into a radio talk show: I was in a meeting after Obama got elected and I was told by the Democratic officials in that meeting that we were gonna give billions of dollars that was gonna come down the pike, our way, and what we were to do with it was we were supposed to do with it… We are gonna build an army of Democratic patronage jobs…. gonna completely freeze up the Republicans forever and ever… ...

THE CHICAGO MACHINE RUNS THE WHITE HOUSE AND WROTE THE STIMULUS PACKAGE: "IT'S A DEMOCRAT PATRONAGE BILL"
Published 37 hours ago by Reliapundit (noreply@blogger.com) at THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
DOUG HAS THE DETAILS; EXCERPT: "... I was in a meeting after Obama got elected and I was told by the Democratic officials in that meeting that we were gonna give billions of dollars that was gonna come down the pike, our way, and what we were to do with it was we were supposed to do with it... We are gonna build an army of Democratic patronage jobs.... gonna completely freeze up the Republicans forever and ever... It's a job-capturing system, the same one they have in Chicago... everyone's asking 'why isn't that money ...

Obama the Malaise-Master
Published 32 hours ago by TheAnchoress at The Anchoress
... You don’t end wars…you win them or lose them. Which, btw, no one is mentioning it but…THERE IS A STUNNING VICTORY IN IRAQ which cannot be mentioned because it happened without the Democrats on board. Sorry, sorry, but these questions will continue to be asked: What WOULD they have said if Bush had done this? 50 De-stimulating facts The Nelson-Collins A Democrat-Patronage System? Giving the term “census-taker” a whole new meaning ...
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[HICKMAN]

Shouldn't be a surprise to any of us who know what the man is about

[BloodEclipse]

As if I wasn't pissed off enough already.
Americans have to wake up before they get sucker punched.

[4sarge]

Originally Posted by BloodEclipse

As if I wasn't pissed off enough already.
Americans have to wake up before they get sucker punched.

Too Late - we already have been sucker punched and I fear going down for the count

[BloodEclipse]

If I'm going down I'm.......... well you know

[right winger]

Originally Posted by 4sarge

Too Late - we already have been sucker punched and I fear going down for the count

The DemocRat Way.

[finity]

Originally Posted by right winger

The DemocRat Way.

It's the politicians way.

Bush & his Republican colleagues in Congress presided over the biggest increase in national debt in history. Anybody remember the Alaskan "bridge to nowhere". Just because your memory is selective doesn't mean it didn't happen.

You don't think that Bush hiring a bunch of his buddies from Texas or the Neo-cons or the people from past Republican administrations wasn't some kind of a "patronage system". Come on.

[4sarge]

Originally Posted by finity

It's the politicians way.

Bush & his Republican colleagues in Congress presided over the biggest increase in national debt in history. Anybody remember the Alaskan "bridge to nowhere". Just because your memory is selective doesn't mean it didn't happen.

You don't think that Bush hiring a bunch of his buddies from Texas or the Neo-cons or the people from past Republican administrations wasn't some kind of a "patronage system". Come on.

Finity, I know its very very hard for you but please try to grasp reality occasionally

If the Pelosi-Obama-Reid Trillion Dollar Debt Plan Were a Country…

• Posted February 3rd, 2009 at 9.49am in Ongoing Priorities.

… which country would it be? Just so we can all wrap our heads around how big President Obama’s Trillion-Dollar Debt Plan is, this graphic compares the pre-Senate debt plan costs with the GDPs of major nations:

Just think of it: The deficit-spending package passed by House Democrats already is bigger than 168 of the 180 national economies measured by the World Bank. Now, in the Senate, it threatens to break into the Top 10 by catching up with Russia (No. 11) and then Brazil (No. 10).

[finity]

Originally Posted by 4sarge

Finity, I know its very very hard for you but please try to grasp reality occasionally

I know its hard for you but could you try to be just a little less rude occasionally. Reading what I actually write would also help occasionally.

I didn't say that the bailout was necessarily good. I didn't say the bailout wasn't freaking huge. I have no idea why you felt the need to reply with what you did.

Lets try again. Here's what I wrote:

It's the politicians way.

Bush & his Republican colleagues in Congress presided over the biggest increase in national debt in history. Anybody remember the Alaskan "bridge to nowhere". Just because your memory is selective doesn't mean it didn't happen.

You don't think that Bush hiring a bunch of his buddies from Texas or the Neo-cons or the people from past Republican administrations wasn't some kind of a "patronage system". Come on.

Nothing there about the bailout. I said Bush & the Republicans presided over the largest increase in national debt in history. That is a fact.

The current portion of the bailout is huge. However, Bush asked for & got $700 billion in his last 2 months in office that he then directly distributed half to the financial sector with no questions asked & no oversight who then decided to use the nice little windfall to fund huge executive salaries & extravagant corporate trips (Thanks Georgie!). I think his Treasury Secretary was in charge of what was actually done with the money once it was approved. That is on top of the accumulated almost $9 Trillion (up from only around $5 Trillion at the end of Clintons term in which it only rose less than $1 Trillion over 8 years) over his previous 8 years.

As a matter of fact, the debt has shown its historically steepest increase during the last 30 years with the exception of the Clinton years when it started to flatten out somewhat. IOW, the debt was at ~$1T when Reagan took office (which included the costs of all previous wars including both World Wars) & now stands at over $10T

For more interesting commentary on National Debt history see:

http://www.cedarcomm.com/~stevelm1/usdebt.htm


This in addition to hiring his personal buddies from his years in Texas & the Neo-cons from his "daddy's" administration & the cries of patronage! & Defecit Spending! from the cons here about Obama ring a little hollow.

[nobletucky]

As a government employee, will I be required to wear an armband of the big "O" or CHANGE decal?