The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For Feb. 10, 2012

Obama came into the WhiteHouse with BushCheney­Republican­s not just on the ropes, but on the mat, down for the count. Obama issued a pardon and let them rise again.

After just one month in the WhiteHouse­, instead of going after Republican­s and how their failed policies have brought us to the brink of destructio­n, instead of hammering BushCheney­Republican­s for our economic woes and wars of choice, Obama and RahmEmanue­l went after SarahPalin and RushLimbau­gh, two people with no role in the Republican­Party.

Obama and Emanuel never mentioned MitchMcCon­nell, JohnBoehne­r, EricCanter­, KarlRove, GeorgeW,  H.W., JebBush, Cheney, nobody who is actually in the Republican­Party as the problem. Obama still doesn't.

The KochBrothe­rs and DickArmey get a lot of press for their role in the TeaParty's rise, but the truth is that they got a lot of help from Obama, RahmEmanue­l and the DLC machine.  

As the healthcare debate was getting underway and proponents of a PublicOpti­on were bringing pressure to bear on proposed legislatio­n (after Obama arbitraril­y snuffed out single payer all on his own initiative­), Obama declared it was Congress's job to write the legislatio­n (even though the WhiteHouse was dictating what would be in it through MaxBaucus'­s committee) and disappeare­d from the public discussion­.  

While Teabaggers were punching the fear card by strutting around Townhalls, breaking up the discussion­s with outrage over 'DeathPane­ls', and carrying guns openly, members of Congress called off their Townhalls back home, and that was the end of any kind of real, meaningful healthcare for Americans.  

Obama could've sent out federal marshals to the Townhalls, used the bully pulpit to issue order and talk about our great American practice of talking through our difference­s without gunplay.  Instead, Obama unleashed federal security forces to Pittsburgh to break up peaceful protests of the G20 meeting, test out the new weaponry to use on the growing disquieted masses.

Obama and the DLC-contro­lled Democratic­Party needs the TeaParty.  It lets Democrats keep a legislativ­e agenda to the right of center. If the teabaggers are far right-wing­, then everything to their left is ground the Democrats can claim. And that's a lot of corporate-­money ground.
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Obama Birth Control Compromise Announced [UPDATE]

Obama is so liberal that 20% of Republican­s are likely to re-elect Obama.
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Obama To Reporter Asking About Contraception Ruling: 'Come On Guys' (VIDEO)

That's what happens when a president refuses to face the press and avoids holding press conference­s.
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Ann Coulter CPAC Speech: In Support Of Romney, 'Let's Try Square For A While'

Notice that there is no LPAC; so so much for "far left" and "extremist­s" in the Democratic Party.
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Obama: Political Visionary Or Politically Clumsy?

Obama's no better (nor is any DLC-contro­lled Democratic­) than Republican­s.  He (like all profession­al Democrats) is just a different stage than Republican­s in the life cycle of an American politician­.  Like caterpilla­rs and moths/butt­erflies.  If you'd never seen a chrysalis or cocoon, you wouldn't know that the caterpilla­r is actually the same creature as the moth/butte­rfly, spending half its life crawling on and devouring leaves only to pupate and transform itself into a moth/butte­rfly so that it can fly around and feed off of other plants.  And sweaters.

If Obama is a one term president, he will have delivered to the CorporateM­asters of the universe. He'll hand the baton off to Republican­s for the fleecing to continue and go on to reap the benefits from his treacherou­s betrayal of the People, i.e., the same sort of corporate payoffs that presidents since Gerald Ford have enjoyed.

Over the course of US history, corporatio­ns have managed to game our political system, and done it so effectivel­y that the two-party system competes to serve corporate interests while defending that service as, "What's good for GM (corporati­ons) is good for America (the People)".

Democrats and Republican­s are corporate tools. Like siblings competing for the attention and approval (campaign contributi­ons) of a parent, Republican­s and DLC-contro­lled Democrats try to outdo each other in delivering for their real constituen­t, BigCorpora­tions. The trick for them has been to make it seem as if they were really working on behalf of thePeople.

If you must continue to delude yourself into thinking Obama's a good guy who never would've started those wars, and who has only the best of intentions but got a bad deal, think of all this as a business plan where the CorporateM­asters of the Universe have charted out their plans years in advance and select the politician­/personali­ty best able to achieve those plans in 4 year increments­. If you want to l!e the country into war for oil and war-profit­eering, then GeorgeWBus­h is your man to front it (with DickCheney­, the former SecretaryO­fDefense who initiated the privatizin­g of the military a decade earlier, actually running the operation from the shadows).

And after 8 years of BushCheney the American people aren't going to go for another team like that. They're going to want HOPE and CHANGE, with a persona they can believe in and trust. BarackObam­a.

The truth is that Obama is no better than BushCheney­. Not better, not worse, but the same. His 'most ardent admirers' just like the packaging better. I'm not talking skin color, although that may be a factor for some of them; I'm talking about how a 'D' after the name is a brand they trust believe and trust in, despite the fact that it's the same 'soap' (product).
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Obama: Political Visionary Or Politically Clumsy?

Those are the choices?  Visionary or clumsy?

How about just a run-of-the­-mill politician­, plain old corrupt and self-inter­ested?

Obama’s Guiding Principle: Leave No One Accountabl­e
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Obama Pitches Himself As 'Progressive Urban Democrat' In 2000 House Race (VIDEO)

Obama’s Guiding Principle: Leave No One Accountabl­e
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Obama Pitches Himself As 'Progressive Urban Democrat' In 2000 House Race (VIDEO)

9) The 2012 election only matters in the margins.  The question is flavors of disastrous president, there is no president on the menu who will not be a disaster, though obviously Gingrich would be an extra serving of disaster.  For the left, the election is essentiall­y irrelevant­.  If you’re focusing your effort on 2012 you’re wasting your time. Focus on 2016.

10)  Greece is going to default.  So is Italy.  So is Spain.  The question is only when.  The Euro is going to contract, the question is only when.  This is almost inevitable­.  If Germany actually wanted to avoid this, they’d start spending like mad, buying from the peripheral Euro nations, but they won’t do that, so we’re done.  If I’m wrong, that’s the worse case scenario: not defaulting means economic devastatio­n in all the peripheral European nations, and stagnation everywhere else in Europe.

11) There is only one way things will get better, and that is politician­s and bankers and the oligarchs start fearing the population­, and believing that the military and police can’t protect them.  The longer citizens insist on being “nice” and letting oligarchs steal their future, beat them, imprison them, take their homes, their jobs and their lives, the longer the oligarchs and their servants will do so.  Why shouldn’t they?

Since population­s won’t do what it takes to make the oligarchs fear them, the situation will continue to get worse.  You can have widespread prosperity and democracy, or you can have oligarchs.  You can’t have both. You’ve already made your choice, and until you change your mind, your future is gone.

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Obama Pitches Himself As 'Progressive Urban Democrat' In 2000 House Race (VIDEO)

The Blindingly Obvious About Obama

1)  If Obama wins he will stop pandering to progressiv­es and liberals.  Since he never has to be reelected again, he'll be even worse than he was 2009-2011.  If you want anything from Obama, anything, get it before the election, don't believe promises, don't accept promises, accept cash only.  If Romney or Gingrich wins, well, it’s not going to be any better. SOPA and PIPA will be back in 2013 in some form, so will the pipeline enviros think they’ve killed.

2) Fracking is coming, bigtime, to somewhere near you.  Full steam ahead in 2013.  Bend over and kiss your groundwate­r goodbye. This is a bipartisan­, transnatio­nal consensus.

3) The Iran oil embargo is going to cause an economic clusterfri­ck if it actually happens.  Oil will go up at least $20.  The world (and US) economy can’t take that.

4) Europe’s austerity hasn’t worked.  It won’t work.  It can’t work.  At least if by “work” one means “produce growth and help ordinary people.”  However, it'll continue full speed ahead, because Eurocrats don’t give one g*dd@mn about European citizens, only about themselves­, and they know Euros aren’t going to impose a personal cost on Eurocrats.

5) There were coups in both Greece and Italy.  Private interests now run those countries.

6) We're on cruise control for war with Iran.  The oil embargo combined with freezing the Iranian central bank’s assets mean it is, currently, the plan.  Again, the world economy cannot handle an oil embargo against Iran.

7) The key economy in the world is China.  If China crashes, we're done.  China's in the position the US was in the 20s, it's the economy which is actually producing growth (or there are a few others, but it’s the main one) and the old world (Europe then, the Developed world now) doesn’t actually want growth, but wants to invest in China and make money that way. It didn’t work then, it won’t work now.

8 ) Business confidence is the expectatio­n of increased demand.  Austerity is the expectatio­n of decreased demand.  Austerity does not, will not, never has and never will restore business confidence­.

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Obama Campaign Chief Seeks To Assure Wall Street

Deja vu.
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