FDR and Barack Hussein Obama,,,COMPARED

Bipartisan Backing for the President or Fear and Loathing of Retribution from President Stick-It-To-'Em
By John Batchelor on January 31, 2009

FDR Cut the Pay of Veterans and the Federal Government in One Day.
It was Friday March 10, 1933, the end of FDR's first week in office, and not only had he ordered a national bank holiday (so customers cannot "cash out" to their own benefit, customers STIFFED ), rewritten the banking law in one day (which is stealing power from Congress), and issued new Federal


Barack Hussein Obama cut Social Security VIA NO RAISES,


Reserve notes (to wreck value of dollar, no more cashing them for silver), but also he took on the rambunctious (STIFFED HIS OPPOSITION, the military. setting a precident for STIFFING the military that continues thru 2011)veteran's army that had challenged and humiliated Herbert Hoover as well as cutting the pay of all federal employees by 15%. And on the seventh day he didn't rest. Congress was amazed and stumped. How to get in the way of this (Stalinistic)character from New York? This is Frank Roosevelt, Uncle Ted's nephew? The banks were ordered to reopen on Monday morning the 13th to exchange everyone's paper money and to accept more of the gold certificates and bullion that people had pulled out the previous months. The veterans were quiet though not happy. And the Congress was polite in the face of FDR's message: "The nation is deeply gratified by the immediate response given yesterday (March 9) by the Congress to restore and improve our banking system..." Democrat Senator Joseph Robinson of Arkansas, the Majority Leader, remarked, "It was a strong, impressive and convincing statement..." Senator Charles McNary of Oregon, Minority Leader, conceded, "The President's proposal for economy is the most drastic ever sent to Congress. The claim for additional power has received a ready response from the Democratic members of Congress and probably will not be opposed by the (RINO scared, gutless, spineless)Republicans...." In fact the only two to be found in opposition to FDR with any weight were (self-serving)Huey Long of Louisiana, who was aiming to run against FDR on a third party ticket, and (self-serving) Bill Borah of Idaho, who aimed to run against FDR on the Republican ticket.

Compare the 112th Congress of Today.
Nancy Pelosi was not eliminated in 2010 elections but LOST HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES. NOT REALLY problematic as COUNTRY CLUB BIG GOV'T BIG SPENDING RINO Boehner GAVE Obama a BIRTHDAY PRESENT OF A DEBT CEILING RAISE OF 2.3 TRILLION allegedly because "shutting down government would make GOP LOSE.

OBAMA WAS ON THE ROPES. Boehner COULD get wishy-washy to even lie about $ TRILLION in Cuts instead of ONE PLUS...

WITH economy RUINED and HIGH unemployment...GOP can BEAT Obama in 2012 but WILL NOMINATE NO-GOOD RINO AGAIN such as Recycled Romney; A DEmocrat facing own-party opposition like Obama has NEVER WON a second TERM...GOP will HAVE TO HELP A LOT with a CRAPPY McCain foot-shooter type...

David Obey sent the Republican minority a (self-serving, greedy, payback) pork farm of a stimulus package that was almost too easy for the GOP to reject with 0 votes. And the Senate version written by the
Democratic majority (rubbing poop in helpless, Republican faces) is even more expensive and more pork-filled and has even RINO John McCain shaking his head "No," and Ben Nelson cogitating with a gang of rebels, some of whom are Democrats. The only similarity to be found between FDR's first week in office and Mr. Obama's first week in office is that the Democrats have an overwhelming majority in both the House and the Senate and enjoy flattering media coverage -- and that the US economy is in a rapid state of decline, joined by the collapse of global trade, confidence and comity. FDR overwhelmed the GOP with action, talk, horse-trading, common sense and a pell mell confidence that he could manage the press and Al Smith at the same time. In comparison, President Obama is still enjoying the praise of the election and does not yet look to have engaged his own majority less the Republican opposition. Meeting with Congress, or stepping nimbly over a planter at the White House, is the not a substitute for either convincing or intimidating Congress. The Hill was fearful of FDR right away (see McNary, Borah and Long). Is the Hill afraid of President Obama? Love and fear. Machiavelli chose. FDR chose.


Class Warfare Works
By John Batchelor on January 30, 2009 11:37 PM | 6 Comments
Al Smith Attacked FDR in 1936.
"The New Deal is socialism in poor disguise," said the envious, contentious Al Smith. "I won't stand for them to want to march under the banner of (Andrew) Jackson or (Grover) Cleveland." This was
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the counterattack that FDR risked when he used Harold Ickes and others to attack the rich, elite men whom he dubbed "economic royalists" (right) as he prepared to fight class warfare in the election in 1936. FDR knew what he was doing, borrowing from the class baiting remarks of the charming, strange demagogue Huey Long (who remained a threat until his assassination in Baton Rouge). The frail Republicans pushed back with energetic men such as the wildcatter Alf Landon of Kansas, who sounded like FDR in his state inaugural speech: "I think... government power must increase." Landon overtook Herbert Hoover and Bill Borah at Cleveland to become the GOP nominee. FDR used the economic royalist attack at the 1936 Philadelphia convention: "These privileged princes have created a new despotism and fastened it on the American people...the New Deal is the analogue to the Declaration of Independence... better the occasional faults that lives in the spirit of charity...this generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny..." FDR won a landslide built upon cunning, passionate, articulate class warfare rhetoric: "Nine crazy years at the ticker, and three long years at the bread lines..." "They (the economic royalists) are unanimous in their hatred of me, and I welcome their hatred..."

Joe Biden and Barack Obama Begin the Drumbeat.
The president's remarks against the $18 billion of bonuses paid to the Wall Street bankers in 2008 are smart, accurate politics. Joe Biden recognizes the genius and joins in. So does Andrew Cuomo, the attorney general in New York, who will seek to get back the $4 billion
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that the suddenly suspect and surrounded John Thain paid his Merrill Lynch employees in reward for losing $27 billion year long. And now Rudy Giuliani recognizes the potency and makes a contrarian argument that if the bonuses are banned it will hurt New York's economy. Rudy is running for New York governor, against the troubled tenure of David Paterson; so perhaps his pro bonus argument can prosper at the GOP convention. Elsewhere, the president and vice-president have it right. Class warfare works, and works doubly and triply well during a financial crisis. It is the spirit of Huey Long, the ghost of FDR, the long lost legacy of frontier heroes like Daniel Boone and Andrew Jackson and Davy Crockett. Plutocracy always loses at the polls. And Mike Bloomberg is running for re-election, so he best get right his remarks about "economic royalists." This may be difficult, because he is a plutocrat and because he is now entertaining the idea of raise sales taxes.

Bloomberg proposed several measures, including an increase in the sales tax from 8.375 percent to 8.75 percent, in an effort to balance the budget. Bloomberg has already slashed $3.7 billion in spending since last year, an administration official said.

Left out...Why I Voted Democrat!

I voted Democrat because I love the fact that I can now marry whatever I want. I’ve decided to marry my horse.

I voted Democrat because I believe oil companies’ profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene but the government taxing the same gallon of gas at 15% isn’t.

I voted Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would.

I voted Democrat because freedom of speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it.

I voted Democrat because when we pull out of Iraq I trust that the bad guys will stop what they’re doing because they now think we’re good people.

I voted Democrat because I’m way too irresponsible to own a gun, and I know that my local police are all I need to protect me from murderers and thieves.

I voted Democrat because I believe that people who can’t tell us if it will rain on Friday can tell us that the polar ice caps will melt away in ten years if I don’t start driving a Prius.

I voted Democrat because I’m not concerned about the slaughter of millions of babies so long as we keep all death row inmates alive.

I voted Democrat because I believe that business should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest away to the government for redistribution as THEY see fit.

I voted Democrat because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite The Constitution every few days to suit some fringe kooks who would never get their agendas past the voters.

I voted Democrat because my head is so firmly planted up my ass that it is unlikely that I’ll ever have another point of view.

I voted Democrat as they have been wrong about everything for the past 60 years and I like to watch a perfect record unfold.

Iam not Mariah Carey, Mirah Cary
I am not Ami Winehouse, Amy Winehouse,

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