I'm so disgusted with our president and his party's leaders. In the Twitter townhall, he was asked what he would have done differently to address the recession and he said he would have made more effort to make sure the people understood it would take awhile to fix. Because yeah, that is the problem. The people are so stupid that you weren't able to make them understand your genius plan! It's not because, oh, I don't know - the bigger the government the LOWER the quality of life, the LOWER the effectiveness of its economy, the LOWER the freedom of its people. It's not that you've taxed and regulated businesses to the point that it's more cost-effective to move operations to countries where they can actually run the business. It's not because 51% of people pay NO taxes whatsoever, and the richest people you keep trying to tax find more and more shelters and loopholes the higher their taxes. No. You're denying quantifiable facts, provable facts, and WE are the stupid ones. Newsflash, you dick, your plan ISN'T WORKING.

And Nancy Pelosi! She had the utter gall to smirk at reporters as she drawled that we have reached day 185 of no jobs bill from the GOP controlled House, when we have also reached day EIGHT HUNDRED of no budget proposal whatsoever, which includes time when both the House and Senate were under Democrat control and they could have passed any kind of budget - tax increases and spending increases galore - and FAILED TO DO SO. And when asked recently, Harry Reid said he thought it would IRRESPONSIBLE of the Democrats to propose a budget at this time. Seriously?!? You jump all over Paul Ryan, subject him to any number of personal attacks, accuse him of trying to kill old people because he wants to OH NOES balance the budget and save Medicare, and you fail fail fail EVERY DAY to even propose a budget of your own!

Side note: It is NOT the responsibility of the government to create jobs. That is the responsibility of the private sector, which can actually provide sustainable long-term employment. The GOP understands this. It also understands that it cost $278 million for every job "created" by the stimulus package (which package, incidentally, also paid for the genius program where the US government sold assault weapons to Mexican drug cartels - because nothing could possibly go wrong there, right?). It's actually a good thing the House isn't trying to "create" jobs, Nancy. If you lived in any universe even remotely connected to reality you might understand that.



Never has that been more true. Speaker Boehner said today that we have three problems - a tax problem, a spending problem and a jobs problem. Those three are merely symptoms of our three real problems: a Pelosi problem, a Reid problem and an Obama problem.

Yeah, no. No, no, no. You are the Primary president, not Queen of the Ward. Just because I'm "only" the ward music director doesn't mean that I am retarded or "less" in any way. You cannot - CANNOT - continue to do end-runs around me to get the Primary kids singing in Sacrament meeting and then brush me off like I'm a Sunbeam trying to sit at the adult table when I call you on it. I am more than happy to have other things going on than interminable intermediate hymns, believe me, but just ask me. Do NOT inform me that I will be notified if the grown-ups decide to have the kids sing. Sacrament meeting music is MY responsibility, just like all the ankle-biters are yours. This makes the third month in a row for both the end-run and the Primary number. I will not let you steamroll me. Quiet does not in any way mean spineless.

RAR.