{"id":26316,"date":"2014-07-20T21:54:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T01:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=26316"},"modified":"2014-07-20T21:54:25","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T01:54:25","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-friday-july-18th-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=26316","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Friday, July 18th, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Friday, July 18th, 2014…and here’s The Gouge!<\/strong><\/p>\n

First up, courtesy of the Daily Mail<\/em>, The Obamao trivializes the tragic deaths of another 20+ Americans by jokes, jabs and jetting off for yet another in an endless string of\u00a0fundraisers:<\/strong><\/p>\n

‘It looks like it may be a terrible tragedy’: Obama goes AWOL again with just 40-second mention of Malaysian plane crash feared to have killed Americans before his jokey 16-minute transport speech<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n

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\u00a0“I’ve instructed my national security team to stay in close contact with the Ukrainian government; as for me, I’m off to another $32,500\/plate fundraiser in New York and then heading out to the links!”<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Immediately after his very brief remarks regarding the deliberate downing of MH17, an act of mass murder he learned about prior to leaving for Delaware…<\/strong><\/p>\n

“…Obama also acknowledged the presence of Treasury Secretary Jack Lew with a joke.\u00a0‘Jack Lew\u2019s signature is actually on your money,’ he said, ‘although it’s kind of illegible. We teased him when he first became treasury secretary that he was going to have to fix his signature a little bit because it looked just like a caterpillar running along the bottom.’<\/p>\n

From there he launched into a 16-minute speech about transportation projects he wants Republicans to fund, complaining bitterly about their objections to his end-runs around the federal legislature.\u00a0‘When I have a chance to help communities like Wilmington, I\u2019m going to do it,’ he said, as cable news networks focused on the lives lost in Eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n

‘That\u2019s when my administration takes these executive actions, when Congress won\u2019t act. And so far, the only response we\u2019ve gotten from the Republicans is a lawsuit. They’re suing me for doing my job, instead of going ahead and doing their job.’\u00a0‘That’s disappointing,’ Obama said. ‘It\u2019s a political stunt.’<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Boston Globe<\/em> reporter Matt Viser summed up The Obamao’s callous casualness with the following tweet:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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As the Mail Online story went on to note:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Daniel Hannan, the British member of Europe’s parliament who has rankled liberals in a series of American speaking tours, tweeted his own disgust.\u00a0‘Listening to Obama’s statement [on] the airline tragedy, my mind went back to Reagan 31 years ago,’ he wrote.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>‘How America’s leaders have shrunk<\/em><\/span>.’<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Here’s Reagan:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n