So true.
I believe September is another month in which estimated tax payments are due.
If Wikipedia is accurate, the Huffington Post deliberately started off as a counter to the Druge Report. So I am pitting them for emphasizing non news worthy stories to try to make Obama look good.
Which isn’t to say he shouldn’t look slightly good for this. Or conversely that Congress has nothing to do with deficits nor surpluses, obviously they have even moreso to do with them than Obama does.
I just was slightly peeved at the slight bait and switch I felt for a millisecond when I read this and I thought that rather than start a whole Pit thread about it, I’d continue on with the SLIotD since this was more of a minirant.
Micro rant.
Out of the 12 months, in how many are quarterlies due? (Hint: the answer is in the question!)
48?
In all fairness, I don’t remember the Republicans from 15-20 years ago to be as insane as they are today.
Where was the “bait and switch”? I seriously don’t get this.
The headline reads:
“President Obama Sees First Budget Surplus Of Presidency”
Was the budget not in surplus in April?
Was Obama not president?
Was this not the first month of surplus in his presidency?
Did the headline give Obama too much credit? Did he not really see the surplus?
Do you think that the entire income of the government comes in the month of April?
Did you think that the budget had miraculously gone into the black** for the entire fiscal year**?
If the last two are true, then you are not paying attention. I mean really, really not paying attention to anything.
And how is this a stupid Liberal idea anyway? Should the government not keep monthly accounts?
Well, now I know that you don’t need your one-a-day plus iron cause that post was pretty Alanistastic.
“Which isn’t to say he shouldn’t look slightly good for this.”
Nice rant, Mitt.
No, femto rant.
Only if it were true that I was bashing Obama in the post. Since I wasn’t, there’s nothing to backtrack from, only to clarify to people who didn’t get that I was mini ranting on HuffPo rather than Obama.
Yeah, re-reporting something from that noted Liberal bastion “Market Watch”. I think it’s ironic your complaint is about a misleading headline. Yours missed by a mile…
If someone mentions Godwin first, is that a Hitlerization?
Now it’s reversed: there was a headline link to this page called Obama makes gay. Makes gay WHAT? Makes gay love to Biden? No, he backed gay marriage! Yay, a reverse come on. I retract this minirant.
Gay makes Obama!
Wait…so what happens in Soviet Russia?
I am very pleased with my President today.
Closet comes out of you!
Good point. It’s certainly clear that the GOP won’t ever give us one.