Democrats have seen the writing on the wall and it says, “you are screwed in November.”
As was predicted on this site over and over, the crypto-Marxist economic snake oil of the Obama Administration has failed and done so spectacularly. The economy is barely breathing and current GDP growth is slower than population growth. That is a recession: You know it, I know it and the American people know it.
With less than two months until the November elections, the White House is seriously weighing a package of business tax breaks – potentially worth hundreds of billions of dollars – to spur hiring and combat Republican charges that Democratic tax policies hurt small businesses, according to people with knowledge of the deliberations.
Among the options under consideration are a temporary payroll tax holiday and a permanent extension of the now-expired research and development tax credit, which rewards companies that conduct research into new technologies within the United States.
Administration officials have struggled to develop new economic policies and an effective message to blunt expected Republican gains in Congress and defuse complaints from Democrats that President Obama is fumbling the issue most important to voters.
That is good news but, you know damned well that as soon as the November elections are over, Obama will go right back to far-left economy-destroying policies.
Have you noticed that the name of the new wahabi channel in Spain is the same as the 9/11 victory mosque?
Cordoba. Why Cordoba? They say this:
The name Cordoba was chosen carefully to reflect a period of time during which Islam played a monumental role in the enrichment of human civilization and knowledge. A thousand years ago Muslims, Jews, and Christians coexisted and created a prosperous center of intellectual, spiritual, cultural and commercial life in Cordoba, Spain.
(Straight from the Cordoba Initiative website… )
The truth takes a quick history lesson of Moorish Spain:
A thousand years ago the Moors were charging jizya (non-muslim faith tax) to Christians and Jews throughout the Spanish peninsula. Mordern day portugal was the last holdout (where the Christian reconquest was mounted from).
Abd-er Rahman bought the Christian section of the church in Cordoba (Mezquita) and expanded the Mosque.
Al-Mansur popped up in the late 900′s. In 997 his army captured Santiago de Compostela (the jumping off point for the Christian reconquest). The Christian shrine was sacked. Prisoners took the basilica doors/bells to Cordoba and installed them in the Mezquita (former church turned into mosque). Centuries of Christian reconquest were crushed by Al-Mansur.
Do you notice the motivation here? They take souvenirs from places they destroy and add them to their trophies (mosques). They are using the Spanish name to throw the lazy off their track. Their true motivation is the same as it was a thousand years ago… stopping the advance of western Christians!
Another fine how do you do from our socialist administration.
PHOENIX – The U.S. Justice Department sued Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Thursday, saying the Arizona lawman refused for more than a year to turn over records in an investigation into allegations his department discriminates against Hispanics.
The lawsuit calls Arpaio and his office’s defiance “unprecedented,” and said the federal government has been trying since March 2009 to get officials to comply with its probe of alleged discrimination, unconstitutional searches and seizures, and jail policies that discriminate against people with limited English skills
Arpaio had been given until Aug. 17 to hand over documents the federal government first asked for 15 months ago.
Arpaio called the Justice Department actions harassment at a news conference Thursday morning in downtown Phoenix. His office has said it won’t hand over additional documents because federal authorities haven’t said exactly what they were investigating.
“They have hundreds of thousands of reports, hundreds of thousands,” Arpaio said. “They’re so broad, we’re trying to narrow it down. We’re trying to work with them.”
“…And I do know that candidates — and I include myself — that are running for election or re-election are not rational people. I mean, we don’t want anything to interfere with our re-election. And if some pollster comes and says that, you know, five out of 10 people are against this, then we take both sides. You know?”
In another attempt to shirk their Constitutional responsibility, while simultaneously castigating and prosecuting anyone who attempts to take care of problems on their own, the Feral Government has ceded Arizona land to Mexican drug cartels.
“This is going on here in Arizona,” he said. “This is 70 to 80 miles from the border – 30 miles from the fifth-largest city in the United States.”
He said he asked the Obama administration for 3,000 National Guard soldiers to patrol the border, but what he got were 15 signs.
…assaults against U.S. law enforcement officers along the southwestern border were on the increase – up 46 percent against Border Patrol agents alone.
At the same time, the Justice Department brought a lawsuit to stop a new immigration enforcement law in Arizona, saying it violated the Constitution by trying to supersede federal law and by impairing illegal immigrants’ right to travel and conduct interstate commerce.
Mr. Cutler said it was “outrageous” for the BLM to direct travelers to dial 911 to report suspicious activities since the calls do not go to the federal government but to state and local police. He said the signs are telling Americans to call state and local law enforcement authorities to deal with border lawlessness while at the same time telling Arizona that only the federal government can write and enforce immigration laws.
The way the right wants to tell the story — and, I’m afraid, the way it will play in November — is that the Obama team went all out for Keynesian policies, and they failed. So back to supply-side economics!
The point, of course, is that that is not at all what happened. A straight Keynesian analysis implied the need for a much bigger program, more oriented toward spending, than the administration proposed. And people like me said that at the time — we’re not talking about hindsight. To wit:
Once there was a farmer who had a horse who was a bit sick. The horse could still work, but he tired easily. The farmer wanted to cure his horse. He mentioned the problem to a man from the city – Chicago I think – and the city man said that he should give the horse two tablespoons of turpentine each day. The farmer took the advice and started the treatment.
Two weeks later the horse was worse and could barely work at all. The townie dude said that the solution was to double the dose. So the farmer started administering four tablespoons of turpentine per day.
A week later the horse was so sick that it couldn’t work at all. The city slicker told him he wasn’t really taking the cure seriously and to double the dose to eight tablespoons of turpentine per day. So the farmer did.
Later, when the farmer was burying his dead horse the dude from the city drove by. As he did, he slowed down and yelled out the window to the farmer, “You obviously didn’t give him enough turpentine!”
It is a long process, but the left is starting to understand that President Teleprompter Obama is pretty much just an extension of an electronic device.
Now Matthews isn’t all they way there yet. He understands that Obama is pretty much just reading what is put in front of him. What he doesn’t quite grasp is that, without a teleprompter, Obama doesn’t “connect,” he blathers almost incoherently. Matthews is never going to see much of Obama without a teleprompter because without the teleprompter, there is nothing to see.
South Korea would like to sell American collectors American made M1 Garand rifles and M1 carbines. They have some of the antiques left over from the Korean war and would like to make the perfectly legal rifles available to Americans. Obama says no way.
The South Korean government, in an effort to raise money for its military, wants to sell nearly a million antique M1 rifles that were used by U.S. soldiers in the Korean War to gun collectors in America.
The Obama administration approved the sale of the American-made rifles last year. But it reversed course and banned the sale in March – a decision that went largely unnoticed at the time but that is now sparking opposition from gun rights advocates.
A State Department spokesman said the administration’s decision was based on concerns that the guns could fall into the wrong hands.
“The transfer of such a large number of weapons — 87,310 M1 Garands and 770,160 M1 Carbines — could potentially be exploited by individuals seeking firearms for illicit purposes,” the spokesman told FoxNews.com.
“We are working closely with our Korean allies and the U.S. Army in exploring alternative options to dispose of these firearms.”
Bear in mind that the M1 is a perfectly legal rifle that is bought and sold in America everyday, Tens of thousands of them are already in the hands of Americans. This is just one more way an anti-gun administration makes it harder for Americans to own the arms Americans want to own.
In a move that will shock only the retarded and criminally insane, the Zero administration is using a La Raza agitprop in an official ad campaign to fight for higher wages for illegals. This scrunt spends most of her time indoctrinating school kids with her praise for Hugo Chavez and vitriol toward republicans and the American way. Charming.
Manger said the gunman had been wearing “what appeared to be metallic canister devices” when he entered the building.
Police in Maryland are responding to a hostage situation after reports that a man with a handgun entered the
“The man told everyone to just stay still,” Manger said.
A website registered to Lee criticized Discovery and announced plans for the protest in January 2008: “These guys have been very sneaky and deceptive as to their contribution to the planetary problems. Just look at their ‘new’ show about saving the planet, ‘Planet Green,’ to me, it’s just another show about more PRODUCTS to make MONEY, not about actual solutions. We can’t let them get away with doing it anymore.”
Lee is believed to have distributed a manifesto outside the Discovery building several weeks ago that called on the network to “broadcast to the world their commitment to save the planet.”
“All programs on Discovery Health-TLC must stop encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants and the false heroics behind those actions,” the list of demands read.
“In those programs’ places, programs encouraging human sterilization and infertility must be pushed. All former pro-birth programs must now push in the direction of stopping human birth, not encouraging it.”
To his credit, he checked out today reducing the population of parasitic humans by one. Never let it be said that Lee is a hypocrite.
After hours of negotiations, the Montgomery County Police Department announced just before 5 p.m. that they had set off smoke bombs, allowing sharp-shooters to take the gunman down. All hostages escaped safely.
Thus, Lee reduced his carbon footprint to a sustainable level. With any luck, other environmentalist extremists will follow his lead.
There has been an awful lot of talk lately about the Republicans winning one or, perhaps, both houses of Congress in November. Some pundits believe that both houses will fall. Some only one, and some think both houses will remain in the hands of the Democrats.
For me, I own some property down south where we have been spending our winters, away from the snow. If the Republicans don’t take at least one house in November I have decided that I need to dispose of the winter place. If the Dems get two more years of control of Congress AND control the White House they will pass Cap and Trade and, undoubtedly, a Value-Added tax. That will mean the cost of fuel will at least double. That will make it too expensive for us to make that drive each year.
So, I am hoping for the Republicans to take the House. But I’m not so sure that I want them to take both houses just yet. In spite of the fact that I am involved with the Republican party I don’t think their leadership gets it yet. I’m afraid if we give control to the current crop of R’s they won’t be any different than they were before.
Body language is an important means of communication. You don’t think “W” held the hand of the Saudi prince because he wanted to show the world how in touch with his emotions he was, did you?
Well, this body language says, to the rest of the world, exactly what it says to you:(no, not “FEED ME, FEED ME…ME HUNGRY….COOKIES?”)
More pictures below the fold. The last one is the key to why people feel that Zero and the scumbag brigade favor Muslims. (If you click the link start at #9 and click through a few. I didn’t handpick these to make a point. They were the only ones released.)
What’s interesting is the idea that national Republicans would be in any way at odds with Joe Miller. Miller is a political success story. He ran an insurgent campaign, winning the hearts and minds of Republican voters in Alaska, and climbed over a strong incumbent candidate.
During an election cycle in which its clear that the American electorate wants change, you would think that the Republicans would embrace change within their own party. At a time when Americans are sick and tired of the status quo in Washington DC, Miller’s victory in Alaska represents voters demanding that change with their votes.
What business do national Republicans have being hostile toward the candidate Republican voters in Alaska voted to represent them in the election? That there is apparent hostility speaks to the fact that Republicans still aren’t getting it.
Republicans take heed: Perform or the electorate will turn on you as fast as it did the “40 year ascendancy of the liberalism” following the election of Obama.
Some lights are coming on… From Sen. Jim DeMint (R., S.C.):
“I want to congratulate Joe Miller on his remarkable victory tonight and offer him my full support,” said Senator DeMint. “He pulled off the upset victory of the year because he ran on principles and because Alaskans, like all Americans, want to stop to the massive spending, bailouts, and debt that are bankrupting our country.”I applaud Senator Murkowski for gracefully conceding this race and for doing her part to help Republicans in Alaska move forward.
“Joe Miller’s victory should be a wake-up call to politicians who go to Washington to bring home the bacon. Voters are saying ‘We’re not willing to bankrupt the country to benefit ourselves.’”Now it’s time for Republicans to unite behind Joe Miller and help him win this important race in November. I’m proud to announce that the Senate Conservatives Fund will add Joe Miller to its list of endorsed candidates, and will immediately begin working to raise support for his campaign.”
It isn’t really so much spinning as flat out lying. Watch Gretchen Carlson corner and call out Gibbs. Watch Gibbs continue to tap dance. Watch me mix metaphors like cocktails.
A trip down the memory hole… In response to President Bush’s State of the Union address on January 23, 2007, Senator Obama said:
“I don’t think the president’s strategy is going to work…My suggestion to the president has been that the only way we’re going to change the dynamic in Iraq and start seeing political commendation is actually if we create a system of phased redeployment. And, frankly, the president, I think, has not been willing to consider that option, not because it’s not militarily sound but because he continues to cling to the belief that somehow military solutions are going to lead to victory in Iraq.”
Senator Joe Biden, just before the surge was formally announced, said:
“If he surges another 20, 30 [thousand], or whatever number he’s going to, into Baghdad, it’ll be a tragic mistake.”
Mostly it was a workmanlike and unremarkable speech. He covered all the bases and said what needed to be said. There were, however, a couple of statements worth commenting on. First…
So tonight, I am announcing that the American combat mission in Iraq has ended. Operation Iraqi Freedom is over, and the Iraqi people now have lead responsibility for the security of their country.
This was my pledge to the American people as a candidate for this office. Last February, I announced a plan that would bring our combat brigades out of Iraq, while redoubling our efforts to strengthen Iraq’s Security Forces and support its government and people.
This is just nonsense. It tells about 2% of the story. Obama is always talking about the economy he inherited but he isn’t even close to gracious enough to admit that he inherited victory in Iraq. The day Obama swore in as president the war was already won and the plans for the draw down of US forces were already in place. His “pledge to the American people” was about as relevant as a pledge that the sun would continue to rise in the East. He pledged that a planned withdrawal he inherited would occur as planned. Tonight he implied that it was actually he who made it possible.
“We have a black dream today of when we see caskets rolling in the black community, that we will see caskets rolling and funerals in the white community of our enemy as well today… we have a black dream.”
Nothing says MLK like calling for violence. Wait….Huh?
The American Civil Liberties Union sued the U.S. government over an alleged policy of killing American citizens who are suspected of terrorism.
The lawsuit, filed today in federal court in Washington, argued that such targeted assassinations by the government are unconstitutional.
I have to say that I agree with the unconstitutional nature of targeting Americans and the lack of due process. I also, wholly disagree with the assertion that this asswad is an American. He relinquished that status when he took up arms against this country. He is an unlawful enemy combatant. He should be exterminated with extreme prejudice.
