Saturday morning roundup
Here are some highlights of the news you probably won’t hear on MSNBC…
Congressman Charles Rangel (democrat – NY) has finally been charged with multiple ethics violations by the bipartisan House Ethics Committee
Anita MonCrief to File FEC Charges Against Obama Administration
Barack Obama is the worst president in history on job creation–
According to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. shed 2.3 million jobs since February 2009, Obama’s first full month in office. Since Obama’s election in 2008, the US economy has shed 4.4 million jobs. That’s worse than Herbert Hoover.The US economy lost another 125,000 jobs in June. Just ask Alvin Greene.
Barack Obama’s Keynesian policies have failed miserably. Democrats blew a Trillion dollars on a failed stimulus bill and all they managed to do was triple the national deficit in one year.
Even the far left extremists on “Journolist” hate Keith Olbermann.
Top Ten Racist Incidents of the Week
Quote of day
Today’s quote comes from democrat President John F. Kennedy in 1962:
“It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now … Cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget deficit, but to achieve the more prosperous, expanding economy which can bring a budget surplus.”
True then and true now. So why does President Obama and the congressional democrats want to raise taxes during a recession?
Obama’s track record
Jeff Miller has made a list of some of our Dear Leader’s promises and how he has followed up on them.
1. He campaigned against an insurance mandate and then gave us one.
2. He promised he wouldn’t hire lobbyists, and then hired at least 40 of them.
3. He promised to release logs of meetings between his staff and lobbyists, and then his staff started meeting across the street with lobbyists so it wouldn’t be logged.
4. He promised not to raise any taxes on families that make under $250,000, and then raised several taxes that apply to them.
5. He promised to post all bills on the internet for five days before he would sign them, and he’s broken this promise with nearly every bill he’s signed.
6. He promised not to tax health care benefits, and then signed a law that taxes health care benefits.
7. He promised to get us out of Iraq; not happening.
8. He promised to close Guantanamo; not happening.
9. He lied about the cost of his health care plan.
10. He promised to televise the health care negotiations, and didn’t.
11. He promised to veto all legislation with earmarks; he hasn’t.
12. He has bragged about continuing the Bush treatment of detainees.
13. He promised transparency and then prosecuted leakers. (Plus, remember this?)
14. He lied about the public option. And about a ton of other stuff.
15. Remembering signing statements? Obama assumes you don’t.
16. Don’t ask, don’t tell? Still in place.
And then there’s the other stuff, the silly and the sad, like the commissions, embarrassing issues of foreign etiquette, lambasting tax breaks he voted for, bribing people with job offers, bemoaning the iPod that he himself uses, his habitual invocation of straw men, his destruction of jobs, wasted money, the cash-for-clunkers/housing-credit idiocy, the foreclosure plan folly, the fake fiscal restraint, unemployment and the stimulus bill, and the fact that Obama’s policies redistribute wealth from poor to rich.
President Obama is not just a mediocre president; he’s not just a bad president. President Obama is a terrible president. He is a terrible president by any standard, but certainly by his own. We were promised great things, and instead, we got just another lousy politician.
The BS Removal Kit
Ya, they are out to make a buck, but somebody has to get the economy moving.
Two opposing views
Compare and contrast. First Mort Zuckerman points out that our Dear Leader is is “anti-business.”
Of course, the talking heads at MSNBC, Mika Brzezinski and John Heilmann, were shocked by this. They certainly haven’t gotten that message from the instructions they get sent directly to their Crackberrys by the Obama White House.
Let us review the facts of the situation, after a year and half of our Dear Leader and the democrats controlling both both houses of Congress.
- The Stock Market can’t get a decent rally going and the Dow is still mired at the 10K mark.
- Unemployment remains at unprecedented levels. Real unemployment is well over 10%, probably closer to 15%. Is it in spite of the democrat’s massive so-called “stimulus” plans or because of them?
- The housing market is still in shambles, and no reform of Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae in sight.
The facts of the matter are clearly obvious, as well as the sad truth that the MSNBC talking heads have to toe the Obama regime party line in order to keep their jobs.
Obama’s failed leadership highlighted in Arizona
AZ Gov. Jan Brewer points out Obama’s failed leadership.
Why are liberals so bad at history?
Current case in point, Elena Kagan, whom our Dear leader wants to put on the Supreme Court. In digging through what little paper trail she has generated, National Review has discovered that Ms. Kagan has compared the NRA to the KKK.
Let us review the basic history here, which Ms. Kagan is clearly unware of.
The National Rifle Association was formed after the Civil War by former Union Army officers to promote marksmanship.
The KKK was formed after the Civil War by former Confederate Army personnel to express their displeasure at people they still considered property conducting themselves as free citizens of the Republic.
One way the KKK expressed their displeasure was by murdering these new citizens of the Repubic.
Their victims reacted in a logical manner in a free society, they exercised their Constitutional protected rights to Keep and Bear Arms and defended themselves against the murderous thugs of the KKK. The KKK didn’t like their victims to be able to shoot back, so they contacted their friends in the state legislatures to pass the very first “gun control” laws in the United States of America.
That’s right folks, the first so-called “gun control” laws were passed to protect the members of the KKK from the newly freed slaves they wanted to murder. The history of one of the left’s major policies, so-called “gun control” laws, is the history of violent racism in the United States.
So, either Ms. Kagan is woefully ignorant of American History, or she is deliberately ignoring the facts in order to promote a political agenda that runs counter to the Constitution of the United States of America. Either one is not a good sign in a potential member of the Supreme Court.
Competence was never Barry’s strong point
Some people are starting to notice that our Dear Leader isn’t really living up to their expectations of a mildly competent President.
Let’s get serious people! It has been plain from the beginning that his actual “leadership” experience was limited to a brief stint as a Cub Scout.
The American voters who bothered to go to the polls back in November 2008 elected a man who has never held a private sector job in his life!
He was very good at making promises during the campaign, but not so good at actually keeping them once elected. Foreign leaders are also not taking Barry very seriously either. Competence was not what our Dear Leader ran on. It was pure charisma and hatred against his opponents, including fellow democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton. What we have gotten has been back room, corrupt Chicago style politics, not leadership, and if you have been paying attention, that shouldn’t have come as a surprise.
Update: Roger Kimball makes the following observation:
But incompetence is only one aspect of Obama’s make up. There are two other attributes along with an under-appreciated, or at least under-commented on, character flaw that we must ponder in order to take the full measure of this post-modern American politician.
The other two attributes are 1) arrogance and 2) ideological animus.
Republicans win Obama’s hometown House seat
Charles Djou won a special election in Hawaii, putting a Republican in Congress representing the district our Dear Leader lived in for many years.
“Your Papers Please!” Part 2
As in Part 1, we are not talking about the Arizona law that has wide support among Arizonian citizens.
The evil, anti-civil rights group that is demanding that these kids prove their citizenship, the Obama White House. That’s right, Barack Hussein Obama, current President of these here United States and head of the democrat party.
Our Dear Leader wants a photo op at an American high school, and plans on personally shaking the hand of every graduating senior. Before these high school kids from a “fly over state” are going to be allowed near BHO, who BTW called the recent Arizona law “misguided” and ordered the Justice Department to investigate to see whether the law violates civil rights of illegal aliens, they will have to produce for the authorities:
- Their full name
- Date of Birth
- Social Security Number
- Proof of Citizenship
The smell of the leftist hypocrisy is pretty thick on this Charlie Fox.