Breakfast Scramble: Obama (Energy) is Not Working

The Obama energy policy, or lack thereof, the Obami have very simple energy, and job, policy. It if has no possibility of success, subsidize it. If on the other glove, it will succeed, regulate it to death.

First on the Obami love of green energy, Walter Russell Mead, American Interest, Feeding The Masses On Unicorn Ribs

Besides healing the planet and returning the rising seas to their natural beds, then-Senator Obama promised that his administration would create beautiful green jobs: well paid, stable, abundant jobs, unionized, with full benefits and making the earth healthier and the American people richer. As President, he stayed on message: even after the truther-enabling “green jobs czar” Van Jones left the administration, green jobs have been one of the President’s signature policies for putting the American people back to work

Next, on the Obami hatred of real energy, Charles Krauthammer,from Jeff Poor, Daily Caller:

“We are now back at square one hovering on the edge of a second recession,” Krauthammer continued. “And what he is I suppose he will propose is second mini-stimulus. Government doesn’t create jobs, but it kills them. And part of the problem we have is the blanket of regulation he has thrown on America especially in energy. America is the Saudi Arabia of gas and coal and his EPA and his moratorium on drilling elsewhere has killed an industry that has the potential, a) to hire a lot of people, and b) reduce our dependence on outside sources of energy

Video:

More, Ed Morrissey  Hot Air:

Unfortunately, Exxon has discovered firsthand what it’s like to deal with what Investors Business Daily calls “regulatory pirates” in the Gulf of Mexico:

From Obama’s phony energy policy, to the phony repubican, from John Hinderaker, Power Line:

Let’s Put the Huntsman Campaign Out of Its Misery

I have no idea why Jon Huntsman is running for president, nor do I understand why he is running as a Republican: as I noted last night, Huntsman’s chief strategist says that Republicans are “a bunch of cranks.”

Huntsman has been going after Rick Perry on global warming, apparently thinking that this is the way to curry favor with Republican primary voters. Given that a substantial majority of Americans (let alone Republicans) are deeply skeptical of AGW alarmism, this thinking is puzzling at best.

Mean while Doug Mataconis, at Outsde the Beltway:

Rejecting science, whether it’s the fundamental roots of biology or the widely accepted, among the science community, that human activity has contributed to climate change, is just a stupid idea, especially when it is mostly motivated by talk show hosts who have slandered respected scientists by suggesting that their lying and/or corrupt. If the GOP continues down this road, they’re going to continue to be marginalized in an America where science and learning are valued, not shunned.

Jon Huntsman does not understand the republican base and he does not understand science. As to evolution, Rick Perry calls it an unproven theory, a rather trite but indisputably true statement. There is not one settled theory of evolution, but several.

As to so-called anthropogenic global warming,Huntsman has fallen into the Algore trap of only believing those scientists who support Algore’s theory. Whereas Perry points out the much of the data has been falsified, which is true.

If Huntsman is serious about running for president, he should re-register for what he is a democrat, and primary his old boss, Barack Obama.

Rumblings from the ‘Rats plantation, from Fareed Zakaria, Chicago Tribune:

Democrats are finally up for a fight — with President Barack Obama. Having despaired that Obama gave in to the tea party on the debt deal, they now criticize him as too cautious in his proposals to boost American jobs. They’re right that Obama should present a sharp distinction to the public between his efforts and the Republican Party’s utter passivity in the face of a national employment crisis. But perhaps Obama realizes that the most important factor that will help his re-election — and Democratic prospects more generally — is a rise in employment. And to have any impact on the actual economy, Obama needs proposals that can get through Congress, not ones that sound good on TV.

Dumbo, b/k/a Barack Obama, has been president for coming on three years. He has played endless rounds of golf, gone on numerous vacations, but has not submitted a sober budget or submitted one plan which create private sector jobs. The only jobs Dumbo has shown any desire to create is patronage jobs for his political supporters.

After three years of no new job creation, it only reasonable to conclude that either Obama has no interest in creating jobs or no ability.

Note Obama has written plan to create diversity in federal hiring but no written plan to create private sector jobs anywhere, from Tina Korbe, Hot Air:

The president won’t present a jobs plan until September (as Ed says, he’ll be working on that while on “vacation” in Martha’s Vineyard), but he today issued an executive order to tackle another top national priority: increasing diversity in the federal workforce.

Like all EOs, the order out-and-out accomplishes little: It merely establishes a “coordinated government-wide initiative to promote diversity and inclusion in the federal workforce

More, from Lonely Conservative:

President Obama wants us to believe he’s pivoting to jobs. Maybe he is, maybe his new focus is on destroying jobs. Why else would his administration have unleashed 608 regulations in July costing the economy $9.5 billion in red tape

Remember that don’t teach economics at Harvard  Law, they teach regulation.

Obama has not worked, not say I, but rather Charlie Rangel, from Jill, Pundit & Pundette.

It Gets Better, If being like Barney Frank is better, I think I’ll opt for worse, from Kyle Mantyla, Right Wing Watch:

Today in the mail I received a letter from the Family Research Council seeking to use the “It Gets Better” project to outrage right-wing activists into opening their wallets and donating money to FRC.

In it, FRC said it was “disgusting” that the Obama administration would support this effort, calling homosexuality both “immoral” and a “perversion” and accusing activists of using the project in order to “recruit [kids] into that ‘lifestyle'” [obviously, the image below is a composite from the letter itself

Given that the video, which I already linked once, uses Barney Frank as their poster child, I’d call the video’s assertion that thinking that you are homosexual will somehow make you feel better is absurd.    One can  not talk to Frank without a splatter shield and the poor guy seems to be in perpetual state of rage.

General Frank Savage, from Twelve O’Clock High, via IMDB:

There will be a briefing for a practice mission at 1100 this morning. That’s right, practice. I’ve been sent here to take over what has come to be known as a hard luck group. Well, I don’t believe in hard luck. So we’re going to find out what the trouble is. Maybe part of it’s your flying, so we’re going back to fundamentals. But I can tell you now one reason I think you’ve been having hard luck. I saw it in your faces last night. I can see it there now. You’ve been looking at a lot of air lately… and you think you ought to have a rest. In short, you’re sorry for yourselves. I don’t have a lot of patience with this, “What are we fighting for?” stuff. We’re in a war, a shooting war. We’ve got to fight. And some of us have got to die. I’m not trying to tell you not to be afraid. Fear is normal. But stop worrying about it and about yourselves. Stop making plans. Forget about going home. Consider yourselves already dead. Once you accept that idea, it won’t be so tough. Now if any man here can’t buy that… if he rates himself as something special, with a special kind of hide to be saved… he’d better make up his mind about it right now. Because I don’t want him in this group. I’ll be in my office in five minutes. You can see me there.

Barack H. Obama, a/k/a Dumbo, via Bruce McQuain, Questions and Observations:

“We had reversed the recession, avoided a depression, gotten the economy moving again,” Obama told a crowd in Decorah, Iowa. “But over the last six months we’ve had a run of bad luck.” Obama listed three events overseas — the Arab Spring uprisings, the tsunami in Japan, and the European debt crises — which set the economy back.

“All those things have been headwinds for our economy,” Obama said. “Now, those are things that we can’t completely control. The question is, how do we manage these challenging times and do the right things when it comes to those things that we can control?”

“The problem,” Obama continued, “is that we’ve got the kind of partisan brinksmanship that is willing to put party ahead of country, that is more interested in seeing their political opponents lose than seeing the country win. Nowhere was that more evident than in this recent debt ceiling debacle.”

Reax, Dr. Milton R. Wolf, Washington Examiner:

Mr. Obama, meet the late Robert A. Heinlein, a Naval Academy midshipman-turned-influential-author, who decades before you entered the Oval Office presciently described your administration. It was Heinlein who penned one of the most insightful observations ever of human nature:

“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded – here and there, now and then – are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as ‘bad luck.’ ”

Mr. President, you didn’t run into bad luck. You created it.

Reax, McQuain:

If unsupported claims were currency, Barack Obama would be a rich man

Rick Perry, from Michael Falcone et al, Note:

“You know yesterday, the president said I needed to watch what I say,” Perry said. “I just want to respond back, if I may. Mr. President, actions speak louder than words. My actions as governor are helping create jobs in this country. The president’s actions are killing jobs in this country. It’s time to get America working again.”

Good leaders make their luck.  Dumbo makes excuses.

Dumbo’s Magical Misery Tour bus made in Canada, from New York Post, via Ed Morrissey, Hot Air:

President Obama is barnstorming the heartland to boost US jobs in a taxpayer-financed luxury bus the government had custom built — in Canada, The Post has learned.

The $1.1 million vehicle, one of two that Quebec-based Prevost sold the government, has been tricked out by the Secret Service with state-of-the-art security features and creature comforts.

It’s a VIP H3-45 model, the company’s top of the line, and is used by major traveling rock bands.

“That’s the more luxurious model,” Christine Garant of Prevost told The Post.

Reax, Morrissey:

Barack Obama — rock star. Yes, that’s exactly the kind of image that wins votes in the upper Midwest. That’s bad enough, but buying two buses from a Canadian company while promising to create jobs in the US is the worst kind of optics imaginable. Why not use a manufacturer based in the US? I’m certain that Complete Coach Works in California could use the work, for instance, or North American Bus Industries in Alabama. Setra USA manufactures its buses in Greensboro, North Carolina, a key state that Obama could easily lose in 2012. Wouldn’t a $2.2 million buy there have turned a few heads? For that matter, Obama could have bought them from Motor Coach Industries and picked them up in his home state of Illinois at the start of his tour.

Should have rented the bus from Sarah Palin.

Wilton, NY- I’m here at a distribution center.  Actually, I wasn’t at the site for very long; I did what they call a “drop and hook”. Meaning, I dropped the trailer with a load and grabbed an empty trailer that one of the other drivers for my company dropped earlier. The advantage to this is that I get to keep rolling, and the dock workers can pretty much unload stuff at their leisure. The disadvantage, of course is the need for several more trailers. That’s an expensive proposition. But when you do a lot of loads to a particular place, it’s in the best interests of the trucking firm to have such a supply of empty trailers spread through the system.

After all the rain we caught the last week, the sun has come out, here. It’s fairly warm, and the sky is a nice blue with some puffy clouds. A great day for a drive.

Looking around:

• Florida and Gun Rights: The state of Florida has decided that Liberal localities are prone to usurping gun rights. So, a new state law is essentially wiping out such local ordinances, and those who would pass them.
  

  Starting October 1st, any public official who passes or enforces gun regulations below the state level faces a $5,000 personal fine and could even be removed from office by the governor for enacting or enforcing local gun laws.While Florida has had a law on its books since 1987 that makes it illegal to pass gun regulations beyond state statutes, there was no enforcement mechanism in place. As a result, towns and cities have created ordinances at will. In the process, many of them have criminalized otherwise completely law-abiding citizens who unintentionally ran afoul of arbitrary, localized gun rules.

  But thanks to the law recently signed by Governor Rick Scott, that’s all about to change in the Sunshine State.

  Good. Now if we could criminalize businesses who usurp legal gun rights, we’d be making real progress.

• MAGICAL MISERY TOUR CONTINUES: Boston’s Howie Carr notes as regards Barry’s Bus Bruhaha:
  

  No wonder it’s being called the Magical Misery Tour. It’s a listening tour where Obama doesn’t listen to anybody except his own Kool-Aid drinkers. They’re the only ones left on this bus — down to 39 percent approval in yesterday’s Rasmussen poll.These are the same Ivy League pukes who laughed at Sarah Palin’s bus. It was so declasse — it had an American flag on it.

  Look, nobody should be shocked by this. We knew the moment the trip was announced that Barry wasn’t going to get his mind changed about anything at all, no work would be done, and it would all come out of taxpayer funds despite it’s rather obviously being a campaign trip. And, the Obamai still do not understand why they’re in trouble? It’s as Mitt Wolf Observes: (BBHT:Glenn)

  The Obama presidency is a case study of what happens when you break faith with the principles that made America great. Mr. Obama has chased investment capital out of the market by implementing the Dodd-Frank financial-sector takeover. He has frozen new hiring by unleashing Obamacare’s enormous costs on employment.
  He has trampled the rights of Americans as free consumers with the unconstitutional individual mandate to purchase government-sanctioned health insurance. He has made a mockery of free competition by granting Obamacare waivers to cronies and union friends. He has stymied the technology sector by unleashing his antitrust forces and the manufacturing sector by unleashing his labor-relations forces.

  He has ushered in the first-ever downgrade of America’s credit rating by rejecting the Cut, Cap and Balance Act. And he has all but assured that those Americans with capital will stay on the sidelines by maligning them and launching class warfare upon them.

  And he thinks a taxpayer funded bus trip is going to solve this? I doubt it, and so do most. Even his supporters are asking what went wrong. Of course, their version of wrong is when Barry has to see the reality of the situation; the disaster that the liberal policies his base is demanding, are the proximate cause of the disaster that has befallen us.  The question of course obviates itself when they recognize finally that Blaming Bush for their current situation no longer flies. And yet the lefty base, and the black caucus as well,  still scream Barry isn’t being liberal enough. Can you beat it? Clueless, thy name is Democrat.

• TO PERRY OR NOT TO PERRY: I said a few days ago that I wasn’t aware of any problems with Rick Perry’s history. The Lovely Michelle Malkin has a few problems with him. I wonder, though… Is this enough to disqualify him?

Eric rambled on Rick Perry, link:

Let the mudslinging begin! I’ve said nothing about Rick Perry yet, in terms of his record, because frankly I’ve not had much chance to investigate his record. But based on recent speeches and the reax, as well as what I do know of the man’s record, he does seem the most formidable of the front-runners so far.

Rick Perry: He’ll Do, an endorsement from Jill, Pundit & Pundette:

What’s not to like in a candidate with a solid ten-year record as governor of a big state, a guy who oozes competence instead of island cool and thinks government should matter less, not more?

Another point in Perry’s favor: He’s not Romney.

Perry’s not our savior, either, but that’s a good thing. Any candidate who so much as hints that he can influence sea level should be escorted out of town the old-fashioned way.

Look at tike this, Rich Perry is a governor who wants to be president, not a senator who thinks he should be god.

More on the candidate, from Andrew Klavan,  Pajamas Media:

But then came something better, something really good.  Perry, whose state holds ten percent of the country’s population and yet is responsible for more than 40 percent of new American jobs created since June 2009, began to talk more or less specifically about his approach to the economy. Ticking off four goals on his fingers – controlled spending, low taxes, fair and simple regulations, and tort reform – he outlined his accomplishments in Texas and his plans for the nation.

With this, the Perry speech began to lift off and become truly elegant and excellent. It was a repudiation not merely of Barack Obama and his horrible record, but of the underlying ideas that guide and motivate them. This is what we need. This is what we have to have.

As for Michele Bachman, whom I do like, the last two presidents we elected directly from the Congress were John F. Kennedy and Barack H. Obama.   Two good reasons we should never elect another congresscritter president.

More on Bachman from William A. Jacobson, Legal Insurrection:

Michele Bachman’s rise is a mirage; busing a couple hundred more people to the Iowa straw poll than Ron Paul does not make one a contender

Ron Paul gets his support because he the only Libertarian. That is, he is the Libertarian’s only choice. Finishing two votes ahead of kook, which is what Paul is, is hardy the mark of a contender.

London Riots, a rant, video:

Hat tip: Nice Deb.

Free advice to any would be American rioters.   Don’t even think about rioting in a redneck community.    Rednecks own guns, know how to use them, and will.

Dayton,NJ— I’m here picking up a load for Rochester. I’m hoping that my usual truck is ready to go. I’ll be in the yard about Midnight, or so. Lots of rain down here the last few days… NYC caught 8 inches… a one day record as I gather it. Humid, today and low 80’s.

• ATF:GUNRUNNERS- Congresscritter Trey Gowdy is among those who want to know who, what, when where and why.   As I keep saying, there’s no question anymore… Holder knew what was going on. I want him frog-marched out of the White House under armed guard and the watchful eyes of a few hundred cameras. If Republicans were charged with anything nearly as serious, you know that’s what the press and the Democrats….(but I repeat myself) would do.
• PERRY v OBAMA: Let the mudslinging begin! I’ve said nothing about Rick Perry yet, in terms of his record, because frankly I’ve not had much chance to investigate his record. But based on recent speeches and the reax, as well as what I do know of the man’s record, he does seem the most formidable of the front-runners so far. I note with some interest, that Paul Rahe posted some of his initial thoughts…. and that they pretty much parallel my own:
  

  You will respond that Bill Clinton came from Hope, Arkansas, and you will be correct. But Bill Clinton went to Georgetown University and Yale Law School, and he did a stint at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He was vetted. Perry is an outsider. Even in some circles in Texas, Aggies are regarded as hicks. It is easy to see what sort of campaign David Axelrod and his associates will gin up against Perry. It will draw on the instinctive bigotry that made it so easy to demonize Lyndon Baines Johnson and the younger Bush. Obama cannot run on his record. To win, he must demonize the alternative. It is going to be ugly.Perry is an exceedingly successful Texas politician. He comes from a place that is self-regarding in the extreme (I speak as a native of Oklahoma) and inward-looking. He has never operated outside its borders, and he may be unaware of its parochial character. If he is, he needs to wake up right away – and Mitt Romney is perfectly situated to give him that wake-up call.

  Here is what Perry needs to do. He needs to anticipate the assault.

  Yes, I do think that Obama will go on an unquestionably bigoted attack. As Paul says, it’s all he’s got left. Can you imagine having to run on a record as abysmal as Obama has racked up? He’s got nothing left, nothing at all.  As to the effectiveness of such an attack, I have my doubts.The bigoted stuff will work for the leftist base… as we’ve demonstrated many times, on this site, the left is nothing if not bigoted…. but the center and the right? No. Sorry.  I don’t see it swinging anyone.

• HEY, WARREN: Nobody is stopping you from sending your money in, moron. Show us how much you think that’s a valid thing by doing it without force of law.  How about it, Warren? Send in a 5 billion dollar check today and make me out a liar. You won’t do it and you know it. But kket’s see if it’ll really help…. Remember, Warren when we were promised that Obamas $831 billion stimulus would keep unemployment below 8%? I’m sure youre people are telling you, Warren; it’s been above 8% for 30 months in a row, now. How’s that for ROI, huh?
• SPEAKING OF O…. or is that zero, or just near it… Barry’s Daily Approval is now at 39%, whereas 54% Disapprove
• UNION THUGS: This time, it’s Verizon. I saw a bunch of these morons at Hicksville last week. The fastest way for a company… or a government to fail is to allow Unions in. Verizon has learned that lesson. Remembe what I said about the left getting more desperate by the day…. and certainly, the unions are part and parcel if that increasingly violent left. Hey… it worked for Stalin, and for Hitler, both socialists, right?

I’ve got Pawlenty of Nothing, Tim Pawlenty makes it official, from Neil Munro, Daily Caller:

Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty withdrew from the presidential race Sunday following his third-place finish in Saturday’s Ames Straw Poll.

“We needed to get some lift to continue on and have a pathway forward,” Pawlenty said on ABC’s “This Week.” “That didn’t happen, so I’m announcing this morning on your show that I’m going to be ending my campaign for president.”

Given that Pawlenty bet the farm on beating Michele Bachman, and failed, his exit is utterly predictable, and quite welcome.    The only winner I saw emerging from Ames was Rick Perry.

Meanwhile back in Frostbite Falls, Tim may not be done taking on the girls, from Moe Lane:

The word is that the Minnesota Republican party is going to approach Tim Pawlenty to challenge freshman Democrat Amy Klobuchar; which is something that Ed Morrissey of Hot Air and Erick Erickson of RedState would likely get behind. And myself, for that matter; like Erick, I respect that Pawlenty knew when to make a clean break of things. And I think that I am correct in thinking that Ed & Erick would agree with me that replacing Klobuchar – who, after all, supported the ‘stimulus,’ cap-and-trade*, & Obamacare – with Pawlenty would be a definite step up for both Minnesota and the nation. I mean, I hear that Klobuchar is supposed to be personable and everything, but since when did that become an adequate substitute for voting not-stupidly?

Tow bad for Tim that he would be challenging the more serious of Minnesota’s two senators.

Libtards use children as sock puppets, or Van Jones’s brain trust exposed, video

Hat tip and reax: Lonely Conservative:

How often do you hear children talking about “infrastructure,” “Medicare for all” and the “Bush tax cuts?” Yeah, not much. But that didn’t stop Van Jones’s new organization Rebuild the Dream from exploiting these kids to push their progressive agenda. Watch, just try not to gag.

Sure putting lies is the mouths of children is a sure fire way to win an argument. Now that Algore has melted down, the libtards forced to use chilren to tell their lies.

I am sure that some sixth grader,who never held a job of any kind, can somewhow explain te economic benefit of a so-called green job. Well I suppose if the child was Milton Friedman.

Ames, from Ed Morrissey Hot Air:

The fun of the Ames straw poll came to an end this afternoon as the ballot count shows that 16,892 votes were cast, and Michele Bachmann (4823) won a narrow victory over Ron Paul (4671) — less than 200 votes difference. Tim Pawlenty finished in a distant third (2293), followed by Rick Santorum and then Herman Cain. Bachmann comes away with a win, but not by much — and since reports had her giving out 6,000 tickets to the event, it’s not exactly a big endorsement.

Rick Perry got 718 write-in votes without showing up at all.

The big winner, as I see it, Rich Perry, and his message socks,video:

Hat tip: Nice Deb.

The rumble of discontent. Given the fact that Dumbo, b/k/a Barack Ohama, has become irrelevant, is the pining for Mrs. Clinton a sign of primary challenge for Dim Won?

Rumblings,  from Bill McCl ellan, Saint Louis Today:,

I was wrong about Barack Obama. I should have voted for Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary three years ago.

At the time of the primary, the decision seemed easy. I saw in Obama the same qualities Jack Kerouac saw in Dean Moriarty in “On the Road.” He was ‘something new, long prophesied, long a-coming.”

Hillary was not new. She represented the second act of “Billary,” and I had tired of that play long before it ended its eight-year run.

Wrong, PIAP a/k/a Mrs. B. J. Cinton was and is old and tired.  Dumbo, b/k/a Barack Obama was sold, err marketed, as new fresh face.   The ‘rats were able the sell a bill of goods about Dumbo because the public did not know any better, and they were tired of  Bush and McCain, was and is, horrible.

Krauthammer destroys Dumbo, clueless and irrelevant, video:

Hat tip and more: A Failure of Leadership. Nice Deb.

Dumbo illustrates cluelessness, you say you don’t believe Mr. Krauthammer?   Well don’t take Charles’ word for it.   See the official White House Photo of the Day, from Associated Press:

A White House photographer was allowed to take and widely distribute a photo from the ceremony Tuesday for the return of the remains of 30 American troops killed in a weekend helicopter crash in Afghanistan despite the Pentagon’s claim that any public depiction of the scene would violate the wishes of bereaved families.

Reax. Jonn Lilyea, This Ain’t Hell:

So the White House doesn’t follow it’s own rules and doesn’t see a need to comply with the wishes of the family…especially when a great photo opportunity presents itself. When was the last time that the President went to Dover, anyway? I think it was when they first allowed photographers to snap pictures of the returning victims of war, wasn’t it?

I see the President still doesn’t know how to salute properly, either.

Hat tip:  Bruce McQuain,  Questions and Observations.

Mitt – 1: Libtard – 0, and this what libtards are resorting to calling victory. In an ambush, while the enemy gets the privilege it is firepower which prevails. The libtard is only armed with the ‘rats talking points

Via R.S. McCain, Other McCain, video:

Confirmed the heckler was a plant,from Byran Preston, Pajamas Media:

Confirmed — Fox reports that Gilligan is part of a group called Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, which is a Democrat front. This was a set-up.

Now it true that Mitt’s response did not remind me of Ronald Magnus.  However, Romney did maintain control of his speech and did not resort to ad hominems

Dumbo  b/k/a Barack Obama gets WaPoed  from the left and the right, from the left Dana Milbank, Washington Post:

It’s not exactly fair to blame Obama for the rout: Almost certainly, the markets ignored him. And that’s the problem: The most powerful man in the world seems strangely powerless, and irresolute, as larger forces bring down the country and his presidency.

And from the right, Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post:

The left wakes up: Obama is not ‘sort of God’

Poor Evan Thomas will never live down his ludicrous comment that President Obama was “sort of God.” What seemed like slobbering now seems outright dumb, given the president’s performance. And don’t take my word for it.

Left-wing pundits have discovered he’s sort of like Jimmy Carter. Others now comprehend he’s remote and cold. Still others recognize he is weak and ineffectual (“strangely powerless, and irresolute, as larger forces bring down the country and his presidency”).

Obama can’t find anything to cut, attributed to Dumbo from the Wall Street Journal via Mickey Klaus, Daily Caller:

Last week, we reached an agreement that will make historic cuts to defense and domestic spending. But there’s not much further we can cut in either of those categories. What we need to do now is combine those spending cuts with two additional steps: tax reform that will ask those who can afford it to pay their fair share and modest adjustments to health care programs like Medicare. [E.A.]

Klaus reax:

“Not much further we can cut” seems like a hanging curve ball, an open invitation for ongoing ridicule-the sort of naive assertion that might come easily to someone who had never worked in the federal government, who only realized after promoting his half-trillion-dollar public works-based stimulus plan that there was “no such thing as shovel-ready projects.” Or someone who doesn’t want to know. Or who wants to act as if he doesn’t know.

Instrareac, from Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit:

For Republicans, my advice is to propose 5% real cuts — not “rate of growth” cuts but real cuts from last year’s budgets — across the board, and allow layoffs. There’s nothing sacred about the civil service rules, after all. They’re just statutes, statutes enacted back when the country had money. Let Obama argue that there’s not 5% of fat in the federal government. Nobody’ll believe him, especially among the majority of voters whose household budgets have been cut by a lot more than 5%.

Dumbo keeps blathering about shared sacrifice. Let the government work force share in some of the sacrifice. For lard’s sake, the private sector been through her share of down sizing. Let the public sector do her share as well. It is only fair.

As for my proposed cuts, we could cut, as in eliminate, all of Dumbo’s pet programs,  Obama Care, high speed rail [to no where], and NASA    We not going anywhere.  Wby pay billions towards going no where.

Algore the first confirmed victim of AGW, from H. Leighton Steward, Daily Caller:

Al Gore, the world’s foremost pseudo-scientist, is blasting skeptical scientists for their adherence to the centuries-old scientific method.

Having tested the man-made global warming hypothesis, many scientists have come to conclusions different from Gore’s. That seems to have transformed Gore into the Lenny Bruce of the environmental extremist gang. Speaking at the Aspen Institute last Thursday, Gore blasted alternative climate-change theories, publicly labeling them “bulls—t.”

Just think, Algore used to pass as sane.

Albany, NY– I”m actually just outside the state capitol, within sight of the antenna for WGY, the 50KW flamethrower on 810khz AM… a station that’s heard all over the east coast. Caught some serious thunderstorms in Harrisburg, last night, and the sky is threatening more, here.

• THOUGHTS ON OUR FINANCIAL SITUATION: I’ve been saying for several weeks now that either a governmental default on loans issued or huge inflation at the result of printing money was inevitable.  Late Friday afternoon we succeeded moving one step closer to that situation, when our credit ratings went down a notch. Standard and Poor’s also suggests that we could be downgraded even further.Personally, I’m of the opinion Geithner should be fired for his part in all of this. Captain Rand “Obvious” Paul , has already started making noise to that end.  Jim DeMint, as well, along with a few others.  Remember, he’s the one who suggested that  we’d never get downgraded.  Such insights, this man has.  The trouble of course is that Geithner is simply working on the same wavelength as his boss.  But then what of his boss, since obviously the tax cheat was working at his boss’ direction? Obama simply doesn’t have the stones, politically, or personally, to do it. For one thing, it would be an admission opened, and for all to see, that he and his tried have been moving us in precisely the wrong direction. Perhaps it’s just as well, since Geithner would doubtlessly be replaced by Ezra Klein or perhaps that mega- moron, Paul Krugman.Regardless what else happens, Obama is most certainly not going to escape the blame for our current situation. He inherited a AAA rating from George W. Bush.  I suppose it could be said, that this is the change he promised us.   the result is we are now worse shape than we were entering the great depression.Further, it must be said that the lesson will have been learned very well by the voting public, that this is the kind of thing that happens when Democrats have full control of our government. I suspect that is a lesson that will be fresh and the minds of the voters, come the next general election. Can you imagine the Democrats running on their record? Any one of them, from the WH on down, will be going hugely negative. Watch for Obama to go negative on Romney, starting this weekend.

  The WH is currently gearing up with an argument that the downgrade is the result not of Obama is doubling the debt  inside four years, but as a result of the Tea Party at opposition to tax increases. All this of course ignores the idea that the tax increases being proposed are not even going to put a dent in the kind of spending that Obama than forcing us into. And the “Rich”  paying their “fair share” (by the left’s red tinted lights) won’t touch it, either.  The bills that this administration has saddled our children with, will be fodder for at least the next several election cycles.

  The comparisons to the presidency of Jimmy Carter, seem to me to lack a little in a way of accuracy. At the moment, frankly, Carter would be an improvement. I suspect that the voting results of the next general election will reflect that, directly.Still, it should perhaps be pointed out that Standard & Poor’s, four years ago, help to cause the recession that we’re now and by providing AAA ratings to subprime mortgages. Again, at the behest of Democrats. Can it be that Standard & Poor’s has now learned their lesson? Or is is possible,  that S&P is acting again at the behest of the Democrats? odd, I think, that nearly nobody else is considering that possibility. But there’s another wrinkle in this sheet: What’s this I hear about Soros making about a billion because S&P downgraded the US?

• STAR LIGHT, STAR BRIGHT: Watch out for the Perseids meteor shower 11-13th.
• WE’VE STRUCK GOLD: When gold skyrockets, that’s a louder shout than S&P could ever produce. It’s at $1700/oz as of this writing. And of course let’s note that the market went down over 200 points DURING Obama’s “deer in the headlights” speech. The WH can dismiss that one all they want, but it doesn’t change that it’s a rejection of Obama policy. Of course, we’ll get told it woulda dropped further without him, huh?

Obama’s speech, or lack thereof, reax from Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post:

He did say one indisputably true thing: The downgrade was more a comment on our political dysfunction than on our ability to repay our debts. That is the dysfunction that he has presided over. That is the paralysis he perpetuated by insisting for months on tax increases. He was describing his own disastrous tenure as president.

This illuminated Obama’s predicament — devoid of ideas, bitter about political opposition and completely in over his head. If the election were held today, I bet he’d lose. By a lot.

Had Dirty Harry Reid’s democrats in the Senate passed, and Obama signed into law, Cut, Cap and Balance,   Dumbo, b/k/a Barack Obama, would not have have been the first president in our history to see our nations credit rating down graded.

Blacks discovered they bet on the wrong horse. Incompetence is color blind, and a dying economy generates no jobs, from Ylan Q. Mui, Washington Post:

Black lawmakers are embarking on a monthlong campaign Monday to address the staggering unemployment rate among African Americans, an issue that has become a growing source of tension between members of the Congressional Black Caucus and the Obama administration.

Lawmakers have met with the administration three times this year seeking support for programs that specifically address the black community, but President Obama has not backed their proposals. The caucus chairman last week slammed the deal negotiated by the administration to raise the national debt ceiling and cut government spending as a “Satan sandwich” that unfairly harms African Americans

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To be sure, the brunt of black lawmakers’ frustrations are aimed at Republicans, whom they blame for blocking more than 40 bills intended to create jobs for African Americans since the party swept the House of Representatives a year ago. But they have also grown frustrated with Obama’s belief that the best way to help black communities is to improve the overall economy.

I am amused that the article alleges that Dumbo believes that job growth is best achieved by growing the overall economy.    I accept the belief as valid idea.  I do question that Dumbo actually believes it.   For Obama has shown no inclination to grown that economy.   Rather his actions, be they enactment of Obama Care, burdensome EPA regulation or the war domestic energy production have all had the effect of discouraging economic growth.   Then it not as if Obama actually has any understanding of, or interest in, economics.

Dumbo’s birthday present:

Barack Obama bambday

An amusing idea, from Glenn Reynolds, Washington Examiner:

Well, the debt deal is behind us, but it’s clear that the White House wants more taxes. Instead of fighting this head-on, the GOP might want to think about future ways of giving President Obama what he says he wants. Done properly, it just might be what academics like Obama call a “teachable moment.”

[…]

Were I a Republican senator or representative, I would be agitating to repeal the “Eisenhower tax cut” on the movie industry and restore the excise tax. I think I would also look at imposing similar taxes on sales of DVDs, pay-per-view movies, CDs, downloadable music, and related products.

Amusing!   I am not sure I like the idea.   However,  Dumbo, b/k/a Barack Obama, is fond of class warfare, demonetization, and using the law, in the case the tax code, to punish your political enemies.    It would be fun to see Dumbo’s favorite weapon turned against one Obama staunchest allies.     What ever you tax, you get less of.    So I would propose dropping Obama Care’s punitive tax on medical devices, of which we need more, not less, with a tax on Hollywood drivel, of which we could use less, not more.    Of course, I’d exempt classic black and white over fifty years old like Casablanca and Stagecoach.    After all, it is only fair.

Does Megyn Kelly have her priorities right. First roll the tape, video:

Kelly has spunk and I like spunk. Her hairdo not so much. However two voices question Kelly’s priorities. First up, Iina Korbe, Hot Air:

I’m just disappointed for Kelly’s sake that she had to return so soon. She says she’s not the sort of mother to be effective as a stay-at-home mom (“I’d worry that I’d get stale because I’d be missing my old life”), but I can’t help feeling at least a little bit that America’s gain is Yates’, Yardley’s and Kelly’s loss

And next Jill, Pundit % Pundette:

I like Megyn Kelly, too, but since she raised the issue, let’s flip the situation around and look at it from the kids’ point of view. Is it likely that having their mother home full time would “get stale” for them? Has her return to full-time work caused them to miss their “old lives”?

I do challenge Kelly’s assertion that she and all mothers are somehow entitled to paid maternity leave.   Kelly’s pregnancy was solely her choice,and her responsibility.

Alas Poor Dumbo. Leonard Pitts Jr., sees the treatment of Dumbo, b/k/a Barack Obama and only sees racism, from Miami Herald:

Ladies and gentlemen, here he is, “your boy,” that “tar baby,” the president of the United Sates, Barack Obama:

Ahem.

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It is time Obama quit being surprised by the predictable, time he understood this is not politics as usual, not Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill snarling at one another by day and having drinks by night, like that old cartoon where the sheepdog and the coyote punch a time clock to signal the beginning and end of their hostilities. It is not Bill Clinton living in a state of permanent investigation, nor even George W. Bush being called incompetent all day every day.

I don’t mock President Fifty-Seven States because he is black.  I mock him because he both stupid  and yet arrogant.   I agree with Pitts that Dumbo never ceases to be amazed by the sheer bloody obvious.   How Pitts can note Obama inability to grasp even the obvious,  but somehow  attributes this to some sinister conservative motivates is well puzzling.   Disrespect to the sitting president has been the recent norm. but for some reason, with Dumbo, Pitts sees it as racism.   Sure.

Counter-reax, from Annette John-Hall, Philadelphia Inquirer:

Certainly African Americans have presented a united front in the wake of all of the slings and arrows being tossed at President Obama. After all, we know racism when we see it.

When members of Congress call the first black president of the United States a liar, send racist images of him in e-mails and depict him as a tar baby, the most recent slur, our natural reaction is to try to support him through all the vitriol.

But lately, some African Americans are starting to wonder out loud if blind support for the president is going against their own interests.

Competence is color-blind and Dumbo lacks the former.

Dumbo’s problem in a blond shell, video:

Hat tip:  Doug Powers @ Michelle Malkin.

Dumbo’s Plan,  but Obama does have a plan.   Just like O.J. Simpson vowed to find the real murder or murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman,  if he had to play every golf course in the country, Dumbo intends to produce a recovery plan if he has plan golf every Sunday, from Tom McGregor Dallas Blog:

President Barack Obama, a Democrat, enjoys spending time on the golf course on Andrews Air Force Base, which is nearby Camp David. Regardless of circumstances, Obama loves to play golf. The U.S. stock exchanges are plunging and the S&P has just downgraded the credit rating of United States federal government debt. So, how does the President respond to recent developments of the Obama Depression? He plays golf.

Redistribution is counter-production,  I contend that liberals, and blacks, are pursuing the wrong strategy with redistribution, from Ed Morrissy, Hot Air

Have the rich gotten richer? Indeed they have, Bill Whittle says in his latest Afterburner — but so have the poor. As wealth expands, living standards rise, and Whittle shows just exactly how it did over the last 40 years in the US. In fact, he argues that the better comparison is not between the rich and the poor in this country, but between the American poor and the average citizen in Europe, Asia, and Africa:

Video:

Your standard of living is a product of the commodities you consume,  and not your wealth relative to your neighbor’s.

Trouble in Camelot, or the wheels fall of the Kennedy family myth machine. I never believed the Kennedy family Camelot myths. I actually survived the Kennedy Administration, Bay of Pigs, Vienna, Cuban Missile Crisis,Berlin Wall, and Vietnam. Now the Kennedy Klan appears to taking dead aim at their own myths, from Daily Mail (UK):

They are believed to include the suggestion that Mr Kennedy was having an affair with a 19-year-old White House intern, with his wife even claiming that she found knickers in their bedroom.
And they go on to reveal that she too had affairs – one with Hollywood star William Holden and another with Fiat founder Gianni Agnelli – as a result of the president’s indiscretions. It has also been claimed that, in the weeks before Mr Kennedy’s assassination, the couple had turned a corner in their relationship and were planning to have more children.

Kennedy women are not stupid, but rather willfully blind.    Hmmm, William Holden, Jackie was certainly not blind.

Man bites dog, or reverse globalization. HSBC sells western New York branches to regional bank, from Rochester, NY, Democrat and Chronicle:

My bank, HSBC, is calling it quits in Rochester and is selling all of its Rochester-area locations, and about 150 others, to First Niagara for $1 billion.

Amusing.

What job pivot?  Even Arianna Huffington is on to Barack Obama a/k/a Dumbo, from News Busters:

Now that is really the greatest fear for the White House. And of course Mitt Romney again and again is talking about the failure of the President to produce jobs, and he doesn’t have to tell us how he would have done it. He just has to point out to that failure. And when the President again and again talks about how, I mean, I went through and looked since 2009 how many times he has said, “Jobs priority number one,” “The sustained focus of this administration,” “The relentless focus of this administration,” “We’re pivoting to jobs.” Nobody believes it any more.

Terrorism, hate crime, or victimhood, from Madison, TMJ4:

WEST ALLIS – Witnesses tell Newsradio 620 WTMJ and TODAY’S TMJ4 of a mob of young people attacking innocent fair-goers at the end of the opening night of State Fair, with some callers claiming a racially-charged scene.

Milwaukee Police confirmed there were assaults outside the fair.

Witnesses’ accounts claim everything from dozens to hundreds of young black people beating white people as they left State Fair Thursday night

Breaking, from Madison Conservative, Hot Air Green Room.

John get Kerryed away, from Doug Powers @ Michelle Malkin:

Keep in mind as you read this that John Kerry is a fan of the Fairness Doctrine — it’s just that some sides of the argument deserve more fairness than others.

Kerry was on Morning Joe today and exposed himself as a hobbit-phobe of the highest order, so much so that he asked the media to stop allowing the Tea Party time to voice their opinions (though I’m assuming those who call them “terrorists” and “hostage takers” will still be allowed some exposure under guidelines set in the yet to be implemented Kerry Doctrine for Selective Impartiality).

Pardon me if I don’t accept Mr. Christmas in Cambodia as the gold standard for the truth.