All signs, including road signs, bad for Obama

The hacked electronic sign at the intersection of Unionville-Indian Trail and Ridge roads in Union County was changed to read “Impeach Obama.”

Forget the bogus polls produced by the media fellators – when road signs turn against a politician, he’s cooked.

No matter how many of those “This waste of money courtesy of American Non-recovery and Malinvestment Act” signs Obama bought, none of them mean as much as one honest electronic sign.

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Consider it a sign of the times

WSOCTV.com has the story of a sign of the times:

A Department of Transportation electronic road sign was apparently hacked into and the road warning changed over the weekend.

Hacked? We can hear Jay Carney now babbling something about GW Bush’s secret computer skills.

The sign at the intersection of Unionville-Indian Trail and Ridge roads in Union County was changed to read “Impeach Obama.”

The sign was corrected Sunday night, officials said.

Good thing they fixed it. Impeachment is a long drawn-out process and the Democrat weiners in the Senate would never convict him. Better to vote Barry out of office in 2012 and then procescute him.

Electronic road signs were also hacked several months ago in Rock Hill. Instead of displaying political messages, those signs warned of zombies, hunters and tanks in the roadway ahead.

We beg to differ. Zombies and tanking pretty much ARE political messages in the age of the greatest presidential failure ever. All the signs were there before the last election, and even more of them are visible now.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: WSOC-TV

America’s top ten local talk show hosts: #3 – Sean Rima/Austin

Sean Rima says most shows involve “an egomaniac who is either trying to convert you to his party, or prove that he’s the smartest dude in the room.

Sean Rima
98.9 The Big Talker/Austin
Monday-Friday 6-9 am

We continue our Top 10 Countdown with #3 today. Look for #2 tomorrow.

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Obama’s debt plan: What’s that? You want to see it in writing?

Why doesn’t Congress simply vote on Obama’s plan? Where, reporters ask, is Obama’s plan? Good question. Watch as The Carney Barker spends ten minutes not answering it.

For the past month, the country has been on a wild goof chase over the debt ceiling issue. Numerous plans to tackle the problem have emerged from the congressional side, all of which were unacceptable to His Golfship.

Why doesn’t Congress simply vote on Obama’s plan? Where, reporters ask, is Obama’s plan? Good question. Watch as The Carney Barker spends ten minutes not answering it:

Jay Carney: “The president stood before you on Friday night and put forward in detail with numbers what he’s willing to do…”

Talk is cheap, Jay, especially Obama’s. Later, Jay puts a little meat on dem bones:

Jay Carney: “We’ve shown a lot of leg on what we were proposing…”

Is that Obama-speak for “The dog ate our debt plan”? Believe it or not, we’re closing in on the truth. Jay is too ashamed to say it so he hints at it:

Jay Carney: “Is it because you need something printed for you, you can’t write it down [yourself]?”

Writing’s the problem. We understand perfectly. During his magnificent college career, Barry delivered all his classwork via telepathy: just concentrate real hard and beam his insights on Marxist flatulence right to Professor Mushmouth’s brain. He never expected to encounter knuckle-draggers who bother reading stuff, so he never deigned to learn the useless skill.

Please Mr. President, humor us. Pull out your plan and write it down for us.

If you can’t do it yourself, call Bill Ayers. He did an outstanding job writing your other works of fiction.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Break out the tin foil hats: Rep. Barbara Lee calls debt ceiling issue a manufactured crisis

Barbara Lee says House Republicans are engaged in a reprehensible canard meant to convince the gullible citizens that the fact that their country has run out of money is a “crises.”

Call Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. Representative Barbara Lee of California has stumbled upon the greatest conspiracy of our era. An insidious plot that makes the faked moon landing look like the work of a high school AV club and that JFK business mere child’s play.

According to Lee House Republicans are engaged in a reprehensible canard meant to convince the gullible citizens that the fact that their country has run out of money is a “crises.”

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Barbara Lee. Or maybe Sugar Ray Leonard in drag. We're not sure which.

The truth is out there. And CNS brings it to us:

Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) released a statement Monday saying the “debt crisis” has been “manufactured by House Republicans” who are “attempting to advance an extremist agenda.”

“The current, so-called ‘debt crisis’ has been completely manufactured by House Republicans attempting to advance an extremist agenda.

This should be a simple vote to allow the US Treasury to fund all of the programs and obligations of the entire federal government that are already in the law,” said Rep. Lee in a statement handed out to reporters before a Democratic press conference on jobs at the Capitol.

Rep. Lee has called for Congress to increase the debt limit with no strings attached like spending cuts.

It is clear to us now that our Republic is in good standing so long as there are public servants out there like Lee. Brave souls willing to defend this country against that nefarious and extremist agenda of fiscal sanity and sound economic policy.

Representative Lee, we salute you.

Written by Kip Hooker at TheVitaminPress.com

Source: CNS News

Obama to banks: Pssst. Don’t bank on U.S. defaulting

Fox News relates a tale of underhanded scaremongering for personal political advantage – in other words, just another day at the Oval Office in the Obama Administration:

What do you call a guy who yells “Fire!” in a crowded theatre while texting his cronies “Chill out and get ready to snap up free popcorn”?

Unfortunately, the proper appellation in this case would be “Mr. President”.

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"Fire! Fire! Fire! Just kidding! Just kidding! Just kidding!"

Fox News relates a tale of underhanded scaremongering for personal political advantage – in other words, just another day at the Oval Office in the Obama Administration:

While officials from the Obama Administration raised their rhetoric over the weekend about the possibility of a debt default if the debt ceiling isn’t raised, they privately have been telling top executives at major U.S. banks that such an event won’t happen….

…administration officials have told bankers that the administration will not allow a default to happen even if the debt cap isn’t raised by the August 2 date Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner says the government will run out of money to pay all its bills, including obligations to bond holders.

A senior banking official told FOX Business that administration officials have provided guidance to them that […] a default is off the table…

This guidance is a big reason why Wall Street has largely dismissed the possibility of default…

“They also know they can pay the debt with cash on hand,” this official told FOX Business.

Obamunists scream “Republican monsters are going to eat your social security checks!” to grandmothers while nudging the bankers and whispering, “Don’t take this crap seriously.”

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: FoxBusiness.com

Congressional solution to debt debacle: A brand new way to pass the buck

The traditional Washington way to solve a sticky problem is to create a blue-ribbon commission, task it to find a solution and issue a report, then ignore whatever it produces.

The traditional Washington way to solve a sticky problem is to create a blue-ribbon commission, task it to find a solution and issue a report, then ignore whatever it produces. Works every time. But the current bunch is not satisfied with the tired old ways of doing things and is proposing a BOLD NEW initiative!

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Hey, let's turn Congress upside down

Huffing and Puffing Post breaks the news:

Debt ceiling negotiators think they’ve hit on a solution to address [tax and spending issues]….

Create a new Congress.

This “Super Congress,” composed of members of both chambers and both parties… would be granted extraordinary new powers. Under a plan put forth by Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Harry Reid (D-Nev.), [legislation would create] a 12-member panel made up of 12 lawmakers — six from each chamber and six from each party.

Legislation approved by the Super Congress…would then be fast-tracked through both chambers, where it COULDN’T be amended by simple, regular lawmakers, who’d have the ability only to cast an up or down vote. With the weight of both leaderships behind it, a product originated by the Super Congress would have a strong chance of moving through the little Congress and quickly becoming law.

Pardon our stupidity, but what makes anyone think this evenly divided body will be able to agree on a lunch order, let alone solutions to contentious financial problems?

If they do produce something useful, the Little Congress can’t ignore it so voting no is the next best thing. And lastly, the biggest obstacle to progress isn’t even in Congress. If we’re not mistaken, he’s probably on about the 14th hole about now.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: Huffington Post

America’s top ten local talk show hosts: #4 – Jack & Tedd/Tampa Bay

We’d never heard of the Tampa Bay duo and then one day a big name east coast talk radio program director suggested that we should include them on our list.

Jack and Tedd
970 WFLA/Tampa Bay
Monday-Friday 5-9 am EDT

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Calling bullshit on Obama: Law prof says Social Security at no risk from debt ceiling cave-in

The current president of the United States seems not to know how anything works. But that’s no problem when you’re willing to just make crap up.

The current president of the United States seems not to know how anything works. But that’s no problem when you’re willing to just make crap up. Ironically, the world’s smartest man apparently considers his ignorance a feature and not a bug.

Case in point: The President has repeatedly implied that social security payments might stop if the debt ceiling issue is not resolved.

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Step One: President speaks. Step Two: Push the button.

Stanford Law Professor Michael McConnell calls the president on this egregious lie:

The Social Security trust fund holds about $2.4 trillion in U.S. Treasury bonds, which its trustees are legally entitled to redeem whenever Social Security is running a current account deficit. Thus, if we reach the debt ceiling ….this is what will happen. The Social Security trust fund will go to Treasury and cash in some of its securities, using the proceeds to send checks to recipients. Each dollar of debt that is redeemed will lower the outstanding public debt by a dollar. That enables the Treasury to borrow another dollar, without violating the debt ceiling. The debt ceiling is not a prohibition on borrowing new money; it is a prohibition on increasing the total level of public indebtedness. If Social Security cashes in some of its bonds, the Treasury can borrow that same amount of money from someone else.

Addition and subtraction, maybe that’s his problem.

George Soros promised Obama if he took the job, there would be no math. Or history, or science, or geography. Just talking and vacations.

More likely telling the truth is just one more thing that’s above the man’s pay grade.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: AdvancingAFreeSociety.org

Honey, she shrunk the President: Sarah Palin labels Obama a “lame duck president”

Sarah Palin reminds the country of what the media conveniently chooses to forget – President Obama’s prominent role in forcing the country to bang its head on the debt ceiling every day for the past month.

Sarah Palin reminds the country of what the media conveniently chooses to forget – President Obama’s prominent role in forcing the country to bang its head on the debt ceiling every day for the past month.

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And at the end of the second inning the score stands at Palin 1, Obama 0

Let’s go to Palin’s Facebook page for the money quotes:

[Obama] proposed an absurdly irresponsible budget that would increase our debt by trillions of dollars, and whose party failed to even put forward a budget in over 800 days!

Not coincidentally, 800 days is as long as he’s been in office.

[Obama] is pushing our country to the brink because of his reckless spending on things like the nearly trillion dollar “stimulus” boondoggle.

His current “untouchable” sacred cow boondoggles include hi-speed rail, Obamacare and “green” jobs.

[Obama] ignored his own debt commission’s recommendations and demonized the voices of fiscal sanity …wanted to push through an increase in the debt ceiling that didn’t include any cuts in government spending! …wants to slam Americans with tax hikes to cover his reckless spending …hasn’t put forward a responsible plan himself, but has rejected reasonable proposals that would tackle our debt. …who still refuses to understand that the American electorate rejected his big government agenda last November.

“We don’t want it. We can’t afford it. And we are unwilling to pay for it.”

And that includes his damn vacations.

He has been deemed a lame duck president. And he is angry now because he is being treated as such.

We had to check twice, but she did say “duck.” Although spelling it with an “i” would also have been correct.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: Facebook.com

Perlcat rants: I don’t want a balanced budget amendment

Government is very good at screwing stuff up, and then selling us on a solution that screws things up still more, and then selling us yet another screwup.

We occasionally give Frequent IHateTheMedia.com commenter Perlcat a soapbox. He climbs aboard and issues one of his epic rants:

I don’t want a balanced budget amendment.

Let me explain.

Government is very good at screwing stuff up, and then selling us on a solution that screws things up still more, and then selling us yet another screwup. It’s like an out-of-control episode of the Three Stooges, but with tequila and lots of Other People’s Money.

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How high can it go?

Why is a BBA on the table in the first place? Because our politicians lack the political will to keep government at the proper size, doing the proper things. A lot of the things they have going on now are well outside of the constitution. Yes, I know, they got rulings favorable to them in a lot of cases — but in many more situations, they simply ignore the Constitution. You can’t tell me that, for example, raising the national drinking age by tying it to highway funds is within the spirit of the Constitution. If it was, they’d simply vote directly upon it. They have no mandate, so they use excess tax money that they confiscated beyond their needs to violate the Constitution in spirit.

If you think that the BBA will keep government in check from doing the things that they aren’t supposed to do, what makes you think that they will pay attention to this one, too? Examples from human nature:

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America’s top ten local talk show hosts: #5 – Casey Bartholomew/Free Agent

Give Casey a micande a telephone and he’s guaranteed to make listeners laugh and politicians quake, because nobody motivates an audience like this guy.

Casey Bartholomew
Free Agent (formerly of New Jersey 101.5)
Monday-Friday 2 -7 pm EDT

We continue our Top 10 Countdown with #5 today. Look for #4 tomorrow.

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Salon’s Joan Walsh compares Barack Obama to Ronald Reagan. Michael Steele laughs his ass off.

Joan Walsh showed up with Michael Steele on the Chris Matthews show and hilarity ensued.

Joan Walsh has done a remarkable job of making herself look completely unqualified to work on network television. She’s racking up a series of idiotic quotes that, if continued, will merit her a personalized section in Roget’s Thesaurus.

She showed up with Michael Steele on the Chris Matthews show and hilarity ensued. Well, Steele was, admittedly, the only one who found Walsh’s comments funny, but he found them very funny.

Walsh: Well, right. Well, Reagan was very much a conservative, and I didn’t agree with him on much, but he was a pragmatist and a compromiser. And the fact of the matter is, Chris, I heard my friend Michael talk about the Constitution and the Tea Party likes to talk about the Constitution and the Founders, but the fact is the Founders didn’t agree on very much at all.
Steele: Right.
Walsh: The Founders argued about a lot of things, and they created a system in which we had to talk to one another and had to compromise. This President, President Obama, who I don’t always agree with either, is actually the Reagan figure here.
Steele: [Laughs]
Walsh: He is the person saying…
Matthews: Why are you laughing?
Walsh: …you know what, I’m going to disappoint some folks.
Steele: Okay. [Continues laughing]
Walsh: Please don’t laugh at me, Michael. I didn’t laugh at you.
Matthews: Why are you laughing, Michael?
Steele: When you say something funny, I’m going to laugh.
Matthews: Why’s it funny?
Walsh: Why’s it funny?

This exchange explains the theory behind IHateTheMedia.com in a nutshell: The left can’t stand being laughed at.

In this case, we can’t figure out which they like least: Being laughed at or being unable to figure out why they’re being laughed at.

H/T: NewsBusters.org

The crisis behind the crisis: Social Security “lock box” has a hole in it

Recently Social Security began paying out more than it took in taxes, years ahead of schedule. Even worse, the leak in the box will soon become a flood.

Perhaps a better headline would have said “a bunch of a-holes in it”, namely Congress. Recently Social Security began paying out more than it took in taxes, years ahead of schedule. Even worse, the leak in the box will soon become a flood.

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Think of the bucket as the Social Security Trust Fund

Bob Krumm explains:

Imagine that my wife and I both work and that she sets aside 15% of her income for retirement and gives that 15% to me. I go through the years spending all of my income, plus all of the 15% that she gives me, plus a little bit more. Eventually, my wife starts to ask questions about her retirement fund. “Relax,” I tell her. “You’ve been ‘earning’ 5% interest on that money.” And I hand her a nice little official looking annual accounting statement to that effect. Unbeknownst to her, I’m only adding that 5% interest to that amount that I “owe” her. In truth, I’ll never pay her that money. It doesn’t exist. It’s already spent, and I don’t have the income earning potential to ever repay it. But–and this is the key point–that amount I owe my wife is not a debt in the legal sense. Sure, I still have other debts; remember, I’ve been spending all of my income, plus 15% of hers, plus a little bit more. That “little bit more” is money that I owe to outside creditors. And I will have to pay them back or they will make my life miserable. When my wife finds out that there is no money for her, my life will be miserable too. But that’s a different kind of misery–one that will lead to a bitter and nasty divorce.

We are the wife, the political class is the husband. When the wife finds out, the husband will be out on his ass. That’s what all the fuss is really all about.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: BobKrumm.com

Gang of six? Or Gang of Pricks?

Just when it seemed that America was on the brink of being forced into fiscal responsibility the Gang of Six rides into town and makes life safe again for government to live beyond our means.

Just when it seemed that America was on the brink of being forced into fiscal responsibility the Gang of Six rides into town and makes life safe again for government to live beyond our means.

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The Gang of Sicks

Reason provides what is largely missing from Washington DC:

Yesterday, the so-called Gang of Six—a cadre of Republican and Democratic Senators working independently from the administration and Congressional leadership—released a proposal to reduce the projected federal deficit by $3.7 trillion over the next decade. According to The Washington Post, it “requires lawmakers in the coming months to cut agency spending, overhaul Social Security and Medicare, and rewrite the tax code to generate more than $1 trillion in fresh revenue.” It’s so…so…bipartisan. But maybe not in an entirely good way.

In a nice overview of the plan, Cato’s Dan Mitchell points out that, as usual, the headline deficit reduction figures don’t represent real reductions from current spending levels; instead, they’re cuts from projected growth. There are a few things to like about the plan, however, including its reduction of both the top personal and corporate tax rates and its obliteration of the CLASS Act.

But many of the particulars are still vague, especially when it comes to health care. Despite what the Post suggests, there is no major overhaul of Medicare. The plan calls for $200 billion in overall health care savings, but from where? We don’t yet know.

Call us crazy but we get a bit leery when a plan to “increase revenue” and cut spending can’t pinpoint where exactly those spending cuts are going to be. Because we all know where the revenue increases are coming from. Our paychecks.

– Written by Kip Hooker at TheVitaminPress.com

Source: Reason.com

Epic Fail: MSNBC info-ditz takes on Congressman over debt ceiling

Contessa Brewer took on Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) on the debt ceiling. Contessa possibly assumed she was dealing with Mel Brooks when she challenged his qualifications.

MSNBC hires only the best. We’re just not sure what it is they’re best at.

Contessa Brewer took on Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) on the debt ceiling. Contessa possibly assumed she was dealing with Mel Brooks when she challenged his qualifications.

Real Clear Politics has the play-by-play:

Today, Contessa “educated” a conservative Representative that if Congress does not raise the debt raising, the country would be “reverting into a depression.” Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) said he disagreed which prompted the MSNBC host to ask him if he had a degree in economics.

“Yes ma’am, I do. Highest honors,” Rep. Brooks responded.

According to his Congressional page: “Mo graduated from Duke University in three years with a double major in political science and economics, with highest honors in economics. In 1978, he graduated from the University of Alabama Law School.”

FYI, Ms. Brewer has a BA from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. According to Wikipedia, that is “the communications school at Syracuse University. It has programs in print and broadcast journalism; advertising; public relations; and television and film.” Apparently, no economics degrees are necessary when one’s a “journalist” repeating Democrat talking points.

Oh, yes, and does Barack Obama have an economics degree? Maybe someone can dig up his transcripts (we mean that literally as they seem to have been buried in one of the holes he’s constantly trying to dig out of) and look that up, along with proof of the “highest honors” that the media keeps insisting he received.

We won’t hold our breath waiting.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: Real Clear Politics

D.C. Circuit Court: TSA has constitutional right to photograph your naughty bits

So it’s either an invasion or your privacy or an invasion of your privates. According to Judge Douglas Ginsburg this excellent choice is all yours.

We can just imagine it.  James Madison slipping into bed after a harrowing day of Constitution construction and dreaming happy dreams of the future republic in which agents of the state had the authority to force citizens to expose their genitals to their photographic devices.

Ridiculous you say. Madison knew nothing of modern imaging techniques. True enough. But such reasoning wasn’t enough to dissuade the DC Circuit Court from ruling that such was the founder’s intent.

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Even those big ass glasses didn't stop Ginsburg from making a myopic decision

In the opinion from the D.C. Circuit Court, Judge Douglas Ginsburg writes that the advance imaging technology is not unreasonable given the security concerns on airplanes, and that people have the option to opt out for a pleasurable patdown. The court notes that some “have complained that the resulting patdown was unnecessarily aggressive,” but the judges don’t seem overly concerned about that. Ginsburg writes: 

“On the other side of the balance, we must acknowledge the steps the TSA has already taken to protect passenger privacy, in particular distorting the image created using AIT and deleting it as soon as the passenger has been cleared. More telling, any passenger may opt-out of AIT screening in favor of a patdown, which allows him to decide which of the two options for detecting a concealed, nonmetallic weapon or explosive is least invasive.”

So it’s either an invasion or your privacy or an invasion of your privates. According to Judge Douglas Ginsburg this excellent choice is all yours.

– Written by Kip Hooker at TheVitaminPress.com

Source: Forbes

America’s top ten local talk show hosts: #6 – Mandy Connell/Louisville

We asked Mandy to describe her show and she said, “My show is a snarky commentary on politics with healthy doses of Real Housewives of Anywhere updates.”

Mandy Connell
84 WHAS/Louisville
Monday-Friday 9-noon EDT

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Senator John Barrasso wants YOU to apply for an Obamacare waiver!

Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) will introduce a bill that will allow all Americans to apply for a waiver from the President’s health care law.

We’ve long thought the way out of the Obamacare mess is to let the damn bill stand, but make everyone exempt from it. That way, the President gets to keep his “signature achievement” and we get to escape his half-witted Marxist quackery.

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They've already granted 1500 exemptions. Why not 310,000,000?

Our new BFF, Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) is on the same page. We quote from his statement:

“As of today, over 3.2 million Americans have received a get out of Obamacare free pass from the Administration. If the law worked well, companies and unions would not demand a way out of its expensive mandates. Each waiver demonstrates that the President’s health care law is a complete failure. The law continues to crush jobs, increase premiums and encourage government controlled health care.

“It’s not fair that a particular group of Americans, including union employees, don’t have to abide by the law. Millions of other Americans across the country deserve the same freedom.

“Next week, I will introduce a bill that will allow all Americans to apply for a waiver from the President’s health care law. This law will deliver choice to Americans who want to get the care they need, from the doctor they want, at a price they can afford.”

The word “choice” used in a context other than abortions is a change we can believe in. We would love to see more bills like this introduced week after week until Obama retires. Hopefully, in January 2013.

Surely Democrat and media heads will explode but not to worry, flying feces rarely causes injury.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: Barrasso.senate.gov

Pundit says “Turn out the lights, the Democrat Party is nearly over”

We present a man who believes our USSR, the Democrat Party, is also on a high speed train bound for the dustbin of history.

Back in the late 1940s, U.S. diplomat and historian George Kennan predicted “either the break-up or the gradual mellowing of Soviet power.” Few believed him but four decades later it came to pass. In juxtaposition, we present a man who believes our USSR, the Democrat Party, is also on a high speed train bound for the dustbin of history.

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It was a hell of a party, but you knew it wasn't going to end well

From Richard Miniter in Forbes:

This week’s fight over raising the federal debt limit exposes a key weakness in the warfare-welfare state that has bestowed power onto the Democratic Party: Without an ever-growing share of the economy, it dies. Every vital element of the Democrats’ coalition — unions, government workers, government contractors, “entitlement” consumers — requires constant increases in payments, grants and consulting contracts. Without those payments, they don’t sign checks to re-elect Democrats.

Like it or not, Obama is not the new FDR, but the new Gorbachev: a man forced to preside over the demise of a political system he desperately wants to save.

The community organizer is, in reality, a community disorganizer.

But as Margaret Thatcher said, “The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money”. “Eventually” may be now.

The only major element of the Democratic base that doesn’t receive government payments is the professional class (lawyers, engineers, stock brokers and so on). These high-earners amount to less than 5% of the population and are not reliable Democrat donors.

The Democrat Party, busily buying votes with your money. Where does the Party of Parasites eat when the host vanishes? It eats crap and dies.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: Forbes

Obama’s corporate boy toy blames business for the lack of jobs

Obama crony Jeff Immelt gets marched out to defend the job killing effects of Obamanomics by blaming businesses for not creating enough new employment.

President Obama is a study in hypocrisy. He lectures the pubic on the need for sacrifice while wasting millions of their dollars on parties. He promised the most transparent administration in our history but has delivered one of its most secretive. He defends trickle down tax hikes on the middle class by attacking the “fat cat corporations” while all the while enriching those friendly to his regime.

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Immelt and Obama: The boy toy and the manchild

No wonder Obama crony Jeff Immelt gets marched out to defend the job killing effects of Obamanomics by blaming businesses for not creating enough new employment.

This is from CNN:

The head of General Electric (GE) told a jobs summit at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Monday that businesses needed to take the lead on job creation.

At a conference where many of the comments were focused on government barriers to hiring, GE Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt acknowledged there needed to be some policy changes by Congress and the Obama administration. But he said that the responsibility for hiring lay with businesses.

“The people who are part of the business sector, the people in this room, have got to stop complaining about government and get some action underway,” he told the group. “There’s no excuse today for lack of leadership. The truth is we all need to be part of the solution.”

No Mr. Immelt. If the people in that room want to succeed what they’ve got to do is buddy up to Obama. That way they can get some TARP money and skip out on paying their taxes too.

– Written by Kip Hooker at TheVitaminPress.com

Source: CNN

When life hands you a lemon, make a bureaucrat mad by making lemonade

“This gentleman from the county is now telling us because we don’t have a vendors license, the kids won’t be allowed to sell their lemonade,” Carrie Marriott told us, her voice trembling.

It’s a familiar movie cliche. A group of committed youngsters – facing an insurmountable obstacle – band together and confront the issue with plucky resolve, resourcefulness and some sort of montage set to an upbeat popular song of the day. And just when it looks like they will pull off a miracle some sort of bureaucrat enters the picture and threatens to undo the last 80 minutes of film time.

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If the kids had known how to play the game, they would have slipped the inspector a $20 bill and their troubles would have disappeared

Life might not often imitate art it, but can be pretty similar to a poorly imagined kid’s flick.

Montgomery County’s WUSA Channel 9 had film at eleven:

A county inspector ordered the Marriott and Augustine kids to shut down the stand they set up on Persimmon Tree Rd., right next to Congressional. And after they allegedly ignored a couple of warnings, the inspector fined their parents $500.

“This gentleman from the county is now telling us because we don’t have a vendors license, the kids won’t be allowed to sell their lemonade,” Carrie Marriott told us, her voice trembling.

The kids can’t seem to understand it. “I don’t agree, I think the county is wrong.” “We’re sending the money to charity.”

Update: The county has had a change of heart. After moving their lemonade operation about a hundred feet down the road these kids will be able reopen their stand. The fine has even been rescinded.

Whew! What a relief. We were afraid Chuck Norris was going to have to get involved.

– Written by Kip Hooker at TheVitaminPress.com

Source: WUSA

Joke of the Day: Nancy Pelosi is a saint

One hot Saturday afternoon in July an aide to Nancy Pelosi visited the Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, D.C…

One hot Saturday afternoon in July an aide to Nancy Pelosi visited the Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, D.C.

He told the Cardinal that Nancy Pelosi would be attending the next day’s Mass and asked if the Cardinal would kindly point out Pelosi to the Congregation and say a few words that would include calling Pelosi a saint.

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"...and he asked if the Cardinal would kindly point out Pelosi to the Congregation and say a few words that would include calling Pelosi a saint."

“No,” the Cardinal replied. “I don’t really like the woman, and there are issues of conflict with the Catholic Church over certain of Pelosi’s views.”

Pelosi’s aide then said, “Look, I’ll write a check here and now for a donation of $100,000 to your church if you’ll just tell the congregation you see Pelosi as a saint.”

The Cardinal thought about it and said, “Well, the church can use the money, so I’ll work your request into tomorrow’s sermon.”

As Pelosi’s aide promised, Pelosi appeared for the Sunday worship and seated herself prominently at the forward left side of the center aisle.

At the start of his sermon, the Cardinal pointed out that Speaker Pelosi was present.

“While Pelosi’s presence is probably an honor to some,” the Cardinal said to the congregation, “the woman is not numbered among my personal favorite personages. Some of her most egregious views are contrary to tenets of the Church, and she tends to flipflop on many other issues. Nancy Pelosi is a petty, self-absorbed hypocrite, a thumb sucker and a nitwit. Nancy Pelosi is also a serial liar, a cheat and a thief. I must say, Nancy Pelosi is the worst example of a Catholic I have ever personally witnessed. She married for money and is using her wealth to lie to the American people. She also has a reputation for shirking her Representative obligations both in Washington and in California. The woman is simply not to be trusted.”

“But when compared to President Obama,” the Cardinal concluded, “Pelosi is a saint.”

H/T: Ray

America’s top ten local talk show hosts: #7 – Walton & Johnson/Houston

John Walton & Steve Johnson are a couple of former shock jocks now riding high in Houston and eleven other stations around the Gulf Coast.

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93.7 The Arrow/Houston (and eleven other Gulf Coast and Virginia stations)
Monday-Friday 5:30-10 am CST

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I’ll be here all week: Obama makes joke about confirmation process, but no one laughs

Obama bombed in Washington, DC on Monday. He stunk up the joint. (Sound of crickets) “That’s a joke,” he reminded the audience.

Oh, how far the mighty have fallen. There was a time, just two and a half short years ago, when the media would have hurt themselves laughing at any attempted witticism on the part of the funniest President in history.

No longer. Obama bombed in Washington, DC on Monday. He stunk up the joint.

“Back in the 80’s, Richard was also a five-time Jeopardy champion and a semi-finalist in the Tournament of Champions. Not too shabby,” President Obama said while announcing Richard Cordray’s nomination to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

“That’s why all his confirmation — all the answers at his confirmation hearings will be in a form of a question,” Obama said to silence. 


(Sound of crickets)

“That’s a joke,” he reminded the audience.

And then he concluded with, “Richard just flew in from Ohio and, boy, are his arms tired.”

Harvard researchers: “Hey, fat boy! Pack your bags and say goodbye to your abusive parents!”

As the Western world gets fatter and fatter, the solutions to slimming it down get ever more draconian.

One never knows what kind of nonsense Ivy League researchers will come up with when they’re on the government payroll. Far as we can tell the rule of thumb seems to be, the more preposterous the better.

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When fat is outlawed only outlaws will have fat

Consider, for example, this story from National Journal:

As the Western world gets fatter and fatter, the solutions to slimming it down get ever more draconian. In Britain yesterday, the government issued guidelines saying “children under the age of 5, including babies who can’t walk yet, should exercise every day.” Today, in the States, a pair of Harvard scholars writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association advocate stripping away the custody rights of parents of super obese children. They’re for real!

“The boy’s not fat, he just has heavy bones” won’t fly as an excuse when the nanny state takes over.

“Despite the discomfort posed by state intervention, it may sometimes be necessary to protect a child,” said Lindsey Murtagh, a lawyer and researcher at Harvard’s School of Public Health. The study’s co-author, David Ludwig, says taking away peoples’ children “ideally will support not just the child but the whole family, with the goal of reuniting child and family as soon as possible.” Ludwig, an obesity specialist at Harvard-affiliated Children’s Hospital, said his eureka moment was when a 90-pound, 3-year-old girl entered his obesity clinic a number of years ago,” reports Lindsey Tanner at the Associated Press.

Nanny state, yes! Fatty state, no! Chubby chasers are gathering outside the White House to protest this outrageous infringement of their rights.

Source: National Journal

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