Meanwhile in Afghanistan...

Despite the fact that President Obama is taking credit for the Iraq victory, he seems pretty quiet when it comes to discussing the war he did support. Perhaps this is why:

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- U.S. forces lost 22 soldiers in Afghanistan, mostly to roadside bombs, since Friday, marking a bloody step-up in the insurgency as a major U.S.-led offensive seeks to capture the spiritual homeland of the Taliban movement in Kandahar.

The U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan said it is gaining ground against the insurgents, but violence is rising across the country, including in areas that were considered relatively safe.

Five more U.S. soldiers were killed Tuesday, while three Afghan workers for the British charity Oxfam were killed by a roadside bomb in Badakhshan, which had been one of the safer places in the country.

The coalition says that casualties are rising as they push against the strongholds of the Taliban in the south and the allied Haqqani network in the east. The majority of casualties - 60 percent - this year and in 2009 came from improvised explosive devices planted on roads and paths.

U.S. and Afghan forces are expected to begin soon an offensive in Zhari and Panjwai, southwest of Kandahar city, the last part of operation "Hamkari," to secure and stabilize Kandahar province. Mullah Omar started the Taliban movement in this area in 1994, and it conquered much of the country in the two years that followed.

Of the 22 American losses since Friday, 17 were the result of IEDs, according to figures provided by the ISAF. In that period, only one non-American coalition soldier was killed.

We are roughly at an equivalent point to that in which Bush ordered the surge. The difference is that the media played up every single death as one in which Bush was solely responsible and Bush kept his faith in our troops when a lesser man would have crumbled. Obama has faced nothing even close to the daily haranguing Bush did because the media are protecting like they've always done. There is no giddy countdown to death number 1000 or death number 3000 like here was in the Iraq war. Instead, there's the death of another 22 that are downplayed for political reasons to protect their favorite while the families of those who died grieve. Are these heroes not as important as those who died in Fallujah or Baghdad? Of course they are to those who are sane but not to media and many in the Obama administration where they are essentially a daily distraction from the important issues like winning in November and setting up a healthcare bureaucracy. Priorities you know.

This is the war we have to win and is at a critical point. You wouldn't know that judging by the amount of time the media has covered it because it's simply an inconvenient issue and makes their favored guy look bad.

Sadly, they are robbing the glory from those who are shedding the blood for us. Ernie Pyle must be turning in his grave.

Obama: I Won Iraq War Even Though I Opposed Winning Strategy

Our new FDR will tell us tonight how he cunningly won the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people with subliminal signals to the Sunni's to "awaken" and that GWB had absolutely nothing to do with it. Update: he mentioned Bush.

This is farce on a grand scale; Obama (and Reid and Pelosi and...) was adamant about his opposition to The Surge when it was up for debate. He had zero trust in our president and, more importantly, zero trust in our troops to win. Obama was against the war from the beginning yet is going to stand up and take credit for the win like the reporter in Major League who was pissing all over the Indians and by the end of the season was wearing an Indian headdress.

Here's a nice recap of what his position really was:



How farcical is this? Obama's spokesparrot wishes he called in sick today as he was destroyed by a FoxNews anchor who ate his lunch and then kicked his ass all over the studio while Gibbs' used his usual pretzel logic trying to spin it. I guess he gets props for going on Fox but gets a big demerit for getting his booty smacked by a person much better prepared. Dude, you're the spokesman for the President of the United States for crying out loud.



Sarah Palin turns the knife a bit as well.

Obama Has Succeeded in Making Us a Socialist State

Obama promised that he would institute his far left policies and the majority of voters got caught up in his propaganda. Some weren't fooled and wrote about it on a daily basis.

Obama knew exactly how he had to proceed; he knew that once people got wise to his game, they would be appalled. When they showed resistance, he rammed his agenda through. The public is hip to the game and are poised to rectify the huge mistake they made as soon as possible, which means November.

Alas, it's too late. He's succeeded in ways that Carter, Clinton, LBJ and FDR could only have dreamed of. He's made a huge swath of the country dependent on handouts and dependent on The State:

WASHINGTON — Government anti-poverty programs that have grown to meet the needs of recession victims now serve a record one in six Americans and are continuing to expand.

More than 50 million Americans are on Medicaid, the federal-state program aimed principally at the poor, a survey of state data by USA TODAY shows. That's up at least 17% since the recession began in December 2007.

Note the first line, "victims" is how the media phrase it and how Obama implemented it. Liberals thrive on supposed victimhood whether it be "victims" of "big business", those who sell cigarettes and junk food or any other non-government entity. The simple fact that government policies have made these people victims either escapes the reporter or, more likely, is conveniently not commented upon.

We now have one out of every six of our countrymen addicted to government handouts and the rest of us are forced to pay for them.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm all about helping someone when they are down but what we've just seen put into play by Obama is no different then what drug dealers do. They give a taste and then just a little more; pretty soon, you are relying on what they are pushing. Come on man, just a little more, just another 26-weeks of unemployment and I'll get straight and get off the dole. But instead one ends up living life on welfare, unending unemployment, food stamps and government blocks of cheese. You can't have that gravy train end so you vote Democrat so you can keep the trip going.

Note this:

I want to focus here on another dimension of the Obama administration's policies: the expansion of unemployment-insurance eligibility to as much as 99 weeks from the standard 26 weeks.

The unemployment-insurance program involves a balance between compassion—providing for persons temporarily without work—and efficiency. The loss in efficiency results partly because the program subsidizes unemployment, causing insufficient job-search, job-acceptance and levels of employment. A further inefficiency

...These numbers provide a stark contrast with joblessness today. The peak unemployment rate of 10.1% in October 2009 corresponded to a mean duration of unemployment of 27.2 weeks and a share of long-term unemployment of 36%. The duration of unemployment peaked (thus far) at 35.2 weeks in June 2010, when the share of long-term unemployment in the total reached a remarkable 46.2%. These numbers are way above the ceilings of 21 weeks and 25% share applicable to previous post-World War II recessions. The dramatic expansion of unemployment-insurance eligibility to 99 weeks is almost surely the culprit.

To get a rough quantitative estimate of the implications for the unemployment rate, suppose that the expansion of unemployment-insurance coverage to 99 weeks had not occurred and—I assume—the share of long-term unemployment had equaled the peak value of 24.5% observed in July 1983. Then, if the number of unemployed 26 weeks or less in June 2010 had still equaled the observed value of 7.9 million, the total number of unemployed would have been 10.4 million rather than 14.6 million. If the labor force still equaled the observed value (153.7 million), the unemployment rate would have been 6.8% rather than 9.5%.

The evidence is clear, extending unemployment or any benefits results in the reduced will to work and prolongs the economic agony. People have grown used to the "new normal" in which the Obama administration has produced an America where people just stop paying their mortgages, squat in the house they probably couldn't afford in the first place until they get evicted and then rent a place they can handle on their unemployment stipend they know isn't going to run out as long as the Dems rule everything. Why take a job at Home Depot when you get the same from the government.

But then, the government doesn't get money from unemployment checks. Instead, those of us who are working carry the load until more and more people grow comfortable with living off Uncle Sam's largess and then all of a sudden it's half of us paying for the other half. It's a spiral that's not only wrong but inherently un-American...which was Obama's goal anyway.

The Pathetic Lefty/ Media Coverage of the Beck Washington Show

I call it a show because I have no idea what else to label it.

Regardless, Beck has the juice to convene a gathering with at least 100,000 souls but more like triple that. Think about that, he asked people to travel to DC on a Saturday and they did--from all over the country. He's done more to stimulate the southern Maryland, DC, northern Virgina economy in one weekend than Obama has in 18-months.

Personally, I am not a big Beck fan, I fine the guy tedious and the religious aspect of the spectacle makes me uncomfortable. Not because it was religious per se but because it was--regardless of how they billed it--a political gathering. Politics and religion have joined together to add up to some bad things throughout history. Plus, it is not inclusive in many respects and the GOP needs inclusiveness at this point.

But the media reporting is just plain pathetic.

Treacher has the roundup of opinion and the lemmings in the MSM stuck to the "racist" meme with all their might regardless of the fact that the speakers were of many nationalities and the crowd reflected a mix of people. This was protect Obama at all costs mode and they played it to the hilt (although the photog who snapped this pic must not have been a member of the revamped Journolist).

This scares the shit out of the left and the media (but again, I'm redundant) int his country. They see an uprising that puts Obama mania to shame and they know they are absolutely powerless to stop it. They're impotent and even their smears are lame to the point that they are debunked within minutes by a vigilant band of libertarian/conservative citizen journalists.

I think Beckapolooza was good in the sense that it spread a message of unity on the day MLK spoke 47-years earlier about tolerance and it also worked as a nice smack to the left-wing of this country. I just hope the religious message does not backfire as the majority of this nation is indeed Christian but not many of them are churchgoing in an every Sunday sense. They could have been turned off if they were paying attention.

For the record, CBS has lost any shred of balance they once had as they hired a scrub firm to assess crowd size and they said this was only 87,000 people.

Saturday Morning News & Notes

Greetings on this beautiful late summer weekend. A round of golf with my son and my nephew are in my immediate future so life is good.

Anyway, here's what's new in the world:

-As if the Ground Zero Mosque issue couldn't be more insulting to those who see it for what it is, the project may get public funding. This is the single-biggest issue of the the election season behind the economy and will be proven so when they pick through the wreckage of the campaigns currently hurtling toward November.

-The EPA tried to backdoor gun control by making calling ammo hazardous. The result was pretty much what you'd expect once the people who own guns got word of it.

-Glenn Beck is putting on a freedom event on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial with a few hundred thousand of his closest friends. This, of course, has the usual lefty suspects screaming "heresy" since the people attending are partial to the Tea Party Movement and thus are all racists. Those who style themselves the face of the minority community are appalled that these crackers would desecrate this site on this day. The fact that Dr. King would have had more in common with the Tea Party than racial hucksters like Sharpton and Jackson has never occurred to them. Albert Pujols had set himself up as has LaRussa for media scrutiny but they are free to do whatever they wish, which is the idea of the day.

-Obama made it clear that those responsible for the attack on the USS Cole would be tried and convicted. As with everything else Obama promises, it has an expiration date. This is shameless.

-The MSM has always looked at the Tea Party movement like a bug under a microscope. MSNBC tries once again to define us. What could go wrong?

-Obama spoke about the end of combat operations in Iraq. You may recall it was the very same Obama who had no faith in our troops at a time when things looked bleak and was 100% against President Bush when Bush chose to support our fighting men and women and authorize the surge. Bush was right, Obama was wrong and now Obama takes credit for all of it while giving Bush none. He is by far the most classless president we've had (via Hot Air):

Zuckerman: Obamanomics Pretty Much Blows

I think Zuck may just have a point and he was an Obama supporter.

I for one am happy that Obama has spent roughly three-quarters of the summer on vacation because it's not given him much time to come up with more creative ways to torpedo any signs of an economic turnaround. He and Mayor Nanny must have had a lot to discuss.

Yesterday we had more news that proves what Joe Biden calls "Recovery Summer" has been anything but.

-GDP growth is minuscule;

-The job market is abysmal;

-The stimulus has been anything but and real-time proof that austerity would have been a better course is available;

-The Fed is confused as to what to do; and

-The public pension time bomb hasn't hit with the full force it will.

Now that the Obama's are done frolicking in the sun, The One will focus like a laser on the issue that has America reeling--the Israeli-Palestinian issue. I could have sworn I heard two guys standing in line waiting for food stamps just the other day debating whether the right of return should or shouldn't be on the table during the negotiations...or not.

The Democrats are grasping at straws and chances are good that they'll throw another worthless bill out on the floor that just screws things up even more; something that Dems can hold up in a last ditch effort to keep their collective jobs and will do nothing to move the economy along.

I leave you with this picture. This is the the man who will solve all of our problems when he finally gets back to doing what he was elected to do:

Feeling better now?

Obamanomics Proving To Be About What Anyone Paying Attention Expected

The bad news comes fast and furious. High unemployment numbers, back-to-back horrific housing numbers and market veterans putting on the life preservers and leaving the sinking ship are pretty much a sign that we are pretty much screwed.



There's bad things happening in the economic world, y'all. High deficits inflicted upon us by Obama may well spell a the makings of a decade of shit that will require big-time spending cuts, pain for all of us and a depressed work environment that will test us like we've not been tested since...well, ever.

So what can we do?

We can start by voting these clowns out of office in embarrassing ways that will make anyone even contemplating implementing Keynesian policies again banish the thought within seconds. We then hold the GOP'ers elected to a standard so high that even whispering about adding to the deficit will cause them to be tossed into the Potomac in the middle of February.

We're in for pain but the duration depends on what happens this November. Obama will not see another term if we are focused for a few years and then stay vigilant.

Monday Night News & Notes

A rainy Monday and we need it bad so it's all good. Plus Carlos Ruiz just blasted a homer off Brett Myers so it's doubly good.

Here's what's new:

-Airplane! was released 30-years ago. We can all rattle off the lines (we have clearance Clarence, over Oveur, roger Roger). Pure comedy genius.

-The Global Warming Swindle is not dead. It's funny, whenever we joked about cold temps they scolded us (because that's what libs do) that weather is not climate. Funny. now that their junk science has been exposed as junk science, they're claiming weather is climate.

-This would be why people that are promised protection by the UN should run away in utter fear. The UN is either doing the raping or failing to stop those who do. The Congo would have been much better off without these scumbags "protecting" them.

-This is the Earth from 114-million miles away. Remember when NASA had vision?

Courtesy .Daily Mail

-So much for peace and understanding from the GZ mosque supporters. It's always the Jews, isn't it?



-Our tax dollars at work. Justice Dept. seeking "ebonics experts".

Could Obama Bail On a Second Term?

This has been kicked around the blogosphere since Toby Harnden wrote about it last week (the Brit press is light years ahead of the hack American press) in the Telegraph.

Obama has pretty much whined for the last six-months or so about how hard the job is and how Bush left him with a mess. We've all heard it on a daily basis and that's one of the biggest reasons his popularity has plummeted. Americans like strong leaders who are good communicators like Reagan, optimistic like Roosevelt, straight-forward like Bush or human like Clinton. We hate whiny, we hate wishy-washy, we hate being lectured, we hate elitists and we hate hypocrites. Obama is every single one of those. He's just not likable.

Think of one moment where you watched Obama and said to yourself: "self, he seems like a nice guy". You could see yourself having a beer with Bush, Reagan or Clinton (and maybe hangin' around the Oval Office for awhile), but Obama, not so much. With The One it would be wine spritzers on the deck and no horse shoes because people could get hurt. He seems p-whipped and indecisive.

Neil Cavuto has his thoughts on this today as does Ed Morrisey. As for me, I could see that scenario. He's stuck with a GOP-led Senate and House, he can't advance the agenda and therefore loses the left who want him to fight (an instinct not in his DNA) and the public continues to sour on him until he reaches Bushian levels.

He says to himself fuck it, I'll never have to work again, play golf every day, give speeches and collect huge bank. Why deal with an electorate that is just too damn moronic to understand the genius that is me, Obama?

He'd go down in history as the first black president and historians will indeed go gentle just because of that fact. He rammed through a health care bill, which eluded Clinton and several other bills hat were but liberal wet dreams until the last two years. He's earned a cushy life, dammit.

And who does that leave to run? Hillary of course. It's not out of the realm.

Ground Zero Imam on Tape Saying Things That Will Not Lead to Nice "Dialogue"

Pam Geller has got the dude by the balls and man, she's a friggin' pitbull:



Quoth the imam:

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf: "We tend to forget, in the West, that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than al Qaida has on its hands of innocent non Muslims. You may remember that the US-led sanctions against Iraq led to the death of over half a million Iraqi children. This has been documented by the United Nations. And when Madeleine Albright, who has become a friend of mine over the last couple of years, when she was Secretary of State and was asked whether this was worth it, said it was worth it.

Why am I not surprised to see Madeline Aldull turn up? But I digress. I'll just say that Mr. Rauf is not surprising me at all because this is the shit that al-Jazeera has been spouting for decades. It's the old "America deserved it and brought it on itself" bullshit we've been hearing from jihadi apologists and liberals (but I'm redundant) for ten years. I mean, what's next, is he going to say that Bush knew and fat ass Mikey Moore portrayed facts in Fahrenheit 911? Uh, yeah:

How many of you have seen the documentary: Fahrenheit 911? The vast majority - at least half here. Do you remember the scene of the Iraqi woman whose house was bombed and she was just screaming, "What have they done." Now, I don't know, you don't know Arabic but in Arabic it was extremely powerful. Her house was gone. Her husband, I think, was killed. What wrong did he do? I found myself weeping when I watched that scene and I imagined myself if I were a 15-year old nephew of this deceased man, what would I have felt?

And please don't miss his racism, rabid anti-Americanism and all-around hatred of freedom...my Lord, he's the next liberal savior now that Obama has tanked in record time.

Go read all of Pam's post. I've not linked to her often because she sometimes goes to extremes in my opinion but damn, she nailed the imam on this one and I'd imagine that those opposed will climb to three quarters in a week or so.

Exit question: What's the over under on Obama calling Bloomberg and/or the imam (who's jetting around the world on our nickel) and telling them to pull the damn plug before the Dems lose 100 seats in November?

The Pro Athlete Syndrome Writ Large

Many pro athletes tend to have a really hard time adjusting to the fame and money they thought would be the thing they desired most. Their whole lives they were told how great they were, how much they mean to the town or city, how awesome their very existence is. They hear this for years and when they make it to the pro level and live what they thought was their dream they end up dysfunctional, mal-adjusted and just plain seem to be assholes because dammit, they are great...everybody said so.

That's pretty much where we currently find Obama:

To be blunt, Obama suffers from a lifetime of others excessively praising his intellect. It insulates him from ideas and facts that conflict with his pre-existing liberal rubric (so “every economist” believed his stimulus would work). It leaves him unprepared to engage in real debate with informed opponents (e.g. the health-care summit).

The MSM and the intelligentsia made Obama out to be this utter genius (and got called on it embarrassingly) and he bought in because he was always told that. Reality is a bitch.

Read the entire Jennifer Rubin post at the above link.

The Chris Christie Locomotive Continues to Roll

Christie for president?

Republican NJ Gov. Chris Christie , who has taken controversial steps since taking office, has a higher approval rating than Pres. Obama in New Jersey, according to a new poll released Thursday.

Just more than half - 51% - approve of Christie's performance as governor while 36% disapprove in the Quinnipiac poll. Obama has a 47% approval rating in the survey and the same percentage disapprove of the president's performance.

"New Jerseyans are getting used to their new Gov., Christopher Christie, as his job approval breaks the 50 percent mark," said Maurice Carroll , director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. "But familiarity hasn't helped him much with Democrats. A lot of voters still think Christie is a bully, but the victories he chalked up in the legislature earn him good marks for leadership."

Christie performs even better among independents. 61% of independents approve of Christie's performance, 29% disapprove. For Obama, 41% of independents approve and 53% disapprove.

Christie has done a remarkable job of framing the issues he and the state are dealing with. You have unions that got sweetheart deals from McGreevey and Corzine and have forced dramatic increases in property taxes. Mine currently stand at greater than $10,000 yearly and will go to $1,000 a month next year. Christie struck a chord and people in this deep blue state are starting to see that he's the real deal. 61% of Independents like him and this state--especially down south where I live, which is only semi-filled with heathens unlike the north--is largely full of Indies. These numbers are incredible as the unions laid on a full-scale carpet bombing impugning him daily in every media and he came out giving them the finger and going after them even harder.

Some are taking him to task for not commenting on the Ground Zero mosque issue but why should he? He's governor of New Jersey, not New York. Granted, many from the Garden State died in the 9/11 attacks but he should just stay out. Were he a confirmed presidential candidate, he'd have to speak up but he's not...at least at this point. Hopefully that changes.

Obama's Seinfeld Moment

You may recall the epic Seinfeld episode where a woman thought Jerry and George were gay prompting them to utter "we're not gay--not that there's anything wrong with that".

Obama now finds himself in that situation as 20% of Americans believe he's a Muslim. That can only expand as he foolishly waded into the Ground Zero mosque issue when he didn't need to. He hasn't changed perceptions by not attending church either as his earlier worship place was led by Reverend Wright and also hurt him politically.

Now the White House is falling all over themselves to ensure the country that our president is a God-fearing Christian by God. He loves the baby Jesus and everything about him. He is led in his decisions by his relationship with the Lord don't ya know? He makes a Southern Baptist look like a pagan with his devoutness.

Oh Lord, please let me not hear anymore of this:

"President Obama is a committed Christian, and his faith is an important part of his daily life," Deputy White House Communications Director Jen Psaki told CNN. "He prays every day, he seeks a small circle of Christian pastors to give him spiritual advice and counseling, he even receives a daily devotional that he uses each morning. The President's Christian faith is a part of who he is, but not a part of what the public or the media is focused on everyday."

Translation:

"He's not a Muslim (not that there's anything wrong with that) and is a hard-core Christian. He doesn't even own a Koran and if he did, it was never looked at. There's no secret mosque in the Oval Office and he really isn't a big fan of those Muslims but has to keep up appearances. In short, he's not a Muslim (not that there's anything wrong with that). He makes Jerry Falwell look like a friggin' wiccan."

Jeez dude, get a backbone. Be a man and say that while your father was a Muslim, you chose not to be. Quit the charade that you're a devout Christian, you sound worse than Bill Clinton. I'm a die-hard Conservatarian and will gladly admit that I go to church for weddings and funerals for the most part.

How bad are things on the Ground Zero mosque with Obama? DEMOCRATS are wishing Bush would come to the rescue.

Tuesday Night News & Notes

Posting's been light this summer. It'll probably pick up as we get into September and near the biggest election of my lifetime.

Here's what's news:

-Sarah Palin is something feminist's abhor: she's hot, lives what she says and appeals to people---pretty much everything feminists are not. The equally hot Tammy Bruce spells it all out. She has this nice editorial cartoon. See below for a comparison of GOP hotness and feminist notness.

-Blago gets convicted of one count. Selling a Senate seat isn't a crime in Chicago I guess.

-UAW honchos get booed off the stage by those they are supposed to be supporting. I guess a 50% pay cut is a kick in the balls considering it's caused by suits who are--at least in theory--elected to get you a good deal. I for one am savoring the schadenfreude and irony.

-In every land Muslims have taken by force or by indoctrination, they've planted a mosque on a site that shows their power. Ground Zero is just another. Mayor Bloomberg hasn't exactly been playing it straight.

-The Ninth Circus Court has decided that you can lie about being a military hero and get away with it. As someone who earned some medals, I can say without reservation that anyone who claims they were awarded medals and never even seved should suffer a serious ass-kicking.

-Pat Toomey is up by 9 points on Sestak. As Drew M. notes, perhaps he should call Nobama about that job Clinton never promised him.

-Ace ponders the new reality in procuring life-saving drugs.

Majority Agree Obama Pretty Much a Huge Friggin' Mistake

I guess those of us who saw right through the charade during the campaign should feel some vindication but instead we just feel sad that people got suckered by this fraud now sitting in the Oval Office--when he's not playing golf or on vacation that is.

Here's the latest numbers from Gallup, which is comprised of a 3-day rolling average so his comments supporting the Ground Zero mosque and subsequent backpedaling are in this. 51% now believe that hope and change was a load of shit sold to us by a snake oil salesman standing behind a tele-prompter.

Gallup Daily: Obama Job Approval

This isn't the evil, GOP-supporting Scott Rasmussen (who's right more than any other firm) but Gallup.

How bad is it? Dems are running away from him, including the vile Babs Streisand and when you've lost Babs, you've pretty much lost everyone.

It probably doesn't help the cause to piss off every single person in LA at the very fundraiser Yentl declined to attend.

Thursday Evening News & Notes

The last full day of the vacation and it's been a good and relaxing one. Oh to hit the lottery...

Here's what's new:

-Note to Conservatives: Let it go! So a judge overturned Prop 8 allowing same-sex marriages in California and gave the finger to voters who passed it. So what? We have a crucial election to win in three months and cannot get side-tracked by a Republican-appointed judge ruling the law unconstitutional. In my opinion, it is.

-America fought to get rid of royalty. Unfortunately, it's back.

-Ford Motors didn't take bailout money. Ford was forced to play by different rules than GM and Chrysler who did take bailout money (and lied about paying it back). Obama played hardball with Ford. Ford is turning a nice profit nowadays. Obama takes credit. The Obama admin in a nutshell: if it's good, he did it, if it's bad, blame Bush.

-Colorado officials disabled software that would prevent them from paying illegal aliens unemployment checks. Yes, people who paid $0 into the fund are getting checks from it. I can't wait for the abuses that come with Obamacare.

-Dude gets busted by wife on Facebook. The fact that he dressed up as Prince Charming for his second wedding means I have zero sympathy for him.

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A GOP Tidal Wave in November?

It's feeling more and more like that every day. In what was supposed to be "Recovery Summer" it's been anything but. Drearier economic news comes out on a daily basis and Americans are now at the point where they've lost hope. Hope in the administration, hope in Congress and hope in a deficit-inducing stimulus approach.

How bad have things become in Washington? So bad that Obama's best and brightest are fighting amongst themselves and the creepiest looking dude in the House is looking on the bright side of a bad situation:

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) believes the November elections will likely weed out some of the “most difficult Democrats” that leadership lawmakers have dealt with this Congress.

In an interview with The Hill, the Energy and Commerce Committee chairman expressed confidence that Democrats will retain the House, and suggested he won’t miss some of the Democrats who won’t be back next year.

“I think a lot of the House seats we’re going to lose are those who have been the toughest for the Democrats to pull into line — the Democrats that have been the most difficult,” Waxman said.

Way to sell out the Blue Dogs, Henry. It's you and your policies that have destroyed your party and now your preparing to dance on the graves of the only sane people in your caucus. Real classy, douchebag.

Anyway, Pat Cadell--one of the only Democrats (along with Carville) who sees that the Democrat party is about to see itself wounded for a decade--says it's going to be good year for moving companies in the DC metro area.

Tuesday Morning News & Notes

Still on vacation. Fishing and relaxing has its merits.

Here's what's going on:

-Nancy Pelosi's pledge to run the the "most ethical congress ever" hasn't worked out so well. Waters and Rangel have made it a racial issue right on cue so Pelosi now has that to deal with. Good.

-Obama claims victory in Iraq sans the banner and carrier. He should call up GWB on a daily basis to thank him for that even though Obama has managed to make things worse. Of course, Joe Biden claimed Iraq as an Obama victory with absolutely nothing to do with Bush.

-Even the Brits are laughing at Andrea Mitchell's husband.

-The only thing Obama continuously improves upon.

Sane People Win One in Healthcare Fight

It's a small but hopefully first victory against the bill that will simultaneously destroy the economy and the best healthcare system in the world:

This just in: Virginia federal judge Henry Hudson on Monday ruled that he’ll let the state of Virginia’s challenge to the landmark health care law passed in March go forward, at least for the time being. Click here for the early Reuters story; here for the 32-page opinion.

The Department of Health and Human Services had moved to dismiss the lawsuit, which was filed in March (click here for the complaint), shortly after the passage of the law. But Judge Hudson on Monday denied the motion.

The ruling represents a setback that will force the Obama administration to mount a lengthy legal defense of the law. The suit, filed by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (pictured), alleges that the law’s requirement that its residents have health insurance violates the Commerce Clause of the Constitution.

And how did the Nobama administration respond? By comparing the bill and the court challenge in historical terms right up with the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. Note Ms. Cutter doesn't say that it wasn't Republicans who challenged those two pieces of legislation but Democrats led by Al Gore, Sr. and Clinton mentor William Fulbright...but I digress.

The healthcare bill was rammed through using sleazy tactics, bribes, hidden costs we are no where near counting up and all while giving the majority of Americans the finger. We don't want it but according to the "intellectuals" in power, we aren't smart enough to know just how great this is for us.

The GOP has to make this topic 1, 1A and 1B the entire fall. Make the Dems wallow in their choices and squirm at every opportunity just like last year. Make Steny Hoyer eat his words about the Tea Party having "run its course".

Hopefully it comes down to Justices Alito, Thomas, Roberts, Scalia and Stevens shutting the door on this monstrosity once and for all.

Monday Morning News & Notes

On vacation this week, which would explain why I'm writing this on a Monday morning at 8:00 AM.

Anyway, here's what's news:

-Fox News is movin on up to the front row. It seems so fitting and probably makes liberals insane that the reason they moved up is because an old, reliable hack blurted out her true feelings about Israel (a view many in the MSM agree with) and had to be shit-canned.

-Obama may just go down as the sneakiest SOB sitting in the Oval Office ever. American like a fair fight while Obam,a favors the blind sucker punch instead.

-Were the Wikileaks documents the product of a pissed off gay man and not a valiant whistle blower? So now we have numerous informants who will be beheaded because a homosexual didn't get his way.

-Palin hits Obama where it counts. She drives the media and liberals (but I'm redundant) insane.

-When he retires, someone better offer Ozzie Guillen a show. The dude is always good for an incendiary remark and probably sparks more conversations on race than anyone.

-Typhoid Obama?

-Chris Muir's doing a fundraiser and could use your help.

Calling a Tax Increase Anything But

Back in 2001 and 2003, George W. Bush pushed through tax cuts that were small in comparison to those that had been signed Reagan or even Kennedy. The Democrats and liberals around the nation whined about the fact that they would have to give back some of the money they were pilfering from the public. The people, you see, have no clue how to spend their own money so it was incumbent upon the government to spend it for them is ways deemed fit by our elected leaders.

President Bush was only able to get tax cuts across that were temporary despite pushing for permanency. So, alas, we have the end of the cuts approaching and the impending return of taxes to pre-Bush levels, which to anyone besides liberals would be defined as a tax increase.

Liberals are not in a collective good mood right about now, though. They have huge majorities in the House and Senate and have manged to push their Keynesian policies into the forefront to show that Keynes' ideas were vastly superior to Hayek or Friedman's hollow theories. They were going to prove once and for all that you can spend your way out of a recession and incur huge deficits while doing so because not only did Keynes say it would work, Paul Krugman did and he won a Nobel for economics and writes for the NY Times so he must be right.

Except, no one on the liberal side was right. Obama promised that if we passed the stimulus unemployment would top out at 8%. He would probably trade playing golf for unemployment to go below 9% or even 9. 5% at this point. They also said that the stimulus boondoggle would create (or the notorious unprovable metric "saved") millions of jobs. That has proven to be an epic fail in creating anything but job security for lobbyists, government employees and governors of states that signed disastrous budgets in the past.

Well, a funny thing is happening right about now: Democrats are about to be given a collective ass-whooping and they desperately are trying to tamp down any bad news that can be used by those damn racist Tea Partiers against them. They've suddenly found God with regard to the Bush tax cuts and are loathe to see them expire and have the same effect as a bottle of Roundup to the "green shoots" that are supposedly sprouting in the economy.

So today we see the full-blown "surge" against anyone trying to keep the cuts in place from Obama's old reliable media buddies. The NY Times and WaPo are rife with articles (one by a former Reaganite) effectively employing the Stalin/Hitler tactic of ensuring no retreat by shooting anyone who does. This is a clear shot across the bow of wavering Democrats that the MSM will not abide letting good, honest Americans keep any more money than they should.

President Obama has got two stock answers for anyone questioning his brilliant policies: racism, which oddly even they can't fit into this scenario or the second choose: class warfare. They are going hard with the former meme but are trying to work back around to the latter.

For the record, here's what the Bush tax cut elimination would mean for you.

At least we have the enjoyment of watching Keynesian economic theory blow up in the faces of liberals and may be able to put to rest the liberal hypotheses on deficits and recession recovery for good.