Posted by: Kermit
on Mar 10, 2010
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It's not playing well with the American people. The latest Rasmussen daily tracking poll
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
shows Great Leader is losing support faster than Nancy Pelosi is losing her caucus.
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 22% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-three percent (43%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -21. That matches the lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for this President.
Now while I don't put a lot of stock in polling, this is a trend that has been steadily developing through multiple polling sources and shows quite plainly that Americans are pissed as Hell at what is happening in Washington. They are focusing on the Top Dog, and for good reason. The ability to read a pretty speech does not necessarily translate into the ability to lead.
Posted by: Kermit
on Mar 06, 2010
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(Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday called the September 11 attacks on the United States a "big fabrication" that was used to justify the U.S. war on terrorism, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Ahmadinejad, who often rails against the West and Israel, made the comment in a meeting with Intelligence Ministry personnel.
Posted by: Kermit
on Mar 05, 2010
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To add to Bart's point in the post below, Australia's ABC published this bit of inconvenient truth:
http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2835581.htm
Somehow the tables have turned. For all the smears of big money funding the "deniers", the numbers reveal that the sceptics are actually the true grassroots campaigners, while Greenpeace defends Wall St. How times have changed.
Sceptics are fighting a billion dollar industry aligned with a trillion dollar trading scheme. Big Oil's supposed evil influence has been vastly outdone by Big Government, and even those taxpayer billions are trumped by Big-Banking.
Oh, say it ain't so! Big Oil!!! Big Oil!!!
Posted by: Kermit
on Mar 04, 2010
One of our "liberal" commentors suggested these two solutions for ways to reduce government debt. These two "solutions" preceded the Final Solution in Nazi Germany. They were employed by Mao in China. The USSR had the Gulag Archipelago. Pol Pot had camps.
The first instinct of a totalitarian progressive is to strip away basic rights. Progressives seem to hate free speech, so they use everything from mocking (Bill Maher) to criminal courts (Mark Steyn in Canada) to silence opinions they don't approve of.
Who on Earth would give government the power to decide who gets sterilized and who does not? A totalitarian progressive. Who on Earth would give government the right to set up forced labor camps? A totalitarian progressive. They have done it before, and they may do it again.
When you think about it, Obama's $12 trillion national debt has pretty much turned America into one big forced labor camp, with the illusion of freedom. Now if he could just do something about the 10% unemployment in the People's Republic.
Posted by: Kermit
on Mar 03, 2010
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Yielding to actual bipartisan pressure, Democrat crook Charlie Rangel is leaving his chairmanship of the House Ways & Means committee. Isn't that nice? The guy who stewards tax legislation being investigated by the House Ethics committee for, well, avoiding paying taxes.
It was the corporate funded Carribean vacations that finally got him. But his shady practices like using rent-controlled housing for dubious purpose, and soliciting contributions for a university center named for him have all raised eyebrows in the Capitol.
But is anyone surprised? The "most ethical Congress ever" is hardly that. There has been a whole lot of backdoor dealing and political payoffs from the "Transparent" administration and Congressional leadership. Is it any wonder that their approval ratings are the lowest in American history?
Rangel isn't an aberration, he's a poster child. Hopefully the people of Harlem will help the 79 year old thief transform that "temporary" to permanent, but since he's a Democrat, I won't hold my breath.
Posted by: Kermit
on Feb 26, 2010
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We've all heard the line "Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it" in one form or another. It's an object lesson on learning from the mistakes of others. Many of us have also hear this one: "'Who controls the past', ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'" 1984, George Orwell, Part 1, Chapter 3, pg. 37.
History should be an emipirical, objective science, but it's not. And it never can be. For us, right now, history starts with the "Health Care Summit" farce yesterday and stretches back to the pyramids and beyond. No one person can verse themselves in every aspect, incident and point of history, the scope is beyond mortal ability. So we do a few things to manage history.
Posted by: Kermit
on Feb 23, 2010
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Yeah, that Reagan was a big spender.
(TIME, September 20, 1982) -- When the ayes and the nays were totted up, it appeared at first to be a devastating defeat for Ronald Reagan. Both the House of Representatives and the Senate voted to override the President's veto last month of a $ 14.2 billion supplemental spending bill.
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/09/22/back.time/
It’s been almost two years around here since the Congress was able to override a presidential veto. Today, it failed again. It was President Reagan’s fifth veto, this time of a three billion dollar underwriting of mortgages for low and middle income housing
http://www.icue.com/portal/site/iCue/flatview/?cuecard=2489
443 July 8, 1985 REAGAN'S TRUMP CARD: THE VETO Holding down government spenfing is like protecting your virtue You have to learn to say no.
Ronald Reagan INTRODUCTION Seldom has a President adopted a tougher stance with a Congress than has Ronald Reagan in the first months of his second term vowed to veto congressional efforts to raise taxes or pass budget-busting spending bills. He even has taunted Congress to !'make my day by passing a tax increase. The message is clear and welcome Ronald Reagan would appear to relish vetoing the actions of an irresponsible Congress. He seems to recognize that the veto is a President's trump card.
http://www.heritage.org/Research/GovernmentReform/bg443.cfm
These are just a few examples of the battles he fought with the Democrats over spending during eight years.
Never forget who actually writes the spending bills. It ain't the President.
Posted by: Kermit
on Feb 22, 2010
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Oh the unfairness of it all! First 15 years of static temperatures. Then hurricanes that failed to cooperate, now this:
Climate scientists withdraw journal claims of rising sea levels
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/21/sea-level-geoscience-retract-siddall
Scientists have been forced to withdraw a study on projected sea level rise due to global warming after finding mistakes that undermined the findings.
Announcing the formal retraction of the paper from the journal, Siddall said: "It's one of those things that happens. People make mistakes and mistakes happen in science." He said there were two separate technical mistakes in the paper, which were pointed out by other scientists after it was published. A formal retraction was required, rather than a correction, because the errors undermined the study's conclusion.
"Retraction is a regular part of the publication process," he said. "Science is a complicated game and there are set procedures in place that act as checks and balances." (Like deleting emails and doctoring data, right Dr. Phil? - ed)
Now I suspect our liberal friends will agree with Barry that "This is the day that the oceans stopped rising and the planet began to heal (paraphrase)", but it's just one more nail in the coffin that the global warming scam has been slowly settling into. R.I.P.
Posted by: Kermit
on Feb 18, 2010
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It should be obvious by now to anyone with half a brain that individuals who persist in using the phrase "tea-bagger" have serious emotional issues. Most likely of a sexual nature. Men who use this phrase are either represssed homosexuals who derive some sort of thrill from it, and actual homosexuals who revel in the liberation of imposing their weird fantasies on the general population.
Lesbians who use the term may do so to soothe their deep hatered for testicles, and liberal heterosexual women (are there any?) may do so to reduce the evil MALE to a more managable psychological profile.
OK, so now that we have the satire out of the way, can anyone see the relationship between those stereotypes and the ones that IDIOTS use when they call Tea Partiers "the Klan", "Stupid" and "Racist"?
People that reduce debate to this level are not worth engaging, and the American people will reject them with all the disgust they deserve.
Posted by: Kermit
on Feb 18, 2010
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/18/obama-eyeing-millions-wild-acres-national-monuments/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fpolitics+%28Text+-+Politics%29
More than a dozen pristine landscapes, wildlife habitats and scenic rivers in 11 Western states, some larger than Rhode Island and Delaware combined, are under consideration by the Obama administration to become America's newest National Monuments -- a decision the administration can make unilaterally without local input or congressional approval.
According to internal Department of Interior documents leaked to a Utah congressman and obtained exclusively by Fox News, the mostly public lands include Arizona deserts, California mountains, Montana prairies, New Mexico forests, Washington islands and the Great Basins of Nevada and Colorado -- totaling more than 13 million acres.
"Any federal action that could lead to limited access should be done in an open and public manner using extraordinary caution," said Rep. Dean Heller, R-Nev., upon seeing the leaked report. "The fact that this administration is already circulating internal memos to bypass Congress and the public process is troubling."
Posted by: Kermit
on Feb 17, 2010
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One Year After February 17 Signing Of Stimulus, 17 Numbers You Need To Know
3.5 MILLION: Jobs Obama Promised Stimulus Would Create By End Of 2010. (President Barack Obama, Remarks At The Signing Of The American Recovery And Reinvestment Act, Press Release, Denver, CO, 2/17/09)
3.3 MILLION: Jobs Lost Since Obama Made That Promise. (U.S. Bureau Of Labor Statistics, www.bls.gov, Accessed 2/16/10)
6.8 MILLION: Jobs Obama Must Now Create To Keep Promise By End Of 2010. (President Barack Obama, Remarks At The Signing Of The American Recovery And Reinvestment Act, Press Release, Denver, CO, 2/17/09; U.S. Bureau Of Labor Statistics, www.bls.gov, Accessed 2/16/10)
Posted by: Kermit
on Feb 16, 2010
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Liberals love to bash suburbs. They seem to have this notion that the entire population must be shoe-horned into maximum density housing. For the good of the planet, I guess. As if putting everyone in one spot would be any different than spreading them out.
Suburbs exist for a reason. We don't want to live in your big city. Period. I was raised in Plymouth, Minnesota. I now live in an inner ring suburb. Off peak rush hour I can get to pretty much anywhere in the Metro area in less than half an hour. Unlike people living in Minneapolis, I have five full grocery stores within five miles of my house. There are more than ten gas stations to choose from, all withing five miles of my house. There is a Frattalone's hardware store a little over a mile from my house, and I can get to Menards, Lowes or Home Depot in less than fifteen minutes.
Posted by: Kermit
on Feb 15, 2010
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Yes friends, your tax dollars are hard at work while your government employees are taking the day off to celebrate the accomplishments of our most distinguished citizens.
Who could forget James Abraham Garfield of Ohio, President of the USA from 1881 to 1881? Or William Henry Harrison of Virginia, President of the USA from 1841 to 1841? The great and glorious Chester Alan Arthur of Vermont, President of the USA from 1881 to 1885, or the stellar Benjamin Harrison of Ohio, President of the USA from 1889 to 1893, and (my personal favorite) Millard Fillmore of New York, President of the USA from 1850 to 1853.
Yes, at one time this foolish nation celebrated the birthday of George Washington, the so-called "Father of Our Country", and Abraham Lincoln, the so-called "Saviour of the Republic", but we have happily moved past that silly hero worship. Now we pay tribute to everyone who has achieved the most exalted post in America. Huzzah!
So tonight lift a glass and salute the less noticed, less successful leaders we have elected. I'll be drinking a toast to Jimmy Carter. I have bottle of vintage malaise that has been aging since 1979. Mmm. tastes like atrophy.
Posted by: Kermit
on Feb 13, 2010
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"It's not my fault. I never worked as hard as I did on those Middle Class tax cuts, but we just weren't able to get 'em done" - Bill Clinton, circa 1993.
Fast forward. "We're only gonna raise taxes on the top 5% of earners, those making $250,000 or more. The Middle class will actually see their taxes go down." - Barack Obama, circa 2008 (and 2009...and...).
Feb. 11 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama said he is “agnostic” about raising taxes on households making less than $250,000 as part of a broad effort to rein in the budget deficit.
Obama, in a Feb. 9 Oval Office interview, said that a presidential commission on the budget needs to consider all options for reducing the deficit, including tax increases and cuts in spending on entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare.
“The whole point of it is to make sure that all ideas are on the table,” the president said in the interview with Bloomberg BusinessWeek, which will appear on newsstands Friday. “So what I want to do is to be completely agnostic, in terms of solutions.”
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-11/obama-agnostic-on-deficit-cuts-won-t-prejudge-tax-increases.html
The simple fact is this feral politician is a liar and a fraud. I know, that's not unusual in a politician. I just have to laugh at all the morons who bought the "Hope 'n Change" bullshit this huckster was selling. Thank God Obamacare got scuttled. Who knows where that government takeover would have really ended up.
Do you want to know why Obama, Mr. We Won is so hot for "bi-partisanship" now? He wants political cover for when this house of cards he's been building folds like a Haitian apartment building. "Hey the Republicans were on board, they're the ones who wanted to tax Grandma and raise the Social Security age to 80".
There are only two words of advise I can impart to you: Take Heed.
Posted by: Kermit
on Feb 12, 2010
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For our Liberal, Israel hating friends.
Hat tip to Moonbattery.
Posted by: Kermit
on Feb 11, 2010
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Iran is now a 'nuclear state', President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced this morning.
As Gordon Brown warned that the world's patience is wearing thin, Ahmadinejad told scores of cheering Iranians that the Islamic Republic is capable of producing weapons-grade uranium.
He spoke as tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Tehran to mark the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution.
Posted by: Kermit
on Feb 10, 2010
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Bart is off the hook for 60% of liberal stupidity this time.
Minneapolis' $50,000 fountains trimmed from six to four
http://www.startribune.com/local/83847742.html?elr=KArks+c4iU0EyDDy_nE:EQDkD:aUiacyKU7DYaGEP7vDEh7P:DiUs
Now there may be only four of those controversial artist-designed drinking fountains going up in Minneapolis at $50,000 a pop.
That's the recommendation of the City Council's spending committee, which took a staff proposal to cut the original 10 fountains to six and cut two more Monday. The full council votes on Friday.
The remaining drinking fountains now would be the one already installed at 1311 E. Franklin Av., another partly installed at the Midtown YWCA on E. Lake Street, another on SE. Main Street and a fourth on 2nd Avenue S. in downtown. That means none north of Hennepin Avenue, leaving north and northeast Minneapolis without them.
Mayor R.T. Rybak proposed the fountains in 2007 as a means of promoting city water, for which demand has been falling for years, as an extension of the city's arts in public places program. But Council Member Barbara Johnson proposed in a December budget footnote that the city look into pruning the program.
"leaving north and northeast Minneapolis without them"
Countdown to idiot Democrats claiming this is a racist decision begins in 5...4...3...
Posted by: Kermit
on Feb 10, 2010
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Since the election of Obama, dissent has changed from patriotic to treason, so I need to get on board. Therefore, I want to propose a true Obama solution to our economic problems.
The answer is...GOLD!
That's right. Gold is the only time-tested asset that keeps going up, not down. And unlike the falling dollar, GOLD will never be worth zero. GOLD has tripled it's value in only a few short years, and it will keep on growing in value. Especially if Obama takes my advise.
Posted by: Kermit
on Feb 06, 2010
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A recent Gallup poll underscores a fact that we have been proclaiming for years: Liberals think Government is better at running your life than you are.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/125645/Socialism-Viewed-Positively-Americans.aspx
It is so much easier to delegate your personal responsibility to the collective. Thank God the majority of Americans prefer freedom to serfdom.
I do have to ask, who are the 20% of Conservatives who have a "positive image" of Socialism? John McCain, is that you? Stop calling yourself conservative, please. You are lying to yoursleves and the world.
Posted by: Kermit
on Feb 05, 2010
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Why do liberals hate Israel and love, love, love Cuba? They jump up and down like the proverbial poo-flinging monkey and cry about "Palestinians" being oppressed, and applaud little boys named Elian being sent at gunpoint back into slavery.
Why do they condemn a vital democracy that is surrounded by theocratic regimes? What is it about dictators like Hugo Chavez that sends a thrill down their legs? I have made many excursions into analyzing the perverse thought processes of the liberal mind, and there always seems to be one common thread.
Liberals really hate America.
