Friday, 3 of September of 2010
Hey, have you heard that Obama and Nancy Pelosi have cost America more money in the last 19 months than the entire eight years of the Iraq war?
BigFurHat of iOwnTheWorld has expressed this sentiment visually with his wizardly photoshop skills.
Democrats shoved Stimulus, ObamaCare, auto bailouts and more down the throats of an unwilling electorate, then told the American people we’re just too stupid to appreciate it. Now, as the president’s Democratic Party begins preparing for a political bloodbath in November, they suddenly don’t want to talk about any of the wonderful things they’ve done for us. Why could that be?
Reporting from Washington — As Democrats fan out across the country to campaign for reelection this month, many are surprisingly quiet about their hard-won accomplishments — the major bills they have passed under President Obama.
In an effort coordinated with the White House, congressional leaders are urging Democrats to focus less on bragging about what they have done — a landmark healthcare law, a sweeping overhaul of Wall Street regulation and other far-reaching policy changes — and more on efforts to fix the economy and on the perils of Republican control of Congress.
One year after many town hall meetings were upended by raucous anti-government protesters, congressional Democrats are trying to ensure that this summer’s debate sheds a more flattering light on their party as they navigate a bruising midterm election campaign.
I thought we were supposed to be grateful. Remember what Obama said last April? “You would think they’d be saying thank you.”
In addition to being a great actress and a beautiful woman, I think Katie Holmes could do amazing things to (ahem) stimulate the economy.
See (a lot more) below the fold.
The American job market sure is great for sign makers lately. Especially for people who make signs touting the excellent job the Obama Administration did with the Stimulus Bill and unemployment.
ABC News reports:
As the midterm election season approaches, new road signs are popping up everywhere – millions of dollars worth of signs touting “The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act” and reminding passers-by that the program is “Putting America Back to Work.”
On the road leading to Dulles Airport outside Washington, DC there’s a 10′ x 11′ road sign touting a runway improvement project funded by the federal stimulus. The project cost nearly $15 million and has created 17 jobs, according to recovery.gov.
However, there’s another number that caught the eye of ABC News: $10,000. That’s how much money the Washington Airports Authority tells ABC News it spent to make and install the sign – a single sign – announcing that the project is “Funded by The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act” and is “Putting America Back to Work.” The money for the sign was taken out of the budget for the runway improvement project.
Change!
How bad? This bad…
“Today our members face the most anti-educator, anti-union, anti-student environment I have ever experienced,” – Dennis Van Roekel President, National Education Association
That makes no sense at all. Obama is a Constitutional Law professor and a big supporter of education. Isn’t that what we were told? I mean, until now…
NEW ORLEANS — For two years as a presidential candidate, Barack Obama addressed educators gathered for the summer conventions of the two national teachers’ unions, and last year both groups rolled out the welcome mat for Education Secretary Arne Duncan.
But in a sign of the Obama administration’s strained relations with two of its most powerful political allies, no federal official was scheduled to speak at either convention this month, partly because union officials feared that administration speakers would face heckling.
The largest union’s meeting opened here on Saturday to a drumbeat of heated rhetoric, with several speakers calling for Mr. Duncan’s resignation, hooting delegates voting for a resolution criticizing federal programs for “undermining public education,” and the union’s president summing up 18 months of Obama education policies by saying, “This is not the change I hoped for.”
The Stimulus Bill wasn’t enough, huh?
Bummer.
No matter how many times President Obama says Americans should be “thanking him” and no matter how many times Bill Maher implies the American people are too stupid to realize that Obama has cut taxes, they can’t escape the facts.
Rep. Paul Ryan is pretty damn good with numbers…
The document Paul Ryan referred to in the video can be accessed by clicking the image below…
Remember the sense of urgency behind the passage of the Stimulus Bill last year? Remember how the Democrats said they needed to pass ObamaCare last summer? Remember how it’s been since Obama took office? Hurry, hurry, hurry!
Well for once, the Democrats feel no need to hurry. That is, if Scott Brown wins the Massachusetts senate race…
Massachusetts Republicans say they fear that if their candidate for U.S. Senate scores an upset victory in the special election next week, Democrats in the state and in Washington will drag out the certification process just long enough that he won’t be able to block health care reform.
State Sen. Scott Brown, who is challenging Democratic Attorney General Martha Coakley for the seat once held by Ted Kennedy, is sounding the loudest alarm over that possibility.
Recent polling suggests Brown is closing in on front-runner Coakley. And if he does what once seemed impossible — beat a Democrat for the bluest of blue Senate seats — he is vowing to be the critical 41st vote against health care reform.
That means Brown could prevent Democrats from breaking a Republican filibuster against the overhaul and, in his words, “send it back to the drawing board.”
In a sense, the Democrats who currently control Washington are giving Massachusetts voters the most compelling reason of all to vote for Scott Brown. In trying to maintain their strangle hold on the American political process, they are proving once and for all that their supposedly humanitarian health legislation is nothing more than politics.
At the end of the day, the Democrat elitists in DC care about nothing but power. That’s why they need to go.
Vote for Scott Brown my fellow Bay Staters. Let’s send a message to Washington that it is “we the people” who are still in charge of America.
Temperament: A+
Foreign Policy: Incomplete
Domestic Policy: D
You might recall President Obama throwing around the phrase “let me be clear” a few zillion times over the last year. In fact, he used the phrase so much, ABC News wrote a story about it last month.
“Make no mistake. Change isn’t easy. It won’t happen overnight. There will be setbacks and false starts.”
“Those who routinely listen to the president have come to expect some of those expressions to pop up in almost every speech. (That includes you, cynics and naysayers, the ones Obama mentions all the time without identifying who is saying nay.)”
“Yet in the portfolio of presidential phrases, none is more pervasive than Obama’s four-word favorite: Let me be clear.”
“It is his emphatic windup for, well, everything.”
But thats yesterday’s news according to a new report from Politico. The new word of the day is “unprecedented” and the Obama Administration just can’t use it enough.
“The Obama White House is addicted to the “unprecedented.”
“Perhaps it was a sign when President Barack Obama sat down in January to record his first weekly address and announced: “We begin this year and this administration in the midst of an unprecedented crisis that calls for unprecedented action.”
“What has followed is declaration after declaration of “unprecedented” milestones. Some of them are legitimate firsts, like the president’s online town hall at the White House in May.”
“But others the president wins merely on a technicality, and several clearly already have precedents.”
“The White House’s announcement of its unprecedented — “a first by an American president visiting China” — town hall meeting with students in Beijing, for instance, drew a collective eye roll in certain circles back home, namely among former aides to President George W. Bush, who had already been grumbling about Obama’s carefree application of “unprecedented.”
I wonder if anyone in the Obama White House will acknowledge the “unprecedented” spending they’ve engaged in since taking office 11 months ago?
“President Obama has shattered the budget record for first-year presidents — spending nearly double what his predecessor did when he came into office and far exceeding the first-year tabs for any other U.S. president in history.”
“In fiscal 2009 the federal government spent $3.52 trillion — $2.8 trillion in 2000 dollars, which sets a benchmark for comparison. That fiscal year covered the last three-and-a-half months of George W. Bush’s term and the first eight-and-a-half months of Obama’s.”
“That price tag came with a $1.4 trillion deficit, nearly $1 trillion more than last year. The overall budget was about a half-trillion more than Bush’s for 2008, his final full fiscal year in office.”