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.

Beautiful and just…

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.”

Governor Phil McCrackin (D) of the great state of New Dakota, says President Obama’s stimulus plan is working and has created thousands of new jobs for his state, particularly in the capital city of Fantasia which sits on the border of neighbor state, Old Hampshire.

ABC Reports similar findings in other areas:

“Here’s a stimulus success story: In Arizona’s 15th congressional district, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. At least that’s what the Web site set up by the Obama administration to track the $787 billion stimulus says.”

“There’s one problem, though: There is no 15th congressional district in Arizona; the state has only eight districts.”

“And ABC News has found many more entries for projects like this in places that are incorrectly identified.”

“Late Monday, officials with the Recovery Board created to track the stimulus spending, said the mistakes in crediting nonexistent congressional districts were caused by human error.”

Positive reports on job creation through the stimulus bill are expected later this week from the states of Noregon, New Connecticut, South Wyoming and Westconsin.

This is a video from the Family Research Council on the debt that government spending is leaving to future generations.

It would be funny if it wasn’t true.

John Stossel, the latest libertarian to join FOX News, has the most read article on Real Clear Politics today, October 7, 2009. He begins with a quote you’ll find in the sidebar of this blog. Could he be reading American Glob? I can only hope.

It’s The Spending, Stupid

“The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul,” George Bernard Shaw once said.”

“For a socialist, Shaw demonstrated good sense with that quotation. Unfortunately, America has become a laboratory in which his hypothesis is being tested.”

“The theory of government I was taught says that government provides benefits, primarily security, to the entire population. In return we pay taxes. But lately the government has been a distributor of special privileges, taking money from some and giving it to others. America is now about evenly split between those who pay income taxes and those who consume them.”

Full Article Here.

Is it any wonder that more people are watching FOX News at 3 am than CNN at 8 pm?

Last Saturday night, SNL aired its first truly critical Obama themed sketch, poking fun at the president’s seeming inability to get things done. On Monday, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer thoroughly fact checked the skit for accuracy, a report which was immediately lampooned by conservative blogs.

Today, CNN’s Ed Rollins wades into the debate and he is deeply, deeply concerned…

“In the comedy skit, the president is asked about unrealized campaign promises, including closing Gitmo, combating global warming, allowing openly gay people to serve in the military, withdrawing from Iraq, improving the status of the fight in Afghanistan, reforming health care and several others. On screen the response on a check list was: that each item was “not done.”

“Humor with some truth in it is always dangerous. Make no mistake, a drumbeat of belittlement can damage a president.”

“Dangerous” is a rather interesting choice of words, isn’t it?

“But the real question being debated on cable TV because of the “SNL” parody is this: “Has the media’s love affair and honeymoon with President Obama ended?”

Apparently not, Ed.

“I can’t answer that. I can say that President is being judged with the same scrutiny as those who have gone before him in the modern era.”

Really, Ed? One sketch that’s critical of Obama is equal to the non-stop, highly critical Bush parodies SNL churned out for over eight years? Really?

“Republicans have no hope left about Obama. At best, they pray, for the good of the country that he’s not as bad as Jimmy Carter.”

“But in reality, they see the man who campaigned as a centrist turning out to be the feared liberal who voted that way during his short Senate tenure. At a time of fiscal crisis, President Obama in their minds is turning into the biggest spender and taxer in history — and they believe they must oppose him.”

Got that everyone? Obama’s big spending is only taking place in the minds of Republicans.

I guess the $787 billion dollar Stimulus Bill only passed in John Boehner’s mind. Perhaps the Cap and Trade bill the Democrats want to pass is just a bad dream being had by Michael Steele. Maybe Republicans just imagined this chart:

If CNN wants to be taken seriously by more viewers it must do two things.

1. Stop sounding so obvious in its desire to carry water for Obama.

2. Stop being funnier than Saturday Night Live.

Need further proof that America’s priorities are out of whack? Consider this: ACORN still receives tax payer funding but the City of Philadelphia is closing all of its free libraries on October 2, 2009.

All Free Library of Philadelphia Branch, Regional and Central Libraries Closed Effective Close of Business October 2, 2009

All Free Library of Philadelphia Customers,

We deeply regret to inform you that without the necessary budgetary legislation by the State Legislature in Harrisburg, the City of Philadelphia will not have the funds to operate our neighborhood branch libraries, regional libraries, or the Parkway Central Library after October 2, 2009.

Specifically, the following will take effect after the close of business, October 2, 2009:

• All branch and regional library programs, including programs for children and teens, after school programs, computer classes, and programs for adults, will be cancelled

• All Parkway Central Library programs, including children programs, programs to support small businesses and job seekers, computer classes and after school programs, will be cancelled. We are exploring the possibility of relocating the Philadelphia Author Series programs to other non-library facilities.

• All library visits to schools, day care centers, senior centers and other community centers will cease.

• All community meetings at our branch and regional libraries, and the Parkway Central Library, will be cancelled.

• All GED, ABE and ESL programs held at Free Library branches will be discontinued, students should contact their teacher to see if other arrangements are being made.

Where’s that TRILLION DOLLARS in “Stimulus” money the American people were forced to cough up a few months ago? Who would you rather bail out, Philadelphia libraries or AIG?

How do you think Ben Franklin would answer that question?

Hat tip to Free Republic.

It’s funny because it’s true…

Audio provided by Olbermann Watch.