Obama's Poll Crash: Blame Republicans and Stupid Citizens!

Seems like the American people have just about had enough of our transformative god-like Change-Master; now we just have to figure out a way to limit the damage over the next three-plus years:

Among all Americans, 49 percent now express confidence that Obama will make the right decisions for the country, down from 60 percent at the 100-day mark in his presidency. Forty-nine percent now say they think he will be able to spearhead significant improvements in the system, down nearly 20 percentage points from before he took office.

As challenges to Obama's initiatives have mounted over the summer, pessimism in the nation's direction has risen: Fifty-five percent see things as pretty seriously on the wrong track, up from 48 percent in April.

Disapproval of Obama's handling of the health-care issue reached 50 percent in the new poll, the highest of his presidency, and 42 percent of those surveyed say they now "strongly disapprove" of the way he is dealing with his main domestic priority. Views of the president's actions on reform have dropped most sharply among seniors and independents.

Seems like some of the best and brightest in the polling business see this as easily translating to a Democratic party meltdown:

Charlie Cook, one of the best political handicappers in the business, sent out a special update to Cook Political Report subscribers Thursday that should send shivers down Democratic spines.
Reviewing recent polling and the 2010 election landscape, Cook can envision a scenario in which Democratic House losses could exceed 20 seats.
"These data confirm anecdotal evidence, and our own view, that the situation this summer has slipped completely out of control for President Obama and Congressional Democrats.

Paul Krugman suggests it's because Obama and the Democrats are being too tolerant of the opposition. Gee, calling them un-American Nazis wasn't enough for Pauli K.? Want does he want for Republicans, internment camps? And will that swing the electorate back to Barack Obama?

Well, it seems as if Obama is toeing Krugman's line:

President Obama took to the conservative airwaves Thursday to charge that Republican leaders are engaged in a vast right-wing conspiracy to kill health care reform in order to repeat the 1994 mid-term takeover of Congress, which followed the defeat of President Clinton's reform plan.

Or maybe Obama can win back the love of the nation by intensifying his elitist disdain:

The Obama team is saddled with a foundering health- care strategy. But it has a fallback plan -- relying on the sheer dimwitted gullibility of the American public. How stupid do they think we are?

We're not. And that, for Obama and the Democrats, is the crux of their problems...

Obama Sends a Message To The Jews...

Well, just because 75% of them voted for you, you can't take them for granted, right? You gotta keep them in line!

So Obama held a conference call for close to 1000 influential Reform (aka liberal) rabbis from across America. In it, he pretty much gave them their marching orders for the High Holy days, coming up next month. In fact, the invitation read as follows:

This call can provide valuable information when you decide to preach on this issue whether on the High Holy Days, during the August 28-30 national health care sermon weekend, or whenever is appropriate for you.

When, not if. Sounds like an order to me. From a participant:

Pres Obama urged us explicitly to discuss healthcare reform in our high holiday sermons.

And if not? Well, Obama left no doubt about what could happen if the Jews should somehow defy him, or choose to support another leader:

...the hold music on the line...was “Deutschland Über Alles.” A number of rabbis apparently expressed discomfort with this choice of music as well.

No sh*t? Really? The German national anthem, beloved by the Nazis for its opening line "Germany, Germany above all, Above all in the world...". A song sung loud by the SS as they herded Jewish women and children into cattle cars to meet an ungodly fate . A song that still creates visions of "Sieg Heil-ing" Nazis.

Yes, that is the song Obama played for the rabbis while on hold.

Accident? Coincidence? Not if I take the liberals at their word that every move by Barack Obama is a calculated act of genius.

Will the rabbis extort their congregation to fall into line behind Obama, as he leads them and the nation of Israel to a 21st century holocaust?

Looks like we are going to see a very interesting holiday this year....

Michael Moore: Americans Suck !

So that fat, slovenly filmmaker whose girth would be made illegal should his beloved ObamaCare become law speaks to the Hollywood Reporter, and affirms his loathing for the American people the way only a liberal can (or perhaps an Islamic terrorist):

THR: Bill Maher recently said that "America is stupid" and "too dumb to be governed." Do you agree?

Moore: Eight years ago I wrote a book called "Stupid White Men." In that book, I wrote a chapter entitled "Idiot Nation." I think that says it all. Sad, sad, sad.

THR: Have you ever considered leaving the U.S.?

Moore: Thank you for asking! I had never considered this idea until you mentioned it, and now that you have, it doesn't sound like such a bad idea! I guess if I were going to live outside the U.S., I would live in Texas.

THR: What's the No. 1 thing you want to teach your kids?

Moore: Never trust anyone from Texas.

Any surprise there has been a populist backlash (perhaps even a "popular revolt", as Peter Wehner implies?) against our ruling elites, whom treat honest inquiry as a personal affront, and accuse the populace of stupidity when they refuse to blindly follow along?

Pelosi calls us un-American, Reid calls us evil, Moore calls us stupid, and Obama smirks and says we are "misinformed". Their loathing of American citizens (and their rights) is palpable. But to expect unquestioning obedience from those you abuse?

Well, I hate to overuse the phrase "stupid", but...

Under Obamacare, Acorn Will Come To Your House And Weigh You...

No, seriously. It's in the freakin' bill. From CNS:

The health care reform bill approved by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP) would provide federal grants to state and local governments and a “national network of community-based organizations” to "promote healthy living and reduce disparities" and to monitor people's weight, eating, exercise habits and other individual behaviors that affect health at the community level.

The language instituting the program, entitled "Community Transformation Grants," is on pages 382-387 of the bill as posted on the committee's Web site.

The bill states that only three types of entities will be eligible to receive grants under the program:
"a--(A) State government agency;
(B) local government agency; or
(C) national network of community-based organizations."

HELP is the only committee, incidentally, to have voted on the bill. So this is language they supposedly read, and approved.

Chris Dodd (D - Connecticut) admits this is an opening for ACORN:

Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) said that it is possible that the controversial group ACORN could qualify for the available grants. “I don’t believe so, but they could be,” Dodd told CNSNews.com, in an earlier interview. “I just don’t want to say categorically it’s the case.” “I’m not saying yes or no, I just don’t know. I don’t think it’s a blanket thing that anyone applies necessarily,” he said. “There would have to be criteria by which an organization qualifies to receive those grants".

Uh-huh. And since this group is a favorite of Barack Obama, is there any doubt that they would "qualify" to engage in this type of "health enforcement" ?

And what would fall under ACORN's jurisdiction? Oh, just about every aspect of your life:

"In carrying out subparagraph (A), the eligible entity shall, with respect to residents in the community, measure--"
(i) decreases in weight;"
(ii) increases in proper nutrition;"
(iii) increases in physical activity;"
(iv) decreases in tobacco use prevalence;"
(v) other factors using community-specific data from the Behavioral Risk Surveillance Survey; and
(vi) other factors as determined by the Secretary [at HHS].”

And what would those "other factors" be? Who knows; but the law is intentionally written as open ended so that just about any future activity can fall under the domain of the HHS Secretary, and ACORN. As we quoted Obama's "pay czar" earlier today, as he wallowed in his unchecked power to interfere in the private sector:

"Anything is possible under the law."

Remember that quote. The next one that will be using it is our HHS Secretary.....

Once They're In...

...they never leave, they only take more and more and more....

I'm talking about the government, and about health care, and that's why we'll start with a line from Michelle Malkin's column in the New York Post on "Pay Czar" Kenneth Feinberg:

Regulations governing his office explicitly limit his jurisdiction over contracts signed before Feb. 11, 2009. But the fine print is no obstacle to President Obama's czars. "The statute provides these guideposts, but the statute ultimately says I have discretion to decide what it is that these people should make and that my determination will be final," Feinberg claims. "Anything is possible under the law."

"Anything is possible under the law"

That's a terrifying quote from a government "czar". But maybe he's right, and the law is malleable enough to allow almost any action taken under its pretext to be allowable.

Government without limits. And they wonder why the American people are so opposed to "Obamacare"? They don't believe his lies that we'll be able to keep our healthcare, that the public option will not crowd out private insurance, and that there won't be panels rationing care to the sick and elderly.

And why should they believe? There is no true health care bill yet; Obama is just looking for public support so that he can rubber-stamp whatever monstrosity emerges from the mediocre minds of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. And do we really believe the prince and princess of America's far-Left will craft a bill that does not include the heavy hand of government bureaucracy?

Of course they will. And once they believe the public is behind them, the amorphous health-care bill will have so many czars and commissars and panels and commissioners that there will be a hundred government hands touching every aspect of your life.

And there will be law covering each one of them. And to paraphrase our Obama's pay czar, "anything will be possible [under] those laws".

The key is not to even let the government through the front door; 'cause once they're in, they'll never, ever leave. That's is the fierce urgency of the battle that is being fought right now, between an reluctant American people and their so-called representatives, and media.

If the government wins, we the people will never recapture what it is we lost.

AARP Feels A "Side Effect" of Health Care Reform

...thanks to President Obama, our Doctor-in-Chief, who has been trying to ease the jangled nerves of America's senior citizens by assuring them that yes, the AARP has signed on to his vision of heathcare reform (patently untrue, like much of what Obama says, but more on that later). So just wheel yourselves on home, eat your mush, and keep quiet while the grownups figure this all out, OK?

Well, the seniors will not be silenced, and this angry right-wing mob, armed with canes, walkers, and hearing aids is taking out its rage on the AARP for shortening their lives in exchange for a seat at Obama's table:

CBS News has learned that up to 60,000 people have cancelled their AARP memberships since July 1, angered over the group's position on health care.

Last week, Obama told a town meeting in Portsmouth, NH, "We have the AARP on board because they know this is a good deal for our seniors." The AARP called the President's statements "inaccurate," saying it hasn't endorsed any plan or bill.

Well, it seems like Obama's penchant for lies to bolster his cause has had a positive effect for conservatives - it seems as if many of these 60,000 folks who ditched the AARP have taken up with the more conservative-leaning American Seniors Association:

Many are switching to the American Seniors Association, a group that calls itself the conservative alternative ...Last week alone, they added more than 5,000 new members. Our camera was there Friday when the mail came. Letters were filled with cut-up AARP cards. "I think that probably the seniors are most upset with cuts in Medicare," said ASA President Stuart Barton.

The American Seniors Association is flat-out against President Obama's plan, which calls for $313 billion dollars in Medicare cuts over ten years....

Maybe seniors are most upset with the contents of this very ugly video (yes, they know how to operate a computer, Baracky), in which AARP flacks pull the plug on a membership meeting when some senior citizens had the temerity to question the group's heath care talking points:




Either way, it's good to see Barack Obama putting his much-famed skill for community organizing to work for the Right, for a change. His government takeover of American public life, combined with his less-than-smooth lying about it, has created a conservative up-swell that Republican activists couldn't inspire on their best day.

Keep it up, Baracky - today health care, tomorrow redefining marriage - and we'll finally get to see change we can believe in: A conservative majority that could last a generation.

Government Botches Swine Flu Vaccination

But that's OK. Once they take over complete control of the American health-care system, it'll be run better than private industry ever could. Really. Trust us.

Right:

...only about a third of the vaccine ordered up to stave off the H1N1 Swine Flu will be ready at the beginning of flu season. The U.S. government is planning on ramping up a mass vaccination in mid October. It will be voluntary but school age children, pregnant women and those with health issues will be highly encouraged to become vaccinated.

Originally the plan was to have 120 million doses of the new vaccine ready for flu season. Now, it is expected that there will be 45 million doses ready. Another 20 million doses will be available each week after that. This vaccination will be separate from the regular flu vaccine offered each year.

Not even close to what we allegedly need:

In July, U.S. advisers said about half the U.S. population, or 160 million people, should get vaccinated against the new pandemic influenza strain, with pregnant women and healthcare workers at the front of the line.

So I am sure that the vaccines, once they arrive, will be properly "rationed" out. Children first, and rightly so. Then the elderly? Who can say?

Failure, then rationing - shortly to be followed by excuses and recriminations over the dead.

But don't complain about it - that's un-American. Just lay down and die, like a good socialist...

Michelle Obama: Hillary Clinton Redux?

I came across this little piece in The Corner, and thought it worth sharing. Starts out with a quote from a June article in the Washington Post:

For weeks, Michelle Obama had been telling her staff and closest confidantes that she wasn't having the impact she wanted. She is a woman of substance, with a background in law, public policy and management, who found herself relegated to role model in chief.

..and a women who - by her own admission - loathed her country until it prostrated itself before her and her husband. Now that her hubby's approval ratings are south of 50% across the board, methinks her disdain for her fellow Americans is resurfacing with a vengeance.

Anyway - Benjamin Zycher takes Michelle Obama down a peg -at least:

Michelle Obama, the product of lifelong affirmative-action coddling, is an intellectual lightweight who fancies herself a serious thinker. Just read her Princeton senior thesis, an intermittently coherent stream-of-consciousness pile of leftist jargon, campus pseudo-seriousness, and racial-identity babble. Can there be any doubt that the Princeton administrators accepted it only because of her skin color?

Ouch. But perhaps, if we really want to see the whole concept of socialized medicine discredited and removed from the national conversation (and I do), we should encourage involvement by Michelle O. Just think of the fawning media, crediting her as an invaluable source of health care wisdom because she's an Ivy-League educated mother of two who got a $300K job at a hospital after her husband became senator. Imagine how well that would play in the red states, in the purple counties, and with the middle class at large.

I remember when Hillary first hit the scene - she too had too much "substance" to be a bit player - as the doyenne of heath care reform. Shocked, she was (as much of the liberal/feminist establishment was) that the American people would not take the word of this (obviously) brilliant woman and accept her "prescription for America" without question.

Are the Dems dumb enough to re-stage this play? Do they think their cries of "racism" will trump the claims of misogyny that preceded Hillary's spectacular crash? Are they really this stupid?

In a word - yes. And Michelle is vain and egotistical enough to believe she can pull it off.

Good luck with that. I'm looking forward to how well your elitist sneer will play on the 6PM news...

Anti-Semitism on the New Jersey Bench

Ah, those wacky progressives that make up the judicial elite in New Jersey -when they are not getting themselves double-digit salary increases in a state that's about to go bankrupt, and when they are not foisting gay marriage upon a state that's overwhelmingly opposed, they're doing a little Jew-bashing during their sidebars:

....the state Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct has filed a formal complaint against Superior Court Judge William Wertheimer of Union County who made a joking reference to a 1930-era Nazi organization that operated in The Garden State.

According to the complaint, in April a plaintiff’s lawyer, William Gold said he needed to leave early because it was the first night of Passover and he was attending a Seder. In a sidebar but with the jury present, Wertheimer reportedly asked the attorneys if he should tell the jury the trial would end early that day so one of both lawyers could attend a “Bund meeting.” That’s a reference to a 1930s anti-Semtic group that promoted Hitler. The next day the judge apolologize to Gold, saying he was talking to the defendant’s lawyer.

The Bund, incidentally, were German-American Nazi support groups that operated quite visibly in New Jersey in the late 1930's:

The German-American Bund, which organized demonstrations in support of the Nazi regime, ran three camps in New Jersey in the 1930s, near Andover, Bloomingdale and Griggstown, according to a 1991 book by the New Jersey Historical Commission. Bund members clashed frequently with the American Legion and Jewish war veterans.”

(See here for an interesting story of an excavation of a Bund camp)

Wonder if it would have been OK if a black lawyer were mocked by a judge, saying he had to go to a Klan meeting...no? Why? Oh, right, only the Jews are fair play in the progressive handbook (and in the highest courts of New Jersey).

Let's see how the "Committee on Judicial Conduct" handles this case. One would think a certain governor in a state with a decent-sized Jewish community would feel the need to address this, but...party ties are thicker than race crimes, I reckon.

Would not want to be a Jew in front of Judge Wertheimer, though. Welcome to the People's State of New Jersey....

Town Halls Get The Oozing Condescending Liberal Treatment from The WaPo !

Growing up, I always had a certain picture in my head of reporters - the men were hard-nosed, with a cap pulled down low, scruffy, unshaven and unafraid to get into the face of the powerful. Even female reporters, I assumed, just had to look pretty at the office, at night they would do whatever it took to get their story as well.

Today - well, things have changed a bit. Now the reporters themselves see themselves as the powerful they once wished to bring down; hobnobbing in the salons of the rich and famous made them see themselves as one of them. So this new class of elites, once paid to defend the powerless, now work as full-time flacks for those who give them the status boost they so deeply crave.

Perfect case in point is Robin Givhan's column in today's Washington Post; a sneering put-down of the lower to middle class rabble who dares show up at a town hall meeting without understanding what the correct fashion etiquette is for debasing yourself before power:

It seems safe to say that of the hundreds of thousands of style guides currently for sale on Amazon, not one of the didactic, shop-your-closet authors was prescient enough to outline the appropriate attire for those public occasions when good citizens decide to behave like raving lunatics and turn lawmakers into punching bags. What does one wear to a town hall meeting on health care when the sole reason for attending is to shout down one's congressman like a peevish teenager in the midst of a hormonal rage?

Well, the media has just given anyone who questions government authority a new label, folks - we're evil, we're un-American, we're Astroturf, we're...petulant teenagers! And quite poorly dressed, to boot:

By and large, the shouters are dressed in a way that underscores their Average Guy -- or Gal -- bona fides. They are wearing T-shirts, baseball caps, promotional polo shirts and sundresses with bra straps sliding down their arm. They wear fuchsia bandannas and American-flag hankies wrapped around their skulls like sweatbands. A lot of them look as though they could be attending a sporting event and, as it turns out, the congressman is the opposing player they have decided to heckle. If not for the prohibition on signs and banners inside these meetings, one could well expect to see some of these volatile worker bees wearing face paint and foam fingers, albeit the highlighted digit would be one expressing foul displeasure rather than competitive rank or skill level.

Givhan seems to believe that if all the protesters showed up in suits and ties, they'd get better answers:

Would they compel more lawmakers to rethink their positions rather than merely repeat, again and again -- in a voice that has the tone of an impatient kindergarten teacher -- the same core points?

The stunning cluelessness about how regular folks live and work - once the bread and butter of any aspiring journalist - is now typical for the new media elite. Less and less people work in suits now than at any time I can remember. Take it from me, Robin G. - I take a bus to freakin' New York City every morning, and out of the forty-odd guys on the bus at any time, maybe - maybe! - four of them are wearing suits. And I'm one of them. And I hate it. And on summer weekends, I wear shorts, a t-shirt, and as little footwear as possible. And in the winter, jeans with a flannel shirt. Almost everywhere. And if you don't like it, you can ask me to leave your home, or your place of business. No one ever has.

So for Givhan to suggest that maybe if we all put on a suit and tie - long dresses and heels for the ladies, perhaps? - then maybe the folks we pay to represent us might actually listen to us - is a tremendous expression of ignorance and loathing for the people she is claiming to be writing about. What's she's really saying is that we don't deserve to be spoken truth to, or even honestly represented, until we become more like her, and the congressmen who rob and cheat us.

Sorry, Robin. I don't want to be in your filthy club, but gee - thanks for your "advice", anyway.

I'll just keep my baseball hat and New Jersey t-shirt on, and fight from the outside to take you and my congressman down. The difference is that once we win, I'll let you in my club no matter what you choose to wear, and I will listen respectfully to your views and answer you with honesty and respect.

Of course, if you guys did that for us every now and then, maybe we wouldn't have to show up at your place with our pathetic middle-class values and dress code.

Hmmm...Wanna make a deal...?

The British Defend the NHS....Well, Sort Of....

Saw this up on Yahoo - Britons defend their health care from US criticism - and got ready for some serious arguments in favor of socialized medicine.

Instead, I wound up laughing all the way through. Where to start? Not sure - maybe with the head of Britain's conservative party bragging about widespread support of the NHS, based upon the praise it recieves on Twitter? (no wonder why Labour owns that nation).

How about I start here, with the lass suffering from Stockholm Syndrome?

Even British health campaigner Kate Spall — who criticizes NHS failings in U.S. television ads produced by Conservatives for Patients' Rights, a lobby group that opposes Obama's plans — declared that the group had misled her and was distorting her true views. Spall's mother died of kidney cancer while waiting for treatment.

"There are failings in the system but I'm not anti-NHS at all," Spall told the British Broadcasting Corp.
"I help the vulnerable patients in our country that come to me for help, those that have been denied treatment," she said....

So your mom died waiting for treatment, you specialize in helping people who have been denied treatment, and yet you still support the system that forments this chaos? The Patient's Rights Group should pull their ads with Ms. Spall, if only because she is quite clearly deranged.

The truth comes out at the end of the article - which offers no support from ordinary British citizens, only activists and elected officials:

The NHS, founded in 1948, is the cornerstone of the United Kingdom's welfare state.

About 12 percent of the UK's 61 million residents have private insurance, but the vast majority rely on state-funded emergency care, surgery and access to family doctors. Even those who complain about the system say they want it improved, not dismantled.

British officials acknowledge that their system has been struggling to cope and faces a 15 billion pound ($24 billion) deficit. Hospitals are often overcrowded, dirty and understaffed, which means some patients do not get the care they are promised.

So, the AP agrees that nationalized health is the building block of the "welfare state", 88% of British citizens are on what we would call the "public option", with only 12% remaining on private insurance, and its $24 billion in the hole (and counting). Oh - and the whole think is a clusterf*ck, to boot.

And this is what the Brits defend, and this is what Obama wants to foist upon us. God help us, and our children, if he succeeds....


UPDATE: Yes, Stockhold Syndrome is appropriate here: a psychological response sometimes seen in abducted hostages, in which the hostage shows signs of loyalty to the hostage-taker, regardless of the danger or risk in which they have been placed.

New York: We'd Rather Tax Than Drill !

Example #762 of how liberals would rather starve a society to death than rethink one of their core beliefs, no matter how much it flies in the face of reality...

Dateline: New York. Teetering on financial ruin due to choking taxation and regulation, a recently discovered natural gas reserve is being ignored, because to access it would involve....drilling:

The Marcellus Shale is a massive natural-gas reservoir extending from southern New York through western Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. It is thought to be the largest natural-gas reservoir in America.
The SUNY-Fredonia geologist who broke the news of this huge reserve last year recently estimated it could hold 1,300 trillion cubic feet of natural gas -- more than 10 times what Texas's Barnett Shale contains. The Marcellus might hold 65 years' worth of US natural-gas needs.

Paterson last year signed a bill to streamline the permitting process for gas drilling -- but threw a wrench in the mix by insisting on a one-year moratorium while his team studied drilling's environmental impact.
The one-year deadline came and went last month, but drilling remains on hold. Now Paterson's Department of Environmental Conservation says it won't release any findings until the fall.

Imagine what a windfall this would be for the long-suffering people of New York state. But apparently, they'll never have an opportunity to exploit this opportunity due to the rigid intolerance of their liberal leadership and the political connections of environmental activists such as Robert Kennedy Jr.'s "Riverkeeper" organization, among others....

It's kind of like a parent denying a poor child grandpa's inheritance money because "he made his fortune in oil, and we're too green to accept his dirty money".

One would think the parents to be cruel, or insane, or maybe both. But certainly both can be said of New York's liberal leadership, who would rather tax businesses until they break and residents until they flee, than offer their citizens a bounty of riches found under a rock in their backyard...

Barack Obama vs.The Economy: A Race To The Bottom!

Yeah, sure....the economy has "bottomed out", the recession is "just about over", etc., etc., etc....

Yeah...you're all full of sh*t:

Retail sales disappointed in July and the number of newly laid-off workers filing claims for unemployment benefits rose unexpectedly last week. The latest government reports reinforced concerns about how quickly consumers will be able to contribute to a broad economic recovery.
"There is really no positive spin to put on these numbers," Jennifer Lee, an economist with BMO Capital Markets, wrote in a research note. "The U.S. consumer remains very weak. The jobs situation, while slowly improving, is still dismal."

The Commerce Department said Thursday that retail sales fell 0.1 percent last month. Economists had expected a gain of 0.7 percent.

While autos, helped by the start of the Cash for Clunkers program, showed a 2.4 percent jump — the biggest in six months — there was widespread weakness elsewhere. Gasoline stations, department stores, electronics outlets and furniture stores all reported declines.

More:

The Labor Department said initial claims increased to a seasonally adjusted 558,000, from 554,000 the previous week. Analysts expected new claims to drop to 545,000, according to Thomson Reuters.

Seems to me things are even worse than we believe, or are being told. Look at comparable numbers from recent recessions:

Looking at the recessions of the post-war period, average monthly job losses ranged between 150,000 and 260,000. Average monthly losses in this recession are still at 350,000. For the first four months of the year, the average was at 648,000. . .

For the labor market to stabilize, job losses need to slow to 100,000 to 150,000 per month, and jobless claims need to fall to around 400,000.

We're a long, long way away from those numbers. And claims are still rising....

Well, Barack Obama thinks this is a swell time to pass legislation that will cause electricity bills to skyrocket, and to reform the heath care system of the United States in such a way that no one knows what the hell will happen, except that it is way more likely things will get worse for the average American rather than better. So this bit of news is no surprise either:

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 29% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-seven percent (37%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -8 ...

Overall, 47% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance. That’s the lowest level of total approval yet recorded. The President’s ratings first fell below 50% just a few weeks ago on July 25. Fifty-two percent (52%) now disapprove.

Even in Deep Blue Jersey, Obama is spinning towards mediocrity:

President Obama has a 56%-39% job approval rating in New Jersey, down from 61%-33% last month, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.

"For President Barack Obama, the bloom is fading in the Garden State as his approval rating wilts," said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. "The President still is on the positive side when we ask about his overall job approval and his grades for handling the economy. But the trend - and that's what you always look at - is heading down."

Among independents voters, Obama has an upside-down 45%-48% approval rating.

Remember - no matter what the media tries to sell you - for both the President and the economy, the bottom is nowhere yet in sight.

Climate Change Expert Speaks...

...and forever removes any doubt about both the fallacy of global warming, the stupidity of our leadership in Washington, and the questionable judgement of the people of Michigan (if there are any people left there, of course).

Let's hear from Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich), a member of the Senate Energy Committee - yes, the same committee that will go to work this fall on the "cap and trade" energy tax:

Climate change is very real," she confessed as she embraced cap and trade's massive tax increase on Michigan industry - at the same time claiming, against all the evidence, that it would not lead to an increase in manufacturing costs or energy prices. "Global warming creates volatility. I feel it when I'm flying. The storms are more volatile. We are paying the price in more hurricanes and tornadoes."

Ideology over reality. There are no longer any facts to back up global warming - in fact, as the story states - Michigan just experienced its coldest July on record; global temperatures haven't risen in more than a decade; Great Lakes water levels have resumed their 30-year cyclical rise (contrary to a decade of media scare stories that they were drying up due to global warming), and polls show that climate change doesn't even make a list of Michigan voters' top-ten concerns - yet Debbie Stabenow is hell-bent on a economy-destroying tax increase in order to suit her warped leftist philosophy.

We get the government we deserve. And based on the near-riots we are seeing these days, I think the American people are starting to believe we deserve better.

Rep. Sheila Jackson Scorns Cancer Survivor!

Seems like the Democrats have backed off their charges that those who do not desire nationalized health care are un-American, and have lately been given to calling these protestors "rude" and "angry".

You want to see rude? Let's watch a young cancer survivor try to talk to Representative Sheila Jackson (D) about heath care at a town hall meeting. Sheila doesn't seem to be in the mood to suffer any dissent from the proletariat, so what does she do?

She starts to chat on her cellphone. Seriously. Listen for the guy shouting in disgust, "She isn't even listening to you!":



"Disgusting" doesn't even begin to come close to properly describing Sheila Jackson's cavalier behavior...

And they wonder why they are loathed so.

Specter Decides Who Represents America!

Because, apparently, it is not the majority who decides:

Sen. Arlen Specter said Wednesday he thinks people who have been angrily disrupting town hall meetings on overhauling the health care system are "not necessarily representative of America," but should be heard.

"It's more than health care," said Specter, 79, who earlier this year left the Republican Party and became a Democrat. "I think there is a mood in America of anger with so many people unemployed, with so much bickering in Washington ... with the fear of losing their health care. It all boils over."

Next thing you know, these backwater bozos will be clutching their guns and bibles, racist homophobes that they are. We should all thank Arlen Specter for coming down off of his ivory tower to represent us; truly, by even speaking with us, he is "slumming"....

But..."Not necessarily representative of America", Arlen? Well, the polls are telling quite the different story - just ask Gallup:

When asked, "Would you advise your member of Congress to vote for or against a healthcare reform bill when they return to Washington in September, or do you not have an opinion?" 35 percent said vote for, 36 percent said vote against, and 29 percent said "no opinion."

That's a 21-percentage-point drop in support in less than four weeks (from their July 14th poll).

The protestors represent. You don't. So please don't look surprised when they send you packing in November.

David Scott: Tagged with the wrong logo !

A swastika was found Tuesday painted on a sign outside Rep. David Scott's district office, an act the Georgia Democrat said reflects an increasingly hateful and racist debate over health care and should serve as a reminder for people to tone down their rhetoric...

'cause it's always about race, right? Except when you're a black conservative getting whomped by a gang of Democrat-inspired union thugs. Then you're just a "troublemaker", a "part of an angry mob".

Anyway - maybe there was another reason that Congressman Scott got swastika'd? Gotta go to the bottom of the article to learn this:

At an Aug. 1 community meeting in Douglasville, Ga., Scott angrily yelled at protesters who peppered him with questions and complaints about Democratic health care proposals. He has said he was upset that they interrupted a meeting that was supposed to be about plans for a new highway in the area.

Ah. Angrily yelled, indeed:




Maybe "Went batsh*t beserk on the people who hired him to represent them" might be a better description of Mr. Scott's recent relationship with the citizens of his district.


Anyway, the swastika is a big mistake, folks. It's completely the wrong symbolism.

This one is harder to do, but is much more appropriate for Representative Scott and his ilk:

And Democrats - please don't complain too loudly about this. After all, it was you guys who made this part & parcel of American politics, what with your constant comparison of one George W. Bush to Hitler and.or his henchmen.

Or, as your Dear Leader would say:

I don't want the folks who created the mess do a lot of talking. I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess. I don't mind cleaning up after them, but don't do a lot of talking."

Obama Lying His *ss Off In New Hampshire

Well, I guess he knows that he has the media in his pocket, so there will be little fact-checking in the morning (although I doubt that Obama understands the discredit the media has fallen into these days). Still, this one is a whopper - from The Campaign Spot:

"I have not said that I am a supporter of a single-payer system," Obama tells the crowd in New Hampshire.

The Wall Street Journal's Washington Wire, August 19, 2008: "Obama Touts Single-Payer System for Health Care"

Barack Obama said he would consider embracing a single-payer health-care system, beloved by liberals, as his plan for broader coverage evolves over time.“If I were designing a system from scratch, I would probably go ahead with a single-payer system,” Obama told some 1,800 people at a town-hall style meeting on the economy.

In related news, we have always been at war with Eastasia.

And I love the quote from Obama New Hampshire "town hall" that Drudge has splashed on its landing page:

'YOU WON'T BE WAITING IN ANY LINES'

Wow. It takes quite a man to brag about adding 50 million people to the insurance rolls, and simultaneously claim that these folks won't add a minute to your wait time at the doctor's office. Hell, everyone knows the law of supply and demand works at Barack Obama's beck and call!

While do I believe such blatent falsehoods will do nothing to better the sour mood across the nation, nor drum up addtional support for a nationalized heath care system?

We need a strong dose of the truth here, stat...

Jersey Town Hall Erupts With Emotion

Kudos to New Jersey Democrat Steve Rothman for getting out there in front of his constituents to talk about health care. Actually, one shouldn't be congratulated for talking to the people they are supposed to represent, but based on the cowardly duck-and-cover we have seen from Democrats nationwide, we appreciate the few that still have the manhood to go out there and do their freakin' jobs....

Rothman is in an interesting district - Hackensack, the Meadowlands - leans union, very blue-collar, and strictly middle class. See for yourself in this short video of his town hall meeting, held yesterday in Jersey.

Some interesting points:

- this is an angry mob? Age range seems to be 40-80, and while there is anger, there is no rage as described by the likes of Nanacy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer.

-love the crowd support - Medicare? "BANKRUPT!!" Social Security? "BANKRUPT!!" And why should we give you (Rothman) control of our health care? No answer....

-very upsetting scene where the woman breaks down and cries towards the end over the possibility of American health care availability dropping to a Canadian-esque level, as she questions the total worldwide elimination of quality medical care...

- the end of the video shows some pro-nationalization folks outside the hall. Note the professionally-made signs, and their calls for a value-added tax (VAT) to pay from it. Holy Astroturf, Batman!

Rothman claims he has not made up his mind on the bill. As the leader of the Morristown Tea Party group points out at the end, if he is truly listening to the people he claims to represent, there is only one choice he can make when his name is called to vote....

Obama Ends Health Care Debate With A New Logo !

That's right! Because Americans are too stupid to think for themselves, and all they need is a shiny new logo to make them stand up, pay attention, and obey!

This is the logo that the Democrats think will end the health care debate, once and for all:

Hmmm. Maybe. And perhaps it will remind folks of other logos and similarly-themed government propoganda, like these:

Looks like the Nazis and the imperial Japanese loved those halos of light as well, shining down upon the leader, or the people under the leader's beautific guidance.

And if the logo fails to work on the dense citizenry of the United States? Well, perhaps a jingle will be next, a catchy little tune devised to wake us out of our television-induced slumber and point us towards the rightousness of Obama's cause?

Maybe. But maybe we've already awoken, and don't like what we see. If so, it might take a bit more than shiny new logos to put an uppity populaiton back in its place...

Hat tip: Robbin Swad at The Examiner