Meet...The Paul Ryan Girl!

OK, she's not quite as hot as former Obama girl Amber Lee Ettinger (who appears to deeply regret her vote, if not her video) but Maredith Walker is quite fetching with her 80's-style workout routine, complete with leg-warmers... and this time I can sing along with the lyrics:




...I love it that your plan saves Medicare, your budget has a sexy flair.
There’s nothing left to talk about except the economy!

Let’s get fiscal, fiscal.
I wanna get fiscal,
Let’s get into solvency.
Let me hear reality, reality.
A dose of that reality.
Let’s get fiscal, fiscal.
I wanna get fiscal, save Social Security.
Time to make Obama walk, no more talk.
Time to make Obama walk....

...Let’s forget the spending sprees.
Give me some reality, reality.
Whisper straight talk to me.

Let’s get fiscal, fiscal.
I wanna get fiscal.
Let’s get fiscal sanity.
Let me see you pull that bow, kill that doe.
Spending bills have got to go


And yes, that is Amber Lee herself making a cameo with a resume and a "I want Paul Ryan's baby" t-shirt.!  How quickly things change...

And since we've posted more than our fair share of Obama Girl photos (she became much more attractive to us after she dumped that creep), let's give Maredith Walker a shot at fame as well:

The Crowley Agenda

Republicans should not expect anything sweet to come out of tomorrow's presidential debate, moderated by CNN's Candy Crowley...

Not buying to much into her remarks from August 12th, 2012,. where she referred to the Paul Ryan VP selection as some sort of "ticket death wish".  Many establishment Republicans were saying the same thing  and it is possible that Candy had consulted some of them before making her comments.  Or she may have been simply observing from her home - the liberal bubble - and been regurgitating the glee the Democratic party was feeling upon the Ryan selection, so confident were they that they owned the Medicare turf.

This is a bit more troublesome, though - the AP headline is This time, voters pose the debate questions, but as we see that is not exactly true:

Town halls have lost some of their spontaneity. The 80 or so undecided voters chosen for Tuesday's event must submit their questions in advance and moderator Candy Crowley of CNN will decide which people to call on. She can pose her own follow-up questions.


Bad on so many levels.  If you are truly undecided at this point, I question your intelligence, either way.  And your honesty.

If you wonder what type of questions Candy will choose, well...let history be your guide.  Here she is badgering Herman Cain about why he's not "angry black".  Here we have a clip of her defending Barack Obama's record in fighting terrorists; who wants to bet Benghazi questions will be kept to a minimum tomorrow night (what better what to protect Obama than to allow him to face no questions on the issue?  It's what Stephanie Cutter expected all along...)?

Some more bites of Candy:

“Usually you kind of give the President a pass on leaking confidential stuff.” – CNN’s Candy Crowley on Obama’s self-promoting national security leaks, June 10, 2012 State of the Union.

Virginia is doing very well under President Obama. – CNN’s Candy Crowley to Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, June 3, 2012 State of the Union.

You are opposed to both raising the debt ceiling and that kind of (tax-hike) compromise. So doesn't that put you outside the mainstream?" – CNN’s Candy Crowley to Rep. Michele Bachmann, August 14, 2011 State of the Union.

“Do you have a problem with being inclusive, because most people do look at Republicans going ‘They’re a conservative bunch of white guys who want to protect Big Oil.’ And now you’re even hearing Republicans saying, ‘It’s not big enough. We haven’t opened up the tent door.’” – CNN’s Candy Crowley touting an Arnold Schwarzenegger op-ed to Newt Gingrich, May 6, 2012 State of the Union.

"So let's get down to the basic question, who's going to get hurt in this budget?...So you have said in an editorial you wrote that the budget is an expression of our values and aspirations. So if I look at this what we call discretionary spending, things we don't have to spend on, you want to cut back community development block programs. That creates jobs in communities; it helps them with infrastructure, that kind of thing. Home heating assistance; education, as you just mentioned. You're also going to do -- the Great Lakes Restoration Fund Initiative is getting a pretty healthy cut in what they get from the feds, eight states involved, in trying to keep the Great Lakes economically viable. What does that say about our values and aspirations?: – CNN’s Candy Crowley pressing Obama budget director Jack Lew from the left on State of the Union, February 13, 2011.


Based on the bias tilt of her questions, I would not be surprised to find her on Barack Obama's lap, arms around his neck, gazing lovingly into his eyes should the cameras come back a few seconds early from commercial break.

Remember the January debate between Republican candidates, moderated by George Stephanopoulos and Diane Sawyer, which focused on gay rights, abortion access, and contraception, despite the dire state of the nation?  Expect more of the same tomorrow; save for the fact Ms. Crowley will be even less likely than Dirty George to keep the disdain out of her voice...

Israel's Last Day

An enactment of the day that Iranian leadership keeps promising us will, in fact, happen.

About 4 1/2 thought-provoking minutes...and if you don't think this can really happen, just read the comments on the video's YouTube page.  I won't reprint them here...save one:

All of the hateful and bigoted comments on here are more stomach wrenching than this short film...


You judge:






Hat tip: Israel Matzav

Upon Further Review...Stephanie Cutter Was Right

Obama's unctuous deputy campaign manager has been the target of some harsh criticism after making these remarks on CNN last week:

Cutter said Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan’s campaign is the only reason anyone cares about the administration’s changing narrative about the Sept. 11 attack on the Benghazi embassy.

“In terms of the politicization of this — you know, we are here at a debate, and I hope we get to talk about the debate — but the entire reason this has become the political topic it is, is because of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan,” Cutter said. “It’s a big part of their stump speech. And it’s reckless and irresponsible, what they’re doing.”


Her commentary has been taken at face value; it was the typical liberal  response to unassailable criticism -  "shut up, they explained" - but taken to a new, offensive level when applied to a 9/11 attack on an American embassy that appears to have been quite preventable.

But I think we are misunderstanding her frustration here.  Cutter no doubt assumed that the media would cover for the president and protect him from any blow-back; and given the MSM's behavior after the Benghazi assault - attacking Mitt Romney as if he were the president, then demanding he shut up - it seemed (to her) as if this case was closed.  The media would close ranks around Barack, Mitt would apologize, return to the fetal position on the floor, and the re-election of Obama could go on unobstructed.

Except, of course, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan would not shut up.  And when the media finally did some digging - primarily in an attempt to discredit the Republican ticket - they discovered a series of blatant  lies, distortions and cover-ups by an Administration desperate to hide their incompetence from the American people on the eve on an election.  And while some in the media still turned away,  many of them, realizing their livelihoods and reputations were at stake, began to dutifully report on the gross mischaracterizations of the event put out by the Administration, by the State Department, and by Intelligence.

And thus a scandal was born.  Not the first by far of the Obama Administration, but the first to be extensively covered by the media.  And at such an inopportune time.

So Cutter, in fact, is correct.  If Romney and Ryan had just shut up about the Benghazi Massacre, as they were instructed, none of this would be happening right now.  The president would still be receiving adoring press (as opposed to his recent downgrade to semi-adoring), his marks on foreign policy would still be high, and Joe Biden could still chant "Osama dead, GM alive!", while the dead of Libya were quickly buried and forgotten...

Stephanie is flummoxed for sure -  how could it all go so awry?  Didn't everyone know their lines, their roles, their places?

Her statement was born of frustration.  But - based on her understanding of how politics have worked in the recent past, it was  fundamentally true.  This shouldn't be happening.

The only problem is, Mitt and Paul have finally changed the rules...

Joe Biden Loves Him Some Jon Corzine...

If you need more evidence than last week's debate to convince you that yes, Joe Biden is in fact one of the dumbest politicians ever, look no further than this video, in which he sings the praises of the economic genius of...Jon Corzine - the first man Biden called when putting together the 2009 stimulus package:

"I literally picked up the phone and called Jon Corzine...

...and said 'Jon, what do you think we should do' ?

The reason we called Jon is because we knew he knew about the economy..."






Wouldn't hurt to remind folks about Jon Corzine, destroyer of New Jersey, bankrupter of MF Global, and...Joe Biden's hand-picked selection to design the disastrous Porkulus I.  Hear he's still pretty tight with the administration, and is still raising tons of dough for Obama, which is why he's...

Clint Eastwood Had Joe Biden PINNED OUT!

No wonder the media panned Eastwood's "Empty Chair" speech so furiously...they knew, even before the rest of America did, that Clint had exposed Obama's #2 (pun intended).

Via Breitbart:

During his RNC speech, Clint Eastwood told President Obama: “You’re getting as bad as Biden. Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party… Just kind of a grin with a body behind it.”






Who would have thought, after all the derision and criticism, that this was the moment where it would all begin to fall apart for Barack Obama...that an aging actor, acting upon a whim moments before he hit the grand  stage, would create the perfect imagery for a failed president and his administration...

More Fun With Joe Biden!

Vice President Beavis

Via Instapundit:






Question, answered...

Ryan/Biden: An Illuminating Debate

When in court, if you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have facts on your side, argue the facts. And when you have neither, pound the table...

Well,  Crazy Old Joe sure did a lot of pounding last night,  figuratively if not literally.  Most likely, he achieved his primary goal last night - to rev up a dispirited Democratic base, deflated after their god-king bled before 70 million Americans last week.

But to any Americans who were not part of the MSNBC wing of the Democratic party, a lot of other, more subtly delivered messages, came thorough loud and clear:

-Obama's record is atrocious. and undependable, and he has nothing planned save more of the same should he get a second term. Pejman Yousefzadeh (who provided the lede quote as well):

All of the eyerolls, the fake laughs, the clownish facial expressions, the attempts to interrupt Paul Ryan while Ryan spoke–all of that was done to try to disrupt an actual debate, and distract from actual criticisms of the Obama record. People who are confident that they have the facts on their side would not feel the need to act like the troublemaking kid at the back of the classroom throwing spitballs and being loud and rude while everyone else tried to get their work done and while the teacher tried to actually teach the kids something...


-Should anything awful happen to Barack Obama, Joe Biden will become president of the United States.  Based on his performance last night, he is uniquely unqualified for that position.  Paul Ryan, on the other hand, came across as the sort of sober, thoughtful second-in-command that you would feel confident with at the helm, should it be necessary.

- The fact that Democrats rended their garments over Obama's docile debate performance and wet their pants over Biden's orgy of nasty says everything you need to know about the emotional and intellectual makeup of this party. For all of their holier-than-thou posing, they are a hostile, hateful bunch. They are not interested in the facts and opinions of their fellow Americans, as Biden proved last night - they simply want you to accept theirs at face value. Should you question them, well - you will not be answered with honest debate, but with smears, sneers, and character assassination (just ask the Tea Party. Or Paul Ryan.). The Democrats do not want to lead America - they want to rule over it, and break those who defy them. Such was the message sent by Joe Biden's body (and verbal) language last night..

Is Obama down with this?  Oh, you betcha:

President Barack Obama says Joe Biden “was terrific” in the vice presidential debate....Obama spoke to Biden briefly after the debate. The president says he “could not be prouder” of Biden...


Democrats are dancing in the aisles this morning.  But expect them, within a few days, to be crying in their soup (again).  Because Joe Biden, with his childish antics, revealed much more about the liberal agenda than they realize.  And that has never been a good thing for the Democrats...

Vice Presidential Debate: Well, At Least That's Settled...

Jim Geraghty asks the question that doth answers itself:

We're On An Express Elevator To "1984"

First we had last week's cooked jobs number, showing a 0.3% drop in the unemployment figure due to the creation of an unbelievably high 873,000 jobs .  And while the media rises as one to defend the palace, other sober-minded folks, like Mickey Kaus, are not quite as sure:

...why do I find myself sympathizing with the BLS-skeptics? Because while I don’t buy the skepticism, I don't share in the righteous MSM claim that the skepticism is crazy.

Don’t tell me, reassuringly, that these BLS people aren’t political appointees but career civil servants.... And I would guess at least 80% of them were Democrats–certainly in the Department of Labor. If you were a Republican, would you go work in the Department of Labor at some mid-level analyst’s job?

...Human beings will lie if the stakes are high enough, even normally honest professionals.


Which brings us to this:

Initial Jobless Claims Tumble To 339K Lowest Since 2008, Far Below Lowest Expectation

Great news that verifies the Labor data? Uh, not exactly:

This is just getting stupid. After expectations of a rebound in initial claims from 367K last week (naturally revised higher to 369K), to 370K (with the lowest of all sellside expectations at 355K), the past week mysteriously, yet so very unsurprisingly in the aftermath of the fudged BLS unemployment number, saw claims tumble to a number that is so ridiculous not even CNBC's Steve Liesman bothered defending it, or 339K. Ironically, not even the Labor Department is defending it: it said that "one large state didn't report some quarterly figures." Great, but what was reported was a headline grabbing number that is just stunning for reelection purposes. This was the lowest number since 2008. The only point to have this print? For 2-3 bulletin talking points at the Vice Presidential debate tonight. Everything else is now noise.

Rumor has it that the state that was left off the jobless claims report this week was California - coincidentally, one of the most populous and economically crippled states in the union.

The media, as noted above, play along.  Compared to the above, though, this Boston Globe pro-Warren (aka "Granny") bias is small cheese:

You want some more stats from the Globe, Granny? On Sept. 30, you were five points ahead in a poll, and the Globe put it above the fold on page one, the lead story. Yesterday, Scott Brown was four points ahead in a poll, and the Globe used it as a news-in-brief item on page B2.


Of course  everything, even the twisted labor numbers, is small cheese compared to the Big Lie told about the Benghazi assault, in which a terrorist attack was re-classified as a "riot" in order to protect Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton...

With the media having joined forces with the King, we are left with little protection (think Saruman joining Sauron in Lord of the Rings).  But it appears as if the propagandists have gone too far, and we the people now believe very little of what we see, or read, save the evidence of our own eyes.


Which is a good thing.  Even Homer Simpson was smarter than these clowns.  When reviewing a forged report from Bart, one in which the boy needed a B average to go away for the summer:

"You know, a D turns into a B so easily. You just got greedy."
~Kamp Krusty


Obama, and the media, have pushed it too far....but nothing is over yet. Whether the nation embraces or rejects an Orwellian future will be determined in just a few short weeks...

"Freedom Is About Controlling Your Own Destiny"

The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are, it does not care what their religion is, it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy...


The most moral two minutes I have seen in some time.  And a most beautiful answer to the ignorant nastiness of  "They didn't build that".. .






More here...

And a more sobering version of this theme can be found at Legal Insurrection...

DNC Suffers As Obama Refuses To "Spread The Wealth"

Barack Hypocrite Obama?  Oh, you betcha!  Via Hot Air:

The national party committees, in a presidential election year, do benefit from a joint fundraising committee that raises money both for them and for their presidential candidate. But while Mitt Romney’s joint committee has sent $86 million to the RNC since March, President Obama’s joint committee has sent significantly less — about $35 million — to the DNC, including a total of zero dollars in August.


Which means the Democratic party has been reduced to surviving the same way much of middle-class America has...by maxing out their credit:

The Democratic National Committee had more debt than cash on hand when the general election started in September, a troubling fact few people have noticed to this point in the campaign.

We already knew that the Republican National Committee had more than 10 times as much cash as the DNC while the party’s were holding their conventions, but a closer look at the DNC’s August report shows it also took out $8 million in loans during that month — which means it had more debt ($11.8 million) than cash on hand ($7.1 million).

So even given an (increasingly unlikely) scenario of  a Barack Obama re-election, it appears - thanks to the president's avarice, greed, and selfishness - that he would be faced with House still dominated by Republicans, and perhaps even a Senate held by the opposition party as well.

Spreading the wealth, apparently, is an acceptable moral formulation only when other people's money is being spread -  into the hands of the Obamas....

No surprise, really, given the way the Barack treats his brother...

Obama Knows Exactly What He Is Advocating Here....

"...in several states?"  Really?

Coming on the heels of James O'Keefe's latest sting, in which he busted DNC staffers offering to assist people who wanted to vote twice...well, one has to believe that Obama's tweet is less a" slip of the tongue" and more like "a wink and a nod"...


(Via Speak With Authority)

Liberalism's Death Throes?

The "debate debacle" did more than prove that the emperor had no clothes.  It also proved, once and for all, that liberalism as a political philosophy is an indefensible failure.  After all, look at the criticisms Obama's allies on the Left offered post-debate:  He should have brought up "the 47%", called Mitt a liar, and been...much much angrier.  Maybe so, but those are tactics, jabs and feints, and not actually a rallying cry to line up behind the president's ideology.

The Left as a whole sees the existential damage that is being done to their cause, and they are "freaking out", to quote Jennifer Rubin:

The left’s freak-out is instructive of their view that Obama the candidate flopped but that liberalism as a cause was unblemished. In fact, Obama’s record and rhetoric on everything from hostility to business to regret for America’s international “triumphalism” to pro-abortion extremism to the expansion of the liberal welfare state is as close as a president has ever come to the left’s undistilled worldview. His failure to revive the economy after gorging on Keynesianism, like his one-man-wrecking crew in the “peace process” (evidencing the hard left’s antipathy toward the Jewish state), is, in essence, not only a personal failure. His ideas, the left’s hymnal, collapsed on contact with reality.


Grappling with a reality that has shown their life's philosophical work to be useless, and their soul's allegiance to be sworn to a false god (liberalism, not necessarily Obama himself,  but one sees more and more why he was viewed as their "messiah made flesh"), how does the Left react?

By curling into a ball, and hiding behind Sesame Street.

William Kristol:

It's fictional. It's childish. It's as fictional and childish as the make-believe world of Obama's liberalism—a liberalism that scorns Wall Street, and disdains Main Street … but embraces Sesame Street.

This is not going to end well for the True Believers...

Big Bird, Small President

L is for Loser, says Mark Steyn, in response to Obama's "devastating" ad connecting Romney to the cutoff of PBS aid. Oh, the horror..

Steyn likes the way this can play out:

“Vote Obama: He didn’t cancel Big Bird, just the Benghazi consulate security.”

“Vote Obama: He knows how small the PBS subsidy is, but he can’t get the national debt correct to the nearest six trillion – even when he’s the guy who spent it.”


Or why not just use quotes from the big yellow bird himself ?

Hey, I've got a great idea. Let's play make-believe. Let's pretend I really am the smartest man in the room!

At last! Now you see him and you got to believe me. He's not imaginary after all. I told you all along there was a Snuffleupagus - uh, I mean a path to clean energy via solar and wind - my best pal. I told you, but you never believed me.


One wonders...is this what the president is using for debate prep for Romney/Obama II?

Oh, bring it, Barack, bring it....!

And the next Saudi to be beheaded is....

...Mr. Abdulateef al-Mulhim (if that is his real name). Writing for the English-language Arab News, his article is entitled Arab Spring and the Israeli enemy. Fairly typical stuff, it would seem, until you actually...read it:

On the anniversary of the 1973 War between the Arab and the Israelis, many people in the Arab world are beginning to ask many questions about the past, present and the future with regard to the Arab-Israeli conflict.

The questions now are: What was the real cost of these wars to the Arab world and its people. And the harder question that no Arab national wants to ask is: What was the real cost for not recognizing Israel in 1948 and why didn’t the Arab states spend their assets on education, health care and the infrastructures instead of wars? But, the hardest question that no Arab national wants to hear is whether Israel is the real enemy of the Arab world and the Arab people....

The Arab world wasted hundreds of billions of dollars and lost tens of thousands of innocent lives fighting Israel, which they considered is their sworn enemy, an enemy whose existence they never recognized. The Arab world has many enemies and Israel should have been at the bottom of the list. The real enemies of the Arab world are corruption, lack of good education, lack of good health care, lack of freedom, lack of respect for the human lives and finally, the Arab world had many dictators who used the Arab-Israeli conflict to suppress their own people...

Israel now has the most advanced research facilities, top universities and advanced infrastructure. Many Arabs don’t know that the life expectancy of the Palestinians living in Israel is far longer than many Arab states and they enjoy far better political and social freedom than many of their Arab brothers. Even the Palestinians living under Israeli occupation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip enjoy more political and social rights than some places in the Arab World. Wasn’t one of the judges who sent a former Israeli president to jail an Israeli-Palestinian?

The Arab Spring showed the world that the Palestinians are happier and in better situation than their Arab brothers who fought to liberate them from the Israelis. Now, it is time to stop the hatred and wars and start to create better living conditions for the future Arab generations.


Brave stuff.  Most of it would seem almost self-evident to the average American, but I think this piece might come as a shock to much of our political class, who has bought into the Arab tales of woe for almost half a century.  One might even imagine Barack Hussein Obama arguing for the opposite side of this debate, and instructing  Mr. al-Mulhim on how the very Israeli superiority the Arabs envy is actually something they should in fact despise, and even destroy, in order to build their own self-worth,  which is more valuable than any free election...

But Abdulateef knows better than that.  the only question is how much longer will he be allowed to say it?  And will we ever has a president with the guts to echo the same sentiment, the same obvious truth, which would finally shift the battleground away from Israel and onto the Arab nations themselves?

Would be a game changer.  Too bad I don't see it happening...

Obama's New Campaign Strategy: Tantrums All Day, Every Day!

Mitt Romney’s senior adviser, Ed Gillespie, responds to Obama's post-debate debacle spin, which pretty much consists of three words: Mitt's a liar! (not counting the "nyah, nyah, nyah nyah nyahs"...)

"It reflects desperation on their part,” Gillespie said matter-of-factly. As for the claim that Romney has changed or is lying about his tax plan, which President Obama insists is a $5 trillion tax cut for the rich, Gillespie said, “Even [Obama deputy campaign manager] Stephanie Cutter said they couldn’t substantiate it.”

After the Tax Policy Center looked at whether Romney could keep the code revenue neutral and maintain progressivity, six studies, according to Gillespie, said it could be done. So obviously Romney didn’t “change” his plan; he simply rebutted the accusation. Is Gillespie surprised at the Obama team’s response to Romney’s explanation of his tax plan? He seems somewhat bemused: “It doesn’t make sense,” he said. “It is like a 7-year-old losing at a checkers game who sweeps the board off.”


In other words, it is exactly how Barack Obama has responded to every criticism directed his way for the past 3.5 years:  With a tantrum...

Not exactly a compelling argument for a second term.  But maybe he thinks the American people, like an indulgent parent, will give in to him and just give him what he wants (four more years!), in order to shut him up and get a little peace for themselves.

Ask any parent how well that works out, in the long (and short) term....

"Obama Girl" Is So 2008....

....now it's all about...Paul Ryan??

Oh, you betcha:




Best comment from the YouTube page:

Wait, is that gabby douglas?!? oooh michelle's gunna beat your ass for crossing the picket line...


Actually, this meme has been around for a while now; well prior to his selection as VP:

Uh oh...if Obama loses his "cool", what else does he really have left?  After all, he's already lost the "Obama Girl"....

"I think he's doing an OK job," said Amber Lee Ettinger, whose original "Crush on Obama" video, first shown in 2007, has had more than 16.5 million views on YouTube.

"In my opinion, I feel like he should be focusing a lot more on jobs and the economy."
Ettinger, 28, said that even though she doesn't have health care -- "I can't afford it" -- she still thinks Obama should have waited to tackle the thorny legislation that has been blamed for the devastating Democratic loss of Ted Kennedy's Senate seat.

"He did create some jobs, but most of them were government jobs and that doesn't really help the middle class. But it helps a bit," said Ettinger.

Her grade for Obama: B- minus...


We'll give Amber an "A".   Because it's always heartening to see see someone learn their lesson..

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Romney-Mania Spreads Like Wildfire...

...while the media tries to cover it up. Or hide it in their Instagram feeds.

In Apopka, Florida yesterday:

Yesterday, in Virginia:

And yet we find the MSM, undeterred by reality, still frantically working the prior meme, claiming that Romney gaffed again by daring to point out that the indebted and fracturing nation of Spain is... indebted and fracturing ("Spain quip adds to Romney's foreign policy trouble".  Sheesh.  Desperate much?).

But their lies and distortions are beginning to get lost among the swelling roars of approval for...truth.  It's like manna in the desert these days...

Liberal's Worldview Torn Asunder As Truth Destroys Their Fictions

What has proved almost as astonishing as Mitt Rooney's debate dominance has been the intellectual meltdown of the Left in its wake.  Yuval Levin explains why:

...liberals are often caught off guard when faced with an actual argument for positions they disagree with. What we’ve seen in the wake of the debate is that some on the Left are so wedded to their imaginary right-wingers that when their actual opponents advance positions or make arguments that are different from those imaginary ones they will call those actual opponents fakes and liars. They believed their own caricature of Mitt Romney, and his unwillingness to play into it strikes them as dishonest. Or put another way: Confronted with evidence of their own dishonesty about who Romney is and what he stands for, they call the evidence a lie.


Personified by none other than the president of the United States:

"I met this very spirited fellow who claimed to be Mitt Romney," Obama said at the Denver rally. "But it couldn't have been Mitt Romney because the real Mitt Romney has been running around the country for the last year promising $5 trillion in tax cuts that favor the wealthy"



The problem with this claim? Even the Washington Post - no fan of the challenger - has debunked the claim of a Romney $5 trillion tax cut as a "myth".  But truth and reality no longer have any place in the Obama re-election campaign, nor in liberal dogma.   They haven't for a while, of course, but now it appears as if the Democratic party, with the failure of their socio-economic philosophy ;bared for all to see, will run strictly on lies and deception, and count on a compliant media to echo and give credence to their outrageous claims.

Hard to see it working.  The emperor has no clothes, and it will be a hard road to convince the American people he is actually dressed in splendiferous finery.  But the Democrats, and the media, will tie themselves in  knots trying to, and then blame us for our lack of sophistication when we chose to believe the evidence of our own eyes.

All of which leads me to be humming one of my favorite songs by The Alarm (the true sound of Irish rebellion; not the vainglorious pretty-boy poseurs of U2):

Face to face with a ragged truth
Mixed up and torn in two
And turned your back on the only thing
That could save you from yourself

After all time building up
Comes inevitable knocking down
(ONE BY ONE )
Comes receivers liars gamblers
Pick pocket entourage

All cards are marked
And all fates will collide
The truth is the truth
Or the truth is surely a lie

I Didn't Even Know Romney Was Still Holding Rallies..

...because the media never seems to report on them.  Or show pictures of them.

Then, when you actually see one, you understand the news blackout on Romney events:

This was the "official NRA endorsement of Romney/Ryan" rally.  One would have thought the press would have jumped on this opportunity to take a few shots at the gun nuts, but again - sheesh, just take a look at the size of that crowd.


Too bad they didn't bite.  Would have killed two narratives with one stone...

Snoop Dog's Got 10 Reasons You Should Vote Against Mitt

...with all the class and introspection one expects from an Obama fanboy.  Via Newsbusters:

Number #7 would get most people a visit from the Secret Service, and #8 is a religious attack, as well as a display of misogyny.  But I doubt the media will be asking Barack to own/disown Snoop's little list...

Media Wants Us To Believe NC Will Go "D" Again...

The AP makes the case that 2008 was no fluke:

North Carolina's population has nearly doubled since 1970, fueled by an economic expansion that brought an influx of Midwesterners, Northeasterners and nonwhites and turning the state from a Republican presidential stronghold into a battleground.

Among the new residents: Carol Fentiman, 66, a Chicago native who retired with her husband to the western Carolina mountains seven years ago from California and is a Democratic Party volunteer. And Piper Phillips, 18, a college student who moved here a year ago from Ohio and who will cast her first presidential ballot this year for Barack Obama.

To explain their upcoming votes, both cited women's health care and abortion rights, civil rights for gay Americans and equal pay for women.

"I'd like to be considered an equal citizen in this country," Fentiman said.

The oppressed Carol Fentiman, fighting to destroy the very things that made North Carolina great...

What did Romney say in his 47% remarks? Ah, yes:  There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it -- that that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what. ...

Carol is the poster child (brrrr) for the 47%. Always said Mitt should embrace that remark, because, like most so-called "gaffes", they are simply inconvenient truths.

Not until you get to paragraph 21 of 21 in this story do you find a caveat:

Guillory, the UNC expert, said that means North Carolina elections, including Obama vs. Romney "will turn even more on the ground game, on getting your loyalists to the polls."


Really? You don't say? Then perhaps a lot of time and effort was wasted writing this article, because, as Ms. Elizabeth Price Foley points out:

REPUBLICANS DOMINATE EARLY VOTING IN NORTH CAROLINA: Some 25,000 North Carolinians have already cast early ballots in their swing state. Of those voting, the state reports that 13,459 were Republicans, 7,130 were Democrats and 4,630 were unaffiliated. The pace of early voting is substantially higher than in 2008.


Looks like the AP will be depressed, and Carol Feintiman will remain "oppressed", for at least the next four years.

I pity them both.

Late Night Comedians Unload On Obama

It's been a long time coming:

“The consensus is that Mitt Romney won the presidential debate last night. The only people who thought Obama won were the replacement refs,” Jay Leno joked.

“They’re saying close to 60 million people may have watched the debate. In fact, the only person who didn’t tune in . . . I think was President Obama.”

“What a crowd! You sound like Republicans watching last night’s debate.”

Jimmy Fallon couldn’t resist getting his own digs in.

“That’s right, after months of buildup, last night was the first presidential debate at the University of Denver. Of course, a lot of big names didn’t show up to the event — Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, President Obama . . .” he said on “Late Night” last night.

“Daily Show” host Jon Stewart joined the chorus, tearing into Obama as hard as he usually shreds Republicans.

“I’m sure President Obama now realizes, ‘Oh, preseason’s over, I should probably familiarize myself with my presidency and learn some of the various numbers and things that go along with it,’ ” Stewart said on “Good Morning America.”

And liberal loudmouth Bill Maher carved up Obama and his professorial debate performance.

“That president Obama sure is smart, but i’m not sure if i’m gonna take his class next semester,” he tweeted yesterday.


Of course, the liberal late-night crew hat to wait until Obama got carved up before the entire nation before the felt comfortable enough to make fun of him publicly. Brave men.

And as far as Bill Maher goes...let's just say I won't be following any of his investment leads any time in the future...

Debate Reaction II: This One "Blows"...

Dude.  Have you ever heard the expression "clutching at straws"?

For some, it is The Last Straw:

We make futile gestures, act to the cameras
With our made up faces and pr smiles
And when the angel comes down, down to deliver us
We'll find out that after all, we're only men of straw...

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the water
Those problems seem to arise the ones you never really thought of
The feeling you get is similar to something like drowning
Out of your mind, you're out of your depth, you should have taken soundings
Clutching at straws, we're clutching at straws, we're clutching at straws...

We're clutching at straws
We're still drowning
Clutching at straws
We're still drowning, yeah clutching at straws
I'm still drowning
We're clutching at straws
I'm still drowning...

Private Hudson Analyzes Obama's Debate Performance

"That's great, this is really fuckin' great, man. Now, what the fuck are we supposed to do? We're in some pretty shit now, man.... That's it, man. Game over, man. Game over, what the fuck are we supposed to now, huh, what are we gonna do?"


Or, as many an Obama supporter said last night, post-debate:

Obama's "Dick" Moment In The Great Debate...

"No, I had five seconds before you interrupted me..."
~Barack Obama to debate moderator Jim Lehrer of PBS(!), 10/3/12




Obama was in over his head, as usual.  But the game is fixed, and the Huffington Post came up with the dodge the entire MSM will go to tomorrow morning:

Jim Lehrer Loses Control During Presidential Debate In Denver


Because The One is, by his very nature (and that of those who support him), infallible...

Another Obama Video Unearthed, In Which He Recites "The Radical's Holy Trinity"

Via Patterico, we see and hear Barack Obama at the University of Chicago 2002 Martin Luther King Jr. Day memorial. Watch him hit the radical trifecta, note for note:




Class warfare
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but rich people are all for nonviolence. Why wouldn’t they be? They’ve got what they want. They want to make sure people don’t take their stuff. But the principle of empathy recognizes that there are more subtle forms of violence to which we are answerable. The spirit of empathy condemns not only the use of firehoses and attack dogs to keep people down but also accountants and tax loopholes to keep people down.

Race-baiting
“It’s hard to imagine that the powerful in our society would tolerate the burgeoning prison industrial complex if they imagined that the black men and Latino men that are being imprisoned were something like their sons.”

Hating on the suburbs
“And Illinois, like many states in the country, has an education system that is funded by property taxes. It is fundamentally unjust. So you have folks up in Winnetka, pupils who are getting five times as much money per student as students in the South Side of Chicago.”


This isn't as bad as the Daily Caller video from 2007, where he shrieks that “The people down in New Orleans they don’t care about as much!”.

But it gives lie to the man as a uniter, a healer, a thinker, and a figure who can bring this nation together.  In fact, based on the videos that are now beginning to surface, it seems as if Barack Obama is the man you would pick to do just the opposite:  Divide, sow resentment and hatred, and seize power for radical ends.

Which, in fact, is exactly what he's done.

Don't act surprised.

If You Assume An Identical Turnout To 2008...Mitt and Obama Are Tied

Paul Rahe, prophet of the "massive Mitt landslide" meme, points us at the latest poll, which shows Mitt Cash and Barry The Divider tied at 47% (there's that number again - jeez, did Mitt call that one or what?):

The survey was conducted Sept. 27-30 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.7 percentage points.

Romney led in the poll among independents, 49 percent to 41 percent, with both candidates winning more than 90 percent support from their respective parties. The survey had Obama winning 81 percent of the nonwhite vote and Romney carrying 55 percent of white voters.

In estimating the turnout on Nov. 6, the poll projects an electorate that is 74 percent white, 11 percent African-American, and 8 percent Latino. The likely-voter party splits are 36 percent Democratic, 29 percent Republican, and 30 percent independent.

The estimates are similar to the 2008 turnout, when, according to CNN exit polling, 74 percent of voters were white, 13 percent black, and 9 percent Latino, with Democratic turnout at 39 percent, Republicans at 32 percent, and independents at 29 percent.


Look at the D/R/I split again, and remember that in 2010, the split was 35/35/30.  And remember that there are almost 41 million Americans who openly declare themselves to be members of the Tea Party.  And ask yourself if the youth and African-American turnout will really be as high this year as it was during 2008, the nadir of turnout for each group.

And then imagine what this poll would look like if these factors were taken into account.  Like Rahe does:

If you were to readjust this poll by reducing slightly the black turnout and by a bit more the Hispanic turnout and if you were to assume a much closer partisan divide of the sort shown by, say, Rasmussen, Romney would be ahead by a comfortable margin -- which is what I take to be the case.

"Count it - 5.  That's my margin of victory, bitches..."

Tonight's debates aren't a final shot for Romney, a "hail Mary" that he needs to complete to pull out the win. It's the last chance for Barack Obama to prove himself to be the man the media painted him as in 2008 - intelligent, thoughtful, bipartisan, a uniter. Failing that, the incumbent will be in deep, deep trouble.

And the release of a certain video isn't going to help him any, either...

Sweating much, Barry?

How Does Paul Krrugman Like His Comeuppance Served?

Time magazine asks, Are We Already In A Recession?, and seems ready to provide oodles of data that indicate that yes,we are.  But note that they open the piece with a quote from political economist Paul Krugman:

“The official definition of recession has become delinked from peoples’ actual experience. Right now, we’re in an economy with deteriorating employment and incomes, collapsing home prices, and business retrenchment. Is it also an economy in recession? Who cares?”

Well, Krugman wrote that paragraph back in 2007, when the President was one George W. Bush. 'Ol Krugman didn't care about the particulars back then, he was in the business of defaming the sitting president and working to place one Barack Hussein Obama in the White House.

But now that he has done so, it seems as if the Krugman definition of recession - you know it when you see it - now applies to the economy being presided over by his own personal Jesus.   And this certainly  feels like an economy in ruins, regardless of what data a less-than-trusted administration (or a crooked economist) supplies to prove otherwise.

Glad Time decided to bust this chestnut out.  Although if they had realized the damage it actually does to the Obama brand, they probably would have left it buried...

CNN has Obama +3...in a poll that is D+8.

Check it out:

Fifty-percent of likely voters questioned in the CNN survey, which was released Monday, say that if the election were held today, they would vote for the president, with 47% saying they would support Romney, the former Massachusetts governor. The president's three point margin is within the poll's sampling error.

It's actually a much bigger "sampling error" than that: - Gateway Pundit:

...this latest CNN poll has Romney leading among Independents by 8 points but losing to Barack Obama by 3 points. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the poll is weighted with a Democrat + 8 advantage for Obama.


Which is reminiscent of this:

I noted this morning that the scarcity of details about a Washington Post/ABC News poll showing Mitt Romney trailing President Obama by 11 points in swing states meant the results should be taken with some skepticism. Well, now Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin reports on why those results should be taken carefully: “As I learned from Post pollster Jon Cohen, that finding is based on the responses of a total of 160 people, and it has a margin of error of 8 percentage points.”


But the media knows exactly what they are doing here:

The Romney campaign is experiencing what some officials believe could be the beginning of a mass exodus of big money donors diverting their cash away from the Republican presidential hopeful and toward Republican candidates for the House and Senate races more likely to win in November, the FOX Business Network has learned.

But another person with direct knowledge of the matter says the trend...reflects an increasing degree of anxiety both with what they believe is the tentative nature of the Romney campaign, and recent poll numbers that show President Obama with a lead, particularly in key battleground states, that some Republican contributors are starting to believe is insurmountable.


There's one other variable to these polls, however. One that the the Republican establishment ignores, that the donor base is ignorant of, and that the media refuses to believes even exists:

...a new Associated Press poll shows tea party supporters may have the last laugh in November.
The AP/GFK poll shows that 31% of likely voters consider themselves Tea Party supporters. With 131 million votes cast in the 2008 elections, that translates into an incredible voting bloc of 41 million Tea Party supporters waiting to cast ballots. These voters have already made their voices heard in Wisconsin earlier this year, as well as in Republican primaries in Texas and Nebraska.

That 31% of likely voters figure is greater than the 19% who described themselves as either strongly or somewhat liberal...


My prediction?  After the 2012 election, pollsters will have about as much credibility with the public as the mainstream media they currently serve...


UPDATE:  Ann Althouse notes that the D+8 skew is less than the D+15 that CNN used in their previous poll, and implies a return to the D+15 metric immediately after the debate, to "prove" Obama was perceived as a winner...

Of course, they might just want to create an impression of a tight race - for ratings purposes - and go back to the 'Obama landslide" 7-10 days prior to election day, in the hopes of depressing the vote...

Do Two Rich Guys Really Control California's Destiny?

Looks like the 1% let Governor Jerry Brown down this year:

...the budget Brown signed into law in June found “balance” only via some far-fetched assumptions....it also bet that capital-gains taxes from the Facebook IPO would generate $1.5 billion for the state treasury. Oops: Facebook stock’s down 40 percent. Now state officials hope booming iPhone 5 sales can fill the Zuckerberg gap (but those are slower than hoped, too).


Because the productive are not creating wealth faster than Governor Brown can spend it, he's asking the people of California  to allow him to confiscate the difference via a hike in income taxes on the "rich" ($250K+)  from approximately 10% to 13%.  It will be on the ballot this November as "Proposition 30"; although maybe he should have just called it the "Anti-Greed Act"?

Ah, just like the old Soviet Union!  California, like their fascist predecessors, is now using the power of the state to penalize companies and individuals for failing to meet unrealistic (and perhaps economically insane) government quotas.

If my Russian serves me:  "Comrades Lumberjacks, keep the promise given to Comrade Stalin: overfullfill the plan!"

Failed to hit your government-imposed "goals" thsi quarter?  Well, you're gonna pay.  Literally.

Seems like Zuckerberg and Tim Cook never learned the life lessons of a man named John Galt.

Too bad, for them.  And us.  Would have been a "teachable moment" for America as a whole.  Although, in these perilous times, a mere "shrug"  - just pulling the right screw out at the precise place where the pressure is at its highest - might be enough  to bring the whole entire system crashing down....

It's All About Who You Know These Days...

My, my, the Justice Department sure moved fast to find a pretext for locking up the maker of that anti-Islam film. And Jon Corzine, who actually harmed Americans, still walks free.

Amazing.

(Michael Goodwin)

While elsewhere:

He's [filmmaker Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, director of "Innocence of Muslims" and an enemy of the State] going to be confined in a special unit where he'd be in a solitary cell, locked up alone and in maddening isolation," said attorney Mark Werksman, who is not representing Nakoula but has represented other inmates held at the same jail.

Larry Jay Levine, a former federal convict once held at Metropolitan and founder and director of Wall Street Prison Consultants, said Nakoula was likely held in an area called the special housing unit and that he would be kept safe there.

"It's basically a 'ground hog day' kind of existence, because he's not getting out of his cell," Levine said.


Amazing. indeed.