Dumb Obama Sound Bite of the Day

"These steps won't sit well with the special interests and lobbyists who are invested in the old way of doing business. I know they're gearing up for a fight as we speak. My message to them is this: So am I."

John Hinderaker's response to that farcial statement is perfect:

"As Obama well knows, lobbyists all over Washington are lighting cigars with $50 bills at the prospect of having $3.7 trillion worth of spoils to divvy up. Obama must think the American people--his supporters, anyway--are complete idiots."

With the amount of agenda payback and pork this president is responsible for enabling, a remark like that is as outrageous as they come.

Expect more like it to appear.

Many more.

Frequently.....

Racial Dishonesty: Eric Holder and his dishonest 'Nation of Cowards' polemic

Heather MacDonald deconstructs the tired, warn out race-mongering rhetoric that marked Holder's incredibly offensive polemic.

Noteworthy:

Is he nuts?

Leave aside for a moment Holder’s purely decorative call for a “frank” conversation about race. The Clinton-era Conversation also purported to be frank, and we know what that meant: a one-sided litany of white injustices.

Please raise your hand if you haven’t heard the following bromides about “the racial matters that continue to divide us” more times than you can count: Police stop and arrest blacks at disproportionate rates because of racism; blacks are disproportionately in prison because of racism; blacks are failing in school because of racist inequities in school funding; the black poverty rate is the highest in the country because of racism; blacks were given mortgages that they couldn't afford because of racism. I will stop there.

Read the whole thing.

It's a solid and complete refutation of the on-going "intolerable racism" theme that Dems/Lefties/"Progressives" love to use as a wedge issue.

Regarding those 'Polar Ice Is Melting' scare stories

...such as this nonsense last week from the AP.

It's just more "global warming" "climate change" alarmism at its best (worse), as this article so concisely points out.

Key point:

"So, from now on I will be very careful not to be frightened, at face value by reports of massive ice loss from Antarctica and Greenland. There really is a lot of ice at these two places."

A wise choice, indeed.

When will the intellectual and academic fraud that is the "scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change" finally die?

'Controlling' carbon: The Alarmists/Opportunists' drive to assure government that controls lives through big lies, extortion and intimidation.

It's the colossal scam that the "anthropogenic global warming climate change" industry represents.

Excerpt:

"Imagine unbridled government control of all tailpipe emissions under CAA section 202(a) and myriad building permits under section 165 on top of a utility hobbling carbon cap-and-trade system. Do huge Title VI-like individual fines imposed for tossing a steak on the backyard barbecue seem that far-fetched?

Remember, there exists no greater oxymoron than 'satisfied environmentalist.' When was the last time any E.P.A regulation amounted to more than a 'good start' among the green group-mindset?

And then there's this to consider -- the polar bear is now listed as threatened by 'global warming' under the Endangered Species Act. So if CO₂ were listed as an airborne pollutant contributing to such warming, how long do you suppose it might be before that family barbequer found himself subject to hefty fines not only for polluting, but also for thereby endangering the polar bear?

What might await us at the foot of this slippery slope, perhaps 'permission to exhale' requisition forms?

And all predicated not on evidence that CO₂ influences climate (none such exists) but rather the viral progression of one man's insistence that it does.

With green believers ruling both the Executive and Legislative branches, and a Judicial majority voting sympathetically alongside them in April of 2007, these words from (MIT's Richard) Lindzen just one month prior have never rung more foreboding:

'Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat's dream. If you control carbon, you control life.'"

What's the next step here? Mandatory abortion for a third pregnancy?

"It's irresponsible to have more than two kids"

Listen to this low-life Brit:

I am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint and how they decide to procreate and how many children they think are appropriate.

I think we will work our way towards a position that says that having more than two children is irresponsible. It is the ghost at the table. We have all these big issues that everybody is looking at and then you don’t really hear anyone say the “p” word.”

I have a solution for all the fellow's concerns

Why don't you get the Queen's government to step up to the plate and just MANDATE the "no more than two children" policy?

Then you could promote the "a" word as a solution.

The Earth is suffering through a CO2 famine

.... so says Princeton physicist Will Happer

Key point:

'The increase of CO2 is not a cause for alarm and will be good for mankind. Children should not be force-fed propaganda, masquerading as science. '

"Award-winning Princeton University Physicist Dr. Will Happer declared man-made global warming fears 'mistaken' and noted that the Earth was currently in a 'CO2 famine now.' Happer, who has published over 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers, made his remarks during today’s Environment and Public Works Full Committee Hearing entitled 'Update on the Latest Global Warming Science.'

'Many people don’t realize that over geological time, we’re really in a CO2 famine now. Almost never has CO2 levels been as low as it has been in the Holocene (geologic epoch) - 280 (parts per million - ppm) - that’s unheard of. Most of the time [CO2 levels] have been at least 1000 (ppm) and it’s been quite higher than that,'

...Happer told the Senate Committee. "

Imagine that!

The Obamacare proposal: Madoff style smoke and mirrors

Nowhere is there a greater example than the recent gutting of the highly successful Medicare Advantage program, popular with the vast majority of those enrolled, and a highly effective use of Medicare funds, regardless of what some so-called "experts" would have you believe.

Noteworthy:

"So by gutting an increasingly popular and efficient Medicare program that is not compatible with policy goals and cooking the books to create financial "running room," Democrats will miraculously find fictitious billions under the sofa cushions in Washington that they will use to pay for increasing government control over health care. And they will claim it isn't costing you a dime."

Calling out the insidious race gamers

The recent over-the-top reaction to the N.Y. Post's "chimp" cartoon was, as Rod Dreher puts it, absurd.

Extremely absurd.

It's time to say enough is enough to people like the Simkins PAC, the Pulpit Forum, the enablers of MitchManagement, certain members of our city government, Lorraine Ahearn, John Robinson, and certain members of our local blahgosphere.

Let's set our sights on eradicationg the REAL racism.

But of course the charges of "racism" and endless calls for "dialogue" about race are more about power grabs, money and intimidation than sin. The race industry thrives on empty rhetoric and phantom threats to maintain a position of legitimacy. And the intimidation works, like nothing that has gone before. The pejorative label "racist" is to be feared above all else. Thus universities and corporations feel compelled to fund and house diversity bureaucracies promulgating the absurdity of eliminating racism by attempting to magnify and infuse race as a factor in every human interaction.

Dr. King's dream of a colorblind society based on character content, while vaguely celebrated, would be, if achieved, the diversity industry's worst nightmare.

Real racism camouflages itself in the righteousness of modern liberalism. Clothing itself in virtuous reaction to ancient wrongs, the liberal mind scoffs at the reality evinced in Patrick Moynahan's famous warning of the "dumbing down of deviancy" or as more delicately put by Bush the Younger as the "soft bigotry of low expectations." Assessing objectively the pathologies of culture and destabilizing tendencies, attitudes, and behavior are off-limits. Serious inquiries must take pre-ordained paths or else. (Trivia question: Dr. James Watson - genius who discovered DNA? or idiotic quack?) One thing is clear. Only orthodoxy will be accepted in this realm.

Deplorably, the "real" racism of the racism industry trivializes the evil of actual racism, the ethnic hatred based on skin color, tribe, religion and culture that wreak havoc around the globe. (Especially on the continent of Africa, a fact virtually ignored by complacent self described African-Americans.)

If the race-baiters noticed the horrific destruction of Zimbabwe done by Mugabe, turning the breadbasket of Africa into a desolate wasteland through anti-white policies, it somehow has not engendered the outrage that a city comptroller's use of the word "niggardly" to describe budget policies did on the insensitivity scale. Actual racism fosters poverty, injustice, and war. Fake racism makes headlines.

The Obamanation set to fund Islamic terrorists from your wallet

Barry, Harry, and Nancy have plans to see that your tax dollars gets in the hands of Hamas. That's all the better to press their cowardly aggression toward Israel and the United States, and kill a few more of those pesky Jews, right?

IBD:

In addition to solar water heaters for rural Puerto Rico and the Raul Alvarez Golf Course in Austin, Texas, Obama administration sources say the U.S. is also planning to relieve taxpayers of $900 million for Gaza, much of which can be expected to land in the pockets of the terrorist group Hamas, which runs the region.

To a family being foreclosed on, or a businesswoman forced by tough times to close up shop, this doesn't exactly signal that Uncle Sam is in solidarity with you.

Think you've had enough of the disatrous economic policy of this Administration?

Guess what?

Even MORE malfeasance is on the way.

Noteworthy:

"Pigs will fly--to use a metaphor that seems apt under the circumstances--before Barack Obama will do anything to rein in the irresponsibility of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and their accomplices among Congressional Democrats."

These Democrat fools OWN this recession. We will hold them accountable for the incredible damage to the country that is on the way.

Yet another example of Dem/Lefty/"Progressive" hate speech

Incidents like these are not rare by any stretch of the imagination, but they are virtually unreported because of the Tank Media's left agenda orientation.

Key point:

"While college demonstrators here and abroad regularly burn, deface, and desecrate the flags of Israel and the United States, something that the courts have repeatedly upheld as Constitutionally-protected speech, only on a campus controlled by Left-leaning faculty and radicalized students could the protest against the flags of genocidal terrorist thugs be considered, as it was here, an attempt to 'incite violence,' 'hateful religious intolerance' and an act by those who 'pre-meditated the stomping of the flags knowing it would offend some people and possibly incite violence.'"

As always, these sort of things only work in one way: To support an unsupportable Dem/Lefty/"Progressive" agenda item.

We have only to look at the national level, as evidenced by the recent exercrable racial remarks by the incumbent Attorney General, and to the local level, where the "intolerable racism" label is applied to all things Wray-related , by the News and Record, the local power brokers, and the run of the mill libthinkers who enable all of the nonsense and bad behavior.

We see many examples of this here in Greensboro, and the perps ALWAYS get a pass.

Stay tuned for more on this issue. By no means am I done discussing this disease, and the local people who are responsible for inflicting this affront to decency, common sense and the public good.

George Will on 'The Law of Doomsaying'

Mark Perry singles out these three points in Will's column today:

1. Gregg Easterbrook's 'Law of Doomsaying': Predict catastrophe no sooner than five years hence but no later than 10 years away, soon enough to terrify but distant enough that people will forget if you are wrong.

2. An unstated premise of eco-pessimism is that environmental conditions are, or recently were, optimal. The proclaimed faith of eco-pessimists is weirdly optimistic: These optimal conditions must and can be preserved or restored if government will make us minimize our carbon footprints, and if government will 'remake' the economy.

3. According to the U.N.'s World Meteorological Organization, there has been no recorded global warming for more than a decade.

Read the entire Will column. It is indeed a gem.

It's time for 'mark to market' to go

So says Brian Wesbury, and many other people who understand what that particular accounting "principle" represents.

Noteworthy:

"Nevertheless, some observers believe fair-value accounting should be retained, and that the prices of so-called toxic assets in the market are reflective of “real” value, no matter how low those prices go. They argue that home prices will fall significantly farther and that more foreclosures will occur. Therefore, they reason that market prices for toxic assets (no matter how low) reflect reality.

The problem is that all this is forecasting. Proponents of fair-value accounting believe current market prices are correct, and that anyone who wants to price them higher is “marking to myth.” In reality, these pessimists want to “mark to model.” Their models say the world will get much worse. So no matter how low the price for any security drops, they believe that drop is most likely justified.

This is where a larger and more systemic error is created. Since mark-to-market accounting reduces the capital position of our banking system, it impacts the broader economy. The accounting rules themselves create a self-fulfilling prophecy, setting off a vicious economic cycle. Capital contraction harms lending, which in turn hurts the economy, which in turn lowers the prices of assets, which then reduces capital even more — starting the whole cycle over again."

Obama's economic fearmongering: Good politics (maybe), bad history and bad economics

The current economic situation is no where near as bad as those of the '30s, yet to hear the so-called president tell it, we're all doomed if we don't do exactly as he says.

Key point:

"Mr. Obama's analogies to the Great Depression are not only historically inaccurate, they're also dangerous. Repeated warnings from the White House about a coming economic apocalypse aren't likely to raise consumer and investor expectations for the future. In fact, they have contributed to the continuing decline in consumer confidence that is restraining a spending pickup. Beyond that, fearmongering can trigger a political stampede to embrace a 'recovery' package that delivers a lot less than it promises. A more cool-headed assessment of the economy's woes might produce better policies."

On a related subject, self-appointed local blogging expert on everything Ed Cone has one of the most insipid columns (there are many others of his which fit into this category) I've ever read, in today's News and Record.

He actually has the gall to write this:

"Pollyannas glide right past the huge destruction of wealth and the end of Wall Street as we knew it, the better to tell us that things are not so bad now as they were in previous downturns. The trick here is to compare the current level of, say, unemployment to the numbers from the nadir of a previous recession, as if we had reached whatever trough that awaits us and as if pain is only a relative thing. "

It takes little more than a basic understanding of our current position to understand how fatuous a statement like that actually is. He has no clear understanding of what has happened in our economy these last 15 months.

He then proceeds to entertain us with

"Neither panic nor denial is a healthy response to a bad situation. In this case, denial is probably the more dangerous of the two, if only because it has more political currency and thus seems likely to do more harm. I try to temper my native optimism with a healthy diet of reality. My take is that we have some very tough times ahead and that with some thoughtful action we'll get through them."

This, from a constant drumbeater of negative and misleading economic news, all documented by his blog posts, all to support a warped worldview!

If this matter wasn't such an important matter to our nation, Cone's follies would actually be funny.

Yale economist Ray Fair fears 'stimulus' would stimulate the need for large tax increases in several years

"The stimulus has a big effect in 2010, but by 2012 the economy is roughly back to baseline (except for variables like the federal government debt). In the baseline case the federal debt rises from $5.78 trillion at the end of 2008 to $8.74 trillion at the end of 2012. In the stimulus case the debt at the end of 2012 is $9.34 trillion, about $600 billion more than in the baseline case. This does not take account of possible increases in the federal debt from the bailout activity.

So there is short run gain from the stimulus bill, mostly in 2010, but the potential long run costs do not seem trivial. If the stimulus bill is passed and the bailout continues, it may be that large tax increases will be needed starting in late 2011 or 2012."

But we knew that already, didn't we?

Via Greg Mankiw.

Schumer's arrogance

The guy is a world class asshole.

He needs to be brought under control before he permanently damages this nation.

Elsewhere, people are starting to take negative notice of these Democrat goons.

Setting the record straight about the origin of the 'financial crisis'

The Obamabots, the "progressives", and the "we need more regulation and government control" freaks have been, and continue to be WRONG about the crisis.

Indeed, they helped create the crisis by such nonsense as the CRA and subsequent vote-buying interference disguised as policy, and their continued wrong-headed campaign has actually made the situation worse. Plus, as is now apparently clear to people like CBO, their "fix" will make the situation worse.....likely MUCH worse.

But we knew that already, didn't we?

John Taylor:

"The realization by the public that the government's intervention plan had not been fully thought through, and the official story that the economy was tanking, likely led to the panic seen in the next few weeks. And this was likely amplified by the ad hoc decisions to support some financial institutions and not others and unclear, seemingly fear-based explanations of programs to address the crisis. What was the rationale for intervening with Bear Stearns, then not with Lehman, and then again with AIG? What would guide the operations of the TARP?

It did not have to be this way. To prevent misguided actions in the future, it is urgent that we return to sound principles of monetary policy, basing government interventions on clearly stated diagnoses and predictable frameworks for government actions.

Massive responses with little explanation will probably make things worse. That is the lesson from this crisis so far."

Most of what we've heard" from government officials" (read "political hacks"), and from so-called Dem/Lefty/"Progressive" bloggers/"experts" has been nothing less than pure trash, motivated by a desire to take advantage of events for purely political agenda reasons. In particular, doomer/gloomer negative talk since late 2007 was specifically designed to undercut the chances of a Republican presidential candidate's election last November. In cooperation with influential people inside and outsode the government, they succeeded.

Today we get word from Ed Cone, one of the largest local purveyors of mis-information about this subject. He intends to write a forthcoming N&R column about "doomers and deniers".

In recent months, I've been giving Cone the exact level of attention his work usually merits: little to none.

That may be about to change, particularly based upon his own doomer/gloomer attitude of the last 18 months, and the possible portent of the column mentioned above.

This is going to be interesting.

Stay tuned.....

'We're off to see The Wizard......'

"Stimulus" from another perspective

Hat tip: Protein Wisdom

The new Climate Alarmism theme: Ocean Acidification

Since the old True Believer smoke and mirrors routine on "global warming" "climate change" has collapsed, the Goraholics have switched to Plan B.

Unfortunately for our alarmist pals, that little issue is completely refuted here:

"Clearly, climate-alarmist claims of impending marine species extinctions due to increases in both temperature and atmospheric CO2 concentration are not only not supported by real-world evidence, they are actually refuted by it.....

...Atmospheric CO2 enrichment has been postulated to possess the potential to
harm coral reefs both directly and indirectly. With respect to marine life -- and
especially that of calcifying organisms such as corals and coccolithophores --
neither increases in temperature, nor increases in atmospheric CO2 concentration, nor increases in both of them together, have had any ill effects on the important processes of calcification and growth.

In fact, out in the real world of nature, these processes have actually responded positively to the supposedly unprecedented concomitant increases in these “twin evils” of the radical environmentalist movement.

If there is a lesson to be learned from the materials discussed in this review, it is that people should be paying much more attention to real-world observations than to theoretical predictions. Far too many predictions of CO2-induced catastrophes are treated as sure-to-occur, when real-world observations show them to be highly unlikely or even virtual impossibilities. The cases of CO2-induced coral bleaching and ocean acidification are no different.

We have got to realize that rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations are not the bane of the biosphere, but a boon to the planet’s many life forms."

I wonder what Plan C, Plan D, Plan E, ad absurdum, ad infinitum, will reveal to us in this progression of nonsense?

CBO: 'Recession ends this year, WITHOUT stimulus'

In other words, "The Stimulus" will do nothing more than expand Big Brother/Big Government, fulfill cherished Libthink agenda items, load up the coffers of Dem/Lefty/"Progressive" Fat Cats.

From the embedded link to the Washington Times:

"President Obama's economic recovery package will actually hurt the economy more in the long run than if he were to do nothing, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday.

CBO, the official scorekeepers for legislation, said the House and Senate bills will help in the short term but result in so much government debt that within a few years they would crowd out private investment, actually leading to a lower Gross Domestic Product over the next 10 years than if the government had done nothing."

Imagine that!

Krauthammer:

"And yet more damaging to Obama's image than all the hypocrisies in the appointment process is his signature bill: the stimulus package. He inexplicably delegated the writing to Nancy Pelosi and the barons of the House. The product, which inevitably carries Obama's name, was not just bad, not just flawed, but a legislative abomination.

It's not just pages and pages of special-interest tax breaks, giveaways and protections, one of which would set off a ruinous Smoot-Hawley trade war. It's not just the waste, such as the $88.6 million for new construction for Milwaukee Public Schools, which, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, have shrinking enrollment, 15 vacant schools and, quite logically, no plans for new construction.

It's the essential fraud of rushing through a bill in which the normal rules (committee hearings, finding revenue to pay for the programs) are suspended on the grounds that a national emergency requires an immediate job-creating stimulus — and then throwing into it hundreds of billions that have nothing to do with stimulus, that Congress' own budget office says won't be spent until 2011 and beyond, and that are little more than the back-scratching, special-interest, lobby-driven parochialism that Obama came to Washington to abolish."

Obama's public support is eroding rapidly

Any way you want to analyze it, people are wising up to The One's poor performance so far.

Excerpt:

"The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Approval Index for Sunday shows that 36% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing as President. Twenty-five percent (25%) Strongly Disapprove to give Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of +11.

The Presidential Approval Index is calculated by subtracting the number who Strongly Disapprove from the number who Strongly Approve. It is updated daily at 9:30 a.m. Eastern .

One week ago today, 44% Strongly Approved and 23% Strongly Disapproved to give Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of +21.

In the first set of interviews conducted after inauguration day, 45% Strongly Approved of his performance while 16% Strongly Disapproved for a Presidential Approval Index rating of +29 ."

The "strong positive" over/under on Barry O has gone down dramatically in the last week. It won't be long until it's in the negative, where it's sure to stay until he leaves office in less than four years.

Buyers remorse is setting inas a reflection on our poor forlorn President, and it hasn't even been a full three weeks in office.

It's pretty clear that many of those otherwise rational voters whom he fooled into voting for him are growing concerned. These were people who actually put him over the top, not the looney tooners, racists, and hardline lefties, who continue to be so shrill in their partisanship.

The question remains: How much damage will this guy, his arrogance, and his gang of pirates inflict on America, and how much of that will be permanent?

Coming soon to an economy near you : Sub Prime Carbon

Consider what the real hockey stick graph represents.

Noteworthy:

"Carbon credits are a form of fiat currency, yet as calls for carbon trading grow,ironically, another fiat currency collapses—destroying life savings, wiping out jobs, and taking down historic institutions overnight.

Fiat money has a long history of failure, corruption and fraud. The inevitable booms, busts and inflation act as an
invisible tax, transferring wealth from people who work and save to speculators,middle men, and crooks.

The US dollar—sovereign issue of a great capitalist,democratic nation—is on life support. So far at least eight hundred billion dollars has been created from thin air to stop the banking system from crashing."

...and:

"There is no way through the god of taxation that the US government can rescue its balance sheet. Fisher points out that the government would need to pull in two thirds more tax revenue each year, every year, ad infinitum, or cut discretionary spending by an unthinkable 97%. The fate of the US dollar hangs in the balance. There are only two ways out:

1. Salvation through Inflation: The cheat’s way. Think ‘Weimar Republic’ and wheelbarrows of cash—all debts become payable as dollars are created from thin air and the US dollar devalues. It didn’t work that well for the Germans, Hungarians, or Argentinians. And there’s no rush to migrate to Zimbabwe right now.

2. Prosperity through Productivity: The hard work way—and usually, the American way. Fix the trade deficit by making things other countries want.

The best way for the US to get out of this mess is by making real goods and services to export. Anything that hinders that productivity should be put under a microscope.

Since carbon underlies most forms of energy generation and agriculture, it’s obvious that a tax on carbon could not possibly enhance the productivity of these central industries—at least not until a realistic alternative could be found, tested and mass produced. Energy use on its own accounts for 7-8% of the entire GDP.

Meanwhile, global warming alarmists are asking us to create another fiat currency, this time based on hot air. Large multinational conglomerates are already pouring billions into exchanges and derivatives in anticipation of carbon trading. There are ‘options’ to buy credits in the future.

There’s no longer any evidence that carbon matters much to our climate; and in the unlikely event that carbon might matter, the benefits of trading carbon don’t add up.

If the US adopted Obama’s strict 80% reduction in emissions tomorrow, thus transforming the main energy source used by Americans since Columbus1, the savings in carbon merely delay the claimed warmer-Armageddon by six years.

Currencies based on nothing are powerful tools that have reshaped civilizations. But they draw out the darkest elements of human nature. We open this Pandora’s Box with trepidation."

And finally, THE key point:

"Using a fiat currency system to control a harmless natural gas is like using a combine harvester to prune the roses. It might get the job done, but there’s a risk you’ll lose the house."

Regarding the Obamarama (No)Stimulus bill

It looks like the public is getting wise to the smoke and mirrors its cheerleaders (and His Majesty himself) are putting forth.

Key point:

"The fact is, this bill was never meant as "stimulus" per se, but rather as a quick way for President Obama and the Democrat-led Congress to rush through their sweeping agenda for the country under the guise of an emergency economic rescue.

And now, the American people have called them on it.

We'd like to see Obama be successful in his presidency. But his success will be built — can only be built — on winning voter support for his plans. Yes, he won the election, but he has yet to make the case for each and every one of his policies"

Even though there now appears to be "a deal", it would be wise to keep those cards and letters and emails and blog posts coming, folks. There may yet be a way to keep these fools from pushing us off the cliff on which they've cornered us.

'Why Warren Buffet is buying equity'

...from Greg Mankiw.

I disagree with Buffet about many things economic, but I think he understands things like this better than the Doom and Gloom Club does.

They all know who they are.

The 'Rangel Rule' is solidly in place for members of Team Hope 'n Change

And, if we're lucky, they might actually extend the same privileges to you and me.

(hat tip: Gateway Pundit)

Obama, on energy conservation: 'Do as I say, not as I do'

It's all different, now that he's fooled enough voters to secure his place in the White House, isn't it?

Obama on the campaign trail:

"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times.

That's not leadership. That's not going to happen."

Obama today:

"But while it's perpetual summer in the Oval Office, the rest of the country has been trudging through a tough winter. Ice storms have cut power to millions in the Midwest and South.

With few orchids growing in the heartland, critics are saying that Obama — who urged individual sacrifice in an inaugural address that called for a 'new era of responsibility' — hasn't been willing to bear the cold with the rest of the country.

'It's stunning hypocrisy,' said Christopher Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and author of two books critical of global warming activists. 'Obama spins the dial up, takes off his coat and seeks to mandate that we turn the dial down,' he said."

Arrogance and entitlement......isn't that always the Libthink way?

Regarding the Obama Administration's tax policies

Eric Cantor (R-VA), quoted in the linked Debra Saunders' article:

"It is easy for the other side to advocate for higher taxes because -- you know what? -- they don't pay them."

Saunders:

"Daschle wrote that he is 'deeply embarrassed and disappointed by the errors that required me to amend my tax returns.' Also: 'My mistakes were unintentional.'

Remember those words, too. There's just one problem with both Geithner's and Daschle's stories: If they really did not know that they were evading taxes, then they're stupid.

And if Daschle really thinks that media mogul Leo J. Hindery Jr. gave him a car and driver for three years out of friendship, and that 'a gift from a good friend,' as he put it Monday, would be exempt from taxation, then Daschle is too stupid to be trusted with health care reform."

Indeed.

But we knew that already, didn't we?

Stay tuned, folks. There's more of the same forthcoming from this bottom feeder administration.

And just think: the guy's only been in office TWO WEEKS!

'Tough Choices' on 'fixing' the economy?

No, it's more like fulfilling cherished Libthink agenda items, in truth.

Robert Samuelson:

"As it turns out, President Obama didn't make the tough choices on the stimulus package. He could have either used the program mainly (a) to bolster the economy or (b) to advance a larger political agenda, from energy efficiency to school renovation. But Obama wanted both, and, superficially, the two can be portrayed as an enlightened partnership......

......Obama's political strategy fails to address adequately the economy's present needs while also worsening the long-term budget outlook. Some of his "temporary" spending increases in practice will almost certainly become permanent. There were tough choices to be made -- and Obama ducked them all."

Once again, it's time to set the record straight on SCHIP

SCHIP is counterproductive.

Period.

-- It weakens the quality of care for those covered.

-- It takes children out of better quality private coverage.

-- It is a negative economic incentive for parents.

-- Eliminating SCHIP would increase the number of children covered.

How much more information do we need to make the right decision, to stifle and destroy this incremental step toward Libthink's beloved universal health care agenda itemnonsense?

James Hansen, 'global warming', statistical manipulation, and outright lies

Setting the record straight about Algore's partner in crime.


"That James Hansen has a private fame-seeking agenda and is using NASA to peddle it as he makes predictive blunder after predictive blunder in their name is patently clear. Which begs the question: Why is James Hansen - a publicity-seeking leftwing political activist, responsible for issuing false climate data to the detriment of NASA's reputation and against the public good - still picking up a pay check in a top public sector job?

And just how much are Hansen's headline grabbing, ultimately false, pronouncements helping to propel governments towards hugely expensive precipitous climate action?"


More, from Hansen's boss at NASA , John Theon:

As Chief of several NASA Hq. Programs (1982-94), an SES position, I was responsible for all weather and climate research in the entire agency, including the research work by James Hansen, Roy Spencer, Joanne Simpson, and several hundred other scientists at NASA field centers, in academia, and in the private sector who worked on climate research. ...

[James Hansen] was never muzzled even though he violated NASA's official agency position on climate forecasting (i.e., we did not know enough to forecast climate change or mankind's effect on it). He thus embarrassed NASA by coming out with his claims of global warming in 1988 in his testimony before Congress.

My own belief concerning anthropogenic climate change is that the models do not realistically simulate the climate system because there are many very important sub-grid scale processes that the models either replicate poorly or completely omit. Furthermore, some scientists have manipulated the observed data to justify their model results.

In doing so, they neither explain what they have modified in the observations, nor explain how they did it. They have resisted making their work transparent so that it can be replicated independently by other scientists. This is clearly contrary to how science should be done. Thus there is no rational justification for using climate model forecasts to determine public policy."

In other words, the whole alarmist modeling nonsense, and those who drumbeat for policy based on such nonsense, deserve absolutely no respect academically and intellectually.

Quick! We need to bail out the Super Bowl!

I mean, after all, the crisis is IMMINENT, and the damage to our nation will be HUGE if we don't act NOW!

However, there are just a few minor changes that we MUST insist on first.

Here's the most important of those changes, regardless of the place it occupies on the writer's list.

2. No injured player will be permitted to receive medical treatment on the field. Instead, he or she will submit a Request for Medical Treatment Authorization (RFMTA) to Health and Human Services Secretary Daschle.

If a tax-deductible "Dasch-PAC" contribution is attached, the player might be scheduled for treatment as early as 2011. Secretary Daschle will point out that the RFMTA also can be submitted conveniently over the Internet, along with a credit card number for the voluntary contribution. That could speed the processing to mid-2011, rather than late 2011

All the better to prepare the public for ObamaCare, I'm sure.