Chris Matthews is on his way now

He doesn't have to fantasize any more.

It won't be long now until your Obamanation middle class tax increases kick in with a vengence

......when the largest tax increase in history becomes effective 1/1/11..

Which of the listed categories of tax increase will be the most obnoxious? Which will be most effective in killing the economy? Which will cost the most jobs? which one will receive the loudest cheers from the Dems/Lefties/"Progressives"/Useful Idiots?

Remember......this stuff is all in addition to the impact of Cap 'n Trade, Financial "Reform", and the Value Added Tax will cost you.

We hold this truth to be self evident

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Indeed.

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Obama on Passover

Jennifer Rubin:

"Obama, as presidents have traditionally done, released a Passover message. It is typical Obama — off-key, hyper-political, and condescending. The core of the message is this:

'The enduring story of the Exodus teaches us that, wherever
we live, there is oppression to be fought and freedom to be won. In retelling this story from generation to generation, we are reminded of our ongoing responsibility to fight against all forms of suffering and discrimination, and we reaffirm the ties that bind us all.'

No, he didn’t have the nerve to recite the emphatic exhortation 'Next year in Jerusalem.' And frankly, it sounds like Eric Holder and his civil rights lawyers drafted it. Is Passover really about discrimination? Or is it about the deliverance of God’s Chosen People by God from bondage to the land of Israel? Hmm. Obama notes the 'rich symbols, rituals, and traditions' but skips the God part. What is missing from Obama’s secularized spiel is the unique, historic, and, indeed, religious message of the Jewish holiday.

....As Rachel Abrams noted then: 'This religion without God thing is a tricky business.' And indeed a Passover message without Jerusalem is not only off-putting but it also reveals Obama’s mindset and lack of sympatico with the Jewish state and its centrality in the history and religious memory of the Jewish people. After all, the president who delivered the Cairo speech suggesting that Israel’s legitimacy rests on Holocaust guilt is really not the sort to get the Passover message right."

Obama is clearly saving the "Next year in Jerusalem" part for his Palestinian pals.

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Our new and improved Constitution

....as assumbed by the victorious powers that be who rule in our Banana Republic of Obamastan.

Via IBD

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Bad News for the "Just Give Them Some Condoms" Crowd

Abstinence based sex education works:

"'I think we've written off abstinence-only education without looking closely at the nature of the evidence,' said John B. Jemmott III, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, who led the federally funded study. 'Our study shows this could be one approach that could be used.' "

But wait, there's more:

"The Obama administration eliminated more than $150 million in federal funding targeted at abstinence programs, which are relatively new and have little rigorous evidence supporting their effectiveness. Instead it is launching a new $114 million pregnancy prevention initiative that will fund only programs that have been shown scientifically to work. The administration Monday proposed expanding that program to $183 million next year."

Imagine that!

What do you suppose we will hear from Obamaland in light of the new evidence? Revoke Professor Jemmot's federal funding, and give it to Michael Mann, instead?

Nothing's out of the question with the set of.......people who currently hold power in Washington.

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"Who, Me? An Idealogue?"

"Trend? WHAT trend? There's no trend!"

...so say the Usual Suspects, despite the obvious message sent by the public.

But now they can't ignore it.




Approve: 47.6%

DISAPPROVE: 49.1%

And, as well we know, the huge double digit plus margin for the "strongly disaprove" category has existed for quite some time now.

Bottom line? The dems/Lefties/"Progressives" can't continue to cover up the failed Obama presidency much longer.

And it's going to get worse:

"Ruth Marcus explains: 'So can a chastened Obama regain the lost sense of excitement and opportunity? Eventually, perhaps, but never entirely. The second time is never as thrilling.'

Especially when the thrill was based on cotton-candy rhetoric and a blank slate onto which Obama told us we were projecting our hopes and dreams. If there is no there there, then the thrill is not likely to return."

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"Why Isn't He Better at Being President?"

Jennifer Rubin asks the question that most folks want answered.

"Obama was the subject of many a pundit’s admiration. So smart! So worldly! Harvard Law Review. And so eloquent. That his speeches upon further reflection were practically unintelligible or self-parodies (are we the ones we have been waiting for? are the oceans really going to recede?) didn’t much matter. He was so smart.

So why isn’t his presidency going better than it is? Seriously, if he’s so smart and well-educated, shouldn’t he have come up with something better than the stimulus boondoggle? Shouldn’t he have gotten sanctions passed on Iran or figured out how not to offend both sides in the Middle East non-peace process? As Bret Stephens points out, we have gotten “bloated government, deficits and health-care bills; paralysis over Afghanistan and Iran; the convulsions over Gitmo and the CIA torture memos.” And then the mind-numbingly idiotic decision to put KSM in a Manhattan courtroom to preach the wonders of jihad and go after his captors. None of this seems very smart."

But for those of us who have been paying attention all along, these results WERE predictable.

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Obama: Failure of the cult, the ideology and the statism

Peter Wehner sums up the already determined legacy of Obama:

"What we are finding is that Barack Obama is not a practical character; he is a dogmatist. He has avoided what’s needed and beneficial in order to promote a sweeping statist agenda. He is turning out to be an ideologue instead of a statesman.

The enormous goodwill the president had at the beginning of the year has evaporated. The public still rather likes him — but they don’t much like what he is doing to them and to their country.

There will be a high price for him to pay for carrying through on his liberal ambitions. But it is his party — the instrument of his ambitions — that will suffer the consequences first."

The effective death of the Cult of Obama

Krauthammer: "The Myth of '08, demolished".

Noteworthy:

"The vaunted Obama realignment vanished. In 2009 in Virginia, the black vote was down by 20 percent, the under-30 vote by 50 percent. And as for independents, the ultimate prize of any realignment, they bolted. In both Virginia and New Jersey they’d gone narrowly for Obama in ’08. This year they went Republican by a staggering 33 points in Virginia and by an equally shocking 30 points in New Jersey.

White House apologists will say the Virginia Democrat was weak. If the difference between Bob McDonnell and Creigh Deeds was so great, how come when the same two men ran against each other statewide for attorney general four years ago the race was a virtual dead heat? Which made the ’09 McDonnell-Deeds rematch the closest you get in politics to a laboratory experiment for measuring the change in external conditions. Run them against each other again when it’s Obamaism in action and see what happens. What happened was a Republican landslide.

The Obama coattails of 2008 are gone. The expansion of the electorate, the excitement of the young, came in uniquely propitious Democratic circumstances and amid unparalleled enthusiasm for electing the first African-American president."

Ah, but certain people locally and nationally want you to believe the falsehood that Obama and his policies had absolutely nothing to do with last Tuesday's election results.

And by the way, the Moon is made of green cheese too.

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Hero worship revisited

HT: Jonah Goldberg.

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Obama and the Nobel prize: "The end of American e:xceptionalism"

WSJ:

"......(T)he Nobel citation declares that Mr. Obama's 'diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population.'

Now, the world is a big place, much of it run by despots and crooks, each of whom gets the same vote in the U.N. General Assembly as America. The Europeans are applauding that at long last there is an American President willing to let himself and his country mingle as equals with this amorphous global 'majority.'

The Norwegians are on to something. In a mere nine months, the President has promulgated a vision for the U.S. role in the world that breaks with both Republican and Democratic predecessors. Madeleine Albright, Bill Clinton's Secretary of State, called America the 'indispensable nation' a decade ago. Ronald Reagan called it a 'city on the Hill,' an example to the world.

Mr. Obama sees the U.S. differently, as weaker than it was and the rest of the planet as stronger, and so he calls for a humbler America, at best a first among equals, working primarily through the U.N. The world's challenges, he emphasized yesterday, 'can't be met by any one leader or any one nation.' What this suggests to us—and to the Norwegians—is the end of what has been called 'American exceptionalism.' This is the view that U.S. values have universal application and should be promoted without apology, and defended with military force when necessary."

Obama's pursuit of "peace": All fluff, no substance

But it DOES make American and European lefties "feel better" about America, doesn't it?

Wow, what a deal!

Let's go a little deeper than the incessant babble and drool of the Cheerleaders goes:

"The committee said today that he had 'captured the world’s attention'. It is certainly true that his energy and aspirations have dazzled many of his supporters. Sadly, it seems they have so bedazzled the Norwegians that they can no longer separate hopes from achievement. The achievements of all previous winners have been diminished."

Obama's "Regressive" tribe is restless

The whiny attitude is extremely funny in "Obama's Presidency Isn't Too big To Fail", don't you think?

You know that Obama and his presidency, the most radical and leftist in history, is in trouble when the Lefty Looney Tooners start abandoning him.

This implosion of Obamacare looks like it could put a stake through the heart of these bloodsuckers before their fangs can do additional damage beyond the disasters they've already created. Hopefully, we will be able to erase the incredible damage already done starting in the 2010 election and culminating with a widespread victory in 2012.

Watch for the other signature pieces of legislation like Cap 'n Trade, draconian financial and communication industry control, illegal alien amnesty and citizenship, and others to be dropped for lack of political ability to ram these obnoxious notions through.

I think they've figured out that the nation and our citizens WILL NOT permit that to happen.

Oh wait, I shouldn't say that...hysterically irrelevant fools like Buie will start accusing me of advocating violence again.

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Democrat/"Regressive" race baiting update

Oppose Obama on any and all particular issues on The Agenda?

Well, that settles it! You're just a racist, aren't you?

Here's their dirty little secret: It's all designed to draw attention away from his radical, failed presidency.

But we knew that already, didn't we? And increasing numbers of Americans are figuring that same thing out daily.

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"The Government Can!"

Obama will be responsible for further violence against Town Hall protesters.

Not only will we hold Obama and his thugs responsible, we will also hold accountable all the toads who attempt to rationalize it, or deflect criticism away from where it rightly belongs.

An excellent example of such enabling behavior can be found here

You are invited to join me in holding the low-life in question accountable.

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Obama's Politburo

It's his Carrousel of Incompetence.

Excerpt:

"My belief, based on reports in the news and from my private network of seasoned agents and provocateurs, is that this White House is a carrousel of incompetence. How else do we explain the ravening push on all fronts, healthcare, the environment, fiscal reform, intelligence reform, and a foreign policy of humility and apology? Unsurprisingly, on every front the President is in trouble. Remember chief of staff Rahm Emanuel's, callous enjoiner, 'Never let a serious crisis go to waste'? This White House is a serious crisis.

According to sources with whom I confer, the Obama White House is the most tightly controlled White House in years, with the President, Emanuel, and David Axelrod micromanaging practically everything. They compose what is called 'the Politburo,' and the news story waiting to be written is that their control is as stultifying as was Jimmy Carter's control of his White House. Stupendous failure is in the cards."

But we already knew that, didn't we? What else were we to expect from a "community organizer" who has no executive experience, let alone the expertise, a "leader" who is constantly in campaign mode.

The only question is how long it will take the Dem/Lefty/"Regressive" element to begin their understanding of the pending disasters that await the nation. I suspect a near majority of them never will approach any level of that particular understanding.

Fortunately, the rest of the public (in particular the numbers of those fooled into voting Democrat last November) have already started to figure it out.

There's hope yet we might still be able to reverse the damage already done, particularly if we keep defeating these signature "regressive reforms" they intend to throw at us.

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Today's "Do As I Say, Not As I Do" Obama moment

Politico:

"It's likely that this dust-up will quickly pass, but for a moment, it seemed as if the photo of a helmetless Obama could be this vacation's version of the most buzzed-about photo-op.

During the presidential campaign, Obama was photographed riding his bike with a helmet and his signature dorky jeans. He later told a fundraiser crowd:

'I had an internal debate,' said Obama. 'I knew that the AP was going to take a picture, and they were trying to portray it like Dukakis wearing that tank helmet. But I wanted to make sure that the children who saw that picture knew that even the Democratic nominee for president wears a helmet when he goes biking.' "

He probably just needs a helmet-wearing break because of the effect of the invisible helmet he wears when he speaks in public, as revealed here by the Top Secret de-cloaking device I possess.