IBD/TIPP Poll: Really Bad News for Obama
The latest IBD/TIPP poll
has Romney up by 5 points even
though the poll has 39% Democrats, 31% Republicans, and 30% Independents. Among
independents, Romney has a 20 point lead.
Democrats, the tax
ideologues
It seems Chuck Shumer has rejected the idea of lowering tax rates
and eliminating tax loopholes. He won’t
listen to anything but a tax increase. Now who are the unreasonable ideologues?
Camille Paglia’s pick
for President
It’s
not Romney or Obama, but the Green Party’sJill Stein.
If the Republican candidate were Rick Santorum or
Newt Gingrich, I would certainly not be voting Green; I would be voting for and
contributing to Obama again, as I did in 2008. … Romney is an affable, successful businessman whose skills seem well-suited to this particular moment of
economic crisis. Hence I want to use my
vote to make a statement about my unhappiness with the Democratic Party and
the direction it has taken.
Ryan’s
preparation for tonight’s debate
It appears Paul Ryan uses
every spare moment in preparation for his debate with VP Joe Biden. But this doesn’t appear to be unusual. If there is one thing his friends and colleagues
say about Paul Ryan is that he is always prepared.
Two
left wing narratives bite the dust
Last
Wednesday can be seen as the moment when two of the narratives currently
beloved by the American media gave way to reality. The first narrative
was that Barack Obama is a man of exceptional intelligence and political skill. Obama is an entirely mediocre politician whose only exceptional
skill has been the ability to make gullible liberals feel virtuous by finding
him to be such an outstanding fellow. The second narrative was that successful businesspeople are uniformly greedy and cruel misers
with narrow interests, pedestrian minds, suspect motives and limited leadership
skills -- unless, of course, they
support the progressive agenda, at which time they all become wise
visionaries.
I’ve always been perplexed
by the second narrative. It seems that
the rich can’t be trusted unless they are progressives when human nature
suddenly disappears and the person becomes the secular equivalent of Mother
Teresa.
The Private Sector is not doing fine
The numbers have just come
out for August and the private sector netted 36,000 new jobs in that
month. This was the lowest gain in three
months and less than one half of the original estimate of 96,000 jobs
created.
The MSM fails Obama at the first Debate
Or is that the other way around?
It
had been the real thing, not a commonplace fling with your generic Democrat,
but the love of a lifetime, the genuine
article, the sum of all dreams: He was not just a Democrat, he was also a
liberal. He was not just a liberal, he
also biracial, also multinational; also hip, cool, and clever. He was
themselves as they wanted to be. Like them, he was gifted at writing and
talking (and, as it turned out, not much beyond that), like them, he stood up
for Metro America; like them, he viewed the people outside it with a
not-very-measured disdain.
The MSM incestuous relationship with the Democrats
This is an interesting
article detailing why Fox is an anathema to so many on the left including the
MSM.
Flip
on any major news network other than Fox and you’ll be greeted by reports heralding gay marriage, an
issue that has failed repeatedly in more than half the states, a generally
liberal social world view, Washington
compromising jacking up the national debt, and unquestioning acceptance that a poorly produced video on the internet
caused our American Ambassador in Libya to die. You’ll probably even get
some poo-pooing about excesses of the First Amendment with regards to Coptic
Christians and Citizens United, but rarely about pornography or the press
itself.
Will Marijuana sink Obama?
It appears that pro-marijuana libertarian candidate GaryJohnson may actually play a factor in the coming election. In
Nevada, Obama leads Romney 51-47.
But when you poll and have Gary Johnson as well, he pulls three percent from Obama and you have 48-47.
If most of the marijuana
vote would have gone to Obama, and a portion of those voters go for Johnson,
this may have a significant effect in some battleground states.
Did going green contribute to the deaths in Libya?
While security forces were
pulled from Libya, in Europe the US was making investments in electric Volts
and charging stations. This was part of
the State Department’s efforts to go green.
In fact, at a May 10 gala held at the U.S. embassy
in Vienna, the ambassador showcased his new Volts and other green investments
as part of the U.S. government’s commitment to “climate change solutions.”
What’s the difference between Watergate and
Benghazigate?
As Bill Otis says:
The Administration said they had no actionable intelligence. They
had plenty. The Administration said they
provided adequate protection. They
didn’t, and were told it was inadequate by their own people on the ground.
The Administration, as ever in a rush to apologize to Islam, said the attack was caused by the
Internet video. It wasn’t. It was
pre-planned as the Jihadist anniversary of 9-11.
The Adminstration says it was a spontaneous mob. But there was neither a mob nor spontaneity.
The Administration says it has
crippled al Qadea. It hasn’t; instead, al Qadea not only cripples, but kills
our people, including our ambassador. And the Administration persists in each
of these lies even today, while an important security officer in Yemen was
assassinated on his way to our embassy there.
Perhaps the difference was the Media
didn’t try to cover it up?
Congressman Spencer Bachus unmasks Dodd-Frank
A very interesting article
rips the cover off the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law. It appears the law isn’t doing what it set out to do and will be costing us
all a lot of money. I found the
admission that the first 224 rules of
the 400 in the law will cost 20,000,000 work hours to complete each year
was astounding. The article puts it into
perspective in that it took 20 million hours to build the Panama Canal.
