Truth and Obama

Two strangers:  Obama and the truth

“[One] thing I’ve never tried to do is -- and I think none of us can do in public office -- is that they’re victims, or they’re unpatriotic, or they don’t have a sense of responsibility."  President Barack Obama 09/18/12

“Number 43 added four trillion dollars [to the national debt] by his lonesome…that’s irresponsible, that’s unpatriotic.”  Candidate Barack Obama 2008

How much is the National Debt?

Obama claims he doesn’t remember, but he does remember its Bush’s fault.

It wasn’t the movie—it was a terrorist attack

The Administration has admitted that the assassination of Ambassador Chris Stevens was a terrorist attack and not a simple demonstration that turned into a riot.  I guess they finally figured out people don’t take RPGs to a demonstration.

More difficulty with the truth

“Woods and Doherty weren’t part of the detail, nor were they personally responsible for the ambassador’s security, but they stepped into the breach when the attacks occurred and their actions saved others lives -- and they shouldn’t be lumped in with the security detail,” one senior official said, speaking only on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak publicly about the State Department.

The administration has not fully described the two former Navy SEALs' activities, characterizing their work only vaguely  as being security related. “Our embassies could not carry on our critical work around the world without the service and sacrifice of brave people like Tyrone and Glen," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said after the attacks.

As recently as Sunday, UN Ambassador Susan Rice gave a similar description. “Two of the four Americans who were killed were there providing security. That was their function. And indeed, there were many other colleagues who were doing the same with them,” Rice told ABC's This Week program.

So we now know it was a terrorist attack and the two heroes weren’t providing security for the Ambassador.  This administration doesn’t do well with the truth.

The Handwriting is on the wall

You would think someone at the Obama campaign would have noticed this before they started selling the Obama flag.  Here are a lot of other mistakes made by this team that go from juvenile (writing on the hand) to creepy (reminds you of big brother).  And I swear the picture that has the caption “son of promise,” I read the second part originally as “child of hype.” 

Redistribution:  Not a pretty history

The history of the 20th century is full of examples of countries that set out to redistribute wealth and ended up redistributing poverty. The communist nations were a classic example, but by no means the only example.

In theory, confiscating the wealth of the more successful people ought to make the rest of the society more prosperous. But when the Soviet Union confiscated the wealth of successful farmers, food became scarce. As many people died of starvation under Stalin in the 1930s as died in Hitler’s Holocaust in the 1940s.

How do you recover from a recovery?

How do you recover from a recovery? Just how bust the nation's "recovery" has been is painfully documented in the latest news, just two months before the election. The Census Bureau validated what middle-class Americans know all too well from their week to week, month to month struggle to make ends meet. The typical family is back to where it was in 1995. The analysis of annual data collected by the bureau indicates that median income in 2011 had fallen to $50,054, the fourth straight year of decline in well-being, and that's adjusted for inflation. In political terms, the Obama administration can truthfully say that the erosion had begun before the president took office, while Mitt Romney can point out that the administration spent four years of fumbling and quite failed to stop the rot.

The answer is vote for Romney.

Jason Weinstein takes one for the team

It’s time to get rid of Holder for incompetence.  He was completely in the dark is not the sign of a leader, however cashiering an assistant is the sign of an opportunistic coward.

Assassination in Libya

Where, out of curiosity, is our Commander-in-Chief on all of this?  We know he hasn't taken a single question from the media about the attacks

Some interesting findings coming out right now.

Three parents baby may be legalized and it’s not what you think

Members of the public are being asked whether families with a genetic risk of incurable conditions like muscular dystrophy should be allowed to use the DNA of a third party to create healthy children. 

Although the resulting babies would inherit a small fraction of their DNA from the donor and not their mother or father, the procedure would spare all future generations from a host of rare and debilitating conditions.  Sounds good to me.

Obama's bad week and other leftwing nightmares

What’s new Today

Story #1 tells about Obama’s bad week.  #2 AG Eric Holder tells us that the age of Affirmative Action is not over, in fact, he says it hasn’t begun yet.  #3 relates more people are concerned about the Constitution.  #4 relates how Obama is against coal and the EPA is doing what congress refused to do.  #5 shows us that ABC is not very good with the facts.  #6 warns you of the lies you will be hearing this fall and #7 gives you a glimpse at the type of commercials that may mean.

1.  President Obama has a bad week

President Obama has had lots of bad weeks in his tenure. None has been as bad as last week.

So, in one week, Mr. Obama got caught whispering promises to our enemy, incited a race war, raised serious questions about his understanding of the Constitution, and then got smacked down over his proposed budget that was so wildly reckless that even Democrats in Congress could not support it.

It was as if you lumped Hurricane Katrina and the Abu Ghraib abuses into one week for George W. Bush. And added on top of that the time he oddly groped German Chancellor Angela Merkel and got caught cursing on a hot mic.

Even then, it wouldn't be as bad as Mr. Obama's week. You would probably also have to toss in the time Mr. Bush's father threw up into the lap of Japan's prime minister. Only then might we be approaching how bad a week it was for Mr. Obama...

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/04/who_shrank_the_president.html#ixzz1qskfx5y6

It was a bad week, but this is not just a bad week.  It is a bad sign for the incumbent president as he goes into the election season.

This is a very important number.  An 11% lead may indicate the final tally with Republicans beating the Democrats by that number. 

2.  Leftwing Racism

…Attorney General Holder recently addressed the question of affirmative action, and for how long it would be required. He answered, stunningly, that reverse discrimination HAS ONLY JUST BEGUN:  "Affirmative action has been an issue since segregation practices," Holder said. "The question is not when does it end, but when does it begin[.] ... When do people of color truly get the benefits to which they are entitled?"

We see in these remarks the soil out of which rises the bitter fruit of racial resentment. Holder's attitude is best summed up as the elite victim mentality. The belief is one of perpetual entitlement, fueled by bitterness, and given the stamp of official approval by politicians at the highest levels of national office. The Trayvon Martin upheaval is made possible by this carefully cultivated attitude, which exists within all income levels. Whether it's under the guise of injustice, inequality, underrepresentation, or white supremacy, the effect of the attitude is the same: sheer resentment towards the majority and its institutions.

Not all minorities share this attitude, while many non-minorities do. For instance, Professor William B. Eimicke of Columbia University supports a lawsuit against New York City because the city doesn't have enough black firefighters. Eimicke, who is white, says, "The reality is the [fire] department should look like the city it serves." In other words, the fire department has something wrong with it because there are not enough blacks employed. This is an example of an educated, mainstream leader promoting an arbitrary standard of underrepresentation. Such standards will only fuel more demands for special treatment, and more resentment when the arbitrary standard proves predictably impossible to meet…

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/04/holders_revenge.html#ixzz1qslsFaDT

Leftist racism is not only alive, it is embraced by those who adhere to it without any sense of it being wrong.  In fact, in their strange world it is more moral than embracing Dr. Martin Luther King’s dream.

3.  Americans worry about the Constitution

“I don’t worry about the Constitution,” said Rep. Phil Hare, Democrat of Illinois, at a town hall meeting where voters questioned his support of the legislation that became Obamacare. You can find the clip on youtube.com, where it has 462,084 hits.

That was before the 2010 election, in which Hare, running for a third term in a district designed by Democrats to elect a Democrat, was defeated 53 to 43 percent by Bobby Schilling, proprietor of a pizza parlor in East Moline.

A lot of politicians are worrying about the Constitution these days. Liberal commentators were shocked this past week when in three days of oral argument in the lawsuits challenging Obamacare, five Supreme Court justices — a majority — asked questions strongly suggesting they think the legislation is unconstitutional.

And so the Constitution — and the limits it places on Congress’ powers — is once again part of our politics. And will continue to be, whichever way the Court rules.

For 70 years, since the court in 1942 said the government could limit the amount of wheat farmer Roscoe Filburn could grow on his own land to feed his own animals, it has been generally assumed that the federal government’s power to regulate the economy had no limits.

That assumption survived in liberal precincts even though the court in 1995 overturned a law banning guns in schools and in 2000 ruled unconstitutional parts of the Violence Against Women Act.

But the arguments, developed by Georgetown Law professor Randy Barnett and others, that it is beyond the powers conferred by the Constitution for Congress to mandate the purchase of a commercial product — health insurance in Obamacare — were certainly taken seriously by a majority of Supreme Court justices last week.

And the government’s lawyers were unable to answer the questions of both liberal and conservative justices: If Congress can do this, what can’t it do?...

http://rightwingnews.com/column-2/americans-are-worrying-about-the-constitution-again/

I’ve seen liberals on message boards actually say “You are hiding behind the Constitution.  People are dying!”  Hyperbole aside, there are people in this country that look at the Constitution as an impediment to the good works they want to do.  Their ignorance of history is appalling. 

4.  Obama vs Coal

Me: “I'll take a ‘Coal and Rum.’”

Bartender: “What's that?”

Me: “I'm protesting the EPA.”

Bartender: “Got it. Awesome. Your drink is on the house.”

Coal is my lifestyle. Coal allows me to turn darkness into light at the flip of a switch. Coal allows me to brew a cup of coffee, toast a bagel and pour a class of refrigerated orange juice in minutes. Coal lets me text friends and find directions from my fully-charged iPhone. Coal grants me the ability to use machines to wash and dry my week’s laundry pile while I run on my treadmill. Coal allows me to heat my Minneapolis bedroom to a balmy 72 degrees while snow and freezing winds pelt the roof. Basically, coal means that Americans like you and me can live like kings and queens on a pauper’s budget.

I think every American—progressive, moderate or conservative—should be concerned that the President of the United States is putting coal out of business and raising the cost of ordinary living. His EPA just released new carbon dioxide emission limits that will effectively put new coal-fired electric plants out of business, thereby raising the cost of energy at a time when record numbers of Americans are jobless and homeless.

To ice the cake, President Obama is acting unconstitutionally and ignoring science. The Constitution does not allow the President to create laws via Cabinet-level agencies like the EPA. And, there is no conclusive scientific evidence proving that producing clean coal radically endangers humans or the earth...

http://townhall.com/columnists/katiekieffer/2012/04/02/sippin_on_coal_and_rum

I know some leftist will insist there is no such thing a “clean coal.”  However I would challenge that by saying it is more descriptive of coal than “green energy is the future” is.  This whole green energy scam is costing people billions of dollars and the cartoon for today explains it well.

5.   ABC Sunday Morning Expert wrong

Terry Moran was on the panel on George Stephanopolous' ABC Sunday morning program today, as he was last week. He was introduced as ABC's Supreme Court "expert." For the second straight week, Moran misstated the Supreme Court's vote in Bush v Gore in December , 2000. The vote to overturn the Florida Supreme Court's decision on how ballots should be counted in the Florida recount controversy was not a 5-4 decision, but 7-2. Two liberal justices, Breyer, and Souter, agreed with Rehnquist, O'Connor, Kennedy, Thomas and Scalia that the Florida Supreme Court violated the equal protection clause of the 14^th Amendment.

The 5-4 vote was on whether there was still time for the Florida Court to come up with a new more consistent method for counting before the deadline set by Florida for awarding its Electoral College votes.

Bush led on election night, after the machine recount, after the partial county recounts were added, after the military vote was added, and in the recounts conducted by news organizations counting all the under-votes, after the election was decided. Had the Court thrown the case back to the state of Florida, the state might not have had the time to get a final count to use before the Electors needed to be selected. In that case, the Florida legislature had indicated it would step in and would have awarded the state's 25 Electoral College votes to Bush. So too, if no Florida Electoral College votes were submitted, neither Bush, nor Gore would have had the 270 needed to win, and the U.S. House, voting by states, would have also awarded the election to Bush. Terry Moran may be unhappy with the results, but I suspect this is all too complex for him, and would require more effort than reading a script written by others on the air.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/04/abcs_terry_moran_is_a_know_nothing_on_bush_v_gore.html#ixzz1qsnoJq1M

As much as the left hated Bush, SCOTUS did not award the election to him over the wishes of the people. 

6.  Obama caught:  Look out for the lies coming this Fall

President Obama’s hot mic moment defined his trip to South Korea and may very well define his reelection bid. The reason his uncensored remark resonates is that it supports a pre-existing narrative that President Obama’s promises are not to be trusted.

Before he backed off the campaign trail, no one made this argument more frequently than Newt Gingrich. After his second place finish in Florida, he said, “If he [President Obama] can have a record this bad, unemployment this bad, deficits this bad, policies this bad, gasoline prices this high, and still get re-elected, you can’t imagine how radical he’ll be in his second term.”

Rhetorical flourish aside – though Gingrich excels in that department – the President’s moment of candor with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev only serves to reconfirm the worst fears of proponents of a strong American defense …

http://townhall.com/columnists/danholler/2012/04/02/the_flexible_flipflopper/page/full/

Planned on listening to this type of argument and hearing his open mic words over and over again. 

7.  Open mic:  Here’s a Commercial about it

http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/04/30-seconds/

This is actually pretty good.  It makes you think (which is something Obama can’t allow the voters to do). 

The Cain scandal, the OWS Scandal, the Fast and Furious Scandal

What’s new today

Our # 1 story is about Herman Cain’s first accuser.  The question is whether or not she is credible. We learn in story #2 that Clint Eastwood is a fan of Herman Cain.   #3 through #5 are about the Occupy Movement.  #3 and #4 are about misdeeds by the Occupiers, but #5 is the most interesting as it talks about how the Occupiers are protesting the wrong group. It appears the old saying that every time you point a finger at someone three of them are pointing back at yourself is true in this case.  #6 is the latest version of the Gallup Poll that tells how people self-identify.  Conservatives outnumber liberals by a two to one ratio.  #7 details out the jobs programs that have gone over to the Senate but have not been taken up by the Democratic leadership.  It seems Obama is waiting on his own party and not the Republicans to help the working men and women in the country.  Story 8 tells us that Attorney General Holder is holding on to his story that ‘Fast and Furious” had nothing to do with the deaths of federal agents.  The final story is another one about China and it’s problems. 

 

1.  Herman Cain’s Accuser

The Cain Encounter ...

THEY HUGGED EACH OTHER BACKSTAGE IN A FULL EMBRACE LIKE OLD FRIENDS.

She grabbed his arm and whispered in his left ear.

She kept talking as he bent to listen, and he kept saying “Uh, huh. Uh, huh.”

Huh?

“I don’t know if what she was giving him was a sucker punch, but he didn’t put his arm down while she was talking to him,” said the Sneed source….

…“I HAD TURNED ON TV TO FIND OUT WHO WAS CAIN’S ACCUSER, AND I ALMOST FELL OVER WHEN I SAW IT WAS SHARON BIALEK ACCUSING CAIN OF GROPING HER GENITALS.”

“I was waiting for Herman Cain’s ‘Accuser No. 4’ to surface — and up pops Sharon!”

“I couldn’t believe it. I was shocked.”…

http://www.suntimes.com/8592168-417/sneed-witness-says-cain-accuser-hugged-him-during-tea-party-meeting-a-month-ago.html

This to me doesn’t make any sense, but everyone is different.  Why would someone be that friendly to someone who sexual harassed her?  What do you think? 

2.  Clint Eastwood: Libertarian supporter of Herman Cain

….Eastwood was far more open about his own politics. HAVING STARTED VOTING FOR GOP PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDERS IN 1952 WITH DWIGHT EISENHOWER, EASTWOOD SAID HE WAS TEMPTED TO BREAK RANKS ONLY ONCE — IN 1992, FOR ROSS PEROT. “I liked him,” Eastwood said. “I guess because I like rebels.”

THE ONLY DEMOCRAT HE CAN REMEMBER VOTING FOR IS GRAY DAVIS when he was elected governor of California in 1998. Yet Eastwood is also a big admirer of the current governor, Jerry Brown, and what Eastwood likes about Brown is revealing. He sees him as a kindred spirit, a free-thinking libertarian willing to take unpopular or unorthodox positions on key issues. Eastwood says he contributed to Brown’s campaign to establish several charter schools in Oakland when Brown was mayor there, seeing them as an important example of new thinking on education.

“I’VE ALWAYS BEEN VERY LIBERAL WHEN IT COMES TO PEOPLE THINKING FOR THEMSELVES,” said Eastwood, who supports gay marriage, abortion rights and environmental protection. “But I’m a big hawk on cutting the deficit. I was against the stimulus thing too. We shouldn’t be bailing out the banks and car companies. IF A CEO CAN’T FIGURE OUT HOW TO MAKE HIS COMPANY PROFITABLE, THEN HE SHOULDN’T BE THE CEO.”

When it comes to the current crop of Republican presidential candidates, if Eastwood is enthusiastic about anyone, it’s Herman Cain. “I LOVE CAIN’S STORY,” HE SAYS. “HE’S A GUY WHO CAME FROM NOWHERE AND DID WELL, OBVIOUSLY AGAINST HEAVY ODDS. HE’S A DOER AND A STRAIGHT-TALKER, WHICH I DON’T SEE ENOUGH OF FROM EITHER PARTY.”…

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2011/11/clint-eastwood-talks-politics-whos-the-one-democrat-that-he-voted-for.html

An interesting look at Clint Eastwood.  Don’t miss his picture on J. Edgar coming out soon. 

3.   Occupy Movement showing its True Colors

… Defenders and sympathizers of the OWS movement have claimed that conservatives have cherry-picked isolated incidents out of context in order to besmirch a legitimate effort on the part of citizens to express their discontent with the economy and the political situation. It must be admitted that when it was just a matter of stray signs or utterances that might have been true, though it must also be said this was exactly the tactic used by liberals in the media to try to demonize the Tea Party movement. BUT WITH THE SORT OF GROUP VIOLENCE WE SAW LAST WEEK IN OAKLAND AND THE ATTEMPT TO INTERFERE WITH THE RIGHT OF CONSERVATIVES TO FREE SPEECH AND ASSEMBLY IN WASHINGTON THIS PAST WEEKEND, IT IS NO LONGER POSSIBLE TO PRETEND THAT A SPIRIT OF HOOLIGANISM IS NOT INTEGRAL TO OWS. Nor, after the march in Boston, is it possible for OWS’s Jewish defenders to assert that the sort of anti-Zionism that raised its head in Boston is an aberration.

It bears repeating that despite all of the huffing and puffing by the chattering classes about the threat to democracy that the Tea Party was alleged to pose, nothing like any of this ever happened at Tea Party rallies or their protests against members of Congress at Town Hall meetings. The Tea Party protesters may have occasionally been rude to a member of Congress or a senator, but they did not block traffic, attempt to stop those who disagreed with them from holding meetings or attempt to shut down an Israeli consulate.

This is not an accident….

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/11/07/anti-zionist-ows-and-liberals/

Violence seems to be part of the left’s political actions. 

4.  Occupy San Diego

A PAIR OF SOUTHLAND STREET CART VENDORS WHO WERE FORCED TO SHUT DOWN THEIR BUSINESSES AFTER “OCCUPY” PROTESTERS VANDALIZED THEIR CARTS are hoping to get some help from local residents.

KNX 1070′s Tom Reopelle reports a fundraiser in the Gas Lamp district in San Diego on Monday night is aimed at helping two vendors get back on their feet.

The coffee and hot dog carts were located in Civic Center Plaza, the same location as the Occupy San Diego protesters.

That group first settled in to the plaza Oct. 7 and set up a tent city which has since twice been taken down by police.

COFFEE CART OWNER LINDA JENSON AND HOT DOG CART OPERATORS LETTY AND PETE SOTO SAID THEY INITIALLY PROVIDED FREE FOOD AND DRINK TO DEMONSTRATORS, BUT WHEN THEY STOPPED, THE PROTESTERS BECAME VIOLENT.

And according to one city councilman, bodily fluids were used in the attacks.

“Both carts have had items stolen, have had their covers vandalized with markings and graffiti, as well as one of the carts had urine and blood splattered on it,” said Councilman Carl DeMaio…

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/11/07/socal-street-cart-vendors-hurting-after-occupy-group-splatters-blood-urine/

Let’s see, a group protesting against “greed” decides that these cart entrepreneurs were too greedy by not giving them free food and drink so they retaliated.  

5.  Occupy Movement has the Wrong Target

…These people make up the Occupier generation. THEY ASPIRE TO JOIN THE VIRTUEOCRACY – THE CLASS OF PEOPLE WHO EXPECT TO FIND SELF-FULFILLMENT (AND A COMFORTABLE LIVING) IN NON-PROFIT OR GOVERNMENT WORK, by saving the planet, rescuing the poor and regulating the rest of us. They are what the social critic Christopher Lasch called the “new class” of "therapeutic cops in the new bureaucracy."

The trouble is, this social model no longer works. As blogger Kenneth Anderson writes, “THE MACHINE BY WHICH UNIVERSITIES TRAIN YOUNG PEOPLE TO BECOME MINOR REGULATORS AND THEN DELIVERED THEM INTO WHITE-COLLAR POSITIONS on the basis of credentials in history, political science, literature, ethnic and women’s studies – with or without the benefit of law school – HAS BROKEN DOWN. THE SUPPLY IS UNINTERRUPTED, BUT THE DEMAND HAS DRIED UP.”

IT’S NOT THE GREEDY WALL STREET BANKERS WHO DESTROYED THESE PEOPLE’S HOPES. IT’S THE VIRTUEOCRACY ITSELF. It’s the people who constructed a benefit-heavy entitlement system whose costs can no longer be sustained. It’s the politicians and union leaders who made reckless pension promises that are now bankrupting cities and states. It’s the socially progressive policy-makers in the U.S. who declared that everyone, even those with no visible means of support, should be able to own a home with no money down, courtesy of their government. In Canada, it’s the social progressives who assure us we can keep on consuming all the health care we want, even as the costs squeeze out other public goods.

The Occupiers are right when they say our system of wealth redistribution is broken. But they’re wrong about what broke it. The richest 1 per cent are not exactly starving out the working poor. (In the U.S., half all income sent to Washington is redistributed to the elderly, sick and disabled, or to those who serve them, and nearly half the country lives in a household that’s getting some sort of government benefit.) THE PROBLEM IS, OUR SYSTEM REDISTRIBUTES THE WEALTH FROM YOUNG TO OLD, AND FROM MIDDLE-CLASS WORKERS IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR TO INEFFICIENT AND EXPENSIVE UNIONS IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR.

Among the biggest beneficiaries of this redistribution is the higher-education industry. In Canada, we subsidize it directly. IN THE U.S., IT’S SUBSIDIZED BY A VAST SYSTEM OF STUDENT LOANS, WHICH HAVE ALLOWED COLLEGES TO JACK UP TUITION TO SKY-HIGH LEVELS. U.S. student debt has hit the trillion-dollar mark. BOTH SYSTEMS CRANK OUT TOO MANY SOCIOLOGISTS AND TOO FEW MECHANICAL ENGINEERS. These days, even law-school graduates are having trouble finding work. That’s because the supply has increased far faster than the demand.

The voices of Occupy Wall Street, argues Mr. Anderson and others, are THE VOICES OF THE DOWNWARDLY MOBILE WHO ARE ACUTELY AWARE OF THEIR THREATENED SOCIAL STATUS AND NEED SOMEONE TO BLAME. These are people who weren’t interested in just any white-collar work. They wanted to do transformational, world-saving work – which would presumably be underwritten by taxing the rich. They now face the worst job market in a generation. But THEIR PREDICAMENT IS AT LEAST IN PART OF THEIR OWN MAKING. AND NONE OF THE SOLUTIONS THEY PROPOSE WILL ADDRESS THEIR PROBLEM…

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/margaret-wente/occupiers-are-blaming-the-wrong-people/article2226104/

A devastating indictment of the groups OWS is not protesting. 

6.  Conservatives grow slightly in Latest Gallup Poll

Self-professed CONSERVATIVES NOW OUTNUMBER SELF-PROFESSED LIBERALS IN THE UNITED STATES, 42 PERCENT TO 21 PERCENT, according to a Gallup poll published Monday. Another 37 percent described themselves as moderates.

The percentages are based on Gallup's daily tracking polls conducted from June 1 to Aug. 31 of this year….

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/gallup-poll-conservatives-42-liberals-21

2 to 1 is the ratio of Conservatives to Liberals.  This is the reason the liberals basically have to lie -- to get elected. 

7.   The Forgotten Fifteen

No matter how loud or how often Obama says: “We can’t wait  for Congress to act,” it’s really an act on his part in his melodrama for reelection. HE CONTINUES TO DEMAND HIS STALE $475 BILLION “JOBS” PLAN.

The fact is: DEMOCRATS ARE BLOCKING REAL JOBS-PRODUCING BILLS THAT REPUBLICANS HAVE PASSED. They have urged Senate Democrats and President Obama to support THE HOUSE-PASSED JOBS BILLS THEY CALL THE “FORGOTTEN 15,” which GOP lawmakers say would mightily boost job growth.

Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid is blocking bipartisan jobs legislation for his usual bumbledom partisan reasons.

Rep. Bobby Schilling (R-IL) in a Republican Saturday radio address said there’s been some bipartisan progress to boost hiring. He praised the bipartisan House passage of legislation to kill the requirement that governments at all levels withhold 3 percent of payments to government contractors, a bill with White House support. But he added that many jobs bills the House has passed are stuck in the Democratic-controlled Senate, which he referred to as the “forgotten 15.”

Schilling portrayed Obama and Democrats as out of touch with the needs of small business as he touted the GOP agenda and the 15 bills in particular. THE BILLS WERE WRITTEN AFTER TALKING WITH MANUFACTURERS, FARMERS, AND SMALL BUSINESSPEOPLE ACROSS THE COUNTRY. But the Senate won’t let these bills come to a vote. The president hasn’t called for action because he’s too busy painting a profoundly false picture of a stalling GOP….

http://frontpagemag.com/2011/11/08/the-%e2%80%9cforgotten-15%e2%80%9d-gop-jobs-bills/

These 15 bills had an average margin of passage of 91 votes (242 for 151 against).  The closest was the bill to stop the NLRB from stopping Boeing from opening their new plant in North Carolina (52 vote margin). 

8.  Holder Refuse to Apologize for Agent’s Death

CORNYN: "Would you like to apologize today for this program that went so wrong that took the life of a United States law enforcement agent?"

HOLDER: "I CERTAINLY REGRET WHAT HAPPENED TO AGENT BRIAN TERRY. I can only imagine the pain that his family has had to deal with, in particular his mother. I am a father of three children myself. We are not programmed to bury our kids. It pains me whenever there is a death of a law enforcement official, especially under the circumstances that this occurred. IT IS NOT FAIR, HOWEVER, TO ASSUME THAT THE MISTAKES THAT HAPPENED IN FAST & FURIOUS DIRECTLY LED TO THE DEATH OF AGENT TERRY. Again my feelings of sympathy and regret go out to the Terry family AND I HOPE THAT THE STEPS THAT WE HAVE PUT IN PLACE, THE MEASURES THAT I HAVE CALLED FOR WILL PREVENT OTHER FEDERAL AGENTS, LOCAL, STATE AGENTS FROM BEING THE SUBJECT OF THIS KIND OF VIOLENCE as well as civilians, both in the United States and in Mexico."

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/11/08/holder_refuses_to_apologize_for_murder_of_border_agent_says_fast__furious_didnt_lead_to_death.html

This seems to be “I didn’t do it, you can’t prove it, and I won’t do it again” defense. 

 

9.  The Most Important Story of the Day: China

Hold on to your seats; according to THE CONFERENCE BOARD, PERHAPS THE MOST IMPORTANT BUSINESS ORIENTED FORECASTING GROUP IN THE WORLD, REVOLUTION IS COMING TO CHINA.

That’s not what the group’s latest global forecast says literally, but this or something like it is the clear meaning of the forecast that China’s growth is likely to slow to 8.7 percent next year, 6.6 percent in each of the four years after that, and then average 3.5 percent per year between 2017 and 2025. IT HAS LONG BEEN AN ARTICLE OF FAITH INSIDE CHINA AND AMONG MOST CHINA WATCHERS THAT THE COUNTRY NEEDS 9 PERCENT GROWTH PER YEAR TO AVOID WIDESPREAD INSTABILITY.

If China’s growth decelerates that fast, that far, the biggest question in world politics won’t be how the rest of us will accommodate China’s rise. THE QUESTION WILL SHIFT TO WHETHER CHINA CAN LAST.

The report, well covered in the Wall Street Journal, is a sober read. OVERALL, WORLD GROWTH IS EXPECTED TO DECLINE, WITH BOTH CHINA AND INDIA LEADING THE DECLINE.

http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2011/11/08/the-most-important-story-of-the-day/

I like to put stories in that point to future trends and events.  Last year I was talking about how the Republicans would take control of the House and had a shot at the Senate.  I’ve been talking about how Obama is toast and will be a one term president.  The information that is available makes that clear.  But this is a story that I’m seeing more and more of.  China has the largest middle class in the world (larger than the total population of the USA), but they also have a huge percentage of the population that live in poverty.  Growth keeps the lid on this much like the border between the USA and Mexico and the Mexicans coming across the border keeps the lid on Mexico’s problems.  A drop in growth will lead to upheavals in China.