All violence is equal, but some violence is more equal than others
Movie review one: The movie is a viscerally exciting, adrenaline-soaked tour de force of suspense and surprise, full of explosions and hectic scenes of combat, but it blows a hole in the condescending assumption that such effects are just empty…
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All violence is equal, but some violence is more equal than others
The New York Times Can Keep A Secret When One Of Their Own Has His Life On The Line
From the New York Times, David Rohde, a New York Times reporter who was kidnapped by the Taliban, escaped Friday night and made his way to freedom after more than seven months of captivity in the mountains of Afghanistan and…
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The New York Times Can Keep A Secret When One Of Their Own Has His Life On The Line
The President’s Telling Comment About FoxNews
In 1992, the New Republic ran a piece, I believe it was by Jacob Weisberg (check spelling) on then-presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee, reporting something the candidate’s mother (as I recall) had said about her son. If Bill Clinton entered a…
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The President’s Telling Comment About FoxNews
Boycott ABC Advertisers: Propaganda Arm of the Obama White House
Well, ABC is one of the propaganda arms, anyway. When it comes to Health Care, ABC’s Charlie (look down-my-nose-at-Sarah-Palin) Gibbs and Diane Sawyer will be asking “tough questions” of President Obama, in the White House about the President’s health care…
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Boycott ABC Advertisers: Propaganda Arm of the Obama White House
Letterman’s Misogyny And Crude Remarks At Palins Avoid Media Scrutiny
Of course, everyone remembers how the media ran with a silly comment from actress Tina Fey on Saturday Night Live, vis a vis “I can see Russia from my house!” It was goofy and light hearted, but, somehow, that almost…
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Letterman’s Misogyny And Crude Remarks At Palins Avoid Media Scrutiny
The False Promises of a Demagogue
- Scott Miller
Uh-oh… what happened to Super-O? According to Pravda (our MSM) all he had to do was say the word, and the seas would part, the economy would be tamed, and we’d be on the road to full employment in no time… that’s all we heard from the media when they were ramming though the so-called stimulus plan, right?
In fact according to the Obamarxist himself, he said that if Congress passed his $1.3 boondoggle spending plan, the unemployment rate wouldn’t go higher than 8%.
Well, Congress passed the porkulus bill, and we learned last week that the unemployment rate has jumped to 9.4%
But, but, but… wait… I thought The One said that the unemployment rate wouldn’t get past 8% if we put $1.3 trillion on big government’s credit card.. what the heck is going on here?
Well Obama tried to explain today… this from the AP:
Obama repackages stimulus plans with old promises
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama assured the nation his recovery plan was on track Monday, scrambling to calm Americans unnerved by unemployment rates still persistently rising nearly four months after he signed the biggest economic stimulus in history.
Obama admitted his own dissatisfaction with the progress but said his administration would ramp up stimulus spending in the coming months. The White House acknowledged it has spent only $44 billion, or 5 percent, of the $787 billion stimulus, but that total has always been expected to rise sharply this summer.
“Now we’re in a position to really accelerate,” Obama said.
He also repeated an earlier promise to create or save 600,000 jobs by the end of the summer.
Neither the acceleration nor the jobs goal are new. Both represent a White House repackaging of promises and projects to blunt criticism that the effects haven’t been worth the historic price tag. And the job estimate is so murky, it can never be verified.
The economy has shed 1.6 million jobs since the stimulus measure was signed in February, far overshadowing White House announcements estimating the effort has saved 150,000 jobs. Public opinionof Obama’s handling of the economy has declined along with the jobs data.
For the first time, the administration admitted the economic forecasts it used to sell the stimulus were overly optimistic.
“At the time, our forecast seemed reasonable,” Vice President Joe Biden’s top economic adviser, Jared Bernstein, said Monday, explaining that the White House underestimated the scope of the recession. “Now, looking back, it was clearly too optimistic.”
By now, according to earlier White House economic models, the nation’s unemployment rate should be on the decline. The forecasts used to drum up support for the plan projected today’s unemployment would be about 8 percent. Instead, it sits at 9.4 percent, the highest in more than 25 years.
Some analysts believe the White House is still not being realistic, that Obama will be lucky if any real job creation from his recovery effort is seen by the end of the year, let alone the employment explosion he predicts.
“I think these estimates are overly optimistic,” said Arpitha Bykere, a senior analyst with RGE Monitor.
Obama spoke Monday about “modest progress” in the economy, citing fewer jobs lost last month than expected. He said he hopes to build on that in the months ahead with stimulus programs.
“We’ve done more than ever, faster than ever, more responsibly than ever, to get the gears of the economy moving again,” he said.
But he acknowledged, “I’m not satisfied. We’ve got more work to do.”
Americans apparently agree. Obama’s disapproval rating on the economy has risen from 30 percent in February to 42 percent, according to a Gallup pollcompleted May 31. Sensing weakness on a signature issue of Obama’s presidency, congressional Republicans are renewing their criticisms that the stimulus plan has not shown results, only mounting debt.
“This is President Obama’s economy, and his administration must provide results and specifics rather than vague descriptions of success that seem to change by the week,” House Republican Whip Eric Cantor of Virginia said. “The administration looks dramatically out of touch as they highlight the creation of temporary summer employment in the face of job losses unseen in decades, record unemployment and massive deficits.”
“Overly optimistic”… folks this is the same old crap sandwich that the politicians feed the American people time and time again. They paint a rosy scenario…that big government is the answer to the problem… if you just turn over a little more of your liberty… a little more of your money… everything will be AOK. As frustrating as it is for me to sit here and say, “I told ya so” … it’s even more frustrating to watch a majority of the American people fall for the stupid lines by the same stupid politicians over and over again.
By the way, what is this “We’ve done more than ever, faster than ever, more responsibly than ever, to get the gears of the economy moving again”? That is nothing but complete and total BS! The only thing that they have done more than ever, faster than ever, is grow the size of government.
And that’s the key here… what the statists fails to understand is that government doesn’t produce anything. Every dollar government spends has to be taken from the productive private sector. Anyone with a little economic common sense can clearly see that when government spends our money, that not one single private sector productive job is created… instead they create government jobs that have to be paid for by the private sector… that never go away whether they are needed or not.
If Obama really wanted to create productive jobs in this country, he would be rescinding the so-called stimulus bill. He’d be dramatically cutting the size and cost of government. He’d be lowering taxes on capital formation. He’d be lowering taxes on the American people, as they will spend their money much more productively than any government can. He’d eliminate corporate income taxes, which is really just a back-door tax on consumers.
There is plenty that Obama could do to get the economy going again and creating jobs gaian… but he’s really not interested.
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The False Promises of a Demagogue
Republican Leadership Fails Yet Another Test
- Scott Miller
It’s like clockwork… everytime the so-called Republican leadership has a chance to differentiate themselves from the statists they blow it… this from the AP:
House Republicans offer $23B list of spending cuts
WASHINGTON – Responding to a challenge from President Barack Obama, House GOP leaders are offering up a roster of more than $23 billion in specific spending cuts over the next five years.
The proposed cuts, which were sent to the White House on Thursday, bear little resemblance to the dramatic proposals Republicans unfurled when they took over Congress 14 years ago.
Rather than proposing, for example, the elimination of the Education Department, as they have in the past, Republicans are suggesting killing a program that pays for building sidewalks, bike paths and crossing guards as part of the Safe Routes to Schools program. That would save $183 million a year.
$23 billion!!??? Out of a freakin’ $3.6 TRILLION budget, they come up with $23 billion… how freakin’ pathetic is that? This is just more proof that the Republican leadership, such as it is, is scared of it’s own shadow. They are so gun-shy they can’t mount even the tiniest of defense in the media today. I don’t even know what purpose this party serves anymore if they can’t contrast themselves against such a massive target that is the Obama administration.
I’ve got to tell ya’ folks, I though Eric Cantor had something going for him, but this just proves he doesn’t have the mettle to lead the party… we’re still waiting for someone to step forward to fill such an obvious vacuum…
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Republican Leadership Fails Yet Another Test
In The Obama Era, Unemployment Is Now Funemployment!
It’s hard not to notice that the media was doing more economic “woe is me” stories about people suffering during the fat years of the Bush era than they’re doing now, when Obama is destroying whole industries and permanently damaging…
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In The Obama Era, Unemployment Is Now Funemployment!
Bonnie Erbe: Michelle Malkin Deserves Playboy’s Public Rape Fantasies
It turns out Playboy’s invitation to fantasize about raping famous conservative women wasn’t such a big deal after all. First, it drew approving chuckles from Politico under the subheading, “The Lighter Side of Politics.” Now MSM propagandist Bonnie Erbe of…
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Bonnie Erbe: Michelle Malkin Deserves Playboy’s Public Rape Fantasies
Ratings Tailspin Continues for Cable News Moonbats
Installing Comrade Obama in the White House was the liberal media’s greatest triumph — but may also be its downfall. At the MSM’s left-most fringe, ratings corrosion is already well underway. TV by the Numbers cheers us up with this:…
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Ratings Tailspin Continues for Cable News Moonbats
