LEE RODGERSREPUB RACE MORE CONFUSING THAN AMUSING
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CHU'd OUT? IT'S TIME ...
WHO'S REALLY UNEMPLOYED?
CHU'd OUT? IT'S TIME ...
WHO'S REALLY UNEMPLOYED?
Santorum had a good day in both 'bama and Mississippi, although the vote was a close three-way split. Romney just can't get the traction to pull away, although the math still favors him in the long-run. Thanks to being organized in territorial outposts like American Samoa, Romney still won the most delegates yesterday
I wonder if anyone in his campaign organization has the cojones to offer this advice:
Mitt, stop sounding stupid! In an interview with Neil Cavuto, the leading contender referred to the chaotic Afghanistan war and its accompanying blood-letting as a “kinetic activity.” You know ... the Obama obfuscation of war. Perhaps the Massachusetts Mauler should emulate the 1880's campaign of Pres. Wm McKinley and confine himself to campaigning with a few remarks from his front porch. It worked then; perhaps Obama's presidency is lame enough to enable it to work again.
Mittens, just sit on your porch, posit a few platitudes, and shut the hell up!
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Another example of how politicians get in the habit of talking in a language many people don't understand is Gingrich's constant references to "we're going to Tampa." Try this: ask the next ten people you meet if they know where the Republican convention will be held.
It reminds one of how Bob Dole always talked in insider terms, with endless references to "HB 237" or "SB 932", leaving listeners scratching their heads and wondering, "What the hell is he talking about?"
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Obama operatives are doubtless enjoying watching three Republicans continue to drain the wallets of contributors in their internecine warfare. The more money spent fighting each other, the less available for the general election.
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So Obama is "generally proud" of our troops. What a ringing endorsement from a Commander-in-Chief.
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Jay Leno --
"They say gasoline could be $6 a gallon. But the good news is the White House says President Obama is aware of the problem, and will continue to talk about it between fundraisers."
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Now that Obama's Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, has renounced his own oft-repeated statement that he wanted to see U.S. gas prices rise to European levels, it reveals him to be not only stupid, but a gutless weasel.
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While Obama apologists and the totally deluded babble about the improving economy it should be remembered that a key indicator, unemployment statistics, is based on a bureaucratic lie. Those numbers do not take into account people who have simply given up on finding work; they also count as "employed" people who formerly had meaningful jobs at decent pay, but now are working only part-time for much lower wages.
That is the glaring difference between Obama propaganda and the observed reality that most Americans see for themselves.
All the eventual Republican nominee need do is recycle the cutting question Ronald Reagan asked of Americans so successfully during his triumph over the pathetic Jimmy Carter: "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?"
Only the freeloaders and fraudsters subsidized by Obama's Chicago-style political machine will answer in the affirmative. In fact, we have a number from the poll sponsored by the liberal CBS/New York Times poll: only 20% say they're better off.
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Obama has already reneged on his pre-election vow that if he didn't have the economy back in order within two years he'd be a one-term president. We might also wonder if Gingrich would give us a deadline-date by which gasoline would be $2.50 a gallon or he'd otherwise withdraw and not run again.
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Obama took British Prime Minister David Cameron to a basketball game. In Dayton, Ohio. Between Western Kentucky University and Mississippi Valley State. Why or whether Obama or Cameron had any special rooting interest in either fine institution is unknown. What IS known, thanks to the Washington Times, is that they spent $365,000 of your tax money just on the cost of flying Air Force One to Ohio.
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Rasmussen poll finds the most-disliked (by the public) member of Congress is -- ta-da! -- Nancy Pelosi. Followed closely by the handsome and charming Harry Reid.
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The nutball quote of the week:
“These guys don’t have a sense of the average folks out there. They don’t know what it means to be middle class.” -- VP Joe Biden, speaking at a (minimum) $10,000 per couple fund-raising dinner.
More high-living freeloading:
Bloomberg Biznews reports that the Cabernet Sauvignon wine served at a recent White House Dinner cost $399 a bottle; $100 per glass. And guess who paid for it.
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Newsbusters exposes -- again -- the liberal bias/fraudulence of CNN. While a newsreader was stating the old news that the Senate has gone well over 1,000 days without fulfilling its constitutional duty to enact a budget, it showed photos ONLY of Republican Senators -- despite the fact that that body is controlled by Harry Reid and the Democrats. CNN--Propaganda, Inc.
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"The Education Department released a study last week showing that black school kids are disciplined at higher rates than whites. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said that these disparate outcomes were evidence of 'fundamental unfairness.' Not surprisingly, the press largely reported the story on Mr. Duncan's terms.
"Of course, blacks are the principal victims of black criminals, and black kids who attend school to get an education have the most to lose if schools start easing up on bullies. If only the administration cared as much about actual human beings as it does about pie-in-the-sky racial parity." -- Jason Riley in WSJ's Political Diary.
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Thomas Sowell takes on the absurd premise of the joint crusade of the Department of Education and the Department of Justice against schools that discipline black males more often than other students ...
"If black males get punished more often than Asian American females, does that mean that it is somebody else's fault? That it is impossible that black males are behaving differently from Asian American females? Nobody in his right mind believes that. But that is the unspoken premise, without which the punishment statistics prove nothing about 'equity.
"What is the purpose or effect of this whole exercise by the Department of Education and the Department of Justice? To help black students or to secure the black vote in an election year by seeming to be coming to the rescue of blacks from white oppression?
"What they are more fundamentally trying to protect are the black votes which are essential for Democrats. For that, blacks must be constantly depicted as under siege from whites, so that Democrats can be seen as their rescuers."
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Now another poll sponsored by liberal media is forced to recognize that Obama's support is thinning. It's the CBS/New York Times poll that finds 41 percent of respondents express approval of the job he is doing and 47 percent saying they disapprove.
The numbers must be truly awful if both this poll and the ABC/Washington Post poll show the public figuring out that this would-be emperor truly has no clothes.
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"“Whether one believes in a large, very active government or something more limited, mathematically, the amount of debt we already have and the terrifying rate at which it is accumulating will lead to national ruin. There’s no other outcome arithmetically possible.” -- Gov. Mitch Daniels, who got Indiana's budget and finances in order but decline to run for the Republican presidential nomination.
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My admiration for longtime political operative (for both parties) Dick Morris is limited. However, I believe he's right when he says that a "brokered" convention and selection of a nominee only two months before the election would be disastrous for the Republican Party. It appeals to the fantasies of fervent anti-Romney voters, but draws smiles from Obama campaign organizers.
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One poll finds a majority of Americans think Rush Limbaugh should be fired for his remarks about the Georgetown University student-activist.
Ignorance runs deep. Rush can't be fired, because Rush works for ... Rush!
This "public" reaction is another manifestation of the kind of stupidity that put Barack Obama in the White House.
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Wes Pruden has suggestions for other "gimmes" from -- or forced by -- the government ...
"The president has cleverly transformed the contraception issue from a Democratic attack on freedom to act on religious belief to a Republican ravishing of women. Fear of a shortage of contraceptives can now be exploited to make everyone forget about jobs they don’t have, the nation in hock to the Chinese, and the building of an Islamic bomb in Iran.
"Mr. Obama should expand his contraceptive mandate. It doesn’t go far enough. To put it delicately, so as not to offend in our age of dignified reticence to declaim endlessly and openly of what used to be called sex, what’s the point of a free contraceptive if there’s no opportunity to use it? It’s only fair that the government guarantee opportunity where the rubber meets the road. A mandate for opportunity, so no bachelor or spinster need stay home on date night is an idea whose time has clearly come."
-- Mr. Pruden has other recommendations. The list is on the Washtimes.com site --
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California's chaotic financial problem in a nutshell ...
With 12% of America's population, California has one third of the nation's welfare recipients. -- (source -- WSJ)
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Dan Sorkin forwards a few quotes from America's Founders deserving of recollection and consideration ...
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." -- Samuel Adams
"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them." -- Patrick Henry, American colonial revolutionary
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests." -- Patrick Henry
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Jim passes along this word from Larry the Cable Guy ...
"My cousin won't even let his 14 year old daughter have a beer...in front of HER daughter."
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The Sky-guy strikes again ...
A couple drove down a country road for several miles, not saying a word. An earlier discussion had led to an argument and neither of them wanted to concede their position.
As they passed a farm barnyard with mules, goats and pigs, the husband asked sarcastically, "Relatives of yours?"
"Yep", the wife replied, "In-Laws!"
"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."