The Left ridiculed Bush, calling him an idiot… then they turn around and worship a man who thinks there are 57 states in the U.S., that the treatment for asthma is a breathalyzer, says he sees dead veterans in the audience during Memorial Day ceremonies, claimed tornadoes in Kansas killed 10,000 people, doesn’t know the difference between “corps” and “corpse“… and this:

Perhaps that extra 2,900% will come from the savings on breathalyzers for corpse men he sees at rallies in the additional 7 states.

So Congress has gone from voting on legislation without even reading it…

…to the threat of passing legislation without even voting on it.

What’s next? Enforcing legislation that hasn’t even been drafted…

Today marks the 7th anniversary of the first post on this blog. Thanks to all of you who have put up with these rants for the last 7 years.

Assuming we can survive the rest of Obama’s single term, here’s to many more…

After 16 long years, it appears the D-baggers are ready to again trade seats in Congress to try and get their disasterous and highly unpopular healthcare bill passed. The Community Organizer in Chief is set to read a teleprompter tomorrow telling the D-baggers in Congress to go forward with the nuclear option to pass the healthcare bill in the face of massive opposition.

All I have to say is… good for them. Go teach those stupid constituents a lesson or two about the way things work in Chicago Washington politics.

Oh, but a word of caution… just watch where your party is standing when you detonate the damn thing. It may be generations before they collect all the pieces.

UPDATE: Obama campaigned on change… but as expected, he’s just another politician who says one thing on the campaign trail and does just the opposite once given the keys to the office…

Couple of money quotes from the clip…

“My understanding of the Senate is that you need 60 votes to get something significant to happen…”

and…

“The bottom line is that our healthcare plans are similar, the question once again is, ‘Who can get it done?’ Who can build a movement for change? This is an area where we’re gonna have to have a 60 percent majority in the Senate and the House in order to actually get a bill to my desk. We’re gonna have to have a majority to get a bill to my desk. That is not just a 50 plus one majority.

and…

“You gotta break outta what I call the sort of 50 plus one pattern of presidential politics. Maybe you eke out a victory of 50 plus one, then you can’t govern.” You know, you get Airforce One, there are a lot of nice perks, but you can’t deliver on healthcare. We’re not going to pass universal healthcare with a 50 plus one strategy.

and…

“Fixing our healthcare system… If we want to transform the country though, that requires a sizeable majority.”

There’s only one appropriate response to anything Obama says…

UPDATE 2:And so it goes…

Courtesy iMakism

When your message is too weak to support your own station and you’ve admitted your supporters are stupid, what’s left to do but spoon feed them talking points and walk them to debates, holding their hands?

The Democratic National Committee’s Organizing for America has quietly launched an initiative aimed at making Obama supporters’ voices heard on the largely conservative airwaves.
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The online tool presents users with a radio show discussing political topics, to which supporters can listen live, and the phone number for that station, for when health care comes up. It also offers tips for callers and talking points on the issue.

Given that most of their constituents are probably exploring careers in the telemarketing industry, this is probably a good strategy.

But it still doesn’t address the bigger issue… that most Americans don’t want to hear what liberals are peddling, hence the market forces of supply and demand leave them no other viable avenue to spew their socialist agenda. It does, however, show that liberals realize that the audience in talk radio land is too large to ignore… while they simultaneously ignore the reason behind the size of the audience.

And unloading a bunch of uninformed drones into grown up discussions of important issues will only further expose the idiocy that runs rampant on the political left. So I say, bring it on, seminar callers. Why think for yourself when you can have the White House think for you?

The Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid said yesterday that Republicans should “stop crying” about the Democrats’ threat of using reconciliation - aka, the “nuclear option” - (a method to render the filibuster moot and pass a bill with just 51 votes) to pass the highly unpopular healthcare bill.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters Tuesday that Republicans “should stop crying” about the possible use of the parliamentary procedure known as budget reconciliation to pass a health care reform bill.

But look how Democrats reacted just a few short years ago when on the other side of the nuclear option…

Aside from the blatant hypocrisy, the problem with threatening the reconciliation option right now is that Democrats are doing this while simultaneously pretending to be engaging in bipartisanship. That’s a problem.

UPDATE: Harry Reid claimed, during the healthcare summit, that nobody had mentioned Reconciliation… Hypocrisy AND dishonesty… the Democrat way.

Now that the Obama administration is playing kabuki theater with Iran, it seems like the appropriate time to revive a post I made back on January 13, 2006 questioning the credibility of Democrats on dealing with a nuclear ambitious, Islamic tyrant playing games with the United Nations. Take note of the very last line of the post….

Again we have a nuclear ambitious, Islamic tyrant playing games with the United Nations. And the Democrats are acting the same way they did towards Iraq prior to the war.

Senator John Kerry (D-MA)

“Iran has made a dangerous and silly decision of confronting not just the U.S. government but the entire international community.”

Tom Lantos (D-CA)

“Iran is hell-bent on developing nuclear weapons”

“European governments should make clear to Iran that there can’t be business as usual as long as Ahmadinejad, or others who espouse his radical views, hold high office … the U.S. needs to press for stiff multilateral sanctions aimed at stopping Iran’s nuclear program … there still are measures the U.S. can take alone to increase pressure on Tehran…”

“Iran has reportedly been working to develop [WMDs]. A nuclear-armed Iran is an unacceptable risk to us and our allies… We must show determined leadership to … prevent the development of nuclear weapons in places like Iran.”

“Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime … He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation … And now he is miscalculating America’s response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction … So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real…”

“One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line.”

“We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction.”

“He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983.”

“Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.”

“We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.”

So we’re justified in asking whether they’re serious today. Afterall, it is reasonable to assume that should the situation with Iran escalate, through the lack of cooperation of Iran itself (like it did with Iraq), Democrats will march hand-in-hand with the anti-war protestors again trying to score cheap political points against Bush… of course, not until after voting to authorize military action, to be sure.

But this is why all this political gamesmanship on Iraq creates a serious problem for our country. The Democrats have now delivered an ambigious message to the world. First, we’ll talk tough and alert the world to the dangers of Iran, then we’ll march around the world calling our President a “liar“, “thug“, “criminal“, “terrorist” and more claiming he made the whole thing up to justify the war.

So the first half of the game with Iran is playing out the same way it did with Iraq. Why should we expect a second half to be any different?

Democrats can’t expect to be taken serious on the subject anymore. And that puts America in a dangerous position if they ever regain power.

MSNBC’s lead D-bagger, KKKeith Olbermann wants to know where the diversity is in the Tea Party events…. Tea Party would like to know where the diversity is on MSNBC.

Truth is, Olbermann would never show up because he knows there will be minorities there and, being a typical racist liberal, he’d rather preach from his lily white network penthouse about racial insensitivity than actually come down and comingle with “those kinds of people”.

Have some hope and send more change…

President Barack Obama is expected to announce plans Friday to provide an additional $1.5 billion to a state-assistance program for homeowners worst hit by the downturn in U.S. housing values.

The program, which Mr. Obama will announce in Las Vegas, is for states where the average home value for all homeowners in the state has dropped more than 20% from its value at the height of the housing bubble.

This is certainly a gesture to help those in need… specifically, one person in desperate need:

Mr. Obama is appearing in Nevada Friday with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who is fighting for re-election in November amid voter anger over the state’s high unemployment and widespread housing woes.

While others are debating whether corporations should be able to contribute money to political campaigns, Obama and Reid are spending $1.5 Billion of your money to buy votes for one Senator.

If Obama’s record of campaigning for others continues, a $1.5 Billion investment may end up being a significant savings to taxpayers.

This time last year, the Community Organizer in Chief was running around the country manufacturing a sense of urgency to pass a $787 billion bill that he claimed was needed to fix the American economy…

It worked, similar to the way a veternarian “fixes” a dog.

He promised that if the bill passed, 3.5 million jobs would be “saved or created” by the end of 2010.

Now, what makes this recovery plan so important is not just that it will create or save 3.5 million jobs over the next two years, including 60,000-plus here in Colorado. It’s that we’re putting Americans to work doing the work that America needs done –- (applause) — in critical areas that have been neglected for too long; work that will bring real and lasting change for generations to come.

And one year later… 4.02 million jobs have been LOST… which means his urgent, must-pass-it-now-or-we-all-die stimulus plan must create 7.52 million jobs in the next 10 months to keep his promise.

So naturally the Obama administration is projecting historical growth based on the success of the legislation he said was urgently needed, right? Wrong.

President Barack Obama’s top economic advisers offered a cautious forecast on Thursday that U.S. job gains for 2010 will average 95,000 a month, with analysts expecting hiring to expand by spring.

That would mean he falls just 6.57 million jobs short of the promised benefits of passing the Generational Theft Act of 2009.

Part of Obama’s sales pitch in pleading for quick passage of the stimulus bill was that if passed, it would keep unemployment below 8%… and if it didn’t pass, unemployment would jump.

In the absence of stimulus, the economy could lose another 3 to 4 million more. Thus, we are working to counter a potential total job loss of at least 5 million. Even with the large prototypical package, the unemployment rate in 2010Q4 is predicted to be approximately 7.0%, which is well below the approximately 8.8% that would result in the absence of a plan.

At the time of his sales pitch, unemployment was at 7.7%… after passage of the bill that was supposed to halt unemployment, it has since topped out at over 10%… and that’s not even considering the folks who’ve given up looking for a job since the bill was passed (putting the real unemployment figure somewhere north of 16%)

Obama said the effects of the bill would be widespread… and he was right. Since its passage, all 50 states have experienced an increase in jobless rates.

Regional and state unemployment rates were generally higher in December. Forty-three states and the District of Columbia recorded over-the-month unemployment rate increases, four states registered rate decreases, and three states had no rate change, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the year, jobless rates increased in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Not bad return on a $787 billion investment, huh? Oh, actually, the number’s been revised and the cost of this disater is actually now $862 billion. But what’s a hundred billion or so when the money is being put to such good use.

Perhaps the delta between what was promised and what was delivered is just a simple statistical error. Maybe the Bureau of Labor Statistics researchers just haven’t visited 440 nonexistent Congressional Districts that received $6.4 billion in funds .

In its latest computer glitch, the Obama administration’s much-ballyhooed accounting system for the $1.2 trillion stimulus law detailed government spending in 39 congressional districts in Texas — a state that, in reality, has 32 congressional districts. More than $14 million in mystery money is attributed to seven phantom congressional districts, including the mysterious and fictional District 00.

Nationally, the recovery.gov site has mistakenly attributed $6.4 billion in stimulus spending to 440 nonexistent districts in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and even four American territories, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan government oversight group watchdog.org.

Whew, just a data entry error on the Stimulus website… a website that cost taxpayers $18 million, by the way.

So one year after Obama breathlessly warned us that if the Stimulus Bill didn’t get passed, the economy would be in worse shape, we have an economy saddled by enormous debt, negative job growth and a declining morale all tracked on an overprice and inaccurate government-run website. What’d you expect from a guy who’s receiving on-the-job-training in the White House?