Rubio: “The president has become divisive, cynical, given to hyperbole on these issues, always looking to pit Americans against each other in some sort of political calculation”

Weasel Zippers   "Rubio’s far too nice. Obama has not “become” these things — they are in his DNA and have defined him from the beginning."
Quoting from The Hill:

“When this president ran for office in 2008, he said he was going to be different, he said he was going to be a post-partisan uniter that brings everyone together and three and a half years later the president, quite frankly, has become like everyone else in Washington D.C,” the freshman senator said on Fox News Sunday.
“This obsessive effort to win his reelection — he has lost himself and he has lost what makes him different and this issue of how they’ve used the bin Laden raid is one example about how his administration has become just like everybody else,” Rubio added. . . .
Rubio said that Obama’s time in Washington has made him more “cynical” and “divisive.”

Though I agree that Obama was always like this and has not  changed a bit, I think Sen. Marco Rubio worded it wisely and will be taken more seriously by some whose minds need to be changed. TD

Castro: Obama rips United States and compliments Cuba to visitors

Education Action Group Foundation:

“President Obama knows this only too well and has talked about it with some of his visitors. He candidly told one of them: ‘The problem is that the United States sends soldiers while Cuba, however, sends doctors.’” Really? That’s what our commander-in-chief said to visitors, presumably at the White House?
Is it any wonder our standing in the world continues to diminish?

Hat tip to Weasel Zippers

Interactive 2010 US Census Map

NY Times

You can zoom in and out to get the information on the places you know.Use your cursor and you can move around the map and zoom in on specific counties to get current stats. It is very interesting!Just glide your cursor over the map and it displays every county.Can't imagine how long it took to create this map!Amazzzzzing!

Hat tip to Chuck MacNab at The Missouri Patriot in Wentzville, Missouri

Elizabeth Warren's punchline problem (UPDATED)

Thomas Lifson  "The awful truth is dawning on many Democrats, possibly including Elizabeth Warren herself: her candidacy for "Teddy Kennedy's seat" has turned into a nightmare, raising all sorts of uncomfortable issues for public scrutiny. Even worse, Alinsky's  favorite tool, ridicule, is being deployed to make points that inflict lasting damage on sacred cows of the left like affirmative action and the transcendent wisdom of Harvard Law School progressives.
"It is starting to damage the Democratic brand."


UPDATE; Michael Barone: Comedic Counting by Race
"In the meantime, what may undermine racial quotas and preferences most effectively is ridicule. For isn’t the idea that the blond, blue-eyed Elizabeth Warren suffered some terrible disadvantage and is in need of special preference because she is one-thirty-second Cherokee just laugh-out-loud funny?"


Mark Steyn: Composite Americans  Shouldn't it be "Composite- hyphen- Americans"? But I digress.
"Then there’s “Elizabeth,” a 62-year-old Democratic Senate candidate from Massachusetts. Like Barack’s white girlfriend, she couldn’t be black. She would if she could, but she couldn’t. But she could be a composite — a white woman and an Indian woman, all mixed up in one! Not Indian in the sense of Ashton Kutcher putting on brownface make-up and a fake-Indian accent in his amusing new commercial for the hip lo-fat snack Popchips. But Indian in the sense of checking the “Are you Native American?” box on the Association of American Law Schools form, which Elizabeth Warren did for much of her adult life. According to her, she’s part Cherokee and part Delaware. Not in the Joe Biden sense, I hasten to add, but Delaware in the sense of the Indian tribe named in honor of the home state of Big F***kin’ Chief Dances with Plugs."  Mark, Mark, Mark. Sigh.
But wait! There's more!
...."George Zimmerman, redneck; Elizabeth Warren, redskin. Under the Third Reich’s Nuremberg Laws, Ms. Warren would have been classified as Aryan and Mr. Zimmerman as non-Aryan. Now it’s the other way round. Progress!"  Emphasis mine.

Obama’s Lil’ Pet

http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2012/05/obamas-lil-pet/

The ‘Crucify Them’ Presidency

Wall Street Journal: KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL  "The Armendariz story matters precisely because he is the model Obama regulator. Hamstrung by both public opinion and Congress, President Obama has turned to these types to enact his broader agenda."
...."In other words, he was a perfect general for Mr. Obama’s war against natural gas. The White House is hostile to fossil fuels, yet it has been unable to get Congress or the public to act. So it has unleashed the EPA to crack down on those industries.

The bonanza in natural gas has nonetheless been tricky for the feds, since hydraulic fracturing regulation is technically left to the states. The agency’s solution has been to invent enforcement actions out of existing federal law to harass drillers."

...."Mr. Armendariz apologized for his “words,” though you might wonder why. He was picked to do a job-to “crucify” industry-and he did it. His real mistake was admitting it."  H/T to Canada Free Press

American Enterprise Institute

What the Frack? More Regs for Domestic Production  "The congressman noted the hypocrisy of Obama touting a rise in energy production while casting a shadow over the extraction method responsible for that rise.

"“In just the last month we have seen new regulations placed on the production of clean coal and natural gas,” Bishop said. 

"“We can be responsible stewards of our natural resources while also encouraging and supporting clean safe energy production on our public lands. The two are not mutually exclusive.” 

http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2007/04/20/global-warming-editorial-cartoons-pt-3/