What If the President Liked Businesspeople?

Victor Davis Hanson  "Such share-the-wealth tirades were matched with redistributive vendettas. Vast new financial regulations and red tape followed. A new trillion-dollar health-care entitlement was imposed on employers. The National Labor Relations Board is attempting to shut down a new Boeing aircraft plant. The federal government took over private businesses — and on occasion reversed the order of payment to private creditors. New environmental regulations have curbed energy and agricultural production. Lifelong academics and government functionaries, not businesspeople, staff the Obama Cabinet and head the administration’s agencies."

Hurricane Obama Touches Down on the Economy



The Bus Tour hits some Bumps in the Road

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/ericallie

Bodies "Shoved Under Bus" to Stall Obama's Campaign Junket?   "Translated into honest English, the White House statement reads, “The president will advise Americans to abandon the old-school ‘Hope and Change’ loose talk from 2008, and accept reality. Its called ‘Get Used to It’ and involves coming to terms with 9% or greater unemployment forever, ungodly deficits that will take generations to retire, and a credit rating which proves that American Exceptionalism is a relic from the past.”

“The president will also advise the electorate to blame the putrid economy and lack of jobs on Republicans, S&P, and most especially, Tea Party terrorists.”

Mike Ramirez: The economy as it is

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/michaelramirez/2011/08/16/90799

Obama's Bus tour; on the road again

Boortz: Wealth envy rhetoric continues on Presbo's Blunderbuss tour   "Remember also, while Obama talks about “millionaires and billionaires,” his proposals are to raise the taxes on every individual making over $200,000 in this country, a vast number of which are small businessmen."

http://terrellaftermath.com/

Obama Tries to Spin Out of Responsibility

“What I figure is they need to spend more time out here listening to you and hearing how fed up you are. That’s why I’m here.’”

Obama On Debt: I Had A Deal That 'Would Have Solved This Problem'  Demagoguery exemplified:  "Obama continued, “I put a deal before the Speaker of the House John Boehner that would have solved this problem and he walked away because his belief was we can’t ask anything of millionaires and billionaires and big corporations in order to close our deficit.” "

On a previous outing in America: Obama Scolds Car Makers in Iowa Speech: “You Can’t Just Make Money on SUV’s and Trucks”  " In April of this year as gas prices were rising, Barack Obama told an audience that the solution was to start thinking about a trade-in. Then he was completely embarassed when he confronted a man with 8 kids."  Video.

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/

Obama on tour: ‘I make no apologies for being reasonable’ "“You’ve got to be willing to compromise to move the country forward,” the president said later in the day as he delivered the same message at a town hall in Decorah, Iowa."

Obama: I reversed recession until 'bad luck' hit   Of course the Barney Frank housing collapse and the attacks of 9-11 were no excuse for President Bush.

Obama clashes with Tea Party member 

"Ryan Rhodes, a group leader in the Hawkeye State, stood up and shouted a question during a town hall, asking the president how he can call for more civility when "your vice president is calling people like me, a Tea Party member, a 'terrorist.'" "  “He just denied it," Rhodes told Fox News Channel's Ed Henry."

American press and Conservatives; treat 'em like suspects (Updated)

Gregory Scolds Bachmann for Listening to Public Opinion on Debt Ceiling   "On top of this, Gregory is certainly no one to point fingers about knowing the "true financial impact" of not raising the debt ceiling as he completely negected to determine that for his viewers when he interviewed treasury secretary Timothy Geithner in July.

"Maybe if the "Meet the Press" host had grilled Geithner with the same intensity he did Bachmann, the nation would have been far better informed of the "true financial impact" of such a move:"...

Naturally this from CNN: Could a black man win the GOP nomination?  "Certainly Cain has already thought about and to a small degree talked about what it means to be a black Republican running against a Democrat who also happens to be the country's first black president."

Chris Matthews: News Organizations Are 'Going to Spend Every Nickel They Have' Investigating Rick Perry   "Instead, having completely abdicated their journalistic responsibilities in order to assist the inexperienced junior senator from Illinois attain the highest office in the land, media members are now going to bring all forces to bear to discredit any serious challengers to ensure his reelection."

Newsweek's Queen of Sleaze: Tina Brown Assaults 'Crazy' Conservatives   ""The truth of the matter is that [Comedy Central's Daily Show host] Jon Stewart, at this point, is the only trusted branch of government. You know, I mean, in the end, Stewart and Colbert, really are like the Huntley and Brinkley of today, in the sense that people really, really trust them.""

-Brown on ABC's Good Morning America, October 27, 2010.

ABC, CBS and NBC Cast GOP as Debt Ceiling Villains

"...Then what happens?” The conservative author confidently predicted: “Well, the media will blame the Republicans.”

"And that’s precisely what has occurred."

 

These shows still play, so know this: 'Law and Order' Pushes Anti-Conservative Agenda  " Protestors outside the lecture hall chanted "One. two, three, four. Barlow is a right-wing whore." That's actually slightly more creative than the chants liberals usually shout. (A word that rhymes with "Hitler" is hard to find.) The lecture was disrupted when liberals in the audience started shouting over Barlow."

Michele Malkin has this

"Brothers [and] Sisters":  Gay man refers to Republicans as, wait for it....Neanderthals.

  "Somaiya kept to his benighted left-wing theme throughout his early coverage, even though the looters stole not basics like food but luxury items like smart phones and televisions, looting that was itself organized over social media via smart phone technology."

NY Times Reporter Suggests 'Cuts in Spending and Services' by Conservatives Led to London Riots

The NY Times says: Administration officials, frustrated by the intransigence of House Republicans, have increasingly concluded that the best thing Mr. Obama can do for the economy may be winning a second term  Hat tip: Weasel Zip

And on and on and on and.......

Mark Steyn on the Riots in London

Town Hall Patriots  with comment from Elephant Under Glass

"Mark, you had me at “Marinated children of dependency…”

"It’s a dirty little secret but someone had to spell it out and Mark Steyn certainly did just that. Steyn won this EUG over during his talk with Neil Cavuto this past Saturday while discussing the riots in London and the failed and wicked socialist state.

"Not sure, but I think a shiver may have just gone up my leg. (ewww!!) "

The Ames Straw Poll

Ames Straw Poll: A Little Perspective  "Michele Bachmann is a top tier candidate and popular with both evangelicals and the tea party voters. Ron Paul has a hard core group of followers who specialize in micro events because it gives them an excuse to get out of mommy's basement. Tim Pawlenty has a charisma deficit and has dropped out.

"The Ames straw poll told us all of that. But then again, we already knew all of that. So I ask again: 16 thousand folks -- what's the big deal? Or more importantly, should it really be that big of a deal, or are we just calling it a big deal because others are calling it a big deal?"

about.com

Rick Moran: Pawlenty withdraws;  "There was a time when Pawlenty was seen as the major alternative to Romney. But two lackluster debate performances and an inability to generate much enthusiasm for his candidacy in Iowa pretty much quashed that notion.

"Rick Santorum is also mulling an exit and we may hear from him later today."

Where Pawlenty went wrong   "With that said, if Pawlenty did want to be a conservative alternative to Romney, it was imperative for him to explain why Romney was insufficiently conservative."

On flash mobs and rioters

American Thinker: The Idle Poor and Sturdy Rogues   "If the riots prove anything, they prove that the failure to come to grips with the need to draw the distinction, no matter difficult that may be, between those who deserve compassion and assistance and those who do not, has proven disastrous -- a disaster the United States may see sooner rather than later."

Another Flashmobbery: Thieves Joke and Laugh As They Rob Maryland 7-11

"More than 20 young people simultaneously entered the convenience store at around 1:30 a.m., leaving with snack items such as candy, soda pop and chips, said Germantown 5th district Cmd. Luther Reynolds."

Ever wonder how flash mobs learn where to gather? I don't care to make this known, but this was found on a search of "flash mobs". And this.

 

http://blog.cagle.com/2011/08/flash-mob/

How Feminism Became a Joke

Forbes  "Feminism was always based on the idea that women have it harder than men. These days, people just aren’t buying it. The stock market has gone haywire, unemployment is endemic, and some women are beginning to see that feminism’s segregationist, mollycoddling politics have done more harm than good."

                                                                                                 By Susannah Breslin 

A Devastating Blow to Obamacare

Heritage 

The government’s position amounts to an argument that the mere fact of an individual’s existence substantially affects interstate commerce, and therefore Congress may regulate them at every point of their life. This theory affords no limiting principles in which to confine Congress’s enumerated power….

The federal government’s assertion of power, under the Commerce Clause, to issue an economic mandate for Americans to purchase insurance from a private company for the entire duration of their lives is unprecedented, lacks cognizable limits, and imperils our federalist structure.

More from Heritage: A Stunning Victory for the Constitution over Obamacare  "The carefully worded and thorough (over 300 page) set of opinions may be a bit mind-numbing for the uninitiated, but they are a joy to read for those of us who think the words of the Constitution actually mean something beyond whatever an activist Congress, President, and pliant judge want them to mean."

Distinguishing Wickard  "Another interesting portion of the Eleventh Circuit’s decision striking down the individual mandate is its discussion of Wickard v. Filburn. As the court’s opinion notes, the Supreme Court (in Lopez) characterized Wickard as “perhaps the most far reaching example of Commerce Clause authority over intrastate activity.” As a consequence, the Eleventh Circuit concluded, Wickard “provides perhaps the best perspective on an economic mandate” and would need to be distinguished were the mandate to be struck down. With this in mind, below the jump are portions of the Eleventh Circuit’s discussion of Wickard."

The Reasoning of the Eleventh Circuit’s Mandate Opinion

George Will: Making Presidential Race A Referendum On GOP Nominee Is “Barack Obama’s Best Hope”/ Demonizing of the TEA Party

Mediaite  "Barack Obama’s best hope is the Republican nominating electorate. He does not want this to be a referendum on his record, he wants it to be a referendum on the fitness for office of the Republican nominee."

Democrats will level accusations against the Republican nominee with little regard for the absurdity of them. The press will then get the conservative to spend their time denying these charges and the focus will be off of Obama. TD

Tea Party demonization continues  "Do you know what all of this means? Of course you do. The Democrats are scared to death of the tea parties. Say “tea party” to a prog and stand back while they look for a piece of furniture to hide under." Neal Boortz

Don't take leaderless movements like the TEA Party lightly 

"Of late it has become clear that the Federal Government politicians and bureaucrats are finally becoming very worried about the Tea Party Movement (TPM) revolution taking shape before their very eyes that many of them have denounced as a "terrorist" organization of, "Hobbits." "

 Posted by Ronbo at the Freedom Fighters Journal

Photo above from The Middle-Earth Guide to Campaign 2012  How's this for allegory:

"One ring to rule them all/ one ring to find them/ one ring to tax them all/ and in indebtedness bind them."

Why 2012 Must be a Referendum on Obama’s Policies  "Soon, the phraseology will be how Republicans caused the current economic mess. Nancy Pelosi has already tried to blame the massive mess the House of Representatives created under her leadership on John Boehner."

The Democrats best weapon: sound bites (bytes?) of Republicans attacking each other and quotes from John McCain who speaks more kindly of Obama than he does of the TEA Party. TD

Dumping on the Tea Party ; The "Tea Party Downgrade" slander cannot stand.  "You would think that such an obvious pack of lies from the left would have no chance of gaining traction. Think again: According to Rasmussen, they already have 29% of Americans believing that Tea Party members are “economic terrorists.”

"This cannot stand. We know who started the fire, we know who fed and worsened it with their failed “solutions,” and we know who is utterly out of ideas. Incredibly, fewer Americans are working full-time now than were when the recession technically ended. Democrats and all too many RINO accomplices have had their way for 30 months, and all they can show for it is a frightening trail of misery."

CNN, CBS and NY Times polls show CNN, CBS and NY Times anti-Tea Party Strategy is working  "The mainstream media spends two years calling the Tea Party movement racist, extremist, sexist, terrorist, and hostage takers, and then acts as if negative polling results reflect something wrong with the Tea Party movement rather than their own biased reporting."

Report: Pakistan gave China access to 'stealth' chopper in bin Laden raid

With friends like these...

"Pakistan, which enjoys a close relationship with China, allowed Chinese intelligence officials to take pictures of the crashed chopper as well as take samples of its special "skin" that allowed the American raid to evade Pakistani radar, the newspaper reported." Fox has this.

The Pakistanis and the Chicoms deny the whole thing  "But he said that the technology and design features that enable an aircraft to reduce noise and evade radar are not shrouded in secrecy.

"Countries that examine the wreckage "will not learn much from the remnants of the exploded helicopter that were not already readily available in open literature," Thompson was quoted as saying."

From American Thinker: Pakistan gave China access to top secret copter used in bin Laden mission  "If true, this is a huge intelligence coup for China. Our stealth technology is far ahead of other nations - especially China - and for Pakistan to allow a potential enemy to study an advanced technological innovation is a monstrous betrayal."....

"We won't be sure until we determine whether China has developed countermeasures that could shoot down the stealth copter. No doubt such a system would be a hot item on the international arms market."  Emphasis added.

The price will be paid by forces trying to take out Iranian nuclear sites or resisting Islamist agression. Ron Paul, is the US still the guilty party?