Obama as an economist; here's an entire reading list on the subject

http://terrellaftermath.com/

Bloomberg; GOP on health care: Repeal quickly, replace slowly   "Once the Supreme Court issues a ruling, "the goal is to repeal anything that is left standing," said Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., a member of the party's leadership. 
"Beyond that, "we ought to go step by step to lower the cost" of health care, he added, a formula repeated by numerous other Republicans interviewed in recent days."

Forbes; President Obama: The Biggest Government Spender In World History  "...regarding the President’s rhetorical strategy that I’ve have been calling Calculated Deception.  The latter is deliberately using a misleading argument to paint a false picture.  That has been a central Obama practice not only throughout his entire presidency, but also as the foundation of his 2008 campaign strategy, and actually throughout his whole career."
Also at Forbes from Dec, 2011; Obama Channels Hugo Chavez, Shows Why He Can't Lead On The Economy

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2012/06/15/100250

Boortz: Want to start a business? Move.   "Investor’s Business Daily is reporting that as of now it is easier to start a business in Slovenia, Estonia or Hungary than it is in the United States.  Why?  Because of new banking regulations in the U.S.  Put Canada on that list as well.  It now takes fewer steps to start a business in Canada than it does in any other developed nation.
And regulations such as this.

Obsession with income redistribution is destroying U.S. productivity  "When the young and the productive are saddled with the greatest burdens, the country’s potential for growth is limited. The obsession with transferring wealth needs to end so entrepreneurs can focus on creating it. That’s the only way America will return to the days of across-the-board, ever-increasing incomes for all."


Obama Can't Keep His Jobs Story Straight   "Just how inept is the White House these days? On Friday, President Obama was demanding that Congress put "teachers, cops and firefighters" back to work. But his own website says he's already accomplished that. Via Hot Air.

The Private Sector Was Really Fine Under Reagan/ And we didn't have an insufferable whiner-in chief.  
"President Barack Obama’s 53-minute “major address” on Thursday was so bad that even some of his knee-jerk cheerleaders in the establishment press couldn’t stand it. A desperate Associated Press photographer thought that fitting Obama for a new halo might distract from the disaster. Nice try, buddy. No sale."
...."Unlike now, the private sector was really fine under Ronald Reagan. Additionally, once inaugurated, the Gipper almost never complained about the insufferable mess predecessor Jimmy Carter had left or moaned about the high interest rates the Fed had to impose to tame inflation.

"Evidence is growing that the American people have had more than their fill of our current ineffective whiner- and regulator-in-chief ...."

Flashback: Axelrod called Bush ‘out of touch’ for playing golf in bad economy

Daily Caller "Video from 1994 has surfaced of David Axelrod, President Obama’s chief campaign strategist, calling former President George H.W. Bush “out of touch” for “tastelessly” playing golf while trying to convince voters that the economy is improving.

“Bush tastelessly did it, often from the ninth hole, and from the cigar boat and other places,” Axelrod said.

"Added the adviser: “The impression you got was that he was out of touch.” "

Obama Plays Golf for the 100th Time of his Presidency  "Obama’s golfing takes about five hours, including the motorcades back and forth from the fairways. If one thinks of this as taking up  much of the day – include getting ready to go and cooling off afterward – its fair to say that Obama has spent more than three months of his presidency golfing."


Thomas Lifson: Nation marks a grim milestone   "There is nothing at all wrong with golf, but it is an expensive and very time-consuming recreation. George W. Bush stopped playing it while in office out of respect for the sacrifices of our military. No such consideration seems to exist for President Obama."  (And the left ridiculed President Bush for it.)

"At least he is not suspending enforcement of any laws while on the links.

Happy Father's Day

This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here: Life of Duty: Fathers’ Day; "Joseph Collins – a man of unyielding courage and strength – has proudly served his country in more ways than one. Today, Joseph is playing perhaps the most important role of his life, the role of being a father. In this video, Joseph expounds upon the love he has for his son, as well as the influence his own father had on his life and career."


"Better Dad" by Kerby Anderson "You probably wouldn’t expect a United States ambassador to write a book about being a better dad. But in this case, Ambassador Gregory Slayton was an ideal person to write his book, Be a Better Dad Today."  Kerby links to this site: Fellowship of Fathers


'What Have I Done?' A Father's Remorse  "But to some fathers, the day is spent in anguish. It’s a day spent, not with their children, but with their memories of the children they helped abort.

"Among these men are former Aerosmith rock star Steven Tyler, now a judge on “American Idol.”  When Tyler was in his twenties, he and his 16-year-old girlfriend, Julia Holcomb, learned they were having a baby."....

From Breakpoint:  'Courageous': A Higher Standard for Films and Fathers  "At this, the turning point of the film, Mitchell offers his fellow officers and fathers an opportunity to leave behind adequacy for excellence. He presents what he calls “The Resolution,” a commitment to become a father who lives by twelve biblical standards and holds others accountable to them. Hayes doesn’t hesitate to sign on, and together with Mitchell, inspires his two fellows with an eagerness to be the hero at home each of them has always been on the job."

More resources for fathers and their families: Christian Fathers.com

Alan Caruba: Deliberately Destroying America

Warning Signs















"It has taken three and a half years into Barack Obama’s presidency for most Americans to realize that he has been deliberately destroying America by driving up the nation’s debt and deficit, reducing privately held wealth, forcing millions onto the public dole, undermining its moral structure, and weakening the nation’s reputation internationally.. 
"His latest lie is that “the private sector is doing just fine”, but the numbers tell the whole story and one can find them on an excellent blog, Economic Collapse, that offers seventy examples:"....


"We are now five months from an election to remove Obama from power and electing conservative lawmakers to office. It’s a start in restoring America to its former prosperity." 


Yes, this administration must not be just voted out of office by a thin margin, but by a landslide so it will be clear that Obama's policies are absolutely rejected by this nation. 
Pray that the election is not a repeat of the 2000 Bush-Gore contest, because Obama's base is capable of -and willing- to use violence. The man must in no sense of the word to be a martyr and a rallying point, but to be retired ignominiously. 
Pray for a fair, clean election so Obama can go back to Chicago where he can spend his years blaming America's problems on his successor. TD

Palestinian TV airs show praising the two Muslim murderers of the Israeli Fogel family

Bare Naked Islam  "The broadcast was aired as part of a weekly show on the Palestinian state-run station called “For You,” which focuses on Palestinian prisoners incarcerated in Israel.
"The show featured the aunt and mother of Hakim Awad, who along with his cousin Amjad was convicted of brutally stabbing to death five Fogel family members in an attack on their home in the West Bank settlement of Itamar on the night of March 11, 2011."

The next kidnapped Israeli soldier will be traded for these two murderers along with scores of others like them. And the left will support them all the way.

The story behind Obama's immigration order: He wanted to one-up Marco Rubio!

LA Times "One week earlier, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) had told reporters about his plans to propose a scaled-back version of the Dream Act -– legislation designed to provide help to young immigrants. Democrats were skeptical that Rubio could gain his own party’s support for that idea. But seated in the big conference room next to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's office, the senators  pressed aides to the president to do more."
Comment to this post at Lucianne:

Does anyone else get the impression that Obama's order sounds a lot more exciting to illegals than the details show it to be? It's just a feel-good, drive-the-GOP-nuts, bunch of words that don't really accomplish much. Eight hundred people "might" be eligible? Thank you, Governor Romney, for not jumping up and down screaming as the administration hoped you would do.

Debbie Schlussel: Obama’s Nightmare “DREAM Act” Amnesty for “Kids”: Will Mitt Romney Repeal It? Don’t Hold Your Breath
"These illegal alien “kids” are already getting college scholarships, etc., and living freely here without fear of any consequences. So, this is really, again, just a formality. The only difference is that these aliens will now have legal status to work. Will they be required to register for the draft? Don’t count on it. "

Obama Blames Republicans for Blaming Him for Blaming Bush

The People's Cube   "Anyway, I gotta run, I'm off to Sarah Jessica Parker's place to have dinner with President Obama and Anna Wintour. Sarah and Anna are big celebrities but they're always so nice to me... they let me walk their dogs and sometimes even loan me a pooper scooper to pick up the mess. If I have time today when I get back, I'm going to write something about the tendency of some people, such as scumbag Nazi racist Republicans, to call other people names instead of engaging in civil conversation. 
"Some people just have NO self-awareness whatsoever."

Holder Defends Foreigners Voting in Florida Elections

J. Christian Adams  "The real scandal (as Hans von Spakovsky calls it) in the fight between Florida and the Eric Holder Justice Department is that Holder is ultimately defending foreigners voting in American elections.  Try that position on for size amongst the general public, and Obama’s campaign strategists aren’t going to like the outcome.

The Justice Department lawsuit against Florida will stop Florida from removing non-citizen voters from the rolls by freezing the entire purge process.  Justice claims that immediate removal of foreigners falls within time limits that restrict Florida’s ability to remove legitimately registered voters."  (emphasis added)....

...."And nobody should be surprised this is happening. The radicals at the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund who fought against Georgia verifying that only citizens are registered to vote in 2009 are now driving the case against Florida from new jobs inside the Justice Department."

Mark Steyn: Ground Control to President Obama

Mark Steyn  "Obama can urge us all he wants to band together because when we dream big dreams there’s no limit to what Big Government can accomplish. But these days we can’t build a new Hoover Dam, only an attractive new corner office for the assistant deputy assistant deputy assistant secretary to the secretary of deputy assistants at the Department of Bureaucratic Sclerosis, and she’ll be happy to issue a compliance order that the Hoover Dam’s mandatory fish ladders are non-wheelchair-accessible, and so the whole joint needs to close. That we can do! If only we dare to dream Big Dreams!! Together!!!"
....
"Self-pity is never an attractive quality, and in an elected head of state even less so. Obama whines that his opponents say it’s all his fault. One can argue about whose fault it is, but not, as my colleagues at National Review pointed out, whose responsibility it is: It’s his. He’s the only president we have. And he made things worse. He increased the national debt by some 70 percent, and what do we have to show for it? No dams, no railroads, no moon shots. Just government, and bureaucracy, and regulation, unto national bankruptcy."
Matthew Continetti: Obama's Pity Party  "Obama’s overly long, repetitive, and by turns self-pitying and self-congratulatory address was so soaked through with nostalgia that MSNBC should have broadcast it in sepia tones. The speech—which even the liberal Obama biographer Jonathan Alter called one of the president’s “least successful” political communications—revealed an incumbent desperately trying to replay the 2008 election. But no oratory will make up for a flawed record and a vague, fissiparous, and unappealing agenda.
...."Our incumbent president is holding a giant pity party, while failing to address the nation’s challenges in a responsible manner."

Victor Davis Hanson and Charles Krauthammer on 2012 politics

Charles Krauthammer: Silly Season, 2012  "A quite dispiriting spectacle. And more than a bit confusing. Why, just this week the estimable Jeb Bush averred that the Republican Party had become so rigidly right-wing that today it couldn’t even nominate Ronald Reagan. 

Huh? It’s about to nominate Mitt Romney, who lives a good 14 nautical miles to the left of Ronald Reagan.

Goodness. Four more months of this campaign and we will all be unhinged.

I'd say Romney has a point in this cartoon

Victor Davis Hanson: The Liberal Super Nova  "Two parties, left and right, are central to good consensual government — one the perennial check on the other, both within the general boundaries of constitutional free-market capitalism.
"Yet the hard-Left takeover of the Democratic Party has meant that there is no longer a credible balance in our system, as almost all the tenets of contemporary left-wing ideology are blowing up, imploding super nova style — unsustainable ideas that are contrary to human nature and demand coercion for their implementation, given that they are increasingly anti-democratic and have to be implemented from high by an elite technocracy whether in Brussels, Sacramento, or Washington."

Most Israelis think Romney would be 'friendlier'

Jerusalem Post  "The fact that Israelis have conflicted attitudes toward US President Barack Obama came out loud and clear in a poll released on Thursday."
Conflicted? How can that be?

Commentary on Obama's immigration speech

Video: Obama's Immigration Policy Is "Out-And-Out Lawlessness",  Charles Krauthammer said on "FOX News Special Report" Friday. (Video)

"Beyond the pandering, beyond the politics, beyond the process is simple constitutional decency. This is out-and-out lawlessness. You had a clip of the president himself say months ago 'I cannot do this on my own because there are laws on the books.' Well, I have news for the president: The laws remain on the books, they haven't changed," 

2011: "America is a nation of laws"; 2012: "I didn't ask for an argument"   Excellent post with numerous sources quoted: "But what a difference nine little months and declining reelection prospects have made. Now King Barack, ironically a "constitutional scholar," has decided that he does, after all, "have a choice" and, in effect, we aren't a nation of laws. Can he do that? John Yoo says no, not legally."  Pundit and Pundette

I am your king!

Obama's cheerleader team (MSM journalists) attack reporter who questioned Obama

A sterling example of that “world class temperament” we’ve often been told about 
"It’s amazing, though, how much “world class temperament” resembles the behavior of an irritable, spoiled four year old:"  Billy Hollis at Q and O

Lloyd Marcus: Obama: Going Rogue," ...running as no other Democrat before him, openly declaring war on America. The opposing armies are Obama's entitlement-minded-social-justice-zealots vs. hardworking Americans -- patriots who love their country and respect our Constitution."


This writer sees Obama as worse than that: Obama Lurching Toward Tyranny  "The fact is that government no longer treats the Constitution as law binding it. As a result, government not only violates the Constitution with greater frequency and even more contempt, but government bureaucrats violate the very laws they enforce that are subordinate to the Constitution."

Rep. Steven King Says Will Sue Obama Administration Over New Immigration Policy

"The problem, of course is that such suits take time to percolate through the court system. Hopefuly King ( if he's serious) will start out by asking the courts for an injunction blocking implementation."

Joshuapundit: Obama's New Election Strategy: Amnesty By Executive Order  "The president is also outright lying when he says this will make sense economically. At a time of high unemployment, it will simply price American citizens out of the job market in favor of illegal aliens willing to work for less pay and at worse conditions." 

Under Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution, the president has the duty to “Take Care That The Laws Be Faithfully Executed”

"This provision was included to make sure that the president could not simply choose, as the British King had, to cancel legislation simply because he disagreed with it. President Obama cannot refuse to carry out a congressional statute simply because he thinks it advances the wrong policy. To do so violates the very core of his constitutional duties."