Raise the minimum wage to $14 an hour using this one weird trick!

Ann Coulter

 

"Democrats believe they’ve hit on the perfect issue to distract from the horror of Obamacare in the 2014 elections: the minimum wage.

 

"Apparently, increasing the minimum wage was not important for American workers during the first five years of Obama’s presidency — least of all his first two years, when Democrats controlled Congress and could have passed anything. (And did!)

 

"No. The minimum wage did not become a pressing concern until an election year in which the public’s hatred of Obamacare is expected to be the central issue."  ....

Chip Bok; The President, the Governors, and the Minimum Wage

... "Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal responded that the Obama economy is a minimum wage economy. Jay Carney said Jindal prefers a $7.25 economy.The Office of Management and Budget says raising the minimum wage will cost 500, 000 jobs.

"Meanwhile, the economy in North Dakota is booming. Wages there are soaring for workers who do the one thing the president hates most – produce fossil fuels."

Welfare Pays More Than Working in 66% of States

AMERICAN OVERLOOK 

"America has always prided itself on its work ethic. American capitalism is supposed to reward you for working hard with a higher quality of life, while socialism makes sure that everyone’s life is “average.”

 

"A new study shows that America has taken another step closer to socialism.

 

"The Cato Institute released a study showing that welfare benefits pay more than a minimum wage job in 33 states and the District of Columbia. Even worse, welfare pays more than $15 per hour in 13 states.

 

"According to the study, welfare benefits have increased faster than minimum wage. It’s now more profitable to sit at home than it is to earn an honest day’s pay.

 

"Hawaii is the biggest offender, where welfare recipients earn $29.13 per hour, or a $60,590 yearly salary, all for doing nothing. It’s no wonder they are looking to ship their homeless back to the mainland.

 

CATO Institute corroborates this story   "This article appeared on New York Post (Online) on August 19, 2013."

 

Hat tip to John Uhrig; Plano, TX

Black Pastor Calls President Obama the Worst President He’s Ever Seen

Godfather Politics   "Finally, some blacks are beginning to speak up about the argument that the Civil Rights struggle is similar to people who want to be recognized as a special legally protected class because of the type of sex they engage in.

"It’s remarkable that many people can’t see the difference. It’s the inability to think rationally […]

"The post Black Pastor Calls President Obama the Worst President He’s Ever Seen appeared first on Godfather Politics."

Along with his choice of Attorney General:

 

No matter what we think of same sex marriage, Mr. Holder argued for dilution of the rule of law, and for the rule of men   "Yesterday I watched Eric Holder say we must be suspicious of the state laws which inveigh against same sex marriage since in HIS PERSONAL OPINION these were laws which discriminated, and prevented equal opportunity. He made this argument at a national gathering of states attorneys general." ...

Eric Holder’s Latest Attack on Rule of Law Drives Talk of Impeachment!    "Imagine that. The Attorney General of the United States advising attorneys-general from the states to ignore the law based on his and the President’s political bias and leftist ideology!"
....
"Holder and Obama generally scream “racist” at those who disagree with their crazy ideas.

"This time, the complaints come from African-Americans of faith and morality!

S"o what is the excuse this time?"

Marco Rubio Tees Off on Cuba, Venezuela and Tom Harkin

Powerline  "Marco Rubio has been in the doghouse with lots of conservatives because of his endorsement of the Gang of Eight’s immigration bill. But he is solid on virtually every other issue, and is one of the most talented politicians on either side of the aisle. Yesterday he reminded us how great he can be, when he rose to respond to Tom Harkin’s paean to the wonders of socialist Cuba. For twelve minutes or so, Rubio ripped into the corrupt socialist governments of Cuba and Venezuela, and their enablers here in the U.S. It was a brilliant, impassioned defense of freedom and human rights. Rubio’s speech has rightly attracted a lot of attention; if you haven’t already watched it, you should:" 

From The American Catholic: The transcript of Senator Rubio's speech

Watch Megyn Kelly’s Priceless Reaction To A Dem Senator’s Attempt To Evade, Then Answer, A Question About ObamaCare

Downtrend  ... "She didn’t answer that question and decided to just say that she’s committed to fixing ObamaCare and that she’s sponsoring legislation to enable people to keep their existing health plans.

 

"Not content with that answer (as no one should be), the reporter asked her that same question again as she was leaving the event. This time, she just walked away while mumbling something.

 

"Finally, while being cornered, she gave yet another non-answer.

This was all caught on video, and was shown on The Kelly File last night. After the video ran, host Megyn Kelly showed her reaction to all of that and it’s absolutely priceless." 

Latest Bizarre And Racist Ravings From Joe Biden

Sweetness and Light   "First we have this, from Reuters:

Vice President Biden decries ‘hatred’ behind state voter ID laws

By Roberta Rampton | February 25, 2014

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said on Tuesday he hopes Congress will pass new legislation to modernize the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 and counter what he called the "hatred" behind voter identification laws in states such as North Carolina, Alabama and Texas…

"And never mind that the US has given Iraq more than $100 million dollars so it can create and hand out computerized voter ID cards, in order to cut down on voter fraud."

....

 

"Anyway, try to imagine if Dan Quayle or Dick Cheney had ever said any of this. And Biden says this or worse practically on a daily basis."

Emphases in the original.

Stars discovering Obamacare is box office poison

Thomas Lifson   "Obamacare has become so unpopular that entertainment industry stars are discovering that speaking out in favor of it comes at a cost. Take Will Ferrell for example. Evan Murray reports at Mediaite:"

 

Will Ferrell is the latest celebrity enlisted to help pitch the Affordable Care Act to the so-called “young invincible” crowd that needs to sign up in large numbers for the law to function:

But Ferrell’s #GetCovered post on Facebook on Monday led to an acidic sea of comments — over 4,000 and counting at press time, almost all of them negative. The actor’s followers lambasted both Ferrell for wading into politics, interspersed with links to anti-Obamacare articles from Townhall andWorld Net Daily….

 

Do the math: if we all know Obama lied about Obamacare, it stands to reason these people are as well. Maybe now their anti-fracking propaganda will suffer as well.

Obama Calls Retreat

 

The Foreign Policy Initiative     "Why is this happening? Because the United States is in retreat. What is the Obama administration’s response to these events? Further retreat.

"Having withdrawn from Iraq, and seeing it now fall apart, the administration is nonetheless determined to get out of Afghanistan. Its Russia “reset” is a joke, and its “pivot to Asia” an empty slogan. Secretary of State John Kerry huffed and puffed when Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons last year, and asserted it was a Munich moment. How right he was! Kerry came back brandishing a piece of paper, and Assad remains in power."

The bottom line of this article is:
"Having failed to hold Assad accountable for the use of weapons of mass destruction, Kerry now says that global climate change may be the weapon of mass destruction we should most fear. Sure. Meanwhile, in the real world of real weapons, our military is being decimated in size as it is being enervated by political correctness. And on the matter of sheer competence in the execution of foreign policy, to say that we have a B-team in charge is an insult to B-teams everywhere."

Obama's military drawdown

Obama would 'much rather spend the money on food stamps than he would on a strong military': Dick Cheney blasts president for unprecedented Pentagon

The Air Force has -- but soon won't -- a fleet of about 300 'warthog' A-10 Thunderbolt II jets, which are regarded as essential for supporting ground incursions

The upshot of Obama's policies is that other civilized nations will have to do what the US will no longer do:  In America’s Absence, Israel Acts in Syria

... "But as we have been reminded of in recent days, Israel does not simply defend itself, it also acts to restrain dangerous extremist and rogue forces in the wider region."   Tom Wilson

Obama Consciously Engineering America’s Decline   ... "Which means that his misguided views are downright pernicious. And for all the damage the president is doing on the domestic side–and I would not want to underestimate it for a moment–it may be the harm he’s inflicting on America in foreign policy and national security is deeper, broader, and more durable.

 

"More than any president in my lifetime, Barack Obama has damaged virtually everything he’s touched. When it comes to American interests, he’s a one-man wrecking ball."   Peter Wehner 

Max Boot has more here: The Defense Budget vs. History and here: Defense Budget Incoherence.
Video from The Daily Caller: Cheney: Obama would ‘much rather spend the money on food stamps’ than military

 

 

Obama Flirts with Losing the "Must Win" War

Critical Threats via The Wall Street Journal

"The Soviet-installed government of Najibullah fell three years after the last Soviet soldier left Afghanistan—and mere months after the Soviets stopped supporting it financially. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki moved against his Sunni political opponents within 24 hours of the departure of the last American soldier, starting to set the conditions for the loss of all the gains purchased with much American and Iraqi blood. Yet Washington is full of leaks that the Obama administration is planning to end America's military presence in Afghanistan in 2016. And Congress has already slashed U.S. financial assistance to the fifth-poorest country in the world.

 

"It seems we are about to repeat the mistakes of the past vainly hoping for a different outcome. We will be disappointed.

 

"Candidate Barack Obama declared in 2008, "we will not repeat the mistake of the past, when we turned our back on Afghanistan following Soviet withdrawal. As 9/11 showed us, the security of Afghanistan and America is shared." He was right about the urgency. He was a poor prophet of his own future policy."

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Obama's Historic Defense Cuts Spell Disaster

Big Government

 

This Bloomberg video is more optimistic

 

Excerpt from this article:

"The Vietnam Cuts. As the United States consolidated its victory in Vietnam, Democrats in Congress, angry at the re-election of President Richard Nixon, decided to defund the military. Where defense spending had represented an average of 19.6% of GDP during the period 1967 through 1972, the budget really began falling after 1968 and the election of Richard Nixon. The result: American helicopters lifting off from our embassy in Saigon as the country fell into Communist hands. The Soviets would invade Afghanistan just a few years later, encouraged by America’s obvious distaste for foreign war. Only the arrival of Ronald Reagan and his huge increases in military expenditures would change the shape of the Cold War.

....

"Overall, major defense cuts come with a serious price: the price of emboldened enemies. Unfortunately, the cuts contemplated by Chuck Hagel and company have already borne fruit in an emboldened China in the South China Sea, a resurgent Vladimir Putin-led Russia, an aggressively Islamist Middle East. The problem with military cuts is not merely that they decrease American capacity to make war, though they surely do. The problem is that purposeful and large-scale military decreases send a message to the rest of the world that America is in retreat.

"Sadly, under the Obama administration, that signal is both clear and correctly interpreted."

Obama's foreign policy credentials; can we have a do-over?

Ayotte: ‘It’s Time to Reset the Reset’  

 

... "Putin has harbored Edward Snowden, interfered in Syria, and armed the Assad regime, Ayotte said, and it seems the reset policy hasn’t worked."

 

Fewer Americans think Obama is respected in the world today Quoting Politico:

For the first time, a majority of Americans think President Barack Obama is not respected among world leaders, according to a new poll that found opinion has plunged "dramatically" in the past year.

 

.... "The Ukraine crisis showed how relevant Obama is. The EU ended up brokering the deal with precious little help from the administration. Our allies know the qualities of the president and acted accordingly.

 

"Ronald Reagan always thought that it was better for the US to be feared rather than liked. At this point in his presidency, Obama has made the US neither."

Grandmaster Putin plays chess while Obama's stuck on checkers 

... "Welcome to global disorder. You know America’s power is waning when the mullahs mock our empty threats.

"But Obama’s fecklessness offers one advantage — it’s easier to see why he keeps bullying Israel.

"The tiny Jewish state gets singled out because nobody else listens to America anymore. Once the Israelis figure that out, we’ll really be alone."