E mailed over to NRO’s The Corner:
Let’s break this down: Brown raises $1.3 million in a day. Average donation $77.00
Coakley goes to a fundraiser with her “bundlers” raising at least $10,000 per person, and the party is full of registered lobbyists.
And who’s selling out to proverbial devils?
Its just a pity our rank-and-file liberals refuse to believe they’ve been had. As long as you say the right words, our liberals will remain slavishly devoted…
We’re having a rather lively discussion of this over at Nevada News and Views – as it does affect everyone, you might want to have a look and put your two cents in.
The Obama administration has taken some heat and mockery for using the nebulous and non-economic term of jobs being “saved or created” by the $787 billion stimulus program.
So it’s gotten rid of it.
In a little-noticed December 18, 2009 memo from Office of Management and Budget director Peter Orszag the Obama administration is changing the way stimulus jobs are counted.
The memo, first noted by ProPublica, says that those receiving stimulus funds no longer have to say whether a job has been saved or created.
“Instead, recipients will more easily and objectively report on jobs funded with Recovery Act dollars,” Orszag wrote.
In other words, if the project is being funded with stimulus dollars – even if the person worked at that company or organization before and will work the same place afterwards – that’s a stimulus job.
We pointed out back on December 21st, 2008 that “saved or created” was just a BS way for Obama to claim whatever he wanted on the jobs front. But now that has worn off – it didn’t help that jobs were “saved or created” in non-existent Congressional districts, ya know? This, then, forced Obama and Co to choose – start telling the truth, or come up with a new lie.
It was inevitable that a new lie would be chosen – telling the truth is simply not the default position of Democrats. Geared towards lying about themselves ever since the elder Bush crushed Dukakis pretty much simply because Dukakis was identified as a liberal, Democrats have raised the art of the Big Lie to proportions never seen before. What they haven’t learned is that while the Big Lie can work for a while, it can’t work forever – and people have had just about enough of it, thanks very much.
November can’t get here fast enough…
UPDATE: All those “shovel ready” projects? Spending on them didn’t help in the least.
Meaning they know darn well it will cost like the dickens and do a lousy job:
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that just 17% believe passage of the legislation will achieve the stated goal of reducing health care costs. Fifty-seven percent (57%) think it will lead to higher costs.
Fifty-two percent (52%) also believe passage of the legislation will lead to a decline in the quality of care.
What I wonder: how purblind of a Obamaton do you have to be to think that it will actually lower costs? I mean, we’re talking some really gullible people – people whom you could convince to loan you money for an “investment” you want to make at Ceasar’s Palace. I’d like to meet some of these people on the theory that a fool and his money are soon parted…
Ok, so I boiled it down – but had he said that, he could have got the interview done faster:
VideoJug asked Southers where the US should prioritize the war on terror, and he offered a few more thoughts than just about alliances:
“Due to connectivity that we have with countries such as Israel, France — countries that are seen by groups, by al Qaeda, as infidels or anti-Islamic — by the true nature of our alliance with them means that we subject to be attacked as well. I do think, however, it deserves to perhaps have some parity with global warming, with education, with the economy, but national security is always going to supercede everything else. I don’t think you can have all of those other entities flourish in a state where the security is not felt to be confident, comfortable, and intact.”
Memo: fake environmentalist causes are not to have parity with people who would murder millions, if they could.
The other day, Mark Steyn asserted that the election of Obama was the most unserious act the American people have ever taken. He’s right. We’ve got utter fools governing us – and we’ve no one to blame for this but ourselves.
UPDATE: And he considers anti-abortion views to be part of domestic terrorism.
No, its not President Obama. Yet.
…Harried by recession and sliding popularity, Mr. Chávez on Friday weakened the bolivar to 4.3 per dollar from 2.15 in a bid to shore up government finances, which have been hit by weaker oil prices, and to stimulate economic growth ahead of key elections….
Yet another socialist. Yet another hero to the American left. Yet another corrupt, crooked tyrant. Its a story which has been told far too many times. You’d think, after a while, our domestic leftists would figure it out, but they never do. While Chavez has put in some cosmetic protections for the poor, the plain fact of the matter is that he’s just stolen half the wealth of Venezuela’s poor – the people he, and other socialists, always claim to be for. And, as with all other socialist regimes, it is the poor who fare worst.
The trouble for us is that the Federal Reserve has been printing money like mad and using it to buy bonds and worthless assets from banks. Each dollar the Fed creates out of thin air is essentially a dollar stolen from the people – because each dollar in hand (and representing actual work to earn it) now becomes worth that much less. Will this kick in to massive inflation? So far, no – but only because the world is in such a deep economic down spin that the inflationary effects have been muted. But our money has been stolen, and eventually it’ll have to balance out somewhere.
For nearly a century now we’ve tried to funny-money and usury our way to riches. Well, it hasn’t worked. All its done is pile up a mountain of debt, benefited financial sharks (like the left’s other hero, George Soros) and screwed the average person out of their wealth. Its time to bring an end to this – before Obama takes a cue from Chavez, and picks our pockets.
Lots to talk about – most notably the upcoming election in Massachusetts. How idiotic the AGW people look these days. How cool it will be when the Chargers win the Super Bowl. But, anything you like. Have at it.
UPDATE: Have a look at the way the left is turning a pornographic performer in to a hero. Pity the poor girl for being such a fool.
UPDATE II: Climategate update.
The bitter winter afflicting much of the Northern Hemisphere is only the start of a global trend towards cooler weather that is likely to last for 20 or 30 years, say some of the world’s most eminent climate scientists.
Their predictions – based on an analysis of natural cycles in water temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans – challenge some of the global warming orthodoxy’s most deeply cherished beliefs, such as the claim that the North Pole will be free of ice in
summer by 2013.
According to the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado, Arctic summer sea ice has increased by 409,000 square miles, or 26 per cent, since 2007 – and even the most committed global warming activists do not dispute this…
…Among the most prominent of the scientists is Professor Mojib Latif, a leading member of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which has been pushing the issue of man-made global warming on to the international political agenda since it was formed 22 years ago.
Prof Latif, who leads a research team at the renowned Leibniz Institute at Germany’s Kiel University, has developed new methods for measuring ocean temperatures 3,000ft beneath the surface, where the cooling and warming cycles start.
He and his colleagues predicted the new cooling trend in a paper published in 2008 and warned of it again at an IPCC conference in Geneva last September.
Last night he told The Mail on Sunday: ‘A significant share of the warming we saw from 1980 to 2000 and at earlier periods in the 20th Century was due to these cycles – perhaps as much as 50 per cent.
‘They have now gone into reverse, so winters like this one will become much more likely. Summers will also probably be cooler, and all this may well last two decades or longer.
I know, I know – the guy simply must be a shill for Big Oil…and we can be sure that Big Climate will shortly start ripping in to this guy.
At any rate – anthropogenic global warming is a hoax. Its a rather transparent hoax, at that. Anyone who continue to believe in it is either a fool, or trying to sell you something.
The DCCC linked to this on Twitter:
# Last year, the Senate met for 191 days, and the House met for 159 days. Total time in session was 1,420 and 1,247 hours, respectively.
# More than 9,071 measures were introduced, of which 1,444 passed.
# Looking strictly at non-military nominations, 89% (or 3,222) nominations were confirmed; 4% (126) remain unconfirmed; and 0.4% (15) were withdrawn. Overall, the Senate received 24,951 nominations and confirmed 23,051.
Ok, Americans, are any of you happy that 1,444 measures passed? Has anyone got a handle on what even 10% of them dealt with? How about those 3,222 nominations – for what? When were the hearings held? The votes? All we’ve heard about for the past year is Spendulus and Health Care…it seems they were busy behind the scenes, doesn’t it?
But when government is the whole point of your existence, then this is what you’re proud of. They’re not proud of a new farm started up. A new family formed. A new church built. Nope – they’re proud that they passed 1,444 measures! They probably hope to increase that number in 2010.
We need a Congress which will do the right thing, not be proud of just grinding out the government as if there’s no tomorrow.
The news:
An exodus of discouraged workers from the job market kept the U.S. unemployment rate from climbing above 10 percent in December, economists said.
Had the labor force not decreased by 661,000 last month, the jobless rate would have been 10.4 percent, according to economists including David Rosenberg at Gluskin Sheff & Associates in Toronto and Harm Bandholz at UniCredit Research in New York.
“The actual unemployment rate is higher than shown by the official numbers,” Bandholz said yesterday after a Labor Department report released in Washington showed the economy unexpectedly lost 85,000 jobs in December while the jobless rate was unchanged.
About 1.7 million Americans opted out of the workforce from July through December, representing a 1.1 percent drop that marks the biggest six-month decrease since 1961, the Labor Department report showed. The share of the population in the labor force last month fell to the lowest level in 24 years.
The economy is not getting better. To be sure, a lot of fiat money is being shoved through the economy and this, in turn, allows the government to calculate that GDP has grown, but the net amount of economic activity has been reduced and continues to decline. It will continue to do so until we stop borrowing, stop printing money and start encouraging wealth creation by making, mining and growing things.
As long as Obama’s policies are in place, this will continue to get worse.
You must be logged in to post a comment.