So, Obama today started using the word “compromise.”

Amazing, isn’t it? This guy, who was supposed to be “a uniter” only finds the word compromise in his vocabulary when he loses his majority.

Eff that.

This afternoon on my ride home from work, the host of the program I was listening to asked if the elections tomorrow are a referendum on Obama. One point brought up was his dismal poll numbers. One liberal caller in trying to argue against that point said that Obama’s poll numbers are also reflecting liberals who think he hasn’t been liberal enough.

It’s a fair point, but really irrelevant. When Bush’s approval rating were below 50, that number was due in part to conservatives who felt he was abandoning conservative principles. It doesn’t change the numbers. The point here is that Obama was given a chance to live up to the image of himself he gave during the campaign of 2008. He said he’d be a uniter, not a divider. He said he’d be bipartisan. Intelligent people knew it was B.S… and we were proven right.

So now what? What happens after tomorrow. The House is likely turning into a solid Republican majority, and the Senate may see the Democrats majority slip to razor thin, if it doesn’t turn as well. Obama will have to change his governance, or their will be gridlock. He cannot ignore the will of the American people who have seen the direction he has taken this country and said “enough is enough.”  If he does, then 2012 will be another good year for the GOP.

UPDATE: On a separate note… as a freelance logo designer I’d like to say good luck to all my clients who will be on one ballot or another tomorrow.

Obama was heckled in Connecticut at a rally for Blumenthal today.

As Obama launched into his stump speech at an arena in Bridgeport, a group of protesters began heckling him over funding for the global fight against AIDS.

“Excuse me … excuse me,” an irritated looking Obama said before he could finally talk over the shouting. “You’ve been appearing at every rally we’ve been doing. And we’re funding global AIDS (prevention). And the other side is not. So I don’t know why you think this is a useful strategy to take.”

Now this is sad. President Bush increased funding to fight AIDS in Africa to the point where even liberals like Bono were cheering his efforts. Meanwhile, Obama actually scaled back funding.

President Obama has been a huge disappointment to many global health advocates, especially in the HIV/AIDS community. In July, South Africa’s retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu penned an op-ed in the New York Times taking Obama to task for letting anti- AIDS funding stagnate. At the International AIDS conference in Vienna a week later, the president was all but burned in effigy. Now, in the buildup to an important  United Nations summit starting Sept. 20, he’s being targeted by a congressional campaign led by Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) to double the U.S. contribution to the multilateral Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

It be nice if once in his life, Obama told the truth.

I really don’t quite get the point of it, but various stories I’ve read suggest a self-righteous rally of left wingers pretending to be concerned about the tone of political discourse today, while pointing the blame at conservatives for the deterioration.

Here’s how one story described it:

The idea was to provide a counterweight to all the shouting and flying insults of these polarized times. But there were political undertones, too, pushing back against conservatives ahead of Tuesday’s election.

Well, so much for that idea. Here’s a photo from the event.

Do you know anyone who went?

It just goes to show that in the end, the left is motivated by hatred, and dare I say bigotry. Let’s think about this. Jon Stewart’s rally was conceived as a counter rally to the hugely successful August rally on the National Mall held by Glenn Beck. Okay, so let’s compare… The Beck rally brought together people who believe in small government, less taxes and cutting spending… The Stewart/Colbert “Rally for Sanity” brought together a bunch of left wing cynics who don’t believe in anything… but they think Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are funny.

UPDATE: More bizarre photos from the rally.

UPDATE: Interesting.

UPDATE: and more photos..

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Obama keeps using his lame and incorrect metaphor that Republicans “drove the economy in a ditch” to try to energize his equally delusional base, but he may have taken it a bit too far.

He said Republicans had driven the economy into a ditch and then stood by and criticized while Democrats pulled it out. Now that progress has been made, he said, “we can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.”

Aside from the metaphor fail, what really sticks out here is that Obama is saying he is completely unwilling to work with Republicans to fix the bad economy that Obama and the Democrats keep digging us deeper into.  You know, I used to think that we all had the same goals, just different ideas on how to we got to that goal. But, let’s face it, Obama doesn’t want what Americans want. He wants whatever will placate his ego.

We should want a government with people with different views who look for the best solution out of all the options. Obama and the Democrat-controlled congress have no interest in that.

When Democrats say they are “for the people,” then why do they need to resort to dirty tricks to help their opponents lose?

Lying negative ads are one thing. They have become staples of political campaigns, like it or not. Both sides do it. Why? Because no matter how much we say that they don’t work, they do. But that is not my point really. My point is, this is a midterm election, and midterm elections are usually bad for the party in power. This election in particular has been framed as a referendum on Barack Obama and the Democratic agenda. While Democrats largely avoid talking about Obamacare and other legislative victories, Republican candidates run strongly on undoing the damage done by the Democrats.

Democrats know they have an unpopular agenda, and they don’t care. They would rather impose their agenda by force than listen to us, we the people.

The New York Times reports on more evidence of desperation of the Democrats to remain in power despite their unpopular agenda: backing third-party candidates to siphon off votes from Republicans:

Seeking any advantage in their effort to retain control of Congress, Democrats are working behind the scenes in a number of tight races to bolster long-shot third-party candidates who have platforms at odds with the Democratic agenda but hold the promise of siphoning Republican votes.

The efforts are taking place across the country with varying degrees of stealth. And in many cases, they seem to hold as much risk as potential reward for Democrats, prompting accusations of hypocrisy and dirty tricks from Republicans and the third-party movements that are on the receiving end of the unlikely, and sometimes unwelcome, support.

In California, Republicans have received recorded phone calls from a professed but unidentified “registered Republican” who says she is voting for the American Independent Party’s candidate for a House seat, Bill Lussenheide, not for the incumbent Republican, Mary Bono Mack.

The caller says she is voting that way because “it’s time we show Washington what a true conservative looks like.”

The recording was openly paid for by the Democratic candidate for the seat, Mayor Steve Pougnet of Palm Springs.

Wow. Anything to win, right? There are similar stories across the country. is this really how bad politics has become? Democrats are so addicted to power they will stoop lower and lower  to no end just to try to hold on to it.

I’d rather lose honestly than win by dirty tricks. The will of the people is more important than personal ambition. It’s too bad Democrats don’t feel the same way.

UPDATE, by Mark Noonan: And what happens when patriotic citizens uncover voter fraud? They get sued, of course.

I’m sure you’ve heard the story by now.

NPR News has terminated the contract of longtime news analyst Juan Williams after remarks he made on the Fox News Channel about Muslims.

Williams appeared Monday on The O’Reilly Factor, and host Bill O’Reilly asked him to comment on the idea that the U.S. is facing a dilemma with Muslims.

O’Reilly has been looking for support for his own remarks on a recent episode of ABC’s The View in which he directly blamed Muslims for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Co-hosts Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg walked off the set in the middle of his appearance.

Williams responded: “Look, Bill, I’m not a bigot. You know the kind of books I’ve written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.”

But what you may not know about are the things that NPR finds acceptable.

From calling Tea Party members “Tea Baggers,” to saying that “the evaporation of 4 million” Christians would leave the world a better place, to suggesting that God could give former Sen. Jesse Helms or his family AIDS from a blood transfusion, NPR’s personalities have said some pretty un-PC things in the past. A look at the record reveals no shortage of intolerant statements and unbalanced segments on the publicly sponsored network’s airwaves.

So, your thoughts?

UPDATE, by Mark Noonan: Boehner questions NPR’s taxpayer funding over at NRO

House GOP Leader John Boehner comments exclusively on the Juan Williams firing to National Review Online: “We need to face facts — our government is broke,” Boehner tells us. “Washington is borrowing 37 cents of every dollar it spends from our kids and grandkids. Given that, I think it’s reasonable to ask why Congress is spending taxpayers’ money to support a left-wing radio network — and in the wake of Juan Williams’ firing, it’s clearer than ever that’s what NPR is.”

Crown Publishers has just announced that Decision Points, the forthcoming memoir from President George W. Bush, with have first printing of 1.5 million copies. The book will be released November 9th. A deluxe e-book will also be released simultaneously.  This edition will be interactive, allowing readers to click on text to view additional multimedia content.

The multimedia content in the deluxe e-book edition includes,

• Videos from the defining moments of the Bush presidency, including President Bush’s inspiring speech to 9/11 rescue workers, intimate Bush family movies, and a special introduction to the edition by the President himself
• Handwritten letters from President Bush’s personal correspondence
• Full texts of President Bush’s most important speeches, including his addresses to the nation about the terrorist attacks of 9/11, Afghanistan, and Iraq, and his Second Inaugural
• More than 50 additional photographs not contained in the print edition

Sounds like a good reason to get an iPad. Anyway, I’m looking forward to the memoir. Have you pre-ordered yours yet?

Personally, I cannot wait for this book to come out. I have been anxiously awaiting Bush’s memoir pretty much since he left office. Most of you know that this site was once Blogs For Bush, so you can understand why his memoir would be of such high interest for me.  I know that history will look upon his presidency favorably, and I see this memoir as the first step in setting the record straight.

Even the presidential seal knows Obama isn’t worthy of the title.

The presidential seal has fallen off President Barack Obama’s podium and clattered to the stage as Obama delivered a speech to a women’s conference.

The president was joking with the audience and getting some laughs when he realized what happened. “All of you know who I am,” he quipped.

Obama told the audience that somebody in the back was really nervous, referring to the staffer who hung the seal on the front of the lectern so precariously.

The seal fell about halfway through the president’s remarks to Fortune magazine’s “Most Powerful Women Summit” Tuesday at Carnegie Mellon Auditorium in Washington.

There’s symbolism for you.