Biden says a lot of stupid things, but sometimes I can’t tell if he’s lying, or if he is just too dumb to understand what he is saying.

Biden conceded that the economic recovery was not proceeding as fast as the administration had hoped, but claimed there was “no doubt we’re moving in the right direction.”

The right direction?

Positive gross domestic product readings and other mildly hopeful signs are masking an ugly truth: The US economy is in a 1930s-style Depression, Gluskin Sheff economist David Rosenberg said Tuesday.

Writing in his daily briefing to investors, Rosenberg said the Great Depression also had its high points, with a series of positive GDP reports and sharp stock market gains.

But then as now, those signs of recovery were unsustainable and only provided a false sense of stability, said Rosenberg.

Rosenberg calls current economic conditions “a depression, and not just some garden-variety recession,” and notes that any good news both during the initial 1929-33 recession and the one that began in 2008 triggered “euphoric response.”

You know, for most of the Bush years, we saw unemployment go down toward 4%… that was what I call the right direction.

Yeah, I miss Dubya.

This is so good.

Two years after his coattails helped sweep two dozen Democrats into office, President Obama is proving more a boon to Republicans than to Democrats during the midterm elections. His poll numbers are so morose that Democrats are planning ways to avoid his shadow, while Republicans plot strategies aimed at tying Obama to every incumbent member of Congress they can.

The advice from Democratic consultants and strategists is almost unanimous: Run away from the president, and fast. A prominent Democratic pollster is circulating a survey that shows George W. Bush is 6 points more popular than President Obama in “Frontline” districts — seats held by Democrats that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee sees as most vulnerable to Republican takeover. That Bush is more popular than Obama in Democratic-held seats is cause for outright fear.

Obama hasn’t even hit the halfway point of his first term, and he is already poisonous to his fellow Democrats. This is far beyond typical midterm election dynamics when the out-of-power party gains control. Obama has been welcoming comparisons to Bush since the beginning. It’s been, it his mind, his best message to distract the people from his failures is blame Bush. The problem he has now is when people compare him to Bush, they see that things were better when Bush was in office.

Don’t blame me… I knew things would get worse under Obama.

When Tom DeLay was first accused of corruption, Mark and I saw the truth of what was going on: Democrats were desperate for power and the only way they knew how to get it was to attack Republicans. They waged a phony war against Republicans, with then Majority Leader Tom DeLay as their primary target. Why DeLay? What was his crime? He was an effective Republican Leader.

The shameless, false attacks on Tom DeLay inspired us to start a blog chronicling the real corruption in D.C., which later became our first book. Mark and I never doubted DeLay’s innocence, and now, finally, six years later, the Department of Justice has finally ended its investigation of Tom DeLay, clearing him of all charges.

The Justice Department has informed former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) that the government has ended a six-year investigation of his ties to the disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, according to DeLay’s lead counsel in the matter, Richard Cullen, chairman of McGuireWoods.

The investigation lasted through two presidents and four attorneys general. Its demise provides a stark footnote to the lobbying scandals that helped Democrats regain the House majority they held for 40 years and lost in the Republican revolution of 1994, which eventually made the pugnacious DeLay one of Washington’s top power brokers.

“The federal investigation of Tom DeLay is over, and there will be no charges,” Cullen said. “This was one of the longest and expensive and thorough investigations in recent memory. DeLay took a tack right from the start that he had nothing to hide, and we have been in a routine and constant dialogue with [prosecutors].

Nothing can undo the damage Democrats caused; besmirching an innocent man, knowingly and without any remorse.

Now that this chapter has ended, a new one begins, and this one will bring about the rooting out of the real corruption in Washington D.C.

…besides his ego.

After the Senate passed that $600 million Border Security Bill yesterday, President Obama issued a statement asserting that securing the southwest border has been “a top priority” since he took office.
But if you think Mr. Obama can have but a single “top priority,” you’d be wrong. He’s got a load of them.

In an Address to the Nation two months ago, Mr. Obama declared “our top priority is to recover and rebuild from a recession that has touched the lives of nearly every American.”

More than any other issue, he has used the phrase “top priority” about digging the economy out of the recession and creating jobs. And on this issue, he drew a distinction between “a” top priority and “the” top priority.

And they go through a whole bunch of examples. It’s all bull, if you think about it. Obama spends a lot of energy pretending to care about this or that, without any real attempt of being engaged. The gulf oil spill being a prime example. Obama talks the talk, but time and time again doesn’t walk the walk. I have never believed a word he said ever, but I wonder how much people who did vote for him believe him anymore.

I at least can say I never believed that Obama would close Gitmo or get us out of Iraq. But a lot of people who voted for him did. How many are gonna fall for his lies again in 2012? Not nearly as many.

You’ll be hooked from the first sentence. Give this guy your support.

With Obama’s support pretty much left to the Democratic base, how much longer will they be able to ignore how his policies are making things worse before he loses them too? And things look worse than we thought.

June’s trade deficit swelled 18.8% to $49.9 billion, the highest since October 2008. That was much worse than Wall Street predicted — or what the Commerce Department estimated in the recent Q2 GDP report. The new report, along with recent inventory data, suggest Commerce will revise down Q2 economic growth from the already-sluggish 2.4% annual rate to about 1%, according to Action Economics. Action Economics is looking for stronger retail inventory figures later this week that would imply a 1.4% GDP pace.

More Americans are already blaming Obama for the economy, so things really don’t look good for Obama this November, or for 2012.

UPDATE, by Mark Noonan: And growth forecasts have been cut as economists finally start admitting reality.

President Bush has been busy lately. He just got back from a visit to Haiti… you should check out his Facebook page for details on that trip. But what he did yesterday morning is what I really want to talk about.  Yesterday, Bush was at at DFW Airport to surprise 145 troops who just returned from Iraq and Afghanistan.

As 145 soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan walked through the double doors in Terminal D at DFW Airport on Wednesday for two weeks of R&R, they were greeted not only by their families, but by some special guests.

Former President George W. Bush and Laura Bush joined 33 kids participating in the North Texas Super Bowl Host Committee’s SLANT 45 project to give service members perhaps the most memorable moment since the Welcome Home Heroes initiative started in November 2004.

“Today was one of the best, if not the best day we ever had,” said Lt. Col. Patrick McAfee, who has overseen the program for the last three years. “It was phenomenal and the bottom line is that these service members had the shock of their lives. Kids being there gives special meaning to us soldiers, and the president and first lady were there just like regular people.”

I miss ya, Dubya!

So, Elena Kagan was confirmed to the Supreme Court today, largely on party lines.

You know, I look back on the election, and realize that McCain didn’t even get as many votes as Bush did in 2004. So, there was a sizable number of potential Republican voters who chose not to vote in 2008 because McCain “wasn’t conservative enough” for them.

We have had judges in recent days and weeks overturn the will of Arizona voters and California voters. Presidential elections have consequences. With two vacancies in the Supreme Court in the past two years, which were expected, perhaps those who stayed home in protest should have thought about the consequences of electing Obama would be.

And you can’t blame me, I voted for McCain.

Agree or disagree with the idea of building a mosque at Ground Zero, you cannot deny that the issue controversial, and an emotional one. On those two things alone, Everyone on the left should be saying “do not build it,” if we went by past precedent.

Editorials like this New York Times piece blasting critics of the mosque are just absolutely absurd.

I remember years ago when talk about a statue of the 9/11 Flag Raising, and some people, in the name of “political correctness” wanted the statue to reflect, not the realities of the moment famously captured on camera, but an altered version, featuring firemen of different races. Now here we are, ten years later, still plagued by political correctness, to put a mosque next to the site of an attack done in the name of Islam.

Sure, the attack was carried out by extremists, but no one can deny that the attack on our country was carried out by Muslims in the name of Islam. This isn’t an issue of religious freedom. No one is denying any constitutional right by saying “This mosque shouldn’t be here.”

What are these people trying to prove by saying the mosque should be built in that spot? That they are so tolerant and open-minded? Give me a break.