SEIU headquarters in St Louis, that is. If you’re in the area, some patriots are going to advise the “gentlemen” of SEIU that we don’t want fascism in our country. The more the merrier – and everyone bring a video camera and let everyone see you’ve got it…that might keep the union thugs from trying something.

Never forget these words:

Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. – Patrick Henry

Geesh:

Just 14% of likely voters give Congress good or excellent ratings this month, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

That’s down four points from June, nine points from May, and is the lowest rating measured for the legislators since February.

Fifty-six percent (56%) of voters say Congress is doing a poor job, up nine points since June and the highest level found since October 7, 2008.

Democratic voters are fairly evenly divided on the question, with 27% who give the legislature good or excellent ratings and 31% who say members of Congress are doing a poor job. Most Republicans (74%) and unaffiliated voters (70%) give Congress poor ratings.

14% of all Americans are suckers – but 27% of Democrats. Thus we know for certain that Obama will win at least 27% of the vote in 2012.

Lots of reasons – and Mish’s has them. Read the whole article – meanwhile, I’ll nutshell it:

1. The government hired 12,000 people in July

2. The auto sector added 28,500 people in July

3. The employment to population ratio dropped to 59.4% from 59.5% (it was 61% in January)

The auto sector was the actual bit of good news – but “cash for clunkers” was clearing out some inventory and the number of new cars available may have dropped so low that it was ok to bring some of the workers back. We’ll see if they keep their jobs for even 6 months.

The federal government has been hiring like mad and adding 12k to the census bureau was probably a swift way of doing something to help the jobs picture look brighter, as well as pay off some ACORN troopers.

The employment to population ratio is the most important – when we speak of a drop of a tenth of a percent, we’re likely speaking in terms of at least a couple hundred thousand people. Fundamentally, with that many people just calling it quits, its small wonder that the official unemployment rate dropped.

Obama might be able to keep this going for a bit – pumping up the employment numbers by adding government employees while the Bureau of Labor Statistics keeps dropping people from the rolls of both the work force and the unemployed workforce as people give up and/or lose their benefits entirely. But this can only be done for two or three months, tops, before the unemployment number starts to rocket back upwards. July was month one – August is month two. By October, at the latest, the unemployment number will start to rise again.

Posted without further comment:

Never accuse the Associated Press of being hidebound by journalistic tradition. In a sharp break with past practice, the once-venerable news service is providing its 1,500 member papers with ready-to-run stories produced by “independent” reporters and editors.

Earlier this month, the 163-year-old news cooperative announced it would distribute “watchdog and investigative journalism” penned not by its own staff or that of member papers, but by four outside groups: the Center for Investigative Reporting in Barkeley, Calif.; New York-based ProPublica; and two D.C. outfits, the Center for Public Integrity (CPI) and the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University.

AP, itself a not-for-profit enterprise, identified the four organizations as “civic-minded” nonprofits. They also all have decidedly liberal sponsors. A cursory glance at the “independent” news shops reveals their reliance on left-tilting patrons such as the Knight Foundation and leftist donors such as financier Herbert Sandler and currency speculator George Soros.

Just disgusting:

In Mehlville, Mo., St. Louis police arrested six people, some on assault charges, outside another forum that was billed as a meeting on aging but was attended by activists on both sides of the health care debate.

According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the police showed up toward the end of the forum held by Democratic Rep. Russ Carnahan. One conservative activist, interviewed at a local emergency room where he was being treated for injuries, said he was attacked by some of the individuals who were arrested as he passed out “Don’t tread on me” flags.

I’ve seen a video and it seems to me that it was SEIU union thugs who did the dirty deed.

They don’t want us to speak – they want us silenced. Look, liberals, you’d better wise up damned fast our you’ll find you’ve bitten off far more than you can chew. Conservatives outnumber union thugs by a wide margin.

UPDATE: Video of Carnahan trying to weasel out of responsibility.

UPDATE II: Matt has had experience in the tactic of using union thugs to suppress debate. This is nothing new – its just that now, with it all falling apart, the liberal fascists are getting desperate.

UPDATE III: Liberal fascists in Denver with the Speaker:

A supporter of health care reform, left, who did not want to give her name, pushes forward to rip a sign out of Kris McLay’s hands outside the Stout Street Clintic visited by Nancy Pelosi.

UPDATE IV: In the St Louis area on Saturday? Then head on over to SEIU headquarters and let those people know we’re not going to take fascism in our country.

The unemployment rate drops to 9.4% while the number of new unemployed rises by a quarter million, and more than half a million enter what is called “long term” unemployment. This isn’t turning a corner – its not even stopping on the way down…but Obama, his Democrat and his slavish devotees will proclaim it as such. Oh, well. It’ll just make the crushed look of surprise more funny.

Just to put things in to perspective, during our last severe down turn – in the early 80’s – the unemployment rate fell from time to time on the way up (such as 7.5% in June of 1981 and 7.2% in July of 1981) and rose from time to time on the way down (such as 9.4% in July of 1983 and 9.5% in August of 1983). Our liberals will be thrilled with this July, 2009 number – but its not quite time to pop the champagne for our economy. We’re still losing jobs, we still have rising foreclosure, still have falling wages – and we still have the stark, bare fact that Obama has pre-spent the investment money necessary for job expansion…that two trillion we’ll borrow this year doesn’t just come out of the magic fairly land of money…it comes out of the total available for everyone to use…and we’re using a lot of it on paying off Obama supporters.

Don’t get complacent – Corzine and his Democrats will pull out all the stops…but, clearly, things are moving our way:

Republican challenger Chris Christie has regained his 13-point lead over incumbent Democrat Jon Corzine in New Jersey’s closely watched gubernatorial race.

A new Rasmussen Reports survey of voters in the Garden State finds Christie on top 50% to 37%. Five percent (5%) prefer some other candidate, and eight percent (8%) are not sure.

New Jersey and Virginia were bell weathers for the 1994 Republican Revolution – and they may very well be, again.

Just when you think Reid can’t get more out of touch:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid launched his harshest attack on the Republican Party in months, claiming the GOP is “being run by a talk show host.”

Reid, armed with a patch of Astroturf, slammed Republicans for sponsoring town hall attacks on Democrats and accused the party of waging a barricade on Democratic efforts to pass health care reform legislation.

“I just want to show you what Astroturf really is,” Reid said to laughter. “They’re taking their cues from talk show hosts, Internet rumor mongers, and insurance rackets.”

Insurance rackets? You mean the same guys who have donated more than $400,000.00 to Reid’s 2010 campaign? Or are there two insurance rackets – a good one buying Reid’s support and a bad one buying ours? If so, when do I get my check for my efforts? I mean, Reid is clearing 400 grand – can’t I get even 400 bucks?

I note that Reid isn’t trying a town hall with us Nevadans – because, as someone pointed out, “astroturf” is outpolling Reid 60/40. Its also rather odd, don’t you think, that with a filibuster proof majority, Reid feels called upon to battle us – why is that? I mean, if all this amounts to is an astroturf effort by insurance companies, then let’s have a vote, Harry. Or could it be that Reid knows ObamaCare is political kryptonite? My bet is the latter – and Reid knows it, is terrified, and is thus – once again – following the lead of Nancy Pelosi in denouncing us as unruly mobs of scam artists.

Ain’t gonna work, Harry – we’ve got your number, and don’t bother measuring for replacement drapes for the Majority Leader’s office in 2011.

For us rock-ribbed conservative GOPers, we’re really not that angry – we knew precisely what was coming down the pike with the election of Obama. There are a lot of angry people out there, however – and who are they? Victor Davis Hanson provides the best explanation I’ve seen:

Bait-and-Switch

There is a growing sense of a “we’ve been had”, bait-and-switch. Millions of moderate Republicans, independents, and conservative Democrats—apparently angry at Bush for Iraq and big deficits, unimpressed by the McCain campaign, intrigued by the revolutionary idea of electing an African-American president—voted for Obama on the assumption that he was sincere about ending red state/blue state animosity. They took him at his word that he was going to end out of control federal spending. They trusted that he had real plans to get us out of the economic doldrums, and that he was not a radical tax-and-spend liberal of the old sort.

Instead, within days Obama set out plans that would triple the annual deficit, and intends to borrow at a record pace that will double the aggregate debt in just eight years.

He not only took over much of the auto- and financial industries, but also did so in a way that privileged unions, politically-correct creditors, and those insider cronies who favor administration initiatives. On matters racial, his administration is shrill and retrograde, not forward-looking. It insists on emphasizing the tired old identify politics that favor a particular sort of racial elite that claims advantage by citing past collective victimization or piggy-backs for advantage on the plight of the minority underclass.

In other words, the Obama swing voter thought he was getting a 21st-century version of pragmatic, triangulating Bill Clinton—and instead got something to the left of 1970s Jimmy Carter.

You see, we knew Obama was putting up a false front all along – liberals learned the lesson all the way back in 1988 that you can’t win nationally as a liberal. Since then, they’ve tried various expedients to dodge the liberal tag – successfully with Clinton and now with Obama. But in policy, there is no actual difference between George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, Michael Dukakis, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry and Barack Obama. Any one of them would do what any other would do with hardly a shade of difference. This is not so much because of what is inside the men, themselves, but what is inside the people they will appoint – especially appointments lower down the scale, where actual policy is implemented. Unless Obama decided to appoint his people out of the Heritage Foundation, it was dead certainty that the Obama policies would be straight down the line liberal – and rather extreme liberal, in to the bargain.

In practical terms what this means is that no matter what shading there is in the Democrat, he must not be voted in to office because the people who will trail after him will be in direct opposition to the American people. Even someone as worthy as Joe Lieberman could not be trusted with the White House because he would have in his administration the same sort of people Obama has – and while Lieberman might be able to force through pro-Israel security policy, the rest would be right out of the ultra-liberal play book…one, as President, can’t get too bogged down in the details…but the Devil is there in. Our only safety is to ensure that, on balance, a conservative is running the show because only such will give a chance for non-liberals to run the day to day machinery of government.

As it relates to Obama, the waves of anger are just going to rise higher unless Obama “pulls a Clinton” and at least starts talking right and throwing a few sops to conservatism (tax cuts, welfare reform, dropping ObamaCare, eg). This, alone, would defuse the surging anger out there – anger of a people who really thought that Obama was different. We’ll see what course Obama adopts.