From us back on December 21st, 2008:

Obama now says he will save or create three million jobs over the next four years.

Anyone know how Obama will calculate that a job was saved by him?

Anyone smell a new bit of liberal BS? You know – “oh, sure, we’ve only added a million new jobs since Obama took office, but he’s saved 4 million!”.

From the Wall Street Journal, June 9th, 2009:

Mr. Fratto sees a double standard at play. “We would never have used a formula like ‘save or create,'” he tells me. “To begin with, the number is pure fiction — the administration has no way to measure how many jobs are actually being ‘saved.’ And if we had tried to use something this flimsy, the press would never have let us get away with it.”

Of course, the inability to measure Mr. Obama’s jobs formula is part of its attraction. Never mind that no one — not the Labor Department, not the Treasury, not the Bureau of Labor Statistics — actually measures “jobs saved.” As the New York Times delicately reports, Mr. Obama’s jobs claims are “based on macroeconomic estimates, not an actual counting of jobs.” Nice work if you can get it.

This what is so great about the blogosphere – we really are the best BS detectors out there. As far as I know, no one else has really hit upon Obama’s “save or create” nonsense…meanwhile, we little bloggers were on it before Obama even took office. As soon as we heard it, we knew the measure of the lies Obama was going to foist upon the American people.

Thanks for catching up on this, WSJ – give us a call if you need any advice on what to expect from here on out in the Obama Administration.

And if that doesn’t work, they’ll run away from home:

There was no work done in the Senate Tuesday. Here’s why:

Right now the doors to the Senate are locked, so the big question is whether Dems open it in time for session Wednesday.

“I’m hoping by 3 p.m. tomorrow the former majority leader will realize we have to move on and start working,” said Sen. Tom Libous, R-Binghamton.

Republican senators said it’s unconstitutional for Democrats to keep the door locked.

Yeah, childish, too…and its fun to note that Democrats who can’t seem to ever notice any flaws on their side have suddenly discovered alleged ethical troubles in their two renegades.

Serious, Democrats, aren’t you a bit embarrassed to be in your party?

Iowahawk does it again.

Per Rasmussen, at any rate:

Voters now trust Republicans more than Democrats on six out of 10 key issues, including the top issue of the economy.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 45% now trust the GOP more to handle economic issues, while 39% trust Democrats more.

This is the first time in over two years of polling that the GOP has held the advantage on this issue. The parties were close in May, with the Democrats holding a modest 44% to 43% edge. The latest survey was taken just after General Motors announced it was going into bankruptcy as part of a deal brokered by the Obama administration that gives the government majority ownership of the failing automaker.

People forgot, I think, just what it was that Reagan rescued us from. Obama is reminding them. Its going to be a hard lesson, but hopefully we’ll learn it this time for good.

A word to the wise about those who want us to compromise with the left in order to be more “moderate”:

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors… I mean it. – Margaret Thatcher

One wishes this was a parody:

Inmates aren’t allowed to have cell phones in any US prison, let alone on death row. But the 21st century’s ubiquitous communications tools are nonetheless turning up by the thousands in lockups not just in Texas but across the US and around the world. Last year alone, officials confiscated 947 phones in Maryland, some 2,000 handsets and accessories in South Carolina, and 2,800 mobiles in California.

The presence of cell phones is changing the very meaning of imprisonment. Incarceration is supposed to isolate criminals, keeping them away from one another and the rest of us so they can’t cause any more harm. But with a wireless handset, an inmate can slip through walls and locked doors at will and maintain a digital presence in the outside world. Prisoners are using voice calls, text messages, email, and handheld Web browsers to taunt their victims, intimidate witnesses, run gangs, and organize escapes—including at least one incident in Tennessee in which a guard was killed. An Indiana inmate doing 40 years for arson made harassing calls to a 23-year-old woman he’d never met and phoned in bomb threats to the state fair for extra laughs.

“Cell phones,” says James Gondles, executive director of the American Correctional Association, “are now one of our top security threats.”

Talking to his own security threat, Whitmire stayed calm, hearing out the prisoner’s complaints. He noted Tabler’s number, then promptly called John Moriarty, the Texas prison system’s beefy, mustached inspector general, asking how the hell an inmate had gotten hold of a cell phone in what is supposed to be one of the state’s highest-security lockups.

Moriarty’s people subpoenaed the records for the phone that had dialed Whitmire. They were astonished by what they found: The device had logged more than 2,800 calls and text messages in the preceding month. At least nine other prisoners had used it, investigators say, including members of such notorious gangs as the Aryan Brotherhood and the Crips.

In response, on October 20, Texas governor Rick Perry ordered every one of the state’s 112 prisons locked down and all 156,000 inmates searched. Officials found 128 phones, including a dozen on death row, as well as scores of chargers, batteries, and SIM cards. That brought the total number of phones and related items confiscated from Texas prisons in 2008 to more than 1,000.

We know that in our prisons all sorts of crime goes on – drugs, prostitution, rape, murder…it all happens in the places in America which are supposed to be the most controlled. It is becoming entirely clear that our prisons are run by the prisoners, and its time we stop this – not just because of the threat to people outside prison, but because we have a moral responsibility to ensure the safety of those we incarcerate.

Prisons should be changed from the places they are now into places which are (a) safe and (b) places no one wants to go for any reason. Not only should there not be cell phones, there shouldn’t be any phones…or television, or radio, or snack foods…there should be a cot, a can, bars, beans and bread…miserably boring work and only Sunday’s “off” in the sense that you don’t have to do the miserably boring work on that day. Prisoners should be monitored – from remote sites no accessible to the prison personnel – by audio and visual sensors 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with the recordings kept for years. Not one moment of privacy, not one word un-recorded, not one chance for the prisoners to plan anything.

This would, of course, suck – but prison isn’t supposed to be anything other than bad…and it would stop prisoners from being able to harm others or themselves while incarcerated.

Though, of course, its not being reported like that:

Eager to show action on the ailing economy, President Barack Obama promised Monday to speed federal money into hundreds of public works projects this summer, vowing that 600,000 jobs will be created or saved.

Its really about “save” more than “create” at this point – unless Obama and Co get Johnny-on-the-spot on getting the various infrastructure programs moving, a very large number of workers in that industry will be let go as summer fades towards fall…what Obama doesn’t need is a huge spike in unemployment. What he needs even less than that is for the unemployed to be dues-paying union members who are thus part of the backbone of Democrat political fundraising. Now, will it come out the way Obama wants?

I doubt it – you see, money is fungible…you hand over ten billion to the New York State government for public works projects, and you might very well find them using that money to cover the shortfall in the public sector pension plans, or some other non-build-a-bridge program. Right now, the States are bleeding cash – and the States bleeding the most are those States with the most liberal governments, the most unionized workers and the most pull in a liberal, Democrat Congress. So, look for only pennies on the dollar to wind up where its supposed to.

Liberals – you can’t spend your way to prosperity; you can’t forever buy power with taxpayer funds; you can’t forever pull the wool over everyone’s eyes.

Exceptionally interesting:

Republicans appear to have retaken control of the state Senate this afternoon after two dissident Democrats crossed the aisle in a parliamentary coup.

“An historic change in leadership is taking place at this moment and a new bipartisan, coalition is being established that is bringing real reform to the Senate RIGHT NOW,” according to a news advisory sent out by the GOP.

The Associated Press reported that two Democrats — Hiram Monserrate of Queens and Pedro Espada, Jr. of the Bronx — are poised to announce that they have decided to caucus with the GOP out of anger at Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith.

The flip gives Republicans a 32-30 edge in the chamber…

Democrats are naturally seeking to go to court over this – this in line with Democrat thinking that it is illegal for the GOP to be in power, I guess. Are we at the edge of a historic meltdown of the left in the United States?

Its happening in Europe, why not here?

UPDATE: Matt, a New York resident, posted his thoughts here.

Liberalism in action, on a lot of different levels:

He was a courtly State Department intelligence analyst from a prominent family who loved to sail and peruse the London Review of Books. Occasionally, he would voice frustration with U.S. policies, but to his liberal neighbors in Northwest D.C. it was nothing out of the ordinary. “We were all appalled by the Bush years,” one said.

What Walter Kendall Myers kept hidden, according to documents unsealed in court Friday, was a deep and long-standing anger toward his country, an anger that allegedly made him willing to spy for Cuba for three decades…

…”Anyone who knows him finds it baffling and finds this completely out of character,” said David P. Calleo, director of European studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, a friend of Myers for nearly 40 years. “He has this amazing intellectual curiosity. He is open to all kinds of ideas.”

In liberalese, “open to all kinds of ideas” means “open to whatever is the liberal party line of the day” – because I assure one and all that the idea of conservatism being something worth while never entered into his little, liberal head…

In the age of Obama. In this new, enlightened age of alternative energy. A time in history that the ‘messiah‘ would usher in an era in which

"we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal…"

How is it, that during this brave, new, enlightened age, that we should hear about significant job layoffs in, of all places, a wind turbine plant?

Pipestone, Minn. (AP) — A wind power company in southwestern Minnesota has announced it will eliminate 70 jobs this summer with another 90 layoffs possible by the end of September.

According to a letter sent to city officials, Suzlon will make the first round of layoffs at the Pipestone turbine blade plant by Aug. 2. Another 90 job losses will likely be added to that tally.

Pipestone Mayor Laurie Ness says the news is "crushing blow" to the city.

How can this be, that a company that was literally booming during the Bush Administration, would have to actually lay off workers during the environmentally-conscious, environmentally-pristine era over which which the lord and savior Barack Hussein Obama presides?

Perhaps a quick jaunt from the small town of Pipestone, Minnesota, to the small town of Willmar, Minnesota, may give us a clue:

WILLMAR (AP) – Two wind turbines are expected to be up
and running in Willmar by the end of July.

The city is finishing up construction of the turbines, which
will each generate two megawatts of power.

Wesley Hompe of Willmar Municipal Utilities says the turbines
will keep 236,000 tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Hompe says Willmar hopes to add more turbines in the future. The
initial project has a $10 million budget.

Let’s see… two wind turbines will provide the city of Willmar with two mega-watts of power. Pretty impressive, eh? Well, hold the phone, as Paul Harvey would say:

That’s enough to cover about 3 percent of the city’s annual energy needs.

Two turbines provide three percent of Willmar’s annual energy needs. According to Wikipedia, the year 2000 census (that was, of course, pre-ACORN estimates–no doubt the 2010 census will half; Willmar leans Republican by over 10%–but I digress) showed Willmar’s population to be at 18,351. Some simple math indicates that two turbines will power the energy needs of some 550.3 of Willmar’s 18,351 residents.

Of course, the story states that Willmar has plans to further their capacity by building more wind turbines. At this rate, they will need to build a paltry 30 more wind turbines to meet the needs of all of Willmar’s residents, that is if they most likely power nothing but a small fan to keep cool and cook nothing but toast for their meals.

In other words, the layoffs at the turbine plant at Pipestone and the exercise in futility at Willmar’s taxpayers’ expense are but a microcosm of the empty promises laid out by the messiah lord Obama, Algore, and sadly, even Tim Pawlenty.

For no other reason than to make themselves feel better.

For in the end, folks, it’s not about the environment. It’s not about mother earth.

It’s about them.