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Seems you can only get so much mileage out of a dead bin Laden – from Life News:

President Barack Obama has lost 20 percent of his approval rating in the course of five weeks in a national poll conducted by the Washington Post. The survey shows that Obama’s bounce he received after Osama bin Ladin’s death has dissipated.

Five weeks after receiving a net positive 18 percent approval rating in the Washington Post poll following the killing of the terrorist mastermind, Obama’s approval rating returned to its pre-bin Ladin status. Obama’s approval rating from the last poll was 56-38 positive versus negative. Now, 47 percent of the American public approves of his job performance while 49 percent disapprove — almost identical to the 47-50 percentage point split Obama saw in mid-April…

Obama’s fate is tied up in two things – how the economy goes and whether or not the GOP nominates a candidate who will go relentlessly after his record and the overall failure of liberalism.

If the economy improves remarkably over the next 12 months, then Obama will have a much easier time of it. Still no guarantee he’d be re-elected, but it would make his narrative work well: “I inherited a lousy economy and thanks to my policies, we’re back on track”. While overall contempt for Obama is growing, it is hard to argue with success…even if that success is mostly an illusion (until we radically change policies, any “improvement” we see in official numbers will be merely masking ultimate collapse).

But even if the economy is in poor shape Obama could still win re-election if we nominate a candidate who won’t fight. If we get someone who wants to be courtly and respectful, then we’ll lose. This is not the time for reaching across the aisle…this is time for revolution. We’re on our side, they are on theirs and one or the other must prevail. We’ll either be a dying, liberal-socialist America or we’ll be a growing, conservative-libertarian America. It is one or the other – they can’t mix; oil and water get along better. But only a real fighter can lay out the case to the American people in a comprehensible way, thus opening up a clear choice – right or left, and for good.

Obama is clearly weakening. The bloom is long off the rose. But victory is by no means assured to us. Only a hard, grueling fight will secure victory for us…and there is that chance that even if we pour out our hearts, we’ll still lose…but even that is ok. If we lose after giving it our all, they we will have done our duty. If the American people really opt – after we’ve given them a fair chance to decide between two radically different courses – for a continuation of the Obama regime, then so be it…the people do ultimately rule in this nation, even if they opt for ruin. But I don’t want us sitting there in 2013 regretting that we didn’t give it our all…leave nothing out, hold nothing back; this is a fight to the finish and for the whole ball of wax.

From Real Clear Politics:

“[I]f you go back to the year 2000, when we had an obvious disaster and – and saw that our voting process needed refinement, and we did that in the America Votes Act and made sure that we could iron out those kinks, now you have the Republicans, who want to literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws and literally – and very transparently – block access to the polls to voters who are more likely to vote Democratic candidates than Republican candidates. And it’s nothing short of that blatant,” DNC Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL) told TVOne’s “Washington Week.”

As Wasserman-Schultz is a liberal we can’t rule out the possibility that she’s just a dingbat…so dumb that she really believes all that liberal nonsense about the GOP being secretly racist and just waiting for the day we can propose to re-institute slavery. But if she’s not a complete moron, then we are left with this – liberals are deathly afraid that Obama’s support is eroding among African-Americans and other minorities.

To be sure, Obama will roll up 90%+ of the black vote in 2012 but there’s a difference – a huge difference – if it is 90% of a 60% black turnout (as in 2004) or 90% of a 65% black turnout (as in 2008). In 2008 there was a huge upsurge in minority turnout – black, hispanic and Asian, and most of these voters went for Obama. White turnout, meanwhile, was down slightly from 2004 levels. Essentially, this all played a gigantic role in the 2008 result – not absolutely decisive (Obama may have still won even if minority turnout remained at 2004 levels), but certainly very important. And it will be even more important in 2012 when we’re likely to have a higher turnout among anti-Obama voters than we had in 2008. If Obama can’t get the same sort of minority turn out he got in 2008 his re-election chances become immensely more complicated.

And how to Democrats get minority support? I mean, other than getting lucky and having the first serious minority candidate for President? Well, with Hope and Change wearing thin, it is time to break out the race card…and that is was Wasserman-Schultz is doing (unless, once again, she’s just an idiot). We can expect this song and dance right through the 2012 campaign…and it will get worse as time goes on; especially in those media outlets which are geared towards minority voters…there the gloves will really come off and the Democrat message will be pitched that the most nauseating, hate- and fear-mongering level.

Not too much we can do about it. The regular MSM is mostly on Obama’s side – the minority MSM is even more so. We of the GOP/Conservative camp are starting to make serious inroads among the various minority communities, but it will be the work of a generation before we can well and truly say that our message can compete with the liberal Democrat message. All we can do for 2012 is try to fight off the worst of it – calling the Democrats out when they make the most absurd statements, as well as seeing to it that Obama is made to answer for the race-baiting in his Presidential campaign (he, naturally, will try to stay above it all…pretending he has no idea it is going on…we’ve got to nail him down on it; tie him to the hate-mongering; make sure that the people know that it is Obama’s team which is pulling this nonsense.

We can bank on it that the 2012 campaign will be the longest, most expensive and nastiest political campaign in history. This is just a curtain-raiser here…a slight foretaste of the feces Democrats will spread all over this great nation of ours.

AS what? ASW – Navy-speak for Anti-Submarine Warfare. As far as I’m concerned, we should make this a live-fire exercise – from PJ Tatler:

The Fars news agency, which is run by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, reported today that Iran has launched its first ever Iranian built submarines to the Red Sea. This is the first time such deployment has been attempted by the Iranian navy…

Iran’s government, having no legitimacy by American standards (which are the only standards that matter), it is not licit for the Iranian regime to even so much as have a navy…and having a submarine is just too risky. Cruel, corrupt and dishonest as the Iranian regime is, it is madness for us to sit idly by while they build and deploy weapons which will only be used for evil. So, treat this vessel, and any like it, as pirate ships…hunt it down and sink it. What if the Iranian government reacts? Let them – it would give us a ready-made excuse for taking our their nuclear facilities.

The bottom line, for me, is that we should start acting in the real world…no more pretending that un-elected, corrupt regimes of anti-human brutes are worthy of our respect or consideration. No more of this absurd dance – time to start doing the right thing, all the time and everywhere.

Andrew Breitbart will be attending the RightOnline conference right in my backyard in Minneapolis, Minnesota on June 17-18. Along with Breitbart will be Governor (and presidential candidate) Tim Pawlenty, Michelle Malkin, Congresswoman (and presumed presidential candidate) Michele Bachmann, businessman (and presidential candidate) Herman Cain, Senator Mike Lee, Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn, Congressman Thad McCotter, and many more. There will also be several tracks for breakout sessions, including effective use of social media, blogging, and more. If you can spare the dough (not much, really; $99 gets you in the door and includes meals) you’ll get a whole lotta bang for your conservative buck. I’ll personally be blogging at the event for Blogs for Victory. Hope to see some of you there.

Ok, liberals – this is the chart that your side produced in early 2009 showing what was supposed to happen with and without the Obama recovery program…as you can see, not only did it not perform as desired but things are actually worse than your side predicted they would be if we did nothing in 2009. So, what is the plan, now? Tax more? Spend more? Borrow more? Print more?

How about we face reality, instead? How about instead of searching for some Big Government, socialist solution we just admit to bankruptcy, balance our budget, pay off our debts and free up the economy by cutting taxes and slashing through anti-wealth regulations? I realize that such a program would take 20 years to get us fully back on our feet but that is just the way the world is. There is this tedious, old-fashioned rule about things: if you don’t work hard and save carefully, you’ll never get ahead in the long run.

I know, I know…there is no room for instant gratification in that. Also no room for government grants for perfectly worthless activities. A lot of you liberals out there would have to enter the private sector and there it gets even more annoying because it demands actual results for a day’s work. But, you can get used to it – I promise: it’ll only hurt at first. Why don’t we all give it a try?

HAT TIP: Zero Hedge

Hey, its not me saying it – its the Washington Post:

…We take no view on whether the administration’s efforts on behalf of the automobile industry were a good or bad thing; that’s a matter for the editorial pages and eventually the historians. But we are interested in the facts the president cited to make his case.

What we found is one of the most misleading collections of assertions we have seen in a short presidential speech. Virtually every claim by the president regarding the auto industry needs an asterisk, just like the fine print in that too-good-to-be-true car loan…

Our President – the used car dealer of liberalism. Step right up folks, I’ve got a great program for you: a 1933 New Deal with only 14 trillion miles on it! And you can have it for the low, low down payment of 1.6 trillion dollars!

From the Washington Post:

…New Post-ABC numbers show Obama leading five of six potential Republican presidential rivals tested in the poll. But he is in a dead heat with former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, who formally announced his 2012 candidacy last week, making jobs and the economy the central issues in his campaign.

Among all Americans, Obama and Romney are knotted at 47 percent each, and among registered voters, the former governor is numerically ahead, 49 percent to 46 percent…

When you’re trailing a GOPer who, to say the least, hasn’t even locked down the GOP base you are clearly starting to suffer from an “anyone but you” attitude among the electorate. Its not that people are wild for Romney, but they are getting wild to replace Obama.

Now, the economy could undergo a major turnaround over the next 12 months and Obama could end up being popular, again…but if the economy is in the same or worse shape come June of 2012, then he’s going to be in very serious political trouble.

Sorta puts the nauseating cherry on top of the ObamaCare poop sandwich, doesn’t it? From DC Caller:

The Daily Caller has learned the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) never had the authority to issue waivers from Obamacare’s annual limit requirements.

Language granting HHS that power was never in the original law. Instead, through new rules and regulations, HHS gave itself the power last summer using a broad interpretation of certain parts of the law…

Liberals – just making it up as they go along. This is no surprise, at all. Once you understand that liberals don’t know what “law” means you are prepared to see all manner of shennanigans. To a liberal, a law is whatever a liberal wants it to be at the moment…and, so, abortion is found in a constitution which never even so much as mentions “privacy” and “the right of the people to keep and bear arms” means “only the police and army are allowed to have guns”; people who illegally cross the border didn’t break the law, they are just “undocumented”… Trust me on this one, if the liberals decide that wearing purple on every second Tuesday is good, they’ll find the requirement in what they call “law”.

Nancy said we had to pass the bill to see what was in it – a more accurate statement would be “we have to pass the law so we can find what we want in it”. They could have passed a law with 2,000 blank pages and you would have got the same thing…and now that I think of it, has anyone seen the actual bill which was passed? I’m not talking a copy or a summary, but the actual bill, itself? Boehner should go ask Nancy where it is…maybe it is just 2,000 blank pages!

Repeal and replace, that is the only way to go: an absolute requirement, in fact, because if we don’t repeal it then liberals will still continue to find whatever they want in it. Doesn’t do any good to just modify it…if you take away the individual mandate in sub-section C, page 96, paragraph Z.1, they’ll just find it, again, in sub-section D, page 114, paragraph A.5.Z-57.6. Or they’ll get a judge to rule that the “general welfare” statement in the Constitution’s preamble requires ObamaCare to be the law of the land. Repeal and replace…and then seize all copies and burn and bury, just to be sure.

Lance Robert over at Zero Hedge says, “yes“:

The media has been replete lately with a variety of different government officials saying that there will not be a third round of Quantitative Easing. Even the great Ben Bernanke himself on April 27th spoke against the possibility of QE 3. This isn’t surprising, of course, because in order for something like QE to have the most effect it needs to be, well, a surprise.

However, I am throwing down the gauntlet and making the call – there will be Quantitative Easing, and a big one most likely, by the end of summer. There I said it; of course, I have actually been saying this for the last couple of months and it doesn’t take much of a real genius to figure it out considering that we are heading into a presidential election year. However, it most likely won’t be called QE 3 since the term QE is now politically and socially almost taboo…

I can’t dissent from that view, at all. The one thing the banksters and bureaucrats cannot handle is an economy in recession in 2012. To their way of thinking, Obama is a sure-thing unless the economy tanks (personally, I think a lot of people are putting too much stock in Obama…even if the economy is better in 2012 than in 2011, he’s very much beatable because so many Americans are growing contemptuous of him; but, we’ll leave that aside, for now) – and, so, they have to keep the economy from tanking. While Democrats talk up more stimulus, the fact of the matter is that the House GOP would have to become suicidal to agree to any such thing…and even if they did, there is no assurance it would get through a Senate filled with Democrats fearful of losing their re-election bids in 2012. Thus, classic tax and spend efforts to “cure” a recession are out…only thing left is to fire up the printing presses.

As the linked article notes, in order for any such printing to have a noticeable effect on GDP growth and employment, it would have to be a pretty large amount. The author guesses in the range of $2 trillion. I can’t say, myself…but if you do dump $2 trillion on the economy all of a sudden, it will have a big effect. The people doing it hope for a lot of short-term, good effect…with the bad stuff only showing up after Obama is safely re-elected. The last two rounds of money printing worked out just like that – short term boost to the economic numbers, giving the appearance of economic recovery, as long as you ignored such bell weathers as the price of housing, new home construction and labor force participation (most of which is rather arcane information that most Americans don’t know about). It certainly blew a hole in my predictions – I didn’t think Bernanke and the boys could keep it up nearly this long.

But will it work like that, again? I’m not so sure. Printing up money is, after all, a way of kicking the problem down the road. It doesn’t solve anything – and, in fact, in the long term it makes things much worse. While some good will be perceived, the fact of the matter is that more money printing will immediately cause oil and other commodities to spike in price, thus forcing consumers to pay more for essentials. Whatever “oomph” we might get from “free” money may be immediately eaten up by the “tax” of rising inflation. Maybe a quarter or two of improved numbers, but then a resumption of the crash – and at an accelerated rate. Do it in July and you carry us through to January…and we fall back in to recession right about the time Obama gives his acceptance speech to the 2012 Democrat convention (on the other hand, if they wait until January then we may be back in full-blown recession and Obama’s numbers may have so badly cratered that even if there is “recovery” by September of 2012, it will be too late). I don’t like the prospects of it – mostly because fiat money is just bad…but doubly bad this time as we might only be allowing the most speculative of money men to make a killing for a short while.

The thing is, if Obama were to change course right now and admit that stimulus and money printing don’t work – and then told us we’ve got four or five bad years to get through but if we get busy making, mining and growing things, then we’ll be back on our feet, he’d probably get re-elected. The refreshing honesty and the “let’s all get together to endure the rough times” would likely boost his appeal to an American people increasingly weary of big promises and small results from government. I doubt that Obama has the courage to make such a move – or, indeed, the wit to see that it is necessary. And all the banksters and bureaucrats can see is rank fear…fear that someone like Palin or Cain or Santorum will win and proceed to gut Big Government, including the “private sector” parts of it (ie, big corporations like GM, big banks like JP Morgan). Fear and ignorance…because make no mistake about it, the people who rise highest in corporate or bureaucratic America are the people least versed in how real life is lived. They simply don’t know what they’re doing – but the theory they were taught in college says spend, spend, spend your way to prosperity.

It’ll be interesting to watch out this plays out. Clueless people running a government off track and an economy which has been strangled. They want this dead cat to get up and walk, and the trick just can’t be done. Meanwhile, frustration and anger grow among the American people and revolution is distinctly in the air. 2012 will be the most crucial election since 1932…and at this point in time, no one can say what, really, will happen.