1) Despite the mobilization of the anti-obamacare movement in all of the recent townhall meetings, there didn't seem to be ANY TRACE of the movement in this one.
2)The President repeatedly called out the movement by saying he was going to address the "wild misrepresentations" and "scare tactics" employed by special interests that are trying to "scare and mislead the American people". I didn't see anyone stepping up.
3) In reference to #2, the only "tough" question to be asked was by a LITTLE GIRL who referrenced the people OUTSIDE who had anti-obamacare signs. The President was clear in his response that these people were trying to "create boogiemen" and "profit from the status quo". Hmmm. That's so weird!
One further point that came out of the left wing panel discussion here at tht ASA conference in San Francisco was that to a man Steve Kest, executive director of ACORN, George Goehl of the National People's Action Network, Gabe Gonzales of the Center for Community Change and Matt Hammer of the People Acting in Community were not buying into the claims that the protests going on against the healthcare plan were staged or because Obama is black.
None of them believe Nancy Pelosi's claim that the protests are orchestrated.
None of them buy into Krugman's statement that ..they’re probably reacting less to what Mr. Obama is doing, or even to what they’ve heard about what he’s doing, than to who he is.
That is, the driving force behind the town hall mobs is probably the same cultural and racial anxiety that’s behind the “birther” movement, which denies Mr. Obama’s citizenship. Senator Dick Durbin has suggested that the birthers and the health care protesters are one and the sa
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President Barack Obama’s approval rating has slumped to 50 percent, the
lowest since his inauguration, according to a poll released Thursday on
the eve of his 200th day in office.
Racial narcissism is dangerous. You are challenged at Sumcad's NWS Editorial to know why, once you read his popular regular National Writers Syndicate column patronized by millions.
"In extreme secrecy from the public, the Obama administration is hammering out an international treaty with other several other countries and the EU ......under ACTA, the government will get sweeping new powers to search and seize material thought to be in breach of copyright. But why all the secrecy? What it will do on a larger scale is let big brother watch you; however, this time on a completely different level." see video
Cybersecurity Czar Melissa Hathaway has resigned for "personal reasons." The real story is much more interesting. Siobhan Gorman of the Wall Street Journal reports:
People familiar with the matter said Ms. Hathaway has been "spinning her wheels" in the White House, where the president's economic advisers sought to marginalize her politically.
Ms. Hathaway had initially been considered a leading contender to fill the cyber post permanently. She lost favor with the president's economic team after she said it should consider options for regulating some private-sector entities to ensure they secure their networks, said cybersecurity specialists familiar with the discussions.
Cry Babies apparently no one ever told them if you can dish it out you better be able to take it! Remember all the chimp photos of bush?
Though the identity of the Photoshop artist is unknown to anyone, the Christian Science Monitor concludes, disapprovingly, that “a conservative graffiti artist” is the culprit. Adds the Monitor: “Now, digitized copies of the portraits have gone viral, spiraling across Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr. Predictably, the right-wing blogosphere is bursting at the seams with glee.”
Even more predictably, leftists have begun to complain that the portrait is racist. According to Bedlam Magazine, for instance: “The Joker white-face imposed on Obama’s visage has a sort of malicious, racist, Jim Crow quailty to it.” The good folks at L.A. Weekly, meanwhile, tell us that the portrait “has a bit of everything to appeal to the drunk tank of California conservatism: Obama is in white face, his mouth (like Ledger’s Joker’s) has been grotesquely slit wide open an
The dark side of Communism
will soon come upon us in America. Sadly, the average American citizen
won’t wake up until it directly affects them adversely.
Transparency Not Gonna Happen!
The Obama administration is refusing to release government records on its "cash-for-clunkers" rebate program that would substantiate—or undercut—White House claims of the program's success, even as the president presses the Senate for a quick vote for $2 billion to boost car sales.
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Sunday the government would release electronic records about the program, and President Barack Obama has pledged greater transparency for his administration. But the Transportation Department, which has collected details about 157,000 rebate requests, won't release sales data that dealers provided showing how much U.S. car manufacturers are benefiting from the $1 billion initially pumped into the program.
Obama's reliance on experts and czars and top-down restructuring is particularly ironic in light of his promises of change and bringing the spirit of 21st century technology to government.
John Williams, of ShadowStats.com, reports that some very quirky things helped boost the recently announced Q2 GDP number.
The government lowered the inflation rate it uses in the GDP calculation to almost zero. A near zero inflation rate means the government hardly had to adjust downward its raw GDP number.
Further, as Williams points out, there was no good news out of the durable goods sector. New orders for durable goods, were down 25% from the same time last year.
So what did boost GDP?
Barry Ritholtz reports that the trade deficit distorted the GDP. Goods imported by Americans fell by a much larger amount than the decline in our exports---which boosted GDP.
He is also not the first I have heard speculate that the media boosterism, particularly from sources not known for that sort of thing, like Bloomberg, suggests that official pressure has been applied to keep financial news upbeat.
But it keeps growing. Like a mutation. In fact, it went into
overdrive this weekend with the release of a supposedly newly found
alleged bith certificate showing President Obama’s birthplace to be
Mombasa, Kenya.
So what might be that illustrious tipping point today? An inside
job. An implosion. A self-cratering. Whatever you want to call it, it
wasn’t pretty. But, strangely, you can’t look away.
The circus began when Orly Taitz, a longtime chieftain of the
birther posse (and a dentist), appeared with MSNBC host David Shuster
this afternoon to discuss the document.
Shuster, who is no friend to the right, was actually pretty gentle
with his guest seeming to be aware that he really didn’t need to do
much — at all — to precipitate the train wreck. It was like he was a
super-gifted weatherman who accurately predicted a 100 percent chance
of meltdown.
The WSJ reports that "Timothy Geithner blasted top U.S. financial regulators in an expletive-laced critique last Friday as frustration grows over the Obama administration's faltering plan to overhaul U.S. financial regulation."
See video: From the YouTube description: "Like the old joke goes, President Obama isn't a doctor, but he plays one on TV -- giving Americans a discomforting glimpse of life under ObamaCare, with government leaders and bureaucrats dispensing medical opinions that are better left to doctors, medical professionals, and patients," said House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH).
As his father was not a US citizen, but rather a citizen of Kenya, Obama inherited by birthright, natural law, his fathers name and citizenship. He is NOT a “natural born citizen” of the US, no matter where he was born.
Mr. President, you promised the American people that you are "committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Govt.So again I ask, why not live out that transparency promise by posting your original birth certificate and end the division and debate?
Destroyed the engine (the most valuable part) of that older vehicle, thereby trashing the business of both used car lots and automotive recyclers and used parts dealers (very bad.)
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Bruce Chesley
This week's Sunday morning shows brought out the big guns, Geithner, Summers, Greenspan. Because they had a big new idea to non-deny deny. Raising taxes.
There are approximately 31,000,000 Chrysler vehicles on the road today and, as noted by Judge Gonzalez, those vehicles have no product liability coverage with the new or old Chrysler because of this reorganization!
To get the economy back on track, will President Barack Obama have to break his pledge not to raise taxes on 95 percent of Americans? In a “This Week” exclusive, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner told me, “We’re going to have to do what’s necessary.”
For example, I am trying to understand what the "4 pages" of documents are that can only be described to Congress, but not seen by Congress? What could require such secrecy?
A Texas man who pleaded guilty to threatening President Barack
Obama and the Mall of America in suburban Minneapolis was sentenced
Friday to four years of probation and home detention.
The strategy ... is aimed at selling the most distressed hunks of failed banks to private-equity firms and other types of investors who may be more willing than traditional banks to take a flier on bad assets.
