Timing, Obama has none.

http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20110902/OPINION01/709029987

Feds sue over their own rules.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-said-ready-to-sue-big-banks-over-mortgages-2011-09-02?reflink=MW_news_stmp

Feds order banks to make subprime loans. Banks argue, feds threaten, banks give in. It turns into exactly the debacle banks complained about. Feds decide to sue banks weakened by fed mismanagement for following fed rules. Obviously the banks are to blame, not the democrats making the rules, enforcing the rules, and running fannie mae and freddie mac. When will the American people wake up and throw these idiots out of office?

Mitt Romney = RINO.

http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/thale/the-issue-with-romney-is-the-issues?source=nl
A comprehensive list of Romney's often liberal traits.

"Elites" Try to Crush Tea Party, Raise Taxes

Elites Try to Crush Tea Party, Raise Taxes

Friday, August 26, 2011
By Dan Gainor The Politico headline read: “Conservative elites pine for 2012 hero.” They could have shortened that sentence to “Elites pine” or more likely to “Elites freak the heck out.” Because it’s not just the conservative cognoscenti, it’s all of them. The folks in charge miss the good old days when they ran everything and ordinary American voters and taxpayers did as they were told.
Those days are gone and the in-crowd is afraid it is on the way out, too. Congress’s favorability is down to 13 percent and even the lefties at Mother Jones are whining that both parties are cancelling town hall meetings to hide from angry voters.
The era when elite Washington – of all three major parties: Republicans, Democrats and the Media – could just raise our taxes or cut deals behind closed doors has gone bye-bye. And the Powers That Be are determined to turn back the clock.
They blame the Tea Party and rightly so. A combination of a grassroots movement and the technology to actually inform Americans has taken away some power from politicians and the media. The logical solution would be for both groups to reflect more what the public actually wants from them – a saner, more affordable government and a media that is fair to someone other than liberals.
Instead, the elites have declared war on the Tea Party.
That in itself is nothing new. Since the first spot of tea a couple years ago, anti-tax, anti-Big Government protesters have been called bigots, violent and a dangerous fringe element. The recent debt battle took it to a far worse level as those in power sought to blame Tea Partiers on our nation’s unwillingness to spend itself into the grave.
The result of that battle was, seemingly, a toss-up. The debt ceiling was raised and a super committee established to discuss ways to solve the budget crunch. But the design of the committee makes tax hikes likely. The deck is stacked as everyone from President Obama and Vice President Biden to Speaker Boehner and almost every generic pundit is now pushing to do just that. And the clock is ticking as a Dec. 23 deadline looms.
At least a few admit they want to use the chance to raise taxes. Obama, most Dems and even loud-mouthed billionaire Warren Buffett are begging for a tax hike. On Sunday, Aug. 21, the major media chimed in. The Washington Post ran two huge pieces skewering the Tea Party on the economy and more. Columnist Allan Sloan led off the business section claiming “the Tea Party types bear primary responsibility.” Over in the opinion section (as if the first piece wasn’t opinion), they ran a pro-spending, pro-Keynsian economics piece complaining that critics of such policies “almost surely have it wrong.” The critics are, of course, the Tea Party and friendly politicians like Rep. Michele Bachmann and Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
The very same day, The New York Times produced an editorial urging “business leaders to change the minds of the Tea Party lawmakers” and back a “grand bargain that cut spending and raised tax revenue.”
The push to raise taxes is near universal across the media for two reasons. First, it boosts the size of the burgeoning Nanny State. The journalistic elite always support more government. Even when politicians trim the size of growth in government, reporters bemoan such “draconian” cuts. Journalists have never met a draconian increase in the size of government, but taxpayers sure have.
Secondly, a tax hike would require squashing the Tea Party. And the elites join in the hunt. Post columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. has claimed GOP politicians are “subservient” to the Tea Party. Post columnist Richard Cohen concurs and said Perry “occupies the cultural and intellectually empty heartland of the Republican Party” because he “vows to diminish Washington’s influence.” Cohen calls that a “moronic policy,” instead claiming “what America desperately needs is more, not less, Washington.”
The network news shows use the same strategy with just a dash more subtlety. When local Tea Party leaders confronted Obama in Iowa, they were put down on air. On NBC, Chuck Todd noted the “bitter taste of the energy and confrontational style of the Tea Party” and their “in-your-face tactics.” ABC’s Jake Tapper referred to it the “unruly Tea Party style.”
Politicians took the same view.  “Former Republican Senator Alan Simpson, who co-chaired the deficit commission, said the American people are rightly disgusted, and he’s personally bothered by Republicans undermining any chance of Speaker Boehner compromising,” explained Tapper July 12. That’s a Republican argument supporting Obama’s “shared sacrifice” plan where the elites control more of your money.
They were mirroring the elitist anti-Tea Party talking points, such as the one from Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod who called the downgrade of U.S. debt “a Tea Party downgrade.” That, despite the fact that Tea Partiers were the only ones willing to cut enough government to prevent the downgrade in the first place.
Wherever you look, elites are moving to crush resistance. The West does it the democratic way of course. In Syria and Libya, they use tanks and guns and SCUD missiles. Here in America, elites use the more dangerous weapon of the media to keep power over everything we do. Our bosses envy the power of their counterparts elsewhere. France just “announced $16 billion in new taxes to ensure it reaches its deficit-reduction targets,” rather than cut its massive welfare state.
In the U.S., Democrats and Republicans alike embrace the tax-and-spend approach, so the Tea Party threatens them all. Naturally, it must be stopped. Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Fla., made it all clear in a recent speech. “Let us all remember who the real enemy is. The real enemy is the Tea Party – the Tea Party holds the Congress hostage.”
Like most politicians, she’s wrong. If the Tea Party really had that much sway in Congress, our economy and our nation would be in much better shape.

Obama made his own bad luck on jobs

By Phil Kerpen, vice president for policy at Americans for Prosperity - 08/18/11 11:34 AM ET

The President recently took to the campaign trail – at taxpayer expense – trying to rehabilitate his image on job creation. Obama claimed that his policies “reversed the recession” until he ran into a “run of bad luck,” but in truth the biggest challenge the economy has faced under this administration is an astonishing onslaught of federal regulations that make it nearly impossible to estimate the cost of adding new employees. In fact, the only Obama “success” on job creation is the hiring of new federal regulators, with employment at regulatory agencies up 13 percent since Obama took office to more than 281,000 federal bureaucrats. Meanwhile private sector employment shrank by 5.6 percent.

Investors and employers are sitting on their hands, accumulating cash, and waiting for the regulatory environment to improve. Unfortunately, it seems to be getting even more hostile to job creation.

In the last Congress we saw the passage of two of the biggest expansions in federal regulatory power in decades (and possibly ever). Obama’s health care law and the Dodd-Frank financial legislation were each about 2,000 pages of broad grants of authority and discretion to regulators, the implications of which are just now beginning to be felt.

On top of that we’ve seen an astonishing train wreck of new energy regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), including an aggressive effort to discover elements of the failed Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade legislation inside the forty-year-old Clean Air Act. The EPA is now contemplating its most aggressively anti-jobs regulation: an out-of-cycle re-proposal of smog rules that would ratchet down levels so far beyond what is necessary for public health that nearly the whole country would be judged “out of attainment” and over seven millions jobs would be lost. The EPA is also attempting to impose an absurd 54.5 mile-per-gallon fuel economy standard that will take any car worth driving off the market.

Not to be outdone, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is intent on rewarding the union bosses with elements of the failed card check legislation, including an effort to allow unions to impose ambush elections – before workers have an opportunity to understand the costs associated with forming a union. Most chilling from the NLRB is the effort of their acting, not confirmed, general counsel Lafe Solomon to dictate to Boeing (and, by precedent, all potential employers) where they can locate facilities that employ thousands of people.

The expensive regulations hamstringing manufacturing, banking, and other traditional sectors would be somewhat bearable if the innovative sectors of the future were able to drive overall economic growth relatively unfettered. Indeed that is what we’ve seen over the past decade: the technology sector, especially the wide-scale deployment of broadband Internet and wireless technologies, has been the principal driver of innovation and economic growth. In June, the tech sector had just a 3.3 percent unemployment rate, compared to 9.2 percent in the overall economy.

Unfortunately, the Federal Communications Commission, in a politically-motivated move almost certainly being dictated by the White House, is set to go final with its so-called network neutrality rules sometime this fall. These rules are offered as solution to a nonexistent problem of phone and cable companies blocking access to websites or otherwise interfering with their customers’ use of the Internet. But the effect will be to give government regulators control over the economics of the Internet, with an expected result of slashing private investment by about 10 percent and destroying as many as 200,000 jobs a year. The second order effects of slowing down the Internet innovation engine will be felt across almost every other industry.

The House has already voted to overturn the network neutrality order, and the Senate will have an opportunity under the Congressional Review Act later this year. If just four Democratic senators vote with all 47 Republicans to overturn the rule, Obama will be forced to decide whether he wants to use his veto pen to keep hundreds of thousands of people unemployed.

Clearly, more fundamental reform is needed. The most significant reform is the REINS ACT, H.R. 10, sponsored by U.S. Rep. Geoff Davis of Kentucky. The REINS Act would require approval of the House, Senate, and President for any economically significant rule before it could take effect. It would eliminate the most extreme outcomes and dampen the impact of regulatory uncertainty on businesses that would be eager to hire if they had more reasonable expectations of regulatory compliance costs. If the President is serious about creating jobs, he should stop blaming bad luck and take responsibility. He should call off the regulatory attacks at his agencies and urge passage of the REINS Act.

The Texas Record under Gov. Rick Perry

The Texas Record under Gov. Rick Perry

I am being asked by a number of nation media about Gov. Rick Perry. As AFP director, I am not in a position to talk politics, but do talk policies.
Before being Texas director of Americans for Prosperity, I worked for Ronald Reagan (first White House liaison for US Dept of Ed)and Bush 41 (White House liaison at US Dept of Interior), and have worked public policy issues in Texas during Gov. Ann Richards, Gov. George W. Bush and Gov. Perry's tenures.
What is the Perry record?
Texas is the top state for business relocation into the state, #1 in job creation, top exporting state, and the list goes on and on. Texas has gainned those distinctions under Gov. Perry's tenure.
We Texans value lower taxes, common-sense regulations, stoping frivilous lawsuits, no state income tax and being a right-to-work state.
In April 2009, AFP-Texas held one of the first tea party rallies in the state, working with a number of other groups, where Gov. Perry spoke and we first introduced our issue campaign "Lone Star Strong". We created that effort to point out how public policies matter.
To get a snapshot of the Texas record and how conservative fiscal policies create an atmosphere for prosperity, go to: www.LoneStarStrong.com

-- Peggy Venable

Read more: http://americansforprosperity.org/081311-texas-record-under-gov-rick-perry#ixzz1WI1vXChb

American Soldiers; The best of the best.

http://www.theintelligencer.net/page/content.detail/id/558426/-Old-Guard--Taking-Care-of-Honored-Dead.html?nav=511

If only the self serving clowns in Washington had half the honor, respect and dignity our military does.

 

Obama's "Department of Justice" attacks American companies.

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Fridays with Erick Erickson

08.26.11

Yet again the President intends to take a stab at jobs creation. Two things being touted by the White House are scholarships for engineers, which will not create jobs and will increase the costs of education through the subsidy. The other is paying people to retrofit buildings to make buildings greener. Even the New York Times is finally conceding that green jobs don't actually create many jobs.

All of this ignores that, should the President's plan work, it'll increase federal spending and not actually create sustainable jobs. It is also a distraction from bigger news.

The Wall Street Journal and other media outlets are reporting the Department of Justice has raided Gibson Guitars. Why? Because Gibson uses wood from India in its guitars. That wood is from a sustainable crop of wood that is industry certified. But Gibson takes the wood and finishes it here in the United States, providing Americans with jobs.

The Department of Justice believes it is illegal for Gibson to finish its guitars in the United States. According to the Department of Justice's interpretation of an Indian law that India itself does not interpret in the same way, wood taken from India must be finished in India. Never mind that the Indian government does not see it that way and has not requested American intervention against Gibson.

While the President is trying to create jobs, we should not fall for the distraction and should instead pay very real attention to how Barack Obama's appointees are killing American jobs.

— Erick Erickson

"Green jobs" aren't.

$500,000 of Green for Green Jobs, Red for the Rest of Us

Posted by Daniel Horowitz (Profile)

Tuesday, August 23rd at 2:02PM EDT

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It certainly pays to go green.  Well, at least until the greenbacks stop flowing – and bankruptcy kicks in.
Last year, the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Chris Horner estimated that the $30 billion green handout in the stimulus bill cost taxpayers roughly $475,000 per job created.  According to the Wall Street Journal, that’s quadruple the cost of creating a job in a nonsubsidized private firm.  It turns out that Horner was right on the money, even for non-energy related “green” jobs.
Yesterday, Fox News reported on the results of a tree planting stimulus program in Nevada – and it’s not pretty:

In 2009, the U.S. Forest Service awarded $490,000 of stimulus money to Nevada’s Clark County Urban Forestry Revitalization Project, aimed at revitalizing urban neighborhoods in the county with trees, plants, and green-industry training.
According to Recovery.gov, the U.S. government’s official website related to Recovery Act spending, the project created 1.72 permanent jobs.  In addition, the Nevada state Division of Forestry reported the federal grant generated one full-time temporary job and 11 short-term project-oriented jobs.

Supporters of the program claim that there was an unspecified amount of jobs created from “Spanish-language training for Hispanics in the landscaping and tree care industry.”  After all, these are probably jobs that Americans won’t do anyway.
To be fair, at least tree planting won’t go out of business, thereby providing these 1.75 individuals with permanent jobs.  The same cannot be said for stimulus-subsidized Big Solar jobs.
Last week, the Massachusetts-based Evergreen Solar filed for bankruptcy, after laying off 800 workers in March.   Now, they are slated to dump another 65 workers by closing a plant in Michigan.  This, after receiving an undisclosed amount of stimulus cash, in addition to $58 million in state aid.
So much for Obama’s 2008 promise to create 5 million well-paying green jobs!
While Obama’s corporate cronies are seeing green, we are all incurring red.  Obama’s stimulus helped contribute to his $4.247 trillion addition to the national debt.  Following the latest $2.5 trillion increase in the debt ceiling, the debt has already increased by $345 billion, from $14.294 trillion to $14.639 trillion.
Let’s put that figure in perspective for a moment.  As part of the deal to increase the debt ceiling by $2.5 trillion, Congress agreed to cut spending by $6.67 billion next year.  Well, at a clip of $3 million per minute, we blew through that amount of savings in the first 37 hours of the new borrowing regime!
I’ve always viewed environmentalists as watermelons; green on the outside, but ruby red on the inside.  I guess you can view the red as the embodiment of socialism or perennial debt.

Politics? Maybe not, but too funny to pass up.

http://www.badideatshirts.com/SOMEWHERE-IN-KENYA-A-VILLAGE-IS-MISSING-THEIR-IDIOT-T-SHIRT--P990.aspx