Remember that we are talking about the guy who said, “under my plan of cap and trade, electricity prices will necessarily skyrocket” (:35 seconds into the video below). Seems to this blogger that Mike Lester’s cartoon is extremely accurate. If you watch the video, Obama mentions the fact that prices for oil, natural gas, and other means of heating your home will be going up as well.
This from the guy who has the Oval Office so hot, his advisers have to attend meetings in shirt sleeves.
The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on his first full day in the White House, President Obama was photographed in the Oval Office without his suit jacket. There was, however, a logical explanation: Mr. Obama, who hates the cold, had cranked up the thermostat.
“He’s from Hawaii, O.K.?” said Mr. Obama’s senior adviser, David Axelrod, who occupies the small but strategically located office next door to his boss. “He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there.”
Ok… I’ll concede that Obama is from Hawaii originally but he lived in Chicago for how many years?!? I’m sorry Mr. Axelrod, that dog don’t hunt.
Truth be told, Obama is another typical Lear Jet Liberal who preaches to the masses about how our activity is impacting the planet and also has the audacity to tell us to alter our ways without any intention of altering his. He’s a hypocrite. Especially when you begin to notice the rapid decline in atmospheric temperatures. Someone is whitewashing someone. Question: Are you noticing that it’s you?
And as an aside – who cares how much it costs for the Emperor to have the Oval Office so hot that he can grow orchids anyway. He’s not paying the bill. The taxpayers are.
I’ve been meaning to comment on November’s unemployment numbers since their release but have been pulled in several other directions and my blogging efforts are the casualty. That said, here are my thoughts on the massive recovery in the job sector…
First off, and this may be news to all the pinheads who believe the Infestation’s estimations of the nation’s unemployed, a .2% drop in new jobless claims in November does not a recovery make. Let’s first take a look at what month we are talking about – November. What happens in November Class? Anybody? Short answer – seasonal hiring.
That’s right campers, that miraculous .2% tumble in new jobless claims can in all likelihood be attributed to seasonal hiring in the retail sector. Come January, I see a massive jump in new jobless claims as those who are currently taking part-time retail work to put presents under the tree for their kids suddenly find themselves again looking for work.
Next, let us not forget that the numbers used to gauge the nation’s unemployed are NEW Jobless Claims as filed in the various states. It does not count those who are already in the system. It also does not count those who take part-time (or seasonal) work or other menial jobs for less pay than that which they were receiving in their former positions. This is called – mark this down libtards, it is a word that you have obviously never heard of – underemployed. The underemployment rate in this country is estimated to be between 17 and 18 percent. A disastrous number if the average American Lemming were to ever take the time to understand.
Since the beginning of this recession an estimated 7 million jobs have been lost. Approximately 4 million of those jobs have been lost since Emperor Barry took command. Unemployment has more than doubled under his watch as the federal budget deficit has tripled. The government is spending like crazy and making fictitious claims of “saving” jobs. Now the Turd-in-Chief wants to spend nearly $200 Billion more under the guise of creating jobs?!? It is time someone cut up Mr. Obama’s National Debt Credit Card.
There is one major reason why employers are not hiring right now and it is a concept that libtards cannot understand if you presented them with full color animated illustrations. Uncertainty.
With a certainty of a massive tax increase as the Bush tax cuts sunset combined with the uncertainty over health care reform, the lack of credit being extended to small and medium sized businesses, and a daily barrage of legislative proposals designed to crater the market economy of the United States, employers are apprehensive about hiring anyone at this point.
The word tax means to impede. Taxes are an impediment to the private sector. As tax rates increase, the number of jobs decrease. As jobs evaporate, government revenues evaporate as well. The liberal answer to lower government revenue is to raise tax rates which in turn eliminates additional jobs.
It is a mistake to believe that doubling down on the mistakes which create an atmosphere in which fewer people support the masses will improve the situation. As fewer and fewer people are contributing to the government through taxes on income, the less able the government is going to be to support the dependency state which they have created for the rest of the population.
Try as they may to shift the blame for the current economic conditions in this country to the Bush Administration, this President and his Administration are responsible for this economy. The President said that if Congress did not pass his $787 billion Porkulus package unemployment would rise over 8%. They passed it, he signed it, and unemployment hit a 26 year high of 10.2% anyway. Obama owns this recession so do not let them get away with their attempts to pawn off their responsibility. Remember, the worse the unemployment rate got under the Bush Administration was 6.5% (in 2008).
The 10% unemployment numbers for November are still extremely bad. Don’t be fooled into thinking this Infestation has finally gotten their collective heads out of their proverbial backsides because new jobless claims dropped an anemic .2%.
.2% of 7 million unemployed is a relatively insignificant number.
Cash for Clunkers, or CARS as it has been affectionately named by Congressional Democrats to give it more public appeal, has been an unadulterated cluster-fuck since its conception. Here’s the idea…
In an effort to remove inefficient vehicles from the road because the libtarded Democrat Congress is SO CONCERNED about the environment, Congress sets aside $1 Billion to fund a vehicle recycling program in which a dealer would give a $3,500 – $4,500 trade-in for a car meeting specific fuel “inefficiency” criteria. The dealer then sets the vehicle aside for the government to crush and recycle. Sounds simple enough right? Problem – $1 Billion wasn’t nearly enough to make it through the first week of the program let alone the 4 months designated.
To combat the funding short-falls, the government changed the EPA standards significantly eliminating most “clunkers” from the program. Out of curiosity I was interested in whether or not our older car qualified. Not that we are in any position to buy another car at this point, I was just curious if our “clunker” qualified. Ironically, it doesn’t.
The government’s website for the program asks a series of questions about the car. Year, make, model, size of the engine, etc… However, when it tallies the results it uses the fuel economy ratings of the vehicle when it was new not in its current condition.
Our vehicle when new supposedly got 26 MPG. If it is getting 20 at this point I’d be surprised. Since our car did not fall below the required 18 MPG fuel “inefficiency” standard, it does not qualify.
Meanwhile, dealers and car companies are flooding the airwaves with advertisements for ‘Cash for Clunkers’ when in fact most cars will not qualify. Many of these same dealers are getting in a bind with the program because the government’s computers cannot keep up with demand. They are crashing. A caller to the Rush Limbaugh program Friday who is car salesman explained the program. He informed Rush’s listeners that there is a backlog of deals waiting to be processed by the dealers. In many cases, the dealerships are allowing prospective buyers to drive off the lot with a car assuming a deal exists but as the EPA and the bureaucrats running this program begin to change the standards, many of these deals are falling through. The dealers then are faced with calling the prospective buyers back to either pay the extra $4,500 or turn in the cars they thought they had just bought.
Cash for Clunkers is just another example of Democrat Incompetence. They think an idea sounds good. They think it makes sense. But they fail to understand how it would work in practice. They fail to consider what happens to others by its implementation. They fail to understand what would happen if their plan fails to work as drafted on paper. In other words, this program is just another example of Democrats failing. But what else is new.
This program was hailed by the main stream press as such a victory for the environment. This program was touted as a way to help the American people by giving them the opportunity to buy a new more efficient car. And in doing so allowing the new car buyers to save money on gasoline because of the better fuel economy. What a bunch of bullshit anyway.
First of all, only those who have the disposable income to buy a new car in this economy would even be able to take advantage of this program anyway. They are the only people able to handle a car payment in this economy. The very economy created by the main stream media. After-all, they are the ones who talked this nation into a recession when it didn’t actually exist.
Those of us still feeling the crunch of the recession that Newsweek boastfully declares is now over in spite of the GDP being at -1% cannot buy a new car. So who is helping the rich now Mr. Obama?!?
Because the automakers and dealers are now on the hook for a program that was improperly funded by the government, the House yesterday authorized another $2 Billion for the program. That won’t get through the recess. Not to mention, the Senate left without acting to my knowledge. (*Note – if this turns out to not be the case, this sentence will be removed.)
Another entitlement created by libtarded morons elected to higher office who themselves couldn’t understand the plight of the common man in a hundred million years. In their infinite stupidity they failed to fund the program so that it could last more than 4 days and since funding fell short, decided to change the rules of the game after the program was implemented.
Obama has t he audacity to be shocked by his dramatically falling poll numbers?!? No wonder Nancy doesn’t care that she’s the most despised politician in America. Anyone with a D next to their name will soon be in the cross-hairs of anyone with a brain. House members are up for re-election next year. 36 Senators as well. Democrats are beginning to fear their control of Congress will evaporate quickly especially if this economy fails to improve (pay attention Newsweek).
The Truth of the matter is that Congress should naturally swing the other direction in 2010 since the American people distrust 1 party rule. After-all, look where it is taking us now!
Nancy knows that come January 2, 2011 she is out of a job. Harry knows that it is a very real possibility that he won’t be re-elected let alone maintain his leadership position in the Senate. The people of Nevada know that Harry is a fugitive from the Alzheimer’s ward. Too bad their isn’t a government program call “Cash for Clunker Politicians”. ::snap:: OH That’s right! There IS such a program it’s called an election. Elect the right party and you get to keep more of your own money.
So America – take advantage of a 227 year old economic program brought to you by the founding fathers. “Cash for Clunker Politicians” also known as elections. Vote the tax and spenders out on November 2, 2010.
A lot of effort is going into ascertaining whether Barack Obama’s birth took place in Hawaii or not. My position is simple, irregardless if he was a natural born citizen at the time of his birth, did he forfeit that birth right when his mother and step-father took him to Indonesia and registered him for school?
Under Indonesian law at the time, for a child to be enrolled in a state run school that child had to be a citizen of Indonesia. Barack Obama has claimed that he did not attend a Madrassa as claimed by some but rather he attended public school while in Indonesia. If this is true, then he is claiming Indonesian citizenship at that time not US citizenship. Countering the public school claims, a record has surfaced that Barack’s step-father, Lolo Soetoro actually registered young Barry Soetoro in a Catholic School in Jakarta. Listed under religion for little Barry Soetoro? Islam.
Doubt me? See for yourself. This is an AP photo.
Either way, Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama had to be a citizen of Indonesia in order to be registered in the first place. And as such no longer a citizen (natural born or otherwise) of the United States. Duel citizenship did not exist at that time.
So the major question that I believe the White House, the Obama’s, the Democrat Party, and the media is really avoiding is whether Mr. Obama ever regained his citizenship? If so, is he still considered natural born after forfeiting it in Indonesia? When he re-entered the United States was it on a US passport or an Indonesian passport? If it was under an Indonesian passport, is he even in this country legally?
When he made his trip to Pakistan it is rumored to have been under an Indonesian passport. If this is true, isn’t it likely that Mr. Obama re-entered the United States under that same passport? It has also been rumored that he received a foreign student grant or scholarship when attending Occidental College. If so, what proof did Barry have to prove his foreign citizenship? Could it have been this rumored Indonesian passport?
Did he defraud the people of the state of Illinois by running and being elected to the State Senate and United States Senate? Has he defrauded the people of the United States by running for an office that he is ineligible for? These are questions that deserve answers.
We may never know the answers to these questions because the President has sealed all of his records and effectively cut-off the ability for the public to know.
Isn’t it interesting that NONE of these records are open for public scrutiny? His original birth record has been destroyed by the hospital, his school records are sealed, and he’s spending millions of dollars fighting the question over his citizenship. There would be only 1 reason to fight release of any of the requesting information. He has something to hide. What is it?
And an even bigger question will be what if he isn’t eligible? What happens? Who is the legal President of the United States if Barack Obama is the fraud many of us believe him to be? Is it Big Mouth Joe? Or would the entire 2008 Democrat ticket be considered voided because of fraud? After-all, the Party didn’t do enough to ascertain whether or not their candidate was eligible to hold the office that he was running for. Or does it fall upon John McCain to assume the Presidency by default?
What would happen to all the bills that he fraudulently signed into law? Would they be voided as well? What about the appointment of Sonya Sotomayor to the Supreme Court? Would it also be voided? What about operational orders for the military? They would be invalid and unlawful because they were issued by someone who cannot be President of the United States.
Something about this guy stinks to high heaven. And We The People need to know what is causing that odor. Our very existence as a nation depends upon answers to these very important questions yet the President is fighting to keep this information from you. Why?
The easiest way to dispel the rumors and speculation if he is indeed eligible to hold the office of President is to release all the requested documentation. Failure to do so endangers our very way of life.
Eighty-One Percent of Americans Believe Middle-Class Tax Relief is Important to Keep in Budget, New Survey Shows
WASHINGTON, DC – House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today challenged President Obama’s apparent decision to allow the Democratic-controlled Congress to dump his long-promised middle-class tax cut from the FY 2010 budget, and vowed Republicans will offer a better budget that cuts taxes for middle-class families instead of raising them through a new national energy tax.
“This is an epic bait-and-switch that should infuriate every middle-class family in America,” Boehner said. “The American people overwhelmingly believe middle-class tax relief is essential to getting our economy moving again. But instead of cutting taxes for middle-class families, Washington Democrats are raising their taxes by as much as $3,100 a year in the middle of a deep recession.”
President Obama’s budget director, Peter Orszag, has endorsed both the House and Senate versions of the President’s FY 2010 budget – but according to the New York Times, “neither would extend a middle-class tax cut championed by Mr. Obama beyond 2010 unless a source of revenue to pay for it is identified.” Meanwhile, Boehner noted that a new national energy tax insisted upon by the President will hit virtually every American family and small business and could cost every American household up to $3,100 a year. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) confirmed this in public comments last week in which he indicated Democrats will use revenue from the President’s new national energy tax to pay for an expansion of government-run health care.
According to a Rasmussen survey released today, 81 percent of Americans believe it is important for Congress to pass a budget that includes the middle-class tax relief that was frequently promised but now abandoned by President Obama. Only 15 percent say the promised middle-class tax relief is not important.
“The Democratic budget spends too much, taxes too much, and borrows too much,” Boehner said. “It will hurt middle-class families at a time when they can least afford it.”
“Americans deserve a better budget, and members of all political stripes will have the chance to vote for one when the full text of the GOP alternative being finalized by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is released this week,” Boehner added. “Instead of raising taxes on middle-class families and all Americans through the President’s national energy tax, Republicans will do what the American people want their government to do: we will curb spending, control the debt, and reduce the tax burden on working families and small businesses to create jobs and ease the strain on family budgets.”
As Barry O continues to slowly select his inner circle, one thing is standing out more than any other – these people look awful familiar.
During his campaign we heard nothing resembling substance but rather a lot of undefined rhetoric about ‘Hope’ and ‘Change’. We assumed that he meant that he was going to ‘Change’ the face of Washington and how it does business. At least that is the assumption that those of us on the right have about those who fell for that steady load of male bovine excrement that he was dishing out in his protracted 21 months of speeches masquerading as a political campaign.
Instead of reaching into a pool of previously unknown individuals, Mr. Obama is resurrecting Clintonian Infestation zombies. From his Chief of Staff to his pick for Attorney General, the Obama Infestation is resembling the Clintonian era more by the day.
Barack Obama made “change” the mantra of his presidential campaign. But when it comes to appointees, his team doesn’t reflect much change from the Bill Clinton era.
Of the 47 appointees named so far to transition or staff posts, 31 have ties to the Clinton administration, including all but one member of the 12-person Transition Advisory Board.
Transition chief John Podesta served as Clinton’s chief of staff from 1998 to 2001.
Other Clinton-era appointees include former Deputy Secretary of Defense John White, former State Department official Wendy Sherman, and former deputies to National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, Defense Secretary William Perry, and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Politico.com reports.
Also on the Obama team are transition adviser Michael Froman, who served as Rubin’s chief of staff, and Christopher Edley, who served Clinton and is married to a former Clinton deputy chief of staff.
Rep. Rahm Emanuel, a senior adviser to Clinton, has been named Obama’s chief of staff.
Obama is reportedly even considering Hillary Clinton for the Cabinet post of Secretary of State. SOURCE
emphasis mine
During the campaign those of us on the right were warning that election of undefined ‘Change’ would be dangerous. Now I’m afraid that the danger may lie within the masses who voted for Mr. Obama without knowing who and what he is.
Obama is so fearful of being tied to his socialist past that he refuses to dip into the pool of people that he truly wants to hold the posts that he’s currently making selections for. His true ambition is to select William Ayers for Sec. of Education but he can’t. He can’t because his past ties to Ayers have been exposed and he’s already on record denying them. He can’t because the American people have become reacquainted with Ayers, his radical socialist views, and is terrorist past. Remember – he who controls the youth has the future. It is Obama and Ayers who wish to pollute the minds of the youth in order to bring about an unachievable socialist utopia the empty promise of which has led to the downfall of dozens of countries and the deaths of hundreds of millions of people since the beginning of the Soviet experiment.
He can’t make the selection for Treasury that he truly wants because of socialist ambition. And the same could be said about State. In short, his plan has been foiled. His plan was to get elected without any light being shined on his true ambitions. His plan was to fool all of the people all of the time and he nearly accomplished that. This is the reason why he is reverting to Clintonian Infestation has-beens for his inner sanctum. He can’t have those he truly wants, so he’s selecting the failures of the past whom the ignorant public believes to be successes.
The recent Zogby poll that showed the ignorance of the average Obama voter this election cycle is a warning America. It is a warning that we can no longer be apathetic to the inner workings of Washington. We all must become political junkies and keep a watchful eye on the empty suits that we’ve allowed to be elected.
This same electorate actually believes that Barry O is capable of fulfilling his election promises because they are ignorant to the actual inner workings of our government. They haven’t a clue as to what is contained in the Constitution. The separation of powers is foreign to them and believe that it is the President who “rules” from the oval office.
The results of the 2008 election is a warning. A warning about the increasingly biased reporting of the leftist press and their unwillingness to expose the truth about leftist politicians. The election is a warning about the ignorance of the electorate and a need to educate the masses about who they are voting for before they vote. It is a crime that only 2% of Obama voters could answer Zogby’s polling questions 100% correctly. And one must wonder, if that 2% knew all this about the candidates before they voted, why is it they still voted for Obama? They must be part of the greater conspiracy to resurrect and institute the ambitions of the Communist Party in America.
The impending nomination of Barack Hussein Obama as the Democrat Nominee for President of the United States may be deflated before it gets started. The Bush Administration and the Iraqi government have an agreement for troop withdrawal out of the major cities of Iraq beginning in June of 2009 with the goal of having all US troops out of Iraq sometime in 2011. What is Obama going to use as campaign rhetoric now that a “timeline” for withdrawal has been made? All of this was made possible by the success of the troop surge that was first proposed by none other than Sen. John McCain who he must face on November 4. The result of all of this is that President George W. Bush’s approval ratings have been lifted a bit and are out of the dismal 20s and now in the mediocre 30s. All of these things are blows to Obama’s rhetoric which has been pounding nothing but platitudes about ‘hope’ and ‘change’ and identifying what the extreme left in this country perceives as shortcomings of the Bush Administration.
His newest strategy is to attempt to link John McCain, who has alienated everyone in the Republican Party at one time or another, to George W. Bush. The only real link between the two men is the fact that they are registered in the same political Party. Bush and McCain don’t like one another very much so linking them together is nothing short of a deception. If Mr. Obama believes that he his going to gain ground politically against McCain with this latest stunt he may have an impending education.
Obama’s selection of Joe Biden as his VP running mate may be the mistake that hard line Dems will point to when McCain wins in November. They will point to his choice of Biden as a calculated mistake that yielded balance on his ticket at the peril of pointing out Obama’s weaknesses. Biden has been in the Senate for more than 30 years so that blows the whole ‘change’ idea out of the water. There is nothing new about old politics which, if you haven’t been paying attention, is what Obama has been playing all along. Biden is outspoken to a fault and is a stunning reminder that Obama is inexperienced.
McCain and the Republican National Committee along with bloggers like myself will be hammering home Obama’s lackluster career as we approach election day. But standing along side of Obama for each and every one of his appearances will be big mouth Joe the ultimate example of politics as usual and Barack’s inexperience.
Biden’s baggage will become Obama’s baggage. The insensitive comments like…
My state was a slave state.
And who can ever forget the clean remark?
Or how about the 7-11 gaff?
… will, by association, become Barack’s. One would ‘hope’ that the KOSsacks would demonize Barack for bigmouth Joe’s vocal diarrhea as much as they demonize George W. Bush for Dick Cheney’s Conservatism. Because, as we on the right know, Bush is not a true Conservative. But I won’t hold my breath. The KOSsacks and their leader Marcos the Queer only see fault in Republicans – and Hillary Clinton of course.
So I’d like to say a very hearty THANK YOU SENATOR OBAMA for picking someone who will in all likelihood assist in your ultimate defeat.
In the wake of Obama’s poor showing at the Saddleback Church, the Obamassiah went on the attack in a feeble attempt to link McCain to unpopular George W. Bush.
First of all, George W. Bush irritates enough Conservatives on his own by not being Conservative enough, but to attempt to tie John McCain to him is like trying to tie Conservatives to George Wallace. They aren’t the same. But you can’t teach an old liberal new tricks.
Obama had to come off his poor showing in the face of Rev. Rick Warren with something that the tin foil left could rally behind – and tying anything to George W. Bush is bound to have the bong smokers in a tizzy. Let’s face facts people, Obama showed just how empty of a suit he is on the abortion questions alone.
Rick Warren: “At what point does a baby get human rights, in your view?”
The Suit: “Whether you are looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity is, you know, above my pay grade.”
When asked the same question Sen. McCain answered…
“At CONCEPTION” emphasis mine
McCain didn’t give a carefully crafted answer designed to avoid truly answering the question. He flat out answered it. And at that point, all of America knew who was being truthful and who was going to play the game of “tired old politics”.
Fast forward to yesterday and beyond, Obama has to divert attention from the fact that he now is perceived by every person in this country that either watched the match-up or read of it in the paper or on the net as a tired old politician because my friends that is exactly what he is. His whole adult life has been one political maneuver followed by another. He couldn’t even wait to finish his freshman term as a United States Senator before looking up. Hillary at least did that. No matter how entitled she feels that she is to the Presidency, she at least finished her freshman term. Obama cannot say the same.
What little we do know about Mr. Obama is not very flattering. And the strong stench of socialism is permeating from him. Even left coast socialist Nancy Pelosi is in the news today calling Obama, “”a leader that God has blessed us with at this time.” H/T the Politico
The egomaniac is even making speeches guaranteeing he will win.
“I will win. Don’t worry about that,” he said to the crowd of about 1,300.
“Now, you want to win. And saying it doesn’t make it so,” he told the crowd. “It would be nice to think that after eight years of economic disaster, after eight years of bungled foreign policy, of being engaged in a war that should never have been authorized and should never have been waged, that cost us a trillion dollars and thousands of lives, that people would say, let’s toss the bums out. Toss the bums out, we’re starting from scratch, we’re starting over. This is not working.”
“So I understand why a lot of folks are saying, this should just happen. Why are we having to run all these television commercials? Why do we have to raise all this money? Just read the papers. These are the knuckleheads who have been in charge. Throw ‘em out. But American politics aren’t that simple,” he said.
“The fact of the matter is, at a certain point, when government has not been serving the people for this long, people get cynical. They tune out. And they start saying to themselves, a plague on both your houses. They are willing to consume negative information more frequently than positive information, for good reason. They’ve seen how promises haven’t been kept,” he said.
This is what he told thousands of Party faithful who willing gave up $7.1 million of their hard earned money so that once he gets elected they can give up even more – in taxes.
Obama has no foreign policy experience. Sure sure, he drew a crowed of approximately 200,000 Germans to hear his speech on socialism when he was there. But lets face it folks, Germans have a track record of turning out in mass to cheer on a cult of personality.
So his recent failed trip to Europe where he slighted wounded US troops in favor of going to the gym, and the Middle East, combined with his being born in Hawaii, living in Indonesia, and having Kenyan citizenship, somehow makes him a foreign policy expert? I DON”T THINK SO.
A recent web video reminded me of something… Why is it that when a Republican is photographed shaking hands with someone who later ends up being our perceived enemy (accurately or not) somehow we are in bed with them. But as soon as a liberal does the same thing, they’re enlightened?
Obama is the one that said that he would meet with Kim Jong mentally Ill. Obama is the one who would meet with Iran. Obama is the one who would meet with al Qaeda. Why not, recent documents from Indonesia lists his religion as Islam.
But we’re not allowed to bring up his inexperience. We’re not allowed to bring up his voting record on abortion issues. We’re not allowed to ask him any serious questions about issues. What else could the explanation be as to why he won’t agree to town hall meetings with the Republican Nominee? Short answer – he cannot function off his prepared statements.
I’m sure that these “town halls” that we see on CNN are carefully scripted where the questions are submitted ahead of time so that Obama’s handlers can load the answers that he’s to give into the teleprompter.
The bottom line campers is that no matter how much he tries to make the case for electing him is to remove George W. Bush and what they perceive as his failed policies, the fact remains that George isn’t running for anything. His political career is ending and he’ll be entering his retirement on January 20, 2009 at 12 noon. The era of Bush will be at an end (that is until Jenna decides to run) and Obama’s attempts to tie a man who has resisted being tied to any political faction for his entire political career is an exercise in futility that only the far left will buy-in to.
As the Do-Nothing Congress vacations, oil prices are falling, gold prices are falling, and the dollar is becoming stronger. What?!? The oil companies weren’t to blame? OH THE HUMANITY!
Light, sweet crude dropped $1.24 to settle at $113.77 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, and earlier traded as low as $111.34, its lowest level in more than three months.
Oil fell on a growing sense that economies around the world are joining the U.S. in a slowdown. The rising dollar, which is gaining strength on economic concerns, contributed to the sell-off in crude and other commodities. Oil is down more than $35 from its July 11 record of $147.27; meanwhile, gold prices that swept past $1,000 an ounce earlier this year are now below $800.
It seems that the cause for our rising oil prices was at least in part due to a weak dollar. Investors often hedge investments against a weaker dollar by investing in – wait for it – gold and oil.
The dollar headed for a fifth weekly gain against the euro, its longest winning streak in more than two years, as crude oil prices declined and the European and Japanese economies contracted.
The U.S. currency rose to the strongest level in almost six months against the euro and a seven-month high versus the yen. The pound dropped for an 11th day against the dollar, the longest run of declines in at least 37 years, on speculation a recession will force the Bank of England to cut interest rates.
Against the euro, the dollar rose 1 percent to $1.4683 at 3:28 p.m. in New York, from $1.4826 yesterday. It reached $1.4659, the strongest level since Feb. 20. The U.S. currency increased 0.7 percent to 110.54 yen, from 109.74. It earlier rose to 110.66, the strongest since Jan. 2. The euro fell 0.2 percent to 162.31 yen, from 162.68.
The U.S. currency has risen 2.2 percent against the euro this week in its longest stretch of weekly gains since February 2006. It’s headed for a 0.3 percent advance versus the yen, its second straight weekly increase. The euro is poised for a fourth weekly decline against the yen, dropping 1.9 percent, the biggest decrease since May.
Gold tumbled below $800 an ounce in Asian trading as the dollar headed for its longest winning streak in more than two years, reducing the appeal of the metal as an alternative investment to U.S. assets.
Oil, gold, copper and corn have plunged from records this year as the dollar strengthened and concern mounted that slower global economic growth will cut demand for raw materials. Silver and platinum also tumbled today amid increasing expectations the Federal Reserve won’t cut interest rates.
So the DemCong does what it does best – NOTHING – and oil prices fall. It seems that the free market actually does work.
The Strategic Petroleum Reserves didn’t need to be tapped Mr. Obama. The oil companies didn’t need to be taxed Ms. Pelosi and Mr. Reid. However, I do feel that the federal tax on gasoline needs to be suspended.
Oil companies profit about 9 cents per gallon from the sale of gasoline. The federal government profits 18.4 cents per gallon from the sale of gasoline. And the American consumer pays an average of 47 cents per gallon in taxes to state and federal governments when buying gasoline. It seems incomprehensible that the sales taxes on this product far exceed the profit margin and yet the taxing body finds it necessary to threaten oil companies with additional taxes that would eventually become the consumers’ burden to pay.
The federal tax alone is more than double that of the profit margin on gasoline. The overall average tax burden on gasoline purchases is 5 times the oil companies’ profit margin. This is disgusting.
So I don’t want to hear of more taxes on oil and oil products when the state, local, and federal governments are making more money of gasolines sales than the oil companies. Especially when the dependency on foreign sources of oil is 70%. Before we give the government more money that we pay at the pump for gasoline, let us explore the idea of making this nation truly energy independent. Drilling is the first step. We simply cannot rely on alternative energy sources that are years away from full development to bring us independence. We MUST take steps NOW on our own to ease the dependency.
Oil is our current energy standard and there is nothing that can replace all that it does. We have oil here in the United States but we haven’t been able to tap it because of liberal environmental policies. Our problems today were created in the 1970s when liberal environmental regulations began to make foreign oil more attractive. It became cheaper to produce oil in the Middle East and ship it via freighter to the US than producing it here.
In summery, our current situation was created by Democrats and they cannot be trusted to solve it. True it will take time for new drilling to ease our dependency issues. But remember, it took 30+ years of the current policies to create our current problems. How bad will it become if we do nothing? And how much worse will our economy suffer as a result?
I’m taking time out from caring for my premature special needs newborn daughter because I am furious over the actions of Congressional Democrats and the ignorant rhetoric from Barack Hussein Obama.
Mr. Obama had the audacity to call anyone who points out the stupidity of his insistence that Americans inflate their tires and get regular tuneups in order to avoid increasing domestic oil production by drilling off-shore or in ANWR ignorant when it is the Democrat Party and their enviro-nazi tactics which brought about our dependence on foreign oil to begin with. The Democrats put in place the moratorium against drilling off-shore. It was Democrats which created over-reaching environmental regulations making nearly impossible and certainly expensive to drill domestically and build new oil refineries. And it is Democrats led by Speaker Pelosi who abruptly gaveled the House of Representatives into recess before considering proposed legislation to allow drilling.
And what of Mr. ‘Hope’ and ‘Change’? He says that we can save the equivalent of drilling by inflating our tires and getting regular tuneups. What kind of moron is he anyway? Does he think every American car on the road is operating with under-inflated tires? And what car produced after 1985 requires what is known as a tuneup? I thought those went out with the introduction of electronic ignition being standard and distributor points went the way of the Do-do.
It seems to me that this is the same advice given to Americans after the Dems hamstrung domestic oil production in the 1970s when Iran got froggy by capturing US citizens and holding them hostage throwing the US economy into recession because of an oil shortage. “Tuneup your car, check your air pressure, and drive under 55 MPH!” Hence the song by Sammy Hagar, ‘I Can’t Drive 55′. So what kind of ‘Change’ does regurgitating old 1970s Democrat rhetoric represent Senator Obama. Somehow I don’t find reason to have ‘Hope’ that you or anyone else in your Party will facilitate an end to Americas dependence on foreign oil.
Now that I’ve contributed my 1/50th of a dollar, I’ll get back to my baby.
Cartoonist – Mike Lester
Remember that we are talking about the guy who said, “under my plan of cap and trade, electricity prices will necessarily skyrocket” (:35 seconds into the video below). Seems to this blogger that Mike Lester’s cartoon is extremely accurate. If you watch the video, Obama mentions the fact that prices for oil, [...]
I’ve been meaning to comment on November’s unemployment numbers since their release but have been pulled in several other directions and my blogging efforts are the casualty. That said, here are my thoughts on the massive recovery in the job sector…
First off, and this may be news to all the pinheads who believe the Infestation’s [...]
Cash for Clunkers, or CARS as it has been affectionately named by Congressional Democrats to give it more public appeal, has been an unadulterated cluster-fuck since its conception. Here’s the idea…
In an effort to remove inefficient vehicles from the road because the libtarded Democrat Congress is SO CONCERNED about the environment, Congress sets aside [...]
A lot of effort is going into ascertaining whether Barack Obama’s birth took place in Hawaii or not. My position is simple, irregardless if he was a natural born citizen at the time of his birth, did he forfeit that birth right when his mother and step-father took him to Indonesia and registered him for [...]
Eighty-One Percent of Americans Believe Middle-Class Tax Relief is Important to Keep in Budget, New Survey Shows
WASHINGTON, DC – House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today challenged President Obama’s apparent decision to allow the Democratic-controlled Congress to dump his long-promised middle-class tax cut from the FY 2010 budget, and vowed Republicans will offer a better [...]
As Barry O continues to slowly select his inner circle, one thing is standing out more than any other – these people look awful familiar.
During his campaign we heard nothing resembling substance but rather a lot of undefined rhetoric about ‘Hope’ and ‘Change’. We assumed that he meant that he was going to ‘Change’ the [...]
The impending nomination of Barack Hussein Obama as the Democrat Nominee for President of the United States may be deflated before it gets started. The Bush Administration and the Iraqi government have an agreement for troop withdrawal out of the major cities of Iraq beginning in June of 2009 with the goal of having all [...]
In the wake of Obama’s poor showing at the Saddleback Church, the Obamassiah went on the attack in a feeble attempt to link McCain to unpopular George W. Bush.
First of all, George W. Bush irritates enough Conservatives on his own by not being Conservative enough, but to attempt to tie John McCain to him is [...]
As the Do-Nothing Congress vacations, oil prices are falling, gold prices are falling, and the dollar is becoming stronger. What?!? The oil companies weren’t to blame? OH THE HUMANITY!
From the Associated Press via Yahoo Finance:
Light, sweet crude dropped $1.24 to settle at $113.77 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, and earlier traded as [...]
I’ll tell you where they are… ON VACATION!
I’m taking time out from caring for my premature special needs newborn daughter because I am furious over the actions of Congressional Democrats and the ignorant rhetoric from Barack Hussein Obama.
Mr. Obama had the audacity to call anyone who points out the stupidity of his insistence that Americans [...]
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I’ve been meaning to comment on November’s unemployment numbers since their release but have been pulled in several other directions and my blogging efforts are the casualty. That said, here are my thoughts on the massive recovery in the job sector…
As Barry O continues to slowly select his inner circle, one thing is standing out more than any other – these people look awful familiar.
